Popular content  New Year, No Resolutions on Climate Change  by
Yifat Susskind and Diana Duarte  With the dramatic wrap-up of
the UN climate change conference in Bali, 2007 is drawing to a
close. Now we have seven short years-until 2015-to reverse the
rise of greenhouse gas emissions and avoid a global temperature
increase of two degrees Celsius. Worldwide scientific consensus
says that going above a two degree increase would usher in the
worst effects of climate change. Picture another 200 million
people displaced by floods and an additional 600 million people
suffering from hunger.  As maddening as the doomsday scenarios
are terrifying is the fact that climate change can be
controlled. Although there are challenges, the toughest
obstacles are not scientific or technical or even financial.
They are political. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Bali
last week.  "If You're Not Going to Lead, Get Out of the Way"
From the outset of the Bali negotiations, the US delegation
obstructed a key solution to climat