Sunday, December 11, 2011

Durban Wrap-Up in Two Easy Pieces

The climate conference has wrapped up in Durban, and the results surprised no one. They can be summed up with two short items: one, the prayer of the teen aged boy who said,
"Lord, let me be good, just not yet."
and the following graph -- which applied equally before the conference, during it, and after it -- and predicted the result with perfection:


This chart will predict the result again in three years, when the world has agreed it will agree on what it might someday again agree to as a token effort to solve the CO2 problem.

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