Countries walk out, people fight and time starts to run out.
There you are – perfect example of the ‘law of inverse optimism’!
The moment that I suggest it might all be going well in
Meantime, we have had violent clashes between Danish police and protesters over the weekend; UN chief Ban Ki-moon has urgently told nations to get on with it and "seal a deal"; the British Environment minister has been telling us about the perils of ocean acidification (another result of excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere); and the world conservation union has announced that it is not all just about the polar bear (we know).
Meanwhile, climate has fallen off the front page of most British newspapers already.
Time is, however, really running out now!
More about ocean acidification and the whales here. BBC blow by blow blog from the conference here.
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