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Leading Climatologist Wants COP15 to Fail

  • December 3, 200912:33 pm PST
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20091203-confessionalOver at Treehugger, we get word that a prominent climatologist is hoping for failure at the climate change summit in Copenhagen:
"The approach being discussed is so fundamentally wrong that it's better the reassess the situation. I think it's just as well that we not have a substantive treaty." That's leading climatologist Dr. James Hansen from a new interview by The Guardian talking about the outcome of COP15. Hansen went on to call the current path of negotiations as being an attempt to continue business-as-usual when "it's a disaster track". But Hansen didn't stop there.

Read the full post over at TreeHugger.