Obama pledged 3 billion dollars to something called the "international climate fund." Apparently the idea is to try paying the climate to keep conditions favorable so as to not cause famine, massive dislocations, and civil unrest. This large sum seems to suggest they have at least some idea of how grave the consequences might be. Its quite a bit more than the bribes any one of the heads of state involved in the establishment of this fund were given to allow companies to destabilize the climate in the first place. They will be sorely disappointed when they find out the natural world can't be bribed, and reality won't bend to the will of money.
If this "international fund" is enough to make you think the industrialized nations of the world have decided to make working together to contain this imminent disaster a top priority you would probably do well to take into account Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has been on a recent speaking tour. He's letting us know we've been very neglectful of our nuclear weapons and its high time we started giving the doomsday arsenal some much-needed upgrades. By his estimates ten billion out to do it.
I'm not sure that this is the right bunch for the job.
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