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...gathered in Los Angeles are pushing from the bottom up, demonstrating that there is political will to deal with climate change. Ultimately, of course, it will be the national governments in Washington, London and Beijing, among other places, that will take part in the upcoming U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen and shape how the world takes on global warming. But the vast majority of that response - whether it means shoring up cities for sea level rise or tightening green building codes - will need to be carried out at the state and city level, the governors in L.A. noted. The summit...
...that will have its say - and the chances that any kind of carbon cap will pass seem vanishingly small. As long as the Senate is stuck on other business, like health care, Obama and his negotiators will have their hands essentially tied at the U.N. climate-change summit in Copenhagen three months from now. They can't commit the U.S. to carbon cuts internationally if the Senate won't support them at home. That was the pitfall former President Bill Clinton failed to avoid with regard to the Kyoto Protocol - and Obama won't repeat his mistake...
...might be a battle between politics and science going forward as carbon keeps getting pumped into the atmosphere and the days remaining before Copenhagen tick away. But as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a group of reporters on Tuesday, "You can't negotiate with nature. [Climate change] is just coming." Not even the Senate can argue with that...
...International Olympic Committee (IOC) convenes in Copenhagen on Oct. 2 to choose the host city for the 2016 Summer Olympics, and for the finalists - Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, Chicago and Tokyo - its decision marks the culmination of a journey of more than two years. They've already weathered both regional selection competitions and IOC evaluations that weeded out three earlier candidates (sorry, Doha, Prague and Baku, Azerbaijan). But for these four cities, the final step in winning the Games is surviving an unusual voting process that in the past has produced surprising upsets - and been shaken by corruption. (See pictures...
...Olympic selection is a high-stakes game, with no medal for second or third place. Bid cities have each invested more than $40 million to get to Copenhagen; the winner stands to pour in billions more for a chance at lucrative TV and sponsor revenues, as well as prestige on the world stage. The losers don't get any return on their investment other than a host of lessons to draw on for a subsequent second attempt. Who's going to stand alone? The IOC's announcement begins...