The fever of denialism is natural. Climate change is so far outside our experience that is seems intuitively untrue, wrong, or even mad. I desperately wish the deniers were right.
When I read the works of global warming deniers, I feel a sense of calm washing over me. The nightmare is gone; nothing has to change; the world can stay as it was. But then I go back to the facts.
The internet has transformed the way we think about ourselves. The story of this decade is the story -- in all its strange sinews -- of the World Wide Web.
The first week of Copenhagen is being dominated by the representatives of the rich countries trying to lace the deal with Enron-style accounting tricks that will give the impression of cuts, without the reality.
Inside the Bella Centre, the rich world's leaders are defiantly ignoring their scientists and refusing to sign a deal that will prevent our climate from being dramatically destabilized.
It's worth recounting a few of the ideas that were summarily dismissed in Copenhagen -- because when the world resolves to find a real solution, we will have to revive them.
If you go out for a picnic and the temperature rises by 2 degrees, you don't notice. If your body temperature rises by 2 degrees, you become feverish. If it doesn't go back down again, you die. The climate isn't like a picnic; it's like your body.
A celebration of the men and women who didn't slump, but realised that the worse the world gets, the harder people of goodwill have to work to put it right.
