All heated up on global warming

For so many days the political leaders have been engaged in a dialogue in Copenhagen to do something to check the climate change. It's indeed a poker game as each country representative try to read what's behind the minds of the others. I find it uncomprehensible that so much persuasion need to be done on this issue to get everyone at the roundtable. Climate change has been talked about for the past 10-20 years, but no pay paid any serious attention. As always, the attitude adopted is that it is not my problem. It's the next generation's problem. It was not until temperatures started to rise, icebergs melted, sea levels began to rise that the politicians begin to sit up. Let's hope something worthwhile comes out of the whole discussions, otherwise the Copenhagen gathering becomes yet another event that did just the opposite. It would go down as yet misdeed by mankind to add to the global warming as volumes of papers were printed for the discussions, all the fuel burnt to give warmth to the delegates, journalists and demonstrators.