No, I didn’t love the outcome in Copenhagen.  However — to all who blame the United States and President Obama and the other developed countries for the lack of a binding deal in Copenhagen, here is the person who actually worked hard to get something accepted in the final hours of COP15.

“The climate secretary, Ed Miliband, today accuses China, Sudan, Bolivia and other leftwing Latin American countries of trying to hijack the UN climate summit and “hold the world to ransom” to prevent a deal being reached.

In an article in the Guardian, Miliband says the UK will make clear to those countries holding out against a binding legal treaty that “we will not allow them to block global progress“.

“We cannot again allow negotiations on real points of substance to be hijacked in this way,” he writes in the aftermath of the UN summit in Copenhagen, which climaxed with what was widely seen as a weak accord, with no binding emissions targets, despite an unprecedented meeting of leaders.

Miliband said there must be “major reform” of the UN body overseeing the talks – the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – and on the way negotiations are conducted. He is said to be outraged that UN procedure allowed a few countries to nearly block a deal.”

DemocracyNow, a highly respected alternative news outlet, and some very influential climate and environmental groups have bent over backwards to be as negative and hysterical as possible in blaming the U.S. for the Copenhagen “failure”.   They have gone out of their way to call the entire summit a mess, a sham, and worse.  And they blame the U.S. instead of the countries that almost nearly hijacked the entire summit.

These groups and DN need to take a deep breath and do some studying of the situation before they continue to make accusations.  Democracy Now was even factually incorrect in their Monday show and that’s probably the case with some other groups that have been as publicly shaming as possible about the role of the U.S. in Copenhagen.  They need to look to the East for some more answers as to why the summit didn’t give them the outcome they wanted.

George Monbiot was interviewed on Democracy Now on Monday and he was so negative I thought he was going to declare the World’s End on the spot.   He said Obama actually ruined the entire summit.  That is absolutely untrue.   Read more at The Guardian.