Mixed reactions to late night deal in Copenhagen

COP15 Update from grist.  Part of the Read up so you can Speed up series:

Cross-posted from www.grist.org.  
by Keith Shneider

COPENHAGEN—What a day here in Copenhagen. For much of the afternoon and well into the evening the cold and dark seemed to settle more deeply today on this city of 1.2 million. Here in the Bella Center, as the day turned to night without an agreement to cool the planet that most people expected today, the meditation and prayer rooms were noticeably more busy. After months of work this year, and 12 days of negotiation at the UN Climate Change Conference, it looked for much of the day as if 120 heads of state might actually leave Denmark without any agreement at all. Certainly there are fossil fuel industry board rooms in Houston where such an outcome would be celebrated.

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