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What a fantastic Guy!
The Danish Prime Minister, Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, addressed the IARU Climate Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark on Thursday 12 March, 2009. Those of us who heard him and watched his intelligent interaction with top climate change scientist were deeply impressed. He said:

It is now said that the Earth's climate system was about twice as sensitive to carbon dioxide pollution as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had found. This means that there is already enough greenhouse gas pollution in the atmosphere to cause 2 degrees of warming, bringing about conditions not seen on earth for 2 to 3 million years and constituting, according to Jim Hansen and colleagues (Hansen, 2007), "a degree of warming that would surely yield dangerous climate impacts".

OK-- its over- the Beijing Olympics so we can ask, "were the Chinese having fun? " Did the rest of us who were watching mishandling and cheating enjoying ourselves? Is this the Olympics the IOC hoped they’d awarded – of course not. Especially not after the ITN journalist has been ‘stomped on’ for doing his job.
So - why is this about climate triage? Because China has to reform and move (faster) to a low-carbon economy. Did the Olympics help towards this goal?