As we have already discussed in these pages, Copenhagen achieved little. But at least back in December there seemed to a general agreement that carbon emissions are responsible for heating up the planet and that we need to do something about it. Isn't it amazing how quickly things can change? With climate science under siege, a recent BBC poll reveals a dramatic drop in the number of people who believe that global warming is even happening, let alone that we are responsible for it. (This month's excellent cover story, on page 22, by eco-psychologist Sandra White may provide some answers to this emergence of denial). "The global warming movement as we have known it is dead," says the US commentator, Walter Russell Mead. He's not wrong. And with the carbon markets plummeting and Australia about to elect a man that describes climate change as "absolute crap", the short term does not look rosy.
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机译：正如我们在这些页面中已经讨论的那样，哥本哈根会议没有取得什么成就。但是至少在12月，人们似乎达成了一项普遍协议，即碳排放是造成地球升温的原因，我们需要为此做点事情。事物能以多快的速度变化是不是很令人惊讶？在气候科学遭到围困的情况下，英国广播公司（BBC）最近进行的一项民意调查显示，相信全球变暖正在发生的人数急剧下降，更不用说我们对此负责了。 （生态心理学家桑德拉·怀特（Sandra White）在本月第22页的精彩封面故事可能为这种否认的出现提供了一些答案）。美国评论员沃尔特·拉塞尔·米德（Walter Russell Mead）说：“众所周知，全球变暖运动已经消亡。”他没错。随着碳市场的暴跌以及澳大利亚即将选举一名将气候变化描述为“绝对废话”的人，短期内看起来并不乐观。
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