it was china in the study with the lead piping

The Guardian's Mark Lynas has an absolutely superb report on went wrong in Copenhagen. No, George, it wasn't Obama's fault, and it wasn't - as the NGO's and much of the Western media would have us believe - a case of rich countries screwing poor. It was China, who exerted a quiet dominance of the summit from beginning to end, with the sole intention of stopping any meaningful agreement from happening.