Rumours of death of Copenhagen exaggerated, apparently...

The GCN's exclusive John Podesta-Rajendra Pachauri piece has kicked off a bit of a storm in the blogosphere. For starters, here's the Podesta-Pachauri piece...

http://www.globalclimatenetwork.info/articles/?id=3736

On motherjones, David Corn interprets this as Podesta trying to downplay expectations for Copenhagen on behalf of the White House...

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/09/copenhagen-dead

Podesta responds on thinkprogress...

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/26/corn-kyoto/

As does Joe Romm on climateprogress...

http://climateprogress.org/2009/09/27/no-copenhagen-is-not-dead-quite-the-reverse-prospects-for-a-global-deal-have-never-been-better/

Podesta and Romm are, of course, correct. While the negotiations are deadlocked, no-one in the Global Climate Network is declaring them dead yet. Indeed, our work is intended to open up more space for negotiators by building the positive case for action on climate change. See our latest report focussing on job creation.

http://www.globalclimatenetwork.info/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=701...