It was sort of like how Larry Bird used to tell the other team how he was going to score, then, as promised, knocked down the predicted jump shot. Before these international policy talks between the world’s largest greenhouse gas polluters, the Bush administration laid their G8 climate playbook out for all to see, then came away from the summit with a victory. It was awesome when Bird would do it; but when the U.S. “wins” a climatic match, all the world (not least the icecaps and atmosphere) suffers the agony of defeat.
