http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/science/earth/10climate.html?ref=science

This article is about the pressure on the people attending the UN climate change convention. They need to reach some sort of deal before the top ministers (like Obama) come to the convention. The most important people come last to the convention just to make sure the deal is well made and to sign it. The US is being very stubborn in negotiations; our representative is refusing any deal that has to do with the US paying developing countries billions of dollars to help them go green. The reason the US is wanted to do this is because we have been a huge factor in climate change over the past 200 years. We claim, however, that no one knew about it until recently so it would be unfair for us to pay. We seem to be coming to the agreement to pay, along with other developed countries, developing countries in the most dire need of help with flood control and water supplies, as climate change is affecting them. I think this is absolutely ridiculous. This convention was supposed to be about a huge new deal coming out that would change the world, this is not what is happening at all. We are again trying to delay the inevitable by fixing the problems in the present rather than looking to the future. Although most of the developed countries are going to make an effort to go more green, it will not be enough because the major problems are the developing countries and China.