Climate conference opens with a mixture of warnings and assurances (transcript from Deutsche Welle, Germany on 08/12/2009)

'The biggest climate conference in history opened in Copenhagen with a stark reminder of the consequences of a failure to act on flobal warming, but also with assurances that a legally-binding deal is within reach.'
At the opening ceremony Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen urged 15,000 negotiators from 192 nations to hammer out a "strong and ambitious" deal. I fully agreed with his speech and stay "cautiously optimistic". The reason is because most countries around the world already alarmed by the natural disaster in place so frequently during past decades. In the wake of the hacked emails from British University recently, which has aroused some argument about whether or not the threat been exaggerated by scientists.
In my personal opinion, evidence could tell the truth which extreme draught as well as extreme heatwave has been all over the regions that supposed to be so humid/cool prior decades ago.
Global waming is already at risk and caused by human activities, continue to ignore reality then environmental catastrophie will be inevitable. In case political will is not present to bridge the difference during this conference, I don't think there would be any fruitful result.
We have seen that USA and China has already outlined their position and committed their target on the table in this conference, I think it's a positive sign that some sort of deal might be striken at the end of the day. As I have reiterated lately that every nation should be obliged and responsible to their next generations as to restrain the pace of global warming at any cost.
To summarize my views on this topic, I am hopeful that all nations have to stick to "deeds that matters, not only words". On the other hand, public scrutiny will be playing an important role on such issue (which we have seen 226 environmental groups handed an online petition by 10 million people around the world demanding to sign up a "fair, ambitious and binding" climate treaty this time).
Well, we can closely monitor the latest development on the outcome in due time!