Beijing disrupted by record snowfall (transcript from BBC, UK on 05/01/2010)

'The authorities in Beijing have closed schools and mobilised thousands of people to help clear roads after the heaviest snowfall for nearly 60 years.'
Apart from this article, I have also noticed another report regarding water pollution in China, it was revealed by the official Xinhua news agency, the pollution was due to about 150,000 litres of diesel poured into the Wei river in Shaanxi province after a construction accident on Wednesday, the oil spill has now reached Yellow river which is one of the major water sources in China. When you look into these two separate matters, one can realized that human beings has been paying heavy prices on economic growth at the expense of spoiling the global environment.
I have reiterated in my previous essay regarding climate change's been taking place all over the world. For which the Copenhagen Summit (COP15) should play an important role as to save our environment from human devastation, however, much to my dismay, the outcome of the conference has been far from beyond the world's expectation!
At the end of the day, the so called "Copenhagen Accord" been signed up without legal binding, committing some minor points such as giving out billions of funding to developing nations to combat climate change and global warming, sustaining the threshold of rising temperature to below 2 degree Celsius.
At the closing remarks, world leaders agreed to hold another meeting during the first part of this year in order to sort out differences and find out an acceptable common ground to all nations concerned. With those extreme weather changes underway recently, I am concerned that our next generations will be confronting with a horrific catastrophie!
God bless the world.