Paul Brown, former environment correspondent of the Guardian, wrote his final column last Friday, Nov. 21. It was short. He began with, “In 1995, when the first ‘conference of the parties’ (COP) of the UN’s climate change convention met in Berlin, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration was approximately 360.67 parts per million. He went on to say a few words about that first COP, and mentioned the book he was commissioned to write immediately afterward, "Global Warming: Can Civilization Survive?" He lamented how thirty years of COPs have come and gone and the same basic speech has been repeated 30 times.
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