How Climate Deniers Undermined The Kyoto Treaty

The rest of the developed world took Kyoto seriously...In Washington, however, [eight years after the treaty.] Big Oil and Big Coal remain in complete and unchallenged power."

"America was more firmly locked into coal and oil than our European peers: sprawling suburbs, oversized houses, abandoned rail lines. We had the single hardest habit to break, which was thinking of energy as something cheap."

"..the climate skeptics [have understood] the shape of American politics far better than environmentalists...How, even as the science grew ever firmer and the evidence mounted ever higher, did the climate deniers manage to muddy the issue? It's one of the mightiest political feats of our time, accomplished by a small group of clever and committed people."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan