ARTICLE: Many Goals Remain Unmet in 5 Nations' Climate Deal, By JOHN M. BRODER, New York Times, December 18, 2009

I, for one, find no great "victory" or "disappointment" in the vague but suitably vectored outcome at Copenhagen. It struck me as exactly what the world can muster right now and no more or less: definitely not enough for those convinced we're on the road to certain hell, but responsive enough to those of us who see danger and yet aren't convinced--a la Lomborg--that cranking on the CO2 knob is the all-powerful answer to what lies ahead.

And, given the state of knowledge and where the world finds itself today in globalization's advance and the trailing institutions of management (politics always trailing economics and security always trailing networks), I think such an outcome is enough. Better answers await, along with more political will, but not being able to wrap it all up in Copenhagen is far from any disaster--one way or the other.