It is important for readers to understand that education and policy is 100% blind to the temperatures being discussed. My professional background includes designing and creating emissions for their required electrical generation or fossil fuel use. We do all of the engineering in a calculator so the science has been blind, so is policy.

Then we completed several years and seasons of advanced temperature work with critical information found. Urban Heat Islands(UHI) are well documented and cost cities like Los Angeles 100 million dollars a year. The problem has been they were reacting to symptoms and hard to imagine California being knocked off the electrical grid treating symptoms.

The cause of Urban Heat Islands has been found and there is a direct link to climate change that couldn't be qualified before. We are not supposed to put absorbent finishes on the exterior of buildings and let the sun's harmful rays interact with that material. UV burns skin & burns buildings except buildings aren't insulated for the heat and we are reacting to the symptoms with massive emissions without addressing the heat that changes climate.

Here is a link so you can see time-lapsed infrared video of how UHI are created on the outside of the building and what they do to the inside of the building. People are literally being cooked by their buildings and we are using AC instead of shade. http://www.thermoguy.com/urbanheat.html

In Copenhagen there won't be any discussion on the toxicity of emissions and in studies done, 100% of babies were toxic before their first breath. Copenhagen is dealing with politics and economy, they haven't seen what you will here. Don't let Africa develop like North America, we have made big errors that could be fixed.

We can't turn back time we need to adapt. Take a look at this article The Great Transition: http://www.scribd.com/doc/21656220/The-Great-Transition-Navigating-Social-E conomic-Ecological-Change-in-Turbulent-Times