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Times OnLine:

Humanity faces oblivion if it fails to reach agreement on global warming, Ban Ki Moon, the UN Secretary General, said yesterday as the US and the European Union continued to scuffle over a successor to the ten-year-old Kyoto treaty on climate change.

"The world’s scientists have spoken with one voice: the situation is grim and urgent action is needed," Mr Ban said at a gathering of 190 countries on the Indonesian island of Bali. "The situation is so desperately serious that any delay could push us past the tipping point, beyond which the ecological, financial and human costs would increase dramatically. We are at a crossroads: one path leads to a comprehensive climate change agreement, the other one to oblivion."

Let's see. On the downside we have the extinction of humanity; the Earth as a lifeless, overheated world, spinning though space until the Sun goes supernova some billions of years in the future; the death of all hope, love and poetry.

On the upside: We are finally rid of the UN.

Sounds like a deal to me!