Momentum on Climate Pact Is Elusive/NYtimes

By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: September 21, 2009

The world leaders who met at the United Nations to discuss climate change on Tuesday are faced with an intricate challenge: building momentum for an international climate treaty at a time when global temperatures have been relatively stable for a decade and may even drop in the next few years.

(...)“People understand what I’m saying, but then basically wind up saying, ‘We don’t believe anything,’ ”

(...)"Most climate scientists stand firm in their projections of centuries of rising seas and other disruptive effects of a warming planet if humans take no steps to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases"

(...)“It does not have the direct visual or emotive impact of seeing seabirds covered in oil from the Exxon Valdez oil spill,”

Complete article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/science/earth/23cool.html?_r=1&th&emc=th