Have these guys ever heard of video confrencing, spose being in a five star hotel in bali is more conducive to ...erm....well slagging off everyone who flies to places like ...erm... Bali? to stay in expensive 5* hotels.

Paul the cynic, welwyn garden, Herts

So much Bali-Hoo for nothing!

All that hot air and carbon emitted for a bunch of people who couldn't see the real problem if it stood up and slapped them in the face with a wet kipper!

If man-made global warming does exist then it is not so much a product of how much we each emit but that there are 6billion of us emitting and that number is going to hit 9billion.

The politicians won't discuss the real problem as they don't know how to solve it so they debate and wrangle side issues such as carbon targets. Reducing carbon won't stop deforestation, overfishing, river and groundwater polution etc etc.

Only reducing the human population will really solve the problems of over-exploitation of the natural world.

karl, sheffield, UK

The current elevated atmospheric CO2 level is required to accentuate plant growth necessary to support mankind's burgeoning population. Condemning hundreds of millions of human beings to 18th century conditions by forcibly reducing energy consumption is preposterous. Scientists are by no means even certain as to what, theoretically, an ideal world-wide temperature regime should be.

Dr. Albert Gortenbull, Edinburgh, UK

"Eleventh hour"???

Give me a freaking break!

Shyster, Temperance, MI

Thank goodness for global warming.
If the planet had not been the "victim" of climatic warming millenia ago, the British Isles would be under miles of ice and snow. How come the Romans had vineyards in Northumbria if it wasn't due to a considerably warmer climate than now? This new Global Warming religion is based on utterly false but contrived data by the left/Greens/socialists/anti-commerce consortium to scare the unthinking & ignorant do-gooders into accepting Goreism as a fact. Oh, and as a tax raising opportunity not to be missed!!!

Manuel, Wilmslow , Cheshire, U.K.

The latest head of the U.N. was undoubtedly appalled at this outcome, but could not voice his displeasure as he was unreachable on the first leg of his personal jet's flight to New York for a quick listen to one of his favorite rock bands before he quickly jetted on to Korea to be honored for what a great humanitarian he is for instructed the peons on what is good for them. I am sure we can look forward to hearing from him about sacrifices others like me and you must make as soon as he touches down.

Joe Guyton, Montgomery, Tx, USA

The trouble is that we are all treating the Planet like many do a hire car, i.e. they do not care that they trash the guts out it because at end of the day they will "hand it back" (i.e. on to the next generation in terms of the Planet) and so really the politicians making the decisions now do not care as they will be long gone when the S hits the fan in a few decades time because of their failures . I dread to think the type of World we will all be living in in 20 or 30 years time because one thing is for certain, there will never ever be anything done by ALL Countries and both China, USA and India will be the downfall of the World.

John, Woking, Surrey

If the leaders in governments really cared about reducing pollution, they would be building so many nuclear power stations that within 20 years, 98% of fossil fuels will not be needed or indeed in demand. Cars would be run on hydrogen with the fuel generators being, for those who can afford them, in people's garages, the size of a refrigerator, and trains would be powered by magnetic levitation, much quieter, faster safer (powerered braking), less maintenance and they would eventually be much faster that aircraft over land. Hey, folks, China and Germany already have them in operation. One is from Shanghai to the airport, every day service.

Just think, no pollution, even from sinking oil tankers. No reliance on unstable foreign countries for a vital product, oil.

But we have to insist with legislation that the the powerful corporations with massive financial interests in oil production and so on, divert research cash to developing the new technology.

B J Deller, Marbella, Spain

Hi,
In German you say you should tie the green’s to the next tree, as long as tree’s exist. Think about it.
Regards Dr. Terence Hale

Terence Hale, zandvoort, Holland

"Bali deal leaves greens in despair" - Good! I for one am fed up to the back teeth of ecomentalists and their sanctimonious claptrap.

Adrian Ryan, Donegal, Ireland

This global warming mess is a socialist scam to raise taxes, and shut down the free market. Do you think for an instant Al Gore and his ilk are going to really make the sacrifices they demand? No, they're going to do it on your back, not on their's.

Jack, FL USA,

Green drivel. Tony Juniper has loads more junkets lined up over the next few years to talk more about this 'crisis', so why so disappointed? Hope him and all the other gullible fools are still around when the climate goes back to normal (whatever that is) as the sun's affect reduces over the next few years.

LS, Edinburgh,

All in all, not a bad result.
I was worried that the US might cave in at the last moment.
This man on the Paris omnibus also thinks the whole thing is just a scheme to raise taxes. And indicative of Europe's Nazi/Commie tendencies; namely, A tells B what B should be doing. This is why America refuses to accept this nonsense; it is against the average American's psyche to be told what to do. Especially when it comes top-down from the State.
Give those greenies an inch and they'll have us all living in caves before we know where we are...In fact, now that think about it; they won't even be happy then, because caves are for bears, and hey, bears have feelings too, right. In fact, the ultimate aim of the greenies (like the Nazis and the commies) is to kill people, except that (unlike the Nazis and like the Commies), they want us to believe that it's in our own good.
So, if you really love your kids, buy a gas guzzler and let the greenies to where no sun does shine.

Samuel Young, Paris, France

"Bali deal leaves greens in despair"? Well, that's at least one good outcome.

Faustino, Brisbane, Australia

Isn't this 'peachy keen' I can see mankind waiting (as usual)
until the eleventh hour to take action only this time it might
be far far too late.

Jerry Scroggin, Phoenix, Arizona/USA

What did the "Greens", or anyone else expect?
But they could not give up the idea of a holiday in Bali.
Hypocrites. They think nothing of flying thousands of miles, emitting tonnes of carbon dioxide when they could have done the whole thing by tele conference.
The man on the Clapham omnibus wonders if the whole ting is just a scheme to raise taxes.

Dave Newton, Singapore, Singapore