[Sangetsu]

Talks at Copenhagen are deadlocked, and there will be no deals of any significance. A few billion dollars will be given to developing countries to squander as they see fit, but that will be the extent of any action.

The protesters in the streets in Copenhagen will scream and yell, but most of them are the usual crowd from the "World Workers Party", who travel around the world demonstrating against capitalism and do nothing else.

There will be no "cap and trade" legislation passed in America. The current economic conditions cannot support it. Mid-term elections are coming up, and now is the time when politicians actually begin to care about what they are doing (superficially, anyway). New taxes cannot be levied when people and companies are barely making enough money to keep their heads above water.

Al Gore will continue his slide into insignificance, hopefully he can sell the majority stock he holds in his "Generation Investments Corportation", which was the carbon-trading company that was poised to make him potentially billions of dollars if cap-and-trade was passed. Al Gore is more of a capitalist than many would believe, but an even less-honest-than-usual one.