A Quiet Climate Change Conference

It's all I saw of it in the Globe:

"UN climate talks hit snag; Dispute resurfaces over controlling carbon emissions" by Karl Ritter  |  Associated Press, May 25, 2012

BONN, Germany - UN climate talks hit gridlock Thursday, as a widening rift between rich and poor countries risked undoing some advances made last year in the decades-long effort to control carbon emissions that scientists say are overheating the planet....

On the next-to-last day of two weeks of talks there was little sign of progress....

Developing countries - backed by climate activists - accuse the United States, the European Union, and other industrialized nations of trying to evade commitments made in past negotiations and shift responsibilities for tackling climate change to the developing world....

Since their launch in the early 1990s, the UN talks have had little success reducing emissions of the heat-trapping gases that a large majority of climate scientists say are warming the Earth, with potentially devastating consequences for poor countries ill-prepared to deal rising sea levels, floods, droughts, and other effects of a changing climate....

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I didn't hear anything, but something sure does stink.