World leaders have been going around in tiny and larger circles since 1979 when the  First World Climate Conference  was held in Geneva.  Sure, there have been all kinds of agreements and promises, most countries seem committed, but the fact of the matter is they are actually not doing very much.   What were you doing in 1979?  I had joined the staff of U.S. Senator Spark Matsunaga in DC, and saw no political interest in global climate change.  I don't recall even one major hearing on this subject during my three years there.   That First World Climate Change Conference eventually led to the formation of the United Nations  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change  ( IPCC ) in 1988.  Who remembers that the Second Climate Conference occurred also in Geneva in 1990?  Geneva also hosted #3 in 2009. You might say, in parallel, the  United Nations  also held gatherings, beginning 1949 with the UN Scientific Conference on conservation and resources, in New York.   Then in 1972, the Firs

 I yesterday ended my posting with: Thus, all three points of view by Hanson, Horning and Mikiluna are wonderful and necessary, but hardly sufficient for real action.  What is the solution?  The FIRE, which will come.  Anything better?  Sure, the world truly committing to do something about climate warming.  Will this occur.  I think not.  So what?  The FIRE, a global crisis somewhat evocative of the James Baldwin's warning.   Hope I'm wrong . Then we are more and more learning that the leaders of some countries will not even bother showing up in Glasgow for the climate change talks.    Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend the COP26 summit .  He went to the Paris Agreement session.   For a while   Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison   also wasn't planning to come.  However, while he now is going, he indicated that he might not be able to agree to anything because his country has not been able to come up with a position. President Joe Biden will show up, but his