FRANK LOY, chief US climate negotiator, got two custard pies in the face at
the climate talks in The Hague. One from an unfriendly demonstrator and another,
verbally at least, from Dominique Voynet, French head of the European Union
delegation. She rejected his last-ditch compromise, worked out with British
deputy prime minister John Prescott, and followed that with a public spat with
Prescott himself.
It would be farcical if it were not so serious. We are, after all, dealing
with the future of the world’s climate. By the end of May, when the suspended
talks are due to resume, all…
