MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...

It is already clear what the conference will be like. It is enough to imagine hundreds of irritated scientists unable to agree on anything, overwrought presidents, prime ministers, ministers, experts and governments. Some of these governments are convinced that their countries will be flooded in 20 years, whereas others dismiss such predictions as paranoid.

The 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will be attended by envoys from 192 UN countries. Heads of state and prime ministers from the world"s leading countries will also come to Copenhagen for a few days.

The conference was supposed to produce an agreement to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. Nevertheless, it does not matter much when the Kyoto Protocol expires; the United States refused to abide by the signed protocol, neither China nor India assumed any commitments to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide, methane or other pollutants,

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