End of the day update

It's after midnight here in Copenhagen, on an unusual day. About 6 p.m.,  we were finishing a very solemn vigil to mark this day of fasting--a vigil which was addressed by two young women who have been fasting 42 days, drinking only water. It was somber and lovely all at the same time, with a huge crowd on hand.

Then, all of a sudden, came news that a document had leaked from the UN Secretariat. For reasons not yet clear, my name was scrawled across the front twice--perhaps because it concerned something we at 350 had been talking about for weeks. Namely--as the first piece in the Guardian, which you can find below, made clear--the proposals on the table here aren't even enough to meet their totally insufficient two degree goal. Indeed, they're about 50 percent higher, yielding at least a three degree increase. Yielding a wrecked world.

This late in the conference it probably won't derail the stage-managed agreement expected tomorrow. But it does make clear how intellectually dishonest this whole process has been--and how necessary it is for you to keep up the truth-telling you've done for 350.org.

Tomorrow is the last day of the conference, and we will keep you posted on events. Thanks so much for your eloquent reflections on fasting--I read a bunch of them aloud tonight at the vigil, and they clearly made the women who had been fasting for six weeks very happy.