High drama defined two weeks in early December when some 11,000 government officials, environmentalists, industry lobbyists and journalists met in Bali, Indonesia, for the launch of negotiations on a climate change deal for a post-Kyoto Protocol world. Emotions welled and spilled over into tears, boos, hissing, insults and threats. Most of these were directed at, or in response to, the obstructionist positions taken by U.S. delegates to the United Nations Climate Change Conference. However, as tempers flared and the l...