Chris Horner thinks Obama changed course to attend the Copenhagen conference, because he was forced to move early by Climategate.
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So they're trying to brazen this out, Charles, and the president, as you indicated, I believe, is doubling down. They're panicked. They're going to politically commit the U.S. in three weeks to a treaty now in violation of their own express policy of waiting for Congress to tell them what they're able to do because they really do believe they must act now.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-shepp ... g-strategyI think Harper is forced to be play the game in fear of big tarrifs from the US if he doesn't. So he all of a sudden has to attend too.