Maxwell T. Boykoff

Climate Change and the Media

At the end of this calendar year, misinterpretations of Mesoamerican/Mayan calendars will prove correct and catastrophe will beset humans…Or another cycle will begin: world leaders will again gather – this time in the oasis of Doha – for the ritual dance called international climate negotiations. If the latter scenario plays out, delegates and leaders will most likely perform their parts while prospects continue to look grim for substantive policy action to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, whose authority goes extinct just days later.