#GREENFAIL: Ron Bailey on delusional thinking at the Durban climate conference. “T.S. Eliot wrote that ‘humankind cannot stand very much reality.’ This apothegm apparently applies to some climate change negotiators here in Durban who, when reality becomes too much, retreat to fantasies conjured by their rhetoric. The likelihood of draft proposals that require deep greenhouse gas emissions cuts by rich countries being adopted here in Durban is exactly nil.”