Thus Der Spiegel today. “The United Nations Climate Change Conference beginning in Doha this week is turning into a farce,” explains the newspaper. “While negotiators are sticking to the goal of limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius, even climatologists admit that the project has failed.” Exactly. Since Copenhagen, the series of meeting on climate change has turned into a bizarre ritual. As no-one is willing to admit defeat, the show is going on and on without rhyme or reason. The newspaper is right on the money about all this. The only thing the article misses, and it misses it entirely, is that humanity, too, is only going through the motions at this stage. Humans have failed to deal with climate change, which is of their own making. Period. Now we are waiting to see the consequences of our failure as a species.