The message: Time is up. This is how important the Copenhagen conference is.  From the Age of Stupid people:  “Congratulations to 10:10’s biggest fan, Ian Katz at the Guardian, who has pulled off a genuinely historic coup by persuading 56 newspapers in 45 countries to print the same editorial this morning, marking the start of Copenhagen. First time the world’s media has ever spoken with one voice. Almost… you’ve gotta love one US paper’s response to the suggestion that they join: “This is an outrageous attempt to orchestrate media pressure. Go to hell.” Hmmm, all the world comes together to agree climate text, except the US – where did we hear that before?”

Only two U.S. newspapers will publish the editorial, (that they know of) and one is Spanish-language: The Miami Herald, USA , and the El Nuevo Herald, USA in Spanish. What is wrong with American newspapers? American newspapers have become so politicized they are frightened to even print an editorial stating an opinion about a planetary problem that will affect us all. Pathetic.

Here is the Editorial in full. Pass it on and help make up for the awful state of American newspapers.

Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.

Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year’s inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc. In scientific journals the question is no longer whether humans are to blame, but how little time we have got left to limit the damage. Yet so far the world’s response has been feeble and half-hearted.

Climate change has been caused over centuries, has consequences that will endure for all time and our prospects of taming it will be determined in the next 14 days. We call on the representatives of the 192 countries gathered in Copenhagen not to hesitate, not to fall into dispute, not to blame each other but to seize opportunity from the greatest modern failure of politics. This should not be a fight between the rich world and the poor world, or between east and west. Climate change affects everyone, and must be solved by everyone.

The science is complex but the facts are clear. The world needs to take steps to limit temperature rises to 2C, an aim that will require global emissions to peak and begin falling within the next 5-10 years. A bigger rise of 3-4C — the smallest increase we can prudently expect to follow inaction — would parch continents, turning farmland into desert. Half of all species [...]