The stance of the developing world makes a lot of sense. After all, as Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, enlightened me, the rise in world temperatures is almost all the rich nations’ fault, since it’s due to combined greenhouse gas emissions since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. “What we’re actually seeing … has been extraordinarily destructive behavior on the part of the U.S. government, on the part of the Obama Administration, absolutely derailing the climate negotiations in the lead-up to Copenhagen,” says Naomi Klein. “Developing countries are absolutely shocked by what U.S. climate negotiators have done.”