The journal   Nature Climate Change   has today published new research about the threat of global warming. They call   a lack of international will   the main reason that bringing global warming under control may be   slipping out of reach . In other words, we as a species cannot be really   bothered   about doing something collectively about this issue. The industrialized nations need to institute a swift cut in their emissions if we want global temperatures to remain at less than 2C higher than before we discovered oil and steam power. The target had been previously agreed at the 2009 UN conference in Denmark. However, this target now seems unlikely to be met because we simply cannot organise ourselves on a global basis. Another study in   the same journal   suggests that this threshold may well be crossed within thirty years and places the date between 2040 and 2060. That is, of course, if we haven’t bred ourselves out of existence ...