Obama briefs world leaders in Copenhagen, December 18. The so-called Copenhagen Accord is a mere side deal that leaves undone the true hard work of tackling climate change. Official White House photo by Pete Souza. Well, so much for Hopenhagen. Organizers of the U.N. climate summit had proposed that upbeat respelling of the Danish capital when negotiations began two weeks ago, and one saw it everywhere in Copenhagen: in metro station advertisements, activist press releases and newspaper headlines. But the cheery new name did not survive the talks themselves. In the end, Hopenhagen became Nopenhagen. Boarding the plane home on Saturday after the summit’s collapse, my eye was caught by a large wall photo of Barack Obama. Something about it wasn’t right, though. Bleary-eyed after an exceptionally late night of covering the dueling press conferences of the summit’s final hours, it took me a moment to see what was off. Only when I read the accompanying text did I notice that this Obama had a head of lightly gray hair. Barack Obama 2020, the text said, followed by a quote: “I’m Sorry. We Could Have Stopped Catastrophic Climate Change … We Didn’t.”

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