1. Barack Obama, “Remarks on Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Change,” January 26, 2009.

2. Interview with Ed Markey.

3. Erica Downs, “China’s Energy Rise” in China’s Rise in Historical Perspective, ed. Brantly Womack (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2010), p. 190.

4. Joanna A. Lewis, “China’s Strategic Priorities in International Climate Change Negotiations,” Washington Quarterly 31, no. 1 (Winter 2007–8), pp. 155–74 (four-year study); National Development and Reform Commission, “China’s National Climate Change Program,” People’s Republic of China, June 2007 (“further intensify”); Kenneth Lieberthal, “U. S.-China Clean Energy Partnership: Progress, Prospects and Recommendations,” Brookings Institution, September 2009 (possible consequences); New York Times, September 8, 2009 (“win-win”).

5. Isabel Hinton, “In India, A Clear Victor on the Climate Front,” Yale Environment 360, March1, 2010 (“kiss of death”); Jairam Ramesh, speech to Parliament, December 3, 2009; Wall Street Journal, March 8, 2010 (“ bread-and-butter”).

6. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, “Draft Decision: Proposal by the President, Copenhagen Accord,” December 18, 2009 (“international measurement”); William Antholis and Strobe Talbott, Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming (Washington, D. C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2010), ch. 5 (“variable geometry”); interview with David Sandalow; Eric Pooley, The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth (New York: Hyperion, 2010), pp. 423–41.

7. Pennsylvania State University, “RA-1O Final Investigation Report Involving Dr. Michael E. Mann,” June 4, 2010.

8. Hindu, January 19, 2010 (many glaciers, “iota”); Guardian, November 9, 2009 (“standstill,” “arrogant”); Isabel Hinton, “In India, A Clear Victor on the Climate Front,” Yale Environment 360, March 2, 2010 (“copied”); Times (London), January 21, 2010 (“astrologer”); Bloomberg, January 20, 2010 (“pathetic state”).

9. Dmitry Medvedev, speech, August 4, 2010; Reuters, August 23, 2010 (Vladimir Putin).

10. The New York Times, December 16, 2010 (“command-and-control”); Associated Press, January 3, 2011 (“unable to legislate”); New York Times, December 9, 2010.