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The news of the past days on possible climate data manipulations by CRU and NIWA (see also Value Proposition ) exposes a strategic flaw in the UNFCCC planning.

Referring to the precautionary principle, the prior lack of consensus among scientists, and the human temptation to give in to unethical attitudes in front of growing stakes, it was risky to present a single measure (CO2 levels) as a single justification for an unprecedented global institutional approach (the single-issue (communications) strategy). See also a post at http://en.cop15.dk/blogs/view%20blog?blogid=2336 , responding to the observation on an expensive urban legend (by Roy Spencer, Phd, An Expensive Urban Legend).

At Climate Change impacts in Mali – Expectation of Civil Society for COP15 in Copenhagen it is illustrated, and at Value Proposition it is argued that the Copenhagen Therapy has a much broader scope than just reducing carbon levels.

Though the suspicion of Data Manipulation will tarnish the straightforward "Kyoto-Copenhagen Diagnosis", it should not tempt our leaders to throwing the baby with the bath water.

That threats to a vulnerable endeavour materialize must not become an argument for doing nothing.

Putting caps on pollution and man-made decline of our environment, must not be disputed.

Enhancing sustainable development and environmentally sound technologies, building resilience to climate impacts and consenting to keeping measured emissions and extractions within agreed constraints, all this must be done.

The long term cooperative agreements that are being negotiated do all that.

Yet their adaptiveness to improved (scientific) knowledge and their alignment with existing constituencies must be normalised. Communications strategy must be improved as well!

The people of Mali and of the G77 group are still in need of the COPENHAGEN THERAPY.

Let those people not be the victim of the poor risk management and communications strategy of planners facing truly unprecendented challenges!

(for background on programme management, see OGC(UK) Introduction to Programmes, with in particular OGC Communications Strategy Template ).