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"The political problem of who gets to control the Earth's thermostat is, of course, a tricky one."

Understatement of the year. Can you imagine?

I could imagine it, as always, being the guys that paid for it.

Might test the BRIC alliances. Russia and Brazil probably won't agree on this one.

What BRIC alliances?

BRIC countries are just clumped together for being developing economies that are going through similar experiences, but it is far from being a political-economic group.

Quite the opposite, actually.

There has been an annual BRICS summit attended by the leaders on the 5 nations since 2009. Clearly it's a bit more than a clever media acronym.

Correct, but I wouldn't say this can be called an "Alliance". Even the members of this group are hard to precise. Some would put Korea, some would put Nigeria, some would put Indonesia, etc.

"BRIC" is no NATO, or anything that resembles some formal structure. The "BRIC" countries are getting into multi-lateral agreements, yes, but there is no "BRIC" organization. While the summit is used to conduct agreements between Russia and China, or Brazil/China/India, there is no "BRIC alliance".

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