By 2007, Peter imagines 10 X-Racers launching side-by-side with the help of 1, 800-pound-thrust, kerosene hungry engines.

ENGADGET: Rocket Racing coming in 2007

Instead, they are diversifying their incomes by planting crops such and corn and launching side businesses such as coffee tours and shops.

WSJ: Coffee Growers Forge a Futures Recovery

So, apart from all the side events with millionaire financiers launching ideas for getting money to poor countries, and ocean scientists warning that the oceans are turning more acidic because of CO2, and forestry experts explaining all the different and often conflicting ways of funding the protection of the forests, you have the main negotiations themselves.

BBC: Harrabin's Notes: Inside Copenhagen

Colonel BENJAMIN: The problem is here that the other side, unfortunately, are deliberately using civilian areas as platforms for launching these rocket attacks, which is really in breach of what I would call the first law of warfare, which is to keep the civilians out of the picture.

NPR: Israel Apologizes, but Strikes to Continue