If there is any chance you haven't felt the world's anticipation of Copenhagen thus far, that won't be possible for much longer.  Tomorrow (or today, depending on your time zone), 56 newspapers in 45 countries will be publishing a unified editorial on climate change  and the urgency for COP15 to spare us from a tumultuous future.

From the editorial:

"Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year's inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc."

The piece goes on to emphasize the necessity of middleground, stating, "This should not be a fight between the rich world and the poor world, or between east and west. Climate change affects everyone, and must be solved by everyone."

Touching briefly on the recent Climategate scandal, the editorial dismisses the possibility that the scandal is enough to override years of scientific evidence. It goes on to emphasize the difference that a new American adminstration has made, but insists that much more needs to be done.

The final statement in the piece sums up this unlikely and unexpected editorial decision best: "It is in that spirit that 56 newspapers from around the world have united behind this editorial. If we, with such different national and political perspectives, can agree on what must be done then surely our leaders can too."