Do you want to live on Mars?

Last week, “Real Time” host Bill Maher used a stern tone as he addressed climate change skeptics saying, they must “stop pretending climate change is a future problem.”  While he directed a good portion of his rant towards particular skeptics, mainly one who infamously said global warming is a hoax and compared the environmentalist movement to the Third Reich , he did briefly bring up Copenhagen - as in the place where in just 8 weeks the world will convene to forge a new international agreement on climate change.

For it was just a few days ago that Obama was in Copenhagen, to rally support for Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid.  Hopefully the next time talks involving Obama and U.S. are in Copenhagen, climate change skeptics like Senator Inhofe and ilk won’t be cheering his (our) failure. Because there is no room for failure.  If the world’s leaders miss this opportunity, there will be no second chance in the future, “no later way to undo the catostrophic damage to the enviroment we will cause,” as Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom recenty commented in Newsweek.

In that Newsweek, Brown announced that he would personally go to Copenhagen to make sure there is no failure. But will Obama go?  “I would hope since he went to push Chicago’s bid for the Olympics, he would go back in December to help save the world from climate change,” said Phyllis Cuttino , director of the Pew Environment Group’s U.S. Global Warming Campaign in Washington in a recent piece on bloomberg.com. There has been no official announcement from Obama for or against traveling to Copenhagen for the talks, just this from press secretary Robert Gibbs, “Obama would consider returning if the talks were designed to be between heads of state.”

*Warning - as this is a Bill Maher clip - there are one or two NSFW words.