By all report, last week's climate change talks in Bonn, Germany, were another setback in the attempt to reach a global consensus on a global warming strategy. The European Union's climate commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, said: "These negotiations have if anything gone backwards." The Bonn talks also marked a further slide in the amount of importance the issue is getting inter nationally these days. It is apparently barely newsworthy just a little more than eight months after the Copenhagen Summit held the global center atage.