Nature editor Olive Heffernan reports on the organizational disaster that has left hundreds of registered delegates excluded from the UN negotiations on climate change. As talks on a climate deal heated up at the Bella Centre in Copenhagen, over capacity left many stranded for hours outside in the cold as they awaited a decision from UN Officials.
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