Radiohead's Thom Yorke Slates World Leaders

Radiohead singer Thom Yorke has criticised world leaders for failing to reach agreement at the recent Copenhagen conference on global warming.

Global warming is one of the biggest problems facing humanity. Rising sea levels, severe weather patterns and shifts in temperature have all conspired to make life on planet Earth more dangerous than ever.

A recent conference in Copenhagen saw world leaders descend on the Danish capital to thrash out a potentially historic deal on climate change. However in a series of scattered debates no consensus emerged.

Radiohead singer Thom Yorke gatecrashed the event after gaining advantage of a press pass, and in a new statement reported by the BBC has revealed his disgust with world leaders.

"I think that western governments have come here expecting to go around this like business as usual" blasted the Radiohead frontman. "They're not interested in what you think. They are interested in covering themselves. They've walked into this negotiation and operated utterly cynically."

"They deserve all they get. All of them, including Obama, were put in power on the basis that they would change the climate change issue. Obama has done something, I'll give him that. I'll give him that it's not easy. But if you’re American you should be utterly ashamed of your president right now."

"If you were going to be really open hearted about it you could say, well maybe there was a practical element to it, maybe they were trying to move things forward. But actually, I think it's far more distressing than that. You have governments who don’t really see how it's going to happen. A lot of them are men and a lot of them are middle aged. They have a lot of friends around them who basically want to keep this ticking over as it is."

"They've come away with nothing here and it's really, really disturbing. This is the time, this is the hour, this is the day it was supposed to happen and it's not happened."