With Copenhagen looming, no consensus even amoung the "alarmist indigenous people" subset - "Indecision closes climate change summit"

But the representatives from the Pacific and North America said they had not reached consensus and would not sign. The youth caucus, comprised of members of all regions, was also in disagreement and said they would draft their own declaration for the U.N. The meeting was adjourned amidst murmured confusion in the audience, and some wiped away tears as Cochran said the committee would meet again in the afternoon to hash out differences.

Summit leaders would not release details of the non-finalized draft declaration to media or observers, but many attendees said the disagreement centers on how hard a line indigenous groups are willing to take when it came to restricting resource extraction in order to curb climate change. While climate change is wreaking havoc in many regions, mining, oil and gas development are important revenue sources for indigenous peoples, including those in Alaska.

The EBA (Everything's our Business Agency) - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

[Lisa Jackson, head of the EPA]: The President has said — and I couldn’t agree more — that what this country needs is one single national road map that tells auto makers who are trying to become solvent again, what kind of car it is they need to be designing and building for the American people.

NPR reporter (interrupting): Is that the role of the government. though? I mean that doesn’t sound like free enterprise.

A Feasible Alternative to Coal - Drew Thornley - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Even conservative estimates suggest the Louisiana discovery — known as the Haynesville Shale, for the dense rock formation that contains the gas — could hold some 200 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. That's the equivalent of 33 billion barrels of oil, or 18 years' worth of current U.S. oil production. Some industry executives think the field could be several times that size.

Wonk Room » Hiatt Stands By His Man, Accuses Critics Of George Will Of ‘Trying To Shut Him Down’

Fred Hiatt, the opinion page editor of the Washington Post, is sticking to his guns in defense of George Will’s egregiously mendacious global warming columns. In an online chat today, Hiatt repeated his claim that Will’s lies were just “inferences,” and lashed out at Will’s critics:

Boston: This doesn’t relate to Obama but would you care to address the whole George Will global warming column controversy? Is there any concern that lax standards for accuracy hurts the prestige of The Post opinion page more generally?

Fred Hiatt: Happy to, because we don’t have lax standards for accuracy. He addressed the factual challenges to his column in detail in a later column. In general we do careful fact checking. What people have mostly objected to is not that his data are wrong but that he draws wrong inferences. I would think folks would be eager to engage in the debate, given how sure they are of their case, rather than trying to shut him down.