BBC - Newsnight: Susan Watts: A quiet bombshell on Copenhagen climate treaty?

And last night it looked as if Danish prime minister and host of the talks, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, was about to drop a quiet bombshell.

He was expected to make clear that he is no longer looking to Copenhagen to deliver a "treaty", that is a document with legally enforceable emissions cuts, but only "a political declaration" - an altogether different outcome.
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Downgrading from a treaty to a political declaration would be a bitterly disappointing result for those pinning their hopes on Copenhagen, despite all the warning signs that a meaningful deal looks perilously close to impossible.

Inhofe Reponds to Obama Climate [Scam] Speech

(Media-Newswire.com) - WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator James Inhofe ( R-Okla. ), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, today delivered a floor speech critiquing President Obama's climate change speech at the United Nations in New York.

"Remember that the Senate resoundingly rejected exempting developing nations such as China from a binding international climate treaty. We did this in the Byrd-Hagel resolution in 1997," Senator Inhofe said on the Senate Floor today. "In the final analysis, President Obama’s speech today was a failure: a failure to define success, a failure to provide real solutions for international energy security, and a failure to sketch the outlines of a meaningful international climate change agreement that will pass the Byrd-Hagel test.

The 'Government' is Smarter than You about the Environment

...I will not fall into the climate change trap. This issue is being used world wide to force the hand of nations like the United States into new forms of energy penalties and taxes, all in the name of protecting the planet. In reality, the policies once again transfer power from the many to the few.

Secretary Chu, Obama, and others may believe that government knows best. I believe that common sense, a little education, and faith in the American people can go a much longer way.

 Researchers cast serious doubt on carbon capture technology 

A University of Toronto think tank is warning that carbon capture programs coupd cause long-term environmental damage while doing little to fight climate change.
A research paper to be presented at a Munk Centre Conference today suggests there are too many unanswered questions about the multi-billion dollar schemes proposed by the Alberta and federal governments.