Climate summit : Climate talks resume in Bangkok with deal in doubt | US Post Today.

The climate negotiations resume Monday in Bangkok, but a growing chorus of voices is warning a pact may be out of reach this year.

“The odds of concluding a final comprehensive treaty in Copenhagen are vanishingly small. Many world leaders have started to acknowledge that,” said Michael Levi, the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

Dust storms spread deadly diseases worldwide | World news | The Observer

Dust storms like the one that plagued Sydney are blowing bacteria to all corners of the globe, with viruses that will attack the human body. Yet these scourges can also help mitigate climate change

American Thinker: Global Warming 'Science'

What is becoming clearer is that the concept of "manmade global warming" may be one of the greatest hoaxes in world history. How soon this will become generally known will depend on how forcefully the political effort seeking both national and international control of industry and wealth redistribution can keep the hoax hidden by intimidation and forcefully amplified rhetoric while systematically jeopardizing the economies of America and other developed nations.

ARE MELTING GLACIERS GOOD OR BAD?

An email below from Patrick Moore [pmoore@greenspirit.com], a co-founder of Greenpeace, to Benny Peiser
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What if the glaciers were not melting due to a colder climate? Then where would the irrigation water come from? How about if the glaciers were advancing 100 meters per year toward the villages that need the melt water for irrigation? How does the logic of this situation escape these bright minds?

The Impact of Global Warming on Human Fatality Rates: Scientific American

For their part, though, global warming skeptics such as atmospheric physicist Fred Singer maintain that cold weather snaps are responsible for more human deaths than warm temperatures and heat waves. “The elderly die in inadequately heated homes. People get skull fractures from falls on the ice. Men die of heart attacks while shoveling snow. People get colds, flu, pneumonia and other respiratory diseases. Infectious diseases proliferate. Hospital admissions rise.” Singer, founder of the Science and Environmental Policy Project, concludes that since global warming would raise maximum summer temperatures modestly while raising winter minimum temperatures significantly, it “should help reduce human death rates.”