India eNews - Leaders at UN debate push for greater efforts on climate change

'I fear that some countries are hoping that the Kyoto Protocol will disappear so that they can take softer emission reduction commitments,' Ielemia said. 'I hope this will not happen as it would certainly be a significant step backwards.'
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Denzil Douglas, prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, said that global warming and climate change and their effects do not discriminate.

'We can all agree that the incidence of catastrophic climatic events such as hurricanes, floods, and mudslides continue to claim more and more lives each year,' he said.

Barack Obama is cooling on global warming - Telegraph

The President's speech to the UN on climate change was commitment-lite, says Christopher Booker.

The 2007-2008 Global Cooling Event: Evidence for Clouds as the Cause « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

But what is really curious is that the 9-year change in radiative forcing (warming influence) of the system seen in the last two figures is at least TWICE that expected from the carbon dioxide component alone, and yet essentially no warming has occurred over that period (see first illustration above). How could this be, if the climate system is as sensitive as the IPCC claims it to be?