Peter Foster: Climate policy bust - FP Comment

The case against drastic action goes well beyond holes in the science
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The Copenhagen meeting in December from which a successor to Kyoto was meant to emerge will obviously be a bust.
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Desperation was obvious last week in the appearance of yet another hysterical report from the UN. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon wailed that, “The science has become more irrevocable than ever: climate change is happening. The evidence is all around us. And unless we act, we will see catastrophic consequences, including rising sea-levels, droughts and famine, and the loss of up to a third of the world’s plant and animal species.”

Ho hum. More irrevocable? In fact, the science is falling apart faster than the policy.

The Associated Press: Many [allegedly] support $100 billion a year on climate change

UNITED NATIONS — Many world leaders have expressed support for a proposal that would earmark $100 billion a year for the next decade for concrete actions to curb greenhouse gases and help countries cope with the impact of climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.

Ban said he had sent letters to leaders of the 20 leading economies initially proposing $250 billion annually.
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Buoyed by the U.N. summit, Ban said: "It was much more than I expected in terms of generating political will and leadership role by the world leaders ... but there are still many problems in these extremely complex negotiations."
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The secretary-general said he was flying on Wednesday to Sweden, which currently heads the EU, and would then visit Copenhagen and Geneva to keep the spotlight on climate change and discuss the possibility of another summit.

Mayor's minions jump ship | Toronto Sun

It will be interesting to see how much they defend their now lame-duck leader (as they did last Friday), who won't even be at council this week. He's jetted off to L.A. to hob-nob with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other climate change shmoozers.