UN deadlock puts strain on UK’s transport and climate agenda | TXNews | TransportXtra

What will such outcomes mean for transport policy here in the UK? Potentially an awful lot, because the fear of climate change caused by man’s C02 emissions has been at the very heart of transport policy for the last decade.
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Failure at Copenhagen will be greeted with understandable despair by those people who have been convinced by the doomladen prophecies of numerous climate scientists, many journalists, most political leaders, and all ‘green’ pressure groups. But before heading for the cliffs it is worth reflecting for a moment on a question posed in these pages last year by climate policy analyst Benny Peiser: Would the debate at Copenhagen be different if global temperatures were rising rapidly? Almost certainly. But average global temperature isn’t rising and hasn’t for a few years. The world’s leaders may not admit it publicly but perhaps they are no longer quite so sure that this is a planetary ‘emergency’.

Lawrence Solomon: Hot and cold - FP Comment

If a new Little Ice Age soon sets in, as many scientists consider likely, [Northwest Passage] commercial shipping will not happen in our lifetimes.

By taking a snapshot in time, and by ignoring the history and the ecology of the Arctic, global warming alarmists can make a grim case for a disappearing Arctic, and even fool themselves. In May of this year, a six-country effort involving 20 scientists an aircraft outfitted with precision equipment to Canada’s Arctic in an expedition designed to prove that the Arctic ice was thinning. The expedition found the opposite — newly formed ice was up to four-metres thick, twice what was as expected. Around the same time, three other explorers, on behalf of the Catlin Arctic Survey in London, set off on skis on a trek to the North Pole to measure the thickness of the melting spring ice. Unprepared for blizzard winds of 40 knots and Arctic temperatures of 40 degrees below zero, the expedition made little headway, ran out of food, suffered from frost-bite, and finally had to be airlifted to safety — at their slow-going rate of progress, they couldn’t have survived the 82 days required to travel the remaining 542 kilometers.

Forecast: Fishy

['CLOUDY With a Chance of Meat balls"] is a high-tech celebration of Luddism, not because the filmmaking digerati are actually nostalgic for low tech themselves, but because they think it, like poverty and ugliness, suits the sweaty throngs out beyond the 310 area code who are messing up the planet.
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Because no kid movie is complete without a global-warming message, the comedy turns into "The Day After Tomorrow" plus marinara sauce. The breakneck battle scenes, the repetitive slapstick (one guy slips into the body of a giant chicken, another into a giant olive) and the wordplay ("What if we've bitten off more than we can chew?") don't drown out the lecturing: "This mess we're in is all our fault."

Hang on -- it's morally wrong to try to produce an answer to the island's poverty? The movie is as clueless as Marie Antoinette. The peasants are eating too much cake. Let them eat sardines!