Africa: Western Climate Negotiators Cut Hopes for Copenhagen Dea

"Last month, President Obama, Prime Minister Gordon Brown and other leaders of industrialised nations all lined up to say how committed they were to tackling climate change and reaching an effective agreement on how to do this when UN negotiations end in Copenhagen in December," says Saleemul Huq, senior fellow in the climate change group at the International Institute for Environment and Development and a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

"This gave the world high expectations for the international negotiation session that has run for the past two weeks in Bangkok," says Huq. "But it seems like the negotiators from industrialised nations either didn't follow their leaders' speeches or haven't been received any new instructions because in virtually every aspect of the talks there has been minimal progress of any substance."

American Thinker Blog: Govt-Funded Research Unit Destroyed Original Climate Data

America is being asked to spend trillions on a theory, some of whose foundational data has been destroyed, allegedly for a lack of storage space. If the data cannot be reviewed, it cannot be trusted, scientifically.
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This data destruction has the odor of fraud about it.

A blast of early winter weather - Billings, Montana

Record low temperatures are expected tonight and Saturday night throughout the area. The last time we felt temperatures this cold in early October was in 1985.

[Does all this heavy equipment run on wind or solar power?]: Drilling the Sea Ice | Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists

MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA– Drilling a hole through 7 m (21 ft) of sea ice is the first step in Antarctic diving. Check out the video below to see how it’s done.