[Because of a completely irrational fear of carbon dioxide, should the federal government "overthrow" a $1.3 trillion industry]

“We are in process of overthrowing the incumbents in a $1.3 trillion industry,” said Mr. Kennedy, a veteran environmental activist, in a full-throated attack on one of his long-time foes, the coal industry. “We are going to democratize the energy industry and take it away from the incumbents.”

[Pachauri takes yet another fossil-fueled trip to Bali?]

JAKARTA, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- The 31st Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was held in Indonesia's Bali concluded Thursday with results to be brought to the upcoming 15th United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) scheduled for December in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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During the occasion, IPCC Chairman Dr. Rajendra Pachauri said that cooperation between countries in IPCC must be improved in the following years so as to provide scientific materials to take policies related to climate change.

Besides that, Rajendra said that the IPCC meeting in Bali also discussed the analyses of social impacts generated by climate change. [Did anybody talk about moving the thermometers away from the Weber grills?]

Climate Thoughts - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009