British Launch Ad Campaign to Raise Fading Climate Concerns - NYTimes.com

LONDON -- The U.K. government has launched a guilt-laden advertising campaign after a series of opinion polls showed that the majority of the public has not bought into climate change despite years of political haranguing and millions of pounds spent on information and advertising.
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It immediately drew more than 200 complaints to the advertising standards authority, the national watchdog for misleading advertising. The DECC spokeswoman said the bulk of the complaints were over the science cited in the ad.

That, she said, came as something of a shock. "At the climate negotiations, people say the science is settled, and we must move forward. But this suggests that the public doesn't necessarily buy that," she said.
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While pollster IPSOS-MORI said it had not published any recent climate change-related work, a survey last year found that only 1 in 3 people believed that climate change was due mainly to human activities.
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In Australia, a recent poll found that the topic had dropped to seventh on a list of foreign policy concerns, despite a decadelong drought and multiple bush fires. It was ranked No. 1 in 2007, when the country finally ratified the Kyoto Protocol.

YouTube - The Bigger Hoax: Green Jobs or Balloon Boy?

Breaking news: The cap and trade balloon, which had promised to deliver 1.7 million new green jobs, lands with no jobs inside. In fact, cap and trade will actually destroy jobs.

Senate Climate Markup Set for Tuesday but Will Any Republicans Show? - NYTimes.com

But Boxer cannot hold the markup unless at least two Republicans show up, and EPW ranking member James Inhofe (R-Okla.) signaled that he has unanimous support among the panel's minority members to boycott the session until they get more data on the legislation from U.S. EPA and the Congressional Budget Office.

'I'm not big on showing weakness' - Pelosi

At a recent caucus, she quoted her old Shakespeare favorite: “We happy few; we band of brothers.”
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Energy independence and climate change are singularly Pelosi passions. “I’m trying to save the planet,” she once famously said. But health care is rooted deeper in the Democratic Party, and the undertaking now — all compressed into one massive bill — is genuinely enormous.

[Is this really enough delegates?]: U.N. talks in Spain seek to salvage climate deal | Reuters

The November 2-6 talks in Barcelona of almost 4,000 delegates, led by senior government officials, will seek to end deep splits about sharing out curbs on greenhouse gases and ways to raise billions of dollars to help the poor tackle global warming.