Climate [hoax] talks stall on targets, finance: U.N. | Reuters

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Efforts to convince rich nations to toughen emissions cuts have failed to make much headway at climate talks in the Thai capital, the U.N. said on Friday.
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The September 28-October 9 talks are the last major negotiating session before environment ministers meet in Copenhagen to try to seal a tougher global pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol.

"Progress toward high industrialized world emissions cuts remains disappointing during these talks. We're not seeing real advances there," Yvo de Boer, the head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, told reporters.

"Movement on the ways and means and institutions to raise, manage and deploy financing support for the developing world climate action also remains slow."

EU carbon drifts on weaker energy prices | Markets | Reuters

Democrats in the U.S. Senate, who this week sketched out legislation to tackle global warming, now faced the hard part -- convincing enough fence-sitters to join their cause.

"We have to bring people to the table. This is a starting point ... the opening of the negotiating process," Senator John Kerry, co-author of the Democrats' proposals, told Reuters in a telephone interview.

Poland leads dissent at EU finance meeting on climate change costs - Monsters and Critics

'From our point of view, it is totally unacceptable that the poor countries of Europe should help the rich countries of Europe to help pay the poor countries of the rest of the world,' said Polish Finance Minister Jan Rostowski ahead of the informal meeting of EU finance ministers.
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Poland, for example, gets more than 90 per cent of its electricity from polluting and ageing coal plants. And its government argues that only ability to pay, not pollution levels, should be taken into account - a view shared by many former communist nations from Central and Eastern Europe.

Prince Philip Implies World Needs 95% Population Reduction - JustGetThere

“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the World Wildlife Fund