Small islands: Copenhagen set up for failure

"We are not working through the options as negotiations, we are simply restating our positions. So we may arrive in Copenhagen with the parties still very far apart. It's really setting up Copenhagen for failure or an inadequate result," says Leon Charles, chairman of the AOSIS negotiating team, to IRIN, a news media provided by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

UN Climate Report Rife with Errors « Harold Ambler - Talking About The Weather

Things get curiouser and curiouser with the United Nations’ world-class, cream-of-the-crop science compendium published two weeks back.

Over the Summer, a Spread of Thicker Arctic Ice - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

The National Snow and Ice Data Center released its summary of summer sea-ice conditions in the Arctic on Tuesday, noting a substantial expansion of the extent of “second-year ice” — floes thick enough to have persisted through two summers of melting. The result could be a reprieve, at least for a while, from the recent stretch of remarkable summer meltdowns.

According to the center, second-year ice this summer made up 32 percent of the total ice cover on the Arctic Ocean, compared with 21 percent in 2007 and 9 percent in 2008.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: The light bulb goes … off

In other words, we’re saving a few pennies at best on energy costs with CFLs over incandescents — and in return, making our homes potential toxic-waste areas and polluting landfills with mercury. It’s an insane policy that can only be justified by radical environmentalist lunatics.

The Chilling Effect | cooling heated rhetoric on global warming » The Green Man’s Burden

There is a historical tendency in Europe to seek to mold others in its image. This was part of what some styled the “white man’s burden” during the colonial era. Has this tendency reasserted itself as the Green man’s burden?