World needs CO2 budget to limit warming: WWF | Green Business | Reuters

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The world is in danger of spending its "carbon budget" by about 2025 and risks temperatures rising beyond 2 degrees Celsius unless nations adopt a flexible carbon accounting system, conservation group WWF says in a report.

[Are these people very interested in natural climate variability?]

The Pew Center was established in May 1998 as a non-profit, non-partisan, and independent organization dedicated to providing credible information, straight answers, and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change. The Pew Center is led by Eileen Claussen, the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.

Europe bids to tax personal fuel consumption

A Europe-wide tax on personal or household fuel consumption was proposed on Friday as EU finance ministers met to discuss who should pay what in the fight against global warming.
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Revenues "should be used for climate change [hoax] purposes (and) to finance the climate change efforts of the developing countries, because they need some support and we need revenues to support them," he said.

Obama and Copenhagen: A December Return? - Alarmist Andy Revkin: Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

The environmental benefits of Mr. Obama showing his face in the chambers filled with, by then, exhausted negotiators could be limited, given the constraints on any American president in the treaty-making process. As Dave Roberts of Grist said to me earlier this week, it might be hard for people outside the United States (or inside, for that matter) to grasp how a president could have the authority to take a country to war but not to commit it to curbing emissions of carbon dioxide. But that is the nature of a “boisterous democracy,” to use a description applied to both the United States and India by Jairam Ramesh, India’s environment minister.

Remember, when no treaty was ratified when George W. Bush was president, it was because Bush was all-powerful and evil!

When no treaty is ratified when Obama is president: hey, that's just the way our democracy works!