Merkel, Sarkozy back Danes in last-minute climate diplomacy

Sources in Washington point out that Obama could go to Copenhagen after having picked up his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on 10 December. "I'm not sure there's anything you get out of it," said a senior Senate Democratic aide. "With nothing to report, inaction and gridlock in the Senate, it seems like a wiser move to stay home," one US senator told Washington-based online news portal Politico.

MEP clashes with bishop over 'climate alarmism' - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent

A controversial Conservative Euro MP has careered into a clash with a bishop over his claim that the Church of England has "abandoned religion" to preach the gospel of climate change.

Roger Helmer, Tory MEP for the East Midlands, has infuriated the Church with the accusation that it is more interested in "climate alarmism" than its traditional teachings.

Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Hockey Sticks « the Air Vent

This is an updated repost from a September 11, 2008. It’s was a popular post then but is far more relevant now that we see some of the bias in the recently released files. It has to do with hockey sticks in general but the graphs are from data used in Mann08, a paper by Michael Mann who is a key figure in many of the CRU emails. This post should also answer some questions of the newcomers at the Air Vent.

William M. Briggs, Statistician & Consultant » Climategate Peer Review: Science red in tooth and claw

Now all the world can see that scientists, like their civilians brothers, are nasty, brutish, and short-tempered. They are prejudiced, spiteful, and just downright unfriendly. They are catty, vindictive, scornful, manipulative, narrow-minded, and nearly incapable of admitting to a mistake. And they are cliquey.

The Near Perfect Storm, Not Global Warming

I am pleased to say that most commentators have refrained from simplistically attributing to ‘global warming’ the exceptional storms of November 19 and 2o, which inflicted such devastating flooding on the towns of West Cumbria in England and Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland, although, inevitably, and somewhat irritatingly, certain of our more theologically-motivated environmental correspondents [like Andy Revkin] could not resist the temptation.

Flashback: 'Execute' Skeptics! Shock Call To Action: 'At what point do we jail or execute global warming deniers' -- 'Shouldn't we start punishing them now?' | Climate Depot

In 2006, the eco-magazine Grist called for Nuremberg-Style trials for skeptics.