Penn State scientist in hot seat over e-mails -- themorningcall.com

... the volume of questionable e-mails appears to have surprised even the skeptics.

''Words fail me,'' Stephen McIntyre said on his blog, ClimateAudit.org, when he saw the first of the leaked e-mails. For years, McIntyre has challenged Mann's data and conclusions on global warming.
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Mann also apparently wrote on June 4, 2003, that ''it would be nice to try to 'contain' the putative 'MWP.''' The MWP is the Medieval Warm Period from the ninth to 13th centuries, an era that skeptics point to as evidence the Earth occasionally warms even without substantial manmade carbon dioxide.

The Libs are far from finished with Turnbull – Crikey

We’ve all grown used to the Prime Minister insisting that the CPRS will address climate change, a statement palpably, ludicrously wrong but apparently accepted with equanimity by the opposition and much of the media.
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35 [votes] is confirmation Turnbull, probably the most brilliant and certainly the richest man ever to lead a federal opposition, won’t be with us for much longer. 35 is demonstration that it’s not merely the climate denialists, it’s MPs and Senators genuinely angry about Turnbull’s handling of the CPRS, regardless of how they feel on the issue.

World can reach climate [swindle] pact by end 2010: Mexico

"What is important is that in Copenhagen we say what it is we want, and afterward the 'how.' If we decide what the goal is, the terms of the negotiations that follow will be easier," de Alba said in an interview.

More data "lost"?: UN: Climate change fund for poor not materialized

The UN says hundreds of millions of dollars promised by rich countries to help developing nations deal with climate change cannot be accounted for.

In 2001, the EU and several industrialized countries pledged more than $400m a year.

However, BBC reported that based on its investigation in eight years, just $260m had been paid into two designated UN funds.

The EU says the money was paid out in bilateral deals, but admits it cannot provide data to prove it.