PM to skip summit on climate change - thestar.com

With greenhouse gas decision on hold till 2010, Stephen Harper opts to pass on trip to Copenhagen

Northern Sierra Trees Falsify Claim of ‘Unprecedented’ Global Warming « Watts Up With That?

Summary. In the Northern Sierra, Seat-of-the-Pants Dendroclimatology can give a more accurate indication of pivotal warming events in Earth’s geologically recent climate history than can modern dendroclimatology. In terms of the debate surrounding the ‘unprecedented’ global warming of the late 20th Century, Round Top Lake is ‘the elephant in the room’.

Stott: No Fairy Tale at Copenhagen

I fear this is all so predictable. The gap between the political rhetoric and political reality yawns wider by the day. For me, however, it is a relief, as the world is now less likely to be saddled with fairy-tale emission targets beyond the imagination of even Hans Christian Andersen.

And, I increasingly ponder if, somewhat paradoxically, Copenhagen might mark the beginning of the end of the ‘global warming’ political grand narrative? I wonder what the Snow Queen thinks? “Permafrost all round?”

Change Trade, Not our Climate | Our World Is Not For Sale

The current neoliberal economic system has to be replaced, if we are to combat climate change. There is no other workable option.