STEPHEN GLOVER: I might not know the truth about climate change, but I recognise trickery and slippery excuses when I see them | Mail Online

If climate change really is the biggest threat facing humanity, let's have a more measured and reasoned argument in which the sceptics are not shouted down or ignored.

If our way of life is to be changed, and our countryside transformed, and the Third World possibly deprived of the opportunities of economic growth, we deserve a bit more than bogus pictures of polar bears perched on lumps of ice, and Bianca Jagger informing us that the Cumbrian floods are the result of climate change.

Bar for climate change goals set high for China

China may be the "champion of fighting against climate change" if government policies can be carried through to reach its energy efficiency goals while promoting renewable and nuclear power, said the chief economist at the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Climate scientists' 'dirty laundry' - The Whig Standard - Ontario, CA

The revelations have led to a tsunami of analysis and commentary in the climate blogosphere, which is far ahead of the mainstream media on the story. That isn't surprising given that the documents call into question much of the current orthodoxy on global warming many media have inaccurately reported as undisputed fact for years.
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But that misses the point. Much of this research -- on which tens of billions of public dollars have been spent worldwide over decades -- is the foundation upon which governments are about to put a price on emitting carbon dioxide. The result will be a massive increase in the cost of living for virtually everyone in the developed world.

The Copenhagen conference will be a negotiation about transferring billions of dollars of wealth from the developed world to the developing one, with no guarantees it will help the planet.

That's what this controversy is really all about.

Climategate: what Gore’s useful idiot Ed Begley Jr doesn’t get about the ‘peer review’ process – Telegraph Blogs

Now peer-review is dead, so should be the IPCC, and Al Gore’s future as a carbon-trading billionaire. Will it happen? I shouldn’t hold your breath.