What Do We Really Know About Climate Change? « Watts Up With That?

[Basil Copeland] ...until all of the forces that determine the full range of natural climate variability are understood better than they are now, there is no scientific justification for the massive overhaul of economic and government structures being promoted under the guise of climate change, or global warming.

'Copenhagen Diagnosis' Ramps Up the Rhetoric

While Blakemore trumpets the fact that the scientists behind the “Copenhagen Diagnosis” all apparently donated their time in producing their report, the pretension in the self-designated title is worthy of note. But surely a report such as this required some financial support? Yes, indeed — and it received that support from a company associated with Al Gore.

Climate talks: Three issues [besides ClimateGate?] that could bust a deal

These are the deal-busters and deal-makers at the December 7-18 conference, say analysts:

-- sharing out the burden between rich countries and emerging giants of curbing the fossil-fuel gases that stoke global warming;

-- agreeing early figures on funding to help poorer countries tackle greenhouse gases and their impacts; and

-- the architecture of the post-2012 climate pact.

[Debate tomorrow in Toronto: May and Monbiot vs Lomborg and Lawson]

Just days before the United Nation’s historic Copenhagen summit the Munk Debates will tackle one of the great public policy questions of our time: how should the world respond to climate change?