What does recent Senate drama on the climate bill mean? Peak Boxer. | David "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts - Grist

Is Boxer too abrasive to do the delicate work of shepherding a bill through the Senate? Well, there may be something to that. In Congress it’s all about staff, and DC rumor has it that Boxer’s staff director, Bettina Poirier, is a controlling and alienating presence. EPW has been hemorrhaging key staff for a while now, and more than one Senate staffer has a tale of being misled or bypassed entirely by Boxer’s staff during negotiations over the bill. All those stories feed the general sentiment that Boxer just shouldn’t be the one running this. Fair or not, that’s the perception, and perception is reality in the Senate.

Gore conflict of interest publicised

Given Gore's heavy investment in carbon trading, and his instrumental role in supporting the political sledgehammer to usher the new regime in at Copenhagen, the question has to be asked whether Gore's people truly want CO2 neutralised, or whether they merely want to enjoy the money and power associated with appearing to combat it.

Gore has been fighting a rearguard action to quell growing media cynicism, after comments by Marc Morano's Climate Depot hit the front page of the New York Times this week

[The problem is fake, but the money is real]: African countries receive $1.1bln climate finance

Six African countries will receive 1.1 billion dollars in grants or low-interest loans to help a switch to cleaner energy and cope with the impacts of climate change, the World Bank announced here on Thursday.x

Climate Feedback: Barcelona climate: Big heads of state

One of the other ideas floating around is to just pause the negotiations without producing an agreement and then hold another meeting in the first half of next year, but many here say there will be too much pressure on politicians for them to leave Copenhagen without producing anything. A political statement that spells out the basic commitments on financing, REDD and perhaps even emissions targets - likely requiring a range to allow some flexibility for the United States, which is unlikely to have worked out its domestic policy - would allow everybody to claim success while leaving the details for later. That's one theory, anyway.

DECC signs up to [climate hoax] campaign

Longer term, the Department is looking at generating its own low carbon electricity and connecting to the Whitehall district heating scheme.

[Fraudster Pachauri: The Problem that Might Kill Us All is allegedly only a symptom of a much larger problem]

Emphasising on the need to build such bridges of learning, Dr. R.K. Pachauri said, “It would be wonderful if teachers go beyond the regular pedagogy and actively involve in developing the school as a sustainable habitat. The students are most vulnerable as climate change will affect them in their future. Climate change is only a symptom of a much larger problem -- unsustainability. If teachers are empowered then clearly there would be a major multiplier effect in our society. We need to change the way we live, the way we develop our technologies, etc to move towards the path of sustainability. ”