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Elizabeth May speaks about the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change 2009. The Urgency; denial and
other problems; the atmospheric chemistry; global warming and greenhouse gases; Canada's not ready...

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[John Kerry: Reality-Denier]

As Thorning began to mention the unwillingness of India and China to take action on climate change, Kerry interrupted her, saying,

“That’s not accurate. That’s not accurate. You need to be accurate.”

“The changes that have been taking place are taking place in the rest of the world; not in the U.S.,” Kerry said. “China, India and others are going to clean our clock if we don't act.”

AEI’s Kenneth Green drew Kerry’s ire when he contended that “economists, EarthFirst and people like me at AEI say cap-and-trade doesn't work … cap and trade hasn't worked in Europe and it will not work here.”

Kerry countered:

“Europe’s trading system didn’t fail; its working”

...Green, however, sees structural problems with Europe's cap-and-trade program. "We will see many of the same problems here" only on a much larger scale, he said.

Kerry, an author of the Senate's Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, told Green he was “seeing something that thousands of others don’t.”

Those others, said Kerry, presumable referring to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, “won a Nobel Prize; we didn’t.”

“If all these people are over here and you’re over there, the [burden] is pretty heavy [on you] to tell me we need to exercise the precautionary principle,” said Kerry. After asking whether AEI’s studies have been peer-reviewed, Kerry added, “You realize there are two or three thousand peer-reviewed studies that contradict your findings.”

BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - A Point of View, 23/10/2009

Clive James reflects on the importance of scepticism in every walk of life, and he criticises extreme reactions to those who are sceptical about man-made global warming.

[Are they unbelievers?]: Latin America must cut emissions too | Henry Mance | guardian.co.uk

Middle-income countries are threatening the climate change deal they need by opposing mandatory cuts on principle