300 detained in Copenhagen protest - thestar.com

Police estimated their numbers at 25,000 [from a world population of 6,800,000,000], while organizers said as many as 100,000 had joined the march from downtown Copenhagen, waving banners that read "Nature doesn't compromise" and "Climate Justice Now."

Danish supermodel Helena Christensen was in the crowd. "They will be very bad politicians if they do not hear us by now," she said about the policy-makers negotiating in Copenhagen.
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Ian Fry, the representative of the tiny Pacific island of Tuvalu, made an emotional appeal for the strongest format, one that would legally bind all nations to commitments to control carbon emissions.

"I woke up this morning crying, and that's not easy for a grown man to admit," Fry said, choking as he spoke in the plenary crowded with hundreds of delegates. "The fate of my country rests in your hands."

Jack Handy quotes

"It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.”

The Science of Climate Negotiations: Scientific American

"The question is not whether it is desirable to reduce the rate of growth of emissions in developing countries. Of course it is," Dasgupta says. "The question is who pays?"

Copenhagen: the scientists' view: Scientific American

[Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chair, Working Group III, IPCC] sums up the IPCC's findings this way: humans cause climate change; climate change has severe impacts; and it is not too costly to reduce emissions.
Raised in the mountains of Jamaica, Binger did a brief stint as a chemical engineer in the petroleum industry before earning a doctorate in agronomy at the University of Georgia....[Binger] Every person on this planet is better off at 1.5 degrees C than they are at 2 degrees C.

There is No Frakking "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming: Al Gore: Not This Thinking Woman's Thinking Man

Option B: He's grown complacent and lazy. Mr. Gore has gotten used to having his ring kissed by the media. (CBS news anchor Katie Couric gushed last month that she was "honored" to be giving Mr. Gore, the "Godfather of Green [and] the King of Conservation," publicity for his new book.)

That's not the kind of milieu that keeps one sharp.

Abbott: Rudd's Copenhagen entourage an "unfair expense" | Australian Climate Madness

But surely Statesman Rudd requires all of those 114 delegates (including a personal photographer) in order to appear sufficiently like a future UN secretary general for the unofficial job interview he's attending? Oh, you guys all think he's going for climate talks? Ha, ha - good one.

Warning Signs: Cartoon: Scaring Everybody All the Time