Barack Obama denies accusations that he 'crashed' secret Chinese climate change talks - Telegraph

Without even having time to sign the agreement, the president had to dash to the airport to fly home before a winter blizzard slammed the East coast.

By the time he woke up in a snowbound Washington, the so-called "Copenhagen Accord" that he had brokered the previous evening was already unraveling.
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"I think it is going to be very hard and it's going to take some time," he said after a day of drama that bordered on farce. He made clear that the ultimate goal was to "press ahead with something more binding".

But the agreement secured by Mr Obama lost wording from earlier drafts that calling for a binding accord "as soon as possible", and no later than at November's meeting in Mexico. Instead, the final version stated only that the agreement should be reviewed and put in place by 2015.

Copenhagen pact met with questions and mixed expectations - TheHill.com

But Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah), who opposes climate legislation, said the Copenhagen pact did nothing for the Senate legislation. “I don’t think they got anything in Copenhagen that will encourage anybody, except Jim Inhofe,” he said. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) calls global warming a “hoax” and opposes any bills to require emissions cuts.

Press corps, Gibbs take hits in U.S.-China climate standoff - The Hill's E2-Wire

You know an international climate meeting is in rough waters when even the press corps are getting physical and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gets roughed up.

Warning Signs: Demography Decides Everything

Thus, industrialization, the increased spread of electrical power, a global economy with fewer trade restrictions, all will favorably impact population growth by slowing it. In contrast, the objectives of the environmental movement such as the reduction of energy use based on the false assertion that it produces carbon dioxide that, in turn, will heat the Earth, are in direct conflict with population stabilization and reduction.

[Andy Revkin: Still alarmist, after all these years]: Climate Talks Make Way for a Design Show - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

In the meantime, the slowly reviving global economy and steadily rising human populations guarantee that emissions of carbon dioxide, the long-lived heat-trapping gas at the heart of the climate challenge, will soon surge again. That guarantees substantial warming, and -– according to a host of scientific assessments built on decades of work independent of recent controversies over scientists’ email messages — rising risks.