Monday, December 07, 2009

Before Climate Meeting, a Revival of Skepticism - NYTimes.com
Yet the case for human-driven warming, many scientists say, is far clearer now than a decade ago, when the skeptics included many people who now are convinced that climate change is a real and serious threat.
AFP: Head of UN panel blasts 'Climategate' affair
Pachauri proudly defended the IPCC's reputation as an arena for weighing scientific evidence fairly, neutrally and objectively, and said: "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal."  [But what caused the rebound from the Little Ice Age?]
Copenhagen climate change summit: the key countries and what they want, us - Telegraph
If world temperatures rise more than 2C above pre-industrial levels, scientists [all of them?  If not, which ones?] predict devastating consequences. Here are some of the scenarios they have sketched.
YouTube - ["Hitler reacts" to ClimateGate]
Hadley CRU hacked with release of hundreds of docs and emails
'Wonderful Wonderful Copenhagen' – I Don’t Think! by Chris Clancy
So many lucrative and high-profile careers and reputations in politics, science and the media have been built on this lie. If they didn’t know it was bogus at the start they must know it by now. But still they keep going

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