Sunday, December 06, 2009

Bob Woodruff to Report from Climate Conference - mediabistro.com: TVNewser
ABC's Bob Woodruff heads to Copenhagen where he'll begin reporting tomorrow as world leaders meet for the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
BBC News - Politics Show - Inuit [claims that her region has warmed by 28+ degrees]
She said: "In my region this winter it's three degrees - usually it's minus 25 or minus 30. It got very cold in September. The ice froze to a level where people could go hunting and fishing."
Climategate controversy has echoes of Watergate, UN says - Times Online
UN officials likened the Climategate controversy to Watergate today, claiming that computer hackers who stole thousands of e-mails sent by a senior climate scientist were probably paid to do it by people intent on undermining the Copenhagen summit.

Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said the theft from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was not the work of amateur climate sceptics but a sophisticated and well-funded attempt to destroy public confidence in the science of man-made climate change.
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"One effect of this is to make scientists lose lots of time checking things.
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Achim Steiner, director of the UN Environment Programme, said the theft of e-mails had echoes of the Watergate scandal.

"This is not 'climategate' it's 'hackergate'. Let's not forget the word 'gate' refers to a place [Watergate] where data was stolen by people who were paid to do so. So the media should direct its investigations into that."
American Thinker Blog: The Copenhagen two-step
The delegates who are in Copenhagen to achieve success will do pretty much whatever it takes to realize that goal. Hence, expect this Russian problem to be resolved in Putin's favor. With Climategate stalking warming advocates, and making future agreements uncertain, conferees will get whatever they can out of their stay in Copenhagen and try to make it stick.

Good luck with that, guys.

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