Climate change sceptics are 'muddled', says Lord Stern - Telegraph

While he said it was important for all views to be heard, he said the degree of scepticism among ''real scientists'' was very small.
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Lord Stern labelled the views of those who are sceptical about the existence of man-made global warming as ''muddled and unscientific''.

Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford: Information from Answers.com

Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, Kt, FBA (born 22 April 1946, Hammersmith) is a British economist and academic.

Showdown in Australia Over Climate Bill - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

“This is not about climate change science, this is about the mechanism for dealing with it,” Mr. Abbott said in a television interview. “We will have a strong and effective new climate change policy, it just won’t involve a great big new tax."

Behind the scenes at the biggest deal on Earth | Tony Brenton - Times Online

For all the corridor plotting and text chopping the best hope is a fudge. After Copenhagen we’ll turn to wackier solutions

Terence Blacker: Planting trees is a facile option - Terence Blacker, Commentators - The Independent

A sapling stuck into a pot is presented as a private little planet saver

Matthew Yglesias » A Conspiracy So Vast…

How is it that the government of China, which is clearly reluctant to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, doesn’t seem to have any qualms with this science?...And what about the scientists themselves? Where’s the upside? Normally to posit a giant conspiracy you need some plausible account of the motives.

The real crime in Climategate

The criminals are not limited to The Team, the climate scientists and paleoclimatologists whose emails and files were leaked to the public.

A section of politically active scientists, policy makers, politicians and NGOs in effect put on white coats and told us that our planet was gravely ill, and that we needed to follow their prescriptive advice to save ourselves from a deadly disease. That's really how they framed the discussion, and they classified everyone who disagreed as a denier, like a smoker dismissing his cough and waving away the X-Rays.