Climate deal highlights U.N. flaws | Reuters

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A weak U.N. climate deal, agreed on Saturday after two weeks of talks pulled back from near collapse, underscored the vulnerability of a process depending on consensus and may mark a diminishing U.N. role.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » WaPo/ABC poll: Obama support plunges on global warming

The administration is losing its battle to maintain the pretense of a consensus on AGW. Imagine what would have happened if the media had reported on Climategate to anywhere near the extent they did with, oh, Sarah Palin’s headband.

Reaffirming climate [junk] science : Nature News

...no grounds have arisen to doubt the validity of the thermometer-based temperature record since it began in about 1850.

Copenhagen summit bad sign for business

The lack of consensus for a global climate [swindle treaty] could be a bad sign for business.

3000 Scientists in US and Europe agree that global warming is caused by CO2

In a recent survey of more than 3,000 Earth scientists, 82% agreed that human activity is a "significant contributing factor" in changing global temperatures

PERFECT STORM | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

Copenhagen’s big winner: the Gore Effect, currently undergoing peer review on two continents. Truly, this mighty effect can encolden even the coldest city.

UPDATE. Copenhagen’s snow is a “blessing”, according to climate starvationist Anna Keenan. Maybe she’s eating it.

CLIMATE CHANGE: History Was Not Made - IPS ipsnews.net

Not an hour after Obama's opening speech to the plenary Friday morning, several Republican members of Congress and the Senate held a press conference in the Bella Centre denying climate change was caused by emissions of fossil fuels and saying the science of the International Panel on Climate Change and dozens of scientific academies around the world was suspect.

None of the U.S. politicians are scientists and all hail from regions with powerful fossil fuel or automotive interests.

Quadrant Online - COP15: Day 12

Some negotiators were clearly hanging out for President Obama’s arrival to either charm leaders out of their established negotiating positions or bring something new to the table. He did neither.

Instead Obama’s short speech to the conference plenary was probably the most insulting and patronising speech delivered by a US President in a long time. Obama poorly understood the mood of the audience and chose to behave like an infallible school master lecturing children about the importance of keeping their socks up to maintain school dignity, rather than appealing to each leader’s hopes to share in collective victory. It was put best by a journalist from The Guardian that Obama’s speech received “polite applause”.

Satellite data means we still need to worry about global warming

Dessler explained that most of the warming caused by carbon dioxide does not come directly from carbon dioxide, but from effects known as feedbacks. Water vapor is a particularly important feedback. As the climate warms, the atmosphere becomes more humid. Since water is a greenhouse gas, it serves as a powerful positive feedback to the climate system, amplifying the initial warming.