The climate denial industry is out to dupe the public. And it's working | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

Think environmentalists are stooges? You're the unwitting recruit of a hugely powerful oil lobby – I've got the proof
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Even if you were to exclude every line of evidence that could possibly be disputed – the proxy records, the computer models, the complex science of clouds and ocean currents – the evidence for man-made global warming would still be unequivocal. You can see it in the measured temperature record, which goes back to 1850; in the shrinkage of glaciers and the thinning of sea ice; in the responses of wild animals and plants and the rapidly changing crop zones.

No other explanation for these shifts makes sense. Solar cycles have been out of synch with the temperature record for 40 years.

Copenhagen diary: Bingos and Ringos fight for space with journalists | John Vidal | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The opening day of climate talks is really statement day, with countries laying out their stalls and sizing each other up. Behind the scenes, though, the negotiations are in turmoil. Last Friday, on the eve of the talks, the Philippines dropped one of the G77 plus China group's chief negotiators, the redoubtable Bernarditas de Castro Muller. This was presumed to follow US and EU pressure on the Filipino president by Hillary Clinton to remove any perceived obstacles to the talks.
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Indian delegation's internal wrangling

Meanwhile, the Indian delegation is practically at war with its own government. Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, their most experienced negotiator, has refused to come to Copenhagen. He is demanding "clarity" from the Indian government, on whether India will stick to its per capita convergence principle. Now P Ghosh, a former senior environment secretary known as "the sledgehammer" on the Indian negotiating team, has refused to come also. To add to the chaos, the Indian opposition walked out of parliament after environment minister Jairam Ramesh stated this morning that the government's announcements on emission cuts were in the interest of the nation and had not been made under pressure from the west.
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At the main plenary this morning, only 20 written press and 20 TV journalists were allowed. No one particularly minded because it was so predictably boring and full of platitudes that people were falling asleep even before it started. But Eco-soundings predicts a riot when the world leaders start to turn up and no one is allowed to hear what they say.

EPA? Politics? Perish the Thought! - WSJ.com

The sudden approval will strike many as particularly bizarre on the heels of a scandal calling into question the underlying science of climate change. Leaked emails from Britain's Climatic Research Unit have already prompted the head of the CRU unit to step down pending an investigation. The United Nations has opened a parallel probe. More disturbing is news that CRU destroyed raw data for its global surface temperature series. Equally serious are questions about how data was manipulated by the CRU's ad hoc computer programming.

Copenhagen climate summit: World Cup goes green - Telegraph

The Football Association will pay out around £5,000 to offset the carbon footprint of flying 48 footballers and officials from London to Johannesburg this June.

The money will go towards solar panels for poor people in Africa so they cut down fewer trees for firewood.