Copenhagen: Blizzards, walk-outs, frustration – Good News « JoNova

So the tribal guru’s of warming are being buried under snow that was predicted by solar long range forecasters a month ago.

Obama's Copenhagen Speech: The Collapse of a Deal?

No deal. Not even a fig leaf.

That seemed to be the implication of President Barack Obama's much-anticipated speech at the Copenhagen climate summit.
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His eight-minutes of remarks signaled a global train wreck. Not hiding his anger and frustration, he said, "I think our ability to take collective action is in doubt."
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This was widely seen at the Bella Center as a sign that talks had collapsed. American environmentalists appeared stunned, as they grappled with the implications: maybe collective global action to address global warming is not possible....Obama's speech suggested the climate summit could end in failure—perhaps one of historic and literally world-changing proportion.

Live at Copenhagen: Try Again In 2010 - The Final Slogan From Copenhagen? » The Foundry

Negotiations will probably continue into Saturday, but all that appears to be in the cards is some face saving agreement to agree at a later date. So, they’ll try again in 2010. Perhaps the Heritage Foundation’s Copenhagen team should start planning for the next big global warming conference in Mexico City next November!

[You had me at "disastrous"]: Copenhagen negotiators bicker and filibuster while the biosphere burns | George Monbiot | guardian.co.uk

This is the chaotic, disastrous denouement of a chaotic and disastrous summit. The event has been attended by historic levels of incompetence. Delegates arriving from the tropics spent 10 hours queueing in sub-zero temperatures without shelter, food or drink, let alone any explanation or announcement, before being turned away. Some people fainted from exposure; it's surprising that no one died.
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Goodbye Africa, goodbye south Asia; goodbye glaciers and sea ice, coral reefs and rainforest. It was nice knowing you. Not that we really cared. The governments which moved so swiftly to save the banks have bickered and filibustered while the biosphere burns.

[Let's eat]: Activists Participating in Hunger Strike Demand ‘True Climate Justice’ in Copenhagen

With the COP-15 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in its final day, a group of activists will be ending a 42-day hunger strike to bring attention to the need for urgent action against climate change.

Climate Feedback: AGU 2009: Humidity more than heat cause of vanishing glaciers

Winkler and colleagues placed instruments at the base of a 25-metre cliff in 2005, to measure temperature and humidity. The humidity readings are particularly important, Winkler said, as the glaciers are mainly responsive to humidity. The air temperature is always below freezing.

The glaciers are, in fact, retreating because the climate is getting dryer, not warmer, he noted. The only way to replenish the glacier is through large, frequent snowfalls, and the big precipitation events stopped around 1850, he said. He attributed the decline to changes in the sea surface temperature and currents in the nearby Indian Ocean.

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Obama has positioned himself in such a way that he feels that he has to have something he can call a win at Copenhagen. So he goes to the politician’s traditional playbook, which is use taxpayer money to buy a deal to try to make himself look better. He is working to do this with the passage of the health care bill and he probably will do this in Copenhagen, agreeing to $100 billion a year in payoffs to third world kleptocracies so he can look like a winner to western socialists.