Copenhagen climate change conference in pictures: Day seven | Environment | guardian.co.uk

[Again, where did these people get their signs?]

A £480 train ticket to Copenhagen makes it hard to care about the climate | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk

You can spot the problem long before you get to Copenhagen. I'm sitting in St Pancras station about to start a journey for which I have paid – deep breath - £480.
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I could have got there by plane for £18.

Twitter / Don Blankenship

You Lie! Should be shouted in Copenhagen. The world’s average temp has not changed this century. http://tiny.cc/yzFC9 .

What’s Rotten for Obama in Denmark - NYTimes.com

...Yet Mr. Obama cannot simply tell the other leaders at Copenhagen that he must await assent from Congress before he can commit the United States on global warming. He is asking the leaders of Western Europe and Australia to commit troops to support his buildup in Afghanistan and he can hardly stiff them on climate change, a global threat many of them consider as menacing as terrorism.

In other words, his trip this week may have as much to do with Kandahar as Copenhagen.

Loss of ice heralds an emergency

Last April, former US vice-president Al Gore and I charged an expert panel of scientists to summarise the state of the globe's ice sheets and snow. Those scientists have completed their work, and we will present that report in Copenhagen today.
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Jonas Gahr Stoere is Norway's Foreign Minister. With Al Gore and the Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller, he will host "Melting Snow and Ice. A Call for Action" at the Copenhagen climate conference today.