Copenhagen Climate Summit is Dead

Aside from the problem that the whole climate change issue is bogus, the same problem exists now as in the Bush era. The biggest polluters on the planet, China, Russia (along with the former Soviet bloc), India etc. are not willing to participate in any serious way in an international global warming treaty.

So is it all Obama’s fault now? I doubt consistency of logic will reign. Can you imagine a series of articles in the NY Times blaming Barack Obama for catastrophic climate change just because he is in exactly the same situation that will yield the same result? Of course not. Barack Obama is much less honest about it, and surely it’s the thought that counts.

Johann Hari, Huffington Post: The Choice at Copenhagen: Heroism, or Collective Suicide

I desperately wish the deniers were right: I would jump on the next flight to Tahiti for a month-long party. But the scientific consensus is overwhelming – as strong as the consensus that smoking causes lung cancer, or HIV causes AIDS. The deniers are a discredited fringe with virtually no scientists currently working in the field. If you release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere on an industrial scale year after year, the world will get much warmer, and many of us will die.

Global warming 'godfather' goes cold on Copenhagen | James Hansen

"This is analogous to the issue of slavery faced by Abraham Lincoln or the issue of Nazism faced by Winston Churchill," he said.

"On those kind of issues you cannot compromise. You can't say let's reduce slavery, let's find a compromise and reduce it 50 per cent or reduce it 40 per cent."

[What is this post doing on Desmogblog?!] | IPCC Reviewers Peer Into Moral Abyss of Censorship

Phil Jones, head of the British research unit at the center of a controversy over the disclosure of thousands of e-mail messages among climate-change scientists has stepped down pending the outcome of an investigation. The e-mail exchanges among several prominent climate appear to reveal efforts to keep the work of skeptical scientists out of major journals.

A Climate Scientist on 'Data Mining' for Dirt - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com

[Joe Romm] There isn't any uncertainty about what happens if we keep doing nothing or very little.