Copenhagen conference: key dates | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Prince Charles will address the summit during the opening ceremony for the second week. He will also meet with global business leaders to lobby for measures to reduce deforestation, including discussing a carbon market. He will not be participating in any formal negotiations.

Charles Krauthammer: The New Socialism

One of the major goals of the Copenhagen climate summit is another NIEO shakedown: the transfer of hundreds of billions from the industrial West to the Third World to save the planet by, for example, planting green industries in the tristes tropiques.

Politically it’s an idea of genius, engaging at once every left-wing erogenous zone: rich man’s guilt, post-colonial guilt, environmental guilt. But the idea of shaking down the industrial democracies in the name of the environment thrives not just in the refined internationalist precincts of Copenhagen. It thrives on the national scale, too.

The Reference Frame: Did the hockey stick ever matter?

Climate alarmist Stephen Schneider wrote an article for the Huffington Post where he argues that the hockey stick graph

* has never been disproved
* was never a basis for AGW likelihood assessments

Holy cow. These people usually rely on the stupidity of the laymen - after all, they are severely limited themselves, or at least they try to be - but I think that if they rely on too huge stupidity of the laymen, their expectations are likely to drag them into trouble.

Schwarzenegger to take state climate [hoax] story to Copenhagen - Capitol and California - Fresnobee.com

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to carry California's climate change story to a conference in Copenhagen next week, a move that will burnish his international image as a leader in the war on global warming.

He'll also take an entourage of 20 administration officials to Denmark. Three nonprofit organizations are picking up the tab.

BBC News - Nick Cohen on the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit

So are cracks appearing in the climate change consensus? Journalist and author Nick Cohen does not agree as he explains in his take of the week.

Four Maryland residents die from cold weather - washingtonpost.com

Cold weather has claimed the lives of four Marylanders, state officials announced Thursday.
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Hypothermia was a factor in 54 deaths last winter.

A Skeptic's Guide to Copenhagen - The Daily Beast

S is for the sun, the likeliest global-warming culprit

Jack Frost wrecks havoc across Upper Valley - Idaho

Damage from frozen pipes has reportedly cost the insurance industry $4-billion over the past decade, according to the Forensic Engineering Newsletter.

Record low temps set Tuesday, Wednesday | rgj.com | The Reno Gazette-Journal

Wednesday's low temperature of -13 degrees easily broke the record minimum temperature of -6 degrees for Dec. 9, set in 1972; and it could be that other thermometers in the valley and surrounding areas had even colder temperatures than that.

In addition, the low temperature of -7 degrees recorded for Tuesday broke the prior minimum temperature of -4 degrees for Dec. 8, set in 1956.

Sceptical MPs try to derail Dutch climate policy | Radio Netherlands Worldwide

During a debate in the Dutch parliament about climate change Environment Minister Jacqueline Cramer has lashed out at climate-sceptic MPs.

The opposition Freedom Party and independent MP Rita Verdonk questioned on Thursday whether there really is such a problem as climate change. Conservative VVD, another opposition party, called for new independent research, pointing to a row over leaked e-mail messages which allegedly prove that scientists manipulated climate figures.

SCIENCE ISN'T ON THE SIDE OF COPENHAGEN CROWD - Niagara Falls Review - Ontario, CA

I hope that as the Copenhagen gasfest continues, Melanie Mullen will, in one of her future reports, address recent revelations that have thrown into doubt the entire body of climate science.

Johann Hari: Our Leaders Are Staging a Scam in Copenhagen

Leah Wickham, a young woman from Fiji, broke down as she told the conference she will see her homeland disappear beneath the waves if we do not act now. "All the hopes of my generation rest on Copenhagen," she pleaded.

The Copenhagen Scam - HUMAN EVENTS

The President knows that climate change legislation (cap-and-tax) that passed the House last summer is dead in the Senate. In a breathtaking power play, the President's EPA Administrator declared this week that CO2 was a "pollutant" (never mind that plants would die without CO2) and could be regulated and taxed by the Administration without further legislation from Congress.

With public opinion swinging decisively against the "global warming caused by man" hoax, what power play lurks ahead to back up the President's predicted contribution "pledge" of billions of your dollars at Copenhagen next week ?z