Copenhagen summit ends in blood, sweat and recrimination - Telegraph

Gordon Brown and Barack Obama did their best to put a positive spin on it, but Copenhagen was a disaster, writes Andrew Gilligan.
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After this week, the question for the world leaders is whether they will carry on with the UN process, now in its fifteenth year, in the hope of eventually reaching a deal – or whether they have to think of something new, and hope that won't take even longer.

Questions over business deals of UN climate change guru Dr Rajendra Pachauri - Telegraph

The head of the UN's climate change panel - Dr Rajendra Pachauri - is accused of making a fortune from his links with 'carbon trading' companies, Christopher Booker and Richard North write.
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Although Dr Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s top climate scientist”), as a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics he has no qualifications in climate science at all.

BBC - Ethical Man blog: Think before you carve

I know the arguments pretty well (I hope you will agree) and I've experienced the health benefits first hand. But I will still be sitting down to a turkey dinner come Christmas.

If Global Warming Is Real Then Why Is It Cold: Cartoon

Flight Stuck on Runway for 8 Hours in Baltimore

LINTHICUM, Md. — For 148 passengers on an Air Jamaica flight Saturday, it was a long trip — from the gate to the runway and back.