Copenhagen Talks Enter Final Phase - NYTimes.com

U.N. Climate chief Yvo de Boer said he expects talks to progress rapidly when leaders arrive.

"I think we're queuing up the cable car, and the rest of the ride is going to be fast and smooth," he said.
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On the sidelines, former Vice President Al Gore speaks tomorrow afternoon.
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Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Environment and Public Works Committee ranking member Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) will cross the Atlantic, Senate aides said. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) still hasn't finalized her travel plans.
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"[Obama] has not put any political capital into the climate change issue at all," said Saleem Huq, an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change author and an advocate for vulnerable countries. "He might as well stay home and send the Senate if that's what he's going to do. What kind of a president is he if he's not going to negotiate for his country?"
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Akhilesh Surjan dutifully calls his mother in Bhopal, India, each night to assure her he is keeping warm in this frigid Danish city. His mother only reads local news, so Surjan said he was stunned when she asked about the climate summit.

Attendees wait in a line to pick up accreditation at a UN Climate ... - Yahoo! News Photos

Attendees wait in a line to pick up accreditation at a UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Monday Dec. 14, 2009. Thousands of would be attendees, including delegates and journalists as well as NGO's, stood in freezing temperatures for over 6 hours on Monday morning to secure a badge to attend the conference.

COP15 Live video: People look chilly

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Chance to challenge Christopher Monckton on #climate change: #Copenhagen skeptic answers your questions at 1700 GMT (1100EST)

Copenhagen stalemated « Don Surber

Tuvalu, population 11,000, gets the same vote as China, population 1.3 billion? That is cuckoo.

That is the United Nations.

What’s going on? CRU takes down Briffa Tree Ring Data and more « Watts Up With That?

The access to important CRU data is simply denied?

That’s a hell of a way to build public trust.