Copenhagenfreude: Inhofe’s “truth squad” steps on a rake [VIDEO] | David "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts - Grist

Thing is, Inhofe is a joke, nationally and internationally. [Roberts embeds a video of Rachel Maddow criticizing Inhofe for disagreeing with the 20% of Americans who still believe in the global warming hoax]

Copenhagen summit a failure of stupendous proportions | Troy Media Corporation

We are light-years from the vaunted binding treaty that was to save the planet. How did it come to this? What, exactly, went wrong?

One could spend all day listing the reasons, but in many ways the Copenhagen summit was scuppered by a perfect storm of denial of responsibility, world financial mayhem and lack of political courage, all this against a background of stunning organizational incompetence.

If you want to know who's to blame for Copenhagen, look to the US Senate | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

The last time global negotiations collapsed like this was in Doha, in 2001
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The immediate reason for the failure of the talks can be summarised in two words: Barack Obama.

Copenhagen was the climate conference to end all climate conferences. - By Michael A. Levi - Slate Magazine

Why Copenhagen was the climate conference to end all climate conferences.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark—I'm not sure whether it was the chicken-suited followers of Supreme Master Ching Hai wandering about or the experience of freezing slowly for seven hours as I waited to get into the Bella Center, but something happened in the last 10 days to convince me, once and for all, that the United Nations climate negotiations will never quite work. As the dust settles on this year's talks and observers try to understand exactly what happened here, one thing is for certain: The U.N. process can no longer be the central focus of global efforts to confront climate change.