Danish police arrest 68 climate protesters; major protest planned for Saturday | Grist

A demonstration on Friday, held at various locations throughout the city, was the first protest since the start of the climate talks on Dec. 7. Some 500 youths belonging to the group protested amid a heavy police presence in the Danish capital. Helicopters buzzed in the skies above the protesters, directed by police on rooftops, while armored police vans and canine squads patrolled the streets.

“It looks like a military zone, the police are everywhere,” said Gerardo Gambirazio, an American geography researcher who took a break from the climate negotiations to check out the goings-on in the city.
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A massive demonstration Saturday in Copenhagen is expected to draw tens of thousands of people on the sidelines of U.N. climate talks.

Employees* rage against the Coke machine in Copenhagen | Grist

At least 20 people took the pledge, reciting, “I, [name], with respect for crimes against people and the planet, from this day forward, for the rest of my living days will never, ever, drink Coca-Cola again until the Coca-Cola company ceases and entirely stops stealing the water from communities in India and stops union-busting in Colombia and ceases and desists entirely from relentless and absurd greenwashing like a ‘bottle of hope.’”

Opinion | Seattle's leadership on reducing carbon emissions and what comes next | Lame-duck Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels

To take advantage of the opportunities of the new economy and prevent global environmental catastrophe, we must get out of our cars, turn down the thermostat in our homes and businesses, and teach our children well. How ably we accomplish all three will determine our future as a city, a region and a planet.

[Flashback: Nickels impressed Seattle voters so much that he placed third in the recent primary]

...this supposedly environment-minded city—the Emerald City—rejected a genuinely green politician, handing him an ignoble third-place primary finish in August that eliminated him before the general election.
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So what went wrong? Nickels didn’t lose the election for any reasons related to this climate work, according to him and everybody else I asked about this. There was a botched response to a snowstorm last winter—city plows cleared the mayor’s neighborhood but few other streets in the city for several days.

Broin To Attend Climate Change Summit

Much of the world's eyes will be on South Dakota's ethanol industry next week at the international climate change summit in Denmark.

Lord Monckton tells Jewish climate change protester he is like 'Hitler Youth' - Times Online

When Mr Wessel informed Lord Monckton he found the comment offensive and that his grandparents had “escaped the Nazis growing up in Germany”, Lord Monckton replied: “Because of the biofuel scam, world food prices have doubled. That it because of the global warming scare, which you won't look at the science of.

“As a result of that, millions are dying in third world countries because food prices have doubled because of the biofuel scam, because of the global warming scare.

“And you people don't care. And until you start caring I will call you Hitler Youth if you ever again interrupt any meeting at which I am present, where we are trying to have a private conversation.”