[Fair and balanced reporting, AP style]: Q&A with skeptic Christopher Monckton | Facebook

It caused us, and you, some problems _ but after a furor last week in which he purportedly likened young climate activists to the "Hitler Youth," we asked Christopher Monckton to answer your questions in a Twitter Q&A, expecting you'd press him on his fringe views and denial of mainstream climate science.
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Were we wrong to conduct a Q&A with Monckton? Should we focus only on mainstream opinion, and refuse to engage with those on the fringe?
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Frank Jordans & David Stringer wrangle AP's Climate Pool Twitter feed in London
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[from the comment section] AP - when will you actually start doing some real investigative reporting instead of shilling for the politicians? Where is your report on the computer source code comments released along with the emails???

[We're saved!]: Governor parks his jet for climate summit trip

The governor has already converted his fleet of gas-guzzling Hummers to natural-gas vehicles. But he's always been loath to give up private jet travel.

During one jet jaunt a couple of years back, Schwarzenegger had no fewer than 13 flights over a two-week stretch on his schedule. At the time, aides said he was paying for his polluting ways by purchasing green credits.

Incidentally, Schwarzenegger will have a lot of company on his trip to Copenhagen. He's bringing 20 state employees, including six from his staff.

Their expenses are all being paid by the governor's corporate-sponsored Protocol Foundation and two separate nonprofits that deal with climate change policy.

Copenhagen summit carbon footprint biggest ever: report | Reuters

"For instance the U.S. delegation has ordered an area that's five times as big as last year."

The temporary buildings housing delegation offices are not well insulated and are warmed by oil heaters, so this area is the most energy-wasteful, she said.
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Balslev said most of the energy used by the conference was from coal fired power stations that power the electricity grid, but some was from wind power.

Barbara Boxer: U.S. Already Acting on Climate Change - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Everybody wants to get a word in edgewise in Copenhagen—even the politicians who can’t make the trip.

California Sen. Barbara Boxer, chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, meant to give a big speech at the Copenhagen climate summit. “The press of Senate business” kept her from delivering it in person.

First Do No Harm « the Air Vent

Just why people think a cheaper energy source won’t be developed in the next 50 years without the glories of government taxation is beyond my comprehension.

What Is the Right Number to Combat Climate Change?: Scientific American

"There are thresholds of irreversible change out there, we don't know where they are," Stanford's Schneider notes. "What we do know is the more warming out there, the more dangerous it gets."  [Ok, so as it gets colder, do humans get safer?]