Global Climate Scam » Assessments of Copenhagen

It is now widely recognised that the misguided Copenhagen Conference was a complete failure. Those political leaders and policy makers who refuse to accept this reality are merely burying their heads in the sand and are forfeiting the trust of the public.

–The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 20 December 2009

Jennifer Marohasy » The Drum on Climate Politics: Bob Carter

AUSTRALIA’S national broadcaster, the ABC, has recently started a new online blog site called The Drum. Very unusually (for the ABC), it then sought a contribution from a climate rationalist (me) for the site, which I provided – deliberately making it more opinion than science.

Quadrant Online - Bob Carter - Why Barry Jones is wrong

The most disappointing thing about the majority of media comment on global warming is that it continues along the unproductive path of “he says, she says” slanging matches, when the real need is for calm scientific discussion towards finding a realistic way out of the policy fiasco that the Kyoto Protocol and Copenhagen COP-15 conference have led us into.

Selfishness Abounds: Copenhagen Reveals a Vicious Circle of Mistrust - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Men like Inhofe, who in Copenhagen warned that nations shouldn't be "deceived into thinking the US would pass cap-and-trade legislation," have the effect of poison when it comes to the urgently needed global trust-building.

Cap and Shade - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Two economists have a piece in the Guardian risibly lauding the EU for its leadership on global warming on the basis that Europe has made promises and put schemes in place. Their argument at best distills to: everyone knows we have to do something, and those things are something.

Effective Detective Work By John Nielsen-Gammon On The Error In The IPCC Report On Himalayan Glacier Retreat « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Excerpts from John’s detective work include

“Lost amid the news coverage of Copenhagen and Climategate was the assertion that one of the more attention-grabbing statements of the IPCC AR4 was flat-out wrong

Instapundit » Blog Archive

HOW IMPORTANT IS CONTROLLING CARBON EMISSIONS? NOT VERY. Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation in Congress on Monday to protect a million acres of the Mojave Desert in California by scuttling some 13 big solar plants and wind farms planned for the region. I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who keep telling me it’s a crisis start acting like a crisis.