How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room | Mark Lynas | Environment | The Guardian

I am certain that had the Chinese not been in the room, we would have left Copenhagen with a deal that had environmentalists popping champagne corks popping in every corner of the world.
...I left Copenhagen more despondent than I have felt in a long time. After all the hope and all the hype, the mobilisation of thousands, a wave of optimism crashed against the rock of global power politics, fell back, and drained away.

Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man's best friend - Yahoo! News

PARIS (AFP) – Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle.

But the revelation in the book "Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living" by New Zealanders Robert and Brenda Vale has angered pet owners who feel they are being singled out as troublemakers.

EDITORIAL: Obama the party crasher - Washington Times

...Mr. Obama is learning the uncomfortable lesson that there are limits to what his personal charisma can achieve.

Mr. Obama did make history at Copenhagen, but not in the way he expected. It says a great deal about American power and prestige when international leaders go to so much trouble to avoid meeting with the president of the United States. The American Century is over.

C3: 50 Years of Cooling? Could It Be 100? A New Little Ice Age For A Few Centuries? New Research Finds Climate Science Far From Settled

Global cooling could very well be the future environment for earth, yet IPCC climate scientists, politicians and the mainstream media chose to put their faith in virtual, global warming climate models that have been proven failures time and again.

Save the planet! Stop these summits | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Ministers gathering to discuss poverty and greenhouse gases create lots of both:

Sweden recently hosted the European Development Days, a five-day summit meeting of EU ministers discussing poverty and climate change. Attendees thumbed their noses at both the poor and the environment, Sweden stuck with a 3.5 million kronor ($480,000) bill for limousine services.

Build-A-Bear uses Santa Claus to frighten children about climate change

The debate about manmade climate change has taken new heights, or lows for some parents, when it was discovered that the toy company Build-A-Bear Workshop is resorting to scare tactics to frighten children about the purported dangers of manmade climate change and global warming. Children playing the online game that compliments the company’s toys are warned that "the North Pole will be gone by Christmas."