John Vidal reports from a dramatic day at the UN climate change summit | Environment | guardian.co.uk

As seven African countries stalled talks for five hours, environment editor John Vidal reports

[Video: Friedman throws global warming under the bus: He suggests that he'd like to see China grow "dirty" for another ten years]

Thomas Friedman, author of Hot, Flat, and Crowded (just released in a paperback edition), stopped at CNBC for an extended interview this morning on his way to the Copenhagen climate conference. His basic message was that economic revival is strongly dependent on green technology. He pointed out that one out of three wind turbine systems worldwide is now made and exported by Denmark. "If you don't believe in hot," he said, "Just focus on flat and crowded." Video below [Friedman says: "I say to [China]...it's your turn-take your time-grow as dirty as you want 'cause I think my country just needs five years to invent all the clean power technologies you're gonna need as you choke to death, and then we're gonna come over here and we're gonna sell them all to you and we're gonna clean your clock--how do you say "clean your clock" in Chinese? ...you wanna give me a five year lead? I'll take five; I prefer ten take your time..."]

Confused? You might BE a psychologist « JoNova

Some scientists just keep looking in the wrong places for answers. Here’s Stephan Lewandonsky, professorial fellow of psychology, in The Age trying to answer the most important question in modern science and economics. He refers to ClimateGate and asks if the stunning accusations of serious misconduct are true? Watch the flat out assertion backed by a non-sequiteur...

Walkouts? We're locked out | Al Jazeera Blogs

I'm told 45,000 people have been accredited in all. The venue only has a 15,000 capacity and already 30,000 are attending. More are arriving all the time as the summit enters its most fraught and crucial final period.

One woman grumbled bitterly into her mobile phone in Spanish. I couldn't hear the detail but she repeatedly and loudly stressed the word 'cojones'. One can only guess.

You have to wonder at the organisers' competence here. How on earth can they be entrusted with saving the planet?

Why those emails are lethal: Melanie Phillips

AGW theory is deader than Monty Python’s parrot. Get over it.