Julian Hunt: Failure at such a grand level means we have to act locally | Comment is free | The Observer

Post-Copenhagen, we may be heading towards a future in which no comprehensive successor to the Kyoto regime is politically possible. It is therefore crucial that the centre of gravity of decision-making on how we respond to climate change moves towards the sub-national level. The need for such a shift from "top down" to "bottom up" is becoming clearer by the day.

No cheer in the anticlimax of Copenhagen - Opinion - Editorial - General - The Canberra Times

LIKE a last-minute, hastily bought, overly expensive Christmas gift, the draft climate pact reached at Copenhagen yesterday has disappointed both the giver and receiver.
... We now give climate change sceptics more time to really dig their heels in and capitalise on the disillusion sure to follow the talks.

DC - Three hundred stranded at Greyhound bus station

The area's record snowfall stranded 300 people at the District's Greyhound bus station, according to officials with the American Red Cross .

Hunger striker eats again after 43 days of climate protest - Local News - News - General - The Canberra Times

Most people visiting Parliament House had been supportive, he said, but some people had called out ''Get a job'' from a passing car, while others had suggested he must have been eating.
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The hardest part, physically, had been a couple of days of diarrhoea this week. ''Mentally, I got a bit short-tempered with supporters early in the fast, and on some days I had to ask visitors to leave me alone, because I felt so tired.''

[Jessy Tolkan's Black Knight moment] | The Observer

Once we recover from our disappointment, we will realise that we now have some ground on which to build. Not to mention a bursting-at-the-seams, pulsing climate movement that has been strengthened by this setback.

YouTube - Monty Python And The Holy Grail- The Black Knight

The Scene from Monty Python and the holy grail where king arthur battles the black knight