Lawrence Solomon: Climategate at Wikipedia - FP Comment

Since my Saturday column described how Wikipedia editors have been feverishly rewriting climate history over much of the decade, fair-minded Wikipedians have been doing their best to correct the record. No sooner than they remove gross distortions, however, than the distortions are replaced. William Connolley, a Climategate member and Wikipedia’s chief climate change propagandist, remains as active as ever.

Twitter / Andy Revkin

A Santa encounter in Copenhagen during talks to save the North Pole: http://j.mp/copSanta #santaclaus #christmas #cop15

Copenhagen is a disaster for Africa | William Gumede | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Climate change is frequently a matter of life and death for many Africans.

China fears climate change openness | John Lee | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

...international teams would undoubtedly discover exactly how dysfunctional the heart of the country really is. They would see first hand and report back how China's 45 million local officials remain the most formidable obstacle to improving transparency in China's sprawling economic structure – protecting their turf, defending their privileges, arbitrarily enforcing the law, and when it comes to economic performance blatantly cooking the books. Beijing still wants to assure outsiders that it remains in charge even though in important respects it is not.