Live at Copenhagen: Left Out in the Cold » The Foundry

The main impression of many attendees at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen is just how poorly organized it all is.

Africa considering [completely insane] demands

According to a draft text, 50 African countries are considering demanding five percent of rich nations' GDPs for developing countries, plus deep emission cuts, reports Danish daily Politiken.

Gore at climate [hoax] talks: Polar ice may go in five years

Northern polar sea ice has been retreating dramatically. These new projections suggest an almost-vanished summer ice cap much earlier than foreseen by a US government agency just eight months ago.
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"Some of the models suggest that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months will be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years," Gore said.

His office later said he meant nearly ice-free, because ice would be expected to survive in island channels and other locations.

Other US government scientists dismissed projections of such rapid melting as excessive.

"It's possible but not likely," said Mark Serreze of the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. "We're sticking with 2030."

UN climate talks back on track after brief suspension

Mr. de Boer said that talks are halfway up the hill whose summit is an agreement reached by world leaders at the end of the two-week Copenhagen meeting.

“I think we’re queuing up for the cable car, but the rest of ride is going to be fast, smooth and relaxing,” he noted.

Not reason, but faith | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The Sydney Morning Herald’s alarmist Marian Wilkinson is awed by a religious ceremony that should have the rational either laughing ... or scared

The Secretary-General Off the Cuff

In Copenhagen, decades of effort will come down to this one critical week.

Seldom in history has a choice been so clear. We can move toward a future of sustainable green growth, or we can continue down the road to ruin.

Bloomberg Eyes Danish Offshore Wind Farm and Sees New York’s Future - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

“I don’t understand what there is to complain about,” said Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City, as he gazed out the window of a helicopter swooping low along a bank of giant wind turbines in the North Sea, some 13 miles off the coast of Denmark.
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“Would they rather be starting at a coal plant?” he asked.