Michael Mann Beclowns Himself - streiff’s blog - RedState

Today Dr. Michael E. Mann, professor of meteorology at Penn State and apparent fraud, takes to the op ed pages of the Washington Post to attempt to defend what might be the most significant scientific fraud since the Piltdown Man from its critics. He does so by attacking the leakers, not answering the allegations, and attacking… wait for it… Sarah Palin.

Climate Research News » The £500 Billion Cost of Gordon Brown’s 42% Copenhagen Pledge

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has now offered, at the climate change conference in Copenhagen, a cut of 42 per cent in Britain’s carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. That would be a massive increase from the current 20 per cent target. This research note shows that meeting such a target could mean massive cuts in Britain’s national income.

LISTEN: Inhofe Reports on his Trip to Copenhagen

Transcript: Bill Bennett Show - December 18, 2009

An Evolving Draft Climate Agreement - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

• No longer any mention of a deadline for negotiations next year (as already reported by Reuters).

Hot Air » Blog Archive » China snubs Obama in Copenhagen

Update II: Here’s a good question from Rob Port — did Obama and Nancy Pelosi jet-pool to Copenhagen? They didn’t take separate carbon-spewing jets, did they?

The Copenhagen PR scam

While delegates might sign away the moon amid the giddy glitter of Copenhagen, the realities of domestic politics they face when they return home-- recession, unemployment, budget deficits --mean their pledges will quickly fade to nothingness.

Executive Omnipotence in Copenhagen by Roger Pilon on National Review Online

A tale of how far modern “constitutional law” has taken us toward the executive state.

Works and Days » The Long March From California to Copenhagen

In truth, in some ways, the world economy depends every day on some engineer, farmer, architect, radiator shop owner, truck driver or plumber getting up at 5AM, going to work, toiling hard, and producing real wealth so that an array of bureaucrats, regulators, and redistributors can manage the proper allotment of much of the natural largess produced.

The whole system from California to Copenhagen will keep on working as long as the productive classes feel there are still incentives to jump out of bed at 5AM. When they don’t, the power is cut off to thousands of gears and cogs — and the world looks more like Ecuador or Somalia than the U.S.