NYRblog - Copenhagen, and After - Tim Flannery

Indeed, as the meeting unfolded I got the feeling that I was watching the death of the old UN-sponsored process and the birth of something new. That’s not to say that COP 16 won’t occur in Mexico next year, as planned, but just that the really important work of abating climate change is likely to take place elsewhere.

The hopelessly confused arrangements for the Copenhagen conference will be cautionary.

C3: Rain Forest Health & Its Carbon Storage Potential Improves Dramitically From Increased Levels of CO2, Peer-Research Finds

Increased atmospheric CO2 levels have done wonders for old tropical rain forests, such as the Amazon, and newer ones growing on former cleared lands.

The Well Disarmed Skeptic - [The mysterious David K.] | Gather

Climate denialists like to argue that they are "well armed" to deny the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change. And in some respects they are, because these non-science free market lobbying groups have a long history of setting up fake front organizations and now blogger networks to saturate the public domain with intentional misinformation. They did it to deny that smoking caused cancer, that CFCs affected the ozone hole, that smokestacks in Ohio caused acid rain in New England, and that killer smogs were the result of pollution. In all cases the denialists were wrong, the scientists were right, and policy-makers finally made decisions that helped to fix the problems. In fact, some of the current climate change denialists are the very same people and lobbying groups that denied the earlier science.

Blogger: User Profile: Dake [aka David K.]

I am a scientist working on worldwide environmental issues. The views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent any company or organization for which I may work now, may have worked for in the past, or may work for in the future.

ZNet - Robin Hahnel - The Left & Climate Change

Two Train Wrecks In Copenhagen

Make no mistake about it, formal negotiations in Copenhagen ended in a train wreck that no spin doctor can put a good face on and was a huge setback for the prospects of averting climate change in an equitable way.
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As a self-proclaimed "market abolitionist" I understand why carbon trading is a bitter pill to swallow for all who abhor the commodification of everything, including the natural environment. But we socialists need to look to ourselves. Had we done our work well the human species would have abandoned capitalism and the false illusion that commodification is the solution to all economic problems long before we had damaged the environment to the point where we are perilously close to triggering cataclysmic climate change.