Obama's Copenhagen Deal | Mother Jones

Then again, there may not have been a final deal. Late on Friday night, President Barack Obama announced that an agreement had been reached, establishing a minimalist accord that would not set a firm schedule with hard-and-fast targets for reducing emissions. But after Obama held a press conference to declare semi-victory—"this is going to be a first step"—and jetted back to Washington, European officials said nothing was in the bag.

The Battle has been won – Gore (and others) defeated. « Cobourg Skeptic – Climate Change and Resources

It’s now very unlikely that Obama’s Cap & Trade bill will go anywhere – and Canada will follow that lead. Australia will see the futility and work on Nuclear power and mitigation; Europe will continue on their path – but justified more by reducing pollution and preserving fossil fuels.

And this blog will focus more on the Environment generally – e.g. the virtue of preserving fossil fuels and limiting population growth.

I declare the battle to be won although there will still be stragglers.

Copenhagen: US deal may still fall apart | Australian Climate Madness

There is growing anger in Copenhagen over the "deal" agreed to by the US, China, India and South Africa, with no clear sign that it will actually get the approval of the delegates.

FOXNews.com - Czech President Klaus: Global Warming Not Science, but a 'New Religion'

As the Copenhagen Climate conference comes to a conclusion amidst riots by demonstrators and scrambling by policymakers, Czech President Vaclav Klaus has a message for the world: Global warming is a "new religion," not a science.

Bleary-eyed climate warriors squabble as they pack up

The Danish hosts, who had been caught off guard so many times during the Dec 7-18 summit, appeared unprepared for the unannounced extension, at least into the next morning. Few of the cleaners showed up, and overflowing garbage bins around Bella Centre remained evidence of how many delegates, observers and journalists had spent the night there.

Many of those who waited for the bitter end went hungry too, as only one of the food stalls in the complex had opened by mid-morning. Some trudged a kilometre through snow and slush to the nearest seven-eleven in search of a sandwich.

‘Meaningful’ Nonsense Climate Deal Achieved

Isn’t it amazing how obtuse (or obstinate) these socialist AGW fanatics can be? First the righteous “mainstream” media faced freezing temps as they waited to get into the Copenhagen climate conference, then the faithful faced a blizzard amidst their discussions of how evil capitalism was burning the planet up, and now President Obama pitched a hissy fit for a deal to fight this non-existent problem even as his home base of Washington D.C. faces a 20-inch snowstorm.

Those of us who are used to thinking logically and rationally look at such behavior and wonder, “How could a group of world leaders be so stupid?”

But it isn’t a matter of intelligence, but rather a matter of commitment to their Marxist agenda. Marxists never have allowed things like reality or facts (or civil rights, or freedoms, or constitutions, or mass bloodshed) come between them and what they want.

The Migrant Mind: Siberia's made up warming

Dave noticed that the anomaly data given out by this site shows global warming but when one plots the regular temperature, it shows cooling. He was doing it for the stations north of the Arctic Circle. Being the totally untrusting guy that I am (sorry Dave), I had to repeat his experiment to see if it did it for me. It did.

The Green Jobs Delusion - Reason Magazine

Despite the fondest hopes of Kerry, Pelosi, Markey, and other Democrats in Congress, carbon rationing has not noticeably sparked a technological revolution in Europe yet. One might argue that a cleantech takeoff is just around the corner and that the energy revolution is just at the same stage as the Internet revolution was in 1991. Maybe. But the Internet analogy deployed by Kerry and co. misses the mark in another way—the Internet and cell phone boom took off as a result of deregulation and was largely financed by private capital. By contrast, the Capitol Hill denizens now haunting the Copenhagen conference imagine they can spark a similar technological revolution by passing a massive 1,400-page bill, laden with subsidies, tax breaks, and fine-grained regulations for all aspects of energy production.

It might just be necessary to impose carbon rationing and boost energy prices in order to avoid possibly disastrous consequences of manmade global warming, but doing so will increase unemployment rather than lower it. When Congress tries to pass climate change legislation next spring, Speaker Pelosi may well find out that it really is “all about the jobs.”

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