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All over the map: Rounding up editorial reax to Copenhagen | Grist

YouTube - The Now Show - Dr Seuss at Copenhagen

From the Now Show, 18/12/09. Marcus Brigstocke gives us a Dr Seuss-style take on events at Copenhagen.

Why I believe all is not lost – yet | Environment | The Observer

Sea-level rises could reach 5 metres by the end of the century, submerging large parts of Bangladesh, the Netherlands and Florida. The consequences for humans, and animals, would be terrible.

Beyond Copenhagen: Dialogue, not diktat | Comment is free | The Guardian

While the Copenhagen product is every inch the sham that campaigners say it is, the Copenhagen process has set important precedents. Most obviously, although the haggling proved fruitless, the sheer fact that it took place – and at such a high political level – means it will probably do so again.

The road from Copenhagen | Ed Miliband | Comment is free | The Guardian

The truth is that the global campaign, co-ordinated by green NGOs, backed by business and supported by a wider cross section of the public, has achieved a lot.
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Today many people will be feeling gloomy about the results of their efforts. But no campaign ever wholly succeeds at the first time of asking.

Climate Change Critics Demand Truth in Government Analysis

The National Grain and Feed Association, which represents grain and feed processors, issued a statement warning that climate legislation "could decimate the U.S. livestock and poultry sector" while shifting crop production overseas.

[I see carbon dioxide]: Global warming, a divisive issue» Times Record News

Even those who doubt the level of global warming or its very existence can’t ignore the sight of a Southern California horizon muddled by pollution or the sound of an ice cap crashing into the ocean. The gravity of the link between the two can be debated, but they happen

Debate on global warming -- Our view: Climate talks fall short, but some progress beats none - Opinion - USATODAY.com

Memo to global-warming activists: Avoid scheduling future summit meetings in mid-December.

Copenhagen Aftermath

Each year in which we don't reach an adequate global climate deal is probably costing on the order of 50 million extra premature deaths between now and the end of the century, but that's just the current tariff. By 2015 the annual cost in lives of further delay will be going up steeply. Time is not on our side.
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Gwynne Dyer is [an insane?] London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Protestors stage macabre Hong Kong protest over Copenhagen accord - Monsters and Critics

Hong Kong - A group of Greenpeace protestors on Monday placed 100 white crosses on Hong Kong's main war memorial to protest the weekend outcome of the Copenhagen climate talks.

Rebecca Solnit: Judgment Days in Copenhagen

It’s clear now that, from her immoveable titanium bangs to her chaotic approximation of human speech, Sarah Palin is a Terminator cyborg sent from the future to destroy something -- but what? It could be the Republican Party she’ll ravage by herding the fundamentalists and extremists into a place where sane fiscal conservatives and swing voters can’t follow. Or maybe she was sent to destroy civilization at this crucial moment by preaching the gospel of climate-change denial, abetted by tools like the Washington Post, which ran a factually outrageous editorial by her on the subject earlier this month. No one (even her, undoubtedly) knows, but we do know that this month we all hover on the brink.