Prince Charles to attend Copenhagen climate change summit | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Prince Charles will join at least 65 world leaders in Copenhagen later this month, it was announced today.

Australia: A nation for heads in the sand | World news | The Guardian

Something in the frontier ethic of the 'big country' still leads many of its residents to declare: 'Mate, we don't believe in climate change.'

Rapid ice loss in parts of the Antarctic has big impact on sea levels - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

"Over the next 100 years sea ice is going to decrease. Ice is increasing at the moment, but it won't be like that when the ozone hole goes and we lose 33 percent of sea ice," Summerhayes says according to Reuters.

European Climate Exchange chief Patrick Birley defends the carbon trading system - Telegraph

People don't trade carbon because they are good people," exclaims Patrick Birley, the chief executive of the ICE European Climate Exchange, with characteristic bluntness.

Phil Jones Steps Down « the Air Vent

This will likely turn into a witch hunt now with a few taking the blame rather than the whole corrupt culture being investigated.

White House Balks at ClimateGate, Says Climate Change is Happening » The Foundry

Heritage Senior Policy Analyst Ben Lieberman summarizes it best, saying, “If influential scientists’ being caught manipulating and suppressing data is no big deal, and if the absence of any additional warming since the late 1990s is also no big deal, one wonders what if anything would be a big deal.”

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Vaclav Klaus calls AGW “cheap argumentation”

Vaclav Klaus tells Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution that anthropogenic global warming is nothing more than a politician’s myth, based on the need of government leaders to either pander or panic, depending on the agenda.

Climate Research News » BBC Raises Sea Levels Ahead of Copenhagen

So much for ’settled science.’ The BBC have effectively censored the revelations of the CRU email/data leaks in favour of unfounded, unverifiable climate alarmism aimed at supporting UN global governance and taxation via a Copenhagen, or subsequent, Treaty in the false name of climate control.

The Reference Frame: Phil Jones "temporarily" fired: ClimateGate lags behind Velvet Revolution by 4 days

So I hope that Lord Monckton and other candidates will understand the reality and the importance of some continuity (and the possibility that your humble correspondent could already have some intuition from similar revolutions), and one of them will accept Pachauri's job on January 1st, 2010. ;-)

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Head Climategate researcher steps down — temporarily

As Ace says, writing about Penn State’s investigation of another Climategate malfeasor, we’re headed for a Rathergate-style whitewash on all fronts here. There’s simply too much riding on the integrity of the process to start casting out its high priests. “Fake but accurate” is a fait accompli; the only question is how long it’ll take to render that verdict. Exit question: Does this mean Jones doesn’t get to go to Copenhagen? I was really looking forward to photos of him with world leaders various and sundry.

Conservative rift stops Australian emission law - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

Any hope of having Australian climate legislation in place before the UN climate conference next week seems to vanish. An early election is more likely.

'Mad Monk' Tony Abbott dooms Kevin Rudd's Australian climate change bill - Telegraph

He once called Mr Rudd "a toxic bore" because of his environmentalist zeal.

"I don't say there aren't problems, but I refuse to be terrified of the future," Mr Abbot said recently.

"If you look at Roman times, grapes grew up against Hadrian's Wall. In the 1700s they had ice fairs on the Thames.

"So the world has been significantly hotter, significantly colder than it is now. We've coped."