The Reference Frame: What does "1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels" mean?

Should the people stop driving or breathing? Should the people of the world commit suicide? I assure you that this won't stop temperature from changing.

Even after the bloody crackpots exterminate billions of cows or people or prevent them from driving, the global mean temperature will keep on jumping up or down by something like 0.2 °C per decade, 0.8 °C per century, 2 °C per millenium, 8 °C per ten or more millenia (and cooling into another ice age is likely to be the next step on this timeframe).

Ask Our Reporters About Copenhagen - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

The Times’ Andy Revkin and Tom Zeller Jr. are on the ground covering the talks, the protests, and the myriad sideshows surrounding the event.

Submit your questions, and they will answer a selection of them in a video feature early next week.

EU Climate pledge: “road to ruin based on failed science and fraudulent data” by Piers Corbyn | Climate Realists

Challenge to Met Office/UN forecast that 2010 ‘could be the warmest on record’

Mr Corbyn said “This (ref4) is brazen political propaganda to boost the chances of a political deal at Copenhagen. It is based on failed computer models which have no scientific basis and have a track record of complete failure. ALL the UN/IPCC etc forecast for ongoing warming since 2000 have failed (ref5) and the UK Met Office’s own forecasts for the summers of 2007, 08 and 09 and the winter of 08/9 scored zero success out of 4.

Consensus melts away at Hopelesshagen – Crikey

To describe the pace of negotiations during the first four days of the Copenhagen climate summit as “glacial” is not just cliched; it is an insult to glaciers, especially given the rate at which they are melting around the North Pole.