Sarah Palin: Climate-gate is Reason to Not Act on Energy Addiction and Dirty Fuels : TreeHugger

I am always puzzled by claims by her supports that Sarah Palin is a bonafide energy expert. She [unlike Al Gore or Barack Obama?] hasn't worked in the industry, isn't an analyst, and has no degree of any kind related to climate or energy.

Yale Daily News - A professor weighs in: Critical evaluation of Climategate necessary

If the scientific consensus on global warming were as easy to refute as has been claimed, I personally would have written papers to Nature and Science to demonstrate the hidden scientific truth, procured millions of dollars in research support from fossil-fuel companies and U.S. agencies and elbowed past President Obama to claim this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The assertion that hundreds of climate scientists propagate a scientific fraud in order to secure funding is the most laughable of the many laughable assertions that I have heard in the past few weeks.
...If you are skeptical of the scientific consensus on climate change, take a relevant science course and harangue the professor.

UN chief optimistic of robust climate deal - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon predicted Tuesday that a robust agreement to combat climate change will be reached in Copenhagen and implemented immediately.
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"From all corners of the globe we see unprecedented momentum for a deal," the UN chief told reporters at UN headquarters. "I'm encouraged and I'm optimistic."

[Eco-hero] Bloomberg and Aides Going to Climate Meeting in Copenhagen - NYTimes.com

The trip gives the mayor a chance to spotlight his environmental record, which has been praised by former Vice President Al Gore and the U2 frontman Bono, among others.
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The visit will be Mr. Bloomberg’s first official overseas trip since January, when he went to Israel. But it will not be his first time out of the country since he won a third term last month; he and his companion, Diana L. Taylor, flew to Paris on the weekend of Nov. 14 and dined along the Seine on Île St.-Louis. The mayor is also fond of retreating to his beachfront home in Bermuda.

Mr. Post said he did not know where the mayor and the city’s delegation would stay because logistics were still being ironed out. In the past, Mr. Bloomberg, who flies his staff on his private jet, has not skimped. City officials have stayed in luxury hotels like the King David in Jerusalem, the Four Seasons in London and the InterContinental in Paris.

Copenhagen diary: Prostitutes, zippers and permission to eco jive | John Vidal | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Meanwhile non-government groups, which are mostly barred from putting any alcohol at all on expenses, have redefined "cup of char" for a bottle of chardonnay.