Senate climate change stalled | SeacoastOnline.com

Asked if he believed in global warming, [Sen. Judd Gregg] said, "The science is very conflicted. But the practical approach is to reduce carbon emissions. There's no downside to that because if you can do it in a way that's responsible, we should. Why take the risk that the science is right?"

He said he's not convinced that a "cap and trade" mechanism or a carbon tax is the way to get there.

Then-and-now photos of glaciers are chilling evidence of global warming -- latimes.com

I am not a scientist. Frankly, I took a college course called "Physics for Poets" to fulfill my science requirement.
...the consensus is overwhelming that the planet's passengers are headed for deep trouble. Even rock-solid scientific acceptance, of course, doesn't always sway the public.
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David Arnold, a former reporter for the Boston Globe, is art director of Double Exposure (doublexposure.net), a global-warming photographic exhibit.

Copenhagen climate-change protest heats up with police clashes, arrests

At least 30,000 people demonstrated in central Copenhagen in a mostly peaceful march that was the centrepiece of protests planned in 130 cities across the world. Some organizers pegged the turnout much higher, including an estimate of more than 100,000 people.
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"Whether you are a skeptic or an activist on this front, I believe there's one underlying truth that we need to acknowledge. We must collectively take more responsibility for the well-being of our planet and of each other," said the former Miss Denmark.

'Berlusconi doodled women's knickers at EU climate summit'

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi made doodles of women's underwear at a recent European Union summit and then passed them around to shocked leaders, a newspaper reported.

Guest column: ‘Climategate’ should derail Copenhagen climate conference | greenbaypressgazette.com | Green Bay Press-Gazette

We wouldn’t rush to execute a convicted killer just after learning that his main accusers committed perjury. We shouldn’t do the same to the economy in order to combat the increasingly questionable threat of global warming. The U.S. should agree to nothing in Copenhagen until we get to the bottom of climategate. We need to find out for certain how much of the case for global warming we can still trust.