STEPHEN GLOVER: 50 days to save the world? I might listen to the doomsayers if they weren't such ludicrous hypocrites | Mail Online

Should we be surprised that the British public, confronted by this ugly combination of myopic hypocrisy and doommongering, is becoming increasingly sceptical?

As I say, we may not understand climate change, but we do know when we are victims of a fraud.

The Associated Press: Foul pre-Christmas weekend in store for East Coast

Forecasters said it could be the most snow in the nation's capital since a February 2003 storm dumped nearly 27 inches at Baltimore-Washington International Airport.

Copenhagen climate summit: confusion as 'historic deal' descends into chaos - Telegraph

The “historic” climate change deal at the Copenhagen climate summit has descended into chaos after some developing nations rejected the plan for fighting global warming championed by US President Barack Obama.
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Tempers flared during an all-night plenary session, held after most of 120 visiting world leaders had left.
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One Saudi delegate said it was without doubt “the worst plenary I have ever attended.”

Chutzpah in Copenhagen II | CEJournal

[update from a colleague] Many people who are not sympathetic to the interventions we just heard now seem to see Obama as arrogant and insensitive for flying in, trying to get the COP to do what we want, and flying out before the deal was even done. It was extremely unwise to announce an agreement at a press conference before sharing it with countries that had not yet seen it, but would be asked to endorse.

Parturient montes: nascetur ridiculus mus | The SPPI Blog

The disconnect between the gaseous halations of various grandstanding “world leaders” about the supposedly urgent need to “Save The Planet Now” and the puny outcome of the Copenhagen Non-Event is dazzling. And it is welcome.

For all the rhetoric – or the flatulence that passes for rhetoric these days – it has begun to dawn on the “leaders” of those nations that subject them to regular recall and re-election that the people no longer believe the mad scientists are telling them the truth. And the people are right.

If Global Warming Is Real Then Why Is It Cold: Cartoon