Taking Out the Life Preserver - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

COPENHAGEN — Yvo De Boer, the chief United Nations functionary managing talks on a new climate treaty, signaled the state of affairs on Tuesday by carrying an orange-and-white life ring with him into the midday news conference

Are Democrats exiting the sinking ship? Part 5 | Washington Examiner

Congressman Bart Gordon of the 6th district of Tennessee has announced that he will not run for reelection in 2010. Gordon is a Democrat who was first elected in 1984, when 6th district incumbent Al Gore successfully ran for U.S. senator.

The American Spectator : Ben Stein - What a Piece of Work

Surely this breathtaking assault on freedom merits absolutely total certainty by everyone with a microscope that we will all die very soon from carbon dioxide emissions if we do NOT take away freedom. To allow the government this kind of control over our lives, climate change should be an imminent, life and death issue understood as such by everyone. It should not have to be protected from inquiry and truth seekers as it obviously has been judging from the hacked East Anglia e-mails. The Constitution is far more important, human freedom is far more important, than bowing down to the climate change gods with their smoke and mirrors.

We are living in frightening times, and the ones who are the most frightening among us are, as usual, the ones pretending to save us.

Investors.com - Palin Vs. Gore: Oceans Apart

Christopher Booker writes in the London Telegraph that Taylor, because of his research and conclusions, was not invited to a meeting of the Polar Bear Specialist Group in Copenhagen preceding the current climate conference, and he was told to stay away. Were they trying to "hide the increase" in polar bears?

Guest Blogger: Rep. Capito Says We Need to Put a Personal Face on Copenhagen » The Foundry

On behalf of thousands of citizens in my who state fear that “success” in Copenhagen will mean capping their future, I urge the President and his team to remember that he represents families in Appalachia too. Their jobs should count for something.

In pictures - Day eight at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen

A character dressed as death on horseback holding a scythe, rides past a balloon indicating the volume of one tonne of
carbon dioxide, outside parliament in Copenhagen Monday Dec. 14, 2009. During the Greenpeace action four people on
horses synoptically represented the impact of climate change as they rode outside parliament.

Private Financing Is Key for Carbon Dioxide Reduction, IEA Head Says - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Mobilizing large amounts of private finance, rather than smaller amounts of public funding, is what is needed to achieve necessary global emission cuts, the head of the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.