Tomorrow’s History « Simon Zadek

...COP15’s greatest contribution to the public good may be to bury, once and for all, our outmoded ways of doing global governance.

EU Referendum: It's all lies!

On whether he intends to take legal action against us, Pachauri says he hadn’t made up his mind. "Action against these people only gives dignity to these guys," he adds.

But he dare not. If he chose to sue, we could demand full disclosure of his financial affairs, through the courts. And then the millionaire businessman would have some explaining to do – not least how he is booking his business expenses to the IPCC. And yes, I do have the evidence.

Up yours, Pachauri, you are a thief as well as a liar.

Climategate: 'It's all lies!' lies Pachauri (again) – Telegraph Blogs

Surely not even an organisation as a corrupt and dishonest as the IPCC can afford to keep Dr Rajendra Pachauri on as its chairman after the weekend’s damning revelations by Christopher Booker and Richard North?

But Pachauri – with all the chutzpah we have come to expect of our favourite jetsetting, millionaire, troll-impersonating railway engineer - is not going down without a fight. Just as he did after Climategate, Pachauri has produced his classic ‘nothing to see here’ ‘Big Brother knows best’ defence.
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I feel sometimes as if we are living in two parallel universes, one inhabited by our Mainstream Media, our Government leaders, Big Business, Big Oil and the Green movement, in which it’s perfectly OK for scientists to cheat and lie for political ends, and where the global economy can easily afford trillions of dollars being thrown at a problem that doesn’t exist. And one inhabited by the rest of us. I know which place I’d rather live.

Copenhagen: Full speech [for which he received a standing ovation] -- Chavez salutes protesters, calls for system change to save planet | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

“I have been reading some of the slogans painted in the streets… One said, ‘Don’t Change the Climate, Change the System!’ And I bring that on board for us. Let’s not change the climate. Let’s change the system! And as a consequence, we will begin to save the planet. Capitalism is a destructive development model that is putting an end to life, that threatens to put a definitive end to the human species.”

China Secures Oil and Gas Resources: U.S. Fiddles with ‘Green’ Energy — MasterResource

The U.S., which does have oil and gas resources, is not following China’s lead in investing in these resources. Instead, the U.S. is looking toward wind and solar technologies to fuel its economy. However, wind and solar power are generating technologies and will not help where oil is needed in the transportation and industrial sectors.

The Caucus - Climate Change, a Tough Sell, Drags Down Approval - NYTimes.com

COPENHAGEN — On any list of tough sales jobs in American politics, tax increases, higher energy prices and foreign aid would rise to the top.

The worldwide negotiations on curbing climate change involve all three — while Americans suffer 10 percent unemployment.
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“Do we have the votes today? No,” Mr. Kerry acknowledged. But Mr. Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, insisted that 60 votes remain “in play.”

“The principal naysayers are those who don’t believe in the science,” he said. “I don’t think they have a lot of credibility.”
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Ms. Pelosi, the House speaker, makes the argument for action on climate change even simpler.

“The American people should be pleased with this for four reasons: jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs,” Ms. Pelosi said during a break from her advocacy in Copenhagen on climate change, the issue she calls her signature one. “We are about investing in science to create the new technology and have a new green revolution, so that we can create a new economy.”

Climate Feedback: Video: Copenhagen: the final hours

Join us as we wait for the conclusion of the Copenhagen conference on climate change. Author Tom Friedman, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and others give us their take on the UN talks, and we finally get a glimpse of Barack Obama.