Twitter / Andy Revkin

G77 on rich-nation adaptation aid at $10 billion/yr: "$10 billion will not buy developing countries’ citizens enough coffins."

Twitter / Don Blankenship

Those scaring people about global warming are now accusing coal industry of fear mongering. That takes the cake.

Copenhagen 'Circus' Turning Into Feel-Good Jamboree, Critics Say - FOXNews.com

As activists from groups as wide-ranging as the Girl Scouts and the World Council on Churches converge on the climate change conference in Copenhagen, some critics say it's turning into a "circus" sideshow, with 20,000 attendees creating an international echo chamber of climate piety.

Getting Hotter: U.K. Says 2000s ‘Warmest Decade,’ Releases Station Data - Environmental Capital - WSJ

But for folks following “Climategate,” and especially the efforts (i.e., “Harry_read_me”) to make sense of CRU’s weather-station database, the Met announcement had one tantalizing tidbit: “We intend that as soon as possible [why isn't it "possible" right now?!] we will also publish the specific computer code that aggregates the individual station temperatures into the global land temperature record.”

As the hacked CRU documents show, integrating data from all those weather stations was far from a tidy task; the anonymous computer programmer charged with doing so resorted to “Aaarrggghh” as frequently as Fortran to deal with what he called a “mess.”

False Hope at Copenhagen » The Foundry

Dr. Derek Scissors, Research Fellow for Asia Economic Policy at The Heritage Foundation, stated that futility of the Copenhagen summit will be solidified in the lack of participation by China: China uses over 40 percent of the world’s coal and maintains 20 percent of the world’s population. Clearly, it is the world’s leader on carbon emissions, but Beijing is equally determined not to reduce its carbon emissions at the cost of economic development.