Monday, December 14, 2009

Twitter / AP Climate Pool: Suggests that natural disasters are caused by Mountain Dew bubbles
UN: Over 3/4 deaths by natural hazards this year were due to "extreme weather events" #COP15 #Copenhagen
Townhall.com Blog : Jillian Bandes : Global Warming Advocate Talks Straight About Climategate
[Believer Bjorn Lomborg] What seems to have motivated the scientists involved in Climategate was the arrogant belief that that the way to save the world was to conceal or misrepresent ambiguous and contradictory findings about global warming that might “confuse” the public. But substituting spin for scientific rigor is a terrible strategy.
UN climate marathon risks failure - Mail & Guardian Online: The smart news source
Asked if there had been any movement on the major issues, one of the two co-chairs of the talks Michael Cutajar told Agence France-Presse: "No."
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Kumi Naidoo, executive director of the environmental pressure group Greenpeace, said leaders would pay a high price at the ballot box if they left Copenhagen empty-handed.

"We have now made inaction an electoral liability in many countries," he told AFP.
Copenhagen climate summit: 'We must get our act together,' says Ed Miliband - Telegraph
It may be the case that some final issues remain when leaders arrive.
Copenhagen climate conference: sunspot theory for global warming attacked - Telegraph
The theory that signs of global warming could be the result of sunspots rather than carbon dioxide emissions caused by humans has come under attack from climate scientists.
Businesses hold world hostage over carbon credits
Even U.N. climate chief tied to new, 'green' extortion scam
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WND research reveals the European Union's cap-and-trade exchange is vulnerable to a sophisticated form of corporate extortion in which EU bureaucrats in Brussels are manipulated into paying hundreds of millions of dollars in carbon permit bribes to keep companies from moving jobs to Third World nations.

In fact, it appears the scam is already under way.
In Bolivia, Water and Ice Tell of Climate Change - NYTimes.com
In the last few years, Bolivian lives have also been buffeted by an almost biblical array of extreme weather events, many of which scientists believe are probably linked to climate change.

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