U.S. Climate Envoy Defends CO2 Plan as Talks Open - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Mr. Pershing predicted [the ClimateGate emails] would end up being “a small blip on the history of this process,” adding:

I think they’ll have virtually no effect. My sense about the climate emails that have been stolen and the information they have provided is that they have released a barrage of additional information which makes clear the robustness of the science, the multitude, the enormous multitude of different strands of evidence [like what, specifically?] that support the urgency and the severity of the problem, that have been managed in multiple places around the world. What I think is unfortunate, and in fact shameful, is the way some scientists who’ve devoted their lives are being pilloried in the press without due regard to process.

Met Office to release records that show global temperature rise | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The UK Met Office will tomorrow release records from nearly 2,000 measuring stations showing a rise in global average land temperatures around the world, in a move that may help dampen the row over the hacked emails between scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA).
...The organisation also plans to publish the computer code [when?] that aggregates the individual station temperature records to build the global map.

[We're saved!] Obama, Gore to Meet on Climate Change

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An official says President Barack Obama plans to talk with former Vice President Al Gore at the White House on Monday as the president prepares for his appearance at a major international climate summit in Copenhagen.

Obama will meet with Gore in a closed meeting with no expected press coverage.

Bush Climate Team Still Impacting The Debate, Report Finds | TPMMuckraker

As the next round of UN climate change negotiations begin in Copenhagen, a new report describes how 22 Bush-era officials are still influencing the climate debate, many of them as registered lobbyists for industry.

Voices from Hopenhagen: Honorable Al Gore | Hopenhagen

As long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points [which points, specifically?] —points which scientists [which scientists, specifically?] have repeatedly warned would, if crossed, threaten to make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable destruction of the conditions that make human civilization possible on this planet.