When Liberal Dreams Collide With Public Opinion: Michael Barone

In the Bella Center on the south side of Copenhagen and in the Senate chamber on the north side of the Capitol, we're seeing what happens when liberal dreams collide with American public opinion. It's like what happens when a butterfly collides with the windshield of a speeding SUV. Splat.

Benny Peiser: This fiasco will further alienate an angry public | Comment is free | The Observer

Climate politics face a profound crisis. Revolts among eastern European countries, in Australia and even among Obama's Blue Dog Democrats are forcing law-makers to renounce support for unilateral climate policies. In the UK, the party-political consensus on climate change is unlikely to survive the general elections as both Labour and the Tories are confronted by a growing public backlash against green taxes and rising fuel bills.

However, the biggest losers of the Copenhagen fiasco appear to be climate science and the scientific establishment who, with a very few distinguished exceptions, have promoted unmitigated climate alarm and hysteria.It confirms beyond doubt that most governments have lost trust in the advice given by climate alarmists and the IPCC. The Copenhagen accord symbolises the loss of political power by Europe whose climate policies have been rendered obsolete.

Monster Snow Storms hit US and Europe... | Gather

How many of these global warming alarmists are freezing their backsides off in this monster stormstorm? If that's not irony, I don't know what is.

YouTube - DC hit by snowstorm, December 2009

Washington DC gets a large dose of global warming, Dec. 19, 2009.

Obama faces new global warming skeptic: Joe Sixpack / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

As President Obama returns from Copenhagen, polls show that Americans are becoming more more wary of his global warming agenda – and of global warming itself.

What Scientists Really Think About Global Warming - Forbes.com

So how do you know what scientists really think about global warming? Well, you could always ask them. That's precisely what the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS), which I direct, did in 2007 when it hired Harris Interactive to survey American climate scientists.The results won't entirely please either the Climategate correspondents or their critics.

Eurostar halts trains after snow chaos - Times Online

Eurostar said last night that all today’s services would be cancelled because of difficulties caused by the recent cold weather.