YouTube - Climate in Copenhagen turns sour

Protests and disagreement between countries overshadow the first week of talks.

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“Mrs Mason, 59, added: ‘Things are getting worse and it is partly because of our Western way of life.

“‘We need to do something about it.’

On the Front Lines of Global Warming Hysteria: Your Kids

Conservationist John Burroughs said in 1877, “I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.” Today the inheritors — and perverters — of his movement are instilling that anxiety in the young. And you should be anxious, too. Because warmist propaganda is being used to steal our money, our economic fortunes and our children’s future.

Melt? Schmelt. Sailing the Northwest Passage in the 1940s | The SPPI Blog

Between 1940 and 1942, St. Roch navigated the Northwest Passage, arriving in Halifax harbor on October 11, 1942. St. Roch was the second ship to make the passage, and the first to travel the passage from west to east. In 1944, St. Roch returned to Vancouver via the more northerly route of the Northwest Passage, making her run in 86 days.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) Delivers Weekly Republican Address

“Also absent from the discussion in Copenhagen is the Climategate scandal. Recently leaked e-mails reveal climate scientists have a long track record of manipulating data to hide scientific evidence that contradicts the global warming establishment. And why? To bully citizens and lawmakers into supporting job-killing energy tax schemes. This scandal raises serious questions about Democrats’ climate control plans, questions that deserve a transparent investigation – not a rush to judgment – by the bureaucrats in Copenhagen.

[Healing the planet]: - Geothermal Project in California Is Shut Down - NYTimes.com

The company in charge of a California project to extract vast amounts of renewable energy from deep, hot bedrock has removed its drill rig and informed federal officials that the government project will be abandoned.
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The project by the company, AltaRock Energy, was the Obama administration’s first major test of geothermal energy as a significant alternative to fossil fuels and the project was being financed with federal Department of Energy money at a site about 100 miles north of San Francisco called the Geysers.

[If this is true, I hope they fail]: Small Farmers Can Cool the World - IPS ipsnews.net

"Peasant farmers from La Via Campesina and others can help cool the planet," Jean-Baptiste told a press conference at the Klimaforum09, the alternative climate action talks being held here in Copenhagen Dec. 7-18.