YouTube - Inhofe-Markey Square Off on Climategate - CNN

December 07, 2009 [Inhofe says that Boxer may have as many as 25 votes for climate hoax legislation]

Copenhagen opening video: pure emotional blackmail | Australian Climate Madness

More than anything else, this video encapsulates everything you need to know about Copenhagen. It is nothing more than a desperate environmental crusade and a political circus. Nothing, especially the science, will stop it.

Copenhagen: delegates warned against abusing children | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The United Nations warns Copenhagen delegates that their ludicrous scaremongering - claiming even global warming even causes earthquakes - is giving children nightmares.

I think that’s the message. Either that, or they’re barking mad.

(Thanks to many astonished readers.)

Climategate: Nothing to worry about, except for everything | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The Science Show of Robyn Williams starts with the guest saying Climategate is no big deal. Oddly, as the interview goes on the apologist being interviewed, an environmental consultant with The Economist, then thinks of one thing after another that does, on reflection, worry him, actually. Like hiding data. Like censoring sceptics. Like…

Popular Technology.net: Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is Not Pollution

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is not pollution and Global Warming has nothing to do with pollution.

The Blackboard » Politicians reframe: RC reframes.

In the wake of climategate, climate scientists like Steig, Schmidtt, Mann and other blogging at RC might want to cut out their knee-jerk “reframing” questions and answer the questions people (especially Andrew Revkin) actually ask.

Or, they can continue to “reframe”. Many in the now suspicious public will notice the “reframing” and rate the trust worthiness of climate scientists below politicians and on-line advertisers of introductory offers for tooth-whitening.

Heliogenic Climate Change: My take

The decision today by the Obama administration's EPA to declare CO2 a "dangerous pollutant" will go down in history as the most absurd action ever taken by this government, with Prohibition now related to a distant second. At least Prohibition, nutty as it was, was voted for by elected officials in Congress and the states. But EPA's decision was made by unelected brainwashed theocrats.

Save the planet! Don’t breath out | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Doesn’t this give Barack Obama the formal power to regulate even the breathing of each citizen?

Big Oil Behind Copenhagen Climate Scam

The big irony behind top globalists descending on Copenhagen in luxury private jets and stretch limos is not just the fact that their own behavior completely contradicts their self-righteous hyperbole about CO2 emissions, but that their propaganda is vehemently supported by the very same big oil interests they accuse climate skeptics of pandering to.

The Meaning of Motley CRU — The American, A Magazine of Ideas

The climate scientists at the CRU have given not only climate science, but all of science, a massive black eye, and should the public lose faith in science, a great deal of the responsibility will accrue to them. The scientists involved in the Climategate scandal should be permanently removed from any position in which they can influence climate policy. They should be excluded from peer-review panels, banned from participating in the IPCC process in any capacity, and kept far away from editorial positions at journals. Their data and methods must be made absolutely transparent and available for outside inspection.

Althouse: "Stop 'going green.' Just stop it."

We're a nation of laws, and, in Tidwell's mind, that means not that we are free but that we need law telling us every last thing we ought to do: Individual voluntary action is a big distraction from what we really need — compulsion.

Video: ‘Copenhagen 101′ - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Hey, we’re not Penn and Teller or Huntley and Brinkley. But Tom Zeller, the editor of our Green Inc. blog, and I try to lay out some of the basic issues that will be hashed out for two weeks in the sprawling Bella Center in Copenhagen.

The Chilling Effect | cooling heated rhetoric on global warming » Our Latest Cartoon: Goodies for the Copenhagen Crowd

Our latest cartoon is up!

Video: Copenhagen Should Follow Byrd-Hagel Resolutions » The Foundry

The importance of the Byrd-Hagel Resolution, passed unanimously with a 95-0 vote before the Kyoto Protocol, is two-fold.

Copenhagen Conference Begins While The Global Warming Scare Ends » The Foundry

Global warming alarmists have long thought of Copenhagen as a turning point on this issue. They may be right, but not as they intended.

Climategate; The Supporting Cast - Thought Police Anyone?

Some are still denying the extent and impact of what the CRU and their supporters did. Others have correctly drawn parallels with the Big Lie. It is almost too big to believe. Others incorrectly say it wasn’t planned. It was! They knew exactly what they were doing because if they were dealing with the truth they wouldn’t need a Goon Squad.

Lawrence Solomon: Dirty climate data - FP Comment

There is no unimpeachable raw data in which we can have confidence. There is a large cast of impeachable characters in the Climategate drama with an evident appetite for cooking the books.

And there are but two honest options for our governments to now employ. They can choose to redo the studies, with data, scientists, and a peer-review process that can be trusted. Or they can recognize that the IPCC process has been politicized from the start, and that the prima facie evidence for dangerous global warming does not meet the threshold required to prolong the scientific sham of the generation.

YouTube - All the Former Vice President's Men, ClimateGate

The climate denial industry is out to dupe the public. And it's working | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

Think environmentalists are stooges? You're the unwitting recruit of a hugely powerful oil lobby – I've got the proof
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Even if you were to exclude every line of evidence that could possibly be disputed – the proxy records, the computer models, the complex science of clouds and ocean currents – the evidence for man-made global warming would still be unequivocal. You can see it in the measured temperature record, which goes back to 1850; in the shrinkage of glaciers and the thinning of sea ice; in the responses of wild animals and plants and the rapidly changing crop zones.

No other explanation for these shifts makes sense. Solar cycles have been out of synch with the temperature record for 40 years.

Copenhagen diary: Bingos and Ringos fight for space with journalists | John Vidal | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The opening day of climate talks is really statement day, with countries laying out their stalls and sizing each other up. Behind the scenes, though, the negotiations are in turmoil. Last Friday, on the eve of the talks, the Philippines dropped one of the G77 plus China group's chief negotiators, the redoubtable Bernarditas de Castro Muller. This was presumed to follow US and EU pressure on the Filipino president by Hillary Clinton to remove any perceived obstacles to the talks.
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Indian delegation's internal wrangling

Meanwhile, the Indian delegation is practically at war with its own government. Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, their most experienced negotiator, has refused to come to Copenhagen. He is demanding "clarity" from the Indian government, on whether India will stick to its per capita convergence principle. Now P Ghosh, a former senior environment secretary known as "the sledgehammer" on the Indian negotiating team, has refused to come also. To add to the chaos, the Indian opposition walked out of parliament after environment minister Jairam Ramesh stated this morning that the government's announcements on emission cuts were in the interest of the nation and had not been made under pressure from the west.
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At the main plenary this morning, only 20 written press and 20 TV journalists were allowed. No one particularly minded because it was so predictably boring and full of platitudes that people were falling asleep even before it started. But Eco-soundings predicts a riot when the world leaders start to turn up and no one is allowed to hear what they say.

EPA? Politics? Perish the Thought! - WSJ.com

The sudden approval will strike many as particularly bizarre on the heels of a scandal calling into question the underlying science of climate change. Leaked emails from Britain's Climatic Research Unit have already prompted the head of the CRU unit to step down pending an investigation. The United Nations has opened a parallel probe. More disturbing is news that CRU destroyed raw data for its global surface temperature series. Equally serious are questions about how data was manipulated by the CRU's ad hoc computer programming.

Copenhagen climate summit: World Cup goes green - Telegraph

The Football Association will pay out around £5,000 to offset the carbon footprint of flying 48 footballers and officials from London to Johannesburg this June.

The money will go towards solar panels for poor people in Africa so they cut down fewer trees for firewood.

YouTube - Inhofe: Climategate Reveals Faulty Science Supporting EPA Endangerment Finding

Washington, D.C.-Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released the following YouTube video responding to EPA's finding that greenhouse gases from mobile sources endanger public health and welfare.

Webb warns Obama on taking action in Copenhagen - Water Cooler - Washington Times

Looks like a fellow Democrat has concern with the president's handling of the the cap and trade issue upon Mr. Obama's trip to Copenhagen. Senator Jim Webb (D - Va.) wrote to the administration last week warning President Obama that the White House does not have unilateral power to commit the United States to any standards agreed upon at the upcoming climate change conference in Denmark.

EPA: Greenhouse gases endanger human health

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded greenhouse gases are endangering people's health and must be regulated, signaling that the Obama administration is prepared to contain global warming without congressional action if necessary.

Business Fumes Over Carbon Dioxide Rule - WSJ.com

Officials gather in Copenhagen this week for an international climate summit, but business leaders are focusing even more on Washington, where the Obama administration is expected as early as Monday to formally declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant.

Denmark does not include shipping industry when calculating annual carbon footprint - NYPOST.com

COPENHAGEN -- Shakespeare's Marcellus was right. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Global warming: Why public concern declines | csmonitor.com

In China, the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases, people increasingly worry about the proper balance between two intertwined forces – a healthy economy and a healthy environment. Zhang Lianchao, wrapped up against an unseasonable snowstorm in Beijing, is one of them.

American Thinker Blog: Dismissing Climategate, EPA Moves Forward on CO2 Regulation

To surprisingly tepid applause, EPA head Lisa Jackson just announced that she has signed “two distinct findings regarding greenhouse gases under section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act.”
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But it was another scheduling issue Jackson was immediately challenged on. And she responded to the question about the finding’s timing in relation to the CRU controversy by claiming the unit to be but one of many sources of the indisputable scientific evidence that humans cause climate change, adding that:

“Nothing in the hacked emails undermines the science on which this decision was based.”

Where’s Joe Wilson when you need him?

Die Klimazwiebel: Interview with Hans von Storch by Daniel Lingenhöhl

The credibility of the societal institution "science" has been damaged: Society organizes, and funds, research as a kind of service and it expects in return that it gets good information und understanding from us about complex phenomena such as swine flu or climate - and not political decisions.

The persons involved should thus restore the required transparency. If moreover the impression has been created that certain scientists have corrupted the peer review process - whether that be so or not - then these scientists should for the time being no longer participate in it or in the IPPC reporting. In politics this would be called 'taking responsibility'. And that is also required here: the researchers concerned should retreat from the committees and no longer review other peoples' work.

The Gore Effect strikes as the UN climate summit begins

In just the last week, the United States has been besieged by cold weather events from coast to coast with more on tap for this week. Is it the Gore Effect being felt as a result of the climate summit?

William M. Briggs, Statistician & Consultant » Protesters gather in Copenhagen. Why?

What other evidence for disastrous warming is there? Certainly not in the predictions of AGW models: they have all said we could grow warmer, yet the planet has cooled over the last decade. But, even given this direct devastating negative evidence, people still believe that global warming is real. Why?

Climate Feedback: Washington Post launches Post Carbon blog

Coinciding with the kick-off of the Copenhagen summit, the Washington Post launches its very own climate blog today. Post Carbon will be anchored by Juliet Eilperin and Steve Mufson and aims to give readers perspective, in real time, on the key climate and energy issues that face us globally. Initially you can find it here, and within a day or two it will be permanently located here.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Head of IPCC dismisses Climategate, relies on peer review

Climbing onto “peer review” as a moral high ground after the exposure of these exchanges is high irony, low chutzpah, or both.

Crazy in Copenhagen » The Foundry

Let’s hope enough sane leaders are going to Copenhagen who have the courage to say “the sky is falling” on climate hype, and demand we rethink this gambit through.

YouTube - As Copenhagen Kicks Off - Inhofe Announces Truth Squad on Bill Bennett Radio

Senator Inhofe will lead "Truth Squad" to Copenhagen next week. On Bill Bennett radio this morning, Senator Inhofe announced who would be joining him

Krugman: Badly Misinformed About Climate « Talking About The Weather

Mr. Krugman’s easy dismissal of Climategate is a serious moral blind spot on his part. If oil-company e-mails among industry climate scientists (not that such people actually exist) suggested deleting e-mails that were part of a Freedom of Information Act process, do you think that Mr. Krugman would dismiss their significance? If an oil-industry scientist had written an e-mail to his peers saying that he had found a good “trick” to “hide” the increase in temperature, would Mr. Krugman similarly tell his readers that this was no big deal? If oil-industry scientists described ways to control the peer-review process and freeze out scientists warning of global warning, Mr. Krugman would be fine with that, right?

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Copenhagen Income Redistribution Conference

Global warming has become the back-door to state control, combining some exaggerated science with a lot of folks’ uninformed desire to “do the right thing”, to create a new vector for old objectives.

Global Climate Scam » CORE Joins No Cap-and-Trade Coalition

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) announced today that they have joined the No Cap and Trade Coalition in the fight against cap-and-trade legislation and the proposed Copenhagen climate treaty.

Comprehensive network analysis shows Climategate likely to be a leak « Watts Up With That?

The only reasonable explanation for the archive being in this state is that the FOI Officer at the University was practising due diligence. The UEA was collecting data that couldn’t be sheltered and they created FOIA2009.zip.
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Occam’s razor concludes that “the simplest explanation or strategy tends to be the best one”. The simplest explanation in this case is that someone at UEA found it and released it to the wild and the release of FOIA2009.zip wasn’t because of some hacker, but because of a leak from UEA by a person with scruples.

Flashback to Bali: UN tactics to silence dissent « JoNova

From the outset the UNFCCC did everything it could to maintain the appearance that it is a fair, transparent, and scientific based organization. Yet on the ground, it did everything it could to make sure that there would be no dissent, no debate, and no free speech unless it was their official line.

Live video coverage - UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Denmark

You can watch live coverage of the proceedings below as well as 24 / 7 video coverage of interviews, climate science videos and more.

Guest Blogger: Rep. Sensenbrenner (R-WI) on Climategate Should be in Copenhagen Agenda » The Foundry

Head U.S. climate negotiator Todd Stern has repeatedly said that the U.S. should be “guided by science” in our approach to these climate negotiations. But how can we follow the lead of scientists who use “tricks” to “hide the decline” in temperatures? Who scheme to get around Freedom of Information requirements? Who refuse to share the data that supports their work? Who tailor scientific results to hawk for research grants? And who consciously scheme to discredit and repress studies that don’t support their conclusions?

ClimateGate will not be a topic in the meeting rooms of Copenhagen. I plan to attend the Conference in Denmark, however, and it will be one of my top agenda items.

Richard Littlemore | Copenhagen: Is there dawn after this dark hour?

Pachauri deserves credit for maintaining any optimism whatever, given that he felt compelled to spend part of his opening statement defending the quality of science that has marked the IPCC process. It is as if the emails stolen from the University of East Anglia were actually lying around in the room, smoking. At least, they were invoked again and again, raised in press conferences and, as in Pachauri's statement, referred to directly or obliquely in virtually every session.

Hush Andy, There’s Nothing to See Here « the Air Vent

Without exaggeration, I’m again struck by the apparent lack of confidence in the science consensus. There is no argument on the merits of why a particular comment is wrong, just that it is wrong and you better shut up Andy.

Warning Signs: How to Destroy the U.S. Economy: Regulate Carbon Dioxide

The conference, however, must ignore revelations that one of its primary providers of climate data, the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, has been deliberately fudging the data, falsifying it to justify the treaty. Another major source of such data has been NASA’s climate program, both of which have fought efforts under the Freedom of Information Acts of both the UK and the USA, to require them to make their data available for scientific peer review.

Al Gore Rhythm - John Derbyshire - The Corner on National Review Online

What is it about lefty politicians, that they feel the irrepressible urge to express themselves in verse?

MUST READ: CLIMATEGATE CHAOS by Will Alexander | Climate Realists

Looking closer, never in the history of science has there been such a flagrant disregard for the fundamental requirements of scientific endeavour.

[Fraudster Gavin Schmidt on Pielke Jr]

This explains his exclusive focus on percieved [sic] errors by mainstream climate scientists, rather than the blatant lies  put out by Morano, Drudge, Beck etc. - people who are significantly more influential than any of us. - gavin]

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Should Scientists Participate in Political Debates?

I have long pointed to Real Climate as a canonical example of stealth issue advocacy. They claim on their site to be disinterested
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The reality is that they are far from disinterested. The fact that they have a political agenda is not problematic in the slightest. The problem is that they are seeking to hide their politics behind science. This has the net effect of pathologically politicizing the science because most of the issues that they raise, which they say are scientific in nature, are really about politics. It is not a big leap for observers to conclude that these guys are really about politics rather than science, regardless of the reality. People are not dumb and can see through this sort of misdirection with relative ease. Perhaps the most significant and lasting consequence of the CRU email hack/leak/whatever will be to strip away any possibility of a facade of disinterestedness among these activist scientists. In the long run that is probably a very good thing. In the near term it probably means an even more politicized climate debate.

The Right Wins the Frame Game in “ClimateGate” | Climate fraud promoter Chris Mooney | Discover Magazine

What’s so insidious about “ClimateGate,” in this sense, is that now the tables have been completely turned. I don’t believe the new charges are nearly as outrageous as the old charges were; I certainly don’t think they support the ridiculous claims about the bankruptcy of climate science they’ve been used to support. But nevertheless, I understand well the power of generating outrage by crusading against those in power and suggesting their malfeasance, wrongdoing, and corruption. Despite the invalidity of their position, you have to credit the Moranos of the world with a brilliant tactical move–and right now, I just can’t say how bad the damage is going to be. All signs at the moment point to massive.

Can a lull in solar activity head off climate change? - The Boston Globe

“The sun has been at an extended minimum for the past two years,’’ said Leon Golub, senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Institute for Astrophysics and a leading sun scientist. “But only about 10 percent of climate variation is due to the sun. That means 90 percent isn’t.’’

Global Warming E-Mails Scandal Doesn't Disprove Climate Change Facts - Bonnie Erbe (usnews.com)

...they ought to listen to the nonpartisan Associated Press, which reported over the weekend that global warming is not only a reality, it is costing many governments a lot of money.

YouTube - [In an attempt to improve the weather, chilled protesters chant and bang on things with sticks]

Environmental demonstration outside the Bella Center in Copenhagen before the first day of the COP15 United Nations climate summit, December 7, 2009

No. 1: ExxonMobil | Mother Jones

Meet the 12 loudest members of the chorus claiming that global warming is a joke and that CO2 emissions are actually good for you.

U.N. Climate Summit Opens in Copenhagen|ABC 7 News

"The science has never been stronger," said Connie Hedegaard, the conference president. "The solutions have never been more abundant. This is our chance. If we miss this one, it could takes years before we get a new and better one."
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We want a fair, ambitious and binding treaty for the Copenhagen summit," said Abigail Jabines, a Greenpeace spokesperson. "Humanity is asking world leaders to act on climate change. We cannot survive if they don't."
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Outside the conference, Mohamad Shinaz stood in 200 gallons of frigid, filthy water to illustrate the impact severe flooding is having in his own country, the Maldives.

Beneficial CO2 molecule nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize | GORE LIED

When it comes to molecules that are necessary for life to exist on earth, with the possible exception of H20, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more beneficial molecule than good old carbon dioxide.

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.

Lord Monckton on Climategate at the 2nd International Climate Conference | CFACT.TV

Lord Christopher Monckton speaks at the second International Climate Conference, addressing the so called Climategate scandal and key players involved in what appears to be one of the biggest science scams of our time.

[Will the real title please stand up:  In my browser, this article is titled "Before Climate Meeting, a Revival of Skepticism" - NYTimes.com

[In the page itself, we now see this title] In Face of Skeptics, Experts Affirm Climate Peril
[In my hardcopy of today's St Paul Pioneer Press, page 3A, the title is "Before meeting, a revival of skepticism"]

Apres le whitewash: Revkin aims for Climategaters’ good graces « Green Hell Blog

[We can't even get past the title. In Sunday's whitewash of Revkin's Climategate reporting, Revkin told the Times' public editor, "Our coverage, looked at in toto, has never bought the catastrophe conclusion and always aimed to examine the potential for both overstatement and understatement." Yet the title of today's article "affirms" that the climate is in "peril."]

The Reference Frame: Copenhagen begins: interview with Lord Monckton

However, the conference begins two weeks after the eruption of ClimateGate which has already reduced the believers in a climate threat to a fringe minority of mentally unstable conspiracy theorists.
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This is a pretty insightful interview with Lord Monckton. I assure you that he could tell you all these things and many others in Aramaic, German, Russian, Latin, and many other languages, too. ;-) He told me/us many interesting stories about his work as the adviser to Margaret Thatcher etc.

In Copenhagen, Saudi Arabia has called for the investigation of the ClimateGate. I am sure that this topic dominates a significant portion of the private discussions, too.

Climate change must not hog development funding: UN body

Climate change must not take away urgently needed resources from other issues facing developing countries, such as poverty and hunger, a top UN official said Monday.

UN climate talks open, deal 'within reach' | ABS-CBN News Online Beta

Other activists asked delegates arriving at the conference center, with a large wind turbine nearby, to go through a green gateway marked "Vote Earth" or a red one marked "Global Warming". They told off anyone choosing red.

Fiji student moves Copenhagen climate summit with appeal | CalcuttaTube News Service

According to Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), sea levels have already risen by 17 cm [only 6.7 inches?!] in the 20th century, threatening low-lying island states in the Pacific Ocean.

The More Americans Learn about Global Warming, the Deeper in Denial They Sink - Veronique de Rugy - The Corner on National Review Online

However, in this craziness I would like to salute the host of Morning Editions, whose name escapes me at this time. He noted that because Obama, our green leader, had changed his plans about attending the Copenhagen meeting from the start and would now only show up at the end, he will have to make a separate trip to Oslo to receive his Nobel Peace Prize, seriously increasing his carbon footprint. That must be denial.

COP15 Cultural Opening Ceremony - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

“We have made a film which speaks to the heart rather than to the brain,” says the Danish director of the film Mikkel Blaabjerg Poulsen.

The Daily Bayonet » Climategate Round-Up #6

Of note is that this morning, CNN reported extensively on climategate, even sending John Roberts to the UK to report from the University of East Anglia campus. Tonight (Monday 7th) Campbell Brown’s show is on the topic “Global Warming: Truth or Trick.”

Copenhagen: climate change sceptics have been outmanoeuvred. For now. – Global warming fraud promoter Will Heaven - Telegraph Blogs

Just half of Britain believes in man-made climate change, a Sunday Telegraph poll has revealed. The figure didn’t surprise me in the least. Over the past week I’ve been deluged by climate change misinformation on this blog and by readers’ emails: “facts” which are based on hearsay, bullshit which is repeated until it is thought true, and crank opinion disguised as expert analysis. The public is understandably confused.
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 It seems fair to ask, then, whether the “flat-earthers” - as our Prime Minister referred to them on Friday – really pose any sort of threat?

Tragically, the answer is a resounding “Yes”.

AFP: European socialists hold 'carbon-free' congress

PRAGUE — Take a tram instead of a taxi and don't change your towel every day -- such are the rules at a two-day "carbon-free" congress of the Party of European Socialists (PES), which started in Prague on Monday.
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It said it would also restrict heating at the congress, offer products such as organic cotton shirts and bags, and curb paper consumption by sending e-mails.

Major winter storm to wallop central U.S. - CNN.com

The Midwest and northern Plains will experience wind chills of 30 to 40 degrees below zero, and afternoon temperatures may be in the single digits, forecasters said.
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Blizzard warnings are in effect for parts of central Rockies and the Mogollon Rim in Arizona, where up to 2 feet of snow and winds gusts of 50 mph could cause whiteouts, forecasters said.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Heads Up: NPR's On Point

UPDATE: NPR called back to let me know they won't be able to have me on.

UPDATE 2: Near the end, in response to a caller who complained about hearing only one side of the story you can hear Michael Mann explain that all voices on this subject do get heard, and how his work is celebrated by skeptics. These comments go completely unchallenged in the interview which is one softball question after another. Mann says that it is the role of science to take on those opposed to action, and cites Real Climate as an example. Mann concludes with a passionate call for action in Copenhagen.

Verkhoyansk, Russia Forecast : How much permafrost will melt this week alone?

Roger L. Simon » Climategate: Why Obama switched his Copenhagen itinerary

Could it be that by pushing back his appearance Obama was just buying time so that, if things go really awry, he doesn’t have to show up at all? Well, the conventional wisdom may still be right on this one, but the way things are going…

E.P.A. Sets Carbon Crackdown - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Thomas J. Donohue, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, said that the endangerment finding “could result in a top-down command-and-control regime that will choke off growth by adding new mandates to virtually every major construction and renovation project.” He said that his group supports “rational” federal legislation and an international agreement to control global carbon emissions.

What Key Countries Want at the Copenhagen Climate-Change Conference - WSJ.com

Each country, of course, has its own particular priorites and concerns, which is why an agreement is so difficult to reach. Here's a look at some of their agendas for Copenhagen.

Questions about impartiality of Climategate investigations arise

While the universities and international institutions recognize the need to do damage control, they don’t appear committed to discovering the truth and restoring faith in their science. The investigations that have been launched thus far will do little to squelch the debate and will likely raise the prospect of one-sided and compromised results, much of which has been said about climate science itself.

Why they fell for the global warming hoax « Don Surber

1. The pseudo-intellectuals fell for it because none of them ever cracked a science book.
2. The policy wonks fell for it because it gave the government more control.
3. The bleeding hearts fell for it because they always want to save the Earth.
4. The communists fell for it because it portrayed capitalists as destroying the Earth to make money.
5. The capitalists fell for it because they saw a new way to make money.
6. The Hollywood crowd fell for it because it made their pampered lives seem to have a meaning and purpose.
7. The newspapers fell for it because it was new.
8. The teachers fell for it because it was a new thing to teach the children to teach their parents.
9. The children fell for it because they wanted to show how well they are doing in school.
10. The parents fell for it because they wanted their children were doing so well in school and they wanted to be supportive.
11. The utility companies fell or it because they can raise rates.
12. The Nobel Peace Prize committee fell for it because Al Gore should have won in 2000.
13. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences fell for it because Al Gore should have won in 2000.
14. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammys) fell for it because Al Gore should have won in 2000.
15. The 30,000 [?] scientists fell for it because while it was not in their field of study, they wanted to be supportive of science.

Gordon Crovitz: Climate of Uncertainty Heats Up - WSJ.com

Bloggers peer review a scientific 'consensus.'
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Unlike Watergate, Climategate didn't come to light because investigative journalists ferreted out the truth. Instead, this story so far has played itself out largely on blogs, often run by the same scientists who had a hard time getting printed in the scientific journals. Climategate has provided a voice to the scientists who had been frozen out of the debate.

This may be how information-based scandals play out in the future: A leak from a whistleblower directly onto the Web. Expert bloggers then assess what the disclosures mean—a Web version of peer review.

Analysis: Obama, Dem efforts on climate cooled off - BusinessWeek

"As a Cherokee Indian chief once said, `The success of a rain dance depends a lot on timing.' Well, that's especially true in American politics," Dorgan said.

[Are we completely sure that this is a good idea?]: Gliding planes to runway saves costly fuel, cuts carbon emissions

At 9,000 metres, the pilot idles the engines and begins gliding the Airbus toward Stockholm's Arlanda Airport for a fuel-slashing "green landing."

OfficialWire: NASA To Attend Copenhagen Climate [Fraud] Meeting

"Organized by the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Center will host more than 60 events during the conference," NASA said in a statement. "The center's meeting room is a 100-seat auditorium where U.S. and international leaders in the fight against climate change will headline presentations on a wide range of critical initiatives, policies, and scientific research."

Is Climategate The Last Gasp of Global Warming Hysteria? | NewsReal Blog

As the Climategate scandal continues to unfold, it appears the final chapter is being written in the great anthropogenic global warming swindle pushed so vigorously and for so long by the world’s leading climate change hoax-perpetrator, former Vice President Al Gore. The scandal is a case of “scientists cooking the books, changing the research, changing the numbers, changing the actual temperatures, discrediting people in e-mails, saying how do we discredit them, how do we make them go away, et cetera, et cetera,” said Glenn Beck.

Ethanol: Unintended Consequences — MasterResource

Of all the environmental boondoggles of recent years, the biggest must be corn ethanol.

Monday's Starting Lineup - Hotline On Call

EX-VP AL GORE: Gore will be the biggest U.S. face at this week's climate change conference in Copenhagen -- at least until Pres. Obama shows up at the end of the two-week affair. But Gore and those who advocate quick action to stop global warming are facing new skepticism, thanks to hacked emails from a British university. Saudi Arabia has questioned the necessity of the conference, which could threaten any harmonious agreements.

But this remains Gore's biggest moment in the limelight since the 2000 elections...

BBC News - [Scroll down for video of Pachauri trying to defend the greatest scientific fraud in human history]

Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC chairman: "These e-mails don't change anything"  [He says "the IPCC has 21 years of unblemished record of performance"]

YouTube - CNN: Phil Jones Has "Literally Gone Underground" - Avoids Media Requests

Wait a minute here: Isn't that behavior exactly what you'd expect if Jones really IS a fraudster?

If Jones isn't trying to hide a massive fraud, why doesn't he seize on this "rare opportunity"?

While climate change deniers have been in high gear since the emails appeared—for example US Rep. James Sensenbrenner, a Republican from Wisconsin, called the emails evidence of "scientific fascism"—the stolen emails may be backfiring on them simply by allowing a rare opportunity for climatologists to seize media attention in order to explain and defend the evidence of climate change.

U.S. EPA to make 'significant climate [hoax] announcement' | World | Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it would make a "significant climate announcement" at 1:15 p.m. ET (1715 GMT).

Saudi Arabia calls for 'climategate' investigation - - POLITICO.com

COPENHAGEN — Saudi Arabia called for an independent investigation into “climategate” Monday, warning that the scandal over stolen emails threatened to undermine the global-warming negotiations beginning here.

“We believe this scandal — or what has been referred to as the ‘climategate’ scandal — we think this is definitely going to affect the nature of what could be trusted in our deliberations,” the Saudi Arabian negotiator said.

UN leaders: Clock has ticked to zero - - POLITICO.com

“Political will will never be stronger,” said Connie Hedegaard, the president of the conference. “This is our chance — if we miss this one, it could take years before we get a new and better one, if we ever did.”

AFP: 'Climategate' shakes trust in scientists: Saudi

"The IPCC, which is the authority accused, is not going to be able to conduct the investigation," he said, referring to the Nobel-winning UN Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC).

The Saudi negotiator rejected IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri's defense of the integrity of the panel's findings -- delivered earlier in the plenary session -- as "general statements."

"In light of recent information... the scientific scandal has assumed huge proportion," al-Sabban said.

Global warming fraud tied to making money | tennessean.com | The Tennessean

This may be the biggest scam ever perpetrated upon the American public. As a matter of fact, the average global temperature has declined over the past 10 years. You may ask why these people are so bent on this fraud ... just follow the money and/or politics.

Doug Alsup

Bitter cold settles in over Colorado as temperatures remain 30 degrees below normal

The cold continues! After a weekend that saw many areas of the Denver metro area receive 3 to 5 inches of snow and temperatures on Sunday that stayed in the teens, we continue with the bitter cold to start out the workweek.

Five keys to Copenhagen - - POLITICO.com

But Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), longtime global-warming skeptics, are also traveling to Denmark — as a “climate truth squad” focused on informing the world that the U.S. Congress opposes the climate bill.

WEBCommentary(tm) - Huge Hoax Holding Humanity Hostage

Once the hokum is out of the hoax if the shamans of the First Church of Man-made Global Warming can change the climate I’ll take 72-76º, rain at night and sunny all day.

Climate splurge to leave pockets bare | Terry McCrann - The Courier-Mail

COPENHAGEN is going to be two weeks of insane hysteria. Just like the Olympics, but with lots of snow, courtesy of Al Gore and his "Gore Effect".

There'll be another major difference: All 40,000-plus attendees will be batting for the same side, so to speak.

Abbott fuelling sceptics: UN | The Australian

THE head of the world's top climate research body has compared Tony Abbott to former US president and climate sceptic George W. Bush and conceded the failure of Australia's cap and trade carbon bill has given momentum to climate naysayers worldwide.
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"It seems to me the Australian public is fully committed to taking action because Australia is probably one country that has suffered from the impacts of climate change more than any other," Dr Pachauri said from Denmark.

"(Climate sceptics) will get momentum from time to time but they are certainly a minority so I don't see in a democracy how they would succeed.

Flashback: Americans Skeptical of Science Behind Global Warming - Rasmussen Reports™

While many advocates of aggressive policy responses to global warming say a consensus exists, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 25% of adults think most scientists agree on the topic.

American Thinker: Donald Kennedy and the corruption of Science Magazine

Because the decay goes far beyond the CRUddites in Britain; it's all over the world among the machine politicians of science. All of them knew what was going on with the Biggest Science Scam in History, because it should be obvious to a child of six. Undergraduates in calculus classes learn that nonlinear dynamical systems are unanalyzable. Introductory physics classes learn there is no solution to the three-body problem, and the atmosphere is a lot more complicated than just three asteroids cycling around each other in space. Metereologist Edward Lorenz rose to fame in science by dramatizing the nature of chaotical systems, physical systems that cannot be predicted from their initial conditions. The weather is one of the best examples, but the earth sciences and biology are full of them. So no sane scientist or mathematician could have believed the Global Warming scam. If any of them say they believe it today, they are either lying or incompetent.

Global Warming is like Political Correctness; everybody knows it's a lie, but nobody is allowed to say it in public.

This is a sad time for decent science.

But on the other hand, it's Springtime for Fraudocrats.

[Odd argument]: Summit chairman Connie Hedegaard - Telegraph

If America doesn’t get a piece of the action, China will reap the first-mover advantages on the energy solutions that will replace fossil fuels.

Weather and Climate Through the Eyes of Mark Vogan: Morning Coffee Thoughts

3) Highs yesterday across Montana struggled to reach zero, some spots likely failed to hit zero at all and at the moment Cut Bank is at 13 below zero, perhaps on it's way down towards 18 below..

4) The truely cold stuff will progress east as this storm pushes into the Lakes and Ontario. High may fail to make 10 in Minneapolis and they may get close to zero one or two nights mid to late this week. Chicago also will remain in the teens and low may drop into the upper single digits!!

Pajamas Media » The Warming Faithful Gather in Copenhagen

The UN Climate Change Conference has the unmistakable feel of a religious gathering. (Bruce Bawer is covering the Copenhagen conference for PJM and PJTV)

How significant is Obama's attendance on the last day of Copenhagen? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

[Kenneth P. Green] The date change suggests the outcome of Copenhagen is already determined. The rest is likely Kabuki theater.

YouTube - Please help the world - COP15 opening [climate fraud promotion] film

"Please Help the World", film from the opening ceremony of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) in Copenhagen from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. Shown on December 7, 2009 at COP15.

James Hansen - Cap and Fade - NYTimes.com

AT the international climate talks in Copenhagen, President Obama is expected to announce that the United States wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to about 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. But at the heart of his plan is cap and trade, a market-based approach that has been widely praised but does little to slow global warming or reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. It merely allows polluters and Wall Street traders to fleece the public out of billions of dollars.

Al Gore: The Poet Laureate of Climate Change [Fraud]: Mark Hertsgaard | Vanity Fair

Here is how the poem begins:

One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun

Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea

Will carbon dioxide cause midnight suns to occur in September?

Weasel Zippers: Charles Johnson Shocked, SHOCKED to Learn There are Actually People Who Don't Believe in Man-Made Global Warming.....

Ummmm, Chuck, you were one of them....

The IPCC shares the blame for Climategate

[Madhav Khandekar] The CRU has defended its policy of NOT sharing data to anyone on grounds of "growing cost of servicing so many requests!" This is nonsense! The IPCC , a UN Body is supported by funding from all member countries and as such a person of any nationality can and must have full access to the data.

Copenhagen climate change conference: species at risk - Telegraph

"...With diminished living space, elephants will be unable to escape any changes to their natural habitat caused by global warming, including more frequent and longer dry periods, placing further pressure on their existence"

2004: Overpopulation of elephants: A mighty dilemma

The good news is that elephant populations are thriving in areas of southern Africa after years of hugely successful conservation, following the banning of the much despised ivory trade. Conservationists in some areas are now faced with a new challenge: overpopulation. Scientists and conservationists in Africa and globally believe that there are three solutions: translocation, culling or contraception, but there is no one solution which can solve problems of overpopulation immediately, and is problem free and humane.

[A bicycle built for 82?]: Copenhagen climate summit in numbers - Telegraph

16,500... people will fly in to attend the summit.
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200... bikes are available for rent at the summit site.

New UK airline tax hits Australia hard | News.com.au

AUSTRALIAN Tourism is taking a pounding by the new UK "climate" tax, with many airlines slashing the number of flights Down Under.

Despite industry opposition, Prime Minister Gordon Brown introduced a 112 per cent rise in a passenger duty, slugging a family of four wanting to fly to Australia with up to $700 in fees and charges.

Bella Center Bulges as Climate [Scam] Talks Open - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Delegates and journalists lined up in the bitter cold at Copenhagen’s Bella Center to get their accreditation for the meeting that gets under way Monday morning.

Earth much more sensitive to global warming than thought - Telegraph

Meanwhile, a new documentary shows that global warming was not always a bad thing as it once saved early man from extinction.

Man On Earth, a Channel Four documentary starting today claims that without the last great global warming 120,000 years ago our ancesters would have died out.

Instead as the temperatures increased by as much as 9F (5C) in less than 200 years, man flourished and began to spread across the globe.
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"It is hard to overstate the impact of climate change on our earliest ancesters," Robinson explains.

"The ice age had nearly destroyed them. Global warming had rescued them from the brink of destruction and cemented their position as one of the most powerful species in Africa."

American Thinker: The Cuckoo's Nest visits Copenhagen

Thankfully, it doesn't appear that the Copenhagen meeting will produce a CO2 emissions control agreement against a backdrop of global cooling, the climategate scandal, and economic weakness. Nevertheless, what the U.N. insiders and Obama are plotting there is monstrous. This week, the cuckoo's nest is in Copenhagen.

Twitter / Andrew Wong

is dismayed that nobody around him seems to care about Copenhagen or thinks global warming is a severe problem. Bah.

Gordon Brown says climate change deal must be legally binding in six months | Environment | The Guardian

Gordon Brown raises the bar for climate change negotiations, urging world leaders to give their promises at Copenhagen the full weight of international law within six months.

Oppn attacks Govt for stand on climate change - Yahoo! India News

New Delhi, Dec 7 (PTI) A united opposition today pilloried the government on its strategy for the Copenhagen climate summit, accusing it of buckling under US pressure and opening its card on the emission cuts announcements.

Al Gore Reverts To Sore-Loserhood, Resorts To Slander « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

Is this the best sign catastrophical AGW is beyond the sell-by date? Now we have Al Gore suggesting, in an interview to Italian archwarmist newspaper La Repubblica, that everybody not convinced about global warming being “the biggest threat to our civilization” is on the pay of the “big CO2 polluters“.

EU Referendum: Russian Speculation

It is the word "published" which is so misleading, but this we have to find from the blogs and forums – not the MSM. More accurately, the folder containing the files – with the URL "ftp.tomcity.ru/incoming/free/FOI2009.zip" - was deposited on the "incoming" data storage section of a tomcity.ru server, a section which is accessible to any internet user in the world with access to the world-wide web. It requires neither the knowledge nor the permission of the server-owner for material to be thus deposited.
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Nothing we know answers the question of who actually collected and released the files, or where they (or he or she) were when they did. The Russian "connection" is speculation, as is almost everything else offered by the newspapers on this subject – a torrent of idle, ill-informed gossip which typifies our modern-day media.

Climategate: the Russian distraction – James Delingpole - Telegraph Blogs

So let’s not allow ourselves to be distracted and keep our eyes on the main prize: our right as free, sentient citizens not to have $45 trillion worth of economy-destroying taxes and regulations imposed on us by big government in the name of a problem that quite likely doesn’t exist.

That’s why Climategate matters. Built into its outcome is the entire future of Western civilisation.

CBC News - St. John's gets record snowfall

The city of St. John's saw a record snowfall Sunday, as the region was hit with the first real taste of winter.

"The old record [for Dec. 6] was in 2002, and it was around 20 centimetres," meteorologist Wanda Rideout told CBC News. "The new record for yesterday is now 39.4 centimetres."

Oregon: Cold weather puts pipes at risk | MailTribune.com

Three consecutive nights of minus-6 degrees on Dec. 8, 9 and 10 that year are the all-time record low temperatures recorded in Medford since the National Weather Service began collecting data in 1911.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Physicists Ask American Physical Society to Rescind Its Statement on Global Warming Because It Was Based on “Cheat[ing]” and “Corrupted” Work 

By now everyone has heard of what has come to be known as ClimateGate, which was and is an international scientific fraud, the worst any of us have seen in our cumulative 223 years of APS membership.

Twitter / Andy Revkin

4 interruptions by PNG's Kevin Conrad - trying to switch voting to 3/4 approval from unanimous. Mouse roars again?...

Climate Change - Bali Climate Talks - Kevin Conrad - Papua New Guinea - NYTimes.com

Mr. Conrad, 39, was born in the United States to Papuan parents but grew up in Wewak on New Guinea’s northern coast. He studied finance at top American universities, worked in investment banking and lives with his family in the New York City area. Besides representing New Guinea in climate talks, he runs the Rainforest Coalition, a group formed by tropical countries seeking compensation for the benefits of not cutting their forests.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Evolution of Activism

Postscript: In the language of mathematics (I mentioned before I am in the middle of Goedel-Escher-Bach) if actually aiding someone is “helping,” then I guess organizing people to help is meta helping, and lobbying government to force other people to help is meta meta helping and so advocating on your blog that people should lobby the government to force other people to help is meta meta meta helping. Must really warm Drum’s heart to be so directly connected with helping people.

Climate change: what the scientists say

What governments agree on is this - if the climate science is right, then the fate of the world and all human civilisation could be at stake, and inaction or denial should not even be an option.

Outdoors With Othmar Vohringer: Is Global Warming a scam?

Well it turns out that those, including me, who called Global Warming a hoax were right all along.

When climate scientists threaten reporters

President Obama campaigns on a seriously good energy program, but it gets hijacked into the wilderness by the insistence of the environmental camp on jamming though the Cap and Trade monstrosity first and above all else. And nobody--none out of all this unlikely cast of characters--will take the time to listen to those who have concerns about the science and the policy options being discussed.

Copenhagen climate summit: the thinking person's guide - Telegraph

[Q] I smell a rat. Won’t all these people be flying in?

The UN estimates the total carbon emissions associated with the conference will be in the region of 40,500 tonnes - the equivalent of running the UK’s biggest polluter, Drax power station, for a day. But the Danish government is planning to offset this by spending 700,000 euros (£620,000) on replacing outdated brick kilns in Dhaka, Bangladesh. We are promised that the 20 new kilns will put 50,000 fewer tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere each year.

Lawrence Solomon: Climategate gang is writing the script for Copenhagen - FP Comment

All told, 12 of the 26 Copenhagen Diagnosis authors are implicated in the Climategate scandal, including Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, a much criticized Lead Author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

The prognosis for the Copenhagen Diagnosis is grim.

CO2 a danger--every breath you take, I'll be watching you

First, CO2 is not a public danger. It is a necessary condition for life on this planet. Even at 10 times its current concentrations in our atmosphere, the gas itself poses no threat to humans, beasts or plants. Increasing CO2 is linked to higher temperatures, which is why this is happening. However, in all honesty, much as I would like to reduce the risk of soaring temperatures, even higher temperatures are not a danger to human health at levels projected even by alarmist scientists. The average temperature in Rome is far higher than in most of these United States, and yet Romans live 6 years longer than we San Franciscans. And those retirees in Florida and Arizona look pretty spry...

Copenhagen Diary: Conference of a thousand limousines - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent

*Among the personal jets will be Air Force One. President Obama's £180,000 limousine, known as "The Beast", will arrive on a separate flight with a fleet of decoy helicopters, up to 500 security staff, six doctors, two chefs and his personal BlackBerry handler.

CNN Runs Report on ClimateGate, But Only Includes Guests Who Dispute ClimateGate | NewsBusters.org

On Sunday, during the 6:00 p.m. hour and again during the 7:00 p.m. hour, CNN NewsRoom, hosted by Don Lemon, ran a report by correspondent Mary Snow on ClimateGate -- which was somewhat more balanced than the piece aired on November 25 -- though this report similarly did not quote any of the emails that suggest manipulation of data on global warming by scientists at the UK's University of East Anglia. But both times after Snow's report aired, Lemon followed up by talking with a guest or reporter who disputed the credibility of ClimateGate, without interviewing any global warming skeptics.

ABC Remains Silent on ClimateGate; Claims ‘Growing Scientific Evidence’ Supports Warming Theory | NewsBusters.org

ABC’s Good Morning America maintained its blackout on ClimateGate this weekend, even as Sunday’s show carried a preview of this week’s climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. Reporter Clayton Sandell showcased two scientists, both of whom argued that the U.S. was failing to do enough to combat global warming, and seemed distressed that public faith in the claims of a human-caused catastrophe are on the decline in spite of “growing scientific evidence.”  [why don't they ever say "nonexistent scientific evidence?"]

Interactive: A complete guide to the Copenhagen climate change summit | Environment | guardian.co.uk

What are the issues, who are the people involved in the deal-making and what are the numbers that will be crunched at the conference? Follow our interactive explainer and find out

Ed Miliband: climate change deniers are 'profoundly irresponsible' | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Ed Miliband, the climate change secretary, today said critics who argue that climate change is not the result of human actions are "profoundly irresponsible".

As negotiating teams from 192 countries gather in Copenhagen for the climate change summit, Miliband admitted there was "further to go" on persuading climate change sceptics here and abroad. But he defended Gordon Brown's criticism of them in the Guardian as "behind-the-times, anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics" .

The papers that will carry the Copenhagen editorial | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Follow the links below to read the global editorial on each [fiercely independent] host news organisation's website

How the climate change global editorial project came about | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Anyone studying the list of newspapers behind the editorial will quickly spot one glaring gap: the absence of any first-rank US paper. A number of major US titles evinced support for the project, even conceding that they agreed with everything in the editorial, but stopped short of signing up, leaving the admirably independent-minded Miami Herald as the sole representative of the world's second biggest polluter. (Next time you're in Florida buy two copies.) It is hard not to be struck by the parallel with the Kyoto agreement when the US stood to one side as the world began to move against climate change.

Global warming in Arctic: 'They're all going to go - the polar bear, narwhal, seals' | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Alun Anderson, author of 'After the Ice', talks to Alok Jha about global warming in the Arctic

2008: Canadian hunters killing narwhals trapped in ice | Reuters

While narwhals had become trapped by ice in the past, it was unusual for so many to be stuck in the same place at the same time, Pelley said. The narwhal population in the area was in good condition, he said.

Kevin Anderson: Decision time... face the facts or give up - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent

It is not possible to overestimate the global significance of the next two weeks of intense negotiation.

The Sun Says | The Sun

Dire predictions about rising sea levels, devastating droughts, floods and melting polar icecaps have finally persuaded countries like America, China and India to agree that something must be done.

The horrific price of inaction is shown by the Met Office which predicts temperature rises of up to 16 degrees centigrade by the end of the century - causing global havoc.

Was Russian secret service behind leak of climate-change emails? - Europe, World - The Independent

But many in Russia's scientific community are deeply sceptical of the threat from global warming. And only 40 per cent of Russians believe climate change is a serious threat, a survey shows

The Observer - Global warming skeptic: Notre Dame and St Mary's

The argument can definitely be made that the climate is changing considering its cyclical pattern. However, there is still no way to prove we are the ones who are causing the climate to change. So before we go spending a lot of time and resources, we should make sure what we’re doing is actually solving a problem in the first place. All that money would be really nice to fund any number of things that are way more important at this point in history.

Mark Easley
sophomore
Keenan Hall

Climate change MP's Christmas lights confession - News - Manchester Evening News

He added: “The lights are LED so they use less power. We could have used candles but that would have been highly dangerous.

“But after I'd done it I thought 'oh crumbs, they're having rallies about the environment in London and the world leaders are meeting in Copenhagen and here's me putting all these lights up'.”

The American Spectator : Sky May Not Be Falling

Ms. H-P: I am devastated. Before I called you I canceled by tickets for Copenhagen. I'm just too depressed to attend. On top of that I haven't been able to get through to our Pontiff, Al Gore. I was sure he would give me reassurance, but both his voice mailbox and his e-mailbox are full. He hasn't said a word publicly since the Climategate scandal broke.

Us: Maybe that's because he's an investor in a firm that will sell "carbon credits" to companies that are over their quota. That would be a very profitable business if the Obama Cap-and-Trade bill were to pass the Senate. So, your Pontiff may be spending all his time in Washington lobbying. .

Does climate concern cool off? - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

Concern and awareness for climate change and the environment peaked in 2007 at the time of the Live Earth concerts and the launch of Al Gore’s documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", according to a survey by The Nielsen Company and the Oxford University Institute of Climate Change.

The survey – conducted among 27,548 consumers in 54 countries – shows that in 2007 41 percent said they were very concerned about climate change. In October 2009 the number had declined to 37 percent.

ABC and NBC Acknowledge 'ClimateGate,' But Remain Undeterred: 'Science is Solid' | NewsBusters.org

More than two weeks after ClimateGate broke, ABC's World News finally got around to mentioning it on Sunday evening, but not to explore how the e-mails discredited leading scientists who insist mankind is causing global warming as, instead, ABC declared “the science is solid” and NBC assured viewers “the evidence is overwhelming that man is behind climate change.”

Michael McCarthy: The express? More like a crawl to Copenhagen - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent

The intervening 14 hours – the flight would have been less than two – became a cheerful celebration of the growing alliance between environmentalists and railwaymen, who clearly see their interests entwined. [By "interests", we mean "saving their grandchildren from CO2-induced hellfire", am I right?]

Op-Ed Columnist - An Affordable [Swindle] - Climate hoax promoter Krugman - NYTimes.com

Of course, if things go well in Copenhagen, the usual suspects will go wild. We’ll hear cries that the whole notion of global warming is a hoax perpetrated by a vast scientific conspiracy, as demonstrated by stolen e-mail messages that show — well, actually all they show is that scientists are human, but never mind. We’ll also, however, hear cries that climate-change policies will destroy jobs and growth.

Global Warming Getting Bad Press

All of a sudden, global warming is getting bad press. Why? Some of the top scientists pushing global warming were caught in flagrante delicto...apparently ready to bury data that didn't agree with them and shun unbelievers. One of them has since resigned.

Why Copenhagen May Be a Disaster - Middle East Online

The world is changing, and not for the better. That anyone doubts the existence of global warming as a threat to our existence seems amazing to me. That opinion polls show Americans actually losing interest in global warming, or even in the belief that it’s happening at all, is depressing indeed, says Tom Engelhardt.

AFP: Copenhagen climate conference opens to dire warnings

Opening ceremonies began with a short film featuring children of the future facing an apocalypse of tempests and desert landscapes if world leaders failed to act today.

"There will be hundreds of millions of refugees," Rajendra Pachauri, head of the UN's panel of climate scientists, said in the film.

"Please help save the world," said a little girl, plaintively.
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The chief US negotiator in Copenhagen, Jonathan Pershing, blasted so-called Climategate as a non-affair and "opportunistic".

"It just happens to be the topic of the moment. It is a misrepresentation of the robustness of science," he said.

"... There are many data sets and they all show the same true type of change, (of) significant damages. I look at this and I think to myself, it's opportunistic."

Before Climate Meeting, a Revival of Skepticism - NYTimes.com

Yet the case for human-driven warming, many scientists say, is far clearer now than a decade ago, when the skeptics included many people who now are convinced that climate change is a real and serious threat.

AFP: Head of UN panel blasts 'Climategate' affair

Pachauri proudly defended the IPCC's reputation as an arena for weighing scientific evidence fairly, neutrally and objectively, and said: "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal."  [But what caused the rebound from the Little Ice Age?]

Copenhagen climate change summit: the key countries and what they want, us - Telegraph

If world temperatures rise more than 2C above pre-industrial levels, scientists [all of them?  If not, which ones?] predict devastating consequences. Here are some of the scenarios they have sketched.

YouTube - ["Hitler reacts" to ClimateGate]

Hadley CRU hacked with release of hundreds of docs and emails

'Wonderful Wonderful Copenhagen' – I Don’t Think! by Chris Clancy

So many lucrative and high-profile careers and reputations in politics, science and the media have been built on this lie. If they didn’t know it was bogus at the start they must know it by now. But still they keep going

Copenhagen climate change summit: the key countries and what they want, us - Telegraph

Delegations from 192 countries are attending the climate change summit in Copenhagen, but some will have more influence on the talks than others.

[Your sins are causing a massive increase in natural disasters!]: ‘Climate change will hit 175m kids every year’ - India - The Times of India

The average number of natural disasters has increased from 200 a year to more than 400, and this is predicted to increase by as much as 320% in the next 20 years.

Copenhagen climate change summit - opening day liveblog | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Tut tut. The singer KT Tunstall has arrived in Copenhagen, but she was spotted flying in on a EasyJet flight.
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Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, condemns the hacking of those emails. "Some will go to the extent of carrying out illegal acts, perhaps in an attempt discredit the IPCC," he says. He says the IPCC has an record of "objective assessment" by tens of thousands of dedicated scientists.
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Today has been declared an international day of fasting by the campaign Climate Justice Action.

Twitter / Andy Revkin

Plenary opens with video that almost resembles a clip from '2012' - earth splits, tornados. But it's a girl's eco-nightmare..

Twitter / Andy Revkin

Yvo DeBoer of UN reads account of boy losing parents in cyclone. "It is repetitions of this that the world is here to prevent."

LIVE: Copenhagen Opening Ceremony Kicks Off

The opening ceremony for the Copenhagen climate talks just kicked off with an opening video of a child’s nightmare of global destruction
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First up, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark...Climate change is higher on the agenda than ever. The grim projections from science grow more alarming each day. ...We have no bottled water, only tap drinking water. We’ve tried as hard as possible to limit the carbon footprint of the conference.
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Ritt Bjerregård, Mayor of Copenhagen...In Copenhagen we have a goal of being the first carbon neutral capital by 2025.
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Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, Chair, IPCC:... Warming of the climate system is unequivocal (quote).

LETTERS: Local high-rise craze claimed its share of victims - Opinion - ReviewJournal.com

[Tom Keller] Exposure of the fraudulent manipulation of statistics used to support the global warming theory should encourage considerable caution before hysterical environmentalists and politicians succeed in crippling our carbon-based economy.

Question for Bill O'Reilly: Who's the Idiot Now? | Editorial

Bill O'Reilly should lead the effort to put these criminals in jail. Why? He was misled by them. In a 2007 interview on CBS's "60 Minutes," O'Reilly said not only that "global warming is here" but that those opposed to the theory were "idiots."

Who's the idiot now?

Climate change concern on wane -- Shanghai Daily | 上海日报 -- English Window to China New

In the United States, the only industrialized nation outside the UN's existing Kyoto Protocol for curbing emissions, the number of those "very concerned" about climate change fell to 25 percent from 34 percent.

Participants Overcrowd UN Climate Change [Scam] Conference

34,000 people on Sunday asked to physically attend the meeting, forcing the organizer to issue a media alert and apply limits on the number of journalists and NGO representatives allowed to enter since the maximum capacity of the Bella Center, the venue of the conference, is 15,000.
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It was reported that the Danish government mobilized 60,000 policemen, nearly half of the country's total, to ensure security in Copenhagen during the conference.

AccuWeather.com: [CO2 makes aspen grow like crazy]

A relatively nominal increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) over the past half century has boosted Aspen tree growth rates in the Midwest by a remarkable 50 percent, according to a new study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Minnesota at Morris.

Flashback: CO2 allegedly devastates aspen | Reuters

Recent droughts and other factors linked to global warming are seen as likely causes for "sudden aspen decline," or SAD, so named because it can strike a forest so quickly.

[Sort of like ClimateDepot, but targeted at the "moron" demographic?]: SwiftHack.com

The Case Against Global Warming—and How Believers Respond - WSJ.com

A look at the arguments the skeptics make—and how believers respond

Hypocrisy in Copenhagen?

The high priest of Copenhagen and Hollywood is the Oscar, Grammy and Nobel Prize winning patron saint of global calamity, Al Gore. He claims the planet “has a fever.” He doesn’t talk about the fact that he is on his way to becoming a billionaire via his carbon offset businesses and government connections. Yet he jets around the world never disclosing his blatant conflicts of interest while preaching that we ought to lower our standard of living. Meanwhile Gore and his wife Tipper, whose children all live elsewhere, live in a sprawling 20-room mansion outside of Nashville that uses 20 times the national average in electricity, including an indoor pool costing $500/month to heat.