Gerald Warner: Finally, the great climate change lie begins to unravel - Scotland on Sunday

Hans Christian Andersen was outclassed in his home town last week, in the fabrication of fairy tales. The Brothers Grim – Al Gore and Rajendra Pachauri – are possessed of imaginations so rich as to dwarf the inventive powers of conventional storytellers. "Once upon a time," Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chairman Pachauri opened the proceedings by recycling all the much-loved, if long discredited, bedtime favourites.
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The skids are under the climate scam: it is a tripartite project to enrich carbon speculators, enlarge state power and rob taxpayers. Time to take the offensive. Copenhagen was the high water mark of the manipulative alarmists; 2010 will be the year this lie is unravelled, its perpetrators are unmasked and complicit politicians are punished.

Climate Accord In Hand, Obama Turns To Senate : NPR

After getting a wee bit of rest, Obama by early afternoon had set his sights on getting a climate bill out of the Senate that, he claims, will curb carbon emissions and, to boot, create new jobs by fostering new industries.

The Climate Sceptics Party Blog: YOU HAVE BEEN CONNED! Drs. Miskolczi and Zagoni respond to the Department of Climate Change

The Cautionary revelation of the apocalypse: Volcanoes, blizzards and climate fools

The insanity our elected masters and bought for scientists tries to sell us have been found out many times over. It’s not only climategate or thirty thousand plus scientists suing Al Gore; it’s not only Russian investigators saying how it is or NASA being found out lying, it’s so much more. And what about common sense? Since there’s not a single evidence for the manmade global warming hoax and since we actually know - scientifically proven - that the sun runs our climate almost alone, how can anyone out there actually listen to the alarmists’ claims?

YouTube - President Obama Press Conference Before Leaving Climate Change Summit Copenhagen pt.1
YouTube - President Obama Press Conference Before Leaving Climate Change Summit Copenhagen pt.2

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.

The Copenhagen farce is glad tidings for all | Dominic Lawson - Times Online

So let’s toast the negotiators of Copenhagen. By failing so spectacularly, they have presented us with a wonderful Christmas present. All we have to do is open it.

Copenhagen climate conference: The grim meaning of 'meaningful' | Comment is free | The Guardian

Only two years ago, the world's leaders swore this would be the summit to build a new carbon order. The threadbare agreement thrashed out last night has not even laid the foundations.

Climate reality: Voluntary efforts not enough - AP Fraudster SETH BORENSTEIN

...the impact of such piecemeal, voluntary efforts is small. Experts say it will never be enough without the kind of strong global agreement that eluded negotiators at the U.N. summit this past week in Copenhagen.

Emissions of greenhouse gases keep rising and so do global temperatures.

Snowy Europe cold snap brings transport chaos

The Swiss canton of Grisons recorded a record low temperature of minus 32 degrees Celsius (minus 25 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight, and early snow was seen across the continent from the white cliffs of Dover to the Black Sea.

Two of London's airports were closed overnight after heavy snow fell across south and east England, with a score of incoming flights being diverted to other British destinations.

The Liberty Papers »Blog Archive » Obama Has Failed in Copenhagen, Minorities and Women Will Benefit the Most

Fortunately for humanity and the civilization that sustains it, Barack Obama stayed true to his record of incompetence and failure, messing up the talks at Copenhagen. The talks have ended with nothing more than yet another agreement to meet again in a few years’ time. His last ditch instructions to Hillary Clinton, which led to her offering $100,000,000,000 of taxpayer dollars each year to nations hard hit by climate change could not band-aid the gaping gash that is the rift between developing and developed nations.

The Greenroom » Forum Archive » The Perfect Snowstorm: God Mocks Fools, Crooks and Liars

For me, an emergency global warming summit being disrupted by snow both at the site of the summit and at the home of many of the participants is proof-positive of the existence of not only a benevolent God, but one with a sense of humor

Julian Hunt: Failure at such a grand level means we have to act locally | Comment is free | The Observer

Post-Copenhagen, we may be heading towards a future in which no comprehensive successor to the Kyoto regime is politically possible. It is therefore crucial that the centre of gravity of decision-making on how we respond to climate change moves towards the sub-national level. The need for such a shift from "top down" to "bottom up" is becoming clearer by the day.

No cheer in the anticlimax of Copenhagen - Opinion - Editorial - General - The Canberra Times

LIKE a last-minute, hastily bought, overly expensive Christmas gift, the draft climate pact reached at Copenhagen yesterday has disappointed both the giver and receiver.
... We now give climate change sceptics more time to really dig their heels in and capitalise on the disillusion sure to follow the talks.

DC - Three hundred stranded at Greyhound bus station

The area's record snowfall stranded 300 people at the District's Greyhound bus station, according to officials with the American Red Cross .

Hunger striker eats again after 43 days of climate protest - Local News - News - General - The Canberra Times

Most people visiting Parliament House had been supportive, he said, but some people had called out ''Get a job'' from a passing car, while others had suggested he must have been eating.
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The hardest part, physically, had been a couple of days of diarrhoea this week. ''Mentally, I got a bit short-tempered with supporters early in the fast, and on some days I had to ask visitors to leave me alone, because I felt so tired.''

[Jessy Tolkan's Black Knight moment] | The Observer

Once we recover from our disappointment, we will realise that we now have some ground on which to build. Not to mention a bursting-at-the-seams, pulsing climate movement that has been strengthened by this setback.

YouTube - Monty Python And The Holy Grail- The Black Knight

The Scene from Monty Python and the holy grail where king arthur battles the black knight

Obama praises toothless climate pact - NYPOST.com

WASHINGTON -- After a day spent frantically darting around Copenhagen trying to locate world leaders, getting snubbed by China's premier and crashing a meeting where he had initially been kept out, President Obama heralded a last-minute, largely toothless UN global-warming summit deal that drew fast fire from all sides as a sham.

Global Wealth Can Heal the Planet - NYPOST.com

Don't take my word for it. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change acknowledges that "affluence is correlated with long life and small families" and that growing prosperity will cause world population to decline even further.

Want to know the best way to heal the planet? Create more rich countries. Want to know the best way to hurt the planet? Throw a wet blanket on economic growth.

[More junk science]: African leaf-eating primates are 'likely to be wiped out' by climate change

Dec. 18, 2009 - Monkey species will become 'increasingly at risk of extinction' because of global warming, according to new research, published this week. It reveals that populations of monkeys and apes in Africa that depend largely on a diet of leaves may be wiped out by a rise in annual temperatures of two degrees Celsius. The study by researchers from Bournemouth University, Roehampton University and the University of Oxford suggests that the species most at risk are the already endangered gorillas and colobine monkeys.

Barack Obama denies accusations that he 'crashed' secret Chinese climate change talks - Telegraph

Without even having time to sign the agreement, the president had to dash to the airport to fly home before a winter blizzard slammed the East coast.

By the time he woke up in a snowbound Washington, the so-called "Copenhagen Accord" that he had brokered the previous evening was already unraveling.
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"I think it is going to be very hard and it's going to take some time," he said after a day of drama that bordered on farce. He made clear that the ultimate goal was to "press ahead with something more binding".

But the agreement secured by Mr Obama lost wording from earlier drafts that calling for a binding accord "as soon as possible", and no later than at November's meeting in Mexico. Instead, the final version stated only that the agreement should be reviewed and put in place by 2015.

Copenhagen pact met with questions and mixed expectations - TheHill.com

But Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah), who opposes climate legislation, said the Copenhagen pact did nothing for the Senate legislation. “I don’t think they got anything in Copenhagen that will encourage anybody, except Jim Inhofe,” he said. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) calls global warming a “hoax” and opposes any bills to require emissions cuts.

Press corps, Gibbs take hits in U.S.-China climate standoff - The Hill's E2-Wire

You know an international climate meeting is in rough waters when even the press corps are getting physical and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gets roughed up.

Warning Signs: Demography Decides Everything

Thus, industrialization, the increased spread of electrical power, a global economy with fewer trade restrictions, all will favorably impact population growth by slowing it. In contrast, the objectives of the environmental movement such as the reduction of energy use based on the false assertion that it produces carbon dioxide that, in turn, will heat the Earth, are in direct conflict with population stabilization and reduction.

[Andy Revkin: Still alarmist, after all these years]: Climate Talks Make Way for a Design Show - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

In the meantime, the slowly reviving global economy and steadily rising human populations guarantee that emissions of carbon dioxide, the long-lived heat-trapping gas at the heart of the climate challenge, will soon surge again. That guarantees substantial warming, and -– according to a host of scientific assessments built on decades of work independent of recent controversies over scientists’ email messages — rising risks.

The Reference Frame: UAH MSU: temperatures for 2009 and ranking

Among these 15 years, 2009 will be cooler than 1998, 2005, 2002, 2007, 2003, and maybe 2006, so it will be just the 6th or 7th warmest year - pretty much exactly in the middle of the last 15 years' scoreboard. A global warming trend continues to be absent despite the very strong El Nino episode that has been affecting the weather for more than half a year and that may match the 1998 El Nino of the century in the near future.
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If there were some significant or urgent global warming, you would expect the record to be broken almost every year: that's what increasing functions like to do. However, it's been the 11th year in a row when the record reading wasn't rewritten. And according to UAH, 2009 was 0.25 °C below 1998.

EDITORIAL: Obama's cold day in Denmark - Washington Times

The only reason China gives lip service to the global-warming alarmist agenda is to hamper the competition - and our Democratic president is falling for the trap. Mr. Obama pledged that the United States would move forward with strict emissions limits whether or not the international community did the same. From Beijing's perspective, if the foolish Americans want to wreck their economy based on the misguided belief that they are saving polar bears, who is China to say no?

EDITORIAL: Carbon class warfare - Washington Times

We don't think made-made global warming is a problem. However, those who do should open their eyes and focus on the real enemies of humanity: socialism, atheism, poverty and dictatorships - not carbon dioxide.

EDITORIAL: The green dictatorship - Washington Times

To call the eco-friendly posturing of Third World dictators a farce is to understate the scandal. That the audience greeted such self-serving insanity with applause and that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Obama sanctified the gathering with their presence exposes a dark side to the green agenda. Global-warming theology is not just a fraud; it attacks freedom and encourages dictatorship.

C3: The Climate Liars of Copenhagen, Pt. 1: Global Temperatures Are "Accelerating"

There are several lies that public officials, "scientists," and activists used over and over in an attempt to build support within the mainstream media and the public. One of the principal lies that was very effective with the press and leftist pundits, but not with the public, was that global temperatures are "accelerating" and will reach climate model tipping points in the very near future. As the U.S. climate agency data reveals below, "accelerated warming" is a flat-out lie.

CapitalClimate: Washington DC Breaks December Snow Record

5 pm Update: Dulles now reports 15" on the ground; no increase at National. This puts Dulles close to the second highest December monthly total of 15.9" in 1969. The December record is 24.2" in 1966.

Another Prolonged and Solemn Farce, Finally Reaching the End of the Road - Steven Hayward - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Taking the long view, I expect that 20 or 30 years from now, environmentalists will look back on global warming (no matter what actually happens with or to the climate) as the issue that ate their movement alive, and Copenhagen as the turning point.

The EPA's Power Grab

The climate campaign, built step-by-step over the last 20 years, has reached its Waterloo.
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The Carlin/Davidson document and the emails were leaked to the Competitive Enterprise Institute in June, but attracted only scant media attention. In light of the scandal surrounding the East Anglia emails, however, the newly urgent demand for transparency in the climate science and policy process may shine unwelcome new light into the dark corners of EPA's politically driven agenda. There will certainly be new fodder for litigation challenging the EPA's endangerment finding, which will involve reopening basic questions of climate science to judicial review. What was "settled" is about to become unsettled. In other words, in hoping to use the EPA's Clean Air Act club to bully Congress into passing cap and trade, the -climate campaign may have made its biggest blunder yet.

Collapse of the warming ‘scam’ - Bennington Banner

Now scientists not in on this scam have begun to penetrate the data. In the leading instance, Darwin Zero from North Australia, they discovered that the CRU "adjusted" the data not just to allow for relocating weather stations, but by simply adding degrees to make cooling trends into warming trends. Wrote one Australian scientist, "they are indisputable evidence that the ‘homogenized’ data has been changed to fit someone’s preconceptions about whether the earth is warming."

There’s a name for this: fraud.

The Copenhagen Conference: The man-made climate change hoax falters

In spite of the fraud of the CRU, NCAR and NASA, and in spite of the truth told by the 31,000 academics who signed the petition, President Obama, Al Gore, and the Copenhagen group still intend to push on for government carbon dioxide taxes and controls. It is astonishing that this Copenhagen group continues to spew these lies, issuing dire warnings about the “global catastrophe” that they say will be caused by global warming, and the news people on the three major networks continue to uncritically repeat these lies.

Copenhagen: epic fail | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

A personal disaster as well, then, for the man who wants to be the next secretary general of the United Nations.

Copenhagen accord keeps Big Carbon in business - Telegraph

What was released last week from Russia was evidence that the stars of Climategate have been cherry-picking the temperature data they receive from Russia, to use only the 25 per cent of the data that makes for a warming trend. Put it together with all the data they have suppressed and what emerges is a trend over the past 80 years that remains flat, showing no net warming at all. Yet this is the most oft-cited of all the temperature records on which the whole global warming scare of recent decades has been built.

Naturally none of this was allowed to percolate the discussions in Copenhagen where, behind all the playacting and flim-flam of the stage army of activists (most of them subsidised by the world's taxpayers), the only real concern was to maintain the greatest financial scam the world has ever seen.

Twitter / Beth Wareham

Idiot Christian Right, global warming IS the End of Days, ya fools.

Was Copenhagen a success? - washingtonpost.com

[Inhofe] This "agreement" will do nothing to change the overwhelming bipartisan opposition to global warming legislation in the Senate.

Libs 'vindicated' on ETS opposition: Abbott

The failure of world leaders to strike a legally binding deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions ''entirely vindicates'' the Opposition's decision to reject the Government's emissions trading scheme, Tony Abbott claimed yesterday.

TWT's Awesome Climate Model - Water Cooler - Washington Times

It's easy to make predictions like this if you start with the premise that God has an amazing sense of humor and will periodically use it to illustrate human folly. Plus we based it on the well documented Gore Effect, the observed correlation between global warming activism and severely cold weather. Check it out, it is based on as sound scientific reasoning as the global warming theology.

Global Warming Wreaks Havoc on Chunnel Trains - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

AP

Copenhagen collapse: not even a deforestation deal | CEJournal

The collapse of the overall Copenhagen talks seems to have taken a REDD accord down with it.

TU Professor Says Inhofe Is Wrong On Global Warming

Jim Derby is a geologist and professor at the University of Tulsa.
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"I do believe an investigation would show that they are clearly manipulating the data," Senator Inhofe said.

Derby says that is simply not true and hopes the U.S. takes more control over carbon emissions.

I guess that conference on global warming worked « Don Surber

It will be difficult to hide that decline. Dismissing it as weather won’t work when you have been betting on glaciers melting and saying the Arctic will be ice free in 5 years.

December snows are great. Let Old Man Winter get it out of his system and bring back that global warming after the holidays.

But like I said, whatever they did in Copenhagen worked immediately.

And they did not do a darned thing.

Gas could be the cavalry in global warming fight - Latest Philippine News

An unlikely source of energy has emerged to meet international demands that the United States do more to fight global warming: It's cleaner than coal, cheaper than oil and a 90-year supply is under our feet.

Soapbox: At best, man-made global warming an unproven theory | WindsorBeacon.com | The Windsor Beacon

Reducing our “carbon footprint” through the strong arm of government will force everyone into a strict rationing program. Our standard of living will drop. It will be difficult for all and impossible for some. By diverting our resources to this all-out effort to abandon our abundant and less expensive energy sources, we will jeopardize our way of life and threaten the very lives of those around the world who are currently living on the edge of survival.
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Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Loveland, represents Larimer County outside of Fort Collins.

Brown Pelican Society of Louisiana » Global Warming Science? Nope, Global Warming Scam.

How do you create a Global Warming panic when the weather isn’t cooperating? Here are a few tricks of the trade that the scammers are using to explain away the recent cooling trend, as revealed by the hacked e-mails of the world’s leading advocates of man-made Global Warming.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Copenhagen attendees rejecting deal that Obama says he doesn’t have to sign

But this is indicative of just how irrational and/or corrupt the AGW movement has become. The entire process became a shakedown for kleptocracies to seize Western wealth in order to supposedly undo the damage done by anthropogenic global warming. Who in their right mind would send billions of dollars to a genocidal dictatorship like Sudan and expect them to put it into environmental projects?

Climate deal highlights U.N. flaws | Reuters

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A weak U.N. climate deal, agreed on Saturday after two weeks of talks pulled back from near collapse, underscored the vulnerability of a process depending on consensus and may mark a diminishing U.N. role.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » WaPo/ABC poll: Obama support plunges on global warming

The administration is losing its battle to maintain the pretense of a consensus on AGW. Imagine what would have happened if the media had reported on Climategate to anywhere near the extent they did with, oh, Sarah Palin’s headband.

Reaffirming climate [junk] science : Nature News

...no grounds have arisen to doubt the validity of the thermometer-based temperature record since it began in about 1850.

Copenhagen summit bad sign for business

The lack of consensus for a global climate [swindle treaty] could be a bad sign for business.

3000 Scientists in US and Europe agree that global warming is caused by CO2

In a recent survey of more than 3,000 Earth scientists, 82% agreed that human activity is a "significant contributing factor" in changing global temperatures

PERFECT STORM | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

Copenhagen’s big winner: the Gore Effect, currently undergoing peer review on two continents. Truly, this mighty effect can encolden even the coldest city.

UPDATE. Copenhagen’s snow is a “blessing”, according to climate starvationist Anna Keenan. Maybe she’s eating it.

CLIMATE CHANGE: History Was Not Made - IPS ipsnews.net

Not an hour after Obama's opening speech to the plenary Friday morning, several Republican members of Congress and the Senate held a press conference in the Bella Centre denying climate change was caused by emissions of fossil fuels and saying the science of the International Panel on Climate Change and dozens of scientific academies around the world was suspect.

None of the U.S. politicians are scientists and all hail from regions with powerful fossil fuel or automotive interests.

Quadrant Online - COP15: Day 12

Some negotiators were clearly hanging out for President Obama’s arrival to either charm leaders out of their established negotiating positions or bring something new to the table. He did neither.

Instead Obama’s short speech to the conference plenary was probably the most insulting and patronising speech delivered by a US President in a long time. Obama poorly understood the mood of the audience and chose to behave like an infallible school master lecturing children about the importance of keeping their socks up to maintain school dignity, rather than appealing to each leader’s hopes to share in collective victory. It was put best by a journalist from The Guardian that Obama’s speech received “polite applause”.

Satellite data means we still need to worry about global warming

Dessler explained that most of the warming caused by carbon dioxide does not come directly from carbon dioxide, but from effects known as feedbacks. Water vapor is a particularly important feedback. As the climate warms, the atmosphere becomes more humid. Since water is a greenhouse gas, it serves as a powerful positive feedback to the climate system, amplifying the initial warming.

Thousands of flights canceled across East, D.C. airport halts flights amid heavy snow

Commercial air traffic was halted at Washington National Airport Saturday and more than a thousand flights had been canceled by noon ET as an intense December snow storm moved into the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast.

The Federal Aviation Administration said on its website flights were not likely to resume at National airport until Sunday morning, at the earliest.

There is No Frakking "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming: Science Says: Hop on One Foot

Science does not tell us what to do. When certain political activists insist otherwise, we need to recognize that they are attempting to preempt important discussions, to silence our voices, to substitute their own views for those of the community.

Let It Snow: The Calm Before the Storm | NBC New York

National Weather Service forecasts up to 10 inches for NYC area

Peolple are seen on the beach covered by snow in Nice

Peolple are seen on the beach covered by snow in Nice, southeastern France, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. Temperature is 3 degrees celcius (37,2 Farenheit).

Obama Checked by The Editors on National Review Online

One of the main arguments in favor of cap-and-trade is that it would purportedly show the developing world that the U.S. is serious about cutting emissions, thus inducing them to follow our lead. But the developing world’s reluctance to follow us down such a path has little to do with our supposed hypocrisy and everything to do with the fact that large swaths of that world remain desperately poor. Around 8 million people in China still lack electricity. In India, that number is a staggering 404 million. The affordable energy that fossil fuels supply is an important engine for lifting people out of poverty. Alternatives simply can’t provide the required amount of energy, much less provide it at the same cost.

Severe cold hits Europe; 9 dead in Ukraine - GEO.tv

KIEV: Severe weather has continued to hit Europe for a second consecutive day. The cold front comes amid forecasts of more snowfall one week ahead of Christmas.

"Avatar" Review: Cameron's green message comes from out of the blue - TwinCities.com

I'm always suspicious of people like Cameron, who probably lives in a mansion with hot-and-cold running champagne, telling me that I need to appreciate the simple things in life. (How about this, Jim: I'll reduce my carbon footprint when you stop acquiring a new wife every five years.)

Kyopenhagen - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

But the take-away from Kyopenhagen, what makes this absurd theater all the more unforgivable, is that the Obama administration had for months vowed that it had learned the Kyoto lesson and would not repeat it. Until they did.

Instapundit » Blog Archive » OUR ANGRY PRESIDENT

Fredericksburg.com - SNOW MAY SET RECORD

Relentless snow and high winds will create a rare December snowstorm in the Fredericksburg area that could leave 12 to 24 inches of snow on the ground by tomorrow morning, according to the National Weather Service in Sterling.

If the forecast is correct, it could be the largest snowfall in the Fredericksburg region since the 21-inch Blizzard of 1996 that fell over two days in January.

It could also be the largest December snowfall in Fredericksburg in a century, based on available records.

Heliogenic Climate Change: Global warming causes happiness

People in sunny, outdoorsy states — Louisiana, Hawaii, Florida — say they're the happiest Americans, and researchers think they know why

Photo: Obama returns from the Copenhagen global warming conference « Watts Up With That?

It of course, screams for a caption. I’m sure our readers can provide one.

Shock: UN Finds Earth’s Thermostat « JoNova

Over the last 30 years janitors had stored progressively larger vacuum cleaners leaning against the switch, resulting in the climbing world averages.

Eco-Board Game (Obese people die early= use fewer resources=green.)

Climate Pact Falls Short - WSJ.com

"The failure of the U.N. climate conference should surprise no one," said Sen. James Inhofe (R., Okla.,), who challenges the premise human activity is affecting the climate in potentially dangerous ways. "The same major issues that have plagued any U.N. global-warming treaty for over a decade remain today."

The Climate Pool: Good Night, Moon | Facebook

Ban said he had gotten two hours of sleep in the last 48 hours, had not been to his hotel since Friday morning and had skipped a couple meals. After that, he excused himself and allowed an underling to take over. Was he going off to sleep? No way. He went to address the climate negotiators.

But as bad as Ban looked, he couldn't hold a flickering candle to AP's own Karl Ritter, the chief of our climate negotiations bureau. When they could stay open, Ritter's eyes were bloodshot and he looked like hell. He had been awake and working 30 straight hours. He finally left the building at about 12:30 p.m.

Moe Lane » Right-wing rag unloads on Obama over Copenhagen flop.

Oh, did I say ‘right-wing rag?’ I meant to type out ‘Vanity Fair.’

Rachel Maddow on Obama’s “diplomatic acrobatics” in Copenhagen | Grist

Sarah Palin (SarahPalinUSA) on Twitter

Earth saw clmate chnge4 ions;will cont 2 c chnges.R duty2responsbly devlop resorces4humankind/not pollute&destroy;but cant alter naturl chng
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Copenhgen=arrogance of man2think we can change nature's ways.MUST b good stewards of God's earth,but arrogant&naive2say man overpwers nature

The Climate Pool: President What's His Name? | Facebook

Just who the heck is that guy running the show?

When the Danish prime minister was pushed aside as president of the climate talks, he was replaced by one of his seven vice presidents, who wielded the gavel during some of the tensest moments.

Trouble was, the tired Associated Press team couldn't figure out who the new president of the conference was. So we did what reporters do _ ask public relations people. The UN spokespeople, equally fatigued, couldn't solve the puzzle either

The Climate Pool: Climate Agreement with bitter aftertaste | Facebook

At the end of next year, a new climate summit is to be held in Mexico. Minister Cramer said world leaders probably will attend the summit. ,,The presence of ministers and the prime minister did change the tone of voice of the negotiations considerably.

She drew her conclusions for the future: "In this time and age the globalized world will never be bound in a treaty.''

FORA.tv - FORA.tv Exclusive Interview with Lord Monckton @ COP15

Photo: Hair cut off by German climate activists seen in the gutter, in a protest at the venue of the Copenhagen Climate Summit Friday Dec. 18, 2009.

Gutless, yes. But the planet's future is no priority of ours | Polly Toynbee | Comment is free | The Guardian

But enough people have to want to change how they live and spend to make it happen. So far they don't, not by a long chalk. What would it take? A tidal wave destroying New York maybe – New Orleans was the wrong people – with London, St Petersburg and Shanghai wiped out all at once. But cataclysms will come too late for action. Just pray for a scientific wonder or that Lord Stern is right and the market can fix it, as green technology becomes more profitable than oil and coal. As things stand, politics has not enough heft nor authority. It would take a political miracle to save us now.

Copenhagen: the sweet sound of exploding watermelons – James Delingpole - Telegraph Blogs

I take it all back. Copenhagen was worth it, after all – if only for the sphincter-bursting rage its supposed failure has caused among our libtard watermelon chums. (That’s watermelon, as in: green on the outside, red on the inside).

Scenes from a Climate [Swindle] Floor Fight - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

The public scene in the plenary, leading up to the private meeting and the consensus to “take note” of the accord, is recorded in the conference minutes below, which provide a window on the “wild roller coaster ride” described by Robert Orr, Assistant Secretary General for Policy and Planning.

Die Klimazwiebel: Assessing the failure

US domestic politics thus seems the real battleground if global agreements are to have any future. However, it may be counterproductive to wait for such a move to occur.
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I am under no illusion that many will want to persevere on the path they have been taking for so long.

Iran slams U.S. as 'oil-addicted warmonger' at Copenhagen

COPENHAGEN -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed the United States on Thursday as an oil-addicted warmonger and insisted all the world’s nations should have access to “clean and renewable energy sources” including nuclear power.

Oil reserves in Iran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oil reserves in Iran, according to its government, rank third largest in the world at approximately 136 billion barrels (21.6×10^9 m3) as of 2007, although it ranks second if Canadian reserves of unconventional oil are excluded. This is roughly 10% of the world's total proven petroleum reserves. Iran is the world's fourth largest oil producer and is OPEC's second-largest producer after Saudi Arabia.

Debating Climate Change on Stossel: Economics to the Fore — MasterResource

Alas, my inbox suggests that a number of people who watched the show thought I was too willing to accept the contention that there has been warming and that man likely has a lot to do with it. Instead, a number of Fox viewers wanted me to launch World War III over the climate record.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » NARN, the Global Warming Blizzard Edition!

Today, Mitch and I size up the Copenhagen collapse, the week in health-care reform retreat, and the many reasons why Obama has to be glad to be heading out to Hawaii on Christmas holiday next week.

Mass insanity in Copenhagen | Editorial | Comment | Toronto Sun

As they did 12 years ago in Kyoto, Japan, world leaders have apparently jammed together an eleventh-hour deal in an atmosphere of manufactured hysteria and artificial deadlines.

This is a farcical way to deal with what these leaders claim is an existential threat to mankind. Whatever they've agreed to has nothing to do with cooling our planet.

It has everything to do with some of the world's most corrupt dictators and regimes extorting billions upon billions of dollars from the developed world -- us -- which they will then spend not on reducing their own greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), but in any way they please.

China Youth Daily Covers LaRouche Youth At Copenhagen Summit | LaRouchePAC

December 19, 2009 (LPAC)—"Global warming? I don't believe it!" This was how China Youth Daily began an article today on growing "global warming scepticism" after speaking to Sebastian Perimony, a LaRouche Youth organizer outside the Copenhagen global warming summit. "Every day outside the Copenhagen climate conference stand a group of European protestors. They are passing out leaflets, shouting 'Global warming is a lie!,' making known to the people around them their firm scepticism over the notion of global warming.... They are members of a non-governmental organization supporting the so-called LaRouche Plan, and on the issue of 'climate change' they're going against the mainstream of public opinion.
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The article ends by quoting a Chinese energy expert, Yang Fuqiang, who says that the growing skepticism about global warming may result in new studies being conducted, "stricter and more rational," that might provide a competent basis for drawing conclusions in the matter.

Speaking of conference tourists… | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

What on earth was Burrow doing there, and why did the workers of Australia have to pay for her frolic in support of an agenda that could cost them their jobs?

Message on climate emotive, but a fraud | Piers Akerman - The Daily Telegraph

As yet, the global warming crowd have failed to produce any observation-based evidence that carbon dioxide levels have led to rising temperatures, but have shown that they are willing to distort data, manipulate facts and censor those who disagree with their ideology.May all those who have peddled this dangerous and unscientific nonsense wake to a lump of coal in their stocking on Christmas Day.

[More barking madness from "Scientific" American]: Not Enough…Tuvalu Gone, But Still Hope for NYC

The bad news is that this is not enough to save Tuvalu. Like the Maldives, they will be the first of us to go. If the entire world had agreed to the The U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992 and acted swiftly, we might have. We needed to keep the average global temperature rise (average means add some snow in Texas plus even more drought in Australia = global average added together is still hotter) to no more than 1.5 degrees C to save Tuvalu.
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As a disappointed Bolivian UN Ambassador said tonight: “Why we don’t accept because that means that several islands are going to disappear. Our glaciers in the mountains are going to disappear. Africa is going to be cooked. We are approaching a situation where we cannot guarantee that we are going to be able to save whole humanity.”

Each succeeding agreement will necessarily achieve less and less as more and more is lost. And as things get worse for us all over the next decades, less money will be available for education, as more has to go to disaster relief, flood control and the military to keep the ever increasing roiling seas of disasters under control. As each generation gets less for education, the job gets easier for the fossil industry to continue to obstruct movement and agreement.

So it is sad that we can’t agree to the targets needed to save us.

U.N. Averts Climate Collapse By "Noting" New Deal - NYTimes.com

"Finally we sealed a deal," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. "The 'Copenhagen Accord' may not be everything everyone had hoped for, but this decision...is an important beginning."

[More barking madness from Newsweek] - Sharon Begley

...we are very likely to see a 20-foot rise in sea level, sometime this century, again.

Why Copenhagen Failed By Shamus Cooke

To anybody interested in the future of the earth’s climate, the conclusion of the Copenhagen conference represents either colossal disappointment or profound rage.
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As long as governmental policy is dictated by the corporations — represented in the U.S. by the two party system — multi-lateralism and cooperation are doomed. Thus, the battle to save the environment and end war must include a fight against these corporations, who wield a political/economic vise grip over society. Only by publicly controlling these billionaire-owned mega-enterprises can the peaceful and cooperative impulses of the earth’s people find their full expression.

Copenhagen climate conference: global warming talks meltdown - Telegraph

Yes we can!”

Umm, actually no we can’t.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao reportedly left for his hotel in a huff and suddenly the whole conference was plunged into chaos.

Copenhagen climate summit: Clothes? Who needs them - Telegraph

[Dame Vivienne Westwood] had got involved after hearing the doomy James Lovelock predict that climate change would reduce the world's population to just one billion. "Imagine the suffering," she said.

She's out to campaign against over-consumption and wants people to buy fewer clothes. "Wear your husband's shirt back to front. Make necklaces out of safety clips. Wear the towel from your hotel room when you go to a nightclub."

U.N. Climate [Hoax] Talks ‘Take Note’ of Accord Backed by U.S. - NYTimes.com

COPENHAGEN — With the swift bang of a gavel on Saturday morning, a prolonged fight between nations small and large over an international pact to limit climate risks that was forged the night before by the United States and four partners came to a somewhat murky end.

Obama Busts In On Climate Change [Scam] Meeting | Oliver Willis

The White House press office just released this transcript of the gaggle with a senior administration official that gives background on the meeting and it’s mighty hilarious how the White House tries to make Obama look awesome for breaking in to the meeting but still presidential by kind of saying he didn’t really bust into the meeting.

BBC News - Hundreds without power overnight

Hundreds of homes in the east of England, some of them in Suffolk, have been without power through the night.

Engineers from EDF Energy have been working to restore power but have been hampered by poor travel conditions due to high winds and snow.

The Reference Frame: An early Xmas present: AGW loons return from Denmark as sore losers

The game may be over, political kibitzers and fringe lunatics who have benefited from spreading nonsense about AGW have become sore losers who don't sleep for many nights but who can't ever reach any results. And regardless of the opinions about the potential AGW threat, the media and others are starting to appreciate that all of you are fraudulent and hypocritical kibitzers and losers. Your stocks will plummet and you will feel like pieces of trash. You deserve it because you've been lying all the time - you are pieces of trash, after all.

Letter of [fraud] from Copenhagen | StarTribune.com

[Andy Barnett, a graduate of Edina High School, is a master’s candidate at Yale University’s Environment and Divinity schools] It is not possible to argue sanely in favor of increased droughts, floods, famine, disease, hurricanes and hundreds of millions of refugees due to rising seas.

[From the realism-filled comment section for the article above] | StarTribune.com

We're Slightly Tilted Away From The Sun...

during the winter, and the average temperature goes from 73 during the peak of summer to 13 during the peak of winter. But yeah...the sun has nothing to do with global warming. It's all because he exhaled too much and ate too much beef.
posted by RedGuyInBlueState on Dec. 18, 09 at 10:35 PM

Reader's view: Global warming hoax ended | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota

That it took scandal to reveal the obvious is unsettling. A 20-foot rise in sea levels, caused by internal combustion, human exhalation and cattle flatulence, should have been a tough sell. But people are gullible, and gullible people in large numbers are dangerous. That so many Americans seem willing to impoverish and indenture themselves to save the planet from nothing is troubling. But go ahead, impoverish yourselves ’till the cows come home, if you so choose. Drive a Prius. Paint your roof white. Just don’t expect us heretics to join in the self-flagellation.

Wayne C. Anderson

Selwyn Duke -- Understanding the Global-warming Jihadists

As I write this, the climate-change con artists are meeting in Copenhagen, where useful-idiot communists are protesting in the streets while their standard bearers, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe and Bolivian President Evo Morales are railing against free markets and beating the red drum. Do you really think these folks care about the environment? The green that really concerns them is your money — and I do mean your money.

Deadlocked at deadline - Opinion - The Orange County Register

The Internet, for example, allows global warming skeptics a voice denied them by mainstream media. As with the unraveling of CBS' Dan Rather when his reports on President George W. Bush's National Guard service were debunked by bloggers, the claims of self-anointed climate experts likewise have been scrutinized by armies of arm-chair appraisers.

Often enough the so-called consensus theory has been found wanting, and the holes in the "settled science" shared via Internet postings.

Minus-25 temp breaks day's record, sets state low - AdirondackDailyEnterprise.com

SARANAC LAKE - Friday morning's temperature of 25 degrees below zero broke the local record for Dec. 18 and was the statewide - and possibly national - low.

The site of that frigid air was the Adirondack Regional Airport in Lake Clear, but it is listed as Saranac Lake. The village was actually in the minus-teens Friday morning until about 8 o'clock.

Copenhagen chaos sets world on track for 3.5 ˚C - environment - 19 December 2009 - New Scientist

Update at 10.30am 19 December: After a night of wrangling and behind the scenes arguments, the UN conference agreed to "take note" of the Copenhagen Accord (see "Original copy, below"), but countries were not forced to endorse it. With a number of Latin American nations and Sudan hostile to it, the meeting agreed that countries choosing to endorse the US-brokered deal would be listed in the text.

Arroyo brings home 'green' bacon from Copenhagen - Latest Philippine News

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo returned to Manila early Saturday after a shortened trip to Copenhagen, bringing home millions of dollars for efforts to cut the country’s carbon emissions and bankroll its clean energy technologies.

Although Arroyo came home without an international commitment to curb effects of climate change, she was able to secure $310 million worth of funds for “green" projects, Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said in an arrival statement.

[Chanting "Shame on you, Obama"]: Angry activists gather outside Bella Center to protest Copenhagen accord

Ignoring the bitter cold, several hundred angry activists gathered outside the Bella Center in the middle of the night after news broke that the United States, Brazil, South Africa, India, and China had brokered a non-binding climate deal that they say excluded the interests of smaller countries and lacked necessary ambition in carbon reduction targets.

At the demonstration, GMANews.TV caught up with renowned American environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben, who says he now regrets voting for Barack Obama in the last US elections.

Nebraska: December's start one of the coldest ever

GRAND ISLAND - Continuing a trend of topsy-turvy weather this fall, December's cold is on track to be one for the record books. It has also added to the harvesting problems of area farmers.

According to the National Weather Service, Grand Island, Hastings and Kearney have experienced the third coldest first half of December on record.

Wikipedia's climate doctor

All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn't like the subject of a certain article, he removed it -- more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred -- over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley's global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia's blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement.

Republican Skeptics Among the Climate Change Believers - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

While a lot of activist groups were disappointed, to say the least, about the "non-deal" reached here at the Copenhagen climate change conference, there was at least one group whose hopes that the whole Copenhagen conference would collapse appeared to be fulfilled, a delegation of six Republicans from the U.S. House of Representatives.
...Upton made this bold prediction: “This Waxman-Markey bill would lose by 50 votes if it were up for a vote now. This bill is dead in the water as it is and that’s why it’s DOA in the Senate.”

Prior to the collapse, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) had declared at the Copenhagen conference that getting climate change legislation passed in the U.S. this spring, “can be enormously assisted by what happens here.” Once the non-deal was announced, the Massachusetts senator as a team player was still gamely peddling the same line, saying, "With this in hand, we can work to pass domestic legislation early next year to bring us across the finish line." We'll all find out this spring who is the better political prognosticator, Kerry or Upton. After the diplomatic debacle here in Copenhagen, my bet is on Upton.

Copenhagen special podcast: The Guardian's environment team analyse the COP15 agreement | Science | guardian.co.uk

A deal is done in Copenhagen but the climate change summit is condemned as a failure.
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We look at Barack Obama's influence as well as his disappointing speech. We ask whether it was China that held up the talks.

Gordon Brown hails Copenhagen success despite widespread condemnation | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Tim Jones, climate policy officer at the World Development Movement said: "This summit has been in complete disarray from start to finish, culminating in a shameful and monumental failure that has condemned millions of people around the world to untold suffering."

Weekly Address Watch: At the close of the Copenhagen talks, for the twenty-first time in twenty-three weeks, Obama ignores global warming

...on behalf of Michelle, Malia, Sasha, and Bo, happy holidays, from our family to yours.

Flashback: The Copenhagen summit: Possibly the most important meeting in the history of the world - The Daily Record

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Let Us Know, Let Us Know, Let Us Know... About The New World Government - Minnesotans For Global Warming

By the way that's not snow, that's the Constitution being shredded and thrown around like confetti.

Climate Hubris - Yahoo! News

Maybe it's time for a little less hubris — especially on the part of the scientific community. We don't have all the answers, and we will never find them if we think we already do.

American Thinker: Global warming and the 'settled science' baloney

Mostly liberal politicians want access to unlimited tax revenues; for scientists and pseudo-scientists global warming victory is a path to prestige and grants; for large corporations it's a billion dollar market for trading in carbon credits, a market pioneered by Enron; for the hard left it's a new path to dictatorial power and control; for venture capitalists like Kleiner Perkins and green start-ups at the public trough, it's a path to alternative energy funding bonanzas; for the radical greens it's equivalent to the unquestioned adherence to a religious faith with analogs to God (the earth), priests (Al Gore), indulgences (carbon offsets), guilt (western affluence) and penance (conservation).

But none of these things can justify or excuse upending our entire financial system or tossing our economic vibrancy, freedom and very sovereignty into the cesspool of global government. That much should be settled fact.

American Thinker: Ben Franklin on Real Science

A majority of scientists believed that the Sun revolved around the Earth, when Galileo invented the telescope, observed the Solar System, and concluded that the Earth revolved around the Sun. (Contrary to popular myth, it was university professors, not the Catholic Church, who led the effort to silence Galileo. Their positions were threatened by this upstart with his new theory.)

Understanding how honest science occurs can protect you from frauds. It's not as complicated as rocket science. It can be as simple as a man flying a kite in a Philadelphia rain storm.

Interesting, Weird, and Educational Videos: Scientists Discover and Image Explosive Deep-Ocean Volcano

What you will see in the video is a spectacular sequence that is close enough to the eruption that you can actually see violent magma degassing and producing bright flashes of hot magma. The Lava gets blown up into the water and then settles back to the seafloor, while the large plugs of lava flow rapidly down the slope.

STEPHEN GLOVER: 50 days to save the world? I might listen to the doomsayers if they weren't such ludicrous hypocrites | Mail Online

Should we be surprised that the British public, confronted by this ugly combination of myopic hypocrisy and doommongering, is becoming increasingly sceptical?

As I say, we may not understand climate change, but we do know when we are victims of a fraud.

The Associated Press: Foul pre-Christmas weekend in store for East Coast

Forecasters said it could be the most snow in the nation's capital since a February 2003 storm dumped nearly 27 inches at Baltimore-Washington International Airport.

Copenhagen climate summit: confusion as 'historic deal' descends into chaos - Telegraph

The “historic” climate change deal at the Copenhagen climate summit has descended into chaos after some developing nations rejected the plan for fighting global warming championed by US President Barack Obama.
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Tempers flared during an all-night plenary session, held after most of 120 visiting world leaders had left.
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One Saudi delegate said it was without doubt “the worst plenary I have ever attended.”

Chutzpah in Copenhagen II | CEJournal

[update from a colleague] Many people who are not sympathetic to the interventions we just heard now seem to see Obama as arrogant and insensitive for flying in, trying to get the COP to do what we want, and flying out before the deal was even done. It was extremely unwise to announce an agreement at a press conference before sharing it with countries that had not yet seen it, but would be asked to endorse.

Parturient montes: nascetur ridiculus mus | The SPPI Blog

The disconnect between the gaseous halations of various grandstanding “world leaders” about the supposedly urgent need to “Save The Planet Now” and the puny outcome of the Copenhagen Non-Event is dazzling. And it is welcome.

For all the rhetoric – or the flatulence that passes for rhetoric these days – it has begun to dawn on the “leaders” of those nations that subject them to regular recall and re-election that the people no longer believe the mad scientists are telling them the truth. And the people are right.

If Global Warming Is Real Then Why Is It Cold: Cartoon

In final push, wrestling over US climate deal | Top AP Stories | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

COPENHAGEN — The U.N. climate conference was threatened with collapse Saturday after a small group of nations blocked the adoption of a political accord brokered by President Barack Obama with China and other emerging powers.
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"If it fails, you have a collapse of the whole negotiating process out of Copenhagen," said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists. "The Copenhagen Express is in danger of derailing."

Twitter / AP Climate Pool

(BREAKING) #COP15 plenary resolves to "take note" of #Copenhagen Accord & list those agreeing with accord in title of resolution

US-led climate 'deal' under threat in Copenhagen | World | Deutsche Welle | 19.12.2009

A session long past midnight hit a low point when a Sudanese delegate said for the African continent, the plan would be like the Holocaust by causing more deadly floods, droughts, mudslides, sandstorms and rising seas.

The document "is a solution based on the same very values, in our opinion, that channeled six million people in Europe into furnaces," said Sudan's Lumumba Stanislaus Di-aping.

Anders Turesson, chief negotiator of Sweden, rejected Di-aping's comments saying: "The reference to the Holocaust is, in this context, absolutely despicable."

"This institution faces a moment of profound crisis at this meeting," British Environment Secretary Ed Miliband said, urging delegates to accept the plan, which he said would improve the lives of millions.
...WWF said a gap between rhetoric and reality could cost millions of lives. Greenpeace said the deal cited by Obama contained "so many loopholes" it amounted to fraud.

FT.com / Americas - Climate 'deal' confusion

The United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen ended in apparent disarray last night with some world leaders hailing a "meaningful agreement", while others said no deal had been struck.

The US, China, Brazil, India and South Africa claimed, after a four-hour meeting, to have secured a partial pact. But their optimism was quickly undermined by a string of more pessimistic assessments.
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But there was confusion as some countries appeared to be less optimistic than Mr Obama. While he was leaving for the airport, European officials were denying a deal. "If there had been a deal, the prime minister [of Sweden] and the president [of the Commission] would have been here. They still have not formalised the deal," said Roberta Alenius, spokeswoman for the EU presidency.

Thom Yorke Crashes Copenhagen Climate Summit - Video - Stereogum

12/18/09 7:14 PM
well ... i am truly disgusted about the way things have ended here. if you read in tommorrows headlines that a deal was reached?? remember it was nothing like what was needed and was filed by a bored complicit press who needed to show something for two weeks of crap.. and that it reflected the wests inability to lead decisively. that it will make alarm bells ring throughout the world. we have no international agreement. this is all too too late. i feel deeply traumatized by the whole experience. if you'd been there you would also have been. Thom

Obama's Copenhagen Deal | Mother Jones

Then again, there may not have been a final deal. Late on Friday night, President Barack Obama announced that an agreement had been reached, establishing a minimalist accord that would not set a firm schedule with hard-and-fast targets for reducing emissions. But after Obama held a press conference to declare semi-victory—"this is going to be a first step"—and jetted back to Washington, European officials said nothing was in the bag.

The Battle has been won – Gore (and others) defeated. « Cobourg Skeptic – Climate Change and Resources

It’s now very unlikely that Obama’s Cap & Trade bill will go anywhere – and Canada will follow that lead. Australia will see the futility and work on Nuclear power and mitigation; Europe will continue on their path – but justified more by reducing pollution and preserving fossil fuels.

And this blog will focus more on the Environment generally – e.g. the virtue of preserving fossil fuels and limiting population growth.

I declare the battle to be won although there will still be stragglers.

Copenhagen: US deal may still fall apart | Australian Climate Madness

There is growing anger in Copenhagen over the "deal" agreed to by the US, China, India and South Africa, with no clear sign that it will actually get the approval of the delegates.

FOXNews.com - Czech President Klaus: Global Warming Not Science, but a 'New Religion'

As the Copenhagen Climate conference comes to a conclusion amidst riots by demonstrators and scrambling by policymakers, Czech President Vaclav Klaus has a message for the world: Global warming is a "new religion," not a science.

Bleary-eyed climate warriors squabble as they pack up

The Danish hosts, who had been caught off guard so many times during the Dec 7-18 summit, appeared unprepared for the unannounced extension, at least into the next morning. Few of the cleaners showed up, and overflowing garbage bins around Bella Centre remained evidence of how many delegates, observers and journalists had spent the night there.

Many of those who waited for the bitter end went hungry too, as only one of the food stalls in the complex had opened by mid-morning. Some trudged a kilometre through snow and slush to the nearest seven-eleven in search of a sandwich.

‘Meaningful’ Nonsense Climate Deal Achieved

Isn’t it amazing how obtuse (or obstinate) these socialist AGW fanatics can be? First the righteous “mainstream” media faced freezing temps as they waited to get into the Copenhagen climate conference, then the faithful faced a blizzard amidst their discussions of how evil capitalism was burning the planet up, and now President Obama pitched a hissy fit for a deal to fight this non-existent problem even as his home base of Washington D.C. faces a 20-inch snowstorm.

Those of us who are used to thinking logically and rationally look at such behavior and wonder, “How could a group of world leaders be so stupid?”

But it isn’t a matter of intelligence, but rather a matter of commitment to their Marxist agenda. Marxists never have allowed things like reality or facts (or civil rights, or freedoms, or constitutions, or mass bloodshed) come between them and what they want.

The Migrant Mind: Siberia's made up warming

Dave noticed that the anomaly data given out by this site shows global warming but when one plots the regular temperature, it shows cooling. He was doing it for the stations north of the Arctic Circle. Being the totally untrusting guy that I am (sorry Dave), I had to repeat his experiment to see if it did it for me. It did.

The Green Jobs Delusion - Reason Magazine

Despite the fondest hopes of Kerry, Pelosi, Markey, and other Democrats in Congress, carbon rationing has not noticeably sparked a technological revolution in Europe yet. One might argue that a cleantech takeoff is just around the corner and that the energy revolution is just at the same stage as the Internet revolution was in 1991. Maybe. But the Internet analogy deployed by Kerry and co. misses the mark in another way—the Internet and cell phone boom took off as a result of deregulation and was largely financed by private capital. By contrast, the Capitol Hill denizens now haunting the Copenhagen conference imagine they can spark a similar technological revolution by passing a massive 1,400-page bill, laden with subsidies, tax breaks, and fine-grained regulations for all aspects of energy production.

It might just be necessary to impose carbon rationing and boost energy prices in order to avoid possibly disastrous consequences of manmade global warming, but doing so will increase unemployment rather than lower it. When Congress tries to pass climate change legislation next spring, Speaker Pelosi may well find out that it really is “all about the jobs.”

YouTube - Confess Your Environmental Sins

Feel guilty. It's time to confess your environmental sins, plus five ways to repent for the normal lifestyle you want to lead. Question the Hype!

Copenhagen climate change summit - final day live blog | Environment | guardian.co.uk

12.58am: Hard to sum up the mood better than Lumumba Di-Aping, chief negotiator for the G77 group of 130 developing countries:

"This deal will definitely result in massive devastation in Africa and small island states. It has the lowest level of ambition you can imagine. It's nothing short of climate change scepticism in action.

"It locks countries into a cycle of poverty for ever. Obama has eliminated any difference between him and Bush."

Snowing on Copenhagen’s warmist parade | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

How marvellous a punchline for this farce of a summit, as snow settles on the globes erected to publicise our warming world

Chutzpah in Copenhagen | CEJournal

New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin emailed me to say that representatives of poor countries feel that the agreement was “railroaded” by a small group of nations, and they’re “very angry.”

Two Carbon Companies to Merge - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

The all-share deal announced Thursday will create a company with a market capitalization of about 600 million British pounds, or $970 million.

Roger L. Simon » Cope Notes #3: Welcome Back to the Middle Ages

A high tech Middle Ages, of course, but still the Middle Ages. Forget the Renaissance, forget the Enlightenment, forget Spinoza, Locke, Galileo and everybody else, we had returned to our roots as gullible and idiotic human beings, as willing to believe in the primacy of anthropogenic global warming as we would in the sighting of the Madonna at a river crossing twelve kilometers south of Sienna in 1340.

Global Climate Scam » JibJab: Christmas in Copenhagen

INSTANT VIEW-Reaction to Copenhagen climate deal - Forbes.com

JOHN SAUVEN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GREENPEACE UK

"The city of Copenhagen is a crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport. There are no targets for carbon cuts and no agreement on a legally binding treaty.
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NANCY PELOSI, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

"The agreement reached tonight in Copenhagen is a breakthrough in the global effort to combat the climate crisis."

Club for Growth Hails Copenhagen Climate Accord (No, seriously...)

[Club President Chris Chocola] “I am greatly relieved that the last-minute agreement President Obama negotiated is being widely described as ‘meaningful.’ When politicians call something ‘meaningful,’ that means it isn’t.

Chris Henry, greedy schools, climate Jenga and lemon laws for politicians | Peter Bronson: Always Right

In other words, there is no honest, reliable or credible scientific support for the lemmings in the EPA and the Obama administration who are hell-bent to cripple our economy and pay billions in reparations to Third World countries to appease the imaginary gods of global warming.

The whole scam is like a game of Jenga. The leaked e-mails pulled out the critical piece and the whole thing is crashing down. Will someone tell Obama?

Skeptic's Corner: "Notable Quotes"

"Whether the globe was really warming or not, the global warming movement was a global fraud. Anyone who knows how science works should have realized this when activists, basking in the warm glow of science, started using anti-scientific terms like “consensus” and the loaded term “denier” to characterize their opponents. But the existence of fraudulent claims by a group who, backed by the UN and subsidized by a cadre of eco-profiteers, falsely claim to speak for the rest of us, is not a failing of science. It is the job of politicians to make sure they're not being lied to by activists claiming to be hard scientists. It is a failing of every man, woman and child, every news reporter, and every politician to exercise some basic effort in thinking for oneself. "

A wonderful farce in Copenhagen | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

What a tremendous fiasco. What a terrible shame that Kevin Rudd will not now hold the double dissolution election over the Opposition’s refusal to pass his colossal green tax on everything. And to think Malcolm Turnbull was so terrified of rejecting what will now become not just a laughing stock but political poison for Labor.

It's settled; climate circus was a fairy tale | Mark Steyn - Opinion - The Orange County Register

If you're young and you fall for this, you're a sap. Indeed, you're oozing so much sap the settled scientists should be measuring your tree rings.

Climate [swindle] deal falls short of expectations - - POLITICO.com

The climate deal reached between U.S, China and other great powers on Friday night is so vague, hastily hatched and non-binding President Obama isn’t even sure he’ll be required to sign it.
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"It’s a catastrophe," said Dan Joergensen, a member of the European delegation. "We’re so far away from the criteria that was set up in order to call it a success, and those weren’t really that ambitious to start with."
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"Squarely the blame is on President Obama. When you look very carefully and dig into what happened, you find that there is no difference whatsoever between President Obama and President Bush, except one of them tells it as it is," said Lumumba Di-Aping, the chief negotiator of the G77 bloc of developing countries, in an interview with POLITICO,

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Planet-saving president announces, um, non-binding working agreement

It’s too bad that He Is Who Is will take the brunt of international criticism for the conference’s failure instead of the Chinese, but messianism is a double-edged sword, isn’t it?

Relax America, the Dangers of Copenhagen Have Quelled

Copenhagen was a bust. It produced nothing but blown expenses for this absolutely unnecessary blunder of proponents of climate change which at one time was even more ridiculously called “Global Warming.”

The Thin Green Line : Greens call Obama's deal a 'sham'

A Friends of the Earth statement reads, in part:

"Climate negotiations in Copenhagen have yielded a sham agreement with no real requirements for any countries. This is not a strong deal or a just one — it isn't even a real one. It's just repackaging old positions and pretending they're new. The actions it suggests for the rich countries that caused the climate crisis are extraordinarily inadequate. This is a disastrous outcome for people around the world who face increasingly dire impacts from a destabilizing climate."

Bill McKibben of 350.org responded:

"This is a declaration that small and poor countries don't matter, that international civil society doesn't matter, and that serious limits on carbon don't matter. The president has wrecked the UN and he's wrecked the possibility of a tough plan to control global warming."

Al's Journal : Denying the Climate Crisis is Bad Political Strategy

Twitter / Mark Knoller: Obama just noted that the ...

Obama just noted that the Kyoto Treaty was binding, and its commitments were not delivered on anyway.

Lomborg Says Deal Will Be a 'Waste' - Kathryn Jean Lopez - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Lomborg Says Weak Climate Deal Will ‘Waste Another Decade’; Calls for New Approach to Solving Global Warming

Copenhagen climate change summit - final day live blog | Environment | guardian.co.uk

10.32pm: Kate Horner, Friends of the Earth:

"This is the United Nations and the nations here are not united on this secret backroom declaration. The US has lied to the world when they called it a deal and they lied to over a hundred countries when they said would listen to their needs. This toothless declaration, being spun by the US as an historic success, reflects contempt for the multilateral process and we expect more from our Nobel prize winning President."

Marketing: Inside the U.N. Climate Change Conference - GoodWorks - Advertising Age

When walking around the city center, the most obvious example of brand involvement was the ads for Coca-Cola in support of Hopenhagen, a campaign put together by the International Advertising Association using top agency talent.

More From Greenpeace - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Hilarious:

'Kyoto was legally binding and everyone fell short anyway' Inspiring words from @BarackObama LIVE: http://bit.ly/6ZVHcg #cop15

You'd think he harpooned a whale or something.

Daniel Foster on National Review Online

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Obama says "U.S. will not be legally bound by anything that occurred here today."

Leaders in Copenhagen Reach Deal « The Washington Independent

World leaders in Copenhagen have reached a climate deal, albeit one that leaves many questions unresolved, The New York Times reports.

The breakthrough occurred after a dramatic incident in which President Obama “burst into a meeting of the Chinese, Indian and Brazilian leaders” over their objections, according to administration officials. One of the officials said the deal was “not sufficient to combat the threat of climate change, but it’s an important first step.”

Details are still hazy, but the Times reports that it does not include the anticipated goal of a binding international treaty by the end of next year.