Kyotophiles Read the Papers, Too - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

So today, we read that Mexico City has been pushed aside in favor of Cancun — an able host for the WTO talks I attended earlier in this decade and, per news reports today, a place less likely to feature an unfortunate rash of of kidnappings during the talks. Oh, and the date, while not announced as having been changed, is nonetheless listed as starting three weeks from the originally scheduled kickoff. The November 8 talks are actually now the November 29 or 30 talks, depending on to whom you turn for your news in this period of hasty rescheduling.

Last month: Gore calls for July summit to finish climate [swindle] treaty

COPENHAGEN — Former US vice president and environmental activist Al Gore called Tuesday for world leaders to meet in Mexico City in July to complete a climate treaty under negotiation in Copenhagen.

Gore told a standing-room audience in the Danish capital that a summit in Mexico City previously scheduled near the end of next year was too late and too close to mid-term US elections.

"I do not believe that we can wait until next November or next December," said Gore, a Nobel peace prize winner for his work on raising awareness of climate change.

He called for activists to "join with me proposing that the next meeting of ministers and heads of state take place in July in Mexico City."

"I have reason to believe that the Mexican government is willing to consider undertaking the enormous amount of work that would be involved to move the date of the next meeting to the middle of the summer," he said.

BBC News - I will not go, says climate chief

The chairman of the UN's climate science body said he would not resign in the wake of a row about a mistake on glaciers that appeared in a key report.

Rajendra Pachauri told BBC News: "I am not going to stand down, I am going to stand up."
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"I was re-elected by acclamation, essentially - I imagine - because everyone was satisfied with my performance on the fourth assessment report," Dr Pachauri said.
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He told BBC News that he became aware of the error "maybe around the 16th or 17th of January".

"Then we swung into action," he explained.

"I got the entire top team of the IPCC to go through the details of this case, and we decided that this was an error but we also saw that this did not in any way move away from the reality that these glaciers are melting."
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"It is about the process with which it comes to its conclusions; how they pick and choose papers, how they emphasise certain problems and how they exaggerate certain potential risks - that is at issue here," Dr Benny Peiser, for the UK-based Global Warming Foundation, told BBC News.

But a defiant Dr Pachauri said: "I want to tell the sceptics... who see me as the face and the voice of the science of climate change, I am in no mood to oblige them; I am going to remain as chairman of the IPCC for my entire term."