Poor Joe gets no respect: Romm's Co2 driven drought claims slapped down by former NYT reporter Revkin | Climate Depot

Former New York Times Reporter Andrew Revkin tweet on Jan. 1 2009:

Revkin: "Joe R(omm) still sees Aussie's Big Dry (drought) as co2-driven event http://j.mp/co2panic Not what climate scientists see: http://j.mp/AusDry"

NC Media Watch: Drought is not increasing in the U.S.

Regardless of the drum beat from Al Gore and the Governor of California drought in the US is not increasing, or accelerating. It is declining across the nation and in California this year the drought is only moderate.

Hundreds of cars torched in France at New Year | Reuters

PARIS (Reuters) - Youths burned 1,137 cars across France overnight as New Year's Eve celebrations once again turned violent, the French Interior Ministry said on Friday.

Fast pace of glacier melt in the 1940s: lower aerosol pollution

ScienceDaily (Jan. 1, 2010) — The most recent studies by researchers at ETH Zurich show that in the 1940s Swiss glaciers were melting at an even-faster pace than at present. This is despite the fact that the temperatures in the 20th century were lower than in this century.

Its a Wrap: The Most Underreported Stories of 2009 - Big Government

[#1] Then … there was Climategate. Russian hackers revealed emails from a British university (whose edicts on global warming are included in the U.N.’s decision-making process on climate) which showed that the scientists basically had no idea what they hell they were talking about but they did know that their original assessment of increased global temperatures was unsupported by data, thus, “hide the decline.”

Tom Harris: Climate conference organizers asked for trouble in Copenhagen

...Held at Copenhagen’s cavernous Forum, with four 20 foot screens suspended from the ceiling and fed live from the Bella Center, it promised to be a massive event with thousands of concerned activists anxiously awaiting the latest updates from world leaders engaged in saving the planet.

However, by then it was too late and NGOs had either arranged their own side events, renting other facilities in the city, hit the streets to help fuel the protest marches or left the city in disgust for parts unknown. The massive hall stood essentially empty by Thursday evening with only 30 die hard campaigners watching the first word leaders‘ speeches. Friday afternoon, when negotiations inside the Bella Center were most intense, only about 100 of the thousands of NGO reps even bothered to show up at the event arranged by the Danish Foreign Ministry.

Copenhagen has the markings of being the last really big hurrah for massive UN-backed climate change conferences. Let’s hope so. Having totally failed politically and logistically, and thoroughly alienating everyone involved in this exorbitantly expensive process, Copenhagen should stand as a symbol of all that has gone wrong with the climate change movement. Originally well intentioned, though often misguided, climatism, as it is now being labeled, has largely morphed into an ungainly politically motivated machine that is more about money that it is about saving the environment. With its blind adherence to dogmatic beliefs that simply do not match observational evidence, it is time real environmentalists abandoned this horse and got back to the basics – land, air and water pollution, issues we know we can handle properly with sufficient public interest and good will.

Die Klimazwiebel: 2010: Copenhagen in retrospect.

In a session in Copenhagen, Schellnhuber made a spectacular contribution. If global temperature will rise 9 degrees Fahrenheit higher than today, Earth's population will be devastated:
'In a very cynical way, it's a triumph for science because at last we have stabilized something - namely the estimates for the carrying capacity of the planet, namely below 1 billion people.'