At last: expert Sir David King expertly reveals true identity of Climategate 'hackers' – Telegraph Blogs

Sir David King, the totally sane, not remotely hysterical, and non-aluminium-foil-hat-wearing former advisor to much-loved and respected former Prime Minister Tony Blair, has spoken out on the Climategate emails.

Apparently, he has told the Independent, they weren’t leaked (as pretty much every other person who has been following the story now thinks). They were hacked. Probably by US “anti-climate-change lobbyists” or, possibly, by evil foreign intelligence services.

Global deal on climate change [hoax] in 2010 'all but impossible' | Environment | The Guardian

A global deal to tackle climate change is all but impossible in 2010, leaving the scale and pace of action to slow global warming in coming decades uncertain, according to senior figures across the world involved in the negotiations.

"The forces trying to tackle climate change are in disarray, wandering in small groups around the battlefield like a beaten army," said a senior British diplomat.
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In the nervy run-up to Copenhagen, a senior British diplomat warned: "We can go into extra time, but we can't afford a replay." At the end of the chaotic summit, that replay, set for Mexico in November, was seen as a good result, given how close the entire show came to collapsing.

But six weeks since the summit reached its conclusion, senior figures around the world do not believe the rematch is even likely to be played.

Supermarket fridges as polluting as their plastic bags, study claims | Business | The Guardian

The switch to refrigerants that do not damage the ozone layer brought in a generation of chemicals with a greenhouse effect thousands of times stronger than CO2

'Climate emails hacked by spies' - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent

Interception bore hallmarks of foreign intelligence agency, says expert
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A highly sophisticated hacking operation that led to the leaking of hundreds of emails from the Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia was probably carried out by a foreign intelligence agency, according to the Government's former chief scientist. Sir David King, who was Tony Blair's chief scientific adviser for seven years until 2007, said that the hacking and selective leaking of the unit's emails, going back 13 years, bore all the hallmarks of a co-ordinated intelligence operation – especially given their release just before the Copenhagen climate conference in December.

Britain protests over false melting glacier claims - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent

Britain has officially expressed its concern to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) about lax scientific procedures used by the body which supplies the world with the facts about global warming.

Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | UK News :: EU recycling drive 'to push up cost of batteries'

Under the EU Batteries Directive, Britain must from today increase the number of household batteries recycled – or risk heavy fines.

It is claimed few consumers have heard of the targets – but they could be left to pick up the bill.
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Retailers selling more than 70lb of batteries a year – roughly one four-pack of AA batteries a day – will be legally required to have recycling facilities.

Labour prepares to tear up 12 years of energy policy - Times Online

Mr Miliband said: “We are going to need a more interventionist energy policy to deliver the low-carbon investment we need.”