The importance of climate finance additionality – who loses when climate adaptation money taken for Overseas Development Assistance ?

It is therefore crucial to stress the importance and necessity of climate finance being additional to aid. Shall it not be explicitly stated and implemented, a threat of aid diversion allocated according to adaptation needs (which are, yet, relatively low in SAA compared to other regions) exists. This would lead to SAA’s aid needs neglected. In particular, the health, education and aid-for-trade sectors will suffer the most.

Canadian role in Kyoto appears losing steam since Montreal talks - The Globe and Mail

Canada's role in UN negotiations on climate change appears to be shrinking in response to the Conservative government's mixed messages about the Kyoto Protocol.

Environment Minister Rona Ambrose will officially serve as president of the UN Kyoto talks to take place May 15-26 in Bonn, but her role will be much reduced from that played by former environment minister Stéphane Dion at the last round of Kyoto talks in Montreal.
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"The president makes some administrative decisions, but these are process related and not highly political. In Bonn, Minister Ambrose will open the proceedings and chair a bureau meeting. She is scheduled to leave the same day."
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Since entering office, Ms. Ambrose has said Canada will stay in the Kyoto Protocol, but won't meet its emissions-cutting targets under the treaty. She has stated interest in a rival pact, the Asia-Pacific partnership, which has no targets.

In the Commons yesterday, Ms. Ambrose said the government is working on a "made-in-Canada" solution and seemed to disparage the Kyoto treaty.

King of the hill: Flagstaff atop snowfall total so far

Flagstaff is beating most U.S. cities large and small this year for snowfall, having already surpassed the average snowfall for an entire winter of 109 inches.

There has been 118 inches of snow -- nearly 10 feet -- here so far. The normal through Feb. 22 is 72 inches.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Physicists’ memo to Parliament blasts AGW “science”

This is a devastating critique from an objective scientific community. It exposes as risible the notion that, as EPA Director Lisa Jackson attempted to insist, the UEA CRU e-mails only revealed a lack of interpersonal skills among AGW advocates. As the IoP makes clear, the UEA CRU and its many partners in the AGW movement committed intellectual and scientific fraud — and their conclusions should be viewed as worthless.