William M. Briggs, Statistician » Why Global Warming Won’t Go Away: Inertia

In five words, global warming is big business. It is too big to fail.

Where things stand on the Copenhagen Accord and international climate politics | David "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts - Grist

It’s now fairly clear that the long-time environmentalist dream of having a binding international treaty that imposes ambition on participating countries is forlorn.

Steve Janke: UN climate boss goes rogue - Full Comment

How is calling for "urgent grassroots action" even remotely "policy neutral"?
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My take? This could be the excuse people will be looking for to remove Pachauri from his post as head of the IPCC. Dumping him has been avoided to date because it requires the IPCC is a mess, and undermining the legitimacy of its claims on the entire theory of man-made global warming.

Canada dilutes target for greenhouse emissions cut | Canada | Reuters

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada has trimmed its goals for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases and made clear it will follow the U.S. lead on fighting climate change, a move that prompted fresh criticism from green groups.

Climate flaws harm science | Stuff.co.nz

OPINION: In recent years those who have had the temerity to question the evidence for human-made global warming have been labelled as naysayers, Luddites and members of the Flat Earth Society. Now it is the ethics and integrity of climate scientists that is being called into question.
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...the IPCC has just made it that much harder for governments to win support for measures to reduce carbon emissions. Why trust a panel that confuses opinion and fact, wrongly attributes that opinion, tries to shout down critics and displays a determination to make the facts fit the theory rather than the other way around.

TBR.cc: BREAKING NEWS: NIWA reveals NZ original climate data missing

From the "A goat ate my homework" excuse book:

More major embarrassment for New Zealand's 'leading' climate research unit NIWA tonight, with admissions that it "does not hold copies" of the original reports documenting adjustments to New Zealand's weather stations.