UN climate envoy expects dual-track negotiations

AMSTERDAM (AP) - Talks on a new global climate change accord, bogged down for years in contested negotiations among nearly 200 countries, will increasingly move outside the sluggish U.N. framework and focus on a streamlined group of countries, special U.N. envoy Gro Harlem Brundtland said Tuesday.
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Brundtland's comments reflect a growing admission that the U.N. process has proven dysfunctional. They add weight because of her 20-year involvement in climate issues and her current role as Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's special climate envoy.

EU Referendum: Bricks in the wall

We are dealing with something very odd here – the almost complete detachment of the political classes. Something has to give, but there is no evidence yet that we have achieved any significant – or indeed any – change. You could say we are winning the battles and losing the war.

But then, when the Berlin wall finally went, it was very sudden, and predicted by very few. With Gerald's bricks knocked out, this one must be teetering. Please let it fall.

- Bishop Hill blog - Big Oil forgets to bribe McKitrick

Unfortunately it appears that the well-organised denier movement forgot to fund one of the most prominent sceptics of all.

Wonk Room » New York Times Science Desk ‘Doubts That Human-Induced Global Warming Represents A Serious Threat’

The reported anti-climate bias of the Science Times’s editorial staff is reflected in its coverage, which has grossly ignored the reality of climate change and its implications in its weekly Tuesday section. Between June 1, 2008 and June 22, 2009, out of 1,563 stories by the Science Desk, only 80 stories had any reference to climate change — and 13 of those were about climate skeptics — a highly disproportionate number:
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The editorial positioning of the stories was even more biased, as 28% of the Page 1 Science Times stories on climate were skeptical. The vast majority of climate science stories were buried, with two-thirds of the stories appearing either on Page 3 or Page 8.