Post Carbon: Bolivia, Ecuador denied climate [scam] funds - Juliet Eilperin

You can decide to boycott the Copenhagen Accord -- but that comes at a price. For Bolivia, that's $3 million; for Ecuador, it's $2.5 million.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: US driving climate [farce] - but where?

Judging by the three-day meeting here, at least one UN climate convention tradition is alive and well: a total incapacity for punctuality.
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We should have known better. The session didn't begin within four hours of its scheduled 3pm start time, as wrangles continued behind the scenes.

Climate change is no friend of Rudd's second time around

If there is one powerful Australian national characteristic, it is that we are sceptical of words yet trusting of deeds. On climate change, the past three years have seen plenty of the former, precious little of the latter.

It is too politically risky for the government to ignore climate policy. Although there may be a lack of public interest and engagement on climate change now, as the election approaches the broader political dynamics will again, as in 2007, bring it to the fore.
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Nick Rowley is a director of Kinesis and was a senior adviser to Tony Blair on climate change when the European Emissions Trading Scheme started in 2005.

BBC News - Lessons on climate change in Scotland 'gathering dust'

Prof Dawson, author of the book So Foul and Fair a Day: a History of Scotland's Weather and Climate, said from the 1400s the weather became colder and storms were more frequent.