The Reference Frame: Desertec: Club of Rome to spend USD 550 billion

The two "advantages" of the project are that the solar energy will be about twice more expensive than the energy based on the fossil fuels. Also, 15% of the dependence on Russia will be replaced by the dependence on the regimes led by bashi-bazooks in Africa. What a win-win situation. ;-)

Climate treaty realities push leaders to trim priority lists

"Why don't we focus on content: specific actions, specific deliverables," Hedegaard said. "Then they could see there's something in it for them."

The divide between rich and poor countries was evident over the weekend in Bonn, Germany, where delegates from 175 nations met for a working session to lay the groundwork for this year's talks. The procedural debate, on questions such as whether to include the U.S.-brokered Copenhagen Accord in the ongoing U.N. talks, became so contentious it prompted committee chairwoman Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe to comment Sunday, "If we can't agree on this, then we may have problems when we really start negotiating."

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IceBase: windchill down to -37C today made outside tasks hard today...

Climate Common Sense: Rudd Finesses Copenhagen Pledge - Windmills and Tree Planting instead of Food!

Rudd is looking to play sleight of hand with aid money to meet Climate Change commitments!
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The poor people may go hungry but they will get a nice warm glow from seeing the ideologically correct windmill in their front yard!

Decadal Doubts

It is now clear to most climate researchers that something has been stopping the world from warming in the past decade. During this time, according to the standard hypothesis, levels of man-made greenhouse gasses have increased in our atmosphere so the temperature should have gone up. It obviously hasn’t so what is cooling our world?