Seeds of doubt against tobacco and climate [junk] science - Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway - latimes.com

Industry and free-market advocates have joined forces to undermine tobacco research, and they're doing so again on global warming.

Monckton's climate denial is a gift to those who take the science seriously | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Those of us who do battle with climate change deniers can't inflict one tenth as much damage to their cause that Monckton wreaks every time he opens his mouth.
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I have now read thousands of articles by climate change deniers - far more than I would like to have done - and have never come across a single admission that they have got something wrong. I challenge the deniers who are about to populate this thread to produce an example of someone on their side of the debate acknowledging an error.

Bonn climate talks diary | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Meanwhile "civil society" – NGOs, cleaners, anyone at the talks not paid by government – officially waved goodbye to de Boer, who is leaving after 10 years at the helm of the good ship UNFCCC. Alden Meyer, director of strategy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, rewrote the words to the Sound of Music's Favourite Things and a choir of angelic NGOs sung it. Here are some extracts:
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Keeping Al Gore out of the Bella centre,
NGOs shut out in the cold, dark winter,
Danish draft text that's brought in from the wings,
These are a few of my favourite things.

Twitter / David Roberts: That is absolutely, demons ...

That is absolutely, demonstrably false. RT @E2Wire: @JohnKerry: Senate climate bill has deeper support than House plan...

Twitter / David Roberts: I get why @JohnKerry has t ...

I get why @JohnKerry has to pretend his bill is backed by some sparkly new coalition, but it's not true. #ACES had huge bipartisan backing.