Getting down to business at U.N. climate [scam] talks a hard task

A year-end meeting in Cancun looms closer and the pressure is on to get the job done.
Yet, the acronyms being bandied around — LULUCF, CDM, AAU, AWG-KP, AWG-LCA, REDD, to name a few — are enough to make your head swim.

Even a Chinese negotiator on Tuesday admitted he did not understand a complicated forestry and land use presentation the previous day by the European Union.

Talks kicked off on Monday with a three-hour session during which countries spent an inordinate amount of time thanking the chair and congratulating the new U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres on her post.

Why 2 million (promised) green jobs couldn't sell a climate [swindle] bill | Greenspace | Los Angeles Times

On Capitol Hill, the fossil-fuel crowd enjoyed two key advantages. One was influence: Oil and gas companies have combined for nearly $90 million in federal lobbying expenditures and campaign contributions so far this year, according to records compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. Wind, solar and other “alternative energy” firms have tallied about $16 million.  [What about Al Gore's $300 million climate hoax promotion fund?]
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Some climate activists doubt that economic arguments will ever help sell emissions limits. “I’m trying to think of another regulatory policy that’s been sold as a job policy,” said Michael A. Levi, who directs the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change at the Council on Foreign Relations. “I can’t think of one.”

[Revkin attempts to rally left-wing voters]: The Broken Senate and the Energy and Climate Challenge - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

The riven Senate, with the decision today not to close out a modest package of energy initiatives focused on oil drilling, is basically saying the following: Don’t look for the vital 21st-century energy quest, let alone a reality-based approach to global warming, to begin within the borders of the United States.
...My guess is that the heavy-handed push to gain a narrow victory on the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill last year could prove to be a bigger setback for long-term progress on these issues than the failure to move any climate initiatives in the Senate this year.

The reason? Republicans are aiming to use yes votes on the House bill as a cudgel against vulnerable lawmakers in reelection bids.
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Have you told your senators or representative what you think of this mess? Maybe it’s time.

Tom Nelson: Note: The US government has already spent (and is still spending) an absolutely enormous amount of money on "clean" energy

[Note to Revkin on the Department of Energy: We've already been funding a massive Big Government Energy Quest for several decades now]
Employees 16,000 federal (2009)
93,094 contract (2008)
Annual budget $24.1 billion (2009)
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The Department of Energy was formed after the oil crisis on August 4, 1977 in order to end the United States dependence on foreign oil by President Jimmy Carter's signing of legislation...