Pessimism Clouds Climate [Hoax] Meeting - Green Blog - NYTimes.com

There is little optimism this time around. Even the few areas of agreement that were hailed as great accomplishments in the Copenhagen Accord seem to be back on the negotiating table.
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The European Union, which has led the way in vowing to reduce its emissions, complained that some of the options included in the negotiating text seem “outside the realm of what is achievable,” according to reports from the conference by the Third World Network.

The History of Environmentalism - Planet Gore - National Review Online

[video] In this first of a ten-part series, CEI’s senior scholar and the doyen of free-market environmentalism, RJ Smith, talks about the origins of the environmental movement, and its early associations with radical socialism.