The UN carbon fiasco

The slow death rattle of the United Nation’s climate change aparatus grew a little louder Monday as thousands of delegates descended on Tianjin, China, for a five-day negotiating session. It’s the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s last chance to reach a global carbon emission agreement before a final meeting in Cancun, Mexico, in December.
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Meanwhile, it’s too bad the thousands of UN delegates in China today don’t have The Climate Fix in their briefcases. The futility of their efforts would become apparent.

Tha backlash gets serious « JoNova

If 10:10 made the shocking kill-your-kids movie as a publicity stunt, things are going horribly wrong. This virus is turning into rabies-meets-ebola (pace Dellers).

Temperature goals heat China climate talks | Nicola Ranger and Alex Bowen | Environment | guardian.co.uk

That question is: how high should global temperature be allowed to rise?

[Healing the planet is expensive]: Pope's UK trip hands embattled environment departments £3.7m bill | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Green campaigners angry that contribution comes at a time when environment spending and departments are under threat

As EPA ramps up, Obama critics eye it as juicy target | Grist

With the Senate's ineptitude on climate legislation pretty much chiseled in stone, almost all the action at the federal level has shifted to the Environmental Protection Agency. And that has Republican leaders licking their lips because it allows them to use two of their favorite cants: "Big government run amok" and "JOBS-KILLER!"