After Climategate and Copenhagen: Green view: The shadow of climategate | The Economist

The case for action currently feels so weak that it can be held off with a flat palm of refusal-to-engage. Perceptions of climategate doubtless make that stance easier to hold. But they aren’t its underlying cause.

Boycott the Cancun Climate Circus

Australia should send no more than one observer to Cancun, and that person should have no power to agree to anything.

That will make more sense than sending jumbo jets of people to talk about reducing that sort of activity.

Farmers worried over possible frost damage

KUWAIT: As local meteorologists predict the arrival of a cold winter, farmers in Kuwait are expressing concern about potential damage to their crops as a result of the expected frost, as well as voicing alarm that they may not be eligible for full compensation for this eventuality.

In 2008, frost devastated around 70 percent of the crops grown by around 2,500 farms in Abdaly and Wafra.

Wonk Room » Tim Phillips On Climate Policy: ‘If We Win The Science Argument, It’s Game, Set, And Match’

In 2011, Phillips announced, his organization plans to drive a wedge between Congress and the EPA, to increase attacks on climate science, and to attempt to discredit clean energy jobs, creating the impression that the American people support a pollution agenda