BBC News - Global warming talks just hot air?

"Hot weather always gives a good result," muses one veteran of countless United Nations climate conferences.

"Cold weather, like in Copenhagen, that is the problem."

EPW POLICY BEAT: FRIEDMAN’S FOLLY

Dan Henninger, an exceedingly more clear-eyed and sensible columnist for the Wall Street Journal, incisively and concisely summed up Friedman’s moral blindness. “The New York Times’s Thomas Friedman asked yesterday: ‘What if China had a Wikileaker?’ The three-word answer: They’d execute him.”

Senator Inhofe: 'I Was Right and They Were Wrong' - NYTimes.com

On Thursday, he sent a videotaped message to a group of fellow skeptics gathered in Cancún to raise questions about both the science of global warming and the international process for trying to combat it.

Cancún climate change summit: the Zapatistas are coming | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Snow irony

Vicky Pope, head of the climate predictions programme at the Met Office's Hadley Centre, was stuck at Gatwick airport this week, a victim of Britain's brutal cold snap. Ironically, she was on her way to Cancún to announce, together with the UN's World Meteorological Organisation, that 2010 had provisionally tied with 1998 as the hottest year on record. Scientists from the Noaaa and Nasa, the two other institutes that provide data on global temperatures were wisely staying put in the US, having already stated that it looked like being the hottest year ever.