Benny Peiser: Cancun Has Solidified Deadlock Over Post-Kyoto Treaty

The UN climate summit shows that there is no prospect whatever for a global and legally binding climate treaty.

All that the Cancun summit has done is to bless, formally, the Copenhagen accord, and roll it forward for another year.

Despite all the usual rhetoric by politicians and campaigners, the fact remains that yet another attempt has failed to reach a legally binding agreement.

Environmentalists Gone Wild? 8 Observations From The Cancun Climate Conference | Energy and Environment Right Side News

I can’t help but wonder when these people will learn just how they’re viewed as a laughingstock by so many of us, with their bumbling meetings, freak show following, and Chicken Little predictions. But their agenda is no laughing matter. In an era in which socialism and statism threaten to invade us from all sides, it’s up to those of us who believe in freedom of thought, freedom of opinion, and freedom from the tyranny of the ecological radicals to speak out and expose their ridiculousness.

Climate Change and Biodiversity - Jonathan DuHamel - Townhall Conservative

In their quest to control carbon dioxide emissions, together with the economic power that entails, climate alarmists are claiming that global warming will cause massive species extinctions. The geologic record, however, shows the opposite. Major extinctions are associated with ice ages and other cooling events. The current wildlife extinction rate is the lowest in 500 years according to the UN’s own World Atlas of Biodiversity.

Blood, sweat and tears in Cancún - On Line Opinion - 13/12/2010

The Mayans had a sense of sacred obligation, eerily similar to our concern for the environment. Without constant sacrifices, they believed the sun would become “angry”, temperatures would rise, corn yields decline and their world faced with imminent destruction. (Had they had the option of jetting off to international conferences at fabulous locations every few months it might have been a different - and less macabre - story.)