Cancun climate change summit: glaciers increasing despite climate change - Telegraph

Glaciers in many parts of the world are increasing, according to a new United Nations report, despite climate change.

Cancun: scavenging around for scientific fact | spiked

Science and policymaking are imitating the news. Rather than waiting for genuine scientific development, scientific organisations engaged in the policymaking process produce summaries of the latest speculation on demand. This speculation is intended to add urgency to the process by defeating the doubt that besets the policymaking. But it does so at the expense of a sober understanding of the climate and our relationship to it. This is acceptable under the rubric of the precautionary principle, which allows policymakers to aim to be safe rather than sorry by accepting approximations of ‘science’ in lieu of certainty. But this reveals that science – as an institution, rather than a process – is much less involved in discovery than in supplying climate politics and its bureaucracies with legitimacy.

Cancun Climate Conference 'using as much energy as a village for a year' - Telegraph

The carbon footprint of the conference is five times as much as the last meeting in Copenhagen, even though less people are attending the conference.

There are around 15,000 delegates this year compared to around 45,000 people from governments, media and non-governmental organisations in Copenhagen.

Cancun: islands in the climate storm | spiked

‘Mr Prime Minister. In view of the impending deluge, how much have land prices fallen on Tuvalu?’ I stammered.

For some reason my question completely silenced the room packed with environmental press. After what I will charitably call an inquisitive stare, the prime minister gave his longwinded answer full of long-term projections of rising ocean levels. To be fair, he concluded with a simple declaration: ‘Land prices have not been affected.’

This baffles me.