Cancún climate talks in danger of collapse over Kyoto continuation | World news | The Guardian

The UN climate talks in Cancún were in danger of collapse last night after many Latin American countries said that they would leave if a crucial negotiating document, due to be released tomorrow, did not continue to commit rich countries to emissions cuts under the Kyoto Protocol.

US embassy cables: EU raises 'creative accounting' with US over climate aid | Environment | guardian.co.uk

(SBU) Hedegaard asked if the U.S. was prepared to move forward on Fast Start funding. She said some countries like Japan and the UK will press the inclusion of loan guarantees as part of the package and asked whether the U.S. will need to do any "creative accounting.

WikiLeaks: US Manipulated Climate Agreement | Mother Jones

Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage.

The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid is used by countries to gain political backing; how distrust, broken promises and creative accounting dog negotiations; and how the US mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the controversial "Copenhagen accord", the unofficial document that emerged from the ruins of the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009.

Jackson vows to maintain 'aggressive environmental agenda'

BOSTON -- The Obama administration is committed to an "aggressive environmental agenda" that goes beyond what was achieved during the past four decades, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said today during a speech at Harvard University.

Jackson spoke during a conference that featured appearances by several leading lights of the environmental movement, including EPA's first administrator, Bill Ruckelshaus, and former Vice President Al Gore, who spoke to agency officials during an invitation-only luncheon.

Data availability in climate science: the case of Jones et al 1990 and Nature « Shub Niggurath Climate

In the end the question remains to be asked: why believe that only sequence and crystallography data were items Nature mandated authors make available? Why else, but to exempt Jones from imaginary conditions – seeing as how narrow and well-suited for this purpose such a misreading and interpretation of Nature’s guidelines turns out to be. What is more, there is continued belief that data on the Chinese network of stations belongs to Jones, which he can choose at his personal discretion, unburdened by any scientific principles, whether to hand over such data at all, and whom to give it to. It is likely there are many in the climate establishment who feel this way. This should change – the three inquiries that looked into the science of the CRU were unanimous.