THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: 'Hottest Year Ever' Update: Record number of Manatees Died in 2010 from Cold Water

As reported on NBC Nightly News 12/6/10, a record number of manatees died in 2010 due to unusually cold water.

Indonesia’s billion-dollar climate experiment | The Climate Desk | Grist

[Christopher Barr, a forest policy expert with the U.S.-based consulting firm Woods & Wayside International] adds that "corruption is widespread at all levels within the sector," and powerful interests "have often displaced rural communities that have managed these resources for generations."
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In late October, Wandojo Siswanto, formerly a top climate-change negotiator and architect of the Norway pact, was arrested and charged with accepting a $10,000 bribe to grant a company's no-bid contract with the forest ministry.

Committee on Climate Change advises UK to cut emissions 60% by 2030 | Environment | The Guardian

Britain is set world-leading carbon emissions cut target requiring complete overhaul of energy, farming and motoring
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"If we don't do anything there are significant risks of dangerous climate change that we can't adapt to," said David Kennedy, the CCC's chief executive.

Kennedy accepts that the 2030 target proposed today is "highly ambitious". It will require 90% cut in power sector emissions, to be delivered by 40GW of new nuclear, wind and clean coal and gas power – equivalent to 25 large power stations. Delivering the investment needed to build this needs "fundamental changes" to the electricity market.

"We have had the most liberal electricity market in world – which had some benefits in a different era," said Kennedy. The market must be more "planned" he said...

US envoy rejects suggestion that America bribed countries to sign up to the Copenhagen Accord | Environment | The Guardian

Speaking at the UN climate summit in Cancun, Todd Stern, the US special envoy on climate change, suggested that countries that wanted climate aid were in no position to criticise.

Citing, with approval, a confrontation at the Copenhagen summit in which a Norwegian official berated a counterpart from a developing country, he said, "he just stood up and blasted the person, 'you can't on the one hand ask for and make a legitimately strong case for the need for the need for climate assistance and then on the other hand turn around and accuse us of bribery'."

Stern added: "We can eliminate any cause or accusation of bribery by eliminating any money."