Durban talks come at bad time: UN climate chief | The New Age Online

"This is not the best time to be talking about finance, because all developed countries are in a financial crisis," Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told a press briefing ahead of the November 28 to December 9 talks in Durban.
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The fund was agreed at the 2010 climate talks in Cancun, but negotiators still have to hammer out where the money will come from and how it will be managed.
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The world's top two polluters, China and the US, are not part of the Kyoto Protocol's emissions cuts. And Canada, Japan and Russia have all said they will not sign up for a second round.

It has to get worse before it can get better : Stoat

Doing something about GW will cost money, and will upset powerful interests, and the effects are in the future and aren't clearly understood, and "why don't we just quietly do not very much for a while" is so much easier.

Muller : The Hot 1930s Were No Warmer Than The Ice Age Scare Of The 1970s | Real Science

We now know from climate scientists at the Ministry Of truth that it wasn’t hot during the 1930s. It was actually quite cold. The Dust Bowl never happened.