CFACT Reports On 4th International Climate Conference In Munich

Rifts emerge at talks as UN climate change conference opens - Telegraph

Artur Runge-Metzger, the EU's negotiator at the summit, said both developing
and developed countries had to make firm commitments to emissions caps this
year or risk the public "losing confidence in this travelling circus".

RealClimate: Ice age constraints on climate sensitivity

 It is not all that earthshaking that the numbers in Schmittner et al come in a little low: the 2.3ºC is well within previously accepted uncertainty, and three of the IPCC AR4 models used for future projections have a climate sensitivity of 2.3ºC or lower, so that the range of IPCC projections already encompasses this possibility.

Alison van Diggelen: Tom Brokaw: Climate Change Is Real

Days before the Global Climate Talks in Durban, South Africa, NBC's Special Correspondent Tom Brokaw delivered a strong message in Silicon Valley for climate skeptics. In response to a Fresh Dialogues question about climate change, Brokaw said, "It's real, we see it in our weather systems," and made a somber call to action, saying everyone needs to take a part. Brokaw, who has hosted two documentaries about global warming for the Discovery Channel, says he's planning an expedition to Antarctica with a team of climate scientists to record the glacial melting next January.

Kyoto Protocol: How climate change accord got lost in the fog of its own failings | Full Comment | National Post

Sayonara, Kyoto. According to Environment Minister Peter Kent, “Canada goes to Durban with a number of countries sharing the same objective, and that is to put [the Kyoto Protocol] behind us.”