European Union Commissioner Connie Hedegaard on the Durban climate talks - YouTube
    [There is a climate change crisis.  There are hungry people in the Horn of Africa, therefore CO2 is overheating the planet.  "You have so much evidence!"]]

Earth highly unlikely to suffer severe warming - new science • The Register

Climate scientists funded by the US government have announced new research in which they have established that the various doomsday global warming scenarios are in fact extremely unlikely to occur, and that the scenarios considered likeliest - and used for planning by the world's governments - are overly pessimistic.

DFID Bloggers » Whatever happened to climate change?

Has the American-rooted 'climate change denial' movement had more effect than we know?

For myself, having been at Copenhagen, I remember the great optimism in the build up. I remember meeting President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives and listening to his passionate advocacy of tough new protocols amid the rising sea levels that threaten the very existence of his nation.

And I also remember the trauma of failure: the dank, dark cloud of despair that gripped diplomats, politicians, scientists and journalists alike as agreements fell apart and the summit appeared to end in calamitous failure.

How Much Will the Earth Warm Up? - NYTimes.com

Dr. Schmidt agreed that a warming of 4.1 degrees Fahrenheit is “plenty big enough to cause all sorts of problems.”

Help us find clues in climate email hacker's message | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk

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At Durban, the big emitters will no doubt fail us again on climate change | John Vidal | Comment is free | The Guardian

The science of climate change is firmer than it ever was. A 2C-4C temperature rise still means that Africa fries and the polar bears die out, that Bangladesh and Egypt drown, the droughts in Latin America and Ethiopia continue to worsen, and the poorest communities and small-island states, who have the least resources to adapt, will be hurt the hardest.

Here we are, they say, in the midst of a 10-year drought and food crisis in Africa, with unprecedented flooding in south-east Asia and Central America, and North America, Australia and Europe having just had some of their most extreme climatic years ever. Emissions and temperatures are higher than ever, people everywhere are genuinely concerned, but the big emitters are still not prepared to do anything. What more do they need to be persuaded to act swiftly?

Any postponement of a deal, they say, is not just dangerous politics, it is criminal negligence, consigning the poor to oblivion. If treasuries can find trillions to bail out dodgy banks, if financiers can be paid hundreds of millions in bonuses and the politics of Europe can be redrawn in just a few weeks, then why can't the rich and big-emitting countries make a deal to try to avert what could be the greatest problem the planet has faced? In short, why are world leaders gambling with the fate of the planet?