UN chief urges world leaders to start climate fund | Sci-tech | DAWN.COM

DHAKA: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging world leaders to create a multibillion-dollar fund to fight the effects of climate change.

He says governments must create a $100 billion ”Green Climate Fund” at UN-sponsored climate change talks that start November 28 in Durban, South Africa.

2009: Hillary Clinton Pledges $100B for Developing Countries - NYTimes.com

COPENHAGEN -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has promised the United States will help raise $100 billion annually by 2020 to assist poor countries in coping with climate change as long as America's demands for a global warming pledge are met.

When things don't add up: statistics, maths and scientific fraud

From time to time, the scientific community is rocked by cases of scientific fraud. Needless to say, such incidents do little to instill confidence in a public that’s already predisposed to be skeptical of inconvenient scientific findings, including biological evolution and human-induced global warming.

Snow doesn't keep Occupy Missoula protesters down | KAJ18.com | Kalispell, Montana

Protesters said the weather presents challenges and they're using heaters and wind barriers to block out the cold.

The Reference Frame: Best case yet for the end of climate skepticism

Two U.S. lawmakers, Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), have invited three people to the U.S. Congress to terminate the global warming skepticism tomorrow, on Monday. The three people are Dr Richard Muller who wasn't a skeptic before he decided he was a former skeptic but he had never been a former skeptic, Dr Ben Santer who will beat crap out of a climate skeptic during the next conference according to his most famous publication, namely a ClimateGate e-mail, and Dr William Chameides, a relatively unknown career alarmist affiliated with several institutions.