18th Climate Showdown - WendyMcElroy.com

The charm of a UN Climate Conference is that nothing ever changes; last year's musical parody for the COP16 in Cancun fits this year's Durban conference just as well. (Except that, as far as I know, they didn't sign up to ban H₂O this year.) But the last-minute showdown at Durban's COP17 only kicked the can down the road another year, and then I read Gavin Atkins' hilarious "updated history of last chances to save the world", and I realized that next year would offer yet another last chance, at the

China: (2010) Worst Sea Ice in 30 years « Musings from the Chiefio

China had it’s worst winter in 50 years.

“THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE GOOD FOR ENRON STOCK!!” (Enron’s infamous Kyoto memo 10 years old today) — MasterResource

It is perhaps the most revealing ‘crony capitalism’ memo in American history–at least that is in the public domain. (I ask others to submit nominations for this (dis)honor to see if this memo does not take the prize.)