Climate confab ends with little harm done

The upshot of the two-week Durban conference is that even those seeking to profit from others and to game the system appear to be acknowledging how frail their cause has become.

The language agreed to in Durban, says the Associated Press, “left some analysts warning that the wording left huge loopholes for countries to avoid tying their emissions to legal constraints, and noted that there was no mention of penalties.”

We suspect this feckless pact will be about as serious an enforcement tool as global warming is a threat.

Neil Wagner: Reindeer Combat Climate Crisis -- At a Cost

Researchers have found a technique that helps reindeer adapt to the effects our changing climate, but it's one the reindeer in today's cartoon (Dasher and Donder, I believe) may not relish: castration.

Norway's Indigenous Sami peoples have observed that sterilized male reindeer can grow larger, are more willing to allow hungry calves access to food, and can break through ice to better dig for for their meals in frozen lichen pastures. This is important because climate change causes frozen ground to thaw and refreeze more frequently, making the ice much thicker.

John O'Sullivan: Greenhouse Gas Theory Trashed as Dissenters Build Compelling Case | Climate Realists

Newly-released emails reveal an intense private debate signalling a sharp shift among scientists away from the discredited greenhouse gas global warming theory.