Durban climate deal: the verdict | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Murray Worthy, World Development Movement policy officer

Developed countries have behaved shamefully, blocking meaningful progress on tackling climate change.... The spectacular failure to achieve an outcome on the most urgent issues puts the world on course for devastating climate change, condemning those least responsible to greater hunger, poverty and ultimately, death.

The Kyoto Protocol is now only a shadow of what it was and the second commitment period will be its last.

Cycle like the Danes to cut carbon emissions, says study | Environment | The Guardian

EU could cut its total greenhouse gas emissions by more than 25% if every country's cycling rate was the same as Denmark's

Could the desert sun power the world? | Environment | The Guardian

Green electricity generated by Sahara solar panels is being hailed as a solution to the climate change crisis

RealClimate: AGU 2011: Day 5 and wrap-up

The social aspect of conferences is also important – beer is an essential lubricant for geophysicists it seems. More important than the sessions are often the chance encounters on the escalators or corridors. Many people get to meet in person who only ever emailed – and this includes other bloggers as well as scientists. We met Eli Rabett, John Cook (Skeptical Science), Zeke Hausfeather, Kate @ ClimateSight, Steve Easterbrook, and many others who are only known by their screen names and comments. Many of the scientists whose work has been discussed here recently were also present – Andreas Schmittner, Robert Rohde (of BEST), Jim Hansen, Ben Santer, Roy Spencer, along with many, many first timers whose work will become more prominent.

The Consensus Is Nearly Unanimous – Only 9,000 PhD’s Are Against it | Real Science

Only 9,000 skeptics have PhD’s? Did 100 people at Durban have PhD’s?

It is worse than we thought. The Washington Post is staffed with complete morons.

Embarrassing: AGU’s ‘climate literacy’ | JunkScience.com

Apparently as far as the AGU is concerned, climate skeptics — including top scientists like Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson, hydrogen bomb architect Edward Teller, MIT atmospheric physicist Richard Lindzen, space science pioneer S. Fred Singer, first president of the National Academy of Sciences Frederick Seitz and more than 31,000 other American scientists — are wrong because their views differ with those of 494 K-12 teachers.