Carbon offsets lose 20% of their value in the last week at CCX « Watts Up With That?

Since then, the price has dropped to 20 cents per metric ton for all Carbon Financial Instruments (CFI) except for the 2010 issues, losing 20% of their value. Trading volume has also dropped to a trickle with only 200 transactions Friday.
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A look at the CCX external advisory board roster is telling. [For starters, Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri is on it]

Climate change: UN plans 'shock therapy' for world leaders [to promote global warming fraud] - alarmist Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent | Environment | The Observer

The United Nations is planning a form of diplomatic shock therapy for world leaders this week in the hope of injecting badly needed urgency into negotiations for a climate change treaty that, it is now widely acknowledged, are dangerously adrift.

UN chief Ban Ki-Moon and negotiators say that unless they can convert world leaders into committed advocates of radical action, it will be very hard to reach a credible and enforceable agreement to avoid the most devastating consequences of climate change.
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[Rajendra Pachauri] We are likely to see a large number of failed states if we don't act in time."

The heads of state attending the UN summit are to be stripped of their entourages. Each will be allowed just one aide, generally their country's environment minister, in the sessions.
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"It seems to me that Copenhagen is not the end of this," said Tim Wirth, the president of the UN Foundation, and the man who, in the 1980s, helped to write the first cap-and-trade plan for acid rain. He added: "We are going to have Copenhagens for the rest of our lives."

If you believe the almanacs ... ... then we're in for a ROUGH WINTER

You kind of knew this was coming, right?

On the heels of Dubuque's coldest July and sixth-coldest August comes word from both the Farmers' Almanac and the Old Farmer's Almanac that the winter of 2009-10 will arrive earlier and snowier than usual.

Iowa's state climatologist seems to think so, too.

Unearthed video: Global warming alarmist Stephen 'we have to offer up scary scenarios' Schneider caught on a May 1978 episode of the TV show In Search Of...The Coming Ice Age | GORE LIED

In Search Of… did shows on such topics as Bigfoot, The Bermuda Triangle, UFO captives, and The Ogopogo Monster. As a skeptic looking back on the show today, I find it hilarious that the show included climate alarmism alongside those campy topics.