Pranksters stage Chamber of Commerce climate change event

After the jig was up, a real reporter asked the fake spokesman if he thought this kind of event -- if lying about who he was, particularly -- was really going to help his side win the national climate debate.

"Don't know," he said, apparently speaking as himself.

Backpacker Blogs - Bioneers 2009: Earth Is Alive!

Climate change deniers might be an endangered species: At Bioneers, the big buzz was that most of humanity recognizes that we've created a really, really big mess on the planet. Annie Leonard, a Bioneers plenary speaker and creator of The Story of Stuff, cites the fact that 70 percent of the American population sympathizes with climate change. That's far more than supported popular social causes of the past like the Civil Rights movement, women’s suffrage, or abolishing slavery. But Leonard stressed that we cannot wait for 100 percent of the population to get it. The time to act is now, and she stresses that we have the numbers to invoke change.

Flashback: polling doesn't support the claim that a majority of voters believe in the climate scam

Beaten out by "humane treatment of farm animals" and "obesity in America", global warming finishes last in yet another poll

Officials Hint at Progress Negotiating Climate Deal - Revkin - NYTimes.com

Todd Stern, the State Department’s special envoy on climate change, said all major countries were committed to seeking “a strong, pragmatic and solid agreement” in Copenhagen. [really?]

Echoing Ed Miliband, the British secretary of state for energy and climate and the chairman of the London session, Mr. Stern added: “We’re not really thinking about a Plan B in that sense.”