American Thinker: On the brink

In short order, a 787-billion "stimulus" (actually, little more than a slush fund for the Democratic Party and its allies) was passed, a cap-and-trade bill began its march through Congress, and the White House opened a massive campaign advancing the centerpiece of Obama's program: the health care reform. If the revolutionaries succeed in pushing through their radical environmental program and socializing the public health sector making up one-sixth of the national economy, America will be transformed beyond recognition. The destiny of the free, capitalist society is hanging in the balance.

Obama’s Gift to Republicans: Their Resurgence

From strictly a governing and competence perspective, the health-care process that is unfolding has been one of the worst — and maybe the worst — we have ever seen. Democrats are pushing for legislation that would take over one-sixth of the American economy — and they are doing it in a manner that insults the memory of Mo, Larry, and Curly. Democratic Senator Evan Bayh provided more evidence of this with his simple complaint: “We’re all being urged to vote for something and we don’t know the details of what’s in it.”

Copenhagen Climate Summit: China is optimistic about a deal - Telegraph

In the north-west of the country, for example, clean water is so scarce that farmers in a village in Gansu province only take three baths in their entire life, at birth, marriage and death. If we cannot ask rich people to give up their houses and cars, who are we to tell those farmers in China that they have no right to have what others have?

C3: Peer-Reviewed Research: Hugo Chavez's Venezuela Had Medieval Temperatures Warmer Than Modern Temps

Despite all the CO2 emissions emanating from Venezuela's oil industry, Medieval Warming period temperatures were over 1°C warmer than current temperatures.

Russian scientists say that CRU shamelessly distorted the Russian temperature record to exaggerate global warming

And Russia is a very large part of the Earth's surface. This does sound like the end of the CRU at least

Copenhagen: Nation with 0.0002% of global population brings negotiations to a halt | Australian Climate Madness

So at current rates, it will take about 1,500 years for the sea to rise 4.5 metres, so hardly a climate emergency that requires urgent action today at Copenhagen rather than in 100 or 200 or even 500 years time, when the costs of adaptation will be far less.