The Legality of Publishing Hacked E-mails : CJR

[comment] The ostentatious hand-wringing in this case stands in marked contrast to the numerous instances (Palin emails, Bush confidential documents) when the MSM fell all over themselves to publish confidential and / or illegally obtained documents.

The difference in this case is politics, pure and simple. In Climategate the MSM did its level best to protect the AGW movement from harm. They failed, only because of the internet. And as pointed out the real story is the 10 day delay in reporting – an eternity by current standards.

BBC News - Schwarzenegger meets SNP climate minister at UN talks

Scotland's climate change minister has met California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen.

Stewart Stevenson presented the Holywood movie star with a bottle of 42% whisky.

The gift was chosen to highlight Holyrood's tough targets to reduce carbon emissions by 42% by 2020.

The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

On one screen there is a steady stream of heads of state, decked out in formal attire from every corner of the world, warning of floods, typhoons, desertification and drought, the urgency of the threat to our world and the need to protect our children.

Messages from the Prime Ministers of Albania, Great Britain, Kuwait, Namibia blur into one another, and when the camera pans back the room is usually half empty.

All the real work is going on in the plenum visible on the other screen, where most of the seats are packed, the speakers are usually anonymous bureaucrats, and up for discussion are commas, brackets and auxiliary verbs – that might just save the world.

Ahmadinejad in Copenhagen

Today, at the Climate Summit in Copenhagen, the world's cameras will be watching and listening to the words of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Many will want to know what Iran's controversial president has to say about the need to control climate, especially as his own country is the tenth biggest producer of Green House gas.

There will also be those who will fear that Ahmadinejad's controversial comments about the Holocaust and his attacks against the West may hijack the main theme of the conference, which is the need to address and solve climate-related issues.

Amanda Little: How Obama Can Succeed in Copenhagen

Here's what I hope he will say:

...Americans emit nearly 20 pounds of CO2 per capita each year

The Climate Pool: Bye bye NGOs, hello Climate-speak | Facebook

Now most of the nonprofits are locked out of the Bella Center. Only 1,000 of the 22,000 accredited are being let into the conference center for the last two days of the talks.

The NGOs, like reporters, have their sources. And to be honest, theirs are usually better than ours since they work on climate issues year-round. Many American NGO analysts are former government officials, more likely from the Clinton administration than Bush's.

Cap and Trade in Practice - WSJ.com

To summarize: Cap and trade is a scheme that would impose heavy carbon taxes and allowances on U.S. industries, which would then have an incentive to move overseas themselves, or to sell those allowances to overseas companies that could use them to become more competitive against U.S. companies. Like the 1,700 Brits at Redcar, American workers would be the big losers.

Howard Bloom: Climate Change Is Nature's Way - WSJ.com

Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.

Signs of Movement on Money and Trust - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

There was widespread relief at the proposal by the United States, if only because it held the potential of erasing one of the biggest gaps in the talks, over the scale of the obligation developed countries owed those nations that are still seeking to develop — and potentially hampered by costs stemming either from increasing climate-related losses or the costs attending a shift away from fossil fuels. That obligation was enshrined long ago, in the original 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.