YouTube - Eugene Mirman, Grist's Global Warming Protest Covering Machine

Comedian Eugene Mirman, Grist's Special Correspondent in Copenhagen, joined tens of thousands of protesters for the a rally and march during the UN Climate Change Conference.  [He actually chants "I want cocoa" and then says "it's so cold"]

Climate Observations: A Look At The Individual Proxies Used In Kaufman et al (2009)

Viewed individually, the proxies do not necessarily illustrate “that a pervasive cooling in progress 2000 years ago continued through the Middle Ages and into the Little Ice Age,” or that the “cooling trend was reversed during the 20th century, with four of the five warmest decades of our 2000-year-long reconstruction occurring between 1950 and 2000.” Many of the proxies illustrate past temperatures rivaling or exceeding current temperatures.

Climate Feedback: Copenhagen: History of mistrust mires talks: [Clinton wants to blame China for the meeting's "failure"?]

The US could walk away from signing a deal on climate change unless China agrees to transparency on emissions reductions, according to US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The US has promised to contribute to a fund worth 100 billion dollars per year by 2020 to help poor countries cope with climate change as part of an open and transparent deal. But China is backtracking on its willingness to agree to measures would allow pledged emissions reductions to be reported and independently verified, according to the US delegation.

Briefing the press in Copenhagen this morning, Clinton said failure to agree to such transparency would be a “dealbreaker” for the US.

Copenhagen climate conference: Is the whole thing a farce? - Telegraph

As the Copenhagen climate summit enters its last days, [alarmist] Louise Gray asks if we can still take the conference seriously.

Climate Research News » Ending the Green Rip-Off

Politicians need to re-think climate change policy to reduce the burden on consumers and taxpayers. People are not willing to accept an increasingly high price for draconian policies that aren’t delivering results.

Peter Foster: James Hansen and mob rule - FP Comment

...Meanwhile Mr. Hansen is reckoned to have given over a thousand interviews during his “silent” period.

Nevertheless, a lot of what Mr. Hansen said yesterday made sense: the Copenhagen process is hypocritical and should scrapped; cap and trade is a crock, from which the only people likely to get rich are Goldman Sachs and JpMorgan Chase; current negotiations are all about paying off developing countries so that developed countries can continue emitting greenhouse gases.

You Could Not Make It Up: IPCC slams farmer scepticism UPDATED by Richard S. Courtney, Former Expert IPCC Reviewer | Climate Realists

The problem with the environmentalists’ misconception of sustainability is that they do not want to act responsibly with what we have because they fear we will not be able to do act that way for ever. Using their logic the people of 300 years ago should have abandoned using horses, and the resulting poverty would have prevented the eventual invention of the steam engine, then the electric motor, then the diesel engine, then …

Indeed, environmentalists compound the error by subsidising technologies of their choosing (e.g. windfarms) so newly discovered alternatives are prevented from normal entry into, and success in, market displacement of existing technologies.

Climate change deal in doubt as finger pointing begins

If an agreement is not reached, negotiations would continue into next year with the hope that it can be finalized before a meeting next summer in Mexico City. The idea was initially proposed by former vice president Al Gore and seemed to be gaining steam amongst the delegates. Some of joked that he suggested the sunny location in the summer in order to avoid a risk of the Gore Effect striking.