Bonn or bust – The UN’s last, desperate bid for unelected world government | The SPPI Blog

This emergency conference, called by the UN’s bureaucrats because they were terrified that Cancun this December might fail as spectacularly as Copenhagen did last year, is a much quieter affair than Copenhagen. Not only has the air of triumphalism gone, after the scandals of Climategate, Himalayagate, Amazongate and so forth, but the belief that “global warming” is a global crisis has largely gone too.
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The only reason for the UN’s sense of urgency – a panic no longer felt by the majority of the delegates here – is that the bureaucrats know the game is up. Opinion polls throughout the free world show that no one now believes a word of the climate extremists’ nonsense any more. If they can’t get a binding treaty this year, they won’t get one at all, and they know it.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: More on the World Bank South Africa Coal Plant Decision

According to Reuters, the US, UK and the Netherlands all abstained from lending their support for the new power plant. Hand any of these countries explicitly opposed the decision, it would not have gone forward. So an abstention in the context of no other opposition works out as a "yes" vote in practice.

The EPA Is Running a Film Contest? - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Faces of the Grassroots: Environmental Justice Video Contest

In the mood for change

This week, a survey of 206 Tory candidates in winnable seats conducted by the Financial Times revealed there is substance to this anxiety and Cameron may face the same level of internal dissent on key policy issues as did Malcolm Turnbull. Only a handful of his MPs unequivocally supported the notion global warming is caused by human activity and few agreed with the shadow chancellor's pledge to come down hard on bankers' bonuses.