Small island states may disappear if no climate deal | Reuters

(Reuters) - Small island states may disappear under rising seas if an international agreement to tackle climate change is delayed for another decade, an official said on Monday.

U.S. Takes Center Stage in Kyoto Fight as Climate Talks Teeter - Businessweek

“There’s no framework that we can envision that would be a successful framework that didn’t include all the major economies,” Pershing told reporters at a briefing in Durban, South Africa, where more than 190 countries are meeting for United Nations-led climate negotiations.

Climategate 2.0: Mann seeks Revkin help against hockey stick critics | JunkScience.com

Everyone should have their own New York Times reporter.

Hans von Storch: North Sea Sea Levels Rising 20 cm/century (Only)

That’s a whole 2 mm per year, which is one seventh the rate of what Ramstorf envisions in his tamer wet dreams.

Did I say the ship was sinking? Canada, Europe, Brazil, USA, Russia planning exits or delays « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

As usual, the little developing nations are left convinced that they’ve been done in by the rich ones, and in a sense they have. They’ve been played by factions within wealthy nations, used as convenient token victims for schemes the factions wanted to set up in any case. The fear and anger of developing nations was just another tool for leverage for one class of wealthy people to use to increase their own power and influence.