Mitt Romney raises EU concerns for climate [scam] talks | Environment | guardian.co.uk

An EU official told EurActiv that he expected climate talks would "become much harder again" under a Romney administration, while EU-US relations on climate issues would become "quite challenging".

"It would make [climate negotiations] more of an uphill struggle than they are now," another EU source said.

"The first thing [Romney] would do would be to fire [US climate chief negotiator] Todd Stern and find someone with his own climate change agenda because Todd Stern has some knowledge about this issue," the source speculated.
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Thomas Legge, a senior climate and energy officer at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, said that the radicalism of Romney's party - as well as his climate change statements and campaign funding - would make it difficult for him to govern from the centre.
..."I don't think either candidate wants to make a big deal out of climate change because they don't see it as vote-winning issue," he added.

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Maybe post-Climategate, tribalism in the climate debate has lost some of its power, and skepticism is re-gaining its meaning as a scientific virtue. If so, both Mojib Latif and Judith Curry contributed to this development; one in being courageous enough to make such a non-alarmist statement (as a member of the "UN tribe"!); and the other for analyzing tribalism and giving credibility to skepticism. Maybe it's too early to state that the climate wars are over; but there are indeed signs that climate science is on its way back to the status of "organized skepticism".