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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is delivering his big speech in Copenhagen right now -- but before he took the stage he offered an opening salvo -- a whack at fellow Republican Sarah Palin who has expressed skepticism about global warming. The FT, which is on quite a roll: The California governor has become an environmental standard bearer for the Republican party, which is split on the merits of curbing emissions. Sarah Palin, John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election, has attacked cap and trade and questioned any link between man-made emissions and global warming. “You have to ask:...

On July 9, 1970, President Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by executive order as an independent agency joining together a number of functions from different federal agencies. The EPA says its mission “is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment – air, water and land – upon which life depends.” An Administrator appointed by the President of the United States runs the agency, which is not a Cabinet agency, although the Administrator is usually given cabinet rank. Lisa P. Jackson is the current Administrator, and the EPA’s Website notes that the “FY 2010 Budget...

The United Nations has declined Denmark’s help to quicken the snail's pace of accreditations to the COP15 Climate Summit. The chaotic scenes at the entrance to the United Nations Climate Conference at the Bella Center continue today with people waiting hours to get through an apparently undermanned U.N. accreditation system. The congestion caused by the thousands trying to get into the summit caused Danish police to call for a second day of temporary closure of the Bella Center metro station. Although Denmark is host for the summit, accreditation is in the hands of the United Nations. “The bottleneck is in...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urged countries to redouble efforts to reach a final deal against climate change in Copenhagen, in an effort to rescue failing talks at what has been dubbed the 'Last Chance Summit'. World leaders began arriving at the UN climate summit Tuesday, seeking to give a shot in the arm to the floundering talks after warnings that the whole event was at risk of ending in failure. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were among the heavyweights expected in the Danish capital where officials and...

The following is a guest submission from C4P reader and commenter "Alexonian": Alan I. Leshner, the chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and executive publisher of the journal Science, does a disservice to science by advancing a politicized agenda in favor of climate science in a recent editorial in the Washington Post. Instead of shepherding the scientific process in a neutral fashion, which should be a key requirement for the publisher of Science, especially in an environment where the very peer review process in climate science has been tarnished by the revelations of the...

It seems that it isn't just Al Gore who's getting rich off the global warming scam. Our friendly part-time chairman of the IPCC, Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, is quite a remarkable man. As well as his onerous post with the UN's IPCC, it seems he has a considerable number of other interests. Dr Pachauri's main day job is, of course, Director-General of The Energy Research Institute (TERI) - which he has held since April 2001, having become its Director and head in 1981 when it was the Tata Energy Research Institute. Intriguingly, for such an upstanding public servant though, he...

WASHINGTON – More Americans believe steps taken to reduce global warming pollution will help the U.S. economy than say such measures will hurt it. It's a sign the public is showing more faith in President Barack Obama's economic arguments for limiting heat-trapping gases than in Republican claims that the actions would kill jobs. In an Associated Press-Stanford University poll, 40 percent said U.S. action to slow global warming in the future would create jobs. Slightly more, 46 percent, said it would boost the economy.

Talks are back on track at the UN climate summit after developing countries won significant concessions. Informal talks will proceed along the two "parallel tracks" favoured by developing countries, in particular on maintaining the Kyoto Protocol. But the final high-level session starts on Tuesday evening, and much remains to be done if a deal is to be signed here. Non-governmental organisations are protesting that many campaigners will be turned away from the venue. Far more people have applied to attend the summit than Copenhagen's Bella Center can hold, and NGO numbers will be progressively reduced during the rest of the...

Ice cores reveal that CO2 levels rise and fall hundreds of years after temperatures changeIn 1985, ice cores extracted from Greenland revealed temperatures and CO2 levels going back 150,000 years. Temperature and CO2 seemed locked together. It was a turning point—the “greenhouse effect” captured attention. But in 1999 it became clear carbon rose and fell after temperatures did. By 2003 we had better data showing the lag was 800 ± 200 years. CO2 was in the back seat.AGW replies: There is roughly an 800-year lag. But even if CO2 doesn’t start the warming trend, it amplifies it.Skeptics say: If CO2...

Climategate is a global household name. No cat has ever emancipated itself more completely from the bag. It is a world-wide scandal – thanks to the internet. Yet, as its ramifications proliferate and dominoes continue to fall, the most repeatedly asked question online is: how can the mainstream media ignore this? Well, we know the answer to that: the MSM are in thrall to the leftist consensus. End of story. But let me pose a follow-up question that may be becoming more imminently relevant. Are the mainstream media capable of surviving their sidelining of the number one global scoop? Are...

Contraception is almost five times cheaper than conventional green technologies as a means of combating climate change, according to new research commissioned by the Optimum Population Trust.

Sarah Palin is such a cold-eyed skeptic about the Copenhagen summit on climate change that it's no surprise she would call on President Obama not to attend. After all, Obama might join other leaders in acknowledging that warming is a "global challenge." He might entertain "opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions." He might even explore ways to "participate in carbon-trading markets." Oh, wait. Those quotes aren't from some smug Euro-socialist manifesto. They're from an administrative order Palin signed in September 2007, as governor of Alaska, establishing a "sub-Cabinet" of top state officials to develop a strategy for dealing with climate...

Walkout heightens failure fears for climate marathon2009-12-14 COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Negotiators worked through the night Tuesday to prevent a UN climate summit from ending in catastrophic failure after developing nations staged a five-hour walkout and China accused the West of trickery. As the White House said Barack Obama wants a deal that imposes "meaningful steps" to combat global warming, ministers admitted they had to start making giant strides before 120 heads of state arrived for the summit's climax Friday. But their hopes were hit when Africa led a boycott by developing nations of working groups, only returning after securing guarantees...

Why is the original Kyoto Protocol so important that it would make so many Countries stage a walkout of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. Any new document will see them losing nearly all the things that the legally binding Kyoto Protocol gave them. Take the link to see why those Countries are so angry.

A Greenpeace demonstrator dresses as death onhorseback to represent the impact of climate changeoutside Parliament in Copehagen Copenhagen: When an overblown environmental conference culminates with Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lecturing the West on virtue, color it another shakedown. The United Nations' Copenhagen Climate Conference is going fast into meltdown. It may be because it's not about climate anymore, but fitting a noose on the world's productive economies and extracting wealth transfers. Poor countries have gone from defending their right to economic development as a reason for exemptions to emissions cuts to claiming a...

December 15, 2009 Inconvenient Truth For Al Gore As His North Pole Sums Don't Add Up Al Gore's office admitted that the percentage he quoted in his speech was from an old, ballpark figure Hannah Devlin, Ben Webster, Philippe Naughton in Copenhagen There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday. The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row. Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research...

Canada condemned on Monday a series of elaborate hoax emails and a fake website story that claimed the country would cut emissions of greenhouse gases by a much greater amount than previously announced. Officials said they believed environmental activists were responsible for the hoax... Canada is under heavy fire from green campaigners... The initial email, purporting to come from the federal environment ministry, said Canada would set binding emissions reductions targets of 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and at least 80 percent by 2050. It also announced Canada would give billions of dollars to African countries for emissions-reduction...

Global Warming: The Alaskan governor who knew polar bears weren't endangered says the planet isn't either and challenges the oracle of climate change. Al Gore says despite the CRU e-mails, the situation is of the utmost gravity. In a Dec. 9 Washington Post op-ed, Sarah Palin noted that the Climate-gate e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia "reveal that leading climate 'experts' deliberately destroyed records, manipulated data to 'hide the decline' in global temperatures and tried to silence their critics from publishing in peer-reviewed journals." This did not sit well with Gore. "The entire North...

Just in case you thought the Obama administration was incapable of confronting modern-day, 21 century threats as they arise, here's a little piece of news that may put your mind at ease. Ahem: Global warming is now officially considered a threat to U.S. national security. For the first time, Pentagon planners in 2010 will include climate change among the security threats identified in the Quadrennial Defense Review, the Congress-mandated report that updates Pentagon priorities every four years. The reference to climate change follows the establishment in October of a new Center for the Study of Climate Change at the Central...

The long, dark shadow that has been cast over the U.N.'s Copenhagen conference on climate change just got longer and darker. Still reeling from the Climategate scandal that has all but totally shot to pieces its major premise that climate change is at a critical level because of human activity, not to mention the boycott by developing nations, the conference was stung yet again today as Al Gore, the champion of the man-made global warming hypothesis was caught red-handed in 'an inconvenient untruth.'

It's a good thing New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wasn't a used car salesman because CNBC "Squawk on the Street" co-host Mark Haines would have driven off the lot in a lemon. Friedman appeared on the Dec. 14 broadcast of "Squawk on the Street" to promote the paperback release of his book, "Hot, Flat, and Crowded." And once again, he made the case the United States is lagging behind in green technology and the only way to overcome this innovation gap is to set some sort of premium on the price of using carbon-based energy sources, as he meticulously...

There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday. The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row. Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years. In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the...

The key decision on preventing catastrophic climate change will be delayed for up to six years if the Copenhagen summit delivers a compromise deal which ignores advice from the UN’s science body. World leaders will not agree on the emissions cuts recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and are likely instead to commit to reviewing them in 2015 or 2016. The delay will anger developing countries who, scientists say, will face the worst effects of climate change despite having contributed relatively little of the man-made greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. A draft text published by the UN...

An Interesting Admission: It would require fuel producers, rather than fuel users like electric utilities, to hold credits. The credits all would be sold at an auction. The cap-and-trade bills Congress has considered would distribute emissions allowances for free during the initial phase of the program in order to keep energy prices from rising too quickly.Under Cantwell-Collins, revenues from the auction would largely go back to low- and middle-income households to offset higher energy costs the new carbon regulations are intended to cause.

This week, leaders from around the world gather here, in a quest for a global pact to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and tackle the single greatest challenge of our time. I am joining them to discuss the urgency of their efforts, the economic opportunities we can seize, and the tremendous role of subnational governments in climate-change mitigation.

COPENHAGEN – New computer modeling suggests the Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in the summertime as early as 2014, Al Gore said Monday at the U.N. climate conference. This new projection, following several years of dramatic retreat by polar sea ice, suggests that the ice cap may nearly vanish in the summer much sooner than the year 2030, as was forecast by a U.S. government agency eight months ago. One U.S. government scientist Monday questioned the new prediction as too severe, but other researchers previously have projected a quicker end than 2030 to the Arctic summer ice cap. "It...

Forget the dire economic consequences of a Copenhagen climate change treaty for a second and think about the fraud involved. Carbon Trading Fraud Take the European Union, for instance, which implemented a carbon trading scheme analogous to a cap and trade system. And it has been fraught with fraud. French officials are investigating a $230 million carbon trading fraud scheme and this is only the tip of the iceberg in what is a startling revelation and huge blow to the climate talks in Copenhagen: Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement arm against organized crime, announced on Wednesday that carbon-trading fraud...

GENEVA (AFP) – A surge in sunshine more than 60 years ago helped Swiss mountain glaciers melt faster than today, even though warmer average temperatures are being recorded now, Swiss researchers said Monday. Their study into the impact of solar radiation on Alpine glaciers made the "surprising discovery" that in the 1940s, and especially summer 1947, the ice floes lost the most ice since measurements begin 95 years ago, according to Zurich's Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ). Yet, average temperatures have been rising in the past two decades and scientists have said glacier melt is accelerating at unprecedented levels under...

CLIMATE STATEMENT "AN ORCHESTRATED LITANY OF LIES" Veteran Wellington climate consultant, Dr Vincent Gray, expert reviewer of all four IPCC Assessment Reports, explains why he has resigned his longtime membership of the Royal Society of New Zealand in protest at the inaccuracies in a report on climate change issued on 12 July by the Society's Climate Committee. COMMENTS ON THE RECENT STATEMENT BY THE CLIMATE COMMITTEE OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND  Dr Vincent Gray INTRODUCTION As an Expert Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for eighteen years, that is to say, from the very beginning. I...

COPENHAGEN – Poor countries ended a boycott of U.N. climate talks Monday after getting assurances that rich nations were not conspiring to soften their commitments to cutting greenhouse gases, European officials said. European Union environment spokesman Andreas Carlgren said informal talks resolved the impasse, which was started by African countries and backed by major developing countries, including China and India. Rich and poor countries "found a reasonable solution," he said.

Prof Bruce Hewitson (Uninformed vitriol, November 19) pontificates on Andrew Kenny’s assessment (Ideology and money drive global-warming religion, November 16). Unfortunately for him, there has been a reformation. The time for pontification is over. The critics must be answered. Instead Prof Hewitson stood in his pulpit and preached the gospel according to St IPCC. He says he was a l ead a uthor for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). That is not material — I was a c o-ordinating l ead a uthor, but it gives me no mantle of infallibility. Instead, it gave me insight into the...

Copenhagen is supposed to be the crowning achievement of the Global Warmers/Climate Changers. Leading up to the big day, there was even a name change to more easily facilitate the smooth exchange of the wealth of developed countries to those whose dictators refuse to “share the wealth” with their citizens. The name change from “global warming,” came about when the earth did not cooperate with the “global” part of the name,” and especially with the “warming” categorization. The new name became “climate change.” Even with the name change, the earth is still in non-compliance with the scientific agenda. It has...

Carbon Credits: An Introduction Carbon credits are an concept that gets batted around quite a bit. With the Obama administration pushing to get a cap-and-trade system online in the US, it seems timely to have a refresher course on the ins and outs of carbon credits, carbon trading and the like. The water can get pretty murky depending on the system you are working within, and who is in charge of that system. On the surface, all carbon credits are basically the same: They are contracts that provide the holder the right to emit some amount of greenhouse gasses (usually...

This week, while global attention is focused on the climate change summit in Copenhagen, a small Connecticut bird is a reminder that the potential harm of a changing world environment is never far away. About half of the world's population of the elusive saltmarsh sparrows nests every spring on Connecticut's shoreline. But rising water levels due to global warming and other habitat damage are endangering the species, making the bird a critical indicator of the health of Connecticut's coastal flats. For the past seven years, University of Connecticut ornithologist Chris Elphick has been working with a team of biologists studying...

ClimateGate Research Unit Disables Its Website By Noel Sheppard Created 2009-12-14 10:03 The Climatic Research Unit at the heart of the ClimateGate [0] scandal has taken down most of the information previously available at its website. Prior to November's release of controversial e-mail messages and documents from Britain's University of East Anglea, there was a separate website for the institution's CRU that allowed readers to review articles and studies created by and for the Unit. Now, no matter what link one tries to access via a Google search, it directs you to a page that reads: "Due to the present...

The release of some 3,000 emails hacked from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University illuminates the true intent of those in the forefront of one of the most complex scientific and political issues of our times: “Global Warming” (or, if you prefer, “Climate Change”). Never before have a small number of academic elites convinced the global political and media establishment to embrace such a large-scale alteration of our existence. Certainly nobody has ever been brazen enough to attempt this without the fundamental scientific pillars of transparency, informed debate, and consensus. The fact that these emails became public was...

COPENHAGEN -- The Group of 77, which represents developing countries as well as large emerging economies such as Brazil, India and China, walked out of U.N. climate-change negotiations in Copenhagen on Monday, a Brazilian diplomat said. The group walked out of the main discussion group, accusing industrialized countries of an attempt to kill the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which mandates rich nations, but not developing countries nor the U.S., to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a person close to the talks said. Official discussions were suspended as an informal meeting was held in an attempt to solve the problem. The move was...

Perhaps when the history of our times is written, ours will be called The Era of Narcissistic Catechisms. To understand why this is the case it is enough to consider the fortunes of two green movements. On the main stage of global affairs this week we have the much touted UN climate change conference in Copenhagen. Standing with 15,000 delegates representing green activism groups and politically correct scientists the world over are international celebrity leaders like Nobel Peace Prize laureates Barack Obama, Al Gore and Desmond Tutu and their fellow celebrities and Oscar and Grammy winners Al Gore, Leonardo Dicaprio,...

Copenhagen Climate Talks Suspended after Africa Walk Out2009-12-14 15:01:17 Negotiations at the UN climate summit have been suspended after the African group withdrew co-operation. African delegations were angry at what they saw as moves by the Danish host government to sideline talks on more emission cuts under the Kyoto Protocol. As news spread around the conference centre, about 200 activists responded with chants of "We stand with Africa - Kyoto targets now". It is unclear how matters will proceed now, though informal talks are likely, the BBC reported. Blocs representing poor countries vulnerable to climate change have been adamant that...

Why have so many Developing Countries walked away from the Copenhagen Conference? The already existing Kyoto Protocol gives them much more than any new agreement can offer them. Kyoto is already legally binding, and to step away from that is perceived as a backward step for those Developing Countries, the perception being the new deal will be stitched up to most benefit those First World Countries. See the full story at the link.

The Copenhagen climate summit is in chaos after poor countries walked out en masse on Monday morning. The poor countries left negotiations because they are concerned that the Kyoto protocol, which aims to tackle climate change, will be abandoned. Some rich countries want a brand new climate treaty out of the Copenhagen summit to replace Kyoto. But poor countries want to make sure the Kyoto protocol, which forces rich countries to limit their greenhouse has emissions, has a future. Monday's walkout has left the summit in limbo as ministers, including Australia's Climate Change Minister Penny Wong, frantically try to fix...

Didn't see this posted but google.com has a new global warming vid on it's home page staring Gore if anyone is interested to waste 5 minutes of their life.

Thanks to thousands of pages of “Warmergate” e-mails that were leaked last month from the Climatic Research Unit’s (CRU) computers in England, we understand why it’s 18 degrees as we sit in the northeast and hammer out another essay (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1235395/SPECIAL-INVESTIGATION-Climate-change-emails-row-deepens--Russians-admit-DID-send-them.html). The wind is roaring and it feels like four degrees and it isn’t even officially winter. Global warming? Hardly. Despite the mainstream media’s lack of coverage and the Obama administration’s denial, there’s strong evidence that we’ve been lied to for years about human-caused climate change. Rush Limbaugh asserts that the “left has already corrupted science,” and that “it’s one of...

Rest of Title:and Other Developed Countries to Third World A draft proposal released by the United Nation’s climate negotiating group outlines a plan for creating two new international agencies designed to transfer technology and money from developed Western states such as the United States to undeveloped Third World Countries. Released Friday by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA)--the U.N. group responsible for negotiating a successor to the Kyoto Protocol treaty at Copenhagen--the draft proposal outlines the major commitments and obligations of both developed and undeveloped nations. Among the proposals the draft agreement outlines are a...

Many scientific reports have shown a strong correlation between sunspot activity and global mean temperatures. The most well-known such graph is the one plotted by Friis-Christensen and Lassen. A graph derived from similar observations is shown below:GRAPH 1:Correlation between Sunspot activity and global temperatures It is important to note that there are small periods of anomaly in this correlation, but that the behavior returns to one of strong correlation over extended periods of time. GRAPH 1A: Correlation between Sunspot activity and global temperatures over 10,000 years (reconstructed) As has been recently noted by several physicists, the solar activity levels in...

Dems Cancel Copenhagen Trip Socializing another huge chunk of the U.S. economy is more important than saving the planet: Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, told colleagues on Saturday that Democrats could not send a delegation to the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen. “It doesn’t look like we’re going -– not as a delegation,” Mr. Kerry told colleagues as a he left the Senate chamber after a vote on a package of spending measures. “Harry needs the people here on health care.” Harry is the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of...

Paging Al Gore! The global warming alarmists are claiming that 2010 could be the warmest year on record. Perhaps they better inform Mother Nature about this since she seems to be having other plans leading into the new year. Not only is the U.S.A. experiencing unusually cold weather but, almost unbelievably, Australia has just had some snowfall two weeks into their summer which officially began on December 1. Here is a report from the Australian Weather Zone about the summer snow: Most people consider summer a time to wear shorts and thongs wherever one pleases, with little thought of ski...

What links the Copenhagen conference with the steelworks closing in Redcar? The carbon credits boom is already costing British jobs, says Christopher Booker. By Christopher Booker 12 Dec 2009 Comments 114 | Comment on this article The Corus steelworks in Redcar, North Yorkshire, the town's main employer, is to be closed Photo: SCOTT HEPPELL/PA What is the connection between Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the Indian railway engineer who has been much in evidence at the Copenhagen climate conference, as chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and an Indian-owned steel company's decision to mothball its giant Teesside steel works...

Give this much to Sarah Palin: She is so dependably wrong that she makes it easy to pick sides. After exposing President Obama’s plans to kill the elderly and disabled with his death panels, she has moved on to climate change, seizing on the recent scandal over stolen e-mails as evidence that global warming is a liberal myth. Let’s look at the record. A few weeks ago, a computer hacker stole documents and e-mails from a server at Britain’s Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. Some of the e-mails were between scientists at the center and a...

People in the north-central part of the Canadian province of Ontario are digging out after one of the worst snow storms on record. Some areas north of Toronto received as much as 100 centimetres of snow over the past three days. The main highway through the region re-opened for the first time in days, but nearly all side roads remain closed, blocked by a thick blanket of snow, in some areas chest high. More than 100,000 people have been affected by the storm, either cut off in smaller communities, or in their cottages, or stranded by the road closures. In...