By Anil Dawar Fresh doubts were cast over controversial global warming theories yesterday after a major climate change argument was discredited. The International Panel on Climate Change was forced to admit its key claim that Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 was lifted from a 1999 magazine article. The report was based on an interview […]
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Danny Glover: Hatian Earthquake Caused by Global Warming
Actor Danny Glover should probably stick to reading lines other people write for him. Speaking off the cuff, he said this of the tragic earthquake in Haiti that may have killed as many as 50,000: “The threat of what happened to Haiti is a threat that can happen anywhere in the Caribbean, to the Island nations. […]
Copenhagen's Dodged Bullet
Modern men have lived through 20 sudden global warmings By Pete DuPont Al Gore said the other week that climate change is “a principle in physics. It’s like gravity. It exists.” Sarah Palin agreed that “climate change is like gravity,” but added a better conclusion: Each is “a naturally occurring phenomenon that existed long before, […]
The Party's Over
From Slate Magazine COPENHAGEN, Denmark-I’m not sure whether it was the chicken-suited followers of Supreme Master Ching Hai wandering about or the experience of freezing slowly for seven hours as I waited to get into the Bella Center, but something happened in the last 10 days to convince me, once and for all, that the […]
Carbon-Permit Slide Reflects Copenhagen Disappointment
GCS Editor’s note: This article reveals the true motivation behind the push for a “Copenhagen Protocol.” By Keith Johnson The failure of the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen to produce a strong, binding agreement to cut carbon-dioxide emissions sowed gloom in European carbon markets Monday, with prices for carbon-emissions permits falling more than 8%. […]
Hundreds Gather to Protest Global Warming
Christmas in Copenhagen
Parturient Montes: Nascetur Ridiculus Mus
From SPPI By Lord Christopher Monckton — The mountains shall labor, and what will be born? A stupid little mouse. Thanks to hundreds of thousands of US citizens who contacted their elected representatives to protest about the unelected, communistic world government with near-infinite powers of taxation, regulation and intervention that was proposed in early drafts of […]
Copenhagen Climate Summit: 'most important paper in the world' is a glorified UN press release
From the UK Telegraph By Gerald Warner — When your attempt at recreating the Congress of Vienna with a third-rate cast of extras turns into a shambles, when the data with which you have tried to terrify the world is daily exposed as ever more phoney, when the blatant greed and self-interest of the participants […]
Obama Emerges from Climate Talks with Slender Pact and Bruised Stature
From the UK Gaurdian Barack Obama emerged from the chaotic final hours of the Copenhagen summit last night having salvaged an agreement for action on global warming – and his own reputation as a politician who can bridge the most challenging of political divides. After 15 hours of negotiations, an exhausted looking Obama said he […]
Is the European police state going global?
By Lord Christopher Monckton Today the gloves came off and the true purpose of the “global warming†scare became nakedly visible. Ugo Chavez, the Socialist president of Venezuela, blamed “global warming†on capitalism – and received a standing ovation from very nearly all of the delegates, lamentably including those from those of the capitalist nations […]
Barack Obama's speech disappoints and fuels frustration at Copenhagen
Obama’s Speech Disappoints Copenhagen Delegates US president offers no further commitment on reducing emissions or on finance to poor countries By Suzanne Goldenberg and Allegra Stratton Barack Obama stepped into the chaotic final hours of the Copenhagen summit today saying he was convinced the world could act “boldly and decisively” on climate change. But his […]
Copenhagen heading for meltdown as stalemate continues over emission cuts
UN fails in last-ditch efforts to get world leaders to commit to a maximum 2C rise as draft texts get weaker By Suzanne Goldenberg, John Vidal and Jonathan Watts The UN’s climate summit was heading for meltdown this afternoon with countries unable to agree on emission cuts and blaming each other for the descent towards […]
Lord Monckton reports on Pachauri’s eye opening Copenhagen presentation
By Lord Christopher Monckton In the Grand Ceremonial Hall of the University of Copenhagen, a splendid Nordic classical space overlooking the Church of our Lady in the heart of the old city, rows of repellent, blue plastic chairs surrounded the podium from which no less a personage than Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, […]
Climate Talks Deadlocked as Clashes Erupt Outside
From MyWay News COPENHAGEN (AP) – Danish police fired pepper spray and beat protesters with batons outside the U.N. climate conference on Wednesday, as disputes inside left major issues unresolved just two days before world leaders hope to sign a historic agreement to fight global warming. With the talks clearly deadlocked, Connie Hedegaard, former Danish […]