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- Cancun ends with “low hanging fruit”, but fails to renew Kyoto Sun, 12 Dec 10, 7:14amMaybe the failure had more to do with the caliber of people attending…like these McKibben zombies. Heads go in the sand at 8:45 in the video: From Politico: Negotiators from about 190 countries reached a modest...
- If climate science politics were a hockey game…oh, wait Sun, 12 Dec 10, 3:05amI went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. -Rodney Dangerfield (1921 – 2004) …not surprisingly, the United Nations’ 2010 Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, is failing, with...
- “Gore Effect” on Steroids: Six straight days of record low temperatures during COP16 in Cancun Mexico – more coming Sat, 11 Dec 10, 2:32amThe irony, it burns. Do you think maybe Gaia is trying to send the U.N. and the delegates a message? One record low was funny, three in a row was hilarious, a new record low for the month of December … Continue reading...
- “Gore Effect” on Steroids: Six straight days of record low temperatures during COP16 in Cancun Mexico Sat, 11 Dec 10, 2:32amThe irony, it burns. Do you think maybe Gaia is trying to send the U.N. and the delegates a message? One record low was funny, three in a row was hilarious, a new record low for the month of December … Continue reading...
- “Gore Effect” strikes again: new coldest ever December record low temperature in Cancun Fri, 10 Dec 10, 7:13amGod indeed has a sense of humor. From Weather Underground: Here’s the actual METAR data, showing 10°C (50.0°F): According to the Mexican National Meteorological Service, the record low temp for December is 12°C (53.6F)...
- Monckton’s Mexican Missive #3 Fri, 10 Dec 10, 5:23amThe abdication of the West From The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Cancun, Mexico, Dec 9th, 2010 I usually add some gentle humor to these reports. Not today. Read this and weep. Notwithstanding the carefully-orchestrated...
- Cancun COP16 attendees fall for the old “dihydrogen monoxide” petition as well as signing up to cripple the U.S. Economy Thu, 9 Dec 10, 4:13amOh dear, some of these folks aren’t the brightest CFL’s in the room. Readers may remember this famous Penn and Teller video from 2006 where they get well meaning (but non thinking) people to sign up to ban “dihydrogen...
- Monckton’s Mexican Missive #2 Wed, 8 Dec 10, 5:32amYes, we have no bananas From The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley in Cancun, Mexico at COP16 via SPPI I dined with Dr. Roy Spencer as the Atlantic rollers swished and crashed against the long, sandy beach here in Cancun. We...
- Monckton’s Mexican Missive Tue, 7 Dec 10, 5:52amFrom Nopenhagen to Yes We Cancun by Christopher Monckton Thanks to Wikileaks, everyone here in the Mañana Republic of Mexico now knows just how much bullying and arm-twisting the administration of Barack Obama in the United...
- Google Earth announces new “earth engine” at Cancun Sat, 4 Dec 10, 7:36pmIt appears to be designed to do photo trend analysis of landsat and other satellite imagery. From the Google Earth Engine page: A planetary-scale platform for environmental data & analysis Google Earth Engine brings...
- Wikileaks cables: on climate, IPCC, Copenhagen Sat, 4 Dec 10, 10:58amThis just in, I’m blogging from a public terminal at a hospital, more later: WikiLeaks cables: Cancún climate talks doomed to fail, says EU president Herman van Rompuy dismisses Copenhagen climate summit as ‘incredible...
- Senators petition SecState to freeze climate bailout money Fri, 3 Dec 10, 9:44amClimate-related appropriations grew from $315 million in fiscal 2009 to $1.3 billion in fiscal 2010. CLIMATE: GOP senators decry ‘bailout’ for developing countries Gabriel Nelson, E&E reporter http://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/print/2010/12/02/4...
- COP16: Photo Exhibits Issue Call to Protect Mexico’s Natural Beauty Fri, 3 Dec 10, 7:45amRead the rest of COP16: Photo Exhibits Issue Call to Protect Mexico’s Natural Beautyhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink...
- Breaking: Japan refuses to extend Kyoto treaty at Cancun Fri, 3 Dec 10, 3:28amJapan in 1997: Japan today: Cancún climate change summit: Japan refuses to extend Kyoto protocol Talks threatened with breakdown after forthright Japanese refusal to extend Kyoto emissions commitments * John Vidal guardian.co.uk,...
- Cancun: the rationing rationalizing Wed, 1 Dec 10, 3:52pmWell the Telegraph article on rationing our modern lifestyle to reduce CO2 has made some waves since I covered it yesterday, fortunately it has not affected the attendees at Cancun...