The Copencabana

Richard Fernandez Belmont Club December 21, 2009

Small Dead Animals has a translation of a German article which purports to describe how Barack Obama stormed into a meeting of heads of state, acting like it was a scene from a Hollywood movie. Although the Welt article has the most detail, there are collateral reports from […]

Top Cuban official: Obama lied during Copenhagen

by Will Weissert Associated Press [via Breitbart.com] December 21, 2009

HAVANA (AP) – Cuba’s foreign minister called President Barack Obama an “imperial and arrogant” liar Monday for his conduct at the U.N. climate conference, a reflection of the communist island’s increasingly fiery verbal attacks on the U.S. government.

Bruno Rodriguez spent an hour and a […]

Gordon Brown calls for new group to police global environment issues

Ben Webster, Francis Elliott Times [UK] 21 December 2009

A new global body dedicated to environmental stewardship is needed to prevent a repeat of the deadlock which undermined the Copenhagen climate change summit, Gordon Brown will say tomorrow.

The UN’s consensual method of negotiation, which requires all 192 countries to reach agreement, needs to be […]

Global Warming as Groupthink

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s process institutionalizes groupthink on a global scale.

by Peter Lilley The Wall Street Journal December 17, 2009

It is easy to mock the thousands of activists, officials and ministers flying to Copenhagen in their jets, driving around in an immense fleet of limousines, and collectively emitting more carbon […]

Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends in failure

Deal thrashed out at talks condemned as climate change scepticism in action

John Vidal, Allegra Stratton and Suzanne Goldenberg in Copenhagen Guardian [UK] 19 December 2009

The UN climate summit reached a weak outline of a global agreement in Copenhagen tonight, falling far short of what Britain and many poor countries were seeking and leaving […]

Climate Hypocrites

Island nations underwater, and offsetting princes.

By Mark Steyn National Review December 19, 2009

The best summation of the U.N. climate circus in Denmark comes from Andrew Bolt of Australia’s Herald Sun: “Nothing is real in Copenhagen — not the temperature record, not the predictions, not the agenda, not the ‘solution.’ ”…

…The Prince of […]

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