Dec 9, 2009 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Telegraph: A giant iceberg double the size of Sydney Harbour is on a slow but steady collision course with Australia, scientists have said. The mammoth chunk of ice, which measures 12 miles long and five miles wide, was spotted floating close to the mainland by scientists at the Australian Antarctic Division (ADD). Known as B17B, it is currently ...
Continue ReadingDec 8, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 8 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that emails leaked from a British university have done nothing to undermine the United Nations' view that climate change is accelerating due to humans. "Nothing that has come out in the public as a result of the recent email hackings has cast doubt ...
Continue ReadingDec 8, 2009 9 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Guardian: Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after 'Danish text' leak Developing countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN's negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders ...
Continue ReadingDec 8, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
08 Dec 2009 15:09:51 GMT Source: Reuters UNITED NATIONS, Dec 8 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that emails leaked from a British university have done nothing to undermine the United Nations' view that climate change is accelerating due to humans. "Nothing that has come out in the public as a result of the ...
Continue ReadingDec 7, 2009 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Lisa jackson is Obama's right hand in the hoax called global warming. Today, the EPA handed itself complete control of American industry. If cap and trade faiils to pass, Obama can achieve the same thing through the EPA's new powers as the absolute, unchecked dictator of American life. The Hill: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...
Continue ReadingDec 7, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Copenhagen Post: Participants in the COP15 climate summit should not be subject to Christmas symbols such as fir trees, says the foreign ministry Although the COP15 climate conference is set to take place during the Christmas season, the Foreign Ministry believes the holiday and all its symbols should be kept well clear of the summit. That point ...
Continue ReadingDec 7, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Politico: COPENHAGEN — Saudi Arabia called for an independent investigation into “climategate†Monday, warning that the scandal over stolen e-mails threatened to undermine the global-warming negotiations beginning here. “We believe this scandal — or what has been referred to as the ‘climategate’ scandal — we think this is definitely going to affect the nature of what could ...
Continue ReadingDec 7, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Telegraph: On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen's biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the "summit to save the world", which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200. "We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention," she ...
Continue ReadingDec 4, 2009 14 Comments ›› Erik Wong
News Busters: Fake but accurate rides again! The same lame defense Dan Rather used in Memogate has been trotted out on ClimateGate by Columbia Univ. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs. Appearing on Morning Joe today, the author of Common Wealth [note play on words: your money is our money] alleged that the real victims in this ...
Continue ReadingDec 4, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Hill: The U.N.'s decision this week to investigate whether some of its climate change research had been manipulated constitutes a "direct rebuke" of the Obama administration, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Friday. The White House's unwillingness to open a similar inquiry could now only be characterized as "a sad abdication of their responsibility to ensure that ...
Continue ReadingDec 4, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
NRC Handelsblad: Denmark, which hosts the UN climate change conference next week, is often seen as one of the most environmentally friendly countries in the world. This reputation is mostly undeserved, but Denmark is doing its best to catch up. Pay a visit to Jens Lyhne's home in Hurup Thy, in the northwest of Denmark, and you ...
Continue ReadingDec 4, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON (AP) - Cooler temperatures in North America last year do not mean global warming is easing, government and academic scientists said Friday. Their report comes just days before President Barack Obama heads to Copenhagen, Denmark, to speak at a United Nations conference on climate change. Rising temperatures over decades have prompted scientific concern, and the last ...
Continue ReadingDec 4, 2009 12 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Spiegel: Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to city hotels warning summit guests not to patronize Danish sex workers during the upcoming conference. Now, the prostitutes have struck back, offering free sex to anyone who produces one of the warnings. Copenhagen's city council in conjunction with Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards out to 160 Copenhagen hotels ...
Continue ReadingDec 3, 2009 12 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Telegraph: So many new developments: which story do we pick? Maybe best to summarise, instead. After all, it’s not like you’re going to find much of this reported in the MSM. 1. Australia’s Senate rejects Emissions Trading Scheme for a second time. Or: so turkeys don’t vote Christmas. Expect to see a lot more of this: politicians ...
Continue ReadingDec 3, 2009 30 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Washington Times: Former Vice President Al Gore on Thursday abruptly canceled a Dec. 16 personal appearance that was to be staged during the United Nations' Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which begins next week. As described in The Washington Times' Inside the Beltway column Tuesday, the multimedia public event to promote Mr. Gore's new book, "Our ...
Continue ReadingDec 3, 2009 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Sacramento Bee: In 2100, Fisherman's Wharf would become Fisherman's Bay, the baseball diamond at AT&T Park would flood and two major Bay Area airports would better serve seaplanes under a climate change model unveiled Wednesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Google. The governor released a new report determining that global warming, left unabated, would lead to ...
Continue ReadingDec 2, 2009 44 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Hill: Leaked e-mails allegedly undermining climate change science should be treated as a criminal matter, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Wednesday afternoon. Boxer, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said that the recently released e-mails, showing scientists allegedly overstating the case for climate change, should be treated as a crime. "You call ...
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