The UN international climate change conference is in chaos as the G77, which represents 130 developing countries "pulled the emergency plug" suspending the talks over wealthy countries' reluctance to discuss a legally binding emissions treaty. Empire Burlesque: Boiling Point: Hijacking the Planet for Power and Privilege. NYT: China and U.S. Hit Strident Impasse at Climate Talks. Global Research: Scripting Climate History: The Copenhagen Talks So Far.

It appears bigger things are brewing related to CRU’s Climategate. WUWT: Gore gets caught in a factual fabrication at Copenhagen. Climate Depot: Brochure reveals Gore accurately cited scientist's prediction of ice-free Arctic -- It is the Scientist who has the explaining to do -- not Gore.

1. Politicians and activists say we must tackle global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but there is no real scientific proof that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases resulting from human activity.

Christopher Monckton discusses with a Lady from Greenpeace. CFACT: Socialists and Communists march to support global warming agenda. AWIP/Quadrant: Brave New Green World.

Pielke’s verdict on the scandal is damning. ‘These emails open up the possibility that big scientific questions we’ve regarded as settled may need another look. 'They reveal that some of these scientists saw themselves not as neutral investigators but as warriors engaged in battle with the so-called sceptics. ‘They have lost a lot of credibility and as far as their being leading spokespeople on this issue of huge public importance, there is no going back.’ Canada Free Press: The criminals at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in England brazenly defend the indefensible: The New Big Lie: Climategate Emails Are Not Significant.

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Her commentary includes:

● The short synopsis of how we paid to find a crisis.
● The one flaw that wipes out the catastrophe. (They can be right about carbon but wrong about water… and that eliminates two-thirds of their predicted warming.)
● Nine behaviours of the real deniers — there are lots of ways to deny the evidence.
● How carbon dioxide greens the world, why clouds dominate the climate, and if carbon didn’t cause the recent warming, what else might have?
● The short summary of the baseless hockey stick graph, with a devastating map of the vast array of peer reviewed information that demonstrates just how brazen the Hockey Stick “re-interpretation” of history was.
● How you can create a compelling crisis in a graph in six simple steps.
● The Checklist: How do you tell a scientist from a non-scientist? (A Skeptic from an Unskeptic?)

“Bullying is their root strength. Take it away from them and they will crumble.”

The People's Voice: ETS Forum - Science bullies JoNova: DeSmog accidentally vindicates The Skeptics Handbook: DeSmogBlog could’ve flattened The Skeptics Handbook in just one sentence. All they had to do was point to empirical evidence that more CO2 forces temperatures up. They can’t and everything else is bluster and bluff.

From the “weather is not climate” department. 815 new snowfall records, 304 low temperature, and 403 lowest max temperature records were set this week.

With the world’s attention on Copenhagen, why have we not heard more about several scandalous frauds involving carbon trading, frauds that rather inconveniently centre on Denmark’s own quotas? The Copenhagen Post ran the story under the headline:”Denmark rife with CO2 fraud.”

The Copenhagen climate talks hit trouble tonight as a number of African countries indicated their leaders would refuse to take part in the final summit unless significant progress was made in the next three days. The showdown between rich and poor countries came as ministers began arriving in Copenhagen to take over negotiations. However, negotiators failed to reach agreement in key areas such as emission cuts, long-term finance and when poor countries should start to reduce emissions. More than 110 heads of state, mainly from developing countries, are due to begin arriving on Thursday for an intense 24 hours of final negotiations.

Industrial agriculture may emit nearly half of climate-heating greenhouse gases, but that reality has gone unrecognised by negotiators at the climate treaty talks here, say farmers with La Via Campesina, an international movement of hundreds of millions of small-scale peasant farmers. "Small-scale farmers use 80 percent less energy than large monocultures," said Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, a Haitian farmer with Mouvement de Paysan, through a translator. "Peasant farmers from La Via Campesina and others can help cool the planet," Jean-Baptiste told a press conference at the Klimaforum09, the alternative climate action talks being held here in Copenhagen Dec. 7-18.

What was surprising was that the topic of the leaked emails and documents that has prompted ‘Climategate’ didn’t come up in the questions and answers section. But apparently questions were being asked elsewhere. At another side event Director of the film Not Evil, Just Wrong that criticised the science of climate change, Phelim McAleer, asked Professor Stephen Schneider from Stanford University about ‘Climategate’. But the organisers appeared to decide it was easier to throw McAleer out of the event than allow Schneider to answer his question. WUWT: Video from the Copenhagen Climate Vortex: It’s getting ugly over there, from protesters being arrested by the hundreds, to journalists having their microphones being shut off when asking “inconvenient questions, protesters denying free speech when skeptic Lord Monckton holds a press conference, to hunger strike wizened vacuous talking eco-skeletons.

Journalist Phelim McAleer ('Mind Your Own Business', 'Not Evil Just Wrong') asks Prof Stephen Schneider from Stanford University an Inconvenient Question about 'Climategate' emails. McAleer is interrupted twice by Prof Schneider's assistant and UN staff and then told to stop filming by an armed UN security guard. CFACT: Video: An inconvenient question: These Irish Filmmakers spotlight celebrity hypocrisy at the premier and are promptly shut down.

For the second day in a row, the realists had more fun. The IPCC scientists and politicians are reeling from the Climategate emails and now the Danish leak of disastrous UN proposals. At day two of CFACT's "Climate Sense" conference policy clashes between left and right took place right before our eyes. We continue to witness the same phenomonon. The proponents of global warming talk emotion and anecodote, while the realists talk facts, figures, measurements, history and scientific analysis. CFACT: Monckton names names on Climategate: “When you listen to Chris Monckton clearly, logically and succinctly take you through what transpired at the University of East Anglia, it's like having a bucket of cold water thrown in your face,” said CFACT's Executive Director, Craig Rucker. “This will surely wake people up. Monckton holds nothing back.” Daily Telegraph: Global warming: Reasons why it might not actually exist: 2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved, according to the Telegraph's Christopher Booker. Sceptics have long argued that there are other explanations for climate change other than man-made CO2 and here we look at some of the arguments put forward by those who believe that global warming is all a hoax. LiveLeak: Lord Monckton Explains His Use of the Term "Hitler Youth" -Video. PrisonPlanet: Copenhagen Framework Demands Huge Amounts of Spending, But Allows Enron-Style Accounting Tricks So That Carbon Isn’t Actually Reduced.

Like the debate about climate change in Australia, symbolism over substance is triumphing in Copenhagen and the pledge to make the conference carbon neutral is looking decidedly hard to deliver. The UK’s Telegraph newspaper has reported that 140 private jets are expected by organisers over the conference fortnight, and 1,200 limousines are being used throughout the two weeks of the Conference. The demand for limousines from climate change negotiators is so large that companies have had to drive them from Sweden and Germany because Denmark is under-supplied. Watts Up With That: Counting CRU “tricks”. Cimate Audit / Another World Is Possible: IPCC and the “Trick”. Empire Burlesque: Boiling Point: Hijacking the Planet for Power and Privilege: The plan would let rich nations emit twice as much per capita pollution as developing countries, while the latter will be subject to stiff new dictates from the rich in order to receive technical assistance for climate change programs. The elite plan also calls for completely bypassing the UN – the only international forum in which poor nations feel they stand on a slightly more equal footing with the elite – and turning over climate change funding and future negotiations to an "independent" board … most likely run by that reliable appendage of empire, the World Bank. Watts Up With That: Climategate reaches the British House of Lords. Notsilvia Night / Aletho News: Why are the oligarchic elites trying so hard to push their climate change policies through right now?

"Dealing with climate change is not simply an issue of CO2 emission reduction but a comprehensive challenge involving political, economic, social, cultural and ecological issues, and the population concern fits right into the picture," said Zhao, who is a member of the Chinese government delegation. Many studies link population growth with emissions and the effect of climate change. -Utter nonsense!

In the opening ceremony the Executive Secretary, Yvo de Boer, took the near unprecedented position of outlining the deal he wanted done. By comparison at last week’s World Trade Organisation the Director-General, Pascal Lamy, stated that a conclusion to the Doha Round was desirable, but that what was in it depended on the attitude of member states. This sort of behaviour from the top of the Secretariat down has opened the Secretariat to criticism that it is going well beyond its mandate and its neutrality in negotiations is being questioned. But the Secretariat did assist in transparency at Copenhagen today by releasing a copy of the delegates listing. The three volumes listing the 33,000 registered delegates exposes the circus that the Conference has become. The Australian government alone has more than one hundred registered delegates. WUWT: John Coleman on the “six legged monster”.

Make no mistake. Copenhagen is mainly about a massive wealth transfer from industrialized and energy-producing nations like Canada, to developing nations who will agree to curtail emissions in exchange for having their economic growth offset with welfare from the first world. It would impose no obligations on developing countries, but would set up the clean development mechanism (CDM) by which developed countries could meet commitments by reducing emissions in developing countries, transferring capital in their direction in the process. A global cap and trade scheme.

Unstoppable Solar Cycles: The Real Story of Greenland. The People's Voice / Global Research: Climate Change: Breaking the "Political Consensus".

New analysis released by climate change NGO Sandbag has revealed that the UK’s richest resident, Lakshmi Mittal, CEO and major shareholder of the steel giant ArcelorMittal, could make over £1 billion between now and 2012 from his company’s participation in the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme. ArcelorMittal has over 14 million emissions permits that it does not need in 2008, a figure which Sandbag estimates will rise to 80 million by 2012 making it by far the biggest beneficiary of the scheme across the EU.

"The behind-the-scenes negotiation tactics under the Danish presidency have been focusing on pleasing the rich and powerful countries rather than serving the majority of states who are demanding a fair and ambitious solution," said Kim Carstensen, head of the climate initiative for the environmental group the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Al Jazeera: Leaked climate draft sparks anger. TimesOnline: Copenhagen Summit: wealthy nations accused of 'carbon colonialism'.

Carstensen is pretending to be a spokesperson for the 3rd World. He's not. He represents big money and the WWF is part of the NWO agenda. The main thing to keep in mind is that this conference fundamentally is not about climate, but about an attempt to foist a dictatorial world government upon us all. Their climate data have been fudged, massaged and distroyed. The alleged "warming" has been exaggerated and essentially is a hoax. In terms of climate, there is no cause for alarm, none whatever. Has Anyone Read the Copenhagen Agreement?

“The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.” -Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund

AWIP: "Settled"? It's not even "Science" Lew Rockwell: The Myth of Neutral Academic Peer Review Exploded. USC/EPW: Update: More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims. Outpouring of Skeptical Scientists Continues as 59 Scientists Added to Senate Report. Kenny's Sideshow: Climate Reparations: Coming historically close on the heels of the successful reparation program for the 'Holocaust' comes the UN program to force us to pay for our 'environmental sins.' Everything from 1800 AD is fair game. The 'sins' of our fathers are also ours.

It is hard not to be cynical about the UN Climate Change Conference that opened in Copenhagen, Denmark today. The opening ceremony to the 15th session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP15, opened at the Bella Conference Centre with a video presentation visually demonstrating the looming fate of the world if tough action wasn’t taken to cut emissions from floods and droughts to hurricanes; and concluded with young children asking negotiators and political leaders to “please help save the world”. [...] Rather than admission on a first come, first served basis tickets were issued to “constituent groups” which included large NGO delegations such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and the World Wildlife Fund, or social justice movements like indigenous people’s forums. The consequence was that anyone sceptical of the UN system or the science of climate change never made it into the opening ceremony under the gaze of the world’s media. Instead their voices were sent to the other end of the conference centre out of sight, and out of mind.

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.

Lord Monckton on Climategate at the 2nd International Climate Conference from CFACT EUROPE on Vimeo.

Lord Christopher Monckton speaks at the second International Climate Conference, addressing the so called Climategate scandal and key players involved in what appears to be one of the biggest science scams of our time.

[OCTOBER 28, 2009:] Has Anyone Read the Copenhagen Agreement? The aim is to give a new as yet unnamed U.N. body the power to directly intervene in the financial, economic, tax and environmental affairs of all the nations that sign the Copenhagen treaty. [...] Lord Monckton warns that the aim of the Copenhagen draft treaty is to set up a transnational "government" on a scale the world has never before seen. Interviewed by broadcaster Alan Jones on Sydney radio Monday, Lord Monckton said "this is the first time I've ever seen any transnational treaty referring to a new body to be set up under that treaty as a 'government.' But it's the powers that are going to be given to this entirely unelected government that are so frightening." He added: "The sheer ambition of this new world government is enormous right from the start—that's even before it starts accreting powers to itself in the way that these entities inevitably always do." United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (.pdf)

While the wider world is just beginning to realize that the subfield of paleoclimatology is in shambles (and has been for the last decade), scientists in related disciplines are increasingly fighting back against the shoddy work and orthodoxy that was foisted on them.

"Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial. We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency." Canada Free Press: Organized, Controlled Propaganda.

There's NO emergency, profound or otherwise. None whatsoever. None. This newpaper (The Guardian) is lying to you as do the rest of this sordid bunch of news rags. Take note of who they are because every single one of them now is an integral part of the New World Order media agenda. They will lie to you time and time again:

"We've got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy." - Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation

"We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination...So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts...Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." - Prof. Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports

"The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself." - Club of Rome, premier environmental think-tank, consultants to the United Nations

Science:
Wendy McElroy: "Settled"? It's not even "Science"
FOS: Friends of Science Society Position Statement
Gerald Traufetter: Stagnating Temperatures: Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out
Witze / Henrik Svensmark: Theory Says Climate Change Depends On Solar Wind/Cosmic Rays
Henrik Svensmark: Decreases in Cosmic Rays Affect Athmospheric Aerosols and Clouds + A link between the Sun, cosmic rays, aerosols, and liquid-water clouds appears to exist on a global scale

Climate Scam:
Patrick J. Michaels: The Dog Ate Global Warming
S. Fred Singer: A Review Of 'The Great Global Warming Swindle'
Bob Carter: The science of deceit
Des Moore: The Great Climate Scam
Tim Ball: Climategate; The Supporting Cast - Thought Police Anyone?
Judy Curry: On the credibility of climate research
Doug L. Hoffman: Global Warming Fatigue Spreads
Richard S. Lindzen: Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions?
Christopher Monckton: CLIMATEGATE: Caught Green-Handed! [.pdf]

Climate Religion:
Richard S. Lindzen: Resisting climate hysteria
Peter Smith: Exploiting Guilt: The Copenhagen Treaty and Versailles
Susan Swift: Climate Gate: Where Politics and Religion Unite
John McLean: Climategate: Shutting out dissent
Mervyn F. Bendle: The wisdom of skepticism

Copenhagen:
Aletho News: There's more to climate fraud than just tax hikes
Marco Villa: What You Should Know Before the Copenhagen Summit
Andrew Gilligan: Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges

Henrik Svensmark on Global Warming (part 2)

Danish Scientist Henrik Svensmark has a different theory on Global Warming. He does not think that CO2 is the main cause of Global Warming. He think it is all due to the sun. You can find more information about Svensmarks ideas under his wikipedia-profile: Henrik Svensmark

Michael Schlesinger, a climate scientist at the University of Illinois, sends an message to Andy Revkin of the New York Times (via his widely circulated email distribution list) threatening some sort of boycott -- whatever that means -- of Revkin among climate scientists, for having the gall to mention my views and those of my father. The reference to prostitutes in the email presumably comes from this post at Dot Earth where Revkin mentioned a funny news story in his Twitter feed.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has ludicrously announced that it will conduct its own investigation into the climategate scandal, despite the fact that the suspects involved have intimate ties to the IPCC, with one of the primary scientists accused of manipulating climate data being a lead author of the 1995, 2001, and 2007 IPCC reports.

First, nonscientists generally do not want to bother with understanding the science. Claims of consensus relieve policy types, environmental advocates and politicians of any need to do so. Such claims also serve to intimidate the public and even scientists — especially those outside the area of climate dynamics. Secondly, given that the question of human attribution largely cannot be resolved, its use in promoting visions of disaster constitutes nothing so much as a bait-and-switch scam. That is an inauspicious beginning to what Mr. Gore claims is not a political issue but a “moral” crusade. Lastly, there is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition. An earlier attempt at this was accompanied by tragedy. Perhaps Marx was right. This time around we may have farce — if we’re lucky.