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[DailyFinance] The upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, slated for December, represents an opportunity for the U.S. to urge the world into taking serious action on climate change -- and reclaim America's leadership role in world affairs, a role that has taken a beating of late. Or the U.S. could retreat from that leadership opportunity, sink back into bickering over short-term domestic disputes, and continue what seems to be an ever-increasing slide into paper-tiger status.

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[Energy-Saving News] China Joins The Climate Change Club, Leaving USA In The Cold ...: Chinese President Hu Jintao is expected to announce massive and sweeping pollution commitments for the Eastern superpower, laying down carbon intensity targets, huge renewable energy projects, big increases in mandated industrial energy efficiency and cleaner transportation. With Europe already firmly onboard the Climate Change eco-train, China is showing its full readiness to take its seat at the top table of carbon reduction pace-setters.

[RHRealityCheck.org] Climate Change, Population Growth and Reproductive Health: It's ...: Pro-lifers and pro-choicers in the U.S. are bickering over whose side has the most martyrs and whose has the most blood on its hands. Yet, there are ways both sides can respond together to help stop the abortion war killings.

[Full Comment] National Post editorial board: UN climate change fantasies - Full ...: The unrealistic financial demands of emerging nations is the principal reason G20 finance ministers could not reach an environmental funding agreement last weekend in London and why both G20 leaders summiting in Pittsburgh later this month and UN climate representatives meeting in New York are unlikely to come to any agreements on costs.

[Kyle Wingfield] Facts are cooling off climate alarmism | Kyle Wingfield: Looking to worthless, painful and wasteful oil wars, namely, the “Original Source” of this great recession, to waste time bickering over meaningless things and drag feet on a defining energy bill are sure to shake the embryonic effect of stimulus package that is an interim measure for build-out of a new foundation.

[It's Getting Hot In Here] From the Front Lines of the G20: A Global Climate Wake-Up Call ...: Immediately following the flash mob wake up, everyone gathered will place calls to our Senators in Washington, demanding that they gear up to work diligently on climate and energy policy this fall, thus making a loud and strong flash mob on Monday (along with the 2,000+ other wake up calls worldwide) more important than ever.

[Watts Up With That?] Taking a bite out of climate data « Watts Up With That?: In the early 1980s, with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, scientists at the United Kingdom’s University of East Anglia established the Climate Research Unit (CRU) to produce the world’s first comprehensive history of surface temperature. It’s known in the trade as the “Jones and Wigley” record for its authors, Phil Jones and Tom Wigley, and it served as the primary reference standard for the U.N.

[It's Getting Hot In Here] Greenpeace Hangs Banner to Greet G20 Leaders « It's Getting Hot In ...: Looking to worthless, painful and wasteful oil wars, namely, the “Original Source” of this great recession, to waste time bickering over meaningless things and drag feet on a defining energy bill are sure to shake the embryonic effect of stimulus package that is an interim measure for build-out of a new foundation.

[JoNova] Breaking news: Cherry Picking of Historic Proportions « JoNova: While passing the peer-review process is often considered in the scientific community to be a certification of validity, it is not without its problems. Drummond Rennie, deputy editor of Journal of the American Medical Association is an organizer of the International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication, which has been held every four years since 1986.[7]He remarks, “There seems to be no study too fragmented, no hypothesis too trivial, no literature too biased or too egotistical, no design too warped, no methodology too bungled, no presentation of results too inaccurate, too obscure, and too contradictory, no analysis too self-serving, no argument too circular, no conclusions too trifling or too unjustified, and no grammar and syntax too offensive for a paper to end up in print.”[8]

[Orion Magazine Articles] Climate Change and Conservatives | Bill McKibben | Orion Magazine: But Reason and its ideological cousin the Cato Institute have spent twenty years plumping for any global warming skeptic they can find or fund—their position, apparently, is that the atmospheric chemists and physicists who, by application of the scientific process, have reached broad consensus that we are warming the Earth have somehow managed to screw up the math. It’s embarrassing to read—no argument is too absurd or too trivial.

[Environment » Eoin] Are climate change deniers like creationists? | csmonitor.com: If this blog is the type of propaganda that CSM will allow on their website, perhaps it is time to find another source for news. ...

[RHRealityCheck.org] Family Planning is a Green Technology | RHRealityCheck.org: Steve Sinding,former director of USAID’s Population and Reproductive Health programand an ardent advocate of rights-based family-planning programs,stresses that such programs have been a global success story,comparable to the Green Revolution and the eradication of smallpox.Along with four former USAID program directors, he issued a recentreport that describes successes between 1965 and 2005. Excluding China,they note that during those 40 years, the use of family planning bywomen of reproductive age in the developing world rose from 10 percentto 53 percent and average family size from six children to just overthree.

[The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog] The Spectator: Yes, at some point it will reach a "tipping point", and then AGW will just collapse - and with it, I hope, the kind of politics which has upheld, and used, it (you know the sort I mean) (A propos that, I read - on the net, not the MSM, obviously - that popular support for Obama and his policies is waning, in the US, quite fast). All is not hopeless.

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