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Unforeseen climate 'crisis' - Washington Times
Source: The Washington Times

A climate crisis of worldwide proportions is unfolding right before our eyes, and not even the most powerful world leaders can do anything to stop it.

British PM Brown: UK faces a climate catastrophe of floods, droughts and killer heatwaves
Source: BBC News

UK PM Gordon Brown warns that Copenhagen negotiators have 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the "impasse", telling the Major Economies Forum in London there was "no plan B".

New Statesman Leader on Copenhagen: World leaders need to become green heroes too
Source: New Statesman Contents

"heroes ...who lead from the bottom up, corralling support for their cause by being passionate, committed and practically engaged. If the politicians can only delay and equivocate, we must take matters into our own hands."

Sri Lanka Minister on First World "Climate Nazism, Climate Racism and Climate Terrorism"
Source: Sunday Observer

Sri Lanka Minister: "So in Copenhagen, developing countries will have a moral high ground... developed countries only have brute force and concepts like Climate Nazism, Climate Racism and Climate Terrorism. "

Dr Lovelock: "Climate war could kill nearly all of us, leaving survivors in the Stone Age"
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Lovelock: "We have enjoyed 12,000 years of climate peace since the last shift from a glacial age to an interglacial one. Before long, we may face planet-wide devastation worse even than unrestricted nuclear war ..."

Experts: GHG pollution 50% greater than thought, livestock give over 51% of GHGs pa
Source: World Watch

World Bank Group environmentalists have re-examined greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution due to methanogenic livestock - total GHG pollution is 50% greater than thought previously and livestock contribute over 51% of total.

Australians Face Reality On Sea-Level Rise - plus 1.1 meters means 2 million Oz refugees
Source: Countercurrents

Official Australian report based on conservative IPCC projections : with a sea-level rise of 1.1 meters about two million Australians would become refugees and have to leave their homes and the places they love.

Controversial new climate change results
Source: PhysOrg.com

New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of CO2 has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of CO2 having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now.

North Atlantic Fish Populations Shifting As Ocean Temperatures Warm
Source: Science Daily

Just more undeniable proof to add to the Mountains of Evidence that Gore's correct and the Deniers are Flat-Earthers.

Climate change belief given same legal status as religion
Source: Telegraph

In a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that "a belief in man-made climate change ... is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations".

Oz Government CSIRO bid to GAG top economist's attack on Obama-style carbon ETS
Source: Australian News Network

The taxpayer-funded research organization CSIRO has reportedly stopped publication of a peer-reviewed research article by a top ecological economist critical of Obama-style carbon trading-based ETS approach

Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) back Direct Carbon Pricing + Revenue Recycling
Source: PDA

Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) finalized a months-long process with their endorsement of direct carbon pricing, with revenue recycling as the preferred method for reducing carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere.

Maldives President: save us from global warming - today to US means tomorrow to YOU
Source: Daily Times

"It is important to defend the Maldives which is on the frontline of climate change. If it can happen today to our nation, tomorrow it can happen with you as well...climate change is happening and the world is going to end."

"We should be terrified": Top Scientists' 350 ppm CO2 by 2050 Too Ambitious, Say MPs
Source: IPS

Faced with Dr Fankhauser's 350 ppm CO2 proposal MP Barry Gardiner, asked the 120 legislators present whether they believed limiting CO2 concentration to 350 ppm by 2050 was practicable. Only two said yes.

Bob Carter with a down under view of climate science
Source: wattsupwiththat

A very very cogent exposition of the inversion of science that is at the heart of the political movement that is AGW.

Fidel Castro: ALBA countries to defend humanity at Copenhagen & survival of the species
Source: Countercurrents

Quote: "no longer "Homeland or Death"; it is truly and without exaggeration a matter of "Life or Death" for the human race...In Copenhagen, the ALBA and the Third World countries will be struggling for the survival of the species."

Spencer: AGW has all the characteristics of an "urban legend"
Source: Dr. Roy Spencer

I contend that the belief in human-caused global warming as a dangerous event, either now or in the future, has most of the characteristics of an urban legend. Like other urban legends, it is based upon an element of truth.

New York Times report on 350 ppm CO2 target & 350 Day events around the world
Source: The New York Times

NYT summary of 24 October 2009 350 Day: "[for] an international climate accord:a synchronized burst of more than 4,300 demonstrations, from the Himalayas to the Great Barrier Reef, all centered on the number 350."

24 Oct 350 Day - scientists say return air CO2 to 300-350 ppm

24 October is UN Day but also 350 Day for activists around the world demanding a return of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration to no higher than 350 parts per million (ppm) - Scientists say 300-350 ppm CO2.

NOAA: Second Hottest September on Record and A Virtual Tie With 1998 for Hottest Lower Troposphere from Satellite Data
Source: NOAA, climateprogress

The combined global land and ocean surface temperatures for September 2009 ranked as the second warmest September on record since records began in 1880.

Liberal Editor Suggests Making the Recession 'Worse'
Source: CNSNews.com

Emily Douglas, Web editor for The Nation magazine, said Wednesday that making the "recession worse" and making goods "more expensive" for Americans are means to reduce consumerism and preserve the environment. Douglas was one of three journalists participating in a p …

Greenpeace accuses New Zealand world's #1 dairy export company of "climate crime"
Source: M&C

Greenpeace activists arrested at NZ port; Greenpeace said that clearing rain forests in Indonesia and Malaysia to plant palm plantations is causing 'massive carbon emissions,' which are blamed for global warning.

Four Degrees of Devastation-Population Elimination?
Source: Common Dreams

UXBRIDGE, Canada - The prospect of a four-degree Celsius rise in global average temperatures in 50 years is alarming - but not alarmist, climate scientists now believe.

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