By JOHN M. BRODER and JAMES KANTER   Published: December 14, 2009 COPENHAGEN — China and the United States were at an impasse on Monday at the United Nations climate change conference here over how compliance with any treaty could be monitored and verified. China, which last month for the first time publicly announced a [...]

Dec 15, 2009 London Times   The former vice president said new research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years, but the scientist his estimate was based on denies the timeline. There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was hit by an inconvenient one yesterday. The former vice president, who [...]

December 14, 2009   by Bruce Bialosky The release of some 3,000 emails hacked from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University illuminates the true intent of those in the forefront of one of the most complex scientific and political issues of our times: “Global Warming” (or, if you prefer, “Climate Change”). Never before [...]

Walk in and out of a Copenhagen cul-de-sac Dec 14, 2009 By William R. Hawkins As President Obama prepared for the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen, he should have remembered President Clinton’s experience at another international conference, in Seattle 10 years ago. In 1999, the World Trade Organization tried to launch a new round [...]

Dec 14, 2009 COPENHAGEN —  U.N. climate talks have been thrown into disarray as developing countries blocked negotiations, demanding that rich countries raise their pledges for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Representatives from developing countries said they refused to participate in any working groups Monday at the 192-nation summit until the issue was resolved. The move was [...]

Dec 14, 2009 by Brian Montopoli With world leaders debating how to address climate change in Copenhagen and the U.S. Senate poised to take up a climate bill in the coming months, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds that just 37 percent of Americans believe the issue should be a priority for government [...]

Dec 13, 2009 By Randall Hoven You might hear climate change “deniers” saying recent temperatures show global cooling.  But then you hear climate “scientists” say the last 10 years were the warmest on record.  Who’s right? They both are. That is, if you accept, say, the NASA/GISS Global Annual Mean Surface Air Temperature Change (land-ocean [...]

Smoke and mirrors behind climate treaty push Dec 13, 2009 By Lee Lane and W. David Montgomery Stephen Krasner has written that “organized hypocrisy” is common practice in world politics. He means states often paper over conflicts with sham accords while each continues to pursue its own interests. Thus, 187 nations have signed the Kyoto [...]

Radical environmentalists seek secular utopia Dec 13, 2009 By Jeffrey T. Kuhner Radical environmentalists are forging a new socialist post-democracy that is slowly undermining representative government. The myth of global warming along with the Environmental Protection Agency have become the hammer and sickle of eco-Marxism – the new green-red alliance that seeks to destroy capitalism [...]

December 12, 2009   by Bill O’Reilly At the opening of the climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, this week, they showed a video of children trapped by onrushing water. One little girl was left hanging on to a tree limb. Chicken Little had to be proud. But I am not here to run down [...]