The European Parliament’s delegation to Copenhagen has its reputation in tatters after it has emerged that the far-right, racist leader of the British National Party, Nick Griffin will be part of the official delegation.
For anyone who may have heard Griffin’s repugnant racist views on immigration or the holocaust, it will come as no surprise that [...]

You are going to start having to be a skilled mathematician and serious spinwatcher to wade through the political commitments being made before Copenhagen.
Take China’s announcement –which is being hailed as significant as it is the country’s first ever carbon reduction commitment. The country’s Cabinet has pledged to reduce CO2 per unit of gross domestic [...]

President Obama has ended weeks of speculation by finally announcing that he is going to Copenhagen. For that he has to be congratulated.
The fact that he is the first American President to attend the US climate meetings is also a positive step too (although it does not say much for his predecessors).

We have always known that the oil industry and the Republican Party make close bedfellows, but now Obama’s Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, has launched a stinging attack on the oil industry saying it was acting “like an arm” of the Republicans.
He lambasted the industry for issuing “untruths” about the Obama Administration’s oil and gas lease [...]

The climate sceptics are riding high this week as the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia continue to make news.
Riding the crest of the wave is the ex-British Chancellor Nigel Lawson, who is rapidly re-inventing himself as a climate sceptic cause célèbre.
The timing of the leaked emails this week could not have come [...]