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As promised from yesterday, here are the top dozen Climate Killers from Rolling Stones list.
According to the magazine, “the polluters and deniers are aiding Big Oil and Big Coal’s campaign to block progress on global warming”.
I am sure you won’t agree with everyone on the list (as I don’t) so here goes:
1.    The Profiteer - [...]

Its not often now in journalism that someone tells you how it is and puts their neck on the line in no nonsense language.
So good old Rolling Stone - the grandfather rock and roll mag that has a great article on how the oil and gas killed hopes of a climate deal in the US [...]

It is one of the ironies of the climate change debate that the greater the urgency for action on climate change, the louder the voices urging for inaction.
There were thousands of corporate lobbyists at Copenhagen trying to undermine effective action. It would also be a foolish person who denied that the sceptics managed to manipulate [...]

So the second week begins and it’s not looking good at all.
The Times newspaper reports that key decisions could be delayed for up to six years if the Copenhagen summit delivers a compromise deal.
The paper says that world leaders might only agree to reviewing cuts in 2015 or 2016.

Slowly there is some political progress as we edge towards Copenhagen.
Some sixty five world leaders will attend the Copenhagen climate talks, although whether Obama actually attends is still anyone’s guess.
Moreover over the last fortnight, three big countries have made major new pledges to cut their carbon emissions.