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• At least 60 killed by cold snap across Europe
• MUST READ: WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord
• Campaign Against Climate Change: a Christmas appeal
• Global Warming… no Global Cooling… no Global Warming…NO, IT’S COOLING!
• Ministers at climate change conference flying to luxury beach resort

At least 60 killed by cold snap across Europe Posted: 04 Dec 2010 03:23 PM PST [h/t to Dave] At least 60 people have died across Europe during the current cold snap, as snow plagued transport in Britain on Friday and serious flooding prompted mass evacuations in the Balkans. Seventeen people died in Central Europe in the last 24 hours from the cold, bringing the total this week to 45. A further 11 died in Russia, plus three in France and one in Germany, according to local authorities.

MUST READ: WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord Posted: 04 Dec 2010 01:17 PM PST Embassy dispatches show America used spying, threats and promises of aid to get support for Copenhagen accord Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage.

Campaign Against Climate Change: a Christmas appeal Posted: 04 Dec 2010 10:42 AM PST Van family This is the time of year when our thoughts naturally turn to those less fortunate than ourselves. We think of the mentally ill and the tragically deluded; we think of those so poor their home is a rusting, broken down 60s VW Combi with an Atomkraft Nein Danke sticker on the back, so crippled by their crazed notions of what constitutes "good" and "bad" transport that they can only travel anywhere by foot, bicycle or coracle; we think of those whose womenfolk plait the hair under their armpits in solidarity with the world's oppressed, whose men don't wash for months on end for fear of polluting Mother Gaia's precious clear lifeblood with soap suds; we think of people who can't eat meat, not even a turkey at Christmas, because their strange, backwards religion confines them to bean shoots, mung beans or organic tofu roast.

Global Warming… no Global Cooling… no Global Warming…NO, IT’S COOLING! Posted: 04 Dec 2010 10:32 AM PST I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm totally confused. Our president speaks of global warming and the need to act, and to act now, before our planet ceases to exist. According to another planet savior, Al Gore, "the Obama administration has taken huge strides towards tackling climate change. Within one month of taking office Obama had secured $80 billion for renewable energy and green infrastructure." Gore himself claims "urgent action is needed for a problem not faced before." Or has it? Read on and see if you become as confused as I am?

Ministers at climate change conference flying to luxury beach resort Posted: 04 Dec 2010 10:38 AM PST The boondoggle to beat all boondoggles. More than 15,000 people have flown in for the annual United Nations summit. Chris Huhne, the energy and climate change minister, will lead 45 delegates from Britain staying at the £240-a-night Moon Palace, where each room has a jacuzzi. The hotel boasts bars, a crazy-golf course and crocodile-filled ponds. The £43 million conference, guarded by the Mexican army, has been criticised by local environmentalists for turning a blind eye to pollution and deforestation on the heavily built-up hotel strip where it is being held.

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