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Dec 16, 2009 5:03 AM CST

Police Tear Gas Climate Protesters

Some 230 protesters have been detained

(Newser) - Copenhagen's climate protests turned ugly today, as police used tear gas and batons to disperse crowds that were trying to disrupt the UN conference. A police spokesman said 230 protesters had been detained in the clashes. Television reports showed a man being pushed from the roof of a police van...

Dems Still Need Lieberman on Other Issues

analysis

Dec 15, 2009 2:00 PM CST

Dems Still Need Lieberman on Other Issues

White House working with him on climate change, gay benefits

(Newser) - Joe Lieberman’s health care gadfly act may have Democrats royally cheesed off, but they’re still working with the Connecticut senator on other important legislation. White House officials regularly meet with Lieberman on climate change, sources tell Talking Points Memo , as well as several bills in the Homeland Security...

Palin's a Flip-Flopper
on Climate Change

EUGENE ROBINSON

Dec 15, 2009 1:46 PM CST

Palin's a Flip-Flopper on Climate Change

She made sense while governor; now, not so much

(Newser) - Back when Sarah Palin was the governor of Alaska, she was pragmatic and forward-looking on climate change, Eugene Robinson writes, and not the shrill, nonsensical reactionary we now know. She toyed with “carbon-trading markets,” set up a high-level commission on climate change, and acknowledged that the problem affected...

Climate Activists Shouldn't Be Anti-Human

OPINION

Dec 15, 2009 1:20 AM CST

Climate Activists Shouldn't Be Anti-Human

Solving the problem requires faith in the future

(Newser) - Many activists battling global warming are doing their cause and their species a disservice by displaying a nihilistic and anti-human attitude, writes Anne Applebaum. Declaring that the end of the world is nigh or pushing for population-reduction initiatives to cut carbon emissions is a "profoundly negative" way to treat...

Copenhagen Summit a Face-off Between US, China

Analysis

Dec 14, 2009 11:31 AM CST

Copenhagen Summit a Face-off Between US, China

Tensions flaring over whether China deserves international aid

(Newser) - The Copenhagen talks are starting to look like an economic face-off between Washington and Beijing, with the US concerned by China’s growing footprint and China accusing the US of not living up to its responsibilities. Nearly half the growth in global greenhouse gas emissions over the next 20 years...

Developing Countries
Boycott Climate Talks

COPENHAGEN SUMMIT

Dec 14, 2009 9:23 AM CST

Developing Countries Boycott Climate Talks

Refuse to participate unless rich countries cut more

(Newser) - A group of 125 developing countries, including China and India, boycotted the climate change talks in Copenhagen today, accusing developed countries of trying to ditch the Kyoto protocol, and the penalties it imposes on them if they don't meet emissions limits. The Africa-led move created chaos at the talks, which...

Denmark
Releases
1K Protesters

UPDATED

Dec 13, 2009 6:03 AM CST

Denmark Releases 1K Protesters

Thirteen remain in custody; more protests planned today

(Newser) - Danish police today released hundreds of activists who were detained during a mass rally demanding strong action from the UN climate conference. Police said only 13 of the 968 people detained during and after the demonstration in Copenhagen remained in custody today. Of those, three—two Danes and a Frenchman—...

Copenhagen Talks Will
[Doom] [Save] World

time to pick a bracket

Dec 12, 2009 3:15 PM CST

Copenhagen Talks Will [Doom] [Save] World

It's a numbers game now for world leaders

(Newser) - Copenhagen now boils down to a preposterously simple numbers game, writes Michael McCarthy. The draft text released yesterday leaves momentous decisions like how much to limit carbon emissions as choices surrounded by square brackets. Take the long-term target for cutting CO2 emissions, for instance. Should nations cut them by [50]...

Protesters Descend
on Copenhagen

updated

Dec 12, 2009 12:22 PM CST

Protesters Descend on Copenhagen

Police detain about 600 youths when bricks are thrown

(Newser) - Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Copenhagen today to press world leaders for progress on global warming. Estimates ranged from 40,000 (from police) to 100,000 (from organizers). Police say they detained about 600 black-clad youths after bricks were thrown at officers, reports AP . Earlier,...

New Proposals Boost Hopes of Copenhagen Deal

climate summit

Dec 11, 2009 4:00 PM CST

New Proposals Boost Hopes of Copenhagen Deal

Negotiators appear ready to extend, build on Kyoto protocol

(Newser) - New draft proposals at the Copenhagen summit have renewed optimism that negotiators will find consensus on a substantial deal. One plan would renew and extend the Kyoto protocol—this time, presumably, with a US endorsement—which is set to expire in 2012. Another draft proposal, framed as a "Kyoto...

Australia Warns Ships
About Iceberg

Dec 11, 2009 2:28 PM CST

Australia Warns Ships About Iceberg

Industry told to watch out for 54-square-mile mass

(Newser) - Australian authorities today warned ships to watch out for the 54-square-mile iceberg that’s slowly approaching the continent’s southwest coast. The once-in-a-century iceberg broke off the coast of Antarctica roughly a decade ago and has been creeping toward the land down under ever since. It's still about 1,000...

Developing Nations
Were In on 'Danish Text'

CLIMATE summit

Dec 10, 2009 10:17 AM CST

Developing Nations Were In on 'Danish Text'

China, India helped draft leaked agreement they railed against

(Newser) - The “Danish text”—the leaked climate change agreement that infuriated developing nations in Copenhagen and sparked accusations of bullying by rich countries—was actually drafted by a group that included China, India, and Brazil, among other countries. They had “input into the process and product” of the...

Palin: Gore's Wrong! I'm Not
a Denier...

IT'S COMPLICATED

Dec 10, 2009 8:54 AM CST

Palin: Gore's Wrong! I'm Not a Denier...

...I just don't think humans are to blame for global warming

(Newser) - Sarah Palin says Al Gore was wrong to call her a climate change “denier,” even though she doesn’t think humans are “primarily responsible” for global warming. Asked about a Palin op-ed that called for President Obama to boycott the Copenhagen climate change summit, Gore replied, “...

Al Gore: Climategate
Changes Nothing

Interview

Dec 9, 2009 1:57 PM CST

Al Gore: Climategate Changes Nothing

Uproar over 10-year-old emails just 'sound and fury'

(Newser) - Al Gore thinks the so-called climategate emails are nothing but “sound and fury,” dredged up by the "noise machine built by the climate deniers," and “do not in any way cause any question about the scientific consensus.” In an interview with Slate , Gore notes...

Climate Activists
Scale Colosseum

Dec 9, 2009 8:16 AM CST

Climate Activists Scale Colosseum

Greenpeace protesters urge Copenhagen deal

(Newser) - As the sun rose over the Colosseum in Rome this morning, something else was going up: Greenpeace activists climbed the first two tiers of the ancient building in a demonstration urging a climate change deal at Copenhagen. Protesters dressed in orange jumpsuits held up a banner reading, "Copenhagen: Make...

Post, Palin
Skewered for
Climate Op-Ed

COMMENTARY ROUNDUP

Dec 9, 2009 6:15 AM CST

Post, Palin Skewered for Climate Op-Ed

'Climategate' piece slammed for dismissing science

(Newser) - The Washington Post's decision to run an op-ed piece by Sarah Palin on the "Climategate" emails is attracting almost as much derision as Palin's call for President Obama to boycott the Copenhagen conference, the Huffington Post notes. Here's an attitude roundup:

Palin was "looking for a way to

...

1% Warming Chance
Is Cause Enough to Act

THOMAS FRIEDMAN

Dec 9, 2009 1:22 AM CST

1% Warming Chance Is Cause Enough to Act

'Cheney Doctrine' should apply to climate change

(Newser) - Dick Cheney once said that a 1% chance of al-Qaeda obtaining a nuke was reason enough to prepare for it, and that same logic should be applied to catastrophic global warming, writes Thomas L. Friedman. Despite "Climategate," the chances look a lot higher than 1%, he notes in...

Palin to Obama: Boycott
'Politicized' Copenhagen

SARAH PALIN

Dec 8, 2009 8:40 PM CST

Palin to Obama: Boycott 'Politicized' Copenhagen

Climategate emails prove how flawed summit is

(Newser) - Contending that the so-called “Climategate” emails prove how politicized and flawed the ongoing summit is, Sarah Palin urges President Obama to boycott the Copenhagen gathering. “The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won’t change the weather,” she writes in the Washington Post , “but they would...

Leaked Text Causes Chaos
in Copenhagen

climate talks

Dec 8, 2009 4:24 PM CST

Leaked Text Causes Chaos in Copenhagen

Developing nations say they're getting an unfair deal

(Newser) - Leaders of developing countries angrily accused rich nations of cutting them out of the negotiations at the Copenhagen climate summit after the leak of a secret draft agreement. The Guardian got hold of the draft, known as the "Danish text," and says it would allow rich nations to...

UN: '00s Warmest Decade Ever

Dec 8, 2009 8:26 AM CST

UN: '00s Warmest Decade Ever

Weather agency says 2009 among the five warmest years

(Newser) - This decade is very likely to be the warmest ever recorded, with 2009 ranking among the top-five warmest years, the UN’s meteorological agency told the Copenhagen climate conference today. Since records began in 1850, the warmest years have been 2005, 1998, 2007 and 2006. The current year is set...