Annual UN climate summits in general:

Another Year, Another Useless UN Climate Summit.  [Scroll down]  Earnest, expensive talk that has been going on for almost 20 years and STILL the UN has nothing to show for it except the tab for tens of thousands of people piling into jets and spewing a carbon trail into the atmosphere just so they can meet and decide to disagree on everything but the fact that have to do it all again in a year's time.  The worst part being, it is all funded by us.  The UN has no means to create wealth to fund its own operations.  It is totally reliant on donations from member countries.

The Earth's atmosphere is composed of 78% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide, and trace amounts of other gases, including water vapor.  We call this "air" and humans depend on the oxygen content for life.  At the same time all six billion of us individually exhale about two pounds of carbon dioxide every day.  By contrast, Nature emits about 30 times more CO2 than humans.  The oceans of the world absorb and release CO2 all the time.  This is Nature's balance that maintains all life, animal and vegetable, on earth.*

A big green rent-seeking machine.  A couple of weeks ago the great global warming bandwagon coughed and spluttered to a halt in Doha, the latest stop on its never-ending world tour.  The annual UN climate conference COP18 is no small affair.  This is a bandwagon whose riders number in the thousands:  motorcades of politicians, buses full of technocrats and policy wonks and jumbo-jets full of hippies travelling half way round the world, (ostensibly) to save the planet from the (allegedly) pressing problem of climate change.

Obama is negotiating the plunder of America's wealth.  The bigwigs are attending the 18th United Nations Conference on Climate Change in the ultra-extravagant Qatar National Conference Centre. Good choice: Qatar has the highest carbon emissions per capita on Earth.  Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, said the agenda in Doha — in addition to the usual items, like stopping hydrocarbon use, transfering wealth, regulating economic growth and controlling people's lives — is to bring about "a complete economic transformation of the world."

British peer ejected from UN climate talks for denouncing protocol.  Lord Monckton of Brenchley was thrown out of the United Nations climate change talks in Doha last night. [...] After a short speech, in which he was booed, he was escorted out of the meeting by UN guards.  He is understood to have claimed there is no global warming in the last sixteen years, and therefore the science needs to be reviewed.  Claiming to represent Asian coastal nations, he is understood to have said:  "In the 16 years we have been coming to these events there has been no global warming at all." [...] He has been banned for life from UN climate talks.

Lord Monckton Evicted from UN Climate Summit After Challenging Global Warming.  Apparently criticizing Islam is not the only thing the UN considers blasphemous. [...] "In the 16 years we have been coming to these conferences, there has been no global warming," Monckton said as confused murmurs filled the hall and then turned into a chorus of boos.

UN climate talks extend Kyoto Protocol, promise compensation.  UN climate talks in Doha have closed with a historic shift in principle but few genuine cuts in greenhouse gases.  The summit established for the first time that rich nations should move towards compensating poor nations for losses due to climate change.

Doha Conference: Rich countries to pay poor ones for climate damage.  Using social justice and global warming, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conference in Doha has now drafted language that would have developed countries pay developing countries for damage done by climate change.  Climate scientists have been unable to prove the link between man-made CO2 emissions and changes in climate and have even lately been admitting that their data and models are flawed.  But, developing countries have been seeking any way to get more aid from wealthier nations and climate change seems to be the best way to do that.

COP18 Hotcoldwetdry Talks Pretty Much End In Failure.  Except for those who enjoyed their government funded working vacation, of course.  They had a great time... well, eating, since no alcohol is allowed in the Muslim nation of Qatar.  As for the talks themselves, really, when you hold them in the world's 3rd highest "Carbon polluting" nation, it's no wonder they failed.

Inhofe says U.N. climate conference is about money.  For U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, the U.N. global warming conference in Doha, Qatar, is not about climate change.  It's about money.  Integral to Inhofe's assertion that climate change theory is a hoax is his belief that the issue is being used to funnel money from wealthier nations, including the United States, to poorer ones, through mechanisms such as the U.N.'s Green Climate Fund.

Another Climate Confab Going Down in Flames?  The latest round of climate talks in Doha began Tuesday in the usual fashion — with a spate of bickering and accusations between developing countries and the West.  China and India led a group of 15-20 developing countries calling for their developed peers to reduce emissions (in particular, Annex 1, the group that took part in the Kyoto protocol).  Greens, for their part, are championing this development.

Doha is dead. On to COP 19!  We can expect the usual last-minute "agreement" — to keep talking — from the UN climate conference in Doha, which comes to a close Friday evening.  These massive Conferences of the Parties (COPs), of which this is the 18th, have descended into ritual farce, as naked money-grabbing on behalf of poor countries contrasts with finagling impossible solutions to what is likely a much-exaggerated problem.  We may be sure that one issue that has not had much play at the conference is the absence of global warming for the past 16 years, which undermines the computer models on which alarmism is based.

Despair after climate conference, but U.N. still offers hope.  At the end of another lavishly-funded U.N. conference that yielded no progress on curbing greenhouse emissions, many of those most concerned about climate change are close to despair.  As thousands of delegates checked out of their air-conditioned hotel rooms in Doha to board their jets for home, some asked whether the U.N. system even made matters worse by providing cover for leaders to take no meaningful action.

Doha Agreement Unraveling As Belarus, Others Consider Kyoto Exit.  Belarus, one of three fossil-fuel reliant states outmanoeuvred at Kyoto pact talks by small island states endangered by climate change, said it may consider quitting the process and Ukraine and Kazakhstan may do the same.

Climate Conference Ends in Disgrace.  Climate negotiators at the most recent conference on global warming were unable to reduce expectations fast enough to match the collapse of their agenda.  As the NYT reports, they concluded the 18th Conference of the Parties by committing "to more ambitious — but unspecified — actions to reduce emissions of climate-altering gases."

Doha Climate Summit Ends With No New CO2 Cuts or Funding.  The United Nations climate talks in Doha went a full extra 24 hours and ended without increased cuts in fossil fuel emissions and without financial commitments between 2013 and 2015.  "This an incredibly weak deal," said Samantha Smith representing the Climate Action Network, a coalition of more than 700 civil society organisations.

US rejects UN telecom bill.  Saying the scope of the treaty was "problematic," US negotiators have rejected the UN telecom accord recently agreed to in Doha.

New Report: Man-made Global Warming Is a Farce.  Extreme Weather Report 2012 was presented at the latest UN Climate Conference in Doha, Qatar, but the only press this landmark study received was when British politician and author Lord Christopher Monckton was kicked out of the conference for presenting it.

The U.N. wants your money, too.  While President Obama and Speaker John Boehner are wrestling with whether or not they will agree to raise taxes, United Nations delegates partying in Doha, Qatar, are planning to impose a new kind of tax on Americans.  U.N. conferees have been discussing how they can start a global tax that would hit Americans hard.

This Is Called Cheating (Part 2).  "Months before authors were even selected to write an upcoming IPCC report, its chairman was telling a live audience what conclusion that report would reach."

Climate Conference Ends in Disgrace.  Climate negotiators at the most recent conference on global warming were unable to reduce expectations fast enough to match the collapse of their agenda.  As the NYT reports, they concluded the 18th Conference of the Parties by committing "to more ambitious — but unspecified — actions to reduce emissions of climate-altering gases."

German Experts Now Calling For An End To Climate Conferences After 20 Years Of Failure.  The UN has been holding climate conferences in a bid to curb man-made CO2 emissions for 20 years.  However CO2 emissions are incresaing at record reates as China, India and an array of third world countries finally develop and begin to vanquish grinding poverty in earnest.  That UN effort has failed completely at curbing the alleged greenhouse gas.

Doha-ha-ha-ha-ha.  [Scroll down]  Yet Kyoto II will cover only about 15 per cent of global emissions.  Canada, Russia, NZ and Japan — where Kyoto I was signed 15 years ago — all abandoned the agreement.  Unlike Australia, the US never ratified it.  It excludes developing countries where emissions are growing most rapidly.

Cooling Down the Fears of Climate Change.  Forget the Doha climate jamboree that ended earlier this month.  The theological discussions in Qatar of the arcana of climate treaties are irrelevant.  By far the most important debate about climate change is taking place among scientists, on the issue of climate sensitivity:  How much warming will a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide actually produce?  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has to pronounce its answer to this question in its Fifth Assessment Report next year.

Ushering in the new (socialist) world order, one crisis at a time.  The U.N.'s latest climate alarmist meeting in Doha, Qatar experienced somewhat of a different sort of man-made crisis in December in the form of a typhoon named Christopher Monckton, the third viscount of Benchley, advisor to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and climate realist.  Temporarily purloining a vacant microphone assigned to a delegate from Burma, he gave the entire audience some very terrifying news ... announcing that "in the 16 years we have been coming to these conferences, there has been no global warming at all."