Climate: Copenhagen, Denmark: Conference expectations peaked/piqued, large downturn

"Updated December 02, 2009

Obama's 'prestige' on the line in Copenhagen,

With Climate Deal far from certain

FOXNews.com

Analysts say that while President Obama might help strike a broadly worded climate change deal in Copenhagen, a legally binding replacement for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol may be just as unlikely after his visit as before."

I don't think the question is so much one of Obama's prestige that's on the line, rather it's the whole totalitarian mindset of Dr Phil Jones, head of UK's now-notorious Climatic Research Unit, at the University of East Anglia, it's his mindset that overshadows the two-week Copenhagen assemblage, Dec7-182k9.

The official British wording for "Climatic Research Unit" doesn't quite make sense in North America where "climatic" has hovering in that portion of its semantic web which is sound-based, the sound-connotation of of "climaxic" or "climactic  In this case perhaps we shoud think of "anti-climaxic research unit" 

The apparently culpable CEO of which aforementioned Unit got himself "temporarily" fired today. And his Big Green  collaborator at Pennsylvania State University has been put under the lens for his contributions to the purloined (hacked, leaked) emails. Who next? Who was that third guy? How many more are there?  Who's been shredding docs and emails around the world.

Meantime, the more authoritative critics of Cap 'n Trade, 1997 Kyoto Accords, and their extension / replacement by the hoped-for 2009 Copenhagen Accords presumably to have been result of the conference, are quite vocal at the moment.

Patrick Michaels, former president of the American Association of State Climatologists and environmental fellow at the Cato Institute, said he has his doubts.

"The president is carrying nothing credible in his pocket, so how can he compel people to do something credible?" he said, referring to the fact that Congress has not passed its cap-and-trade bill.

The President may well weave certain testimonials into the fuller fabric of his diplomacy, compared to what is said to be his usually only-pragmatic approach.

-- Lawt