The Independent has a different slant ...

Arctic's vanishing sea ice presents polar bear with a new danger – grizzlies
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/arctics-vanishing-sea-ice-presents-polar-bear-with-a-new-danger-ndash-grizzlies-2161640.html

The BBC has another Polar bear story ...

Polar bears can be saved by emissions cuts, study says
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11986236

I bought a copy of HSI via Amazon here in the USA a few months ago.
Today I got an email from Amazon asking me to sell it back!
Don't know what it all means, but I'm keeping my copy.

The Energy and Climate Change Committee will hold a one-off oral evidence session on the UN climate change negotiations in Cancun on Wednesday 15 December 2010 in the Thatcher room [updated], Portcullis House.
Who is giving evidence?
At 3.15 pm the Committee will hear from:

Department of Energy and Climate Change:
• Rt Hon Chris Huhne MP, Secretary of State,
• Gregory Barker MP, Minister of State, and
• Mr Pete Betts, Director, International Climate Change.
Timings are approximate.

What will be discussed?
• The outcome of the Cancun conference and what this means for international efforts to tackle climate change;
• Key matters arising from the conference;
• The role of the UK and EU in the negotiations, and
• The prospects for further international action on climate change.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/dec/08/conservative-mep-climate-sceptic-posters

"Conservative MEP spends £9,000 on climate sceptic poster campaign

Roger Helmer uses taxpayers' money to promote his climate sceptic beliefs on giant billboards"

I don't know how I missed this!

There is a remarkable section on a NASA website which talks a lot of sense about climate, relegating CO2 to a relatively minor role. A writer on American Thinker has drawn attention to it here: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/12/climate_change_its_the_sun_stu.html

"The Sun is the primary forcing of Earth's climate system. Sunlight warms our world. Sunlight drives atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns. Sunlight powers the process of photosynthesis that plants need to grow. Sunlight causes convection which carries warmth and water vapor up into the sky where clouds form and bring rain. In short, the Sun drives almost every aspect of our world's climate system and makes possible life as we know it.

"... According to scientists' models of Earth's orbit and orientation toward the Sun indicate that our world should be just beginning to enter a new period of cooling -- perhaps the next ice age...

"Other important forcings of Earth's climate system include such "variables" as clouds, airborne particulate matter, and surface brightness. Each of these varying features of Earth's environment has the capacity to exceed the warming influence of greenhouse gases and cause our world to cool. "

Have a look at Guardian website. Huhne scraps green bank (or words to that effect).

steveta

Telling a Nottingham jury that coal should be left in the ground. Not a good move.

Grumpy Olde

This was the best bit from the Lords:

Lord Marland (who else); answering the Bishop of Chester....
"I thank the Church of England for the example that it has set through step change in driving the church towards nil carbon emissions in the near future. Again, that is leading by example."

NIL carbon (dioxide) emissions- stop breathing immediately, your grace (of Chester)

New Electric Car Subsidies.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11993882

Looks like TATA is getting a slice. How nice!