For the moment, no comment about Copenhagen from here. 
For readers who haven't attended a large scientific meeting, this is an attempt to capture the scene.
So, this is the pragmatic reality check: the Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference is worthless, and we just shouldn’t care. It could never be any other way.
The hard [...]
The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
by James Hansen
At the Copenhagen Climate Conference (December 7-18, 2009), one expected guest will be noticeably absent. Dr. James Hansen’s groundbreaking research on climate over [...]
We must make the invisible visible. We must make the vastness perceptible. We must make the alien familiar. We must make the implausible plausible. We have no other choice. [...] 
I've been casting about, recently, for how to express what I mean about the three kinds of non-delusional climate blogs, and what the difference between them might be, in such a way as not to make unnecessary enemies, but also to promote this kind of' [...] 
All members are being asked to vote on the changes that the Council has approved. The proposed changes expand the Council, focusing it on science, and they move the fiduciary responsibility for AGU to a newly created, smaller Board of Directors. The proposed Bylaws outline the working relationship between these [...]
My comment on the RealClimate thread on communicating science:
On a recent article here, Keith (I am guessing Keith Kloor) laments: I'm not defending my professional pride. I know well that journalism has its shortcomings. (See Iraq war for for obvious and tragic example.)
It's always painful to see discussions of climate change in the popular press. People who fail to understand the science always make their positions known with such vehemence.
Eli points us to the latest round from Andrew Freedman at the Washington Post:
9/1/09 Associated Press
Drought in Central Texas is taking toll on trees
Experts blame the lingering Texas drought for an increasing number of dead [...]
FHA is about to adopt new rules explicitly encouraging home buyers to purchase single-family, detached housing in the suburbs rather than attached (condos) in urban cores:
Until now, almost any condo development could apply to FHA for “approved” status, therefore making [...]
I have been gearing up to present an engineer's model of climate change forever. It will be quite a project.To the eye, the drought can be deceptive. In Pipri Village, as in other areas, greenery is evident, even as nearly every field without irrigation is stunted.
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Perhaps the most fraught ethical question in the whole sustainability universe is our obligation to the deep future. Specifically, the question of whether, if we could obtain substantial certainty that our present actions would have significant consequences in the deep future, whether we have any obligation [...] 
Snake eyes.
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