New York Times – As Climate Meeting Starts, a Revival of Skepticism


As the big shots of the climate world get together in Copenhagen for the U.N. global warming summit, they are finding that rather than the apotheosis of what I call in my column today the new state religion of Europe, the event has turned into something of an awkward moment.

Writers Andrew Revkin and John Broder explain that just as the elusive consensus was about to be reached, the hacked emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit have given skeptics plenty of ammunition to shoot holes in the idea that Western developed should spend and sacrifice trillions of dollars on the effort to change the earth’s temperature.