There is stress inside and protests outside.  The Climate Summit is clearly in a dark cloud of discord.  According to Reuters today the “Kyoto pact was in ‘intensive care’  two days before heads of state from around the globe are expected to agree a deal to slow rising temperatures set to cause heat waves, floods, desertification and rising seas.”
This video from December 8th portrays some of the skepticism that has clouded the conference philosophy.

The Climate Change Conference in Cophenhagen is a two week summit. BBC News reports that Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen has described the UN climate summit in Copenhagen as an “opportunity the world cannot afford to miss”. BBC News - Copenhagen summit urged to take climate change action

Although White House spokesman Robert Gibbs stated that most Americans believe that global warming is not “in dispute anymore,” Rasmussen Reports’ latest poll contradicts him. The new poll reveals that:
Fifty-two percent (52%) of Americans believe that there continues to be “significant disagreement within the scientific community over global warming”; and
“Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Americans say it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists have falsified research data to support their own theories and beliefs about global warming. Thirty-five percent (35%) say it’s Very Likely. Just 26% say it’s not very or …

The astonishing news from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) continues.
The Sunday Times reports that the scientists at the CRU at the University of East Anglia admitted that they threw away “much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.”
The CRU made this admission in response a Freedom of Information request. Scientists who have sought access to this data for years now learn that the raw data was purportedly dumped in the 1980’s.

Last month, the BBC raised the question “What happended to global warming?” And, yesterday Der Spiegel, published an article noting more climatologists are acknowledging that that average global temperatures have not risen over the last 10 years.
“Even though the temperature standstill probably has no effect on the long-term warming trend, it does raise doubts about the predictive value of climate models, and it is also a political issue. For months, climate change skeptics have been gloating over the findings on their Internet forums. This has prompted many a climatologist to …

The Ogiek people, East Africa’s honey-hunting forest dwellers, are about to lose their home, according to Minority Rights International (MRG). The news comes as the Kenyan government has approved plans to forcibly remove thousands of settlers from the Mau Forest, the Ogiek’s ancestral lands.