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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wiki sum</font></div><div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2011:COP_17.2FCMP_7.2C_Durban.2C_South_Africa">2011: COP 17/CMP 7, Durban, South Africa</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span></span></font></h2><div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference" title="2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 2011 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference" title="2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">COP 17</a> was held in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durban,South_Africa" title="Durban, South Africa" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Durban, South Africa</a>, from November 28 to December 9, 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-Dates_and_venues_of_future_sessions_22-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Climate_Change_conference#cite_note-Dates_and_venues_of_future_sessions-22" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[22]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Durban_to_host_climate_conference_24-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Climate_Change_conference#cite_note-Durban_to_host_climate_conference-24" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[24]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The conference agreed to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legally_binding" title="Legally binding" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">legally binding</a> deal comprising all countries, which will be prepared by 2015, and to take effect in 2020</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_11_Dec_2011_25-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Climate_Change_conference#cite_note-Guardian_11_Dec_2011-25" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[25]</a></sup> There was also progress regarding the<b> creation of a </b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Climate_Fund(GCF)" title="Green Climate Fund (GCF)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><b>Green Climate Fund (GCF</b>)</a> for which a management framework was adopted. The fund is to distribute US$100 billion per year to help poor countries adapt to climate impacts.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc111211_26-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Climate_Change_conference#cite_note-bbc111211-26" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[26]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While the president of the conference, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maite_Nkoana-Mashabane" title="Maite Nkoana-Mashabane" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Maite Nkoana-Mashabane</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, declared it a success,</span><sup id="cite_ref-bbc111211_26-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Climate_Change_conference#cite_note-bbc111211-26" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[26]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> scientists and environmental groups warned that the deal was not sufficient to avoid <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" title="Global warming" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">global warming</a> beyond 2 °C as more urgent action is needed.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Climate_Change_conference#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[27]</a></sup></span></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On Wednesday, December 7, CFACT cosponsored a press conference with U.S. Senator James Inhofe at the UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa</b>. The UN broadcast it live on their website, and you can watch the highlights here:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...If you wish to view the full 30-minute press conference, the UN has it available as a webcast here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On Tuesday, CFACT conducted a highly publicized parachute drop which called attention to Climategate 2.0.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Wednesday press conference featured an analysis from Senator Inhofe of the prospects of a new climate treaty in the U.S. Senate. The conference also featured the release of <b>Marc Morano's (publisher of ClimateDepot.com) new report “A-Z Climate Reality Check</b>” which details troubles and failings in what has been falsely proclaimed by global warming advocates to be a “settled scientific consensus.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Climate Depot’s new A-Z report reveals that the great man-made global warming catastrophe that was predicted – has been cancelled.” Morano said. “The scientific reality is that on virtually every claim – from A-Z – the claims of the promoters of man-made climate fears are failing and in many instances going in the opposite direction. The global warming movement is suffering the scientific death of a thousand cuts. This Climate Depot special report categorizes and indexes the full range of climate developments in a handy A-Z reference guide from the Antarctic to Polar Bears to Mount Kilimanjaro to Sea Levels to Global temperatures to hurricanes and tornados.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nobel Prize nominee, Leon Louw, Executive Director of <b>South Africa's Free Market Institute,</b> discussed the devastating impact climate policy has had on the economies of both the developed and developing world and the crippling hindrance it poses to the poor.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">South African nuclea<b>r physicist </b>Dr. Kelvin Kemm discussed global warming policy providing a unique South African analysis.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When a Greenpeace activist asked a question about ocean acidification, <b>Lord Christopher Monckton, freshly rested from his parachute jump </b>to call attention to <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Climategate 2.0,</span> delivered a thorough scientific refutation of the idea that ocean acidification is a problem caused by man-made global warming.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Secretary Figueres is telling the COP that she can obtain a new commitment period in Durban.” Said CFACT Executive Director Craig Rucker. “After she hears what Senator Inhofe has to say, she may want to reevaluate her wishful thinking.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Visit www.ClimateDepot.com, www.CFACT.org, and www.CFACT.tv for the latest developments here in Durban.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.59px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It’s just crazy climate denier <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/christopher-monckton" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Christopher “Lord” Monckton</a>! Apparently trying to one-up himself after the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/monckton-calls-young-us-climate-activists-%E2%80%9Chitler-youth%E2%80%9D-protesting-americans-prosperity-event" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">“Hitler Youth”</a> debacle in Copenhagen in 2009.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.59px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Monckton and his compatriots from the climate-denying, pollution-loving <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Committee_for_a_Constructive_Tomorrow" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow</a> (<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/search/node/CFACT" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="caps" style="">CFACT</span></a>) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/cfact#p/a/u/0/4I9PoOjPa_w" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">skydived onto the beaches of Durban</a> yesterday in another failed attempt to flog the dead “Climategate 2.0” horse. </font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.59px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The image of Monckton dropping from the sky, eyes closed, destined to decry his well-worn “<span class="caps" style="">U.N.</span> world-domination conspiracy” is just priceless. Witness the great <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2011/july/letter-to-viscount-monckton/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">non-Lord</a>'s descent unto the masses,<b> assisted by a hunky “paratrooper” to guide him to dry land since he couldn't bear to watch himself: </b></font></p><div style="line-height: 18.59px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Deniers of Durban sure picked a plucky way to drop in on the city hosting the <span class="caps" style="">UNFCCC</span> negotiations, although their message is still stale and baseless - it's really a shockingly desparate attempt to find a pulse for the completely lifeless and flailing “<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/east-anglia-swifthack-email-nontroversy-returns-what-you-need-know" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Climategate 2.0</a>” corpse.</font></div><div style="line-height: 18.59px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="line-height: 18.59px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Demonstrating just how strained the effort was, Monckton couldn’t bear to open his enormous eyes on the way down, according to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/cfact#p/a/u/0/4I9PoOjPa_w" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">footage posted by <span class="caps" style="">CFACT</span> to YouTube</a>. </font></div><div style="line-height: 18.59px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="line-height: 18.59px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apparently undeterred by the amateurish antics of the <span class="caps" style="">CFACT</span> contingent,<b> <span class="caps" style="">U.S.</span> Senator James Inhofe (R<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">-Denial</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">) </span>supposedly arrived in Durban today to deliver some message of importance to the denier squad. </font></div><div style="line-height: 18.59px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="line-height: 18.59px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="caps" style="">CFACT</span> said in its post-skydiving delerium:</font></div><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px; line-height: 18.59px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Secretary Figueras is telling the <span class="caps" style="">COP</span> that she can obtain a new commitment period in Durban,” said <span class="caps" style="">CFACT</span>Executive Director Craig Rucker. “After she hears what Senator Inhofe has to say, she may want to re-evaluate her wishful thinking.”</font></blockquote><div style="line-height: 18.59px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No word on whether Senator Inhofe will also <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/cfact#p/a/u/0/4I9PoOjPa_w" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">parachute into Durban</a> to join his denier dudes in action. Stay tuned for the details.</font></div><div style="line-height: 18.59px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div style="line-height: 18.59px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Somehow, we're guessing that he'll phone it in via videoconference, since <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/climate-change-battle-framed-in-moral-terms-by-environmental-coalition/2011/11/30/gIQA4NhADO_blog.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">no other <span class="caps" style="">U.S.</span> Congress members are headed to Durban this year</a>.</span> If he does show up in person, Oklahoma taxpayers and the rest of us have to wonder how much tax money Inhofe is using to support his earth-defying stunt in South Africa. [<strong>Update:</strong> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/inhofe-boxer-duel-over-climate-change-via-video/2011/12/07/gIQAGnCccO_blog.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Inhofe did indeed video message from D.C., the Washington Post reports</a>][2k kids form lion roaring for action on beach]</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div>