Anyone want to blog from the AGU meeting?

First, the number of daily posts is going to jump 50% to 100% for the next two weeks.  I want to give full coverage to Copenhagen with lots of interviews, while still reporting on the other major issues, including hackergate and the bipartisan climate and clean energy bill.  I’ll be in Copenhagen myself the final week.  So you’re just going to have to come back more than once a day to catch all the news.

Second, that kind of coverage means a lot of guest posts — the best from the web plus daily reporting from the CAP team at Copenhagen, which includes Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson and international climate expert Andrew Light, both already frequent guest bloggers.  CAP’s IT wizards have been migrating CP to a better server this weekend to handle the traffic — apologies for any inconvenience that has caused.  As an aside, CP should be able to handle “Opera” now.

Third, we’ve finally added a subhead feature, so my main headlines won’t have to be so long!  I do welcome any other suggestions for improving the blog.

Fourth, the American Geophysical Union cleverly scheduled its important annual conference to overlap with the crucial final days of Copenhagen.  I ran a number of stories on major new research presented at last year’s meeting, plus some blogging from a roving reporter on site, Jeff Goodell, author of the terrific book, Big Coal (see “Report from AGU meeting: One meter sea level rise by 2100 “very likely” even if warming stops?” and “How desperate are climate scientists? Desperate enough to contemplate geo-engineering“).  But Goodell can’t make it this year and frankly pretty much every major climate reporter will be a third of the way around the globe.

So if you are going to the AGU meeting and want to report/blog daily (or more) on the latest climate science presented (and more), send me an email — click here.

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Hmm.  Maybe the “gate” part of the ClimateGate moniker is more apt than we thought, as guest blogger Brad Johnson reports in this WR repost.

Two weeks ago, thousands of illegally hacked emails from a British climate research center were dumped on a Russian webserver, timed to influence the politics of of the international climate negotiations commencing next week in Copenhagen, Denmark. Beginning Thanksgiving week, conservative media and Republican politicians have compared the climate scientists whose private emails were hacked to Hitler, Stalin, and eugenicists, saying they are involved in a global conspiracy to defraud and possibly take over the world. The Climategate “scandal” “” a swiftboating intimidation and smear campaign against science “” is the right-wing rage from Stephen Dubner to Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck to Lou Dobbs. Like the original Watergate scandal involving right-wing operatives who burglarized the offices of their political opponents, the real crime is the original break-in.

It has now been reported that the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Center is not the only victim of such a criminal invasion: burglars and hackers have also attacked the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria in British Columbia:

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Podesta calls it a “Game Changer”

Again, anyone who thinks there’s not going to be a bipartisan climate bill in the spring or an international deal coming out of Copenhagen isn’t paying attention:

Citing progress on many issues, the White House said Friday that President Obama had shifted the date he would appear at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen to Dec. 18, the last scheduled day.

That’s the NY Times lede on the following remarkable announcement from the White House:

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By Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
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