That didn't take long - Monckton of Arabia writes his side of the story
From
National Review Online:
How the UN Hides Secret Talks in Public
This year�s climate conference in Qatar � though in the public eye � is the most secretive ever.
The U.N. has never really enjoyed allowing any debate about the climate. At the first annual climate talks I attended, at Bali in 2007, the then-chief clerk of the conference secretariat � at no notice � threw us out of a validly-booked room because too many members of the press were attending our daily press conferences.
She also complained to the head of my delegation because I had dared to write an article for the Jakarta Post recommending that my fellow delegates deal with the non-problem of global warming by having the courage to do nothing about it.
In those days, though, we had the right to attend just about every negotiating session; to meet and talk to national negotiating delegates; to leave letters on their desks; and to watch the negotiations as they unfolded, blow by blow.
Not any more. The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), the only environmental group that the U.N. allows to voice any alternative to the imagined (and imaginary) �consensus� at its annual talks about talks about the climate, has been too effective.
Last year, half of the prolix negotiating text at Durban was hastily dropped within half a day of my blog posting revealing what not one of the world�s news media had bothered to cover, namely: the actual contents of the final negotiating text, including proposals for a World Climate Court, rights of legal personality for �Mother Earth,� and a halving of CO2 concentration, which would kill many plants and animals by depriving plants of adequate amounts of carbon dioxide to grow and prosper.
Today, as yesterday, I tried to get a copy of the Doha draft. However, the U.N. has gone paperless � it says to make a petty gesture towards cutting the staggering but irrelevant �carbon footprint� of these conferences. Now it is almost impossible for anyone to track down any of the vital documents. They seem not to be available from the �PaperSmart� booth (�not much Paper and not that Smart,� as one disgruntled delegate put it).
Nor can one get into most of the negotiating sessions, which are labeled �Parties and Observer States Only� on the official timetable � if you can find one. I tried to get into a plenary session, but it had been canceled without warning, leaving dozens of us sitting in an empty conference hall for over an hour.
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Posted by DaveH at December 6, 2012 5:20 PM