Welcome to COPVoices - Time to start the party

This partygoer has just heard that Tony Abott has turned up in his budgie smugglers

Welcome to COPVoices. It's opening night for the COP15 and even though the biggest star has opted for a fashionably late entrance, it's shaping up as one hell of a party. As pre-party nerves are hidden beneath bluster and the security keeps on eye on the gatecrashers, the questions on everyone's lips are:

1) Will the older blokes with the good jobs give the broke ones a six pack to share?;

2) Can the ones who usually drink too much and start beating up on everyone else be restricted to half a dozen beers and some decent behaviour?

3)When the dust settles and the booze has run out will mum and dad's house be left with only slight structural damage and a mess that can be cleaned up with some vigorous cleaning before the parents get back from the coast? Or will the partygoers give up and be sprung sitting around in a pile of broken glass drinking the remnants of a cheap wine cask?

Big questions indeed, but here at COPVoices I'm primarily concerned with the makeup of the party goers - whose invited, whose the most popular, and whether anyone else can be heard above the loud obnoxious ones who were invited to make their mates look better (that's you, climate sceptics and deniers) .

As the dust continues to rise over the University of East Anglia emails business and the Saudis attempt to obscure themselves miraculously in that dust storm (I'm sure they'll bump into Nick Minchin in there somewhere), I'll be looking at several websites and seeing which of the following categories of actors in the climate change morass are getting a solid run.

Government boys and girls;

Climate scientists and other expert commentators;

Sceptics/deniers (scientists or otherwise);

Environmentalist activists; and

Journalists.

There'll be some pretty graphs, analysis of how the main issues of the day are being reported, who said what, why, when and how, and a little fun along the way.We'll also be looking at other climate reporting from the sources listed below. I'll be checking out the work of the good folks at The Australian, the official Danish Government COP15 News Site,The Guardian, U.S. web media newspaper The Huffington Post and Al-Jazeera English.

Each day's analysis will be up and running by 4pm.Hope to see you here.

COPVoices - going hoarse shouting above the pack.