Things are really starting to heat up in Bali. And I'm not just talking about the weather.

The UN climate conference has shifted into high gear now that the negotiations have entered their critical final week.

The roads are lined with police convoys as high-profile delegates descend on Bali.

Canadian Environment Minister John Baird arrived on the weekend. Al Gore and Arnold Schwarzenegger are scheduled to make an appearance later this week. The rumor making the rounds today is that my future husband George Clooney is also on his way here (I'm giddy just thinking about it).

There's a hectic, frenzied pace at the beachfront resort where the conference is being held. I feel sorry for the hotel guests here on vacation. It's not very relaxing to be surrounded by thousands of delegates in business suits rushing from one meeting to another, yelling into their cell phones along the way.

Those of us monitoring the talks are being run off our feet trying to keep up with Canada's negotiating position and all of the international press it's generating.

In the past few days, Canada's negotiating position has come under fire from all sorts of high-profile sources. When the head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came down hard on Canada, people sat up and listened. It's extremely unusual, and almost unprecedented, for the UN to criticize the negotiating positions of individual countries at these talks.

Especially when the head of the IPCC publicly says Canada has "a government of skeptics" that "do not want to do anything on climate change." Ouch.

The UN is not the only one slamming Canada. In a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said Canada's approach on climate change will cause our emissions to increase, not decrease.

Next up to bat is Yvo de Boer, the UN Climate Chief. He attacked Canada's demand that developing countries have the same emissions standards as developed nations when he said "it's reasonable for industrialized countries that caused the problem in the first place to take targets to reduce their emissions."

Even the German delegation is adding its voice to the chorus of those speaking out against Canada. Karsten Sach, the head of the German delegation, said "Wir European halten die kanadische Position nicht für zielfuhrend" (or "We Europeans don't see the Canadian position as constructive").

With so many senior officials lining up to criticize Canada's position, it shows how far in the wrong direction we’re heading.

Canada is quickly losing its credibility on the international stage, not to mention its ability to influence the negotiations.