This event will happen tomorrow, Dec. 15th. If you submit a question today, you can still get it considered. CNN and YouTube are conducting a live debate in Copenhagen on December 15, where leaders and activists at COP15 will come together to answer your top-ranked questions on climate change. Panelists will include former U.N. Secretary …
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An SNRE climate Christmas song: "Senate Baby…"
Posting for a colleague in the School of Natural Resources and Environment: "A portion of the SNRE faculty band, the Ecotones, just recorded a version of "Senate Baby" (to the tune of Santa Baby). It's a musical plea for the US Senate and our delegates in Copenhagen to 1) pass the bill at home and …
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Developing countries walk out of climate talks
The Bella Centre is filling up with people dressed in blue raincoats and chanting "We stand with Africa! Kyoto targets now!" Here's why, from a BBC report: Negotiations at the UN climate summit have been suspended after developing countries withdrew their co-operation. Delegations were angry at what they saw as moves by the Danish host …
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Preventing Climate Change is Good for Your Health
There has been a lot of debate in the US about health care reform. One would argue that more people in the US are talking about health care then the environment. Health care is indeed an important issue that must be addressed in the near future. However, I believe that climate change is just as …
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Cisco telepresence demo; other "IT for sustainability"
There's a large demo kiosk here with a Cisco "telepresence" setup: basically a 50" HDTV with pretty good audio, plus a camera mounted at the top of the screen. It's Internet based, no special cables or anything else. The Cisco rep. (who's in San Francisco) says Cisco holds about 7000 meetings a week using this …
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Recent Development – Congressional Democrats not attending COP15 this week
It was announced over the weekend that Congressional Democrats will not be sending a delegation to COP15 this week. While this announcement is not detrimental to negotiations here in Copenhagen, it is still somewhat surprising. See link: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/health-care-to-keep-democrats-from-copenhagen-conference/#more-57963 Written by KEVIN REED.
How climate change affects Michigan and the USA
I'm in a NOAA briefing on climate services. The speaker is introducing a recent report, Global Climate Change Impacts in the USA. If you want a simple, straightforward guide that doesn't just outline the science, but links it to recent real changes here at home (or rather "there" at home, since I'm "here" in Copenhagen), …
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“Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?”
“Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?” Yesterday I got into an exchange with a person who posted a comment wishing the curse of a pox to the students writing on the UoMichigan COP15 Blog . It reminded me of Joseph Welch’s question to Senator Joe McCarthy, “You've done enough. Have you …
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Tree Huggers united at Forest Day 3
2009 is perhaps the most important year for the world's tropical forests. That forests are important in our attempts to curtail green house gases is not in question - it is the way in which they should be integrated into a climate change treaty that is in debate. In general it seems that negotiators are …
Twitter Updates for 2009-12-12
Indian head of delegation says that there are two things we will not compromise on - "a peaking year" and "inequity in bearing the burden" # #UMCOP15 -> Daily updates on status of negotiations can be found here:http://blogs.climatenetwork.org/ # #UMCOP15 First draft on climate deal out -> http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=2938 # #UMCOP15 - Amrita: just had lunch …
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