I attended a session today hosted by Development and Climate Days on population and how it is important to both mitigation and adaptation concerns. Apparently, IPCC 2007 does not assign due weight to the variable of population, and especially to the critically important characteristics of population like age, gender, and socioeconomic distribution, all of which …
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Demonstration and Candlelight Vigil
Just a quick note (it's hard to type because my fingers are so numb!). I just got back from the march and candlelight vigil from the city square all the way to the Bella Center--6km in total, that took over 2 hours. I was helping to take audio and photos for the non-profit environmental journalism …
March on Copenhagen
This morning, 50,000 climate change activists of all types marched through Copenhagen to the COP15 site. Written by KATIE WHITEFOOT.
World Future Council Proposal for breaking the funding deadlock
Day 3 at the COP and I must say that what I'm enjoying the most so far are the un-orchestrated conversations with random individuals that yield deep insight into really complex issues. As I stood cold and freezing in the line to enter the conference center I yield to a big yawn only to catch the …
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New climate books. And some solutions.
I'm in a Bellona Foundation session with the authors of three new climate books Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate, by Stephen Schneider, my friend and former Stanford colleague, about his decades of work to move climate change onto the political agenda and keep it there, against skeptics and …
IPCC press briefing
I managed to get into the press briefing. RK Pachauri, the IPCC chair, led off, pointing out that the IPCC has 21 years of experience now and its process has stood the test of time. IPCC reports peer reviewed twice, and chapter authors are required to respond to all comments, and to justify their responses. …
Group on Earth Observations plans carbon monitoring system at 1 km resolution
I am sitting in a presentation from the Group on Earth Observations. The presenter has just described a carbon cycle monitoring system that would reach a 1 km resolution by 2025 — which would allow direct detection of violations of an eventual carbon treaty. I find this a bit difficult to imagine, but I'm willing …
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50,000 Demonstrators Expected for Today’s Protest March in Copenhagen
“I would rather see no deal at all than a watered-down version that doesn’t help anyone,” fellow U of M delegate Ahmed Tawfik told Keith Schneider of Circle of Blue and Climate Action Network. Ahmed isn’t alone. Only half way through the conference, already many people are beginning to fear that the bureaucratic powers-at-be won’t …
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"Climategate" — not: IPCC press briefing today at noon
Today at noon the IPCC will hold a press briefing that will attempt a pre-emptive strike against last week's calls from 28 US Senators for an "investigation" into the leaked CRU emails. Whoever did it, the email leak appears to have been calculated to provoke exactly this kind of response, much as the furor over …
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Financing the beast
It's my first full day at the COP after arriving here on a 13 hour journey yesterday. Although a little jet-lagged and sleep deprived, I've started to get into the swing of things here. The conversations range from the fascinating to the frustrating, but the sheer level of energy is electrifying! The first session I …
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