United Nations – Climate Change Conference – Dec 07 – Dec 18 2009
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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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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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.
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?” 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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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 …
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 …
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 …
This morning, 50,000 climate change activists of all types marched through Copenhagen to the COP15 site. Written by KATIE WHITEFOOT.
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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