I have not had the time to do lengthy entries, but I would really like to share some articles I have read and would like to do responses to when I can: Apocalypse Fatigue - Good article about recent polls that show fewer Americans believe in global warming today than in 2006, and some of …
Category: COP 15
United Nations – Climate Change Conference – Dec 07 – Dec 18 2009
Water + Climate
An excerpt taken from Circle of Blue, the non-profit journalism organization reporting the global freshwater crisis that I work for...this excerpt comes from our "Water + Climate" series in the lead-up to the Copenhagen Conference which features news articles linking global climate change and water-related problems in the areas of agriculture, energy, infrastructure, and human …
Talking to Deciding to Acting
Talk, from casual to argumentative form, has exhaustively covered environmental issues, climate change, global warming, or whatever political term you choose to describe the past, current, and future state of the planet. A lot of good has come from talking but at the same time, a lot of talking can lead to gridlock action (action …
U.S.-China-India Breakthrough?
Will backroom negotiations during President Obama's trip to China yield unexpected results in Copenhagen? See Richard Wolffe's report at the Daily Beast. Written by NICHOLAS PARKER.
The "Climate Change Hoax" is a Hoax
I see a lot of things over my Facebook feed that annoys me. Usually I just ignore most of it as a sort of white noise that comes with having a Facebook. However, today I saw something that caught my attention. A fellow student at Alma College posted a link that proved that climate change was false. Obviously, if there is definite proof that climate change was false I wanted to see it. I was disappointed to see that the link did not take me to a journal article but rather a webpage for one Roger Hedgecock. Mr. Hedgecock makes some pretty extravagant claims in his post. Rather than summarizing them I am going to directly rebuttal his article piece by piece.
Dynamic Adaptability
My name is Merry Walker and I'm attending the COP 15 as a University of Michigan College of Engineering representative. I am absolutely honored to be a delegate for Michigan and hope to gain insight into how science/technology influences policy-making on issues that are inherently science-based but policy-influenced. I believe that government interactions are absolutely …
UM @ COP-15
The University of Michigan received official observer status for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held in Copenhagen from December 7-18, 2009. I am very happy to be part of the University’s delegation that will participate in this year’s Conference of the Parties (COP-15). As a civil and environmental engineering student, I am …
Expectations….
I can't say I have been to any international summits before; however, I have a feeling I may already know what might play out. Probably will hear much of what one normally hears any time they listen to a foreign diplomat or representative, lots of rhetoric and no substance. As you may already notice I …
It’s Time for a Change
With only fourteen days until the start of the COP15 meeting, over sixty presidents and prime ministers are expected to attend. However, President Obama will not be among them. There has been a concern that nothing substantial will come from Copenhagen without the heads of some of the world’s major polluters (China, India, and the …
Diverse interests – Adam E
As a person with interests ranging from the funding of micro-finance projects to restore rain-forests, to the emerging studies of emergy and water footprints, to the engendering of climate change as an issue to display the imbalance of risk posed by global warming onto women, I am beyond thrilled to be going to COP15. Coming …
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