A long-standing controversy regarding climate change is the United States’ lack of participation with the Kyoto Protocol. During the current discussions regarding Copenhagen, many nations have declined to participate in binding climate agreements because the United States had not committed to emission reductions. As the second [...]
O.K. First some gallows humor, a re-telling of an old medico joke.
Some scientists have some good news and some bad news.
“I could listen to some good news. What is it?”
It is the end of life on the Planet as we know it.
“That’s the good news. So what could the bad [...]
by Jack Rosebro
A team of 26 climate scientists from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have published the “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, an interim synthesis report on developments in climate change science from mid-2006 to the present day. The report points out that many key [...]
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Breaking News Alert
The New York TimesThe White House announced today that President Obama will travel to Copenhagen on December 9 to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference. The White House press release says: “Based on the President’s work on climate change over the past 10 months—in the Major Economies Forum, the G20, bilateral [...]
As negotiations wrapped up in Barcelona at the UN Climate Talks, the opportunity for a robust agreement to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries (REDD) is dangling from a wire. The latest negotiating text, which parties will be working on at the opening of the Copenhagen [...]
Keith Kloor
Less than three weeks before more than 60 world leaders will gather in Copenhagen for a historic climate change summit, the Obama Administration is saying don’t count them out. According to the Guardian, White House officials have told reporters that President Obama will soon announce a U.S. [...]
Technologies to cut back carbon dioxide emissions from factories and vehicles that feed the global economy add costs to fuel, food and more, an option that appeals neither to industrial nations struggling with the global economic meltdown or developing nations trying to ramp up economic growth.
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They're building a time capsule, and your message to the future could be in it. Very cool project.
The time capsule will be sealed in Copenhagen, during the climate summit. Part of the idea is to get delegates thinking about which future they're creating. Part of [...]
So two weeks away from Copenhagen and environmentalism is finally sparking real and sustained argument. After nearly three years of writing this blog it feels like real dispute has finally come to the surface. After a period of cosy consensus that we “must act” sharing tips on curbing your carbon [...]
The campaign to stop global warming now has an A-list of supporters from the world of showbiz.
I'm sure they're all flying commerical, right?
I hope the next commercial from Plane Stupid has polar bears landing on celebrities from Hollywood.
Due to the upcoming climate change talks in Copenhagen this December, many participants of the Kyoto Protocol are discussing the changes since 1997 when Kyoto took place. Many United Nations scientists are amongst those incredulous to the changes in just the last twelve years.
In 1997, [...]
The Economist covers the inevitable failure of Copenhagen in a well written article. One could also be believe that the US government is deliberately placing articles to lower expectations.
India has been consistent in their opposition to emission reductions during heated Copenhagen discussions. India points to their per capita emissions, which are lower than the main Western countries involved in the talks. India will not agree to emission reductions unless they are by per capita [...]
Here are a couple of great articles by lefty author Naomi Klein about the anti-corporate movement of movements which converged in Seattle in 1999 at the shutdown of the World Trade Organization are re-converging around climate change in Copenhagen.
In both, Klein talks about how anti-establishment direct [...]
