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Two of the writers I respect the most on environmental issues–Bill McKibben and Fred Pearce–have new pieces on Yale Environment 360. Pearce is first, with Looking for a Silver Lining in the Post-Summit Landscape: So the accord was a flawed diplomatic triumph. The show is still on the road. But a triumph for the planet? Not so fast. . . . → Read More: McKibben and Pearce on Copenhagen If you’re wondering where all the promises from Copenhagen leave us in terms of the big question, namely how much warming it translates to, we have an answer in the form of the following graphic from ClimateInteractive,: This is just a static graphic, which I grabbed a few minutes ago. For the current, live version, see . . . → Read More: Scoring Copenhagen A couple of invaluable items for anyone who wants to understand the centrally coordinated and financed effort to convince people that climate change isn’t happening or isn’t largely anthropogenic or some other fair tale, both come from Naomi Oreskes. First is her 58 minute YouTube video, in which she begins with a presentation a brief history of . . . → Read More: Two from Oreskes While I continue to add post-Copenhagen article references to my post from just after the conference (see Post game), I will also highlight the most interesting items, like those below… China stands accused of wrecking global deal: China “systematically wrecked” the Copenhagen climate summit because it feared being presented with a legally binding target to cut the country’s . . . → Read More: Copenhagen post script, part 2 Until further notice I will continue to add to the list of Copenhagen stories in my last post (see Post game), but a couple of items deserve special attention. Forest plan gets the ax at UN climate talks: A plan to protect the world’s biologically rich tropical forests by paying poor nations to protect them was shelved Saturday . . . → Read More: Copenhagen postscript Copenhagen is over, so the post-game commentary, in true sports fashion, is just beginning. The best summary of what did and didn’t happen that I’ve seen so far, is Copenhagen climate conference: The grim meaning of ‘meaningful’ (but not one pointed exception in []‘s): Like businessmen who insist a deal is legit, politicians protesting they have done something . . . → Read More: Post game The news is breaking as I write this that a deal has been struck in Copenhagen. While none of us has seen the details yet, the comments being made from involved US officials don’t sound too promising. White House Announces ‘Meaningful’ Climate Deal: The United States, China, India and South Africa have reached a “meaningful agreement” at . . . → Read More: What comes next? It now seems that we can hang a number on what the countries at Copenhagen were promising to do, as of two days ago, and it isn’t even in the ballpark with what’s needed. Heat Over a Leaked U.N. Warming Analysis (emphasis added): Late today, environmentalists monitoring the climate talks alerted reporters to the existence of a six-page . . . → Read More: Climate scandal! Virtually everyone says that the one of the magic numbers of our environment, the upper limit for temperature rise to avoid unacceptable human impacts is (everyone say it with me) 2°C above pre-industrial levels. As I pointed out back in June (Two degrees of separation), this very critical number has an interesting, to say the . . . → Read More: Two degrees, too much |
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