Archive for December, 2009

• Ice, snow, so where’s the global warming?

  Photo credit: laszlo-photo As winter weather hits us again, many people confuse the current weather (cold) with the long-term direction of the climate (warmer). Just because it is cold outside right now doesn’t mean that global warming isn’t real. Global …

• World leaders apologizes for climate failure in Copenhagen ads

  Our world leaders haven’t yet apologized for their climate failure in Copenhagen so Greenpeace and the global tcktcktck campaign have done it for them in these advertisements at the Copenhagen airport: “I’m sorry,” the text of the ad reads. “We …

• Watch Hugo Chavez: Capitalism is the way to the destruction of the planet

  Yesterday Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, made a passionate and courageous speech at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Chavez criticized President Obama’s “laughable” promise to help climate change and also said that capitalism will destroy our planet. Watch …

• Scratching the surface

  I was listening to the pressconference that the European Union had the last two days. One would think that by now with all the high level people attending that they would have a clear and effective communication on what they …

• Naomi Klein: We want a good deal. And that’s what tomorrows demonstration is going to be about.

  Tomorrow morning another large and important demonstration will be held in Copenhagen. This time the Climate Justice Action network is organizing a huge non-violent demonstration where the demonstrators are planning to march into the Bella Center, where the climate talks …

• The “Danish text” makes developing nations furious and Naomi Klein says the deal we really need is not even on the table

  Here are some of the biggest and most interesting news today related to the ongoing COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen: A draft text for a potential final agreement in Copenhagen was leaked today to the Guardian. The “Danish text” has …

• The expectations on Copenhagen among young people

  Jonathan Sundqvist is following the COP15 negotiations in Copenhagen from a Swedish/European perspective and is writing about it on Adopt a Negotiator as well as here on Green Blog. Today I walked around and asked a number of young people …

• “We need to get it done. And we need to get it done now.”

  It’s here! The 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) and the last chance we have to take action against “the greatest threat the world has ever faced”. The climate conference is taking place at Bella Center in Copenhagen from …

• Danish COP15 host Connie Hedegaard appointed EU Commissioner for the Climate

  Now, this is the Google Search of the Day! 49 years old Connie Hedegaard, member of the Danish Conservative People’s Party and minister for Climate and Energy has been appointed European Commissioner for the Climate. The EU didn’t have a …