Climate Change: Copenhagen Convention and Beyond
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What Did the Day of Action on 12th December 2009 during the Copenhagen Meeting of World Leaders about Climate Change Achieve ?
The arguments still rage on.
There were over 33,000 different entries on the internet about this when I Googled it - that will give you some idea of the degree of interest it sparked, if you will excuse the pun.
Well I went to the Candle-lit vigil
It was, shall we say, an enlightening experience - this is what it was like:
Our particular vigil took place in Crouch End, North London, in a community hall.
We started with the lights on, at 6.0 pm, and there were a few speeches about climate change and sustainability. Then we turned off the electricity and just had candles glowing in jars to light the hall. We sang songs which our home-grown musicians had written, then my poem, then another carbon-reduction song to the tune of the Proclaimers' "I will walk Five Hundred Miles and I will walk five hundred more" - and that was really fun: everyone sang their hearts out and the musicians all joined in - that is just such a good song, and whoever fitted new words to old song did a good job.
At 7 o'clock we stood for a minute's silence, with the lights gently flickering, thinking of all the other people and groups doing the same thing across the world, sharing our thoughts and light and willing that there would be a good outcome in Copenhagen.
This was followed by some tasty food. I helped a bit to serve it out, and did some washing up, so i'm not just a pretty face. The music and entertainment continued with a few good singers and musicians until about 10 o'clock, and the whole thing was a very touching experience.
Just one small bitch: everyone pronounced it Copenhaygen, and not Copenhaagen - So-o-o British!
Oh, and another one: my poem below is now out of date, as it all happened on 12th December 2010, now long gone
Contents - Outcome of Copenhagen Convention
Here's what else you will find about the Copenhagen Convention
- Well I went to the Candle-lit vigil
- I would Walk 500 Miles by The Proclaimers
- Copenhagen - POEM
- Links to the Ongoing Story of Outcome of the Copenhagen Convention
- What's Your Input for Saving the World? Try This Poll
- But What is Really Happening to Our World Climate?
- Amazon has an enormous range of books about climate change
- Want to Read More About Green Issues?
- Sustainablog
- About the Writer
- Join the Debate About Climate Change
- Climate Change on eBay
- Links to my and Other People's Web Pages
- Featured Squidoo Green Issue Web Pages
- Use Up Your Food Remnants
- Come and Say Hallo on My Guestbook
I would Walk 500 Miles by The Proclaimers
Here's the Music on YouTube
Copenhagen - POEM
This is a poem I wrote to remind people about the candlelit vigil across the world during the Copenhagen Convention in 2009
Copenhagen
Let your candles burn tonight
The world needs our support
Let your candles shine so bright
Our leaders need support
It's our job to spread the light
The world's poor need support
Keep your candles glowing white
Our children need support
Add your voice to the climate fight
Our wildlife needs support
Hope and pray with all your might
The world will give support
As people round the world unite
And join in their support
Hold the ideal in your sight
Hold your intention really tight
And as our candles burn tonight
Light up the world with gentle light
.....Copenhagen!
©Diana Grant 12 December 2009
Links to the Ongoing Story of Outcome of the Copenhagen Convention
Most recent update: 2nd November 2011
After that, you will find various links to news items arising out of the Climate Change discussions, including commentary as to whether global warming is actually taking place.
Oldest at the top, most recent at the bottom:
- PeopleandPlanet.net - people and climate change - The Observer - 20 Dec 2009
- What Copenhagen Did and Did Not Achieve - a Summary of the Outcome of the Copenhagen Convention
(This article was compiled by The Observer Science editor, Robin McKie, and was reproduced on that website with permission)
And see the Link below: - Plugging the holes left by Copenhagen - From The Times February 4, 2010
- Without a binding deal on climate change, countries need to find ways to bring carbon emissions under control before it is too late
And a further recent comment: - Copenhagen's climate finance - six key questions - 1 February 2010
- Unanswered questions threaten to breed mistrust in the promises of climate-change funding that governments made in the Copenhagen Accord at December's UN summit, says a paper published on 1 February by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).
In the Copenhagen Accord developed countries pledged US$30 billion over the three years from 2010 to 2013 and US$100 billion a year from 2020, for developing countries to tackle climate change.
"However, it is far from clear where the funding will come from, if it is genuinely new and additional, and how it will be allocated and channelled?," says co-author Saleemul Huq, a senior fellow in IIED's climate change group. "The paper raises six key questions that will need to be answered."....... - Who are the Climate Change Skeptics?
- Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a very small band of critics continues to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers", these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists directly - for example, by publishing in peer-reviewed scientific journals or participating in international conferences on climate science. Instead, they focus their attention on the media, the general public, and policy makers with the goal of delaying action on climate change.
- Met Office: we must check 150 years of climate data - Article in The Times, February 24, 2010
- Oh dear, Oh dear, it gets worse. The UK Government Met Office admits there may have been errors and exaggerations, and that relying on information from just one source was not a good idea. They are now going to review the data. Meanwhile this does nothing to allay the suspicions of the climate-change skeptics
- Shock for British holidaymakers as freak blizzards hits Majorca with snow across the Med - 10th March 2010
- There may be climate change, but the evidence of global warming is not as well established as we thought two months ago - Read this article By Mail Foreign Service!
"A rare blizzard has struck the Spanish coast and Balearic Islands in some of the worst weather seen in 50 years.
The snow storm swept in on the holiday island of Majorca after causing havoc in Barcelona, the Costa Brava and parts of the French Mediterranean coast. Roads were closed as up to four inches of snow fell across Majorca and many residents and holidaymakers stayed indoors" - Great photos. - China and India join Copenhagen accord - Guardian 10 March 2010
- China and India formally endorse the last-minute climate agreement struck at the Copenhagen summit.
"The action falls short of full "association" and highlights the gulf between the US - the strongest backer of the accord - and the other key nations on how to deliver a global deal to combat climate change." - 'Paltry' Copenhagen carbon pledges point to 3C world - BBC Article 21 April 2010
- Pledges made at December's UN summit in Copenhagen are unlikely to keep global warming below 2C, a study concludes.
- Environment and Climate-Change News Updates from The Guardian 4th June
- Numerous articles including the oil spill
- BBC Climate update - 16th June 2010
- Various Climate and Environmental news articles
- Climate Change Fraud - 11th June 2010
- How Many International Plant Protection Convention Scientists say so?
"The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance."
-Albert Einstein
A statement is not true just because thousands of scientists say it is. Nevertheless, media coverage of climate change has frequently implied that:
1.thousands of scientists collectively produce the Intergovernental Panel on Climate Change's report and
2.those scientists all agree that humans are responsible for the warming trend recorded in the late 20th century - 'Conspiracy theories finally laid to rest' by report on leaked climate change emails - The Independent - 8th July 2010
- Scientists involved in last year's "climategate" leaked emails controversy, which added to scepticism about the science of global warming, were not open enough with their data and unhelpful with requests for information, an independent review of the affair found yesterday...
- Up to date News as at 3 December2010 from The Independent
- Various articles concerning global warming (in spite of the big freeze-up)
- Fracking 'likely cause' of quakes - BBC News 2 November 2011
- This is not very good, is it?:
It is "highly probable" that test drilling for shale gas triggered two minor earthquakes in Lancashire, a study concludes.
Think before you take that plane journey - is it really necessary?
The jury is still out about what we can do to halt the climate change, but, on a belt-and-braces principle, we would be kicking ourselves - or rather, our grandchildren would be kicking ourselves - if we don't even try.
What's the point of switching my computer off every time I leave it idling if people are still travelling by plane several times a year with no compunction, leaving dirty great carbon footprints? It seems to me that the rich might be able to do a lot more than they do.
What's Your Input for Saving the World? Try This Poll
Do you think your modest efforts will help stop climate change?
What do you think is the most important way to reduce carbon emissions, and do you even think it is necessary to do so? Do you think the recent reports by a few scientists that climate change and global warning is merely or mainly a physical phenomenon which has not been caused by human beings is correct, or do you think they were just 'spoilers', timed to coincide with the Copenhagen conference?
But What is Really Happening to Our World Climate?
Are we Warming or Cooling? I don't know if we are coming or going!
Although there seems to be a lot of unusual weather about, so you could definitely say that Climate Change is happening, it is certainly not all in one direction -- melting icebergs
- earthquakes
- tsunamis
- sub-zero temperatures
- flash floods
- mudslides
- avalanches
- deep and long Winter
- Very warm Spring causing the daffodil season to be brought forward by several weeks
- very wet summer, giving rise to the best Autumn apple harvest in living memory
- The hottest October ever recorded in the UK
- October snow in New York
Where will it all end, I ask myself.
If you ask me (which is inadvisable, as I am a lawyer, not a scientist), the coin is still up in the air!
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Join the Debate About Climate Change
What do you think is happening to the Planet?
Are we heating up or entering into a mini ice age, as some people predict?
Are we making too much fuss about a small climatic blip, or should we be more worried about our children's future?
Are we doing enough to combat climate change, or are we doing too little too late?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byI think people are making a mountain out of a mole hill, and that throughout history there have been these climate changes
My concern is that if we don't do enough now, the world will be facing climatic disaster in the next few decades
cryptid says:
If we do not stop with our production of various chemicals and pollutants which give rise to extraordinary climate change, then in due time the climate will change and the environment will break down. Doing "little" things does nothing but slow the amount of time between now and that moment of breaking down. If we actually want to save the environment, we should rid ourselves of all pollutants, at least until we have the resources to adequately remove them from the atmosphere as well. As far as I know, we do not right now. So doing a little or a lot is fairly meaningless if everyone on the planet will not join in.
Posted November 03, 2011
Gloriousconfusion says:
Some climatic change is caused by things outside our control, but we can certainly take steps to lessen the effect. Dare I suggest accepting GM plants to feed the 7 billion people in the world, preventing soil erosion, trying to preserve our natural resources
Posted November 02, 2011
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- Love Food Hate Waste
- This is a useful website about saving food, including recipes and helpful tips like measuring size of portions (very good information if you are catering for more people than usual at a party) and saving time and money
- Freecycle
- There are Freecycle Groups all over the world. I belong to some of the ones in London (of which there are several). It is a thriving organization for people who advertise that they want to give their unwanted stuff away, or advertise for things they want. No money changes hands - members may not sell things or pay for them. But goods circulate like mad. For example, you can give away your old working TV or sofa perhaps, and receive (like I have) bookshelves, a cassette tape player or an office chair in good condition. These are not swops - when you give you don't get anything in return from the receiver, and if you receive, you don't give anything in return, but because you are all members of the group, which is free to join, things go round in a cycle, and the purpose is to save things from going into landfill.
- UN Chief knew about climate change error 8 weeks before Copenhagen Summit
- This will put the cat among the pigeons!
Someone else exaggerating about the effects of climate change in order to support their own agenda - Turn Green - Here's 15 Ways Reduce Your Footprint (By Dumb Little Man)
- Without doubt, environmentalism and being green are red hot these days. From renewable energy to activism, individuals and companies are cleaning up their acts (but watch out for green washing). For those of you who haven't started yet, or if you need a few extra tips, here's a guide to help you reduce your carbon footprint.
- 10 Smartest Ways to Live Beneath Your Means
- The writer (not me, I hasten to add) managed to retire at age 51, and the way he did it was to live beneath his means.
You can adopt this strategy too, by simply spending less than you earn. You may think that's impossible for you, but if you make it a challenge instead of a chore, you'll soon be creating ways to cut corners in everything you do. And it all adds up. There are no secrets to this strategy. It's just common sense - The Green Thing
- This Comment on Green Living was sent to me by someone in the UK, who received it from someone abroad, and, being curious, I Googled it, and discovered that it is on about 15,000 different websites. And no wonder, it's so apt and true. I felt it deserved a repeat here.
- George Monbiot - Climate Change
- A personal blog by The Guardian writer George Monbiot. Very much his own person and not toeing the corporate line
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Every year in the UK we throw away £12 billion worth of food which could have been eaten. Love Food Hate Waste is a campaign from WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) and has lots tasty recipes and top tips to help us make the most of the food we buy. REMEMBER
Recycle - give it away, sell it, revamp it, cannibalize it, compost it, keep it out of landfill.
Reduce your car or plane trips. Why not walk or phone or even video-conference?
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