Archive for December, 2009
Click to view the webcast of the Dec.15 press conference with the authors of the Copenhagen Diagnosis, including Scripps distinguished professor emeritus Richard Somerville. (Video may take a few minutes to load)[ READ MORE ]
Click to view the webcast of the Dec. 14 Scripps Oceanography/Stanford University COP-15 press conference, “The Oceans and Climate Change: Perspectives from Science” (Video may take a few minutes to load)[ READ MORE ]
This film is amazing. If every parent could see this film, they would be set on fire to do something to stop ocean acidification. It follows the journey of one man, the filmmaker, Sven Huseby, who, after reading an article in the New Yorker about ocean acidification, becomes determined to save the beautiful fragile pteropods [ READ MORE ]
The blog is back up! Now, what I’d been meaning to post since yesterday, plus some today updates, so apologies if this gets a little long. I arrived in Copenhagen yesterday after a marathon of flights (Orange County to Minneapolis/St Paul, Minneapolis to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to Copenhagen) and hit the ground running. I was informed [ READ MORE ]
I’ll be heading home in a couple hours since that is when the science ends and the political firestorm takes off. I don’t totally regret that I’m going home for the really interesting part though since I wouldn’t be able to see it if I were here anyway. Denmark seems to have underestimated the number of delegates that this [ READ MORE ]
Week two of a COP conference is when the advance teams and assistants give way to world leaders, who lock the doors behind them and work out the deals that become a protocol. So far the prospects look dim for COP15: African and island state delegations boycotted the talks yesterday, arguing that developed nations needed [ READ MORE ]
Predictably, the bulk of the conference that I have seen has been nations advocating theories and mechanisms that would either limit their own responsibility for controlling emissions (relative to everyone else’s) or make it easier for them to achieve a given amount of climate change mitigation equivalent under the law. I’m sure that there are [ READ MORE ]
There are thousands of options for nightlife in Copenhagen, especially in the middle of a United Nations conference. Every square in town has some sort of entertainment related to the climate talks — and of course, there are plenty of protests to watch. But the evenings have been time mostly for quiet dinners among members [ READ MORE ]
Watch Tony Haymet and Ray Weiss of Scripps host “Trust but Verify: Why Climate Legislation and Carbon-equivalent Trading Need Atmospheric Emission Verification to Work.” Click to view webcast of Scripps COP-15 Press Conference, “Trust but Verify: Why Climate Legislation and Carbon-equivalent Trading Need Atmospheric Emission Verification to Work.” (It may take a few minutes to [ READ MORE ]
Ocean Acidification is one of the three things that our delegation wanted to spread the word about at this conference. It has turned out to be a major theme among the scientists at the conference since the handful of other ocean science groups also realized that there was a need for outreach on this topic. [ READ MORE ]
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