"Ignoring it (climate change) would be like

 Russian roulette. Want to play?"

(Peter Kelemen in 12/1/09 Popular Mechanics)


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See links to this and other news and

 commentary on climate change

below... 

Here are some great links providing updates and personal perspectives on the recently completed Copenhagen conference…

-  official website of the conference:  http://en.cop15.dk/
-  updates at 1Sky.org… http://www.1sky.org/
-  updates at 350.org… http://www.350.org/

-  updates from Edina Energy and Environment Commission member Paul Thompson who is a delegate at the conference …..
     http://ptfydisc-onecoolplanet.blogspot.com/

-  updates from Valida Prentice, a youth delegate at the conference who's also from Edina….http://www.theclimateers.org/

-  many videos from Copenhagen including reports on breaking news, views of the 100,000 march on Dec 12, and more (from Twin Cities based video team "theuptake.org") ...      http://theuptake.org/en/

-  updates from the high school students of Minnesota 's School of Environmental Studies who are in Copenhagen ….
      http://ses-climate.blogspot.com/

-   videos from the Will Steger Foundation's Copenhagen delegation of Midwest youth http://www.willstegerfoundation.org/

-   a live daily "webinar" from Copenhagen from the Will Steger Foundation's Copenhagen delegation of Midwest youth ...
 live daily webinar - 3 pm central time each day of the conference! 

-  two minute daily video summaries of each day at the Conference, presented by TPT-TV and Minn Post….
      Conference Day 5 (Dec. 11), 
      Conference Day 4, 
      Conference Day 3, 
      Conference Day 2,
      Conference Day 1
and find updates for days beyond Dec 11 at http://www.minnpost.com/

*** Curious to know what's the real story about the "climate gate" stolen e-mails?  Check these links....
     - U of M Climatologist Mark Seeley says…  "climategate" does not negate the science that has been done. It is too voluminous, diverse, and significant to ignore.

     - Factcheck.org says…  "Claims that the e-mails are evidence of fraud or deceit, however, misrepresent what they actually say."

      - U.S. climatologist members of the National Academy of Sciences have written an open letter saying…  “We would like to set the record straight. The body of evidence that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming is overwhelming. The content of the stolen emails has no impact whatsoever on our overall understanding that human activity is driving dangerous levels of global warming.”

      - Nature, the international weekly journal of science, says…  "Stolen e-mails have revealed no scientific conspiracy, but do highlight ways in which climate researchers could be better supported in the face of public scrutiny."

      - an article in Popular Mechanics (titled "What East Anglia's E-mails Really Tell Us about Climate Change") provides a thorough analysis of the status of the scientific debate and concludes... "We're in an unprecedented situation, with regard to the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and the rate at which it is rising. Because this is unprecedented, we are not sure what is going to happen. But global warming is very likely, and reasonably probable outcomes could be fatal. Ignoring it would be like Russian roulette. Want to play? I do not. "

     - 538.com says…  " I don't know how you get from some scientist having sexed up a graph in East Anglia ten years ago to The Final Nail In The Coffin of Anthropogenic Global Warming. Anyone who comes to that connection has more screws loose than the Space Shuttle Challenger. And yet that's literally what some of these bloggers are saying!"