Dooley Online

Copenhagen Climate COP15: Videos from Day Five (December 11, 2009)

On Copenhagen Climate COP15 day 5, NGOs join forces with the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), the EU pledges billions for developing countries to address climate change, and the world continues to warm.

COP15 Webcast - Lots of enthusiasm and support for the efforts of Bill McKibben through 350.org and Avaaz through tcktcktck and AOSIS. This webcast focuses on building a global climate movement - 12 December actions and beyond - including a weekend vigil with Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson.

350 - VIDEO from AOSIS "Survival Pact" Announcement. Youth gather to support Ambassador Dessima Williams of AOSIS, Selwin Hart of Barbados, and Mohamed Aslam, environment minister of the Maldives as they announce AOSIS's draft text in Copenhagen for a legally binding deal to get to 350ppm.

@AdoptNegotiator - Rosa Kouri, who is tracking the delegation of Canada, provides an overview of the talks on Day 5.

Democracy Now - Author & Journalist Naomi Klein: Fate of Planet Rests on Mass Movement for Climate Justice. Hundreds of activists from across the globe are gathering every day in downtown Copenhagen for the people’s climate summit, the Klimaforum. On Thursday night, Shock Doctrine author and journalist Naomi Klein addressed a packed hall at a panel on ecological debt and climate justice.

ReutersVideo - Billions Pledged for Climate Change - European leaders pledged over 10 billion euros on Friday to developing countries in efforts to win their support for a climate deal in Copenhagen.

COP15 Video - highlights from day 5 of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) - recorded on December 11, 2009

NBC Nightly News - As temperatures rise, so do mosquito-borne diseases. A warmer, wetter climate is triggering an outbreak of diseases.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

The Guardian - Copenhagen: A sherpa's story - 'Nepal is not to blame for this, yet we are the first victims'. Dawa Steven Sherpa explains why dealing with the problems of climate change in Nepal is so important for the world .

Additional resources

• Lord Christopher Monckton: Meet A Leader Of Climate Change Denial includes two videos which explain the headline (@HuffPostGreen).

Copenhagen Climate COP15: Videos from Day Four (December 10, 2009)

As the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen deepen, the videos are becoming more engaging (and plentiful). Here's a good crop of harvested videos summarizing the fourth day of COP15 negotiations.

Clean Skies News - discussion continues over emissions cuts for large countries and climate funding for poorer countries. The Clean Skies team tracks comment from Todd Stern, George Soros and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

Climate Action Network (CAN) International - covers the dramatic action of Tuvalu in the negotiation hall, potential loopholes for logging in northern countries, and a focus on the EU, spotlighting finance issues. Experts on todays panel included David Ngatae, Cook Islands Climate Action Network; Saleemul Huq, IIED; and Chris Henschel, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society; and Matthias Duwe, CAN Europe.

Reuters - The UN's top envoy on climate Change, Yvo de Boer provides insight on a possible 1.5 degree centigrade deal at the Climate Change conference in Copenhagen.

Clean Skies News - Michael Zammit Cutajar, Chairman of the Long Term Cooperative Action Group, talks with Clean Skies in Copenhagen about progress being made on the main issues in Copenhagen: technology, adaption, mitigation and finances. Zammit Cutajar's group was responsible for drafting a new treaty text and for tracking changes made by the UNFCCC parties throughout negotiations. (See related article in today's Washington Post, Key Copenhagen group releases draft climate plan.)

Clean Skies News - Billionaire Financier George Soros talks about his unique plan to pay the costs that come with combating climate change. He says there are vast sums of untapped money in the form of Special Drawing Rights (SDR's), that can be donated into a "green fund." (See related blog post on climate financing via carbon-financeonline.com.)

GRIST - Comedian Eugene Mirman is Grist's Special Correspondent in Copenhagen at the UN Climate Change Conference. Here's his first of many reports from the charming Danish capitol.

Additional resources

• Guardian UK: Copenhagen climate conference: best of YouTube. Young delegates, Lumumba Di-Aping Danish text plea and climate sceptic Monckton declares activists 'Hitler youth': YouTube's inside story so far from Copenhagen… Also check out their video series, Faces from the climate frontline which features stories about how climate change is affecting ordinary people around the world.

• While not a video, the post Myth vs. Reality on the Copenhagen Climate Summit: A Look at the Facts on the Ground at the U.N. Climate Conference is worth a read.

• Clean Skies News Copenhagen Coverage offers summaries and interviews with key players at the COP15 throughout the summit. They also cover related news at home and abroad.

Copenhagen Climate COP15: Videos from Day Three (December 9, 2009)

Day three highlights deep rifts between developed and developing countries, the launch of IGBP's climate change index, continued discussion about "Palinclimategateopedgate", and a behind the scenes look at people and activities in Copenhagen.

Clean Skies News summarizes the day's discussions, as well as the eco-friendly biofuel movement in Copenhagen and the police raid on the rooms and belongings of climate talk protesters.

COP15 highlights views about the Danish text.

International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) launched to climate change index. (View COP15 webcast of launch .)

Guardian UK Environment. Climate change in Yakutsk: The big man in the shrinking house. Jonathan Watts reports from Yakutsk, where climate change is slowly melting Siberia's permafrost, forcing local people like Avetik and Ludmila Nasarian to rebuild their houses to deal with the regular flooding.

NBC News - Andrea Mitchell interview with Al Gore, titled "Palin, Gore battle over climate change".

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

CNN. Former Vice President Al Gore speaks about "climategate" and steps being taken to confront climate change. (More at Huffington Post.)

CNN. Despite divisions among delegates at the climate talks in Copenhagen, young people are united. CNN's Phil Black reports.

COP15 Behind the Scenes - Electrical bicycles for delegates

COP15 Behind the Scenes - Biggest temporary media set-up ever in Denmark

Copenhagen Climate COP15: Videos from Day Two (December 8, 2009)

Key focus for today was the science of climate change, importance of forests in the climate change discussion, the "Danish text", and potential outcomes of Copenhagen.

Clean Skies News - Tyler Suiters is live from Copenhagen, Denmark, describing how speakers on Day 2 of the climate talks acknowledge the existence of changing global temperatures and weather worldwide and how such occurrences are a threat to life on this planet.

COP15 Webcasts - IPCC information and activities and their relevance for the UNFCCC process. IPCC Chair R.K. Pachauri leads the panel discussion of highlights of IPCC Assessment Report 4; Update on the currently prepared Special Reports on renewable energy sources and on extreme events; and outlook towards IPCC Assessment Report 5. BEST IF VIEWED IN INTERNET EXPLORER.

Smacking the Hack Attack - Climate deniers have been making a lot of noise about a set of stolen emails from one of the world's leading climate centers, The Universtiy of East Anglia. The spin they're putting out is that the emails reveal what they always suspected, an evil global conspiracy.

CNN's Christiane Amanpour looks at views on climate change versus the actual facts on climate change.

COP15 Webcasts - On Tuesday, the UNFCCC held a media workshop on "The Science: To what extent the latest scientific findings tally with the IPCC Assessment Report 4 and what this means for the climate change process". This in no way detracts from the IPCC reports, but shows how the latest research relates to the scientific discussion. BEST IF VIEWED IN INTERNET EXPLORER. (Download related slides)

Clean Skies News - Controversy in Copenhagen. In day two of the UN climate conference debate was heating up over emissions targets and a so-called Danish text circulating around the summit threatens to widen the gap between rich and poor nations.

COP15 Webcast - World Resources Institute held a press briefing on "Essential elements of a Copenhagen agreement". BEST IF VIEWED IN INTERNET EXPLORER. ( Download related paper)

NBC Nightly News. In Peru, melting glaciers lead to water wars. Unless the nation of Peru takes immediate action, the ancient Andean glaciers could disappear, taking with them the runoff that provides much of the water for the country’s most populous areas. NBC’s Anne Thompson reports.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Clean Skies News - Copenhagen Issue: Deforestation Plays Role in Climate Negotiations. An international agreement to compensate small nations for restoring their forests to help capture carbon dioxide emissions may help in the fight against climate change. This piece examines the complicated array of issues facing negotiators who specialize in REDD issues: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries.

Copenhagen Climate COP15: Videos from Day One (December 7, 2009)

Some of the more interesting videos highlighting the first day of COP15 Climate Change negotiations in Copenhagen:

Guardian UK News: Copenhagen climate change conference opens - UN climate talks open in Copenhagen to agree on a successor to the Kyoto protocol

Clean Skies News - The climate talks in Copenhagen got underway this morning and Clean Skies News is in the Denmark capitol with what's happening on Day 1. With major discussions on the key role the world's major emitters will play as the negotiations go forward, negotiators and international delegates weigh in on the most effective approach to cutting carbon emissions.

Rome Reports TV - Benedict XVI has called for actions that are respectful of creation and that will promote a joint development based on human dignity and for the common good. He also reminded the public that helping fight climate change is everyones responsibility.

Online resources to "get us in" on the Copenhagen COP15 Climate talks

"Please Help the World", film from the opening ceremony of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) in Copenhagen from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. Shown on December 7, 2009 at COP15.

According to United Nations organizers, 34,000 individuals are seeking to participate in some way in the Copenhagen Climate Change negotiations (COP15). That's 4,000 more than attended the 1992 Rio Summit AND the downtown ad hoc tent city which gave birth to the Climate Change Convention being negotiated as well as several other international negotiating frameworks to address major environmental issues.

Unfortunately, the Bella Center Venue can only hold 15,000.

But the Internet can still provide resources to "get us in" to the negotiations - here are a handful of sites that I find useful beyond the standard collection of Google Alerts that I have set up in my Google Reader.

• COP15 Official Webcast and COP15 Website

• 27/4 livestream by OneClimate.tv - includes live twitterstream
  

• Today's Climate - a summary of top news stories by Solve Climate

• Copenhagen video interviews and updates by Clean Skies News

• Climate Scoreboard widget by Climate Interactive

• UNFCCC-IPCC-COP twitter list

• @worldresources tweets and online resources for COP15: Countdown to Copenhagen

• Climate Action Tracker provides detailed information on individual country pledges for greenhouse gas emission reductions

• GreenAction Twitterwall - hashtag #savetheclimate - via Greenpeace Germany

• Inside COP15 - World Wildlife Fund plan up to six new videos and a live streamed event every day

Christmas movies I watched as a child

There seem to be new holiday movies spring up every year. And each new generation has their favorites.

As a young child growing up in Western Pennsylvania I was enthralled with the Mabel Beaton Marionettes production of "A Night Before Christmas" and the Christmas story as taken from the Biblical narrative. But as I got older, that favorite of mine soon disappeared from the holiday repertoires.

I did a search this year and discovered that someone had been posted them on YouTube - hooray! So, as old -- and a bit hokie -- as they are, they are still a delight.

Intro to Job Summit - Obama Speech Visualization

Remarks by President Obama at the Opening Session of the Jobs and Economic Growth Forum (December 3, 2009)

Created through Wordle.net

Cool Viral Widget for COP15: Climate Scoreboard

The United Nations Climate Change Negotiations are taking place December 7-18, 2009 in Copenhagen. The team from ClimateInteractive has created a kinda cool tool for tracking the progress of the negotiations in real time which can be displayed online pretty much anywhere.

The Climate Scoreboard is an embeddable widget that you and your friends and colleagues can include in blogs, websites, Facebook pages, press releases, newsletters, and more. 

It shows the Score -- expected temperature in 2100 -- if current proposals in the global climate negotiations were fully implemented and how close those proposals bring us to our goals.

When country proposals to the UN change, a team in Copenhagen will immediately update the analysis (using the C-ROADS model created by Sustainability Institute, MIT, and Ventana Systems). In real time, around the world, wherever the Scoreboard is posted, the Scoreboard will update – showing both the progress that has been realized and the effort still required to achieve the goal.

Here's a video about how the Climate Scoreboard works:

The Climate Scoreboard Video from Climate Interactive on Vimeo.

You can follow the ClimateInteractive team in Copenhagen  on the blog at http://climateinteractive.wordpress.com/ or via twitter at http://twitter.com/climateinteract.

Rethinking your online space

At a recent session sponsored by Forum One Communications, the Smithsonian's Michael Edson highlighted some of the common misunderstandings about leveraging the online space.

First of all, you are competing with everyone in the world to be source of information. You can no longer rely on your mission and reputation as the primary draw to your content. There are too many voices out there talking about your issues in engaging ways with better search results.

You not only have to find new and engaging ways to get people to your website, you have to disburse your content to key networks where people congregate.

Overcoming these challenges online requires organizations to overcome some misunderstandings: 

1. The internet is not a megaphone. It is a new way of getting work done. The days of using solely as a marketing tool are gone.

2. Your audience is external – focus externally. Don’t focus all your efforts on innovation and discovery from inside the institution. Catalyze productivity, innovation and discovery "outside the institution, beyond your four walls. Remember Bill Joy’s Law: “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else." Create and leverage your online brain trust.

3. Don’t be fixated on web 2.0 and social media – there’s no such thing as social media, it’s just doing stuff with a computer, everyone go to bed. @elliotharman

4. It's not about the desktop internet – as of November 2009 there were more than 2.5 billion mobile subscribers

One of the most valuable resources that Edson highlighted is the Smithsonian's Web and New Media strategy process, a wiki about the process open to the public. 

Edson explained that he had to compress an hour-long talk into 15 minutes. But never fear, he posted the longer presentation on his SlideShare.net account - which I've embedded below.

Michael Edson @ Forum One: Strategy and Audience (long version)

View more presentations from edsonm.