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The three main Copenhagen links I want you to look at

Posted by Dave Bath on 2009-12-07

  • http://en.cop15.dk/ – The official COP15 site
     
  • http://www.showyourvote.org – A link from the COP15 home page – lets you put your place in GoogleMaps in support of a "fair and effective" Copenhagen deal – with the resulting data presented to the leaders at COP15, and obviously our Glorious Leader Prima Donna who has been appointed a "friend" of the conference.
     
  • http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/06/papers-copenhagen-leader – A world-wide common editorial – but none from Oz (shame) – all starting (well, the English ones at least with the following:

    Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial.  We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.

    Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security.  The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation.  Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year’s inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc.  In scientific journals the question is no longer whether humans are to blame, but how little time we have got left to limit the damage.  Yet so far the world’s response has been feeble and half-hearted.
    The Guardian instance (on their FRONT PAGE)

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