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Connie Hedegaard: Time Is Up - The Deadline Is Copenhagen

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carbon hedegaard environment sustainability on 2009-11-28
- We can choose to go down the road towards green prosperity and a more sustainable future. Or we can choose a pathway to stalemate and do nothing about climate change leaving an enormous bill for our kids and grand-kids to pay.
- According to the International Energy Agency every year lost to inaction will cost us 500 billion dollars.
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- - The deal should involve binding medium and long-term greenhouse gas reduction goals for developed countries
  - put the big developing economies on a cleaner and greener path to prosperity
  - provide assistance for the vulnerable countries
  - how we can work together to disseminate and develop technology and knowledge
Pricing the tonne of carbon that tips us into climate catastrophe - The Ecologist

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carbon economics on 2009-11-28
Carbon pricing is planetary Russian Roulette - The Ecologist

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carbon Nassim Nicholas Taleb economy black swan risk risk management on 2009-11-28
- How do you price the tonne of carbon that, once burned, tips the balance and triggers catastrophic, irreversible global warming?
  
  This question is phrased to give scope for only one answer: there is no price and therefore carbon markets are pointless.
- how effective is pricing in carbon markets?
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- - prices are almost always imperfect for a number of reasons, ranging from lack of information to ignoring costs such as pollution
  - There is no mechanism for pricing in this situation because the outcomes are so asymmetrical: extinction or cash.
  - The theory of unintended consequences states simply that whatever we do in a complex system will have a range of consequences we did not intend and could not forecast because of our lack of knowledge.
  - the most important events in the future are the largest events and these we cannot forecast.
  - it would be stupid to discard carbon markets provided they are considered as only one innovation amongst many other areas which require innovation including education, law, business, technology etc.
SEORS | Side events list

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climate science ipcc UNFCCC UN on 2009-11-27
'Copenhagen Diagnosis' offers a grim update to the IPCC's climate science | Environment | guardian.co.uk

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climate science ipcc on 2009-11-25 and saved by 2 people
- the climate situation is much worse than the IPCC has so far reported
- sea levels could rise and methane-laden arctic permafrost could melt much sooner than the panel had anticipated
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- - arctic sea ice is melting 40 percent faster than the panel estimated just a few years ago
  - the global average for rising sea levels was 3.4 millimeters per year from 1993-2008. The IPCC estimated it would be 1.9 mm for that period—short by 80 percent
  - Over the past 25 years temperatures have increased at a rate of 0.19°C per decade, in very good agreement with predictions based on greenhouse gas increases.
  - acceleration in sea-level rise is consistent with a doubling in contribution from melting of glaciers, ice caps, and the Greenland and West-Antarctic ice-sheets
  - waiting for higher levels of scientific certainty could mean that some tipping points will be crossed before they are recognized
  - the average annual per-capita emissions will have to shrink to well under 1 metric ton CO2 by 2050. This is 80-95% below the per-capita emissions in developed nations in 2000
Klimaspin -part deux: Klimaindustrien - Halkens Bundlinje | Ingeniøren

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climate klimaspin on 2009-11-25
Rising CO2 could cause catastrophic sea level rise finds Antarctic study - Telegraph

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climate co2 environment on 2009-11-23
- during the last period of high CO2, 125,000 years ago,
  temperatures were up to 10.8F(6C) higher than present day levels.
  
  Such a hike in temperature could lead to a rise in sea levels of between 13 to
  20ft (4 to 6 m) over hundreds of years as the ice sheets melt.
- the study suggests that current high levels of CO2 could also
  cause a rise in temperature
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- - massive droughts, extinction of species and sea
    level rise
  - the proportion of fossil fuel emissions absorbed by
    the oceans since 2000 may have declined by as much as 10 per cent
Burying Climate Change: Carbon Gets Stuffed Underground: Scientific American

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climate carbon on 2009-11-20
Major Asian cities face climate disaster: WWF - Yahoo! News

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disaster climate cities on 2009-11-15
- "Climate change is already shattering cities across developing Asia and will be even more brutal in the future," said Kim Carstensen
- on a "vulnerability" scale going up to 10, Dhaka rated nine points, and Manila and Jakarta eight each
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- - Calcutta and Phnom Penh received scores of seven each on the WWF danger scale, Ho Chi Minh City and Shanghai six each, Bangkok five, and Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Singapore four each.
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 629 | 629 | Climate scepticism: The top 10

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environment science climate on 2009-11-08 and saved by 30 people
Danskerne er for magelige til at redde klimaet - 24.dk

Fire ud af fem danskere vil gerne ændre klima-adfærd. Men hvis det rammer pengepungen, er villigheden mindre, viser undersøgelser

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dansk climate change Danes hypocrisy on 2009-11-04
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map climate change on 2009-11-02 and saved by 7 people
Thirsty Plant Dries Out Yemen - NYTimes.com

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plant climate change drought Yemen on 2009-11-02
Climate Change Quotes :: Finest Quotes

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climate quotes climate change on 2009-10-31
"Earth on Fire" by Mickey Gjerris et al

Climate change from a philosophical and ethical perspective. BOOK

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greenhouse effect climate change sea levels anthropogenic on 2009-10-30
We Need Sustainable Capitalism - WSJ.com

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economy economics capitalism on 2009-10-25 and saved by 5 people
- market capitalism has arrived at a critical juncture
- sustainable development will be the primary driver of economic and industrial change over the next 25 years
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- - sustainability issues are central to business and should be incorporated in the analysis of business and management quality
  - "Nature does not do bailouts."
A warmer world, 2055 - New Scientist

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predictions 2055 on 2009-10-24 and saved by 3 people
Effects of anthropogenic land cover change on the carbon cycle of the last millennium

Pre-industrial greenhouse effect

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greenhouse effect climate change co2 sea levels anthropogenic on 2009-10-21
George Monbiot: Climate change displacement has begun – but hardly anyone has noticed | Environment | guardian.co.uk

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greenhouse effect climate change co2 sea levels monbiot on 2009-10-16 and saved by 4 people
Daily Kos: State of the Nation

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cop15 politics scandal Connie Hedegaard on 2009-10-14

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Benno Hansen's List: Climate Change

Connie Hedegaard: Time Is Up - The Deadline Is Copenhagen

Pricing the tonne of carbon that tips us into climate catastrophe - The Ecologist

Carbon pricing is planetary Russian Roulette - The Ecologist

SEORS | Side events list

'Copenhagen Diagnosis' offers a grim update to the IPCC's climate science | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Klimaspin -part deux: Klimaindustrien - Halkens Bundlinje | Ingeniøren

Rising CO2 could cause catastrophic sea level rise finds Antarctic study - Telegraph

Burying Climate Change: Carbon Gets Stuffed Underground: Scientific American

Major Asian cities face climate disaster: WWF - Yahoo! News

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 629 | 629 | Climate scepticism: The top 10

Danskerne er for magelige til at redde klimaet - 24.dk

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Thirsty Plant Dries Out Yemen - NYTimes.com

Climate Change Quotes :: Finest Quotes

"Earth on Fire" by Mickey Gjerris et al

We Need Sustainable Capitalism - WSJ.com

A warmer world, 2055 - New Scientist

Effects of anthropogenic land cover change on the carbon cycle of the last millennium

George Monbiot: Climate change displacement has begun – but hardly anyone has noticed | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

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