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Tag Archives: Copenhagen
Fires, Flooding, and Climate Finance: Is there enough fast-start funding?
The World Resources Institute recently released updated estimates of the “fast-start” climate mitigation and adaption commitments rich nations made to poor countries after the Copenhagen summit. The headline figures are pretty impressive: Developed nat… Continue reading
Copenhagen Fashion Week Hair Trends (PHOTOS, POLL)
Although we didn’t come across many photos of Copenhagen fashion week (other than Princess Mary swinging by), we found just enough pics to conclude that anything but flat hair with a center part will be in next season. Take a look at the styles from a … Continue reading
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Tagged anything, Center, Copenhagen, fashion, fashion week, hair, hair dos, hair trends, handful, home, look, photos, poll, princess mary, season, week
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A Party-Driven Process: Kyoto Protocol? Copenhagen Accord?
Bonn, Germany – Already at the last UNFCCC meeting in June, the majority of nations – aside from airing their grievances over how the negotiating process was hijacked in Copenhagen – expressed anew their commitment to transparent negotiations and to th… Continue reading
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Tagged accord, action, awg, AWG-KP, AWG-LCA, Bali, bonn germany, commitment, Copenhagen, grievances, hoc working group, June, kp, kyoto protocol, Majority, negotiations, party, support, UNFCCC
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Helena Christensen’s World’s Greatest Catwalk To Break Record
Supermodel Helena Christensen is planning a record-breaking fashion show called The World’s Greatest Catwalk, WWD reports. The event will be held on August 14 and feature 220 models strutting down a mile-long runway in Copenhagen, in conjunction with t… Continue reading
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Tagged break, catwalk, Christensen, City, conjunction, Copenhagen, fashion, fashion week, Greatest, helena christensen, labels, Models, participants, Show, Supermodel, WWD
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Bikes are a City’s Indicator Species
Just as the fate of the seemingly lowly frog serves as a bellwether of the health of an ecosystem, the presence of bikes can tell you a lot about a community. First, a city with more bikes is likely safer, since people are comfortable being out on the streets. Its residents are likely healthier and more active — even the recent White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity report to the president called for increased biking twice in its recommendations. And it’s also a more green-minded metropolis, since people are of a mind to occasionally pedal for short trips instead of driving (the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that as many as 40% of car trips are 2 miles or less, a distance my mom could bike — several times a day).
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood understands the importance of biking, as he made clear in March outlining the DoT’s new policy statement, an unprecedented and momentous (to those of us in the bike world, anyway) recommendation that bicycling and walking be treated as modes of transportation equal to driving. There are also dozens of mayors and many local officials who have worked hard and fast in recent years to make their cities significantly more bike-friendly with bike lanes, signs and other indications to all road users that bicyclists belong there, as Bicycling found recently when naming its top 50 Bike Friendly Cities. In #1 Minneapolis, they often plow the bikeways clear of snow before the streets in winter. On Earth Day, Denver, #12, launched the first large-scale public-use bike sharing program in the U.S., based on the successful Paris Velib model. In New York City, #8 on our list, the City is taming some avenues with protected bike lanes, which separate cyclists from traffic using a lane of parked cars — riding in one you suddenly feel like you’ve left the urban jungle for a biketopia like Copenhagen, Denmark (where 40% of all trips are by bike). And even business leaders are on board: #34 Columbus, Ohio, hosted a ceremonial bike ride with 70 area CEOs to celebrate National Bike to Work Week.
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Who Cares What the Experts Say? – The Democratization of Science
The difficulty during last year’s Copenhagen Climate Summit in reaching agreement on how to address global warming reflects the contentious political environment on even scientific issues. While worrisome to many, there is an even more troubling lack of agreement right here in America on the core scientific question: is global warming real? While 72% of Americans still think global warming is taking place (Washington Post-ABC News Poll, November 2009), that’s down from 80% a year earlier. Among Republicans, only 54% believe global warming is happening, down from 76% in 2008. Last year’s revelation that some British scientists “massaged” their data for a published paper on the topic has been used by some (who have labeled it “Climategate”) to cast doubt on the entire record of scientific research on global climate change.
Can we no longer trust science and scientists? In a December ABC News -Washington Post poll, 40% of respondents said that they could “trust the things that scientists say about the environment” only “a little or not at all.” Sixty-two percent said that there is “a lot of disagreement” among scientists “about whether or not global warming is happening,” a figure far in excess of the disagreement that actually exists.
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Brazil’s Opportunity to Close the Nuclear Proliferation Loophole
Nations, like individuals, as the ancient Greeks warned, are often tested by success, as much as by adversity. Consider the case of Brazil.
For the last several years Brazil has been on an international roll: Winner of the 2016 Olympic Games. Broker of a climate change compromise at Copenhagen. Site of massive offshore oil discoveries. Leader of the G-20. Magnet for foreign investment. A growing economy. “Brazil Takes Off” headlined The Economist Magazine in a recent cover story.
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Tagged 2016 olympic games, adversity, ancient greeks, Brazil, broker, case, change, climate, climate change, compromise, Copenhagen, economist magazine, foreign investment, last several years, offshore oil, oil discoveries, Olympic, olympic games, Roll, success, winner
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GOP Chooses Lord “Hitler Youth” Monckton as Expert Witness on Climate Change Science
House Republicans have chosen Lord Christopher Monckton, a non-scientist with a penchant for outrageous remarks, as its sole witness at tomorrow’s hearing in front of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) called the hearing in an effort to further restore public confidence in climate science, and to set the record straight that ‘Climategate’ was not the scandal climate deniers and the right-wing media tried to portray in the wake of the theft of private emails from scientists at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia.
A press release announcing the hearing states that the scientists “will address the claims of deniers head-on.”
The explanatory hearing will include testimony from Lisa Graumlich, director of the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona, who served on the British panel that last month exonerated the CRU scientists of any malpractice.
Rep. Markey has also called three top American climate scientists to explain that climate science remains fundamentally sound and supported by evidence gathered by reputed scientific institutions around the world. The three expert scientist witnesses were involved in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that have been attacked by climate deniers, including Lord Monckton.
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, the Ranking Minority Member of the committee, chose Monckton as the Republican’s sole witness at the hearing.
Of all the people in the world the GOP could call to testify, they chose Christopher (not-really-a-Lord) Monckton, a non-scientist with a diploma in journalism studies and a knack for trampling Godwin’s Law of Nazi Analogies.
Monckton called American college students advocating for clean energy the “Hitler Youth” and “Nazis” during his crazed rampage at the Americans For Prosperity event at the Copenhagen climate summit. Monckton repeated the “Hitler Youth” comments directly to me in an interview the following day, and then took it way too far when he told Jewish student Ben Wessel, whose grandparents escaped the Holocaust, “I am not going to shake the hand of Hitler youth.” Despite extensive video evidence, Monckton went on to lie to the Associated Press, claiming that he never uttered those words.
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The 50 Worst Restaurants In The World
The U.K.’s Restaurant magazine announced their annual San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurant rankings on Monday, to much online fanfare, grumbling, and intrigue. Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark, earned the #1 spot, and Chicago’s Alinea restaurant from Chef Grant Achatz was at #7, and the top U.S. restaurant overall.
Giving the 50 best rankings the levity they deserve, the staff of the Chicago Tribune‘s The Stew blog compiled their own list: The 50 Worst Restaurants In The World.
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Tagged alinea restaurant, chef grant achatz, Chicago, chicago tribune, Copenhagen, copenhagen denmark, Denmark, fanfare, Grant Achatz, intrigue, levity, magazine, Monday, Noma, online, pellegrino, restaurant, San, san pellegrino, spot, Stew, u s restaurant, U.K., U.S., world
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SideTracker Machine Tracks Your Procrastination (VIDEO)
How much time do you spend fluffing pillows, making coffee, fiddling with the thermostat, or otherwise distracting yourself when you’re supposed to be working?
A new machine designed by students at the Copenhagen Institute of Interactive Design will tell you.
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Tagged coffee, Copenhagen, copenhagen institute, design, fiddling, Institute, Interactive, interactive design, Machine, pillows, thermostat, time
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