Half a Degree Centigrade: The Challenge for the COP24 Climate talks in Poland. UN Climate Talks in Katowice No. 1 Nov. 29, 2018 “I am both deeply honored and a bit nervous to be Rotary’s first observer delegate to the UN Climate talks, which are being...
Packing My Bags and Unpacking the Katowice COP: Inspiration from the UN Secretary General. Packing my Bags and Unpacking the Katowice COP July 15, 2019 I began writing this blog post December 12, 2018 early in the morning of the last day, thinking of the trek...
Greta Thunberg: Speaking Truth to Power at COP24 COP Blog Post 7 UN Secretary General António Guterres seated next to 15-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who explained that while the world consumes an estimated 100 million barrels of oil each...
Week One of COP 24 Did Not End Well for Science or the Climate: If You Don’t Like the Science, Refuse to “Welcome” It. Week One of COP 24 Did Not End Well BOTTOM LINE: On Saturday night December 8, 2018, at the closing Plenary of the Subsidiary Body of Science...
Treading Water in a Sea of Acronyms: RINGO BINGO Lingo, Blog 4 Treading Water in a Sea of Acronyms: RINGO BINGO Lingo, Blog 4 On Monday December 4, 2018, with first-day-of-school jitters, Larry and I re-crossed streetcar tracks several times before we found the...
Into the Belly of the Beast: a just transition away from coal. COP24 Blog 2 December 4, 2018, update fromthe UNFCCC (The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) climate talks in Poland, COP 24 This map of Europe shows how much carbon is released...
