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U.K. newspapers cover Copenhagen – diaries, blogs, enthusiasm, skepticism and complete disregard
Here is a brief rundown about how British newspapers are covering the COP15 conference in Copenhagen. It is based on the papers’ websites, as I don’t dare exit my house to buy copies of them all due to an intense fear of increasing my carbon footprint.
Richard Black, environment correspondent for the BBC News website has a ‘COP15 Copenhagen climate summit’ blog which you can read here.
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The London Times Copenhagen Diary is a collection of interesting, lesser known facts and trivia connected to the happenings surrounding the COP15 conference.
The Guardian‘s Mathew Weaver has a ‘liveblog’ that details the opening day at the climate summit featuring observations every few minutes.
The Independent offers an irreverent and humorous Copenhagen diary, apparently with the intent of poking as many holes in the summit with as many witty barbs as possible.
The Evening Standard, which has recently become a ‘free paper’, doesn’t contain much Copenhagen coverage, but has a blog entitled ‘The Great Climate Circus rolls into town’.
The Telegraph has no such feature that I can find, but plenty of stories relating to Copenhagen and climate change, as do the Financial Times and the Daily Mirror. The Daily Express has just a couple of ‘skeptical articles’ relating to climate change
Contrastingly, Britain’s most popular papers aren’t really bothered. The Sun, the U.K.’s most widely circulated newspaper, has one climate change headline, asking its readers to discuss with the droll prompt: ‘Climate change just hot air?’ But it’s not a leading question or anything like that, of course. The second largest British newspaper is the Daily Mail, which has a cartoon on the Copenhagen summit way down at the bottom of its online front page, with Posh Spice and the infidelities of Tiger Woods grabbing the main headlines. The Daily Star and Scotland’s Daily Record are similarly rubbish for those in search of environmental news.
By Graham Land
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History has shown that the climate will change regardless of our activity.
And do you notice how everyone becomes an expert on the science; their judgement of which conveniently corresponds to whatever political opinions they hold? Honestly I have to let the scientists review each others work, which is how we arrive at this “consensus” argument. Sure, science isn’t determined by consensus, but public understanding of it always has been influenced by consensus, at least in societies with decent, enlightened educational systems and some transparency. Otherwise you let political opinion or religion decide for you, or the worst example, people who decide based on personal experience (i.e. there’s a cold spell at the moment = no GLOBAL warming).
I happen to think that scientific debate is normal and there will always be surprises and discoveries, but to avoid the most serious of risks as well as a host of other reasons (getting of foreign oil, being self sufficient, cleaner, etc) is just better in so many ways than continuing as we are, funding war and polluting.
I agree there is a lot of disinformation and misinformation, however there is a clear problem when it comes to the energy and water we are using and abusing. It is a fact that we only have one earth, that her resources are limited to what it is and that “developed” countries are over-producing, over-using and over-polluting the world. Whether climate change will be cataclysmal in its results or whether science models now are slightly off one way or the other doesn’t really change that. We are continuously polluting and abusing resources, thinking its our birth rights. Animals are dying, people in less fortunate countries are hungry, sick and have no access to all the luxuries we have. Just for that we should have a climate change treaty, ready to divide all the earth’s resources equally and honestly. Regardless of the consequences of our abusive consumerism it’s time to stop being children, let go of all the stuff we don’t need, and become humble (again?).
I really don’t know what to think about climate change any more … None of us really has a clue about what the hell is going on.