climate change

Looks like there wont be enough snow for some of the Olympic sports events at Cypress Mountain. So VANOC is going to have to truck and even fly snow in, with straw and wood being used as a base for freestyle skiing and snowboarding events being hosted there.

Whatever your thoughts about climate change and Copenhagen, this will tickle you. A couple of references for you - Clarkson is Times motoring correspondent Jeremy Clarkson, who never misses an opportunity to poo-poo climate science, and the newspapers mentioned are Tory rags known for their dislike of UK PM Gordon Brown.

After the failure, the politicians' empty boasts of a "historic agreement", the real story of what happened behind the scenes at Copenhagen is coming out piece by piece.

"We know the fault lines because we have been imprisoned by them for years - the time for talk is over." So said President Obama in his speech at COP15 in Copenhagen. Obama called for unified action rather than delay and repeating "the same stale arguments" while the climate change problem escalated.

NGOs have been shining a light on the dirty secret of the Canadian Tar Sands in Copenhagen. Climate Action Network gave Canada two more fossils at the climate conference for obstructing the talks and for twisting the science.

There's a good opinion piece in The Tyee by Michael McGonigle, in which he argues that Copenhagen must fail "if we are to win the fight against global warming".

Looks like he might get his wish, although there's still a chance that his worst fear might be realised: a weak climate change agreement that acts like a major obstacle to change. I haven't heard that many advocates making the connection between climate change and the general ill health of the environment, although it's pretty plain to see.

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.

The British Government today released a map that shows the temperatures in Northern Canada rising by 12c and rising by 15c to 16c in the Northern Arctic by 2060 due to climate change.

Party on Cambie Bridge to show that yes we want to see real action, not more faffing around, on climate change by politicians in Copenhagen.

On 24 October, 11.30am for noon, as part of the International Day of Climate Change Action:

www.bridgecoolplanet.ca

The 16-day Vancouver International Film Festival gets underway on 1st October. If previous years are anything to go by, you can expect a programme bursting at the seams with world cinema, documentary, music and arthouse work from across the globe. In particular, with the Earth Summit in Copenhagen coming in December, expect festival artistic director Alan Franey to field a strand of hard-hitting environmental documentaries when the full VIFF programme goes live on 12th September.