| Just about every one has scene the Sci-Fi classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). (I did not see the recent remake.) In some ways what is happening today in Copenhagen is a real day when the earth stood still awaiting an outcome at the UN climate negotiations.
As in the movie, the fate of the earth is being decided, but this time the threat is not alien, it is of our own making-climate change. Just as in the movie there is high drama but here it is world leaders who must decide the course we will take.
Unlike in the movies, there will be no dramatic final ending here this week. Whatever the outcome, we face months or years of additional negotiations and years of hard work fighting fossil fuel interests who will resist implementation of any international agreement or federal legislation adopted by the US Congress. After Copenhagen, the work begins again!
Since those of us in Copenhagen are locked out of the UN negotiations, you can join us watching history being made (we hope) on line at :
General Link to all webcasts:
http://www2.cop15.meta-fusion.com/kongresse/cop15/templ/ovw.php?id_kongressmain=1&theme=unfccc
Plenary Sessions (where Obama is likely to speak today - see his full speech video below the fold):
http://www2.cop15.meta-fusion.com/kongresse/cop15/templ/live.php?id_kongresssession=1&theme=unfccc
Press Conferences from the UN Negotiations:
http://www3.cop15.meta-fusion.com/kongresse/cop15/templ/live.php?id_kongressmain=1&theme=unfccc&id_kongresssession=3 |