Climate Pulse

    Photo ©  Himalayan Trails/flickr Last December, a very large majority of the scientific community and most politicians would have agreed that the scientific evidence of human-induced climate change was unequivocal and that the only question was whether the... [continue]

Photo: Flickr, CC "Different Gears - Same Destination" Cyclists too have conferences. The European Cyclists' Federation, the City of Frederiksberg, and the City of Copenhagen are inviting us to Velo-City Global 2010 (a wordplay on the French word for bike, "vélo", and "velocity") in Copenhagen on... [continue]

Image credit: Fashioning Tech It's well known by now that much of the action at the failed climate talks in Copenhagen happened outside the convention center. From clashes with police to activists being banned from talks, some of the action was confrontational. But there was also a gigantic... [continue]

Dr. Andrew Light, in this CAP repost, explains how the commitments already made by the world’s nations leave us only 5 gigatons short of the 2020 target scientists agree is necessary to minimize climate change damages. This past December, 192 countries gathered for the 15th meeting of the... [continue]

Click here to watch the event live. Todd Stern, U.S. special envoy for climate change, will be speaking about the lessons of the COP-15 summit in Copenhagen last December, the significance of the Copenhagen Accord that was negotiated there, and the path forward over the coming year and beyond. This... [continue]

Hopenhagen – that magical place of bright future days – is a few weeks behind us and the public interest in climate change is in slow decline – at least according to Google Trends . This is normal. Big meetings create lots of news and expectations and there is often disappointment... [continue]

We have not had any snow yet in Toronto, so I have not yet had to complain this year about the traditional use of bike lanes for snow storage. Over in Copenhagen, Mikael at Copenhagenize shows how it should be done, with dedicated machines called snow slingers that "rolls along eating up the snow... [continue]

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