Much of the talk yesterday focused on Al Gore's comments about the leaked emails, and the uproar surrounding them - uproar he called "sound and fury signifying nothing."  But perhaps the most interesting news surrounding the email scandal wasn't abroad, but right at home where Representative F. James Sensenbrenner, Republican of Wisconsin, is working on getting a batch of climate scientists pulled from any further involvement in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - this according to Andrew Revkin of Dot Earth. 

For what's actually going in Copenhagen, Revkin also reports on comments made by another American, comments equally as disturbing.  Todd Stern of the United States climate envoy in Copenhagen has a response to developing countries that are claiming the world’s rich owe its poor a “climate debt, Revkin reports.  “I actually completely reject the notion of a debt or reparations or anything of the like,” he said at a news conference. “For most of the 200 years since the industrial revolution, people were blissfully ignorant of the fact that emissions caused a greenhouse effect. It’s a relatively recent phenomenon.”

One needn't look far in America for one of our chief contributors to climate change - the transportation sector.  And surely the Americans in Denmark right now are getting an up close and personal look at the way transportation ought to be.  Accounting for 29 percent of all US emissions that contribute to climate change, carbon emitting transportation is without a doubt one of the first major diets our nation needs to go on.  Fred Hansen, the general manager of Portland-based Tri-Met, is in Copenhagen, and was one of four members of a panel discussion titled "Buses, Trains, and Commuter Vans: Reducing Carbon through U.S. Public Transit." Read more HERE. 

The below photo is from a series of ads from Greenpeace titled: World leaders regret their failures in Copenhagen
Just something to think about.  See the rest of them HERE.

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