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I notice a few people have posted about the Climate Change Congress in Copenhagen -- well here's my take on this impressive meeting.
SIX Key Messages from this Copenhagen Climate Congress as I heard them. They are:

Civilisation triage is referred to on a web site about climate change and the peak oil issue ( http://www.futurescenarios.org/) This describes the processes by which remaining social capacity (beyond meeting immediate basic needs) are focused on conserving technology and culture that could be useful to a future society, once energy descent is stabilised after a precipitous but limited collapse process. This is not the dominant process of the scenario but the most significant in terms of future cultural capacity.

ABC Climate Change Consulting this week headlines an article by its 'profiled person' on "What the IPCC Lead Authors didn't get to say" -- go to http://abccarbon.com/

A short article on transparency in climate change communication by Professor Henderson-Sellers recently published and available on the Environmental Research web site:
The IPCC report: what the lead authors really think

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I've noticed a couple of folks have picked up on the Sacramento Delta / San Francisco Bay study Public Policy Institute of California (http://featured.matternetwork.com/2008/9/triage-for-flood-prone-lands.cfm ). I think its important to point out (contrary to the sense in some of the posts here on this web site) that in act this triage recommendation was made by CONSENSUS.

"Don't feed the troll!" is a widely shared view in the expanding global change blogosphere. Trolls are, in web vernacular, tiresome people who intentionally post false or controversial messages to create conflict, to gain funds, or simply to attract attention. But what aobut folks who really shoudl knwo better? Like the TV presenter and botanist, David Bellamy, who is also a climate sceptic. He told the New Scientist in 2005 that most glaciers in the world are growing, not shrinking. He said his evidence came from the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Switzerland, a reputable body.

The Global Environment Facility (GEF), the world's largest environmental funding body, received 3.13 billion dollars for environmental projects over the next four years amid rising concerns about the impact human activities are having on the Earth. This was headlined in August 2006 (2 full years ago) as "Triage for an Ailing Planet" by IPS. (Triage for an Ailing Planet http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34501 )

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The ornithologists seem to have been discussing the idea of triage to respond to climate change issues as far as they affect bird pattern changes for a while... for example the Cornell Lab of Ornithology link at http://birdsredesign.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/thursday-does-our-climate-...
has a summary about this including saying: