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A light blanket of snow coats the ground in Copenhagen. In Washington, D.C., it would paralyze the city; here locals seem to barely notice it.
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The good news is that getting in this morning was a breeze. Lines were shorter with NGOs mostly denied access. There seems an almost ghostly emptiness here compared to previous days.

Don't be evil?: Google’s Dan Reicher on the Importance of Copenhagen

Google’s Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Dan Reicher — a policy wonk that served in the Clinton Administration energy department and heads up Google’s efforts on shaping energy legislation — spent the past few days at the Copenhagen climate summit, meeting with business leaders, giving talks on the importance of energy efficiency, and leading a call to action on consumer access to energy information. I met with Reicher at the BrightGreen Expo in Copenhagen on Sunday and he had this to say about the importance of the negotiations and how IT companies should be involved.

Q). Are there specific issues that Google is looking at in terms of the Copenhagen agreement?

A). We have said clearly that we’re going to need a price on carbon, and part of being here for the negotiations is making sure that it’s sooner rather than later.
... At Google we are a modest clean tech investor, we are investing in clean energy projects, but the decisions will be critical for the banking and clean energy project investors.

The Associated Press: NASA, Google offer more precise emissions tracking

COPENHAGEN — The question is a potential deal-killer: If nations ever agree to slash greenhouse gas emissions, how will the world know if they live up to their pledges?

The answer is in space, experts say — both outer space and cyberspace.

NASA, the wonder agency of the 1960s, and Google, the go-to company of the early 21st Century, are trying to give the world the ability to monitor both the carbon dioxide pollution and the levels of forest destruction that contribute to global warming.

"Just having the thing flying around there imaging would just about make everybody act differently," said professor Steve Pacala, director of the Princeton Environmental Institute. "The idea that you could pull a fast one would be different."

Daily Express | Climate change 'lies' by Britain

THE Met Office was last night facing accusations it cherry-picked climate change figures in a bid to increase evidence of global warming.

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You do not have a right to cheap flights, to travel, to meat in every meal, to fizzy drinks, or to change your wardrobe every season. These are luxuries. Unsustainable ones. We need to break the bonds that capitalism has sold us. Your rights are to equality, to lack of persecution, to a standard of living adequate for health and well-being, to life and liberty.