Brett Shollenberger on August 19th, 2010

This blog contains exciting educational reflections made during a year-long research project on the 15th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP15)! Within these pages you’ll find: 1) Who We Are! 2) Reflections made at COP15! 3) Video Interviews from COP15! 4) Reflections  post-COP15! 5) Student Impressions on Key Issues 6) Research Projects The course […]

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Brett Shollenberger on August 19th, 2010

We are a research team from Dickinson College consisting of 15 students and 2 professors. We spent the past year in a course titled From Kyoto to Copenhagen, during which we attended the 15th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, interviewed parties to the conference, gave presentations to our community, blogged, wrote research papers, […]

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Brett Shollenberger on April 22nd, 2010

Grace Lange and I recently gave a brief lecture at the Penn State Rock Ethics Conference on several conclusions that we’ve drew from COP-15. The presentation can be seen below: Rock Ethics Conference These conclusions were originally presented in a research paper written by Grace and I, as well as Gwen Dunnington, Brandon McCall, and […]

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Brett Shollenberger on December 9th, 2009

From the window of the plane to Copenhagen, at around 1am EST (or 7am in Denmark) I could see the entirety of the United Kingdom outlined in lights. From 38,003 ft., the world which had once seemed impossibly large – which had previously been seen only on maps, and what sense did those really give […]

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Brett Shollenberger on October 11th, 2009

While reading through Amy Luers’ How to Avoid Dangerous Climate Change, I was shocked to read her assertion that carbon emissions in the industrialized world need to peak in 2010. Although nothing should shock me about climate change numbers anymore (and admittedly, other scientists argue for different peak years), the statement shocked me nonetheless to think […]

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