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 […]
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, […]
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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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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