Lots of Ink ON Copenhagen. Here’s some FROM Copenhagen
Search engines tell me thousands of stories are out there on the UN Climate meeting’s first day – and now into the second – in Copenhagen. Even allowing for duplicates from wire and syndicated stories, plus those ripped off from other outlets, that’s a lot. For no reason other than to winnow the haul, this post fstarts off with some of those datelined to the meeting itself. The opening is not a time for real news whose meaning is likely to persist, but does provide a chance to describe the aims and atmosphere of this potentially historic, surely noisy, meeting.
Among US outlets with their own people there:
- Los Angeles Times – Jim Tankersley (blog, datelined 8:08 a.m.): Draft climate proposal leaks out in Copenhagen ; The opening gavel has been struck and Tankersley writes, “it’s time for the bargaining-table leaks to begin, as veterans of past climate summits will tell you.” His example is a draft proposal form the meeting’s Danish hosts. It gives a goal for holding temperature down but, he writes, conspicuously does not put numbers on the emission targets various nations ought to have.
- NYTimes:
- Andrew C. Revkin, Tom Zeller Jr., James Kanter: Under Banner of Urgency, Delegates Tackles Policy. Semi-metaphoric, atmospheric lede, then quickshot bits on opening talks, the stats, the urgency, the e-mail flap, etc.
- Andrew C. Revkin, James Kanter: Global Warming is Not Slowing, New Analysis Says ;
- Tom Zeller: Climate Talks Open With Calls for Urgent Action;
- AP – Arthur Max: UN climate conference opens with pressure on US ;
- Reuters
- Gerard Wynn: 2009 set to be fifth warmest year on record;
- Emma Graham-Harrison, Gerard Wynn: Poor demand more from rich to unlock climate talks ;
Guardian (UK. Paper is making a huge push at covering the meeting) – Pic explanation first: The newspaper renders the leaked Danish text as a wordle.)- John Vidal : Copenhagen summit in disarray after “Danish text’ leak ;
- Ian Katz, Damian Carrington, John Vidal: Gordon Brown: EU cuts must go deeper to get Copenhagen climate deal;
- John Vidal: Met Office figures confirm noughties as warmest decade in recorded history ;
… Gotta move on, but could stay with this post all day. To close, over at the Columbia Journalism Review‘s The Observatory, two pieces stand out:
- Curtis Brainard, Cristine Russell: Copenhagen Coverage Watch: Hopenhagen? Excellent selection of stories, with links, including a large package at the Wall St. Journal, the e-mail kerfuffle, and various editorials.
- Curtis Brainard: Hacked E-mails and “Journalistic Tribalism.” A long, detailed, thoughtful re-cap of the event and its coverage (or lack of it).
- Charlie Petit
