... from Sidmouth:
Futures Forum: Climate change: converse on the seafront: 21st September
... to London:
BBC News - Climate change: Thousands march across the UK
... to New York:
New York City Climate Change March Could Be Largest of Its Kind | TIME
... and beyond:
Climate march in cities all over the world demanding urgent action on climate change | Daily Mail Online
This latest process does seem to be a game-changer:
Another protest, another climate conference - will this time be any different. Well, the marches brought more people on to the streets than ever before, thanks to the organizational power of the social media site Avaaz. And the climate talks will also be influenced by technology as it was reported this week that the sun and wind can often generate power as cheaply as gas in the home of fossil fuels, Texas.
Certainly the UN's secretary general Ban Ki Moon hopes that he can make a fresh in the endless blame-your-neighbour round of climate talks.
Next year world leaders are due to show up in Paris to settle a global climate deal based not on a bitterly-contested chiseling negotiation in the middle of the night, but on open co-operative offers of action to tackle a shared problem. Mr Ban has invited leaders to New York to make their offers public. Some small nations will doubtless make new contributions to the carbon contraction effort as they realize the vulnerability of their own economies to a hotter world.
But some big players may continue the game of climate poker, holding back their offers until they see what else is on the table. So there is no guarantee that Ban's idea will work - but at least for weary climate politics watchers, it will be a change.
BBC News - Climate change summit: Thousands join global protests
Of course, there's been a fair amount of politicking going on before the New York meeting:
Times of Oman | Column :: UN climate propaganda is at the full throttle now
Climate Change Summit No Shows Leave Obama and Clinton out on a Limb on Global Warming Rhetoric say Friends of Science - Press Release - Digital Journal
Matt Ridley Returns With Error-Riddled Articles, As Wall Street Journal Discredits Itself | ThinkProgress
On Tuesday 23rd, delegates and leaders will be meeting in New York to prepare for an even bigger summit in Paris next year:
UN Climate Summit - UN Climate Summit 2014
Six things to know about the climate change summit happening in New York this month | Carbon Brief
The amount of research and verification of the science is exhaustive - if not exhausting:
Illustration by David Parkins
IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is all leading up to the big meeting in Paris next year:
2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Avaaz - Climate countdown to Paris -- the Avaaz blog In December 2015, world leaders will meet in Paris to agree on how the world will respond to climate change. We have until then to build the public pressure and political support necessary for them to agree to a strong deal.
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