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China at Fault for Copenhagen Clusterfail, But Everyone Blames the WestThe U.N's top climate official Yvo De Boer has told countries to stop arguing about who is to blame for Copenhagen's clusterfail, and to get on with the job in hand. Though many blame America, people who were there are suggesting it was in fact China who blocked an ambitious deal from passing...

Arguing with climate skeptics isn't easy: the science is complicated and ignorance is easy. Every "the sun is getting hotter" or "it is a natural cycle" requires a comprehensive rebuttal that needs to be longer than than a five word allegation. But scientists and the media are getting better at quickly dispatching these ignorant claims. And governments pay little attention to incoherent ramblings.

Al Gore recently explained "the special pleading of the carbon polluters and the existence of ideological deniers is probably an example of the so-called sunset phenomenon, where we have a spectacular display just before the subsiding."

The New Scientists has little trouble debunking all of the deniers' spectacular claims, going through the first 50 of them quite swiftly. The first might just be the best:

There is "no real scientific proof" that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from man's activity.

Technically, proof exists only in mathematics, not in science. Whatever terminology you choose to use, however, there is overwhelming evidence that the current warming is caused by the rise in greenhouse gases due to human activities.

Seriously though, most worrying is that for many this is becoming an issue of politics. Increasingly Republican don't believe in climate change. Why are conservatives ignoring the science? And where are the conservative solutions to climate change? Despite this turn, I'm optimistic. Governments are smart enough to trust the science and trust the vast majority of scientists, rather than give any time to a few noisy skeptics.


Marky Lynas wrote a piece for the Guardian entitled “How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room,” which is a fascinating read. It gives an insider’s view of the closed-door Head of State negotiations that took place on that final, fateful day of negotiations. But its critical flaw is in wanting to solely blame China.

Lynas writes: “To those who would blame Obama and rich countries in general, know this: it was China's representative who insisted that industrialised country targets, previously agreed as an 80% cut by 2050, be taken out of the deal. "Why can't we even mention our own targets?" demanded a furious Angela Merkel.”

It’s very interesting indeed to speculate on what China was actually trying to achieve. The country has actually been quite aggressive in developing renewable technologies. Did China object to even rich countries setting their own emissions targets so as not to lock itself into the same at a future date?

One point I vigorously disagree with Lynas on, however, is his assertion that, ““China's strategy was simple: block the open negotiations for two weeks, and then ensure that the closed-door deal made it look as if the west had failed the world's poor once again. And sure enough, the aid agencies, civil society movements and environmental groups all took the bait.”


categories: Arctic & Antarctic, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, climate science, Climate Security, Environmental Justice, Greenhouse Gas, Science

Sometimes it's a little hard to sort out exactly why we should care about climate change. People always fall back on flooding cities but to my mind that's not really the biggest worry. In fact, it didn't even make my list of top worries. Here are some of the other things that will change the rest of our century.

10: Increased Disease - As a strong young man, I don't worry much about malaria or West Nile virus. There will be slight rises in disease during the century, but there will also be better vaccines in the developed world, where I live. Thank goodness. Sorry, Africa.

9: Disappearing Coral Reefs - I guess this isn't as worrying as some things. But the double whammy of more acid and warmer water (especially in shallow water) will obliterate our reefs. Humanity will soldier on but it will be a sadder, less colorful ocean. Sorry, unborn children.

8: Open Season on the Arctic - It seems clear that very soon we will be shipping across the Arctic Circle. Now I'm not against commerce - God knows I needs my Chinese-made trinkets. But a melting Arctic may open up new drilling opportunities. Feeding our oil addiction is not what we need. It's like telling a drug addict that you've hidden a bag of heroin under a pile of cocaine.

7: Strong weather - Again, no one knows if this has happened yet, but one of the hallmarks of climate change is the rising ocean temps. Unlike land temps, these are slow and do not turn on a dime. And as those who track hurricanes and El Nino know, warm water means strong weather.

6: Permafrost Melting - The great thing about PERMA-frost is that it never melts. That way, all the carbon in the peat underneath Siberia stays happily locked in. Unless of course it starts melting (which it is). Once that box is open, it doesn't really close.

5: Less Fruit - Even at three and a half degrees Fahrenheit higher (what most scientists agree is unavoidable at this point), we are going to see a big change in crop diversity. It's not the higher day temperatures that scuttle things like peaches, cherries, and grapes, it's the higher night temps. Without a certain number of chilly evenings, these fruits are in real trouble.

4: Melting of the Himalaya - Scientists are still not sure how and to what extent the top of the world is melting. But if it is as bad as the worst predictions say (God forbid) there will be trouble. Even moderate melting means that Asia will have to turn off the taps just as it develops. Free Tibet? Forget it if China is still thirsty.

3: Drought - Few people outside of California and Texas think much about drought. But they should because it affects wildfires, bark beetles and snow pack - all very expensive problems. Thankfully I have a solution. Turn off the taps for Caesar's in Las Vegas.

2: Extinction - Everyone loves polar bears, except those who are being eaten by them. But they are not the only (or even the most important) wildlife imperiled by climate change. Most of the real worries are little frogs or invertebrates that are very sensitive to changes and make up the basis for the food chain.

And the number one thing that keeps me up at night ...

1: Positive Feedback Loops - This is the big question mark in our atmosphere and the thing that scientists say privately (read: once they get a couple drinks in them) say really scares them. Positive feedbacks are anything where warming begets more carbon release and thus more warming. This could be anything from decreased reflectivity of the ice caps to wildfires in drought areas. Scientists now say it will be these feedbacks that determine how strong climate change will be.

As another year comes to an end, many are pessimistic about mankind's hopes to mitigate the effects of climate change. Today, we're reminded it's the fifth anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami and earthquake that killed 250,000.

Soon, 500,000 people a year will be dying due to climate change. The number is already 300,000, killing people all around the globe. That's 300,000 reasons to pressure leaders to take action, and there are 6 billion other reasons to continue the fight. This year, it hasn't been all bad news though, and we've had a few victories in the fight against climate change, despite dismally slow progress. Over the next five days I'll present five reasons to be optimistic, reasons to keep up the pressure and believe we can make progress:

Reason #5: Copenhagen wasn't a complete failure. Though there was no ambitious international agreement, or any binding targets agreed, China and the United States were engaged in talks, and countries agreed to limit temperature rises to 2 degrees in the Copenhagen Accord. Even better, Brazil, India and South Africa were all engaged at the highest level — developing nations have a voice, and are an increasingly powerful force, as the small island states like the Maldives and Tuvalu demonstrates.

The result of Copenhagen was far from a win, but more ambitious targets will be coming, and some groundwork has been laid for more successes in the future. Even the the Prime Minister of Bangladesh — a country many contend to be the country worst hit by climate change — considered the conference to have reached a "reasonable conclusion." Taking advice of experts on how to move forwards is an essential next step to ensure Copenhagen's "reasonable conclusion" is only preface to a fair, ambitious, and binding (FAB) deal being made in Mexico City at COP16. Of course, we don't need to rely solely on optimism. And we must not be passive. Join us here at Change.org as we spend the next 12 months taking meaningful direct action to make our voices heard.


Climate negotiations don't need to be restarted, or rebooted. And we don't need to rip up progress made and start again. Instead, we can maintain momentum, and "steer into the skid."

Since Bali, the politics and progress has gone in a backward direction. The authors of the paper explain that the likelihood of comprehensive deal emerging in Mexico is low following Hopenhagen not becoming a reality. But they suggest that rather than hitting the brakes (and completely rebooting) "deal makers need to steer into the skid by building on unprecedented engagement by heads of states." They suggest this can happen by demanding the United States pass legislation, and change how developing countries are engaged. Their specific recommendations are particularly compelling:

categories: Clean Energy, Copenhagen Climate Summit, Energy Effeciency, energy independence, energyefficiency, Fossil Energy, International Action, Policy & Legislation, Renewable Energy, Solar energy, wind energy

"Universal energy access" is a shorter and more official way of saying "don't leave the poor behind as we rich nations ride off into a clean-energy future." It's more than a matter of fairness. UN officials stated in one of the sessions at the Copenhagen conference that any agreement the world comes to on climate change will only work if the poor are given access to the technology they need to get with the program, and soon, according to SciDevNet.

Sha Zukang, under-secretary general for economic and social affairs, said that excluding people from clean technology because of expense or intellectual property restrictions will only serve to complicate the dynamics of reaching a solution that will work.

Billions of people in the developing world will be left behind and plunged deeper into poverty if they are shut out, which will serve not only to stall progress on clean energy use but will stir resentment among those who are losing out on development opportunities.

categories: Activism, Policy & Legislation, Politics

By now you’ve surely heard that, to anyone concerned about putting the planet over profits and politics, the UN climate summit in Copenhagen was a massive failure. But I just want to point out that there’s plenty of reason to be hopeful about the future of the planet.

For a couple reactions to the farce that was the outcome of these climate negotiations, check out George Monbiot’s take, as well as this scathing op-ed in The Independent by my colleague at Greenpeace UK, Joss Garman.

I titled this post “Keep Hopenhagen Alive” for two reasons. The first being not because “Hopenhagen” was a touchy-feely “campaign” paid for by Coca-Cola and Siemens – two companies who would like, apparently, to cash in on the clean, green future we’re trying to build – but despite that fact.

인터넷와 사회 운동 수업을 듣고

인터넷와 사회 운동 수업을 시작한지 벌써 3개월이 되었습니다. 사실은 이 수업에서는 공부하기 보다 수업받는 것이 더 재미있었다고 생각합니다. 왜냐하면, 수업마다 새로운 정보 및 최근 나온 이슈를 가지고 발표하면서 교수님의 요약은 이 수업을 너무 재밌게 만들었습니다. 특히 블로그를 만들고 참여하는것이 제일 도움이 되었습니다. 저는 작년부터 불로그을 이용하고 있지만 그 동안 블로그에 대해서 자세히 모르고 퍼 온것을 이제 깨달았습니다.

그리고 textcube, twitter 의 참여한 것은 이 수업 부터 시작이 되었습니다.이 수업에서 이런 다양한 정보들은 공부하면서 이 수업을 듣었던 것이 앞으로 일반 생활에 정말 도움이 될것 같아요.

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online community & social movement

Thre are several kinds of view on online participation or online social movements, which are really need to know how they perform.
I here included one research context where implicitly discussed about different kinds of online movements....although this is not full version but as it is the summary of whole context, so it may will be helpfull for us.

The Internet is a critically important research site for sociologists testing theories of technology diffusion and media effects, particularly because it is a medium uniquely capable of integrating modes of communication and forms of content. This article tends to focus on the Internet's implications in five domains: 1) inequality (the “digital divide”); 2) community and social capital; 3) political participation; 4) organizations and other economic institutions; and 5) cultural participation and cultural diversity. A recurrent theme across domains is that the Internet tends to complement rather than displace existing media and patterns of behavior. Thus in each domain, utopian claims and dystopic warnings based on extrapolations from technical possibilities have given way to more nuanced and circumscribed understandings of how Internet use adapts to existing patterns, permits certain innovations, and reinforces particular kinds of change. Moreover, in each domain the ultimate social implications of this new technology depend on economic, legal, and policy decisions that are shaping the Internet as it becomes institutionalized. Sociologists need to study the Internet more actively and, particularly, to synthesize research findings on individual user behavior with macroscopic analyses of institutional and political-economic factors that constrain that behavior.

인터넷과 사회운동 발표의 자료를 정리했습니다

목차로 정하는 내용들:
1. 온라인 커뮤니티의 개념
2. 온라인 커뮤니티의 종류
3. 우리 생활에서의 온라인 커뮤니티의 현황
4. 온라인 커뮤니티를 통한 시민참여 사례
- 국외 사례
- 국내 시례
5. 온라인 커뮤니티를 통한 시민참여 대안

1. 온라인 커뮤니티란?
- 유사 또는 동일한 직업 또는 관심분야, 가치관, 라이프스타일을 가진 사람들의 모임을 통한 다양한 네트웍 형성(On-line, Off-line을 통한 Communication)을 한다. 소속된 회원들의 자발적인 참여와 활동을 통한 정보의 공유와 생성을 통한 상호간 Communication 유지한다. 회원간 교류 및 의사교환을 위한 다양한 기능 및 공간을 제공한다.
- 커뮤니티의 3요소 : 가상공간, 컨텐츠, 사람들로 구성
사람들의 집단에 대한 소속감이나 타인과의 친밀에 대한 욕구 즉, 우정,
사랑의 갈망으로 커뮤니티가 형성되고 운영됨.
- 온라인 커뮤니티와 유사한 용어
가상공동체(virtual community), 전자적 공동체(electronic community), 상징적 공동체 (symbolically constituted community), 상상 공동체(imagined community)등

2. 한국의 온라인 커뮤니티는?
- 온라인 커뮤니티(Community)는 우리나라의 경우 외국에 비해 그 역할과 위상이 각별하게 발전한 사례이다. 국내에서 처음 PC통신이 등장한 것은 1985년 데이콤 천리안으로 이는 미국의 AOL이나 컴퓨서브, 일본의 니프티서브 등 유명한 외국의 PC통신과 비슷한 시기였지만 동호회라는 개념을 설정해 발전시킨 것은 한국이 최초였다.
- 따라서 이와 관련된 많은 용어들, 예를 들어 동호회 운영자를 지칭하는 시삽(SYSOP)이란 용어도 국내에서 만들어진 신조어이다. 한국에서 인터넷상의 커뮤니티가 활성화되는 이유는 전통적으로 연(緣)의 문화 즉 학연이나 지연, 혈연 등 공동체 문화가 인터넷에도 투영된 것이라 볼 수 있다.

3. 전통적 커뮤니티와 온라인 커뮤니티의 비교
-전통적 커뮤니티의형성 동인은 공적인 동류의식 입니다. 그리고 온라인 커뮤니티의 형성 동인은 사적인 이해, 관심사 입니다.
-전통적 커뮤니티의지역성은 혈연,지연과 같은 객관적 특성(지리적 기반)으로 모임하고 지역적 경계 입니다.그리고 온라인 커뮤니티의 지역성은 비슷한 관심이나 가치를 중심으로 모임 하고 지역적 경계는 없습니다.
-전통적 커뮤니티의지역성은 면대면 중심 입니다.그리고 온라인 커뮤니티의 지역성은 컴퓨터를 매개로 합니다.
-전통적 커뮤니티와 온라인 커뮤니티의 공동의 유대는 가상 커뮤니티 내에서도 높은 수준의 커뮤니티 감정(소속감, 공유가치, 규범)이 존재 합니다.

4. 온라인 커뮤니티의 종류
1) 포털 커뮤니티 : 네이버, 다음, 싸이월드의 카페를 커뮤니티로 사용
2) 오픈 커뮤니티 : 디시인사이드, 웃긴대학, 자동차 동호회 등 자체 사이트를 커뮤니티 형태로 운영
3) 기업형 커뮤니티 : 대기업 등 기업의 사이트에 고객서비스를 위한 서비스 사이트
(예, 기업독립사이트 또는 웹진)
4) 포털 블로그 : 네이버 블로그, 미니홈피 등 포털에 소속된 블로그,
5) 오픈블로그 : 티스토리, 이글루스. 텍스트큐브 등 다양한 블로거들의 글을 모아 줄 수 있는 사이트

5. 우리 생활에서의 온라인 커뮤니티
1) Daum 카페 ‘쉬크’ - 前 옷 잘입는 연예인 따라잡기(국내 최대 패션 커뮤니티)
2) 카니발 동호회 ‘카니발 매니아’
3) 오픈소스 커뮤니티 'KLDP'
4) 온라인 쇼핑 커뮤니티
5) 온라인 독서 커뮤니티
6) 온라인 미디어 커뮤니티
7) 온라인 사회적 개발 커뮤니티
8) 온라인 청치적 커뮤니티
9) 온라인 Business 커뮤니티
그리고 자기 지역에 따라 온라인 커뮤니티가 많습니다. 저는 이런 커뮤니티의 연결 되어 있지만 각 사람의 따라 이런 커뮤니티의 관심이 달라집니다. 그체적으로 말하자면, 온라인 커뮤니티가 요즘 오리 일반 생활에 다른 필요성 처럼 하나 필수 과목 입니다.

5. 온라인 커뮤니티를 통한 시민참여 사례
가. 해외 온라인 커뮤니티 순위
There are no contradiction about online community perticipation of so many people. If we follow the the link then we may understand that how many people are active in online community and you may also know some of popular site whole over the world.
http://www.nielsen-online.com/pr/pr_090716.pdf
나. 해외사례
Please follow the link
www.meetup.com
다. 국내 사례
1) 노사모 - 한국 최초의 정치인 팬클럽에서 정치적 결사체로 발전
http://www.nosamo.org/
2) 미국산 소고기 수입 반대
- 광우변 국민대책회의 홈페이지
- 다음 아고라 서명운동
5. 온라인 커뮤니티를 통한 시민참여 대안

라인골드(Rheingold, 1993)는 온라인 커뮤니티가 기존의 공동체와 같이 물리적 접촉은 이루어지지 않지만, 사이버공간에서 많은 사람들과 관계를 맺고 서로 연결되는 과정을 통해 정서적 유대와 호혜적 규범이 자리 잡는 새로운 사회적 관계가 형성된다고 주장한다. 그는 이러한 '두터운 공동체(thick community)'를 사이버공간에서의 일반적 유형으로 그려내고 이러한 온라인 커뮤니티를 통해 현실사회의 불평등과 정치로부터 소외된 사회적 관계를 해소할 수 있을 것으로 본다. 여기에서 온라인 커뮤니티의 핵심적 기능은 그것이 전자민주주의로 구체화되는지에 앞서 '공동체의 창출과 증진'에 있는 것이다.
단순히 온라인상에서만 행해지는 행위는 자칫 그 실행력과 추진력이 약할 수 있다. 따라서 온라인에서 논의된 이러한 쟁점들이 오프라인에서 정책결정과정에 반영되고, 시민들의 삶의 질을 향상하는 방향으로 실현이 되는지 역시 중요한 문제라고 본다. 즉, 시민단체와 고, 의 온라인 커뮤니티의 만남이 활성화되어 시민운동이 온,오프라인이 융합되어 시너지 효과를 발휘하는 새로운 모델이 나와야 할 것이다. 이러한 모델들이 사회와 정치의 곳곳에 개입해 시민들의 참여를 유도하고, 나아가 민주주의의 발전을 촉진시켜 대의민주제와 전자민주제의 적절한 조화점을 찾는 것이 궁극적인 목표이다.

보광초등학교 다문화 학부모 모임에 다녀 와서

지난 10월 23일 금요일, 이태원에 있는 보광초등학교에 방문한 학생들의 부모님들이랑 만났습니다. 인도네시아 어머니, 필리핀 어머니, 이라크 어머니 그리고 몽골 어머니, 이렇게 네 국가의 어머니랑 이야기해 봤습니다. 그 분들의 자기의 일상 생활에 불편한 것은 들어보고 싶었는데, 언어 문제가 그분들의 마음속 이야기를 자세히 못나오게 만들었습니다. 그래도 잠깐 들어 봤더니 어머니들의 힘껏 노력하고 자식을 얼마나 어렵게 키운다라는 것을 알게 됐습니다. 눈가에 눈물이 글썽이던 인도네시아 어머니는(뭔가 참을 수 없지만 참고 있는 것처럼), "우리는 한국 사회에 살고 있는데도 한국 사회를 따라가지 못 하는 사람입니다. 아이들 보다 우리는 한국말을 못해서 아이를 잘 가르칠 수 없고 남편은 너무 바빠서 아이를 못 지키고, 이런 한국어 학교가 있어서 너무나 다행입니다." 이라크 어머니는 한국말을 거의 못했는데 옆에 있는 인도네시아 어머니는 아랍어 실력이 있어서 말을 바꿔줬습니다. "저는 한국어를 전혀 못하지만 한국에 오래 살 계획이 있어서 아이에게는 한국말을 가르치고 있습니다. 현재는 아이에게 한국어 외에는 다른 과목을 못 가르칩니다." 똑같이 몽골이나 필리핀 어머니도 "한국에 산지 꽤 오래 됐지만 아직도 한국말이 부족합니다. 아직도 높임말을 못 씁니다. 그렇지만 아이에게는 한국어를 가르칠 기회가 있어서 행복합니다."저는 YMCA의 인턴을 시작한지 며칠 밖에 안 됐습니다. 인권에 대해서 관심이 많아서 외국 사람들의 일상 생활적인 문제를 해결하기 위해 상담을 시작 했습니다. 처음으로 외근 했는데 그런 엄마들의 눈물이나 말할 수 없는 그 눈의 언어를 읽으면서 여러 가지 생각이 났습니다. 만약 그런 부분들이 한국 사회에서 한국의 일반인들과 똑같이 갈수 없다면 한국 사회의 그런 부분에 대한 미래는 어디에 있겠습니까? 만약 아이에게 단지 한국어만 가르친다면.. 그 아이의 미래에 대해서는 어떻게 생각합니까? 부모님들이 한국에 계속 살면 부모님들도 한국어를 배우는 것이 중요하지 않겠습니까? 현재 이런 문제들은 개인의 문제로 끝나는 것이 아니라 앞으로 한국에서 이런 문제가 사회적으로 나타나지 않겠습니까? 모든 문제의 해결방법은 문제 안에 숨어있어서 문제를 자세히 한 번 더 살펴보는 것이 어떨까요?

ASEAN emergency fund for disasters

A series of natural disasters has hit Southeast Asia, including two earthquakes that devastated Indonesia and a cyclone that swept across Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines and Vietnam. In Indonesia alone, an estimated 1,100 people have died and even more are homeless and probable anticipates the devastation will worsen in the Philippines as a super-typhoon threatens the already ravaged country.

The ASEAN Secretariat has set up an emergency humanitarian relief fund following Tropical Storm Ondoy (international name: Ketsana) that have hit Cambodia, Lao PDR, the Philippines, and Viet Nam, and the earthquakes in Indonesia, the ASEAN Secretariat said.
“The fund will be used to purchase relief items based on the needs of the affected populations,” the statement from the secretariat of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations said.

Friends and partners of ASEAN are welcome to make contributions to the fund.
I hope to pray for them from all.
jp.

Tenpin Bowling alley

Last September 26, I went bowling for relaxation with my class friends. I never had been there before. So I was too much excited on that time.
Yeah it was awesome. My friend 최승진, a good friend of mine, helped to me throw the bowl. He taught to me every step to step not only, but also I teamed with him. He plays excellent, specially of his bowling style appealed to me. I tried to follow him and it was not so easy for me.
But I enjoyed it, I enjoyed ball to ball. Especially all of my friends helped to me and made me joyful.
After bowling we moved for dinner. Oh my god!! it was great. All of my friends ate "smagyeop sal" and I don't, because I can't eat pork. So I ordered 'Galbi Tang' and I enjoyed it. There was another dish for all of us, 'Jungle' a special dish of that restaurant. That was really delicious.

Sometimes I feel bore, as I have no many friends and some of them are left already. So I become alone, so that day was really good day for me and I could refresh to me.
JP.