Today, the day that the Durban Climate Change talks conlude, this blog is having it's own private vigil for nature.
Here's hoping the decision-makers invest as much energy in reaching a satisfactory conclusion to the climate talks as they will to this weekend's European summit.
I will give you our verdict as soon as I can.
Mountain Hare, Cairngrom National Park, Highlands, Scotland Tom Marshall (rspb-images.com)
Hi,
There was some sort of deal as far as I can make out, which in the circumstances I suppose is to be welcomed, but as far as I can see it is again kicking the hard decisions downstream while the waterfall we pass over is on us now ?
I mourn for Africa ; the snow on Kilimanjaro has almost gone!
I have to say that given the gravity of the situation could Attenborough on Frozen Planet have been more reassuring ? Even at the end of his carreer/life he still does not take the plunge and commit to specific reductions on air and so help the lesser TV figures who follow on !
My objection is that climate change is still parcelled off into a separate programme rather than edited seamlessly in ! This little trick enables the BBC to sell off these productions as sofa fodder; the net global and financial gain to the BBC is "comercially confidential". I have tried to find out !
Climate change in the Africa programes of NHU still has nt even been mentioned ! Although I forget how many times 1992-2011 that Kilimanjaro or Mt kenya's retreating glaciers have come into shot !
Peter Plover