Conference Covered Climate from All Angles

摘要

The coverage by e. Kintisch of the Copenhagen Climate Conference ("Projections of climate change go from bad to worse, scientists report," 20 March, p. 1546) follows the dominant mode of media reporting that has emerged in the weeks following the conference-that of impending doom.rnAs chairs of some of the 57 sessions held during the 3-day meeting, we would like to highlight the enormous breadth of new research presented at Copenhagen about the interactions between climate and human society. Of the 593 research papers orally presented, only about 25% dealt with observed or modeled behavior of the Earth system.