Copenhagen Wheel

Well, the bad news is coming in waves today.  Stephen Harper missing in action, China refusing to compromise, Canada winning the Colossal Fossil of the Year (as voted by over 400 NGOs around the world for being the worst country at climate negotiations for 2009), NGOs continue to be locked out of the Bella Center, no movement from any countries to increase their pledges and break the developing-developed country split that has characterized the talks, etc. 

Long gone are hopes for a robust and binding agreement.  Also long gone are hopes for even a political agreement to take action.  Now, the latest is a rumoured "political declaration" in which countries would continue to say that they will work together with a deadline of June 2010 to get a treaty on paper. 

My fellow SCC bloggers have done a nice job of summarizing and critiquing the ins and outs of the ongoing kerfuffle in Copenhagen.  For this reason, I've decided to go a different route and highlight possibly the most fascinating thing I've heard since this conference began:

The Copenhagen Wheel.

"A revolutionary new bicycle wheel that not only boosts power, but can keep track of friends, fitness, smog and traffic." 

Created by MIT, this is just cool.   Now, I doubt that this would withstand a Canadian winter, but nonetheless it's a toy I wouldn't mind playing with. 

Here's a link: http://web.mit.edu/press/2009/copenhagen-wheel.html

and here's the video:

And so, this is the message I would like to leave with you today.  While things are looking glum at the moment, it was H.G. Wells who once said, "When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race."