Carbonzero

The biggest news out of Copenhagen over the past 24 hours did not originate in the Danish capital, but rather from Washington DC, where the US Environmental Protection Agency declared that Carbon Dioxide and the five other major greenhouse gas emissions are harmful to human and environmental health.

It’s a quarter past one in the afternoon in Montmartre. I’m sitting in a café right outside Métro Pigalle after having spent the morning looking for a wifi connection.

The Chinese government will announce its intention to cut it’s emissions intensity by 40-45% of 2005 in Copenhagen in December.

In this one-minute video, atmospheric chemist Rachel Pike gives viewers an idea of the gargantuan scale of the science being done that leads to today’s newspaper headlines.