Barry Coates

Perhaps the most potent image in Oxfam New Zealand Director Barry Coates' article in yesterday's Daily Telegraph is of delegates from small islands dancing to reggae, 'drowning their sorrows before they drown'. Coates welcomes the establishment of an adaptation fund to help to help poor countries prepare for the impacts of climate change, but stresses the need for people to take action to influence their governments.

The climate science blogs, New Scientist Environment, and Nature's Climate Feedback, both talked of the importance of the Bali deal, though they didn't get into any science. The New Scientist said that the conclusion to the summit "would have been unthinkable one year ago and as extraordinary as the process which led to it."

DeSmog blog has a nice post on how the USA and Canada have no reason to feel smug for their last minute signing the Bali roadmap.

There's also a couple of quirky viewpoints from younger climate bloggers: Calvin Jones, an activist from Aberdeen, has posted a ten minute piece to camera about Bali on his Climate Change Action blog. And the Youth Climate Movement's It's Getting Hot In Here asks where we go from here, and answers with a poem looking back from the future.