Watch Reader NEED help watching your feed subscriptions in Google Reader? The Google Reader Watcher add-on for Firefox is here to help. With this extension, you can be instantly notified when your favorite new source, blog or any other web site with an RSS feed is updated and ready to read in Google Reader. There is not a lot to be said here. Google Reader Watch (yes, the name does sound like it is having an argument with itself) simply checks your Google Reader for unread feeds and if you have, the plugin will display them on your browser's status bar. – firefoxfacts.com Papers join THE world is going to end if we don't act fast. No, seriously. Don't believe me? Apparently you don't subscribe to The Guardian, or one of the other 55 newspapers around the world that are using their front pages today to encourage politicians to “seal history's judgment on this generation” by taking radical action to stop climate change at the Copenhagen climate summit. If you think that it's slightly unusual that several dozen newspapers would so boldly enter the political fray in a unified fashion, The Guardian wants you to know that there's a good reason why it's being done: “Newspapers have never done anything like this before but they have never had to cover a story like this before. No individual newspaper editorial could hope to influence the outcome of Copenhagen but I hope the combined voice of 56 major papers speaking in 20 languages will remind the politicians and negotiators gathering there what is at stake – and persuade them to rise above the rivalries and inflexibility that have stood in the way of a deal.” – econsultancy.com Climate tool REPRESENTATIVES from around the world arrived in Copenhagen, Denmark Monday to negotiate a successor treaty for the Kyoto Protocol. This 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) has been called the most important conference in a decade. In fact, in an unprecedented initiative, 56 major newspapers in 45 countries published a shared editorial calling on politicians and negotiators gathering in Copenhagen to strike an ambitious deal on combating climate change. The editorial appeared in 20 languages including Chinese, Russian and Arabic. It asserts that the Copenhagen summit has the power “to shape history's judgment on this generation: one that saw a challenge and rose to it, or one so stupid that we saw calamity coming but did nothing to avert it.” So in honor of this important event, we've built a number of new tools to give delegates – and you at home – easy access to useful information to help visualize and explore data and issues relating to climate change. In September we launched a series of new Google Earth climate change layers and tours in collaboration with the Danish government. Check out these tours to explore the effects of climate change and get a better understanding of the scenarios that could unfold if we don't stop this environmental threat.
