Obama power

Obama is arriving tomorrow and the city will stop while F1 lands. Once again the bridge between Sweden and Denmark will be shut down. I think it’s amazing the power that one single man can have and the security measures that are necessary to protect him!

Climate changes: maybe it’s not entirely our fault

Copenhagen is more active than ever. A European city that apparently also “never sleeps”, Copenhagen is now hosting the Climate Conference. During these days, the city is known by Hopenhagen. Politics and associations, from all over the world, are gathered here to discuss and negotiate issues related to industrialized nations and emerging nations. Topics like thinking green, deforestation, CO₂ emissions to the atmosphere, etc are in agenda. And everybody is heard, or almost everybody. This conference has no space for the voice of Henrik Svensmark and it’s co-workers from the University of Copenhagen.

It’s amazing how the history repeats itself. All the new ideas that are out of the box and radical are never accepted. Like Galileo and Van Gogh, apparently one still has to die before its genius is recognized.

Henrik Svensmark and co-workers defend that the climate changes are not an exclusively consequence of man’s work. This story begins in 1991, when Henrik Svensmark’s group, leaded at that time by Eigil Friis-Christensen, proved that the warming of the planet was not mainly due to the release of CO₂ to the atmosphere but that there was a nearly perfect correlation between solar magnetic activity and temperature: when the magnetic activity in the sun was larger, the temperature on earth was higher. Later, in 2005, Henrik Svensmark and co-workers found experimental evidence that sun and the galaxy are determining climate on earth. By studding the clouds, they have managed to establish a correlation between the warming of earth and sun. Briefly, the idea is that cosmic rays are responsible for forming clouds and the sun with its magnetic field controls this cosmic radiation. The solar magnetic field has more than doubled in the last 100 years and as a result fewer cosmic rays (formed by stars dying in supernova-explosion) have sprayed the earth and therefore fewer clouds were formed (they keep the earth cooler). Unfortunately, no scientific journal wanted to publish this. Maybe they are wrong. But the data is shown to be very accurate. Maybe the climate change is not just our fault. Still we have the obligation to preserve and cherish our planet.

Christmas calander

J knows how crazy I am for Christmas! It’s my favourite time of the year! Every present is planed in detail; the Christmas tree is bought in the beginning of December or in the end of November and so on. This year, because I have been a good girl I got a Christmas calendar. It’s the train that you see on the picture and everyday I get a chocolate. Thanks J. It’s beautiful!

Thursday bells

I am sitting in my nice couch in the comfort of my living room. The fireplace is on and the Christmas tree gives me a nice cosy feeling. It’s cold and it’s raining outside. I’m relaxing playing my facebook games (Damn! They are addictive!) Suddenly, I hear it: dling, dling, dling! It’s Thursday and the sound is coming from the street. There is no doubt! It’s the ice cream car! Weeee! I jump out of the couch, grab my coat and boots in hurry and I run down the stairs. Run? I flight down the stairs. It’s so nice! Only the kids from the street and me are near the car. We take ages to decide: so many colours, shapes and flavours. After some minutes and in the middle of four year-old screaming and jumping with excitement I choose some nougat/caramel ice cream. Happy, as a kid I return home. The ice cream will be saved for the weekend! Hummm… delicious!

This is a season to be jolly!

Oh well! What can I do? I’m a Christmas freak! I Looove Christmas! This is my favourite time of the year (excluding summer vacation). I don’t stress and I enjoy everything about Christmas. And because it is almost December 1^st I bought today my lovely tree. J and I went for our morning jogging near the water and after a fantastic breakfast with cereals and berries (very healthy, see?!) we begun the hunt for x-mas presents and x-mas trees. Streets were crowded, stores decorated and the smell of roasted sweet hot almonds took over the streets. Hummm… delicious! And we found a very nice tree. J had to carry it on his shoulders from Kongens Nytorv to home. My brave and patient man! Then with Diana Krall singing x-mas songs I started the decorations. Weeeee! You can see the result in the picture although it is not a fantastic picture. The nutcracker I bought in Heidelberg this year, when S and I went for a malaria meeting.

I hate... #1

I hate to bike near big trucks: it makes me feel like a small ant near a elephant ready to be crushed.

I hate to bike in the rain and in the middle of a windstorm without being dress for the occasion: all cover in some kind of impermeable fabric.

I hate November in Denmark: 3 hours of sun so far! Remember the scotch advertisement that said: “days are gray, nights are back and white”? Well the days are gray, afternoons dark gray and nights are pitch black.

Jimmy Choo for H&M … the final episode!

November 14^th has passed and Jimmy Choo fashion goodies have arrived to some of the H&M stores. After evaluating how crazy I am for purchasing a fashion item, I realized I was not crazy enough to go in and stand in line outside a store, waiting for it to open, so I could wrestler with girls from 14 to 50 years old for a pair of shoes or for a bag.

I stayed home and in the comfort of my couch I tried my luck on shopping on-line. And bingo! It worked! I got some problems in having access to the Internet site but I managed to buy two fantastic pair of shoes (yesss… the ones in the picture!). A new chapter of my life has opened: I will try to walk on top of really high heals! For the ones who don’t know me, I am a flat shoe girl J

But still on Monday morning I went to the local store to take a look at the leftovers. There was still a lot! My shoes were there (only a few pairs and not my number, so I did good) and they are really nice. The other shoes were also fantastic. Some of the bags were ok. Now, Jimmy honey, did you lost your mind? What was that plastic clutch in pink? It was definitely made of the cheapest plastic ever. Even Barbie’s plastic accessories have a higher quality! And the price? You are kidding me right? And what about the bangles? Were they from a Chinese store? Sweetie, it’s not nice to over charge something like 1000x! Keep on like this and Santa will not give you anything for Christmas. Remember the song? “He's making a list, and checking it twice; gonna find out who's naughty and nice!” I do like fashion but I’m not an idiot!