EARL’S COURT — There’s a polar bear melting in Trafalgar Square. (There’s one in Copenhagen too.) Somehow, all of my family saw it this weekend. Except me.

One child reported back that the key thing is that people are encouraged to touch it. And that is making it melt faster.

“The head’s already gone.”

And for her that symbolised everything you need to know about global warming.

It’s not a bad thing for a child to have taken away.

Small messages are some of the things that we need to learn out of this conference. In spite of the flurry of disjointed attempts to say climate change isn’t an issue… the core ideas are increasingly accepted.

I love the work being done by the Maldives to put their case. Great governmental PR. And no great loss to brand “Maldives” either.

I think we’d all like to see real progress at Copenhagen. It is, after all, one of those global conferences that only used to happen in comic books and sci-fi films. But the fact that it’s happening at all will help us in the end.

/df