Man of all seasons Eugene Mirman is in Copenhagen, Denmark working as a special correspondent for Grist.org in an attempt to make sense of the UN Climate Conference, which is taking place in said city. Grist, by the way, is an organization that’s been promoting all things green since 1999; they put it thusly: “At Grist, we take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Because of the many things this planet is running out of, sanctimonious tree-huggers ain’t one of them.”

So, it makes sense they’d send Mr. Mirman. You know, the whole make us laugh and sneak some learnin’ in there? Though this first dispatch doesn’t have much of the learnin’ portion, it is gosh darn funny. Check it out.