BBC - "Ethical" Man blog: [To prevent bad weather next century, let's give each other toilet paper for Christmas!]

Let's not beat around the bush. Christmas is a carbon catastrophe and the reason is our ludicrous culture of present giving.
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But surely it would be more ethical if we all bought each other stuff that you knew we really needed. Stuff like washing up liquid, toilet paper and breakfast cereal. Or better still, cash.

Animals 'on the run' from climate change - Charlie Martin - Telegraph

Plants and animals will need to move at an average rate of a quarter of a mile a year to escape climate change over the course of this century, according to scientists.

Pajamas Media » Climategate: How To Follow the Money

It appears that most of the Copenhagen participants saw the money they spent as an investment. Here's how they get paid.

Twitter / ArcticSurvey: Catlin Arctic Survey 2010 ...

Catlin Arctic Survey 2010 - Details to be announced early in the New Year

Flashback: Catlin Arctic Ice Survey Packing It Up – What Have They Accomplished? « Watts Up With That?

According to the Catlin website, the team plans to leave the Arctic later this week. I believe that they have done a fantastic job educating the public about the Arctic. Their mission has been followed breathlessly by BBC and Guardian reporters, who previously believed that the Arctic had melted and become a place for sunbathing.
Following the daily reports of ice, cold, frostbite, hypothermia, pain and general misery being endured by the team – even the most daft newspaper reporter must be aware now that the Arctic is a very cold and icy place.

[Don't you hate those "permanent" extreme weather events?]: The non-blizzard of 2009 and why the anti-science disinformers try to shout down any talk of a link between climate change and extreme weather « Climate Progress

So yes, there is a strong link between climate change, which is now predominantly driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, and the rise in many different type of extreme weather events — and that rise will accelerate in the future and the link will grow. Until, of course, the climate just changes, and many extreme weather events, like droughts, simply become permanent, and we stop using that word in certain areas and start calling them deserts and Dust Bowls — assuming that we aren’t smart enough to ignore the siren song of the disinformers and solve this problem