Bering Strait: Cryosphere Today vs Real World « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

So the question is…how much of this “marginal” ice is lost in Cryosphere Today compared to the real world?

Copenhagen costs under budget

SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - The controversial trip by five MLAs and two staff members to the UN Climate Change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in December cost well under the $86,000 budget allocated to the trip.

Finance Minister Michael Miltenberger said the trip's total cost rang in at $55,000.

Federal agency denies protections for tiny pika - WBOC-TV 16, Delmarvas News Leader, FOX 21 -

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Federal officials have decided not to provide endangered species protections to the American pika, a tiny mountain-dwelling animal thought to be struggling because of climate change.

COMMUNICATING UNITED NATIONS: ‘We Would Like To Be Creative’

BERLIN/NEW YORK (IDN) - Imagine blockbusters made in Bollywood and Hollywood with disarmament, climate change, millennium development goals and women as central themes – and the opening scenes showing a sign that says: “United Nations. It’s your world.”

Kiyo Akasaka, UN Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Information since April 2007, does not dismiss the idea as absurd. Unrelenting innovation and ingenuity are second nature to him and the Department of Public Information (DPI) he heads.

DPI’s job is to bring home to citizens around the world what this 192-member world body is all about. For this they have 187 million U.S. dollars at their disposal -- for two years, 2010 and 2011.

The Climate Post: In which it feels like everything has come to a full stop | Grist

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[Quick, everybody: unplug your cell phone charger]: Reality Check: Indian Coal Consumption to Quadruple by 2030

While environmental groups in developed nations talk of a coming world based on solar, wind and other forms of renewable energy, India's 8 percent economic growth rate is powered by coal. Its consumption is projected to increase by at least 400 percent by the year 2030, according to the government's 2005 Integrated Energy Policy report.