Environmental groups split over calls for IPCC boss to resign | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, told reporters in New Delhi today it would be "senseless" for Pachauri to take the blame for the error. "I believe that the scientific evidence that is provided by the IPCC has not been shaken in spite of the very unfortunate mistake," he said.

He added that Pachauri was a good chairman and "a very vocal advocate of the need to address climate change at the global level".

A Boom in ‘Distributed’ Solar Projects - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Over the past few weeks, some 1,300 megawatts’ worth of distributed solar deals and initiatives have been announced or approved. At peak output that’s the equivalent of a big nuclear power plant.

[By the way: If we distribute solar panels across the entire US and Canada, who's in charge of keeping them all snow-free?]: Nearly 70% of the country blanketed in snow; largest snow cover of the winter season

A major winter left a swath of moderate to heavy snow and ice from Southern Colorado and New Mexico to the Mid Atlantic states over the last several days which helped expand the snow cover across the United States from 47.5% coverage on Wednesday January 27th to the largest snow cover of the winter season of 69.7% coverage Sunday January 31st, according to the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC).

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