Climate change "experts" adjust strategy

Many policymakers and business leaders have come to see the most basic method of slowing global warming - cutting carbon dioxide emissions through a binding treaty - as elusive for now. They are turning their attention instead toward a more achievable goal: curbing other greenhouse gases that are warming the planet.

3 senior officials to climate talks - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com

Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairman Nancy Sutley will be going to the Mexico summit as the U.N.-led talks draw to their close, according to a State Department spokesman.

The three Obama administration officials are expected to be in Mexico for one day each, appearing at events underscoring their department’s work, the spokesman said. For Chu, that means low-carbon energy technologies. Vilsack will cover efforts to reduce greenhouse gasses via avoided deforestation. And Sutley is scheduled to discuss adaptation.

Early snow in north China triggers herdsmen's living concerns - People's Daily Online

The snow fell on the League's county-level Horqin Right Front Banner at the China-Mongolia border 40 days earlier than is usual , and was the heaviest in 30 years. Snow has accumulated up to 30 cm deep in most part s of the region , and 50 cm in some areas, disrupting the lives of more than 47,600 people here.
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"The snow has had a huge impact on people's lives," Xie said.