Green Christmas: Santa’s carbon footprint [INFOGRAPHIC] | Grist

Ethical Ocean took a look at Santa's environmental impact, and tried to see if they could help him run a slightly more eco-friendly operation.

Warming Arctic Permafrost Fuels Climate Change Worries - NYTimes.com

...researchers say the money and people devoted to the issue are still minimal compared with the risk.

...But those calculations were deliberately cautious. A recent survey drew on the expertise of 41 permafrost scientists to offer more informal projections.

Canada’s message: The world and its climate be damned - The Globe and Mail

According to a recent international poll, Canada has the highest number of citizens (22 per cent) of any economically advanced country who deny that human activity causes global warming. We can fairly presume the vast majority of this 22 per cent are in what we might loosely call the conservative world in Canada. They read the anti-global-warming newspapers and commentators, and they rely on the handful of academics who debunk global warming.

The poll numbers suggest that about half of Stephen Harper’s supporters are climate-change deniers and skeptics. His government pays heed to this core, the world and its climate be damned.

U.K. Police Seize Computers in Climate E-mails Investigation, U.S. Joins In - ScienceInsider

In an e-mail to ScienceInsider, Id, the U.S. blogger, said that he had not been contacted by DOJ, but said he would find such a raid
intimidating and questioned what the police hoped to find. "The only things they could find on Roger's computer that they can't get from Wordpress (our
collective blog host company) would be direct communications with the FOIA group which I have not had, and I am certain that others haven't either," he
wrote. "The link was dropped on our blogs by an unknown person and becomes public the moment it is dropped. There is no mechanism for us to prevent
this kind of thing. … We are simply climate bloggers who got a link showing the corruption of climate science in full view."