Q&A: Sivan Kartha on the Durban climate deal - Stockholm Environment Institute

As far as I can see, the Kyoto Protocol has been unceremoniously executed; the language in the AWG-KP decision just obscured this with legalistic evasions.

Nine-month old leopard dead - India

Bahraich, Dec 22 (PTI) A leopard cub died due to cold in the Katarniyaghat wildlife sanctuary here, officials saidtoday.
The cub was found dead yesterday and the post-mortem showed the death to be due to hypothermia as it had apparently
gone without food for at least three days and following the cold he died, forest department sources said.

A harsh winter for China’s discontented -- New Internationalist

With bone-chilling winds and sub-zero temperatures, the winter in Beijing is piercingly cold. And Ren Meiling has to sleep on the street without anything warm to cover herself. It’s her tenth night sleeping rough since she arrived in Beijing. Which, at the age of 63, is not an easy undertaking.

I Am A Socialist: COP17 Global Day of Action - YouTube

Protesters sing I am a socialist at the Global Day of Action against climate change outside of the COP17 conference centre in Durban, South Africa, on December 3, 2011.

Twitter / @drgrist: 78% of those w/ “egalitari ...

78% of those w/ “egalitarian/communitarian” worldview accept climate change vs. 19% of those w/ “hierarchical/individualist” worldview.

Black vs. gray: What does wolf fur color have to do with climate change? | The Salt Lake Tribune

They examined existing data gathered from tracking 280 radio-collar-equipped wolves in the park between 1998 and 2009