Rajandra Pachauri's Glacier Project Killed Due To Funding Cuts

It has recently emerged that funding for Rajandra Pachauri's TERI project was cut by a US-based foundation back in 2010, in the wake of “Glaciergate”, the controversy surrounding inaccurate claims that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2030. But TERI made no public announcement that the project had stopped.

Greenpeace forgives Facebook after clean power pledge | TG Daily

Facebook's agreed to work towards powering all its operations using clean and renewable energy.

Southwest Permanent Drought Area Gets 15 Feet Of Autumn Snow | Real Science

Winter starts in a week, and Wolf Creek Ski Area​ in southwestern Colorado has already received over 15 feet of snow. Climate science’s most brilliant minds tell us that they are having a permanent drought in that region.

EU carbon trading in freefall | Watts Up With That?

Looks just like what happened to the Chicago Carbon Exchange is about to repeat in Europe.

Sen. Franken’s colloquy with Sen. Whitehouse on climate change | Climate Science Watch

On December 14 Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) took to the Senate floor and the C-Span airwaves to talk about climate change, the scientific evidence for anthropogenic global warming, the problem of the global warming disinformation campaign, and the need for strong US action. These days we too rarely see progressive, pro-science members of Congress speak up to counter the denialist noise machine of Sen. Inhofe and his ilk.

Rajan's Take: Climate Change: Winter may have had a mild start but likely to be progressively harsh