Bulgaria: 3 dead as bitter cold hits country

A sudden cold snap with [record low] temperatures plunging to minus 22 Celsius (minus 8 Fahrenheit) and heavy snow have gripped large parts of Bulgaria

California appoints carbon watchdogs for cap-and-trade program - Business - The Sacramento Bee

The board has also hired a team of 60 inspectors to scrutinize projects.

It’s official: Harper government withdraws from Kyoto climate agreement | canada.com

OTTAWA – Canada will officially become the first country to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol climate change agreement Saturday, following years of criticism from the Harper government and lobbying from major industrial polluters.

Elephants Fed Vodka to Keep From Freezing in Russian Winter | Geekosystem

If you’re travelling through Siberia in the depths of winter and your transportation breaks down, you pretty much have two options. 1)Freeze to death rather quickly. 2)Break out the vodka, start pounding shots like a frat pledge, and probably still freeze to death, but more slowly and with a better attitude about it. You can consider that second method now officially endorsed by elephants after a trailer carrying a pair of pachyderms broke down in the bitter cold of the Novosibirsk region of Siberia, forcing their handlers to feed them cases of warm water mixed with vodka to keep them warm. The tricked worked, and the elephants are fully recovered from their chilling ordeal, if probably a little hungover.