Obviously the big story this week is winter storm Jonas, or Snowzilla as I and much of the internet prefer. But other climate-related stuff was going on as well.

Big Story
Why Big Blizzards in Winter Don’t Disprove Global Warming
Record hot years near impossible without manmade climate change – study

Technology
MIT joins global hunt for ways to cut carbon

International
China to ban CO2 auditors from carbon trading in new rules
Climate compensation schemes ‘failing to reach poorest
In coal-powered China, electric car surge fuels fear of worsening smog

Science
New research digs into the mysterious origins of coal
U.S. may not hit one million electric vehicles until 2020: official

Disasters
How much damage is the Porter Ranch leak doing to the climate?