They could have made bathtime lots of fun

Nasa hunts for rubber ducks used to track melting of Arctic icecap

The US space agency has yet to find any trace of 90 bathtub toys that were dropped through holes in Greenland's ice three months ago in an effort to track the way the Arctic icecap is melting. Scientists threw the ducks into tubular holes known as "moulins" in the Jakobshavn glacier on Greenland's west coast, hoping they would find their way into channels beneath the hard-packed surface, to track the flow of melt water into the ocean.

"We haven't heard anything from them yet," Nasa robotics expert Alberto Behar told the BBC.

Also missing is a football-sized floating robotic probe equipped with a GPS positioning transmitter and powered by hi-tech batteries. It has failed to communicate its position. "We did not hear a signal back, so it probably got stuck under the ice somewhere," said Behar.

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The figures for Kevin Rudd’s latest bail-out to Holden - ostensibly to make a new “green” car - are even worse than were first reported

Heliogenic Climate Change: Another tolerant alarmist

Response: "I looked at your blog, and you are an incredible fool promoting junk science about the sun's effect on climate. You needn't come back to this blog again because junk science will be deleted."

My, how open minded and tolerant.