Pass the climate parcel | The Australian

Expect another round of media savvy statements to ensure no attending minister looks like they are holding back a deal. But the music will stop by the end of the December Copenhagen meeting and if ministers are smart, they won't be passing the parcel, they will be dropping it.

PNAS: Peer Review or Old Boy Network? | GlobalWarming.org

I don’t know about you, but my college GPA would have been higher had I been allowed to ”line up” friends to grade my term papers and tests. And wouldn’t it be nice if, during job performance reviews at work, we could “line up” allies to decide whether we deserve a raise and a bonus?
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Having spent a few years in institutions of higher learning, both as a student and a teacher, I have seen how our alleged bastions of academic freedom breed conformity and group-think.

Ice sheets in runaway melt mode, satellite shows - AP climate scam promoter SETH BORENSTEIN

WASHINGTON — New satellite information shows that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica continue to shrink faster than scientists thought and in some places are already in runaway melt mode.

British scientists for the first time calculated changes in the height of the vulnerable but massive ice sheets and found them especially worse at their edges. That’s where warmer water eats away from below. In some parts of Antarctica, ice sheets have been losing nine metres a year in thickness since 2003, according to a paper published online today in the journal Nature.

Some of those areas are about 1.6 kilometres thick, so they have still got plenty of ice to burn through.

Is Borenstein suggesting that areas of Antarctica have mile-thick ice on top of warmer water?

Dome C, Antarctica Current conditions: Weather Underground

Temperature: -89 °F