Pick for Environment Post Raises Some Eyebrows  - NYTimes.com

The mayor said Mr. Holloway’s background “qualifies him superbly for his new position,” which has a salary of $205,000.

Antarctica may heat up dramatically as ozone hole repairs, warn scientists | Environment | guardian.co.uk

As blanket of ozone over southern pole seals up, temperatures on continent could soar by 3C, increasing sea level rise by 1.4m

Rush Calls Global Warming A "Scam," Compares Climate Scientists To Tobacco Companies

Back from the break, Rush discussed the "scam" of global warming and didn't really stop until the end of the show. He read from an American Thinker blog post asserting that emails from Britain's Climate Research Unit (CRU) weren't hacked, but rather were leaked, which seems to be a common conservative argument as of late.

Limbaugh claimed that the mainstream science community "hijacked the peer review system and threw it all out" and that the IPCC has destroyed the scientific process.

Hacking the Climate Debate - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com

I’ve long thought that the biggest danger in climate research is the temptation for scientists to lose their skepticism and go along with the “consensus” about global warming. That’s partly because it’s easy for everyone to get caught up in “informational cascades”, and partly because there are so many psychic and financial rewards rewards for working on a problem that seems to be a crisis. We all like to think that our work is vitally useful in solving a major social problem — and the more major the problem seems, the more money society is liable to spend on it.