Mapping Antarctic Ice In Motion - NYTimes.com

Dr. Rignot said that one important finding that emerged during the mapping effort was that inland glaciers do not degrade solely because the ice beneath is being crushed by the ice above.

It is impossible to explain the extent of motion revealed in the study, he said, without assuming that the deformation process is supplemented by melting at the base of the ice. “We have to account for a significant component of sliding on ice,” he said. Dr. Rignot is also affilated with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Crazy? There are worse things you could (rightly) call Michele Bachmann - The Globe and Mail

But Ms. Bachmann, introducer of the Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act (I am not making this up), also thinks global warming is a hoax and carbon dioxide is a “harmless gas,”

Greens pollute the fossil fuel debate | The Australian

Earlier in the week Brown said "the jury was out" on whether a switch from coal to gas to generate electricity would deliver the emissions reductions government modelling has forecast. Yesterday, as pressure mounted on the Greens from industry and Gillard declared that gas -- like coal -- has a strong future in Australia, Brown clarified his earlier remarks and began backtracking from some of the more robust language of his colleagues.