Michael Mann to get a medal? | JunkScience.com

The medal is named after Hans Oeschger (1927-1998), a pioneer in global warming alarmism.

Dutch fall out of love with windmills | Reuters

 But five years later the green future looks a long way off. Faced with the need to cut its budget deficit, the Dutch government says offshore wind power is too expensive and that it cannot afford to subsidize the entire cost of 18 cents per kilowatt hour -- some 4.5 billion euros last year.

"Alps under the ice" gives clues to global warming - baltimoresun.com

"Understanding long-term ice sheet evolution is critical in order to develop more realistic models of variations of the ice sheet to climate change," he said.

The mountains could also contribute to the long-term stability of the ice sheet.

"The ice sheet and climate models would suggest you can still maintain an ice sheet in the interior of East Antartica over the mountains even if the temperature rise were 10 degrees (Celsius) above the present day -- perhaps even as much as 15 degrees," said Ferraccioli.