The Brisbane Times has published a piece by Martin Flanagan that raises a very uncomfortable point.

Future generations will ask why we ignored climate change:

Last month, the chief scientific adviser to the British Government, Professor John Beddington, predicted a global catastrophe by 2030 on the simple premise that while global demand for food, water and energy is . . . → Read More: Two inconvenient questions

The news has been all over the infosphere the last couple of days–the latest data show that Antarctica is indeed warming:

For a long time, it seemed that Antarctica was immune to global warming. Most of the icy southern continent, where temperatures can plummet to minus 80 degrees Celsius (-112 degrees Fahrenheit), seemed to be holding steady . . . → Read More: Warming Antarctica