Real Climate Science

They have become the equivalent of Soviet Pravda.

…if you lose the summer sea ice, there are phenomena that could lead you not so very long thereafter to lose the winter sea ice as well. And if you lose that sea ice year round, it’s going to mean drastic climatic change all over the hemisphere.

– John Holdren

http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20090119_10989.mp3

http://seaice.alaska.edu/

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=075fQyMfh04]

h/t to Ryan Maue

http://graphs.water-data.com/ucsnowpack/

Osama bin Laden hideout ‘worth far less than US claimed’
Pakistan property experts say US government description of ‘$1m mansion’ was way off the mark, as further exaggerations come to light

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

The Olympics are in London next year.

2.19pm: In an interview in the Evening Standard Ken Livingstone has accused Obama of behaving like a “mobster” because Bin Laden was assassinated and not captured alive, my colleague Andrew Sparrow writes on his politics blog. Livingstone also said the scenes of jubilation in the US following Bin Laden’s death would increase the risk of a terrorist attack on London.

http://www.guardian.co.uk

2.36pm: A former head of counterterrorism at the CIA has told Time that techniques such as waterboarding did produce the information that eventually led to Bin Laden’s death. The assertion by Jose Rodriguez, who ran the CIA’s counterterrorism Centre from 2002 to 2005 has been rejected by the White House.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

His body was given a respectful burial in Lake Michigan – in accordance with Italian and Catholic traditions.

Senior Pakistani security officials said Osama bin Laden’s daughter had confirmed her father was captured alive and shot dead by the US Special Forces during the first few minutes of the operation carried out at the huge compound in Bilal Town, Abbottabad.

The daughter has reportedly told her Pakistani investigators that the US forces captured her father alive but shot him dead in front of family members.

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/05/04/147782.html