On Ice

If you want to read a good bit of science journalism, the NY Times story on glaciers melting and sea levels rising in response to AGW is for you. Only problem: the piece took months of research and involved sending the reporter to Greenland, among other places. That's expensive: far easier to hand some ranter a blackberry and let 'em babble for 500 words.

And so that is what you tend to get.

Study: Sea Levels Will Rise More Than Predicted

[The study] suggests the United Nations climate panel underestimated how much waters will rise in coming decades. The 2007 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change forecast a sea level rise between 0.18 metres and 0.6 metres by 2100.

Although the Ottawa Citizen spins this story in exactly the opposite direction. If you want the more accurate take, try this.