“Usually an injustice happens and nobody really cares.”

Robert Dougans, lawyer for Simon Singh, discusses the high profile science and libel case with The Lawyer.

“No doubt all those named contributed to the research. However, I find it difficult to understand how 144 individuals, however close their working relationship, could be involved in writing it.”

Gavin Fairbairn, professor of ethics and language at Leeds Metropolitan University, is perplexed by the author list of a paper with “more authors than any other publication I have ever come across in any of the areas in which I have worked” (Times Higher). No one tell him about the human genome project papers…

“When we’re measuring glacier margins, by the time we go home the glacier is already smaller than what we’ve measured.”

Dan Fagre, an ecologist with the US Geological Survey, comments on the fact that Glacier National Park has lost two of its glaciers (Discovery News).

“The casual reader might have the impression that there are real doubts about whether emissions can be reduced without inflicting severe damage on the economy. In fact, once you filter out the noise generated by special-interest groups, you discover that there is widespread agreement among environmental economists that a market-based program to deal with the threat of climate change — one that limits carbon emissions by putting a price on them — can achieve large results at modest, though not trivial, cost.”

Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman writes about climate economics in the New York Times.