Best climate cartoon for a long time: http://xkcd.com/402/
Attached to some serious science via Nature.
More like this
“Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other.
“The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful.
“Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind.
The last panel is obscured by the agilent ad - even after settings were cvhanged.
I love XKCD. http://xkcd.com/463/ is my most recent favorite, but >90% of them are brilliant.
These results are backed-up by another study on soil carbon in Siberia and Alaska, published in BioScience:
http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0901-permafrost.html
these results also indicate double the amount of soil carbon than previously suggested... hmm, interesting times are ahead. But that's what we already know, don't we?