鈥淚t is possible that climate science has become too partisan, too centralised.鈥�
Climate researcher Mike Hulme at the University of East Anglia, UK, responds to the leaking of emails from UEA last month with the suggestion that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may have outlived its purpose (Dot Earth blog, 27 November)
鈥淲hat we have at the moment is rather like wasted muscle tissue.鈥�
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Mark Post of Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, on his team鈥檚 attempt to make 鈥渁rtificial meat鈥� from pig cells (The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, 1 December)
鈥淚f this project was offered in any state in the US, they wouldn鈥檛 allow it.鈥�
Roberto Cintron, a resident of Guayama in Puerto Rico, protests against plans by a local firm to breed thousands of macaque monkeys to sell for scientific research. The island is already plagued by patas monkeys descended from lab escapees (Associated Press, 30 November)
鈥淲e had no intention of building many facilities, but apparently the west doesn鈥檛 want to understand Iran鈥檚 peaceful message.鈥�
Iran鈥檚 nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi says the country was provoked into its plans for 10 new uranium enrichment plants after the UN demanded it stop work on a plant it revealed in September (BBC Online, 30 November)
鈥淎 lot of people think of this as a tax on rich Republican housewives. That鈥檚 not the case.鈥�
A 5 per cent 鈥渂o-tax鈥� on cosmetic surgery being debated in the US Senate as part of the healthcare bill would penalise those on average incomes, says plastic surgeon Phil Haeck (The New York Times, 29 November)