The "war on science" is over. Now what? - By Chris Mooney - Slate Magazine

The "war on science" is over. Or at least it is in the sense that I originally meant the phrase: We're at the close of the Bush administration's years of attacks on the integrity of scientific information—its biased editing of technical documents, muzzling of government researchers, and shameless dispersal of faulty ideas about issues like global warming.

A skeptical voice is worth 144 dollars? | The Climate Scam

What Leo Hickman forgets to mention is, however, that free admission is available to all qualified journalists.

The New Politics of Climate Change (Jonathon Porritt)

"But people just don’t get how urgent it is, Jonathon!" This from a harassed Government Minister looking at the latest survey of public opinion on climate change, with all the usual disturbing data about people’s uncertainty, confusion, ambivalence (saying one thing and doing another) and continuing denial of the now incontrovertible fact that addressing climate change effectively will literally transform all our lives.

Tons of reasons for the continuing confusion, of course – the Clarkson/Daily Mail effect; an army of denialists filling the blogosphere with a combination of vitriol and errant rubbish; a tendency not to believe politicians on anything, let alone climate change, and so on.

Big Brother warms up debate on climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Coolio's views are all the more intriguing because just last year he teamed up with the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative - which describes itself as "a diverse coalition of US environmental justice, religious, climate justice, policy and advocacy networks working for climate justice" - and he toured the Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the US to "to educate black students about the effects of global warming". I suppose being in the Big Brother house can play games with your mind.

But what did the viewing public make of their little debate? Well, judging by the reaction of the studio audience at the end of the show when the contestants' voting numbers were read out, the public might just be on the side of the vast majority of climatologists. Coolio was roundly booed whereas Christian was cheered. Now, that's what I call being peer reviewed.