Climate science: Inconvenient truths | Comment is free | The Guardian

The emails hacked out of East Anglia University's Climatic Research Unit did not undermine the evidence that mankind is remaking the weather, but some of those who uncover the facts have adopted tribal attitudes.

Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on Climategate and Obama's Radio Silence - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

If President Barack Obama was thinking straight, he would regard Climategate, especially its timing, not as a great setback for his global warming agenda—but a great godsend.

Forbes.com - Cringing Over Climategate

Last week's Climategate scandal is putting Obama's promise to the test. If he wants to pass, there are two things he should do, pronto: (1) Start singing hosannas to whoever broke the scandal instead of acting like nothing has happened; and (2) Ask eco-warriors at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit next week to declare an immediate cease-fire in their war against global warming pending a complete review of the science.

Obama scientist sees strong consensus on climate | Green Business | Reuters

"There will remain after the dust settles in this controversy a very strong scientific consensus on key characteristics of the problem: global climate is changing in highly unusual ways [like what, specifically?] compared to long experienced and expected natural variations," John Holdren, Obama's science advisor, told a congressional hearing.

Jack Cafferty Highlights ClimateGate, Reads E-mails Doubting Warming | NewsBusters.org

Jack Cafferty went above and beyond many of his colleagues in the media by highlighting the ClimateGate scandal on Wednesday’s Situation Room. He presented both sides of the controversy, noting the “thousand pages of leaked e-mails and documents,” while summarizing the side of the defenders of the theory of manmade climate change. Most of the viewer e-mails he read sided with the critics of the theory.

"I WAS WRONG": Coleman's Comments | KUSI - News, Weather and Sports - San Diego, CA | Coleman's Corner

There is one possibility that could grow Climategate and demand mainstream coverage. That possibility is my hope. I hope the person who leaked the damming files comes out of the shadow and speaks out about the outrage of what is transpiring among the global warming team. That person had to feel strongly about to perform the leak. And, if that person is an important scientist or is accompanied by a prominent scientist, that could break Climategate into the headlines.

MyFreePress : Article : Save a Tree, Drive a SUV

ScienceDaily (Aug. 4, 2009) — Pine trees grown for 12 years in air one-and-a-half times richer in carbon dioxide than today's levels produced twice as many seeds of at least as good a quality as those growing under normal conditions, a Duke University-led research team reported Aug. 3 at a national ecology conference.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Sucking the Life Out of the Environmental Movement

Another point I often make – we don’t know how to keep growing China without creating CO2, but we do know how to grow China without making the air in cities like Beijing breathable. Instead of talking to them about CO2 capture, what about air pollution 101 type things like ash bags and exhaust scrubbing?

Revenge of the Nerds: Climategate Is Following the Memogate Pattern « The Enterprise Blog

MemoGate gave many of us our first taste of the swarm-intelligence of the blogosphere, and showed that it can beat the legacy media for getting to the bottom of a story via a networked, open-source form of peer review, with a highly refined division of labor.

We may just now be seeing the potential for this new way of transferring and analyzing information. In Memogate, remember, we were talking about a single one-page Word document. With Climategate, we’re dealing with thousands of detailed, often technical documents. They may even have been compiled internally at the CRU in response to a Freedom of Information request and were then leaked instead. So the revenge of the nerds could be especially brutal and prolonged. Already, insights and analyses are proliferating on the climate blogosphere so quickly that it’s becoming impossible for even the best consolidators to keep up.