FOXNews.com - GOP Senators Urge U.N. to Appoint Independent Investigator Over 'Climate-Gate'

A band of 28 Republican senators is calling on the United Nations to appoint an independent investigator to probe leaked e-mails they claim raise serious questions about the science behind global warming.
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But the senators urged the U.N. Thursday to look at whether data was manipulated, whether there were attempts to keep scientific journals from publishing dissenting opinions and other matters.

"These e-mails reveal that several of the IPCC's top scientists may have engaged in efforts to, among other things, manipulate data, defame scientists with opposing viewpoints, and evade transparency laws," they wrote.

MediaShift Idea Lab . 'Climategate' and the Perils of the Media's Short Attention Span | PBS

The problem is that a lot of those within mainstream media are a little bored of climate change. Journalists don't like consensus, especially not when it is foisted on them by ivory-towered experts on the basis of "trust us, we know more about this than you do." A lot of journalists are contrarians, and, for the most part, this is a very good thing.

The English Blog: Cartoon: The Climate Change Hoax

This cartoon by Morten Morland from The Times shows a man in the street shouting out various conspiracy theories, such as Elvis Lives and The Moon Landing Never Happened. Nobody is taking any notice of him. However, when he claims that 'Man-Made Climate Change is a Hoax', he is quickly surrounded by reporters and TV crews.

Economist.com: The Copenhagen climate conference

Looking around it seems about one in five of the reporters is paying attention to the stage...every once in a while, the use of a word like “still” or “only”, stuck in an other boilerplate sentence, will signal actual news. You have to listen carefully for it, which is not easy when everything else is heavily accented and deadly boring and you have the temptations of the entire internet in your lap.

Climate Change skeptics stage rebel Copenhagen conference – Rooted

Professor Plimer says that not only do Al Gore and algae sound alike: “They are both scum”.

In the coal sober light of day, stocks light up – Crikey

Coal 1-Green Power 0. If anyone had been keeping score in the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate change summit over the past few months that would be the unlikely result. The summit may be dominating the headlines, but on the stockmarket money is heading towards — in some cases returning to — coal.