- Bishop Hill blog - Harrabin on the Jones interview

Hat tip to the reader who pointed out this Today Programme discussion with Roger Harrabin, in which he describes his email interview with Phil Jones. No startling new revelations, but there is apparently more to come soon.

And also, did Harrabin's voice crack at one point, or did I imagine that?

- Bishop Hill blog - Jones on the Medieval Warm Period

It's interesting to compare Phil Jones' various prognostications on the reality or otherwise of the Medieval Warm Period...

Inquirygate: Official British Climategate e-mail review falling apart | CLIMATEGATE

The so-called ‘Independent Climate Change Email Inquiry’ is unraveling faster than the man made global warming myth itself.

Within just a few days of its launch, this travesty has already been exposed as a sham. At least three of the five original panel members were found to be in cahoots with the warmist lobby on a rudderless ship skippered by hapless former University of Glasgow principal, Sir Muir Russell.

At the time of publishing this article two of the original crew members have jumped ship – last Thursday it was Dr Philip Campbell, this weekend Professor Geoffrey Boulton.. Who else will bail out?

Shock: Phil Jones says the obvious. BBC asks real questions. « JoNova

This represents almost as big a turnaround for Harrabin as for Jones (which I’ll expand on below). Only two years ago, he claimed skeptics were funded to spread uncertainty, and likened them to tobacco industry lobbyists. How must he feel to suddenly discover they actually had a case worth considering?
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The BBC science team are asking the wrong questions. Instead of asking climate scientists about a political organisation, why don’t they ask the same scientists to state their evidence, and then ask the skeptics to do the same? The true task of a science journalist is not to ask which scientists have paper certificates, but to ask which scientists have got the best reasoning. We need to know which explanation stands up to the test, not which explanation has the biggest fan club.

If science journalists had been doing their job, they would have spotted the holes and flaws 20 years ago, and prevented billions of dollars being wasted.

SCEPTICISM STREETS THE FIELD | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

Running at Naracoorte yesterday, the beautifully-named Globalwarmnsceptic won by six lengths in her first-ever start:

Climate Change Debate Losing Urgency

But Canberra has wearied of climate change. Only the nutters are being listened to now. Fewer than a dozen journalists bothered to join a couple of hundred business folk for Hunt's headline clash on climate change with Senator Penny Wong at the Press Club.

One was young Cathy Alexander of AAP who confessed at the microphone that even her friends have had enough. ''They always ask me to stop talking about it.'' That provoked the kind of laughter heard too rarely in this town: a wave of delight, relief and recognition.