Congressman slams grant to embattled climate researcher - Washington Times

A top member of Congress wants President Obama to freeze more than $500,000 in stimulus money going to a Penn State global warming researcher after the school said it was expanding an investigation into the professor's work.

Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the top Republican on the House investigations committee, said the school's investigation calls into question the credibility of research by Prof. Michael Mann, who has played a major role in shaping the international debate on global warming.

Lord of sceptics in call for inaction - Local News - News - General - The Canberra Times

Arctic ice sheets aren't melting, the world isn't warming and climate change evidence is based on ''a fiction made up by a public relations executive'', according to British climate change sceptic Christopher Monckton.

Addressing a predominantly greying audience [if they have grey hair, can we safely assume that they're stupid?] at the National Press Club yesterday, Lord Monckton ranged across a range of topics...

To be deceived, first you must deceive yourself | Ben Macintyre - Times Online

Deception is reinforced when hope and conviction overpower evidence and clarity, and bolstered by any system in which the boss is always right. But there is no form of deception more powerful than a willingness to deceive yourself.

Climate change skeptic Danielle Smith is in good company

To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And so, to one of Canada's most zealous defenders of global warming orthodoxy, a political leader who expresses climate change skepticism must surely be a solitary eccentric to be beaten down.

This helps explain how Jeffrey Simpson, The Globe and Mail's champion of climate change conventionality, might have come last Friday to paint Danielle Smith, leader of Alberta's burgeoning Wildrose Alliance Party, as some sort of mule-headed loner for her espousal of doubts about the theory that man-made carbon emissions are causing the Earth to overheat.

"She puts it bluntly: The science of global warming is inconclusive," Simpson sniffs. "That makes her the only political leader in Canada to think that way, and it's a view shared by no major world leader anywhere, except maybe in Saudi Arabia."

One would have thought the much-lauded Simpson, whose honours include membership in the Order of Canada, would not have been so unprepared to do a little investigative legwork -- also known as fact-checking -- before confining Smith to a hermit's cave.