Hunkering Down

[Phil Jones] comes off fairly defensive in this interview with Olive Heffernan in Nature. Here’s just one of the passages that is bound to raise eyebrows:

But he fears that the aftermath of the climategate affair is undermining the integrity of the scientific review process. “I don’t think we should be taking much notice of what’s on blogs because they seem to be hijacking the peer-review process,” says Jones.

The New York Times Truth Will Out. Or Be Outed by Recent Employees @ AMERICAN DIGEST

I've said it before and I'll now say it again: Your go-to point man for everything significant on Climategate is Tom Nelson's aggregation blog. Nelson's got so many links links and pointers going up that you can't really keep up with it all, but Nelson will help you out if you keep scanning.
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...the New York Times has become a discordant anvil chorus on which the editors and their feeders daily grind some very dull axes.

Gerard Henderson: Rudd must dump dead ducks and tackle what really matters

The lesson is clear. The ETS is a lost cause. In which case, Rudd would be well advised to cut Labor's losses now and junk the legislation. A post-ETS political environment would make it possible for the Prime Minister to reshuffle his ministry and move the Climate Change Minister, Penny Wong, and the Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, into different positions.

Rudd is primarily responsible for his government's inability to explain its climate change policies. However, the formal dumping of the ETS could be used as a rationalisation to explain a reshuffle.

Cold weather kills off Florida wildlife | [Alarmist Suzanne Goldenberg] | guardian.co.uk

... the harsh winter is also harming natives such as the manatee, which is an endangered species. Long periods of cold weaken their immune systems. Officials said about 200 manatee carcasses have washed up on shore since the beginning of the year. Dozens of crocodiles have also died.

The extreme temperatures also prompted a rescue effort last month for endangered sea turtles. Officials plucked more than 4,000 from chilly waters, bathing them in warm salt water to revive them.