Scientists Behaving Badly as the Scandals Grow - WSJ.com

Scandals just keep pouring from the laboratories
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Will the parade of dime-store doomsayers, high-tech patent-medicine merchants and bureaucratic grant-grubbers establish a fourth stock scientist: the cheat, the humbug, the phony? Call him Professor Marvel, who wasn't a whiz of a wiz if ever a wiz there wasn't.
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Perhaps such spectacles won't penetrate too deeply into the public consciousness. But I suspect they already have. Just this week I was chatting with a friend who, over the years, has helped her kids slog through the obligatory science-fair projects.

"The experiments never turned out the way they were supposed to, and so we were always having to fudge the results so that the projects wouldn't be screwy. I always felt guilty about that dishonesty," she said, "but now I feel like we were doing real science."

Global warming: Wandering through the political rubble

It looks now as if carbon trading will be a dead horse. Here in the U.S., the president is floating the idea of a Cap and Trade bill without either a cap or a trade. The idea is dying quickly in Australia. It may linger on in the EU, but scandals over VAT evasion may kill it there, too.

The big fight seems to be almost over, and it looks as though the skeptics will win.

NC Media Watch: El Nino is about gone

Climate Change Should Not Be the Focus of Homeland Security | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

Homeland Security should worry a lot more about the terrorists that are trying to kill us right now than what the temperature is going to be 50 years.

Seismic shifts in opinions « JoNova

Things could move very fast from here. Studies show some people (possibly many) will adjust their opinions to fit in with the crowd. And just as this time-saving mental shortcut worked against skeptics for years, it’s now beginning to swing with us. The critical mass is at a tipping point.

YouTube - RT - Climate change - data manipulated for 20 years!

A climate change research centre in the UK may have been manipulating data - to support the theory that mankind is responsible for global warming - for the last 20 years. That's according to new analysis of the centre's work.