Times Higher Education - Heated discussions

Sceptics are universally of the opinion that the scientific method requires all research materials to be released to friend and foe alike, but the Climategate emails suggest paranoia among some mainstream climatologists - a sense that sceptics were on a campaign to do them down. This appears to have enabled them to justify to their consciences a steadfast refusal to provide information to their opponents.

NPR Wonders What Happened to the GOP on Climate Change - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Gee, I wonder what happened — other than McCain losing the presidential election, Schwarzenegger becoming less popular than the recalled Gray Davis, and Charlie Crist about to lose his primary to a virtual unknown.

Developing world candidates eye UN climate [scam] chief role | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The race for the UN's top climate change post is heating up with calls for it to go to a candidate from a developing country. Costa Rica put its hat into the ring this week, nominating its lead climate change negotiator Christiana Figueres to succeed Yvo de Boer. Alongside South Africa, other frontrunners include India and Indonesia. Environmental journalists Pierre Fitter in Delhi and Harry Surjadi in Jakarta weigh up their chances.

Glenn Beck apologises for publicly insulting James Cameron | Film | guardian.co.uk

Said Beck, back in the studio: "Since he took my antichrist joke so seriously, I guess I have to ask James to stop threatening to shoot people in the street. Seventy-nine percent of Americans aren't convinced greenhouse gases were the most important factor in the planet warming."

"Why must you kill all of them?" he continued, apparently weeping on his desk.

The new parliament must innovate to build a low-carbon economy | Jonathon Porritt | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The profoundly irresponsible line taken by a major segment of our media (headed by the Daily Mail and Daily Express), setting out systematically to dismantle a body of scientific work that remains largely unscathed by the University of East Anglia's hacked climate emails case, let alone by the failure of Copenhagen, has only served to stiffen the sinews of those who want to see our politicians just get on with it.
...A huge amount of ground has been lost over the last year