The Reference Frame: Virginia vs Michael Mann: Ken Cuccinelli is right

When the death of the AGW movement began in November 2009, the public awareness of the serious problems in the climate research community significantly improved. Naturally, this change has to be reflected in the political power, too - in the balance of the institutions that are given the right to define justice. Clearly, investigations against climate alarmists who may have misappropriated the public funds has to become as simple as the investigation of the skeptics.

That's why I applaud Ken Cuccinelli's efforts to figure out whether Michael Mann is what he seems to be, a criminal and a witch that has to be hunted down, and I hope that eventually "bigger fish" will be investigated, too.

Stephan Lewandowsky - Evidence is overrated when you're a conspiracy theorist

For several years now, armies of irate pensioners have been swarming the countryside, spurned on by feverish websites, taking photographs of thermometers in the belief that this would invalidate concerns about climate change — and seemingly unaware of the fact that the utility of a thermometer derives from the accuracy of its measurement rather than anything captured by a colour photo.

Likewise, climate "sceptics" obsessively yelp at the alleged frailties of the surface temperature record and accuse respectable scientific agencies of "fudging" data, oblivious to the fact that multiple independent analyses of the temperature record give rise to the exact same conclusion. The further fact that the satellite data yield precisely the same result without any surface-based thermometers is of no relevance to climate "sceptics." It is also of no relevance to climate "sceptics" that their claims about the absence of global warming are logically incoherent with

About Stephan Lewandowsky

School of Psychology, University of Western Australia
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I was a glider pilot for 18 years (nearly 2,000 launches, 800+ hours), and I have retained a passion for aviation and hope to resume flying in the not-too-distant future, once someone has invented a device for doubling the length of days from 24 to 48 hours, at Narrogin Gliding Club.