Roger L. Simon » Has Al Gore given up on global warming?

Al Gore’s purchase of a near nine million dollar Montecito mansion with an almost comical carbon footprint (nine bathrooms!) probably means that he has given up on the global warming movement and decided to become a Hollywood producer (not that he ever made much of a distinction between two).

Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe | Environment | The Observer

The world may be on the brink of biological disaster after news that a third of US bee colonies did not survive the winter

One thing Graham is right about: Obama | Grist

The climate bill has always been a long shot, flying in the face of both elite skepticism and public indifference. Only one thing could possibly have put it over the top this year: an all-out campaign by the Obama administration. Graham thought he would get that. He expected to be in the spotlight, visiting the Oval Office, for all the world a Very Important and Bipartisan man.

What has become clear, to Graham and anyone else paying attention, is that Obama is not going to do an all-out push.
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Climate would have fired up an already activated GOP base, while the left grassroots had already soured on the bill and "centrists" never liked it. Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod have been urging the president to steer clear of climate ever since the post-ACES debacle last summer. They think, correctly, that it's got low odds of success and high odds of blowback.

Roger Pielke Jr. [defends fraudster Michael Mann]

The worst that can be said about Mann is that he may have done sloppy research using poor methods that won't stand the test of time, and when challenged he tends to act petulant and nasty. Let's just accept this as true for the purposes of discussion. OK, so what? None of this rises to scientific misconduct or fraud, not even close, and no one has even made such a case, despite the ample noise in the blogosphere.
...given the attention he has received and the information already found in the East Anglia emails, it'd be a shock to find anything indicating research misconduct.
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Note: I am among those named in the attorney general's letter as a target of emails with Michael Mann.