NYT “Unnamed Federal Sources” : A Fictional Character In A TV Show | Real Science

It is an urban legend that Alaska has warmed 7 degrees in 30 years. No matter how much the Alaskans try to debunk it it lives on, most recently in the fevered imagination of West Wing scriptwriters. Last summer the New York Timesran a story quoting unnamed “federal sources” who said Alaska had warmed 7 degrees in 30 years. Then they ran an editorial denouncing the US government’s apparent indifference to this calamity

Climategate 2: confecting an alarmist consensus | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

 Here is Jones insisting that no expert in the climate, and certainly no one from his university, could argue what the IPCC seven years later now concedes - that there’s actually a lot of disagreement and doubt about whether man-made warming is causing particular extreme weather events right now.

- Bishop Hill blog - The Jones rebuttal

Phil Jones has been "putting the emails in context". This one made me laugh.

I'm Thankful for Climate Scientists. How About You? | ThinkProgress

It’s been another tough year for climate hawks

- Bishop Hill blog - Thorne responds

I do not know of a single person who has done more to try to advance data sharing of meteorological data for the last 15 years than Phil Jones

Emails | Climate Etc.

While partisan bloggers on both sides are making the expected statements, this statement from Marc Morano is something that I can agree with:  ”The new emails further expose the upper echelon of the UN IPCC as being more interested in crafting a careful narrative than following the evidence.“