Jon Huntsman, how could you? | Grist

When you cravenly reversed yourself on climate change, you broke my heart. Sure, it was the only way to make yourself look even a little like a viable Republican candidate, but Jon, do you really want to be a Heather? Did what we shared mean nothing to you?

Have fun explaining to your grandchildren that they have to flight in the resource wars because Pappy wouldn’t stand on principle, you cheap bastard.

The GOP's Crackpot Agenda | Politics News | Rolling Stone

Many of the top Republican contenders, in fact, once sounded the alarm on climate change; today, they scoff at its very existence.

Are We Standing on the Edge of the Climate Change "Abyss"? - Reason Magazine

But how much should we rely on prominent well-meaning energy experts to accurately discern the future?

- Bishop Hill blog - Oxfam - trying to create famine

Anthony Watts' story about Oxfam trying to get a global tax on shipping imposed is extraordinary (note Anthony's caveats about the reliability of his source however).

Free trade is what prevents famine. Oxfam's actions will make famines more likely and much worse.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Increasing Replication Of Un-Reproducibility In Science

Update All see this issue of Science. Ben Santer has a paper which argues that the twentieth century temperature increase (starting when? ending when? how much? the increase same every year?) has been reproduced, but that any reports of cooling have been greatly exaggerated.

If you want to win the game, you must join in : Nature News & Comment

Third, scientists need to seek opportunities to engage with politicians directly. One possibility, suggested to me once by a senator in the Canadian parliament, is for scientists to volunteer during election time to work in a candidate's office.