Big Oil Contributed $500 Million To The Global Warming Scam | Real Science

British Petroleum destroyed the Gulf of Mexico, and then gave $500 million to fund junk global warming research.

- Bishop Hill blog - Science Media Centre and the BBC guidelines

I'm struggling with the idea that Richard Black can use quotes delivered by the Science Media Centre without breaching these guidelines.  Surely an independent news organisation, particularly one with the resources of the BBC, doesn't need to go to the Science Media Centre to get quotes? Why should the Science Media Centre - which has a political campaigner like Bob Ward on its board - get to decide which scientists' views are suitable for the BBC?

Guardian Happy To Use “Total Fake” Documents As Evidence Of Global Warming | Real Science

Wow! Only one out eight documents was a total fake, and that is good enough for The Guardian.

How many of the tens of thousands of Climategate e-mails were fake? Exactly zero.

Guardian : Faked Heartland Documents Prove That Mann Isn’t Paranoid | Real Science

I confess. My entire budget of $0.00 was made possible by equal donations from Exxon and Heartland and The Sierra Club and WWF and The World Wrestling Foundation.

The inside story on climate scientists under siege | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Aside from the glacier error, the science remained sound. But Mann said now: "There may have been an overdue amount of complacency among many in the scientific community."

...And although there are bad days, he still seems to believe he is on the winning side.

Across America, this is the third successive year of weird weather. The US department of agriculture has just revised its plant hardiness map, reflecting warming trends. That is going to reinforce scientists' efforts to cut through the disinformation campaign, Mann said.