- Bishop Hill blog - Richard Black and the BBC guidelines

The idea that Richard Black adheres in any way to the BBC's editorial guidelines seems completely risible to me. As far as I can see BBC management let him do his own thing, and the BBC Trust don't care one way or the other.

Quote of the week – Andrew Bolt nails “Fakegate” | Watts Up With That?

Meet the man, assistant DeSmogger Brendan De Melle, who took a whole hour to get the documents online from the time received. Speed is more important than fact checking in journo-lism I suppose.

The New Nostradamus of the North: The harsh reality of wind and solar energy

The harsh reality of green energy does not match its spin. Gary Lamphier, writing in the Edmonton Journal,  tells us a story that the greenies want to sweep under the rug:

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Reality is Not Good Enough

If the faked document happened to be produced by a climate activist or scientist (as some are already suggesting), then the leaked Heartland documents will go down in history as one of the more spectacular own goals in the history of the climate debate (with the consequences proportional to the stature of the faker). The faking is likely to overshadow whatever legitimate questions may have been raised by the release of the documents. Imagine what would have happened if the UEA hacker/leaker had made up a few emails to spice up the dossier.

More generally, the episode already illustrates much of what has become of the activist wing of the climate science community -- Apparently, reality is not good enough, so it must be sexed up. This sort of thing feeds into the worst imaginings of skeptics and blinds them to the fact that there are real issues here despite the frequent over-egging of the pudding.

Un-Scientific American's global warming lesson | Australian Climate Madness

And there the prosecution rests, m’lud. That’s it. Sceptics are dumb and can’t understand the difference between weather and climate, carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and humans are putting more of it into the atmosphere, ergo humans cause climate change. Case closed. See, the science really is settled!