The 'ruination' of Peter Gleick | Evidently rabid left-winger Tim Redmond - SF Politics

And I'm amazed at all the handwringing over this incident. I means, what, exactly did Gleick do that is going to destory his scientific reputation after years of unimpeachable work? Here's what he did: He contacted the nuts at the Heartland Institute and asked them to send him some material. Oh, and he didn't give his real name.

...If I ran a right-wing nonprofit and somebody called and said she was a board member and could you please send a package of sensitive internal documents to an address in Oakland, California, I'd call back at the number I had for her and ask if she'd move to crazyland -- wouldn't you? Who on Earth sends that kind of material out without making sure it's going where it's supposed to go -- unless the vast majority of what Heartland sent Gleick was in fact the same sort of stuff that the loonies there regularly ship out to other loonies who they think might agree that Al Gore was born a thetan and is secretly plotting the United Nations takeover of the planet so that nobody can have round light bulbs any more.

I'm not condoning this sort of behavior -- although the history of journalism (sometimes excellent, important journalism) is filled with examples of reporters using what some would call dubious methods to get through what Robert Scheer used to call "the palace guard." But compared to shit the right wing pulls routinely, as a matter of practice, this is hardly a major crime. And you have to put some of the blame on whatever fool at the Heartland Institute mailed the company secrets off without checking where they were going.

And isn't it good that we now know how the oil industry is trying to create a K-12 curriculum that denies climate change?

Nations Unite Against European Airline Emissions Law - NYTimes.com

“We intend to get the E.U.’s carbon trading measures either canceled or postponed,” Russia’s deputy minister of transport, Valery Okulov, told journalists after the declaration’s adoption. In addition to the United States and China, supporters included Cuba, India, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria.

Would you believe the clouds just sunk? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The latest attempt to explain the lack of warming that global warmists predicted:

Is catastrophic global warming, like the Millenium Bug, a mistake? | | Independent Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - Blogs

If Lindzen is right, we will never be able to calculate the trillions that have been spent on the advice of “scientists in the service of politics”.