Baby you need coolin'

http://klimazwiebel.blogspot.com/2012/03/baby-you-need-coolin.html

As I said before on this blog, there are some telling metaphors to describe the climate change dispute. Stephen Schneider used the term "Science as a contact sport", Nature "street fight" and now Mann "war" (I intend to write a paper about this). Of course, a war is the extreme form of social conflict, where the scale of violence is highest. Gone are the days when Mann was considered (considered himself) as part of the hockey team which applied some robust "body checks". The war metaphor invites to apply all sort of dirty tricks, and the  the recent Gleick affair has provided some clues how this might look like. Since its inception, the Klimazwiebel blog  has tried to avoid this inflammatory rhetoric.