Met Office hosts 'conversations' with climate sceptics | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk

It should be welcomed that the Met Office is engaging with critics of climate science

House Oversight Committee Reports $14.5B DOE Green Loan Program Train Wreck - Forbes

By the conclusion of DOE’s 1705 program in September 2011, 27 project loans totaling more than $14.5 billion had been approved. A large number of these (including Solyndra) “exposed taxpayers to excessive risk” that were glaringly apparent, yet ignored, from the time of the program’s inception. In doing so, DOE violated responsible lending standards and eligibility requirements. It also amassed a highly speculative and undiversified loan portfolio that may ultimately result in substantial taxpayer losses

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Nature reviews Michael Mann's book as 'trope' about 'an unwinnable fight'

The April 2012 edition of Nature Climate Change critically reviews Michael Mann's new book describing it as "trope" about "an unwinnable fight". The review features Mann's backpedaling quote from the book, "the [climate science] community probably took [the results of the hockey stick] to be more definitive than Mann and colleagues intended."

Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> Inside Chris Mooney’s Brain

Based on these excerpted passages, it looks to me like Chris’s brain is at war with itself. The result is that he ends up talking out of both sides of his mouth.

Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> Inside Chris Mooney’s Brain

[comment] Much of the science is junk, and the rest inconclusive; and the thesis that right-wingers don’t believe in science because they are mentally inferior (or to put it more charitably, think differently) is partisan nonsense. Chris Mooney was always an honest believer, and I quite liked him personally, but he always did let his political preconceptions influence his approach to science.