Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make green | Watts Up With That?

by Walter Russell Mead The American Interest (excerpted)

One of the biggest intellectual failures of the global green movement against climate change is the persistent failure of its leaders and spokespeople to grasp the way their own advocacy fatally undermines their credibility. They blame cunning, unscrupulous and well funded enemies for disasters that their own inaccuracies, overstatements and disingenuous advocacy have brought on their movement.

- Bishop Hill blog - Opengate - Josh 158

It looks like John Cook and co at Skeptical Science are in a bit of a tizzy becuase their secret forum has been esposed to public view. Their complaint is that they have been hacked though John Cook admits that their security is almost non-existent.

What is interesting, in reading some of the excerpts from the forum posted here, is the silimarities between the SkS secret forum and the Climategate emails - i.e. we know the facts don't support what we say but don't tell anyone!

ABC policy: don’t question the warming theory | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

It is now official ABC policy not to question the global warming theory, even though the world hasn’t warmed in a decade and scientists are in dispute.

Science *is* Believing » Climate Resistance

We can say now, stuff the science. Before any more ‘science’ is done, scientists like Pope need to reflect on the presuppositions they have already brought to the science. When Pope can answer Delingpole’s questions without claiming that he and other sceptics ‘distort’ science; when she and her colleagues stop blaming a stupid public and ‘cognitive dissonance’; when she and her colleagues develop a little bit more modesty and self-reflection about their political ambitions; only then will there be any point doing any more science. Until then, Pope might just as well be looking for unicorns, and be claiming that these mythical creatures represent ‘challenges for humanity’.

“The Athenians ridiculed the weather prophets of their day.” | Real Science