Richard Black Resigns From The BBC « Black's Whitewash

Was he pushed? Did my work to highlight his close relationship with activist groups help?

Probably not.

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- Bishop Hill blog - The plot thickens

In the comments, Steve McIntyre reveals that he has now turned up the invitation to link to the Lewandowsky survey, so there was at least one invitation issued.

- Bishop Hill blog - Nurse raises eyebrows

I can't actually think of any occasion when the Royal Society has "exposed bunkum" on the subject of climate change. There was obviously a certain amount of covering up for those implicated in the Climategate affair and those very silly and unscientific papers that went out in the bad old days. But apart from that they have just acted as cheerleaders.

Quark Soup by David Appell: "Would you like giving George Bush control of the world's climate?"

Mark Lawrence: "Would you like giving George Bush control of the world's climate?"
Paul Crutzen: "These are desperate times."

-- email conversation among a group of scientists prior to Crutzen's 2006 controversial paper on climate engineering "Albedo Enhancement by Stratospheric Sulfur Injections: A Contribution to Resolving Policy Dilemma?" as reported by Eli Kintish in Hack the Planet, p. 57