Quadrant Online - Peers review Oreskes and find her wanting

People with books to flog buzz regularly through Australia, those with the correct ideological orientation getting guernseys via the ABC and other sympathetic media outlets. Naomi Oreskes enjoyed that microphone-at-the-ready treatment last year, when she touched down to push her book, Merchants of Doubt, which re-stitches the hoary meme that shadowy string-pullers are underwriting climate-change sceptics.

Climategate 3.0 … Of saints, sanity and premature pronouncements | The View From Here

So maybe what we should be doing – instead of expending hours complaining (and/or trying to guess The Saint’s identity) and arguing while the “translated” documents are being compiled into a useful database – is taking the time to revisit the material we already have at our virtual fingertips to see what we might have missed.

The new Mini Ice Age is upon us! | Ice Age Now

“MIA (Mini Ice Age ) fingerprint now overwhelming,” says astrophysicist Piers Corbyn of WeatherAction.com.

The New Nostradamus of the North: The rise and fall of the solar power industry: Even the Chinese solar panel industry is beginning to crumble

Even China's government supported solar panel industry is beginning to crumble. The collapse of Suntech Power, one of the world's largest manufacturers, is just the beginning: