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The World Is Swimming in Shale | Via Meadia

Thanks to fracking and horizontal drilling, there’s a bounty of oil and gas available to countries around the world .

Twitter / ClimateOfGavin: it's 'Hug a climate scientist' ...

it's 'Hug a climate scientist' day pic.twitter.com/Jvwx2wIDwT Please form an orderly line.

- Bishop Hill blog - Tamsin's SciFoo talk

I agree with Tamsin's observation that trust in climate science has been improved by these efforts - we have moved on from "all climatologists are crooks" to "some climatologists are crooks". But the corollary of my observations in the last paragraph is that the honest scientists need to realise that their profession isn't going to completely emerge from the quagmire until bad science and bad scientists are called out. We simply cannot go on pretending that the Hockey Sticks - either Mann's or Marcott's - have any place in the scientific literature; we cannot allow the Empty Statement on climate change to pass as a consensus on anything. I'm sure readers can suggest others.

- Bishop Hill blog - Public understanding of climate - the evidence

I think it's fair to say that the inquiry is a bit of charade.

Sociology of the ‘pause’ | Climate Etc.

The few mainstream scientists that are active in the climate blogosphere seem better at picking up the pulse of the public debate on climate change.