» As Climategate Becomes Pressgate, Questions for the Media - Big Journalism

We tried numerous times to get a response from either reporters or editors at the Associated Press, but was told that none of the five reporters who worked on the article nor their editors had time to answer any questions. “Well, that won’t happen at this time anyway,” Jack Stokes, Manager of Media Relations with the Associated Press, said when asked if any of those involved with the story could comment even briefly.

» Peer-to-Peer Review: How ‘Climategate’ Marks the Maturing of a New Science Movement, Part I - Big Journalism

Remember these names: Steven Mosher, Steve McIntyre, Ross McKitrick, Jeff “Id” Condon, Lucia Liljegren, and Anthony Watts. These, and their community of blog commenters, are the global warming contrarians that formed the peer-to-peer review network and helped bring chaos to Copenhagen – critically wounding the prospects of cap-and-trade legislation in the process. One may have even played the instrumental role of first placing the leaked files on the Internet.

This group can be thought of as the first cousins to Andrew Breitbart’s collective of BIG websites – obsessively curious, grassroots investigators that provide vision to the establishment’s blind eye.

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Let's take the idiots who look at a foot of snow and say "What global warming?" and put 'em on a shrinking ice floe with hungry polar bears.

John Derbyshire reads the Bard of Belle Meade.

A dramatic reading of One Thin September Soon.