ClimateGate: Roundup...

Lots of stuff today...

Another flying pig moment: the New York Times finally writes about ClimateGate (even using the word!).  The article isn't bad, either.  The contents won't be news to readers of this blog, but the fact that the NYT is writing credulously about AGW skeptics sure is news!

Fox News has a nice piece on the archaic U.S. weather data network.  Mercury thermometers and paper forms.  Really...

Anthony Watts has convinced a U.K. newspaper (the Guardian) to stop using the loaded term “climate change deniers” in favor of the more positive term “climate sceptics” (those Brits spell funny – “sceptics” is how they spell “skeptics”).  Lest you think this is a trivial and meaningless battle won, consider this (sad) fact: most readers of newspapers are functionally illiterate when it comes to science, and in stories like this they'll form their conclusions from the tone and tenor of an article.  Words matter...

Here's some evidence that lawmakers are reacting to ClimateGate: Representative Ike Skelton (D - Missouri) has taken a position indicating his skepticism of AGW, in direct contrast to his former voting record.  There has been a surprising amount of buzz in Washington about this, probably because pro-AGW votes have been basically assumed in the past.  No more...

Steve Mosher is fed up with Dr. Phil Jones playing with the truth.  So am I.  Resign, Dr. Jones!

Steve McIntyre has a nice roundup of the U.K. press coverage of the first day of testimony in the U.K. parliamentary inquiry into ClimateGate.  Both the roundup and the items it links to are excellent, and especially gratifying if you're a long-term AGW skeptic...

The Royal Statistical Society weighs in on the ClimateGate revelations.  Hint: it ain't good new for Phil Jone's boys...