A mini-edition of climate cuttings while I'm up to my neck in other things:
George Monbiot is singing the praises of wind power. I'm intrigued to know the sources for his figures.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, the momentum of the shale gas is looking unstoppable.
Climate Realists takes a look at an old paper by, among others, Mann and Schmidt on the subject of the solar influence on climate.
"Sceptics" was deemed too polite, so "deniers" was introduced. "Cranks" enjoys favour from time to time. Now, the epithet-du-jour from the climate PR people is climate "truthers". I can't imagine what it's like to spend your whole career thinking up rude names for people.
And lastly, a fascinating article looking at the similarities, or not, between the proxies in one of Mann's temperature reconstructions.