A firehose of global warming news, both good and bad

Cripes. I turn my back for like a week, and all sorts of global warming denialist nonsense breaks out. 1) The interesting site lies.com has two excellent videos in what they call Profiles in Republican Courage: one is Bob Inglis (R-SC) giving a great speech about global warming and how his party is denying its existence, and another by Sherwood Boehlert (a former Congressman from New York) again chastising his party for their science denialism. I'll note Inglis lost the primary to Tea Party über-conservative Trey Gowdy, who doesn't even think global warming is happening at all. Gowdy won the election and will be a Congressman. Just so's you know. 2) At ClimateSight, a young blogger and aspiring climatologist named Kate has written an excellent summary of why ClimateGate is much ado about nothing. She apparently understands this a lot better than a lot of people in Congress. It's a ...