Rowan Tree and Red Thread

Peter Watts speaks his mind (and good sense) on the CRU email leak and surrounding blogosphere typhoon. More here at Real Climate.

Good to see people speaking up for the public recognition of scientists as human like anyone else.

Dubner and Levitt, the authors of Freakonomics, are just a bit completely wrong on CO2 emissions and favour bonkers geoengineering instead. Well there's a surprise.

Things look set to get worse.

(Climate roulette wheel thanks to MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.)

This is actually quite encouraging, all the more so for the fact that the IPCC report was signed off on by all the major players, including the USA and China.