With quite a lot of climate and weather stories around, here is another roundup for you.
David Rose in the Mail on Sunday sticks the boot into the Met Office, noting the failure of reality to keep up with their incessant predictions of warming.
Strangely enough, comedian David Mitchell - a man who would normally expected to be "right-on" on these issues - is also letting off a few pot-shots at Britain's weather forecasters, wondering if they would "get it right more often if it stuck to the facts rather than suppositions."
No surprises from Christopher Booker, who reckons it's time for global warming enthusiasts to call it a day.
Leo Hickman looks at a new enviro-TV show for children on the BBC. Apparently Santa's runway is melting and children are to be encouraged to get involved by making online energy pledges. Amusingly, Hickman says that the show is sure "to raise hackles in certain predictable corners". Whoever can he mean?
Judith Curry is also looking at the subject of eco-indoctrination, discussing Michael Olson's post on An Inconvenient Truth, which tears into AGW proponents for not viewing the movie in a critical fashion - not in terms of its factual content - Olson is a green - but in terms of the way it dismissed sceptics:
And then there was Climategate. Literally overnight the, “there is no debate,” voice vanished. The science and environmental communities finally learned there is a debate — not through effective leadership and communication, but by having their noses shoved in it.
Pierre Gosselin was in Berlin for a conference of German sceptics, and hoping to get a cut of the oil money. He was disappointed, but enjoyed the conference.