Post "Climate-Gate" Attacks

Hello Readers,

I just wanted to point you to an article about the very personal nature of the 'battle' over climate change science in a Post Climate-Gate era.

The article, entitled The Battle Over Climate Science by Tom Clynes was published yesterday on the online version of Popular Science magazine and can be found at: 

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-06/battle-over-climate-change

The article includes interviews with leading climate scientists and the some of the skeptics who are leading the legal and (sometimes violent) personal attacks on those scientists in order to attempt to discredit their research (or at least make it harder for them to perform their research).

Also, within the article, I discovered what appears to be an extremely interesting website (called RealClimate) for climate scientists, climate change activists, and environmental science students. According to the website, Real Climate is:

RealClimate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. We aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary. The discussion here is restricted to scientific topics and will not get involved in any political or economic implications of the science. All posts are signed by the author(s), except ‘group’ posts which are collective efforts from the whole team. This is a moderated forum.

Please pass this along.

Thanks,

Sean