'Just as fears over Alar toxicity, destruction of the Amazon rain forest, a new ice age and other apocalyptic warnings lost their relevance, the global warming scare is destined to fade entirely from the public mind'

'The warming "scientific" community, the Climategate emails reveal, is a tight clique of like-minded scientists and bureaucrats who give each other jobs, publish each other's papers -- and conspire to shut out any point of view that threatens to derail their gravy train. Such behavior is perhaps to be expected from politicians and government functionaries. From scientists, it's a travesty.'

'This is a great story – and works, provided you haven't read a word of Bjorn Lomborg and don't know anything about his views or his background. If you do, it looks very much like a pathetic little spoiler designed to distract attention from the IAC's reasonably damning report on the IPCC'