bhima's Journal: Real Climate: 2008 Year in review

The collection of climate scientists running the blog Real Climate have posted an amusing and interesting review of 2008, in the form of awards for a number of categories.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/12/2008-year-in-review/

What I found most amusing: The S. Fred Singer award for the most dizzying turn-around of a climate pseudo-skeptic.

What I found most interesting: Most puzzling finding from 2006 that has yet to be convincingly replicated

What found most illuminating in climate science in 2008 are: in the corporate arena the parallels between the tactics of professional obstructionists to climate change mitigation and the tobacco company's campaign to hide fact the tobacco contains carcinogens. And in the public / government arena the parallels between the tactics of obstructionists to climate change mitigation and the tactics of the christian reconstructionists in their campaign to promote creationism... which I suppose is simply a part in their wider war on Science.