In the comments, I am asked if there is a coordinated programme of stories in the media on warmist themes. I think the answer may well be yes.

Ben Webster's "Sceptics funded by big oil" story in the Times the other day was very peculiar: with no obvious news value it looked exactly like a PR piece. Then there was the BBC's travesty of an article about the melting (that isn't) on Everest.

Today we have this toe-curlingly awful piece in Nature, in which a series of oceanographers are lined up to say that there was nothing in the Climategate emails.

I wonder if anyone is still taking this kind of thing seriously?