One of the funniest emails I've read in weeks. It's referring to the swift-boat attacks now in play on climate scientists which could soon be the subject of a congressional (Yes, I'm cereal) investigation:

Since you're BFF with that liar Michel Mann [sp?], why don't you explain to him there's this thing called water vapor. Maybe he can take that into account the next time he try to scare everyone.

OK, no problem, I told my buddy Dr. Michael Mann about 'this thing' called water vapor. Based on his reaction, which sounded something like hysterical laughter, I'm pretty sure he already knew about it. But as long as I was visiting the wingnut zone, I also called the head of geology at Exxon-Mobil and explained about this thing called a drill. Maybe they can use one the next time they're looking for oil.

• Jean Williams posted a brief and accurate piece on the CRU email hack and was over run with a horde of overly eager skeptics. I had the same experience. No doubt Hezbollah and Al Qaeda will be heartened to know that conservatives are onboard with Jihad, making sure their pipeline of oil money is available to keep killing innocent people for decades to come.
• In the meantime, climate change projections again outpace all but the more aggressive models:

  A report by a group of leading scientists that global warming is accelerating and that world sea levels could rise at worst by 2 metres by 2100* is grim reading.

• China is teeing up another lunar probe and hopes to send a manned mission to the moon as early as 2017:

  Official newspaper the China Daily said that Chang'e 2 will have a higher resolution camera and will orbit closer to the surface. China is also planning a third mission in 2015 that will land on the Moon, collect samples of rock and return them to Earth.

• Last but certainly not least, the Moonie Times, going under? Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of toadies for a megalomaniacal religious lunatic.