Thanksgroaning

There is waaaay too much going on right now to do any service to the number of things happening. I’ve been running helter-skelter all day trying to prepare for our big feast tomorrow. Even still, here’s a fun little roundup:

• Chris Mooney at CSI has a nice piece comparing the current round of insanity to earlier battles in the intelligent design mess.
• Philosopher Brian Leiter weighs in on the CRU hack, noting: “Dr. Jones concedes that the stolen e-mails “don’t read well.”  Goodness, they read better than mine–no expletives, for example.  And that scholars would be incensed when crackpots and ideological hacks sneak their work into ordinarily reputable journals is hardly surprising.” I’m hoping he’ll say something about the absurd consideration of the Competitive Enterprise Institute to sue Gavin Schmidt for blogging while at work.
• The Washington Post has a nice editorial out on the CRU hack. They say that skeptics are being irresponsible. Given what I’ve been reading recently, they might as well add “irrational,” or arguably, “non-rational.”
• CRU issued a statement.
• Obama is going to Copenhagen to with an emissions target. I’ll be there. Anybody wanna grab a drink?
• The Copenhagen Diagnosis is out, and yeah, it’s worse than we thought.

Here. Give thanks for this:

Global ice-sheets are melting at an increased rate; Arctic sea-ice is disappearing much faster than recently projected, and future sea-level rise is now expected to be much higher than previously forecast, according to a new global scientific synthesis prepared by some of the world’s top climate scientists.