[DC: They're all commenting at the 99% of blogs that are discussing it. But be patient ...]

Add it all up and you have a filibuster. Keep talking and it will stop the rest of the participants from getting anything done.

Part of the point, I would suspect.

http://akwag.blogspot.com/2009/10/cold-logic-of-hockey-sticks.html

There are only 24 hours in a day. It’s a zero sum game. There may be some value in individual aspects of McIntrye’s statistical criticisms of the hockey stick work over the year. A lot of it has been off the mark too. Either way, dealing with the constant hockey stick criticisms slows important research by paleo-climatologists work.

Add it all up and you have a filibuster. Keep talking and it will stop the rest of the participants from getting anything done.

Thanks for your response – I am going to see how much I can pin down about the whole Nature thing w/r/t what happened after E&E. It’s worthwhile because frankly, while Lindzen does rise to the level of someone who’s a scientist who understands, or should, a lot of climate science, neither McIntyre nor McKitrick do, at all, and the more we can peel them away and give them their proper status the better. Pielke Jr. is basically a political scientist, as is Lomborg, Mcintyre and Plimer are mining geologists, and McKitrick is an economist. None of them should have any believablitiy on climate that they don’t demonstrate.

Nature Pubs often takes a hands-off approach to denialism – their climate discussion blog was chock full of nonsense mixed with reality. And frankly, Keith Kloor’s presence there as a columnist is a bad sign, because he’s the epitome of the science-must-always-be-balanced-by-anti-science-advocacy-or-you’re-censoring-Gallileo-and-you’re-doing-shrill-advocacy-for-environmentalism absurdity.