Vincent Gray at Climate Realists wrote:

The attached graph is in all of the Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change, and it is fundamental to all their activities. It assumes that the earth can be considered to be flat, that the sun shines all day and all night with equal intensity, and that the temperature of the earth’s surface is constant.

Surber comments, “If true, I find that to be amusing. Skeptics are supposed to be the flat Earthers, not our moral and intellectual superiors.”

Click here for a to-scale timeline of evolution. Use the horizontal slider on your browser to get to the interesting part; nothing much happens for a long, long time. At the end, there’s a button that allows you to expand the human-development section, which otherwise is an undifferentiated sliver.

The Earth is old, folks. We hominids are newcomers, infants.

Our use of industry is so recent it barely registers.

You will need to work very very hard to convince me that we’re doing unprecedented damage to our world.

[Click for full-size, full resolution.]

A commenter for this article suggests using GPS data which records atmospheric drag on the GPS satellite flock. That drag increases and decreases according to the size of the atmosphere, which in turn varies according to temperature. It really is a global average.

Click highlights this immortal line as a pull quote:

From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption.

[Correct Darleen's name; see comments.]

Remember, too, that besides the emails, the original dump also included key data, the programming code used to generate the climate models involved, and even notes by one of the programmers.

It wasn’t just the handful of soundbites dismissed by the warmists.

Locally cached copy here[PDF]

TREES will not uproot themselves and embark on blood-soaked killing sprees by 2035, global warming experts have admitted.

The IPCC headquarters in Geneva
The International Panel on Climate Change confirmed the evidence had not been peer-reviewed and will now amend the section of its 2007 report devoted to ‘killer trees’.

A spokesman said: “It appears the claim was not based on new data or field research but on that bit with the angry, talking trees in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.”
…
“We still think there’s a strong chance that trees will become sentient and take revenge on man for chopping down all their friends and turning them into spatulas, we’re just not sure when.”

Having recently been the victim of a tree attack on my parked car, I am very relieved to read this, as I was becoming a bit concerned.

Anyway, I prefer Teflon or stainless steel spatulas, so I should be pretty much on their side.

update:
The original article includes this image, which portrays the home of Bilbo Baggins, one of the hobbits from Lord of the Rings. I believe this was taken from the movie trilogy.

I just this minute realized, it’s an eye. An eye in great contrast with the other eye in the story, the flaming Eye of Sauron.

The best reason not to relent, to name and shame the fraudsters and shatter their reputations and humilate them — ideally, to the point where there’s a rash of prominent suicides as a result — is this:

If we don’t destroy them, they’ll surely ramp up yet another colossal, politicized eco-fraud.

The segment Raymond has identified as zombies and greenshirts I’ve heard elsewhere named as watermelons: green on the outside, red on the inside.

Oh, and don’t miss his conclusion:

The key point — and the reason the AGW frauds need to be shamed and punished — is that the political background conditions favoring this kind of fraud are still in place.

That is, the zombies and green-shirts still have a powerful interest in magnifying scientific errors that suit their agendas into politicized crusades that could produce error cascades just as huge. Somewhere out there, there are now-innocent scientific research groups who could become the next decade’s version of the “team”, degenerating into fraudulent conspiracies as careerism draws them in, the political villains cheer them on to rationalize the power-grab of the week, and the Gaianists gamely but stupidly try to do the right thing.

I’m even prepared to hazard a guess where the next fraud would be ginned up from: environmental toxicology and what are called “endocrine disruptors”.

[Emphasis ESR's]
Absolutely, read the whole thing. This is one of those lens articles that brings an entire scene into focus.

update:
From the Devil’s Kitchen, an excellent explanation of the decision tree we should be using :

and the very simplified tree actually in use:

Watts Up With That commenter J.C. writes in comments there:

I work at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina. I’ve been following the Climategate scandal since its inception. The first time many of my coworkers had heard of the situation was when I asked them about it.

Well, well, well.
Look what was waiting in every single email Inbox on Monday morning:

DOE-SR has received a “Litigation Hold Notice” from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) General Council and the DOE Office of Inspector General regarding the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England. Accordingly, they are requesting that SRNS, SRR and other Site contractors locate and preserve all documents, records, data, correspondence, notes, and other materials, whether official or unofficial, original or duplicative, drafts or final versions, partial or complete that may relate to the global warming, including, but not limited to, the contract files, any related correspondence files, and any records, including emails or other correspondence, notes, documents, or other material related to this contract, regardless of its location or medium on which it is stored. In other words, please preserve any and all documents relevant to “global warming, the Climate Research Unit at he University of East Anglia In England, and/or climate change science.”

This cannot be good for the AGW establishment.

Everybody’s favorite weasel-girl did an early version of this using WUWT’s original charts.

There are TED presentations that make you gasp with awe and wonder. The audience laughs and claps throughout, simply because the charts and graphs are so enlightening.

This is not one of them. It is cold, dry, and sobering. The audience is silent. I’m not going to try to summarize, you really need to see the whole thing.

I don’t agree with everything here — Brand believes in AGW, for instance, and is reflexively socialist — but overwhelmingly, the message is good, and Brand presses the need for local, even personal control and power. (Brand understands very well the difference between the two.) As I say, his socialism is reflexive, but the message is inherently capitalist.

The amazing thing is, he sees so clearly that even though his politics color his presentation, he still tells the truth.