Schmidt to Curry: “In future I will simply assume you are a conduit for untrue statements rather than their originator.”

UPDATE:  Judith Curry comments below — including this new puzzler.  I reply.  Feel free to do the same.

As a general rule for scientists, one shouldn’t hitch one’s wagon to long-debunked purveyors of disinformation.  Because then you might end up circling the wagons with the wrong … tribe (see “The curious incident of Judith Curry with the fringe“).

I’m on a plane today, so I commend to you an outstanding Real Climate post, “The Montford Delusion,” by Tamino — and the stunning comments section.  NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt and Tamino are in the role of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and company.  Judith Curry (and Peter Webster) have apparently thrown in with the Clantons.  Like all analogies, this one isn’t perfect, but I’m afraid the outcome is pretty much the same.

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For any first time visitors here because of Tom Friedman’s column in the Sunday NY Times, “We’re Gonna Be Sorry,” you might start with “An Introduction to Climate Progress.”

When I first heard on Thursday that Senate Democrats were abandoning the effort to pass an energy/climate bill that would begin to cap greenhouse gases that cause global warming and promote renewable energy that could diminish our addiction to oil, I remembered something that Joe Romm, the climateprogress.org blogger, once said: The best thing about improvements in health care is that all the climate-change deniers are now going to live long enough to see how wrong they were.

We’ll always have gallows humor!

For some reason, the NYT is home to a large fraction of the U.S. opinion columnists who get global warming.   Nicholas Kristof had a terrific piece last week, “Our Beaker Is Starting to Boil,” on global warming and the work of David Breashears to document “stunning declines in glaciers on the roof of the world.”

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Calls out the disinformers: “Have they no grandchildren?”

Global warming will be the most important investment issue for the foreseeable future.

Uber-hedge fund manager Jeremy Grantham, a self-described “die hard contrarian,” tells it like it is in his blunt 2Q 2010 letter:

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