I'm surprised when people compliment the BBC, who seem like ardent 'Climate-gatekeepers' when I switch the box on. That report seemed little more than lip-service.

I'm surprised people say our media for airs this stuff more than the US media. Are we all getting a distorted impression, from the internet, that it's more balanced on the other side of the Atlantic? I speculate! I have little evidence! I suppose KUSI News is not watched as widely as CNN…

I've said it before; my disappointment over Climategate is simply that so many think it's the *only* reason for scepticism, when it just confirmed what we already knew. The conspiracy exposed is no larger or smaller than what I'd previously thought existed; it's certainly not the infeasibly huge kind that gets capitalised as Conspiracy Theory.

We all accept some conspiracies. We all either believe in Watergate, or Watergategate — the idea that Watergate wasn't a real conspiracy but a fake one, cooked up by a larger, real one!

Conspiracy theories fly both ways on this. The irony has been noted by many others already, that warmists make the accusations they do while so proudly wearing the adverts of their own sponsors.

Governments & big oil, meanwhile, seem to love the hype. Check their websites. Exxon, (the only oil company if Greenpeace are to be believed), say of course global warming is real. Guess who's going to save us from it?

I say to many conspiracy theorists, "The self-consistency of a theory is not evidence by itself; it would however be a good start." As for our own conspiracy theory, well, how much corroborating evidence do we need?

Roll on, the Heartland Conference, May 2010!