While the text of the comic is not quite accurate—we’ll chalk it up to artistic license—it gets the point across. In the past week or so, a number of independent groups have examined the “evidence” including FactCheck.org and the Associated Press. Even so, the East Anglian emails stirred one paper in England to publish an article purportedly giving 100 reasons why global warming was perfectly natural to which New Scientist replied with 50 reasons against. See also this side-by-side graphic refuting skeptics’ major points.

In other news, the New York Times recently interviewed a climatologist who strives to engage skeptics and openly debate the evidence.

Meanwhile, Støre-Gore reports snow and ice across the world vanishing quickly as a new article in Nature suggests that Earth’s polar ice sheets vulnerable to even moderate global warming. Indeed, the Greenland ice cap is melting faster than ever. As a consequence, Antarctica could contribute 1.4m to sea-level rise. If for you, seeing is believing, check out James Balrog’s recent TED Talk in which he shows compelling time lapse photography of glacier retreat and deflation. A particularly troubled region he does not cover since the reports of its problems are fairly recent is the Himalayas.