Reality-Based view of climate change

The "reality-based community" has started a group blog on climate change. Today they note, rather plaintively:

Climate science is one of those fields where anyone, regardless of their lack of expertise or understanding, feels qualified to comment on new papers and ongoing controversies. This can be frustrating for scientists like ourselves who see agenda-driven 'commentary' on the Internet and in the opinion columns of newspapers crowding out careful analysis.

Those pinko cultural elitists...