A couple of weeks ago, I posted a snide little thing about warming skeptics who are appalled by the very idea of a climate model. Somehow, I guess through a trackback at RealClimate, Ian Rae found his way here, and took issue with some of my characterizations. A not-bad discussion ensued, at the end of which ... whoops! I just realized that I misunderstood something Ian said (I took his crack about the IPCC as a funding-driven cabal as more earnest than it now appears on a re-read -- Sorry, Ian!).
Anyway, Stentor Danielson at debitage had a nice post a few days later on scientific consensus that I wanted to link to. It's not as topical as I'd planned on it being due to that misunderstanding, but it's an interesting read nonetheless.