Today's the last day to vote for the 2007 Weblog Awards, and the climate-change-denier crowd has been voting early and often in the "Best Science Blog" category. (The validity of this contest probably isn't helped much by the fact that you can vote once every 24 hours per computer you have access to.) There are a few flat-earther blogs among the finalists, but the particularly pernicious Climate Audit has crept into the lead, thanks to some get-out-the-vote efforts by conservative bloggers. The blog is run by Stephen McIntyre, a former mining executive that the conservative press and legislators like James Inhofe have touted as their resident expert since he published a paper in a non-peer reviewed journal that suggested scientists are wrong about historical climate records. I'm not going to tell you how to vote or anything, but the blog in second right now (cough, Bad Astronomy, cough) has the best chance of taking the lead.
It would have been nice to see some quality climate and science blogs like Real Climate, Science Blog, ClimateScienceWatch, or Deltoid among the finalists.
--Kate Sheppard
