Over on WUWT Dr Judith Curry of Georgia Tech has written a piece on rebuilding credibility in Climate science in the post-climategate era.

Although a lot of the replies were fairly harsh, I believe that Dr Curry is well intentioned and her views on the blogosphere and the intelligent "auditor" (esp Steve McIntyre) are well said.

In my profession (software development), the blogosphere is now the only public peer review process.
Not only does it give your work credibility, it demonstrates to the outside world your ability and professional ethics.

Publishing software work in blogs gives kudos and peer respect.

In my opinion, this is the only way forward for climate science - extend and reach to the wider intelligent blogosphere. Publish and be damned, as they say.

So in that respect, I would like to congratulate Dr Curry on her essay. Let's have more like this.