Here are two excellent explainy-type pieces about issues you may want clarification of: Neal Ungerleider fills you in on the Dubai debt crisis, while Alex Pareene looks at the climate change "scandal" that has so many on the right wetting their pants with joyful indignation (and, metaphorically, semen). Now you know!
Well, thank god Alex used reason.
Yes, but reason is seldom as attractive as blind, stupid rage. And Glenn Beck's tears.
That Pareene post is a bit shit. It's probably as guilty of whitewashing what was revealed in the hacked documents as the 'climate gate' stuff is of exaggerating it.
George Monbiot's articles about this are the most level headed iv'e come across.