“I find it curious that a science publication will give time to this puffery but not to debunking the AGW hoax”
Scientists mostly live off grant money. Grant money is awarded based on the most current, trendy, hopes and fears.
Scaremongering sells.
However, and there is just one however, having worked the grant industry for some time, the science types will only whore for the hoax as long as their fellow scientists go along. I believe we have reached now critical mass, and the hoax is being openly laughed at. All a scientist has is his reputation, and once significant number of fellow scientists are scornful of the lack of real science in the hoax, it will fail. Regardless how much money is offered up as payoffs.
That's why the sites on the network that are not funded by grants are so effective.