Judith,
Well, given that I was working on the reply to my uncertainty monster paper, where the IPCC grand poobahs were telling me that they did it right in AR4 and they had natural variability figured out, I was rather surprised to see these comments, especially since one of the persons quoted was a coauthor of the reply criticizing the attribution arguments in my uncertainty monster paper. Juvenile point scoring? I don’t think so. Lets try exposing overconfidence, and in this particular case, hypocrisy.
I think you should not use an article composed by somebody else for a different purpose as a source for judging third parties. Paul Voosen has chosen some excepts to his article to serve the needs of that article. You may have your justified prejudices of the people, but you cannot use this article as additional evidence for them. It’s too indirect. Going one step further and using Pielke’s selections is still worse.