William M. Briggs, Statistician » New Arcsine Climate Forecast: Hot and Cold!

What does all this say about the real climate? That it happens to look just like a bunch of random numbers. Gordon cautions, “That is not to say that the temperature record is a random walk, but that it does possess similar features.” The surface temperature records “also exhibits properties of the arc-sine law. It is concluded that the global series could have arisen from random fluctuations and could therefore be analogous to arc-sine law governed by random walks.”

This means the climate we have might be less controllable than we thought it was (controllable negatively or positively through man’s activities).

Pakistan: Will there be more power loadshedding?

The electricity loadshedding had been a major problem in Rawalpindi lately. Currently there is no loadshedding but people fear that it would restart sooner than later and they would be subjected to ‘torture’ all over again in cold weather.

US senator says Congress delays global warming law - International Herald Tribune

"Action can take many forms and it could include administrative action, legislative action or both," said Sen. Barbara Boxer, also a Democrat, who has primary jurisdiction over climate change legislation because she chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

Asked if she expected a bill to be enacted next year, Boxer said: "I believe there will be major action on energy independence, which includes climate change."

Drew Hammill, a spokesman for Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, would not rule out congressional action on climate change in 2009 but added that it will require "a significant amount of time to reach bipartisan consensus."