Texas may end school anti-evolution requirements - On Deadline - USATODAY.com

The board also adopted language that would have students study the "different views on the existence of global warming," the Chronicle says.

Celebrities Send Messages Of Support For Earth Hour

Other celebrities who have shown their support for the initiative include Coldplay, Donny Osmond, Marie Osmond, Larry Flynt, Amy Grant, The Veronicas, Vince Gill, Cate Blanchett, Janeane Garofalo and Alanis Morissette.

Turn On to Human Achievement | GlobalWarming.org

What many caught up in this hype don’t realize is that not using energy for an hour is worlds away from what the WWF and other environmental lobbying and political groups are proposing. Rather than leaving you free to shut things off for an hour or two, these alarmists believe we need governments around the world to ration, tax, and other restrict the use of energy. This is an affront to our basic liberties, but also a life-threatening proposition for those living in the developing world.

So, rather than taking of the banner of the anti-energy, pro-government control brigade, I suggest that you join the Competitive Enterprise Institute in celebrating Human Achievement Hour. You can participate by leaving the lights on, watching a movie, going out to eat, or doing anything else that’s a part of modern life. You can also tell your friends about sites like GlobalWarming.org that are making the consequences of environmental alarmism known.

Climate Observations: Part 2 of The Large SST Discontinuity Also Appears in Cloud Cover and Marine Air Temperature Data

In The Large 1945 SST Discontinuity Also Appears in Cloud Cover and Marine Air Temperature Data, I illustrated that the 1945/46 shift SST anomalies also appears in Cloud Cover and Marine Air Temperature data. In this post, I provide comparative graphs of HADISST anomaly data from January 1930 to December 1959 and the Marine Air Temperature and Cloud Cover datasets. I’ve also added two more COADS datasets, SST and wind speed. The wind speed data shows a shift in 1945 but of the opposite sign.