BBC - Climate Change: The Blog of Bloom: Barbecue summer? Newsnight turns up the heat on man from the Met Office

Viewers of Newsnight on Tuesday evening will have enjoyed the spectacle of Nick Robinson gently roasting Ewen McCullum, Chief Meteorologist at the Met Office, over his organisation's prediction earlier this year that we were 'odds-on for a barbecue summer'.

Death from the Skies = Boring, Sweat from GHGs = Sexy - Jonah Goldberg - The Corner on National Review Online

[Reader mail] That is the central problem the AGW people have too. They can not grasp the fact that the climate will change no matter what, and we can't control it.

This has long been a pet peeve of mine and I have done a lot of arguing about it with friends, both scientists and non-scientists. One of the most frustrating aspects is trying to explain to people the difference between science and predicting via model. I especially love it when my non-scientist friends tell me I'm unqualified to opine because while I'm a scientist I'm not a CLIMATE scientist. My arguments usually go to the fallacious assumptions that pass for an argument with the AGW crowd....

TheHill.com - Stocks go up as agenda slides

Separately, healthcare reform has slowed while a climate change bill imposing taxes on businesses that emit pollutants has stalled in the Senate.

Stock markets, meanwhile, have rallied to their highest levels of the year. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index began this week within striking distance of 1,000 points.

“It’s very much a factor in what’s driving the market over the last couple weeks,” Gardner said of the slowed agenda in Washington.

CRU Erases Data « Climate Audit

One obvious course of action right now will be to make a FOI request to CRU, seeking information about the contents of the various deleted files and whether they were in any way relevant to any of the outstanding inquiries, and, if they were, whether the destruction of these files had been authorized by the university's FOI officer.