D.C. Temperatures Plummeted as Soon as House Passed Global Warming Bill--And Left Town

As far as the drop in temperatures for June in the United States goes, Romm said:

“The United States has certainly been warming in the past decade, but like any relatively small part of the world it can, its weather fluctuates even as the climate gets warmer. I think it’s pretty clear that we are headed towards much warmer temperatures in the near term globally.”

Nevertheless, according to the chart from which Carlin made his observations, “June 2009 saw another--albeit small--drop in the global average temperature anomaly.”

Carlin explained that right now we are at a “zero anomaly point” -- meaning there is little or no actual change currently compared to the period of 1979 to about 1996.

Based on the chart, he predicts the trend in temperatures in the next few years will continue to go downward.

Manmohan Singh absolutely right: UN Climate Chief

New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is "absolutely right" when he says that "climate change as we know it today has been caused mostly by industrialised countries", says the UN Climate Chief.

"That is why industrialised countries must take the lead in combating climate change," UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer told IANS.
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Asked about the status of the draft text for Copenhagen being prepared by the UNFCCC, he said: "We have placed an edited version of the negotiating text on the web. We hope countries will remove some of the redundancies when negotiators meet in Bonn early August.

Flashback: The UN's de Boer: Alleged "neutral facilitator", former Dutch housing bureaucrat; now allegedly an expert passing judgment on climate change policy

So how did a Dutch public housing bureaucrat wind up at the epicentre of the fight to slow global warming?

"I had a policy in my life up to then to try something completely different every three or four years," de Boer said of his decision in 1994 to apply for a job within the Dutch environment ministry to head the climate change department.

"To my great amazement, I got the job. I knew nothing about climate change, absolutely nothing," he said in an interview.