Gore: deal on emissions from land useage change critical - Times Online

A global deal to cap surging emissions of carbon dioxide from soil will form a critical part of any successful agreement to tackle climate change in Copenhagen later this year, Al Gore said today.

The Reference Frame: UAH: June 2009: anomaly near zero

UAH MSU has officially released their June 2009 data. This time, they're faster than RSS MSU. The anomaly was +0.01 °C, meaning that the global temperature was essentially equal to the average June temperature since 1979. June 2009 actually belonged to the cooler half of the Junes since 1979.

Global warming is supposed to exist and to be bad. Sometimes, we hear that global warming causes cooling. In this case, global warming causes global averageness. In all three cases, it is bad news. The three main enemies of environmentalism are warm weather, cool weather, and average weather.

Williston Herald - Plover, tern make a late return

Corps natural resources specialist Mike Morris said the nesting season for the plovers and terns runs until about late August. Morris said the plovers usually begin to arrive at the end of April and the terns in June. But due to the winter weather this year and lingering cold weather in the spring, this year is different.

“The terns are running late, same with the plovers. Everything seems to be running late this year,” said Morris.