Malcolm Turnbull angers MPs as Coalition torn over climate | The Australian

Mr Turnbull's climate change spokesman, Andrew Robb, said his recent talks in the US and China, and preliminary results of modelling commissioned by the Coalition and independent senator Nick Xenophon from Frontier Economics, bolstered the case for delaying any vote on the laws.

The end is near - The Boston Globe

IT USED TO BE that apocalyptic warnings about the approaching end of time came from sign-holding religious nutcases. Now they come from hard scientists.

CEI Injects Suppressed EPA Global Warming Report into White House Science Proceeding | CEI

Washington, D.C., July 17, 2009—Will the federal government consider its own research on global warming as it doles out tax-funded research dollars? The Competitive Enterprise Institute today asked the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to do just that.

In a comment submitted today to the agency on its ocean research report, CEI Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis asks it to consider a study initially suppressed by the EPA. That study severely criticized EPA’s approach on global warming. One of the major conclusions of the suppressed report was the ocean cycles appear to be the single best explanation of global temperature variations.

“OSTP should be especially concerned about the possibility that other agencies and institutions may be so committed to certain points of view on these issues, that their procedures and assessments fail to fairly reflect new and contrary findings,” Lewis writes in the comments submitted to OSTP.

Only An Idiot Would Take Up Nate Silver’s Bet | ryan underdown

UPDATE – I found it odd that Silver would cherry pick data the way he did. The number of days above average and number of days below is a nice way to get around using the actual AVERAGE. Its worth mentioning that the average temperature over the date range Silver provided (June 21-July 18) is 70.5 ° F while historically it is 71.96 ° F according to data from weather.com.

JustOneMinute: Here's A Sucker Bet - I Just Wonder Who The Sucker Is

Now, why is this a sucker bet and who is the sucker? Well, where are the averages coming from? As best I can infer from a quick Sunday scan, the Weather Underground quite laudably compiles data from hobbyists, airports, television news stations, colleges, State agencies, and no doubt other sources. If a particular site only has data going back three years, is the "average" for that site just the results for the past three years? If so, find me a site with two years of data and a heat wave last summer, and I am ready to bet.