Rex Murphy: So where's that global cooling alert? - The Globe and Mail

I bring this up merely to make a single point. Not that these studio meteorologists were making the elementary mistake of confounding weather with climate, for this is a distinction familiar now even to kindergartners. Rather, to point out how “accepted” the vague, soft, but relentlessly propagandized theory of global warming has become. That being on the “right” side of the global warming argument is so very much the politically correct place to be. It's the “virtuous” side to be on, so naturally our supper-hour meteorologists, even if unconsciously, were eager to encourage virtue.

Now, however, Toronto in July is cool and I am waiting in vain for the lips of just one forecaster to ask how can this be. Waiting just once to hear the familiar phrase “global warming” in a sentence that even hints that the theory behind it is so much more tentative than we have been urged with such fervour to believe.  [Via Dr. Roy]

Deeds, McDonnell trade punches in first Virginia gubernatorial debate | Washington Examiner

McDonnell, in keeping with the jobs theme he has used as a central part of his platform, also took the opportunity during the debate to attack the federal government’s cap-and-trade climate change legislation, which he said would hurt Virginia manufacturers.

Breathtakingly idiotic mainstream journalist Suzanne Goldenberg weighs in - "Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming Bush tried to hide" | Environment | The Observer

One particularly striking set of images - selected from the 1,000 photographs released - includes views of the Alaskan port of Barrow. One, taken in July 2006, shows sea ice still nestling close to the shore. A second image shows that by the following July the coastal waters were entirely ice-free.