A steamy day at climate talks | Herald Sun

SOME world leaders found it a bit difficult to focus on climate change, the global economic crisis and other international issues yesterday.

US President Barack Obama and French leader Nicolas Sarkozy were momentarily distracted by Brazilian delegate Mayara Tavares, 17.

Most Americans unconvinced humans responsible for climate change, study finds | Environment | guardian.co.uk

In contrast, scientists overwhelmingly believe global warming is caused by human activity

May the coldest on record, Niwa figures show - New Zealand

Niwa senior climate scientist Georgina Griffiths said May "broke records from one end of the country to the other - it was the coldest May on record"...

Temperature of 64 sets chilly record for LI -- Newsday.com

A record chill - in July.

Thanks to a high of only 64, Thursday was the coldest July 9 since the National Weather Service began keeping records at Long Island MacArthur Airport in 1984.

All sides need voices in global warming debate | detnews.com | The Detroit News

What a straw man they've created. How could we ever know if they prevented world temperatures from increasing by two degrees. They could make that claim no matter what climate conditions arise in our lifetimes.

It is beyond amazing that so many seemingly bright people would not be aware -- or would ignore -- the fact that world temperatures rose by only six-tenths of one degree over the entire 20th century when the alarmists say our CO2 emissions drove climate change to some imaginary tipping point.

L’Aquila – G8/MEF and false solutions « It’s Getting Hot In Here

But from a climate perspective, basically, it sucked. This is a blog post full of regret – regret for doing nothing, and letting something crap happen.

I knew that Obama was speaking there, and so I prepared a fun, media-worthy 30 second intervention to yell out during question time from the journalists. But suddenly, when ‘my’ Prime Minister Kevin Rudd finished speaking, the leaders all shook hands and quickly exited the stage, being ushered off out of the building and to ’safety’, away from the press. There was no question time, and no chance for questioning or commenting on what was announced. Reporters could only ‘report’ on the leaders words, and received no alternative criticism.