July in Gore's home town: Very cool, with *more* tick-borne diseases

“We’re on track for the fourth-coolest July on record,” National Weather Service meteorologist Bobby Boyd in Nashville said the day before the month ended.
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“This year seems to be a pretty buggy year,” said Dr. Frank Hale, an entomologist with the UT Agricultural Extension.
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Ticks are also more plentiful this summer, and Hale said there have been more cases of tick-borne diseases, including at least two deaths involving children.

Keep the champagne on ice regarding global warming

I am particularly concerned about long term trends regarding Arctic ice myself, and the melting of permafrost in the northern latitudes.

Are sunspots changing and will that take us to an Ice Age?

The big story here is not the characteristics of sunspots changing but rather the changing tenor of the professional scientific community to stand up for true scientific debate that has been suppressed for so long. Far too long, in my opinion.
Will you be able to tell your great-grandchildren that you remember liquid water on the surface of the Earth in winter and weren't dead set on cooling the planet?

Democrats have no place to hide from angry public

As the Democrats leave Washington on their August holiday, many are finding that there have no places to hide from people in their districts who are livid over the Stimulus program, Cap and Trade and what they are trying to do to health care in America.

Obamanomics equals disaster for America - VIEWPOINTS - The News Herald

Now we have another hoax on the horizon called the cap and trade bill. In my view this so-called energy bill will totally cripple American business to the point we will no longer be competitive in a global market. It’s obvious to me that we need to protect our environment. However, I do not believe we need to destroy our economy to do so.

Crew Log 51 - Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories

At our last stop in Herschel Island, we met a fisherman who told us the ice was late receding this year, "perhaps later than the last five years." We'll be looking at ice reports with more than passing interest this weekend and early next week.