Church of England: Do as we say, not as we do?

The running costs of the Church of England’s 113 bishops increased by £2 million, or 13.5 per cent, to £16 million last year at a time when the Church has been telling the nation to embrace a more lowly life.

The bishops spent £1.3 million on travel in a period when the Church’s own assets dropped from £5.67 billion to £4.36 billion during the credit crunch.
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The Bishop of London, the Right Rev Richard Chartres, who runs the “Shrinking the Footprint” campaign on climate change, claimed the highest chauffeur costs, of £27,264. He also had the second-highest fuel bill of £3,149.

Nebraska: So far, it's been Octobrrr

If it gives you any comfort, you've been through the coldest start to October on record.

Regional offices of the National Weather Service crunched the numbers Thursday. They found that the combined average daytime-nighttime temperature in the first 14 days of the month was an astonishing 12 to 15 degrees below normal.
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Area climatologists say they've heard all the jokes about global warming.

“Where's global warming? It's out there,” said Ken Dewey, applied climatologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. “We just happen to be the exception to the rule.”

The oceans, he noted, are the warmest they've been in recorded history. And September, globally, was the United States' second-warmest on record and Canada's warmest.

This despite Nebraska and Iowa seeing not only record cold in October, but one of the coolest summers on record.

“It's not called Nebraska warming,” Dewey said. “It's called global warming.”

Global warming's rocky road to Copenhagen

Imagine what would happen if they addressed reality from the podium and said something like this:

"Science is a funny thing, even if global warming is not. This year has brought information to us that can call into question some of the courses of action we have espoused, and even some of the premises that have underlain so many of our beliefs and ideals.

"We need to say openly that the science isn't settled..."

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