£2bn 'green bank' plan to be at heart of Darling's Budget - UK Politics, UK - The Independent

A £2bn "green bank" that finances environmentally friendly transport and energy projects will be at the heart of Alistair Darling's Budget.

MAX – MIN vs MEAN _ Well it is a sort of answer « Musings from the Chiefio

So we have 139 countries missing MIN and MAX (and one presumes 11 of those have no MIN, MAX and MEAN, leaving 128 as “With Mean, no min/max” and presumably 222 – 128 = 94 as having a MIN, MAX and MEAN (though it isn’t that clean).

Going to be a bit hard to compare those MAX – MIN / 2 records with the MEANS for a whole lot of countries… But then I compared the number of MIN / MAX records to the number of MEAN records when they all DO exist. Even for the best reported countries they diverge. A LOT.

UK due hottest summer ever predicts Positive Weather Solutions | Mail Online

PWS said summer 2010 will break records as El Nino, which warms the Pacific Ocean, combines with the effects of the Atlantic jet stream weather pattern and the Azores high pressure region.

C3: Climate Change In Siberia: Researchers Discover That It Was More Extreme In Past Despite Low CO2 Levels

As scientists have discovered and documented in peer-reviewed research, past climate change was quite extreme without any involvement from CO2. The recent research done in Siberia is a case in point.