New Light Shed on North Pole Ice Trends - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

The bottom line, expressed here before, is that no one should expect to find much broad meaning in short-term variability in Arctic sea ice — in one direction or the other. If there is a death spiral, expect a lot of loop the loops along the way.

Global warming: How skeptics can win every battle but lose the war

Although skeptics have had the best of the past three months, the establishment is now bringing its vastly more powerful apparatus to bear and I think most of the rest of this year will leave skeptics scratching their heads and wondering what went wrong.

The Hockey Schtick: US Temperature Extremes Index Plunges Below 99 Year Mean