Sydney records lowest June temperature since 1949 | The Australian

SYDNEY recorded its coldest June morning since 1949 and Melbourne experienced its lowest maximum in a decade in recent days.

But weather experts say the cold snap cannot be used as evidence against global warming.

Bureau of Meteorology climatologist Agata Imielska said climate-change deniers should not be "cherry-picking information" but should look at all the facts.

"If you have one day that has been quite cold -- even the coldest on record -- but then the rest of the days, the remaining 364 days, have all been above average, you're really skewing information and not looking at the bigger picture," she said.

Corn Futures Surge Most in Nine Months as U.S. Acreage Drops - BusinessWeek

Farmers sowed 87.872 million acres (35.6 million hectares), below a prior government forecast, as wet, cold weather last month reduced plantings, the Department of Agriculture said today in a report. Inventories on June 1 were 4.31 billion bushels. Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg projected 4.624 billion.

“Planted acreage is 1.3 million acres less than people were expecting,” said David Smoldt, the vice president of operations at FCStone LLC in West Des Moines, Iowa. “Smaller stocks on June 1 were a big surprise,” signaling livestock and ethanol producers used more of last’s year lower-quality crop, he said.

No Frakking Consensus: IPCC Says Climate Prediction Impossible

On page 85 of their excellent book, Taken By Storm: the Troubled Science, Policy, and Politics of Global Warming, Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick call our attention to an astonishing line in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2001 Assessment Report:

The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible. [bold added]

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Are “Green” Consumers Dumb Enought to Buy This? Probably

What a great idea! Redefine green as “not doing the basic job you are paying me to do.” This is amazing chutzpah, and at some level I tip my hat to them. Spot a market inefficiency — in this case the incredible gullibility of the greens — and exploit it.