Temperatures tumble in Qld's west - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Several western Queensland centres are expected to break July weather records, with towns 10 and 12 degrees Celsius below average yesterday.

The weather bureau says until 3pm (AEST), towns including Winton, Blackall, Tambo, Cloncurry, Injune, Isisford and Springsure all had recorded their coldest July day.

Charleville, on just 8 degrees Celsius, had its coldest day since records began in 1939.

World Climate Report » Bird News

All of these studies remind us that the birds have been around a very long time, they have experience massive changes in climate over the eons of their existence, they have learned how to adapt to warmer and colder conditions - they are not going to sit idly by and become victims of the global warming.

[Obama administration blows more money on the climate hoax]

Washington, D.C. — Ten projects aimed at developing advanced technologies for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal combustion have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under its Innovations for Existing Plants (IEP) Program.

Valued at approximately $67 million ($15 million in non-federal cost sharing) over three years, the projects are focused on reducing the "energy and efficiency penalties" associated with applying currently available carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies to existing and new power plants.

C3: Newest Research Confirms Greenland Region Roasted With Medieval Winter/Summer Temps 3°C Hotter Than Modern Era

Using sediment cores and two different techniques of analysis, scientists confirm in a peer-reviewed study that Medieval Warming peak sea surface temperatures adjacent to Greenland were some 3°C higher than modern temperatures, both in the winter and summer. No wonder Erik the Red found Greenland so agreeable and attractive.