Cool and foggy weather a headache for California farmers - San Jose Mercury News

A wet spring and cool summer have delayed ripening one to three weeks -- and created nervous farmers, who see a shrinking window of time left to harvest.

The Reference Frame: Paper: Fake random data are better predictors than Mann proxies

Well, this point has been known at least for 7 years but maybe, some of the people suddenly start to take notice when papers with this no-longer-original finding start to appear in conventional peer-reviewed journals. It's sad that science has to go through these irrational political battles when nasty folks and aggressive crackpots of Mann's type - who should spend their lives in jail - may prevent knowledge from disseminating for 7 years. But even in the real world, the lies have short legs, after all. They can't get too far.