Is it time to retire the term 'global warming'? | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk

...to change the name now to something entirely new would only feed those conspiratorial minds that believe "climate change" is being intentionally used in some quarters in order to usurp "global warming", in the way a corporation might undergo a rebranding to help dissociate itself from a previous mishap.

Help For The Unbelievers | Dick Puddlecote

Just in case belief in climate change is lacking in local government staff, there is help available.
...Some may not be swayed by the acres of cherry-picked sources, of course. But never fear, eager encouragement to draw approved conclusions from the last instance of showery rain has also been included.

Which recent weather changes have you either noticed or heard/read about that could perhaps be attributed to climate change?

What more does one need to go out and get haranguing? And if this lesson is forgotten - woe betide - it's OK because "This is the first in a series".

[Palau president: We don't understand this issue, but based on Fraudster Al's predictions, can we please have some large bags of cash?] - Yahoo! News

Palau President Johnson Toribiong said climate change was the highest priority for smaller Pacific island states which fear rising sea levels caused by higher temperatures could force evacuations.

"We are not very well versed on the scientific aspects of the issue," he told AFP, adding that this meant that leaders wanted to examine the problem from a worst-case scenario.
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"We have to break the talk barrier... it should not stop the small island states from raising their hands and stomping their feet and speaking out loud."

Smith’s Volatility Surmise « Musings from the Chiefio

So did the temperature guys do something like this? I think they did. We had a ‘cold phase’ of the PDO during the period when we had the most thermometers, and had the most volatile ones. That will build in a ‘cold bias’ via the increased volatility to the cold side during that time. Then about 1990-2006, at the peak of the hot side of the PDO, the GHCN (Global Historical Climate Network) thermometers were then reduced in numbers, but also preferentially reduced in volatility. We lost the high cold places and the inland places in California, for example, but kept 4 thermometers. One in San Francisco, and two near the beach down in the Greater L.A. Basin. (Santa Maria, L.A., and San Diego).

So having established a very cold base from high volatility excursions during a cold PDO phase, we now “Lock in our gains” as the hot market starts to cool off by swapping to low volatility thermometers that can never reach that cold a level. We “get small” in trader terms (hold fewer positions) and we “sell volatility”.