August 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: +0.51 deg. C « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

While the global-average lower tropospheric temperature remained high, +0.51 deg. C in August, 2010, monitoring of the daily Aqua Ch.5 data at the Discover web site suggests that the cooling of global average sea surface temperatures that started several months ago is now causing the troposphere to cool as well.

Cold beats climate change protest - Scotsman.com

The environmental pressure group said freezing conditions and strong winds forced campaigners on board the Stena Don rig to abandon their protest action against the drilling plans of Edinburgh-based Cairn Energy.

Science's policy clout diminished, but oil risk looms large

The message content hypothesis is important because it directly addresses problems in current politics: Scientists and government experts report research findings, which policy makers dispute and sometimes vote as 'false' or 'junk science'. Charges of junk science have come from many groups, both left and right, and have been directed at scientific findings in many areas—climate change, nuclear power, nuclear waste storage, genetic engineering, high-power electric transmission lines, pesticides, and oil drilling.

Still the Skeptical Environmentalist « John Stossel

The bottom line: Bjorn Lomborg has not "defected" from the skeptic camp. The environmentalists just don't pay close attention.