"Natural Disasters Will Accelerate" With Climate Change: Bill Clinton : TreeHugger

Clinton noted how global warming is set to increase the frequency of natural disasters like floods, heatwaves, and hurricanes. He said that "the incidence of economically devastating natural disasters will accelerate around the world with the changing of the climate," which is right on the mark.

Meg Whitman would ‘probably’ veto global-warming law if she were California governor today

The former eBay CEO also said that had she been governor in 2006, she would have signed the state’s landmark global-warming bill — but, she added, if it were on her desk as governor today, she’d “probably” veto it.

Why the difference? When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed AB 32 four years ago, she noted, unemployment wasn’t nearly as high as it is today.

Right Has Field Day With New 'Global Warming' Term | The Atlantic Wire

New Term Just as 'Slippery' as 'Climate Change' finds The American Spectator's Chris Horner. "Also like 'climate change' this trades off the risible 'at this rate!' hysteria on which the movement dined out during its 'cooling' and 'warming' heyday, in return for the claimed ability to point to everything as its evidence (like many other faiths and doomsday cults)."

New Record Low Temp Set Today - Opinion 250 - News for Northern and Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada

The old record was minus 3.9 set in 1971, and the temperature was in the minus 6 area this morning. Steele says the official mark won’t be clear for an hour or so, but it is definitely a new record for today.

Southern California's summer to end with a chill: It was the coldest in decades | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times

Patzert said it’s one of the coolest summers in decades.

Jamie Meier, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Oxnard, said that LAX tied the coldest average temperature for August on record, going back to 1944.

The Santa Barbara airport also broke a record for coolest August, she said. The weather service is predicting a La Nina cycle that could mean drier-than-normal conditions. That isn’t always the case during La Nina, said Meier. But more often than not it is, she said.

Thoughout the summer, communities across Southern California set record low temperatures, notably Los Angeles International Airport and other coastal areas.