The Real China - By Jonah Goldberg - The Corner - National Review Online

Yeah, when Friedman talks about the glittering, space age stuff it reminded me of Henry Wallace (FDR’s VP, former editor of The New Republic) and his visit to the Soviet Union, where he found one penal camp after another to be idyllic and often so much more impressive than the way we did things back in the U.S.

Global Warming- [Junk] Science - The New York Times

[Did Revkin write this?] In the meantime, recent fluctuations in temperature have intensified the public debate over how urgently to respond. A string of large snowstorms in the Washington area and freezing weather in Florida in the winter of 2009-2010 were seized on by climate change skeptics. But the combination of flooding, heat waves and droughts in the summer were taken by most researchers trained in climate analysis as evidence to show that weather extremes are getting worse.
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A growing body of scientific evidence indicates that since 1950, the world's climate has been warming, primarily as a result of emissions from unfettered burning of fossil fuels and the razing of tropical forests. Such activity adds to the atmosphere's invisible blanket of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping "greenhouse" gases. Recent research has shown that methane, which flows from landfills, livestock and oil and gas facilities, is a close second to carbon dioxide in impact on the atmosphere.

That conclusion has emerged through a broad body of analysis in fields as disparate as glaciology, the study of glacial formations, and palynology, the study of the distribution of pollen grains in lake mud. It is based on a host of assessments by the world's leading organizations of climate and earth scientists.  [How, exactly, can you look at glaciers or pollen grains and conclude that CO2 is dangerously heating the planet?]

In the last several years, the scientific case that the rising human influence on climate could become disruptive has become particularly robust.

Marin's cool summer gives way to warming fall - Marin Independent Journal

"The summer was very, very cold," said Austin Cross, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. "Now it looks like our Indian summer is coming."

Just how cold was the summer?

San Rafael chalked up an average summer temperature of 64.5 degrees, the coldest for the period since record-keeping began in 1947, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center.