Temperature records to be made public - Telegraph

The UK Met Office is leading the project to create a new set of temperature records from around the world.

The move is being seen as a response to criticism by global warming sceptics of the withholding of data used in climate change research.

Climate change vanishes

One of the inexplicable stories (or non-stories) of the summer is the disappearance of climate change from the political agenda. While many Canadians were sweltering, swatting super-sized mosquitoes, fighting fires, or up to their axles in floodwater, there was nothing but radio silence on the nation's political channel.

Instead of green action, we got static over the census, the gun registry, the prime minister's imperial ways, the imaginary opposition "coalition" and the latest deadlocked polls which look a lot like the previous deadlocked polls. This is busy work, not the serious business of salvaging a warming planet.

On the other hand, politicians are keenly attuned to public concern. Maybe their complacency reflects ours. Maybe we secretly like global warming. It has been a splendid summer for those lucky enough to live near a cool, relatively clean body of water. One Toronto tabloid heralded our "weird, wacky but wonderful" summer, and, politics aside, it has been a relief after the cooler summers of recent years.