Climate Change: an emetic fallacy – Telegraph Blogs

You’d need to be very set in your belief system indeed to come away from one of Professor Ian Plimer’s feisty, funny engaging lectures and not be convinced that the whole idea of AGW is a complete crock. Same goes for Professor Nils Axel Morner’s hilarious, crazy-Swede lecture on his experiences measuring sea-level rises in the Maldives (there hasn’t been any: whatever the Maldives president and his underwater cabinet tell you). Same also goes for Prof Svensmark: really his cosmic ray theory is gloriously compelling.

In other words there is still an enormous amount of uncertainty out there about the chaotic system which causes climate. But here’s the rub: global policy makers are acting as if there isn’t.

Good year for British wine as hot weather helps harvest - Telegraph

British winemakers are expecting a bumper harvest this year following an unseasonably hot start to summer.

Local grape growers consider state of emergency | KSBY.com | San Luis Obispo, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, Paso Robles

Local vineyard owners heard from the state today about possibly declaring a state of emergency after some damaging temperatures.

An April frost brought hail and freezing rain two nights in a row to the Paso Robles area.

Thousands of acres lost grape buds, which could mean 50 percent of this year's crop.