Letter: Scientists could use FoI law safeguards | Science | The Guardian

Another academic is quoted as saying many FoI requests are made in order to find problems and errors – but that is a valid use of the act. It was the misguided attempt to deny ammunition to critics that led to the Climategate fiasco. The resulting independent review found there had been an "ethos of minimal compliance (and at times non-compliance) … with both the letter and the spirit" of the legislation, and that the campaign of requests to the UEA climatic research unit was partly the result of its own "unhelpful" response to earlier requests. It is not clear that much has changed.

Revkin.net - When Tornadoes Were Blamed on Atomic Bombs

Tornado expert Chuck Doswell looks back at the last horrific tornado year, 1953, when media blamed the deadly storm swarms on atmospheric testing of atomic bomb...The media did what the media always do: spread wild speculation about the influence of atomic tests on the weather without regard for its scientific validity. 

Dixon Then and Now: Yes, May's Been Cool, But Not as Cool as 1977 - Dixon, CA Patch

The cold weather in May this year – nearly 20 degrees colder than average on some days – confirms that with weather, the unusual is normal.

Climate change and corruption | Radio Netherlands Worldwide

In addition to corruption, bureaucracy also proves to be rather costly. Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) environmentalist, Corneille Ewango, is critical of the United Nations’ deforestation project known as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation).

“In the DRC, we are wondering why there is still no activity on any of the eight REDD sites in the country”, Ewango says. He adds: “Instead, we are worried that the successive political or technical meetings would exhaust the budget without any work being started on the ground”.