Cold visitor from south hits Top End - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The tropical Top End is bracing for what is tipped to be its lowest June temperature on record tomorrow morning.

Dear Politician – can I draw your attention to sunspots | ScottishSceptic

There is a widespread suspicion that sunspots could have quite a dramatic impact on our climate with the suggestion that the current behaviour of the solar cycle may be a preclude to a period of exceptionally cold climate. If this were to happen at a time of rising fuel prices at a time when governments had been expecting rising temperatures and so lack preparedness, any severe weather could have far worse a consequence than is needed. The result of such lack of preparedness is bound to be severe hardship to many in Scotland.

Daily Kos: Stop saying everything is because of climate change. Just stop it.

Think before you speak. Please, for the love of FSM, stop trying to link every extreme to climate change.  [Via Watts Up With That]

The Reference Frame: Will Solar Cycle 25 be annihilated?

The odds are about 50% that 2020 will be cooler than 2010.

Heard On Animal Planet | Real Science

“An increasingly small population of Polar Bears. Only 25,000 are left in the world.”