Brazil June coffee frost hits up to 40% of Parana farms

FROST that hit coffee areas in Brazil's Parana state late last month reached 30 to 40% of farms, the agriculture secretariat said yesterday, but few sustained damage serious enough to put a major dent in output.

A fat tale | The Rational Optimist…

NIc has found that the IPCC did much the same to most of the other estimates of climate sensitivity, which rely mostly on models. This mistake is central to the IPCC's case, not peripheral. It undermines the credibility of the case for urgent action against climate change and strongly supports the argument that, other things being equal, CO2 doubling will not cause more than a mild and net beneficial warming.

There has been no global warming since 1998 – Telegraph Blogs

Why then am I mentioning it now? W-e-l-l, because just as ze war is to the Germans, Chappaquiddick is to the Kennedy family and that Portland masseuse incident to Al Gore, so the recent lack of warming is to the, er, Warmists. They hate it. It’s an affront to everything they believe in. Damn it, if the world isn’t warming with the alacrity they’d prefer, how are they going to keep the funding gravy train going, and how are they going to persuade an increasingly sceptical populace that the “science” is “settled”, the debate over and the time for action is now? That’s why they can’t reminded of the truth often enough. It’s like salting the slugs that are ruining your garden: necessary, but also kind of fun too.

Connection: 'Climate change scam' has nothing to do with science

An author and speaker on environmentalism is exposing what he refers to as the "dark side" of the movement, linking it to ancient pagan religions.

A phony New Age environmentalism religion has been foisted upon the American people, claims Rob Roselli, a civil engineer and student of religion and environmentalism. He tells OneNewsNow this movement has everything to do with worshipping the earth. The roots of modern environmentalism, he argues, can be found in Greek mythology's goddess, Gaia, and the assumption that people need to be curtailed.