High of 85 sets a new low record - Local - fresnobee.com

The Valley's cool spell broke a record in Fresno on Thursday, bringing the lowest high temperature ever recorded for July 14, the National Weather Service said.

Thursday's high of 85 degrees in Fresno broke the record of 89 set for the date in 1920, weather service meteorologist Jim Dudley said. He attributed it to a low-pressure system.

Climate Skeptics Need To Look Out Their Window | The Energy Collective

The climate skeptics are not looking out their windows. They are not going outside. Are they incapable of feeling the heat, or of noticing the sweat running down their faces? That bump they heard last night was a tree being blown through their roofs by powerful wind storms, but they pretend to not notice the water raining in through the new hole in the roof.

A carbon price reality check | Green Left Weekly

Green Left Weekly has refused to go along with the cheer squad for Gillard’s climate change scam.

timestranscript.com - The chance of climate change being worse than thought is high - Breaking News, New Brunswick, Canada

Only recently have scientists discovered that dramatic climate change can occur so rapidly it is akin to flicking a light switch. At some point (nobody knows exactly where or when) natural processes undergoing change will reach a critical mass triggering the switch.

Professor Smith notes that our planet's climate has been relatively stable for the past 10,000 years, during which we became a species of farmers who rely on good climates, but evidence from many sources (ice layers, tree rings, sediments etc.) tell us that before then the planet's climate was wilder with fluctuations as much as an 18 F change in average global temperature in as little as 10 years! Even in our 'stable' period, in the past 1,000 years the western United States suffered three droughts at least as bad as the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, except they lasted between three and seven times longer. Sudden tipping points have occurred before.