Is climate change slipping out of the frame? | Climate Spectator

In recent years at the Melbourne International Film Festival there has been no shortage of films using climate change and environmental calamity as a theme, or making reference to it in some way. Yet this year, climate change has largely disappeared from the screen. What is going on?

Is it that film makers (and/or Festival programmers) have grown tired of the subject? Is there a concern that new climate change films couldn't match the novelty and imminent danger portrayed in An Inconvenient Truth? Or has the public debate become so complex and divisive that audiences have lost interest? It's hard to tell – but the decline is real and man made.

July Temperatures Have Been Declining Near Austin For 90 Years | Real Science

The closest USHCN station to Austin is at Blanco. July maximum temperatures have declined about five degrees since the 1920s.

The second closest USHCN station is at New Braunfels, which has been cooling since the 1940s.

NCAR scientists hedge their bets: Arctic sea ice may shrink or it may grow - National Climate Change | Examiner.com

Global warming was the catchphrase until the Earth stopped warming for the past decade so the more generic phrase climate change became the term to use. Shrinking Arctic sea ice was also said to be a certainty but a new report hedges scientists’ bets by saying it may not, once again providing a moving target.

Arctic Sea Ice Shrank 20% From 1900-1939 | Real Science