Newspaper clippings costing millions | thetelegraph.com.au

THE federal government is splurging close to $15 million a year - or about $40,000 daily - to monitor the media, with some agencies spending close to $1 million to supply Gillard ministers and staff with newspaper clippings.
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And the federal department overseeing the carbon tax - Climate Change - will spend $1.35 million on news clippings through to January 2014.

Despite budgetary pressures, a lucrative Canberra industry has sprung up to ensure senior public servants and their political masters are fed a daily diet of relevant news items. Government spin doctors employed by federal agencies said they were "amazed" by the size of their public relations budgets.

What does precipitation say about heat flow? « Musings from the Chiefio

Best guess I’d give is ‘until about 2020′, then I think we will just start getting really cold as the planet adjusts to the low solar regime without our ocean heat sink to warm us....on the ‘big lumps’ I think I’ve got a bit of clue. It’s the rains and snows that dominate. IFF CO2 does anything, it can cause a very trivial fractional percent change in total precipitation. That will be completely swamped by the natural variations from solar cycling, ocean oscillations, seasonal cycling, and in the very long term, Milankovitch Cycles.

We can see that right now as globally we’ve got a lot of excess rains and snows from the recent turn of the sun making the upper air quite cold; cranking up the heat flow off planet and driving precipitation via a cooling of the ‘cold pole’. CO2 did nothing to stop it, nor to enhance it in prior years. Just came along for the ride, like the rest of us…