Sometimes 'hot' is just 'hot.' Or not | News Cut | Minnesota Public Radio

It is climate change. It isn't climate change.

Welcome to another day of science trying to explain March and the recently expired winter.

"Clearly, this is outstanding and well outside any expectation under an unchanging climate. The magnitude and duration of the events in March certainly indicate that some unusual factors are afoot," Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the independent National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., tells LiveScience today about a March that broke heat records in 7,755 locations in the U.S.

Is that a lot? There are 175,000 observing stations in the country. Still, the webiste says only one other March -- 2007 -- broke more than 7,000 records.

"The Island President" - Mohamed Nasheed - on the Daily Show talks global warming | Jake Schmidt's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

(Former) President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed was on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night talking about global warming, his efforts to get world leaders to rally around finding a solution at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, and the next steps.

Make the climate debate about bills – not bears | Caroline Flint | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The BBC's Frozen Planet might pull in viewing figures of nearly 8 million, but the proportion of the public that ranks climate change as a priority is not just low, but falling. In 2007, 19% of people told Ipsos Mori that the environment was one of the most pressing issues facing the nation. In December 2011, just 4% still thought so. We cannot close our eyes to the realities of the world.