A Game-Changing Study Finds Half Of Global Warming Is Fictitious - Forbes

The new analysis shows U.S. temperatures rose only 0.155 degrees Celsius per decade from 1979 through 2008 according to high-quality surface temperature stations. The 0.155 degree increase is substantially less than is claimed by government temperature overseers, and it is sufficiently moderate to rebut fears of an imminent global warming crisis. The U.S. temperature increase from 1979 through 2008 is even less worrisome when considering that temperatures over the oceans are warming at a slower pace than temperatures over land, and that global temperatures cooled during the 30 years prior to 1979.

Victory of the Denialists! says Robert Manne in The Monthly as his Gods of Science fail « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

Manne’s argument appears to rest entirely on his mistaken belief that “science” is What The Gods Declare it To Be. For Manne, the Gods are “official climate scientists”. Apparently, only those who are anointed by Government funding have access to The Truth — and their declarations must be obeyed. Manne is so completely under their spell, he is incapable of figuring out how anyone could think anything else.

200 “excess” winter deaths in just one UK city

Impoverished residents switch off heat over cash fears. Meanwhile, Obama is doing his best to drive energy prices skyward.

Tucson - Average July high temperature 19th coldest on record