Greenland loses ice in fits and starts - environment - 02 August 2012 - New Scientist

The surge of ice loss from Greenland between 2005 and 2010, which drove up sea levels around the world, was not unprecedented. A similar spurt happened in the late 1980s, and possibly decades earlier as well.

What does a climate disaster look like? | Planet3.0

The heat-wave and drought will at some point come to an end and eventually many areas currently experiencing sweltering heat will be hit with a cold spell. It is only a matter of time...When someone makes the ‘new normal’ claim I suspect many people expect that now this extreme weather will return every summer. That this is what a normal summer will look like from now on. What happens when we get a cool summer? What happens when we experience colder than normal temperatures? Won’t people start asking “what happened to this new normal?” Won’t people’s acceptance of climate change will decline?

High Temperatures At Altus, Oklahoma – August 9-14 1936 | Real Science

It has been hot this year too, but nowhere near as hot. The last two days were 111, and 103 is the forecast for today. So why are so many people who have access to the data, lying about the current “record” heatwave?

Why Has This Data Been Deleted From The NASA Web Site? | Real Science

The data resided at this URL before they deleted it.

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data/update/gistemp/graphs/FigD.txt

They also tampered with the graph below last year, before I called them on it. The only way that could have happened is if someone attempted to manually alter the data in the file.

The Reference Frame: Antarctic palm trees: 52M years ago

At any rate, there are many questions that deserve an ever more reliable and accurate answer but if the suggestions by the paper in Nature are right, there are several lessons we may learn, including

Nature is able to make continents up to 100 °C warmer than today even if the CO2 concentration is almost identical to the current concentration
The increase of a continental temperature by 100 °C doesn't necessarily mean a problem – in fact, it may be extremely beneficial for life.