Parishes, Catholic schools urged to show film on climate change : News Headlines - Catholic Culture

The Catholic Coalition on Climate Change “and our partners,” which include the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Relief Services, and Catholic Charities USA, are inviting Catholic parishes, colleges, and schools to show Sun Come Up on or before October 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi.

The Oscar-nominated documentary, according to its web site, “shows the human face of climate change. The film follows the relocation of the Carteret Islanders, a community living on a remote island chain in the South Pacific Ocean, and now, some of the world’s first environmental refugees.”

The Sounds Of Silence On Science: The Country Is On Fire, But Obama Isn't | ThinkProgress

This may be the President’s idea of an “All-Hands-On-Deck Response” but it is also a “No-Brains-On-Deck Response.”

[August 10, 2012] Current Fire Statistics | Real Science

it appears that the total fire count this year in the US will likely finish the lowest since at least 2003.

Just How Dense Is Joe Romm? | Real Science

Summer temperatures in Arizona peaked in 1896, and recent summers have been among the coolest on record.

Greenland melt update by @climate_ice (Jason Box):...

[Revkin] Other factors than warming that could have temporarily lowered Greenland ice reflectivity include the effect of major volcanic eruptions or wild fires. The latter I speculated here. The former has a noteworthy cooling effect but could conceivably still blanket the ice sheet with low reflectivity soot.

Update: Admittedly, Greenland temperature variability is high and there is evidence during the late Medieval Warm Period of a warm period in year 1150, that is 862 years before present (Kobashi et al. 2011).