The Temperature Of 2012 | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

If 2013 is a record year it will prove nothing except that El Ninos drive temperature upward a little bit. To be sure the world is warming again, and after about 15 years of a temperature hiatus the AGW effect must soon start to be greater than the noise in the system very soon, we must see a sustained warming with the majority of the next five or ten years being at first more than two standard deviations and then increasing above the 1997 – 2011 temperature level.

One record year, especially if it’s just a small increase of less than the errors of measurement would, as I am sure Prof Rahmstorf would agree, not prove anything.

Few environmental bills make it out of the California Legislature - San Jose Mercury News

Environmental groups and their supporters hoping for a new wave of green laws from the Legislature this year ended up with barely a ripple.

From a statewide effort to ban plastic bags, to limits on foam food packaging, most of the top environmental bills of the 2012 session died.

Obama, Democrats will emphasize administration’s track record on energy - The Washington Post

U.S. oil production is higher than it has been since mid-1998. U.S. natural gas production is higher than it has ever been

Guangzhou Moves to Limit New Cars - NYTimes.com

The measures have the potential to help clean up China’s notoriously dirty air and water