What have the Romans ever done for us? | Australian Climate Madness

Just as we must get rid of the Medieval Warm Period, the inconvenient Roman Warm Period must also be dealt with, and here's a novel way of doing it: claim that it was man-made. In a single stroke, the RWP is scrubbed from the list of "natural warmings" that the planet has experienced in recent history, helping the Cause by demonstrating that it too was anthropogenic.

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Still Another Daily Record – 23rd for 2012 | sunshine hours

This is the 23rd daily record and 12th day in a row that is a record for the day.

The American West's hotter, drier future - latimes.com

...climate change is working against us, and ... it will probably make the record-breaking fires of 2012 a normal Western summer in the not-too-distant future.

Alyson Kenward is a scientist and analyst at Climate Central, which sponsored the study on Forest Service fire data in the West.

Flashback: Fewest Forest Fires On Record | Real Science

There have been 47,437 forest fires this year. That is the smallest YTD total since the National Interagency Fire Center started tracking it in 2003. It is almost 25% below the mean and about one fourth of the 1938 total.