Government report says don't blame global warming for freak of nature 2012 US drought

[Seth Borenstein] WASHINGTON - Last year's huge drought was a freak of nature that wasn't caused by man-made global warming, a new federal science study finds.

AP’s Seth Borenstein in July 2012: This U.S. summer is ‘what global warming looks like’ — ‘Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges’ | Climate Depot

'And a powerful freak wind storm called a derecho. These are the kinds of extremes climate scientists have predicted will come with climate change, although it's far too early to say that is the cause' -- UN IPCC's John Christy Counters: 'The guilty party in my view is Mother Nature.'

Global Warming Not Significant in 2012 Drought: Report | Climate Central

To find that global warming signal in a particular summer in the Central Great Plains, Seager said, “You’re looking for a tree within a forest of natural variability.”

Climate change curriculum for American kids watered down | Grist

Perhaps most disheartening, one notorious group of climate deniers doesn’t hate the standards.

A postcard from warmer climes. | Pointman's

[Warmist propaganda outlets are] shouting evermore louder to get people’s attention back again but all that’s happening is they’re looking more and more extreme, which brings me round quite nicely to what I think is the change in tenor of the skeptic blogs.

Mostly, they’re laughing at the alarmists, or to put it more bluntly, taking the piss out of them. Sure, the usual bedrock stream of articles debunking the Manny Mouse science is there but increasingly there’s a feeling of flogging a dead horse – the science is so laughably crap, what the hell, you might as well have a lark and poke some fun at it. It’s not exactly us occupying the higher moral high ground but then they’re in such a shambolic situation, it’s in some ways a little bit more humane. However, finish up that beer, stub out that smoke, and let’s get back to work. We will have to harden our hearts and finish them off in the end.

At some point, that magic sea change in perception has come about, and increasingly they’re the ones not being taken seriously, rather than us skeptics. This new world is going to take a bit of getting used to, I can tell you.