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Climate Change Causing Wildlife Crisis–Channel 4 News | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

In the Farne Islands, off the coast of Northumberland, I saw first-hand the effects of the last 12 months of extreme weather. The lengthy harsh winter, with the coldest March on record for 50 years, saw the worst seabird wrecks for decades, with thousands of dead malnourished puffins and shags washed up on shore.

USCRN April 2013 – 41 to 9 ratio of coldest Aprils to Warmest April | sunshine hours

The USCRN is a new ‘state of the art’ United States Climate Reference Network.
There are 222 stations of which 220 have data for April 2013. Of those 222, only 137 have 5 or more years of data. I’ll be using the 137 list.
41 of those 137 had April 2013 as the coldest April.
9 of those 137 had April 2013 as the warmest April.

Joe Bastardi: Cooling In The Future Shaping Up To Be “Worse Than We Thought”

At the very least I expect temperatures by 2030 to return to where they were in the late 1970s, which was the end of the last cold PDO phase and, by the way, the start of the satellite era: the most objective form of measurements.

Is the cooling worse than I thought? We are going to find out in the coming decades.

Combet sweats in hot climate, abusing everyone but himself | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The Climate Change Minister sounds under pressure:

Senior cabinet minister Greg Combet has attacked some of his Labor Party colleagues as ‘’whingers’’ in an angry and expletive-laden speech to supporters and donors…

A step in the right direction? Major shift in the UK’s government attitude to climate change | Watts Up With That?

I find it very surprising that there has been so little reaction to a member of the Prime Minister’s Parliamentary Advisory Board using the phrases “the case for global warming was far from clear-cut.” and “built into climate models.” in the UK national press.