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Peter Gleick Makes Progress… by Hoping People Die | Watts Up With That?

That’s right. Peter Gleick thinks three people dying would be a “win.” The only other winning option to him is for them to agree with him. He is, quite literally, suggesting it would be good if people who don’t agree with him died of hypothermia.

Reid blames climate change: 'West is burning' | Las Vegas Review-Journal

There seems to be conflicting information about wildfires and the conditions that are causing them.
Numbers compiled by the National Interagency Fire Center indicate there have been fewer wildfires this year than in recent years.
Through Wednesday, there have been 25,370 wildland fires that have burned 2.057 million acres, according to the center, which coordinates federal agency responses to the blazes from its base in Boise, Idaho.
Through the same date last year, there were 32,920 fires that burned 3.7 million acres.
In 2011, there were 40,736 wildfires through July 17, burning 5.9 million acres.
Reid has seen different data, his spokeswoman Kristen Orthman said Wednesday evening.

- Bishop Hill blog - David Kennedy on climate sensitivity

"..not any new evidence that makes us think differently about climate sensitivity"? Now that is a brazen statement if ever I saw one.

Hundreds of extra deaths as heatwave takes hold | The Times

Research conducted for The Times by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) estimated the death toll for the first nine days of the heatwave as between 540 and 760 people in England alone.  [So what's the status of the 220 people who are estimated to either be dead or not dead?  What are their names?]