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Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Won't Match Last Year's Record Low

"Even if this year ends up being the sixth- or seventh-lowest extent, what matters is that the 10 lowest extents recorded have happened during the last 10 years," said Walt Meier, a glaciologist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "The long-term trend is strongly downward."
...The record, which began in November 1978, shows an overall downward trend of 14.1 percent per decade in the size of the minimum summer extent, a decline that accelerated after 2007.

Europe cash coffee: Vietnam new crop premiums dip | Business Recorder

Analysts and traders said they expect the 2013/14 crop to exceed Vietnam's record 27 million 60-kg bags in 2011/12

Labor had no carbon tax mandate: Rudd - Yahoo!7

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has admitted Labor did not have a mandate from voters to introduce a carbon tax.

The Daily Caller » Global warming skeptics fire back at Al Gore » Print

“Al Gore has shown once again why he is seldom let out of his box without adequate adult supervision,” said Myron Ebell, director of global warming and international environmental policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “When he is losing the debate, Gore has always resorted to nasty name calling, so this is just the latest embarrassing instance.”