Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Great Britain Wises Up On Global Warming | Unambiguously Ambidextrous
Climate change legislation is so 2008 chic. Just ask British Columbia. But now, scarcely two years later, people the world over are slowly dumping the fashion trend in favour of a healthy dose of skepticism. According to the New York Times, a February poll run by the BBC found that just 26% of Britons now believe in manmade global warming, down from 41% in November.
Lake Havasu City one cool place Sunday
Official temperatures for May 23, in Lake Havasu City broke a lowest high temperature record set on the same day in 2008. This year, the lowest high temperature was 70 degrees compared to 75 degrees in 2008, weather officials said.

National Weather Service Meteorologist Barry Pierce, based in Las Vegas, said the low temperature of 59 degrees was the low on May 23 therefore officially breaking the record of 62 degrees set in 2002.
Push to teach "other side" of global warming heats up in Colorado's Mesa County - The Denver Post
GRAND JUNCTION — A national group that thinks global warming is "junk science" and that teaching it is unnecessarily scaring schoolchildren brought its first petition effort for "balanced education" to Mesa County Schools on Tuesday night.
Death of the Postmodernist Dream - Victor Davis Hanson - National Review Online
Al Gore will continue to channel from his Montecito hilltop the latest green consensus of the international academic community. But fairly or not, neither he nor it will be listened to all that much: He has made one too many millions off his hysteria, and professors have fudged one too many publicly funded studies. The result is that both have lost the people’s trust. A volcano, not hot weather, shut down European air travel. The Sierra Nevada is still buried under snow in late May. At least this year, a wet, cold state of California is not going to blow away, as Energy Secretary Chu warned not long ago.

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