UPDATE 1-China sees early frost in parts of northeast soy area

BEIJING, Aug 31 - The China Meteorological Administration forecasts early frost in the next 10 days in the northern parts of Heilongjiang province, the country's top soy area and also a major corn growing area.
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A cold spring had delayed planting of the soy and corn crop, which meant the harvest could also be delayed, leaving them at risk of damage from early frost.

Winter records set in Perth

A winter record was also set with the mean minimum temperature for the three months hitting 6.4C.

The city has also recorded a record number of cold nights for the year to date with 39 nights when temperatures dropped below 5C.

Pour more cold water on the IPCC - The Globe and Mail

Some shabby half-truths, passed off as climate science, have tested the public's confidence. A new review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contains some smart institutional reforms, but this response is too timid if the IPCC is to bulletproof itself from the small group of dissenters that attack it daily. Given what's at stake, the IPCC needs to be unassailable.

Climategate Redux: Scientific American

some in the climate-skeptic camp would have us believe that the whole climate science community, involving hundreds of scientists and all their graduate students and technicians, have been falsifying data and no one, not even a single student or technician, has come forward with a substantive and actionable complaint.