The Reference Frame: RSS AMSU, Jan-Jul: 2011 second coldest in this century

According to RSS AMSU, the first 7 months were the 2nd coldest January-July period in this century so far (second among 11 candidate years).
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Only Jan-Jul 2008 with -0.024 °C managed to be colder than the same period of 2011 among the years of the 21st century. So 2011 is helping to make the preliminary 21st century temperature trend even more negative than before; this is no bulšit, angry Al.

Global Warming: The Critical Decade - YouTube

[82-minute video] Professor Robert Manne and Professor Tim Flannery on the work of the Climate Commission, what our opinion really is on global warming, the political debate in Australia and how it fits in or otherwise with the international viewpoint on climate change.

- Bishop Hill blog - Leaf lines

Nature News has a report of a possible new way of reconstructing past climates - measuring the density of veins in fossil leaves.

Cloud cover theory drives scientists mad

It might not be carbon dioxide but cloud cover that drives global warming.

So says a controversial study that goes against the grain, saying random increases in cloud cover cause climate warming.