A Drought Of U.S. Leadership - Investors.com

Leadership: As drought destroys the U.S. corn crop and drives prices skyward, the U.S. now buys corn from Brazil and faces the end of its prized role as the world's top food supplier. It's time to scrap the ethanol mandate.

Smoking Gun That Hansen’s Adjustments And The Hockey Stick Are Garbage | Real Science

This is an amazing story. Hansen made incorrect adjustments to the data. Mann looked at the incorrect adjustments and decided to throw out the tree ring data – because they didn’t match the incorrect adjustments. Then Mann replaced the correct tree ring data with the incorrect adjusted data - based on the belief that a rise from 318 to 319 PPM CO2 had somehow corrupted the trees ability to function properly.

Western Australia - Big freeze continues as Jandakot hits -4C

The big chill follows the coldest night for two years when Perth dropped to 0.4C and Jandakot recorded -1.6C.

Little Ice Age began with a bang | The Next Grand Minimum

I have alway had this nagging suspicion that when sun spots are lowest the volcanic activity is higher, but have not found the data to confirm my suspicions.This paper reported on in Science News may prompt me to redouble my effort.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Good news: A sharp downturn in global wind turbine orders

Global orders for wind turbines are down by 30% during the first half of this year. The largest wind turbines companies are fighting for survival, as governments have begun to cut the generous subsidies on which the manufacturers are totally dependent: