Global Warming Is Back, Baby

You should give his [Borenstein's] piece a look. I read more uses of the term 'global warming' in one article today than I read in the last three years. It feels like that dark period of anti-science media hysteria in America, those days of 2006, when partisan cranks hijacked science publishing to mobilize votes for politicians they liked.

Heat records, of course, do not mean much.  Anyone who tells you they have 'accurate' temperature records before 1980 is making it up. And a great deal of local temperature data, as anyone living outside cities knows, is someone in their backyard reporting a temperature to a local news station using their home thermometer.

Is this the hottest summer ever?  I can go back to Pennsylvania and sit in front of the Agway in my old hometown and ask, and at least three old guys will tell me plenty of stories about how it was much hotter when they were young.  People need to feel like they live in important times.  That apparently includes AP reporters.

Welcome back, global warming. Mainstream journalism missed you.  Until it gets cold again, then put your climate change trousers back on.  Because we have to blame smaller leaves on you then.

Weather | Extreme June cold snap breaks records | Stuff.co.nz

The extreme cold snap which hit much of the country in early June brought the lowest daytime maximum temperatures on record to parts of Canterbury, and the lowest June maximums to some other areas.

Netherlands: "Disastrous fruit harvest due to an off year, frost damage and bad blooming"

Carbon price floor at risk of being scrapped – Features – ABC Environment (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

IT WAS MEANT TO BE one of the key planks of the government's carbon policy - a floor price of $15 when emissions trading starts in 2015.

But Federal Labor is now secretly negotiating to dump - or dramatically rejig - the proposed three year floor price.

Three separate sources have confirmed for Radio National Breakfast that the government wants to walk away from the price floor.

ETS changes kill appetite for forestry 'carbon farming' - sharechat.co.nz

Changes to the emissions trading scheme will stop investment in one of New Zealand's most important sources of future carbon emissions reduction - forestry "carbon farming", says Carbon Farm chief executive Murray McClintock.

As a provider of forest management services to the fledgling industry, McClintock says "the net result of these changes will be there is very little incentive to supply New Zealand Units into the New Zealand carbon market."