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According to the Associated Press, “this U.S. summer is what global warming looks like.” The usual disclaimers about weather vs climate are at the link. If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks. Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. …

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What do all the time periods listed above have in common? And here’s more about the last 12 months: The past twelve months were the warmest twelve months in U.S. history, said NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) on Tuesday, in their monthly “State of the Climate” report. Temperatures in the contiguous U.S. during May 2011 – April 2012 broke …

Andrew Sullivan points us to a new campaign by wingnuts intent on making villains out of anybody who believes global warming is real. The billboard series features Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber; Charles Manson, a mass murderer; and Fidel Castro, a tyrant. Other global warming alarmists who may appear on future billboards include Osama bin Laden and James J. Lee …

“This is the opposite of capitalism. It is the opposite of free enterprise and what made America the greatest nation in the world. This bill would be supported by the occupiers, Valerie Jarett, Van Jones, Obama, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Communists, Fascists, Socialists, whatever you want to call it, it’s the government taking over. It’s the government picking the winners …

Meteorologists say they are alarmed. It has been so warm in the United States this year, especially in March, that national records were not just broken, they were deep-fried. Temperatures in the lower 48 states were 8.6 degrees above normal for March and 6 degrees higher than average for the first three months of the year, according to calculations by …

The fourth-warmest winter ever. New York City saved tens of millions on the snow removal they didn’t have to do. Don’t forget to spring forward tonight.

“I’m an amateur paleontologist. I spend a lot of time looking at the Earth’s temperature for a very long time. I’m a lot harder to convince than just looking at a computer model.” – Newt Gingrich, speaking at an Iowa town hall. So now he’s a historian AND a paleontologist! Amazing.

In what’s being seen as a major blow to the fight against climate change, Canada yesterday formally withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol, the greenhouse gas reduction agreement among most of the world’s nations. The United States signed the treaty in 1998, but the GOP has successfully blocked its ratification ever since. Environment Minister Peter Kent said that Canada is invoking …

Which may cause reductions in the winter wheat crop. Story here.

Scientists say about 20,000 walruses showed up at their Alaskan mating grounds three weeks early this year due to “extreme Arctic sea ice melt caused by climate change.” The northern polar ice cap is at its third-smallest size in recorded history.

One scientist says he is “gob-smacked” by the extent of the breakup of a Greenland glacier in just the last two years. Located in north west Greenland, the Petermann Glacier accounts for 6% of the area of the Greenland ice sheet, said Dr Hubbard. It terminates as a floating tongue of ice, measuring around 43 miles (70km) long by 12 …

A massive iceberg approaches the shore of Newfoundland.