Climatologist Dr. Pat Michaels on U.S. heatwave: ‘Global avg temperatures in calendar year 2012 have not been particularly unusual; in fact, they are slightly below the average for last 15 years’

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• Obama sweats global warming: Worries planet in ‘chaos’ 30 years from now ‘because of decisions that we made or decisions that we failed to make’
• BBC Laugher: Less global warming may cause more damage — BBC Radio’s Today program. The BBC’s Roger Harrabin reports: ‘So it is possible that the climate would warm less than predicted, but the effects of the warming at a low level might be greater than predicted’
• We’re still doomed!? ‘Climate change meltdown unlikely but human disaster looms, claims new research’
• Climate Scientist Dr. Judith Curry on new study lowering temperature estimates: Mainstreaming ECS ~ 2 C — ‘It will be very interesting to see how the IPCC AR5 plays this’
• Matt Ridley: New Nature Geoscience paper v significant. ‘If just 1.3C temp rise to 2060, half of which has happened already’
• New paper shows transient climate response less than 2°C
• Bizarre: Forbes writer says Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy can help defeat global warming skeptics
• The Great Warmist Retreat: Financial Times: Global warming likely to be slower than predicted, scientists say
• Catastrophe Delayed: International Team of Scientists: Extreme global warming seen further away than previously thought — due to ‘slowdown’ of warming
• The Great Warmist Retreat: Heat Going Out Of Global Temperature Rises: ‘Global temp increases as a result of increased CO2 levels are likely to be lower than previously thought, an international research team has found’
• UN IPCC Lead Author Hans Von Storch Warns: Climate Scientists Have Been ‘Taking On The Roles Of Medicine Men And Priests’ — Accuses his colleagues of spreading panic
• The New York Times bitches about Obama offering ‘no visible sign of a coherent climate strategy’
• Germany’s Der Spiegel Newspaper Trashes John Cook’s 97% Consensus Survey. Man’s Impact ‘Remains Hotly Disputed’…Only 10% Have Faith In Models
• Fact checking for the New York Times Editorial Board: Editorial claims ‘Climate warnings growing louder.’
• This is crazy — ’Eco-psychiatry’: ‘Nature Deficit Disorder’. ‘Climate refugees’ with PTSD. Solastalgia, or grief for the changes in one’s home environment
• Hillary Clinton Has ‘Hard Hitting’ Climate Change Chat with Harrison Ford: “We are in a race against time,” former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Wednesday night, in an interview with actor Harrison Ford.’We still live in a state of denial. We see it, we experience it, but we have a great deal of difficulty in summoning the political will … to address it’
• U.S. Snow cover sets new record: ‘Snowfall data from NOAA Rutger’s Snow Lab for April is in. It ranked high enough to make the cold season (Nov. 2012 to April 2013) average the HIGHEST in the record (back to 1966)’
• Good news: World’s biggest ice sheets likely more stable than previously believed – upsets previous estimates of melting and sea level
• Episcopal ‘green’ bishop Bud Cederholm conducts service to bless solar panels
• Watch Now: Princeton U. Physicist Dr. Will Happer on CNBC on benefits of rising CO2: ’1,000 ppm of CO2 would be beneficial for the productivity of agriculture’