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'In mid July, something happened unexpectedly: the North Pole saw one of its coolest summers since instrumental records have been kept, and sea ice melt also slowed down markedly, proceeding at a rate we normally only see only in the second half of August'

Reality Check: May 2012: 'The US Murder Rate Is on Track to Be Lowest in a Century'

Crime in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: 'In the long term, violent crime in the United States has been in decline since colonial times'

Oct. 2012: U.S. violent crime down for fifth straight year - CNN.com: 'Violent crime in the United States fell for the fifth consecutive year in 2011 with murder, rape and robbery all going down'

This map overlays current ice extent on the 1971 map, with green representing ice present in 2013 that was not present in 1971, and red representing the opposite.'

'Earthquakes may contribute to global warming by releasing greenhouse gas from the ocean floor, a study suggests. Scientists uncovered evidence that a large earthquake in 1945 released more than seven million cubic metres of methane into the North Arabian Sea.'

Excerpt: 'At the most, about 700 papers written over 20 years that endorse AGW. And, as we have already seen, many of these do not back up Cook’s assertion that human activity is very likely causing most of the current GW...Of course, the Cook survey was never intended to be a serious piece of work, but simply a PR stunt. It was designed for headlines, such as these from Reuters.'...these papers look at the impact of global warming, or potential impact of any future warming...engineers looking into Carbon Capture technology are not qualified to say what is causing global warming. Furthermore, having been given grants for their research, they are hardly likely to turn around and say AGW is a non-existent problem...The authors of the vast majority of these papers are neither qualified to comment on the causes of past global warming, or how much warming might occur in future. To claim otherwise is totally misleading... Of course, the Cook survey was never intended to be a serious piece of work, but simply a PR stunt. It was designed for headlines, such as these from Reuters.'

Der Spiegel 'then writes that Oslo economist Halvard Buhaug is quoted saying that Hsiang and his team 'ignored data'. Worse, Buhang says that the 'authors used data that produced the strongest results.'

Jochem Marotzke, Director of the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg was also highly critical of Hsiang’s methodology, saying that alternative explanations were “wiped off the table” in order to give climate fluctuations maximum power as an explanation. Spiegel writes: All in all, Marotzke says that he is “skeptical when it comes to the robustness of the results'.

UN IPCC Lead Author & professor Richard Tol of University of Sussex also has expressed 'massive criticism' on the Hsiang paper, saying that the authors confused weather as climate. Spiegel writes: Most of the Hsiang-Team’s evaluated studies had to do with weather phenomena, Tol believes. ‘Forecasts on the conflict-enhancing effect of future climate was therefore strongly exaggerated’.'

Morano: 'If you are a scientist, engineer or bureaucrat and you don't buy the party line of a man-made climate crisis, this is a message you better keep your mouth shut or your career is going to be impacted.'

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R.-Calif.) , who told Politico: 'If anything, [CO2] helps people’s health by making plants grow and making more food available.'

vs. 

September 2009 comment from Stephen Schneider: '

There’s no such thing as a safe level [of CO2].'

July in the USA ends on a frigid note as record cold outpaces warmth nearly 10 to 1

71% Of The US Below Normal Temperature in 2013

South America in massive deep freeze

Flashback: UN IPCC Official Edenhofer: ‘We Redistribute World’s Wealth By Climate Policy’ edenhofer@pik-potsdam.de

'Day 214 was 220,000 sq km higher than the previous record which occurred in 2010). And it was 970,000 sq km higher than the 30 year mean'

BBC: Rise in violence 'linked to climate change' -- 'Changes in temperature or rainfall correlated with a rise in assaults, rapes and murders' -- They report a 'substantial' correlation between climate and conflict. Their examples include an increase in domestic violence in India during recent droughts, and a spike in assaults, rapes and murders during heatwaves in the US'

shsiang@berkeley.edu

Hsiang holds 'a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University'

The Canadian National Newspaper: Over 4.5 Billion people could die from Global Warming-related causes by 2012

'But unless poor people don’t need electricity at night or when the wind isn’t blowing, and unless they can afford high-priced electricity sources like wind and solar (which only exist in developed countries where they are significantly subsidized), then fossil fuels are not bypassable like land lines were.'

Real Science Rebuttal: 'No actual science is permitted in the Obama administration. There is not one shred of evidence that killing raptors and bats will improve the climate. Alaska has cooled more than two degrees since the turn of the century.'

Levant of Canada's Sun News: 'Does America not need 2,000 more jobs? And the laughable claim that only 50 or 100 maintenance and operating jobs would be permanent, again, if that's right, so what?  That's 50 or 100 more jobs than Obama has created, with billions of wasted dollars. And the pipeline would be the number one property tax payer in most of the counties through which is passed. It would support millions of Americans indirectly by contributing to local governments'

'In citing the 50-jobs number, though, the president was using the smallest possible number attached to the pipeline project. The estimate he used likely refers to a State Department finding that -- after the pipeline is built -- it would take roughly 50 people to maintain it. But the comment ignores the rest of the State Department report that estimates the project would create nearly 4,000 annual construction jobs -- and potentially "support" an annual 42,000 jobs.'

'If only the protesters would have used more carbon based fuels instead of walking, perhaps the turnout would have been more impressive,' said Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot. 'The Gore Effect has struck these poor hapless protesters twice — back in February and now again in July.' Organizers used more than 130 buses used to bring in thousands of protesters to march on the White House in February.'

Flashback: NASA’s James Hansen, a muse to Eco-Terrorists?! Morano on Fox News: ‘NASA’s resident ex-con James Hansen is inspiring these people to potential acts of eco-terrorism’