[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OK,...Everyone have a great 4th.....

Meanwhile the Sun is up to some major changes it appears.

[Pollster1]

“If we are right, this could be the last solar maximum we’ll see for a few decades . . . That would affect everything from space exploration to Earth’s climate.”

Don't be silly. Al Gore assured me that the sun doesn't affect the earth's temperature, and he's a Nobel Prize winner - the same recognition that Obama himself earned - so he must be right.

[21twelve]

Regime change? I’ll gladly wear a few more sweaters if it means Obama is out of office!

On a more serious note - if one looks at the long-term cycles of the interglacial warm periods - we are past due (cycle wise) for another REAL ice age.

[justa-hairyape]

Some of us are going to see the start of the next mini-Ice Age. My guess is the reason the MSM is going hyperbolic about the warm temps in the US, is that they want to cover up the real fact that it is actually colder over much of the planet. The MSM is also falsely reporting warmth in the US right now. See this article below.

More on the 2012 US heat wave – not so hot if you look around at other locations

June actually ended up cooler than the normal in BOS (Boston) (-1.25F) and even NYC (Central Park -0.4F) and southeast despite the heat blast the end of the month (-2.0F in Jacksonville). Dulles despite the late month heat wave was SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL (-0.6F) while DCA nearer the White House and Congress was (+1.1F) and Atlanta despite the all time record was just +0.1F.

Here is reality, not MSM fantasy land.

[Salamander]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM5578DtnuI

[Strategerist]

And of course the sunspot index is very high right now, and the sun is quite active.

Article is from today but surreally ignores solar data since 2008....