By Roger Highfield, Science Editor, UK Telegraph

Here is the climate forecast for the next decade; although global warming will be held in check for a few years, it will come roaring back to send the mercury rising before 2014.  This is the prediction of the first computer model of the global climate designed to make forecasts over a timescale of around a decade, developed by scientists at the Met Office.

Overall warming trend is driven by greenhouse gas emissions

The new model developed at the Met’s Hadley Centre in Exeter, and described in the journal Science, predicts that warming will slow during the next few years but then speed up again, and that at least half of the years after 2009 will be warmer than 1998, the warmest year on record. See full story here.

Icecap Note: this gives them some time in case the warming which stopped or even reversed after 1998 should continue to fail. Plane probably is carrying Al Gore on his mission to save planet earth.

By Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters

Newsweek’s current issue featured a cover story blasting anthropogenic global warming skeptics as “deniers,” and pointing fingers at companies like ExxonMobil as participating in a coordinated misinformation campaign akin to the tobacco industry misleading citizens about the dangers of cigarette smoking.  Shortly after this new issue hit the stands, Al Gore told a forum in Singapore, “the deniers offered a bounty of $10,000 for each article disputing the consensus that people could crank out and get published somewhere.”

This raises an interesting question: Is this a coordinated attack designed to incite anger in citizens that polls show are not as upset about this issue as the left and their media minions?

The reality is that barring additional catastrophic climate events, the public’s interest in spending their own money on this issue is going to thoroughly disappear. As the recent Newsweek article pointed out about its own polling data:  39 percent of those asked say there is “a lot of disagreement among climate scientists” on the basic question of whether the planet is warming; 42 percent say there is a lot of disagreement that human activities are a major cause of global warming. Only 46 percent say the greenhouse effect is being felt today.” As such, the public doesn’t seem to be buying into the hysteria. And, if some major climate event doesn’t happen soon, these public opinion numbers are going to make matters much worse for the alarmists.

As a result, maybe they feel they’re running out of time, especially given the number of scientists who believe the current warming cycle peaked in 1998, and that we have begun a cooling trend.

See full story here.

By Climate Progress

I am reasonably certain that authorities and investigators will find that the extreme heat of the last several days in Minneapolis had caused the expansion joints in the bridge to close completely. When this happens, the pressure building up between the sections of concrete can amount to thousands of pounds per square-inch. Read this story and see comments here.

Icecap note: MSP record highs have been over 100F historically on all but 6 days in July and August 1.  It did not reach 100F this July or August so far. No record highs have been set this July or August thus far.

Actual highs this year in late July and early August 2007 versus daily records. Actual in purple, records in blue.

See the more detailed analysis of Minneapolis July and August temperature trends here.