By Patrick Phelvin, UK Telegraph

Holly berries are appearing in the hedgerows, conkers and apples are falling from the trees and mushrooms are springing up in the fields. All the signs are that the briefest of brief English summers is coming to an end and autumn is already upon us.

A growing number of experts believe that this year’s unpredictable weather, which brought spring on early, then deluged Britain with record rainfall, has now taken us straight to autumn - bypassing summer altogether. Adrian Barlow, of English Apples and Pears, said early apple varieties were already being harvested. “Autumn has definitely come earlier this year,” he said. “We expect varieties like Discovery to be in the shops as soon as next week.

A spokesman for the Met Office’s Hadley Centre for Climate Change said it was too early to say whether this year’s conditions were evidence of global warming and they could be dismissed as an irregularity.  We have just had the wettest summer since 1766 so it is unsurprising that this has affected crops,” he said.

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By Bob Prechter, Elliott Wave Theorist

Bob Prechter discussed how social herding seems to be leading to social hysteria over global warming in his June Elliott Wave Theorist. That article brought cries of outrage from some readers. As he puts it in his July Theorist: “Because my interest lay in the herding phenomenon, I gave short shrift to the scientific case for man-made global warming....” Bob goes on to revisit his discussion to clear up any misconceptions. If you care about global warming – one way or the other – you will be interested to read his explanation of why mass fears often prove to be unfounded. Read more here.

Noel Sheppard’s blog

Just how far is all this global warming nonsense going?

Well, on Tuesday, four senators proposed a bill that would create a new federal bureaucracy to oversee the growing multi-billion dollar carbon trading market.
Just what we need, right? Another monolithic bureaucracy, this one designed to help solve a problem the existence of which is greatly questioned.
As Duke University reported Tuesday (emphasis added): Senators Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and John Warner (R-Va.) introduced a bill to minimize negative economic impacts to consumers and industry of the transition to a lower-carbon economy while achieving critical environmental goals. The bill is designed to be incorporated into broader climate change legislation.

The measures would be implemented by a Carbon Market Efficiency Board, which would oversee what is estimated to be a multi-billion dollar emissions permit trading market. The board would operate much like the Federal Reserve Board, providing information on price and low-emission technology investment trends to Congress and the public, and it would employ cost-relief measures when a market correction is needed. For those wondering why the Duke citation, it’s because this proposal went almost totally ignored by conventional media outlets, and the University is connected to the bill: “The plan was developed with analysis provided by the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions of Duke University.”

Why might media have ignored this? Well, one possibility is that regardless of how green the press appear today, the new federal bureaucracy they’re looking to back at this point in time is universal healthcare. On the other hand, maybe they’re concerned that too much coverage of the issue will kill it much as what happened to Hillary Clinton’s healthcare proposal in 1993, especially given some of the similarities.

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