I haven't written one of these Climate Cuttings posts since before Christmas, but there have been quite a few interesting stories around this week, which I thought I could usefully point people to.
Anthony Watts caught the US Environmental Protection Agency suppressing dissenting voices on global warming.
Remember all those stories about climate change refugees flooding the developed world? It's now admitted that that they were exaggerated.
The UK's Meteorological Office has had its climate change research budget slashed.
The US Climate Change bill, seen by all outside the green fringe as howling mad, looked likely to stumble in the House of Representatives, with Democrats admitting they needed more support.
Global sea ice levels remain around their long-term average. Forecasters are saying the September minimum will be in line with last year.
The Antarctic ice shelf also seems to be rather more stable than we were previously lead to believe.
Steve McIntyre found that the trend in the UK's temperature record for Hawaii differs from the US's by approximately two degrees per century. Of course one would like to check what adjustment CRU makes to its data, but it's a secret.
Alert readers noticed that one of the graphs in the Copenhagen Synthesis Report had been "adjusted" so that recent temperatures looked a bit cooler.
