2007 June: Climate
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Icebergs are 'ecological hotspot', BBC, 2007 June 22 (drifting icebergs are "eco-hotspots" enabling surrounding waters to absorb more CO2)
Arctic spring's 'rapid advance', BBC, 2007 June 18 (spring in the Arctic is arriving "weeks earlier" than a decade ago)
Arctic ice no barrier for plants, BBC, 2007 June 14 (arctic plant seeds are able to migrate the distances needed to survive climate changes)
Gelu Sulugiuc, The thunderous sounds of Arctic warming, The Age, 2007 June 7 (the ice crowning world's largest island is rapidly melting)
UN warning over global ice loss, BBC, 2007 June 4 (hundreds of millions of livelihoods will be affected by the world's declining ice and snow cover)
Tim Colebatch, Australia's climate myths, The Age, 2007 June 19 (despite the political spin, Australia would do well to emulate the Europeans in cutting emissions)
William Kininmonth, A lot of hot air?, The Age, 2007 June 16 (the decision by ABC TV to show a shortened version of the Great Global Warming Swindle documentary, which challenges the majority view that global warming is primarily caused by human activity, has produced angry responses in various quarters; there is clearly an attempt to discredit the documentary even before it is shown)
Terry Macalister, Exxon attacks Greenpeace but says it wants to save the planet, Guardian, 2007 June 15 (ExxonMobil criticised Greenpeace, the Kyoto treaty and the European carbon trading system yesterday but insisted it was not a 'climate change denier')
Juliette Hughes, The truth is downright dirty, The Age, 2007 June 2 (a controversial documentary to be shown on the ABC says man-made climate change is a myth. It's time the deniers joined the real - ailing - world)
Hunger: Get the gangsters out of the food chain, Economist, 2007 June 9 (new commodities exchanges may help feed more of the starving)
James Randerson, The eco-diet . . . and it's not just about food miles, Guardian, 2007 June 4 (focus on distance is too narrow, say researchers; 'only 2%' of impact due to transport from farm to shop)
Heatwaves will 'boost death rate', BBC, 2007 June 27 (a rise in deaths owing to global warming heatwaves will not be offset by milder winters)
Matt McGrath, UN issues desertification warning, BBC, 2007 June 28 (tens of millions of people could be driven from their homes by encroaching deserts, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia)
John Vidal, Burgeoning cities face catastrophe, says UN, Guardian, 2007 June 28 (big rise in poverty, slums and pollution feared as urban dwellers outstrip rural population)
AP, Scientists investigating Gulf Stream say shut-down scenario not likely, IHT, 2007 June 15 (can the slight weakening of the Gulf Stream expected over the next century actually help to offset the effects of global warming in northern Europe?)
Liz Minchin, Landmarks at 'high risk' from rising sea levels, The Age, 2007 June 2 (famous Melbourne landmarks are at "very high risk" of damage from climate change in coming decades)
Peter Wilby, Humanity must recognise our entire way of life is chronically short-termist, Guardian, 2007 June 1 (the costs of tackling climate change are too high and the benefits too distant for us to think we can make any difference)
Farmland to revert to forest in China's green plan, New Scientist, 2007 June 30 (China - home to 10% of all known plant species - will also extend its nature reserves as part of a new strategy)
Guy Shrubsole, Environment: Hard sell, Guardian, 2007 June 20 (saving the rainforests is an effective and cheap way of cutting carbon emissions - but is buying trees to stop deforestation the answer?)
Tanya Mohn, A crisis is growing in America's vast forest lands, IHT, 2007 June 18 (at stake are large tracts of private forest that are at risk of falling into mismanagement, subdivision, or being sold for development)
Rory Carroll and Oliver Balch, Soya king changes face of pampas, Observer, 2007 June 17 (the GM crop has saved Argentina's economy - but now threatens the survival of its forests)
Juliette Jowit and Javier Espinoza, Wonder of nature under threat from illegal logging, Observer, 2007 June 17 (one of the world's greatest wildlife spectacles is under threat because environmental projects to protect the monarch butterfly are failing)
Mita Valina Liem, Indonesian rainforests are disappearing fast, IHT, 2007 June 4 (Indonesia's rainforests - especially those on Borneo island - are being stripped so rapidly by illegal logging and palm oil plantations for biofuels, they could be wiped out altogether within the next 15 years)
John Vidal, Cambodian elite and army accused of illegal logging racket, Guardian, 2007 June 1 ('PM and family complicit as troops loot forests'; watchdog says world's donors turn blind eye)
Marianne Barriaux, BP in oilseed tree project, Guardian, 2007 June 30 (company sets up a venture with biodiesel firm to increase planting of jatropha, a tree that produces an inedible vegetable oil used to make biofuel)
Matthew L Wald, U.S. seeks bioenergy breakthroughs, IHT, 2007 June 26 (the U.S. Energy Department is creating three bioenergy research centers to find new ways to turn plants into fuel)
David Strahan, The real casus belli: peak oil, Guardian, 2007 June 26 (in a world of looming fuel shortage, Britain and the US formalised their energy fears with a war)
Matt McGrath, Fruit could make 'powerful fuel', BBC, 2007 June 21 (the sugar found in fruit such as apples and oranges can be converted into a new type of low carbon fuel for cars)
David Adam and Guy Shrubsole, Next generation biofuels to turn human waste into diesel, Guardian, 2007 June 21 (UK could meet much of its future energy demand by turning waste products into transport fuels)
Ted Plafker, Chinese coal industry in need of a helping hand, IHT, 2007 June 19 (over the past 50 years, coal has accounted for 70 percent or more of China's energy supply and despite government efforts to promote cleaner or renewable alternatives, experts predict that until at least 2050 coal will continue to make up at least half of the nation's energy mix)
Huge oilfield discovered in Ghana, BBC, 2007 June 18 (UK firm Tullow Oil announces the discovery of 600 million barrels of oil offshore from Ghana)
Don Phillips, Military looks at synthetic fuel for bombers and fighters, IHT, 2007 June 17 (the U.S. Air Force has decided to push development of a new type of fuel to power its bombers and fighters, mixing conventional jet fuel with nonpetroleum-based fuels that could eventually end military dependence on foreign sources of oil)
Carter Dougherty, Germany finds solution to its withering coal mines, IHT, 2007 June 14 (German politicians and labor leaders have clinched a deal to close the country's last anthracite mines, the energy source that fired the country's ascent to industrial primacy in the 19th century but has since become a state-subsidized burden)
Role for coal 'continues to soar', BBC, 2007 June 12 (world energy use is becoming more carbon intensive - as the popularity of coal power continues, BP says)
Mark Honigsbaum, Magazine: Is carbon offsetting the solution?, Observer, 2007 June 10 (we burn fossil fuel and plant trees to 'off set' our emissions; it sounds like a win-win situation; but is it?)
Biofuels 'will push up oil price', BBC, 2007 June 8 (the Opec oil cartel chief reportedly warns that biofuel investment could push oil prices "through the roof")
Edmund L Andrews, U.S. auto chiefs make headway against fuel economy rules, IHT, 2007 June 7 (automobile companies seem to be making progress in tamping down Democratic Party proposals for tougher fuel economy requirements)
Philip Hopkins, Upbeat outlook for biofuels industry, The Age, 2007 June 4 (Australia could have a big biofuels industry if there is a strong alternative energy policy that is focused on new technologies)
Natural gas in Wyoming: Boom and doom, Economist, 2007 June 2 (gas has brought riches, and trouble, to America's least-populated state)
Business and climate change: Dirty king coal, Economist, 2007 June 2 (scrubbing carbon from coal-fired power stations is possible but pricey)
Rebecca Renner, News Scan: Green Gold in a Shrub, Scientific American, 2007 June (entrepreneurs target the jatropha plant as the next big biofuel)
Elisabeth Rosenthal, Enveloping desert conditions to trigger unrest in Africa and Asia, IHT, 2007 June 27 (desertification caused in large part by climate change will provoke an environmental crisis of global proportions, massive migration, and political instability in parts of Africa and Central Asia if current trends are not quickly stemmed)
Stephen Castle, Report calls on Europe to move on global warming, IHT, 2007 June 25 (the draft analysis by the European Commission paints a disturbing picture of the impact of rising temperatures that will scorch the southern Mediterranean, melt Alpine and Scandinavian snows and flood low-lying coastal zones around the Continent)
Michael Raupach, World unity is crucial to the climate, The Age, 2007 June 25 (the global community has to share the burden of fighting climate change)
Julian Borger, Sudan war fuelled by climate change: UN, The Age, 2007 June 24 (the conflict in Darfur has been driven by climate change and environmental degradation, which threaten to trigger a succession of new wars across Africa)
William Gumede, Right to be suspicious, Guardian, 2007 June 12 (climate change cannot be tackled if existing injustices in global politics are overlooked)
David James, The climate is changing as words get a blast of hot air, The Age, 2007 June 11 (at last, Western leaders are setting some serious goals on climate change)
Madeline Chambers, Climate change up to west: China, The Age, 2007 June 9 (Chinese President Hu Jintao has told world leaders at the Group of Eight summit that responsibility for tackling climate change lies with industrialised nations)
Climate change: Fresh air, Economist, 2007 June 9 (China and Australia unveil new policies on global warming)
Tabassum Zakaria, US baulks at G8 over emission cuts, The Age, 2007 June 7 (the US will refuse at the summit of the Group of Eight nations to agree to targets and timetables for cutting greenhouse gases, a senior adviser to US President George Bush has said)
Katharine Murphy, China takes hard line on climate, The Age, 2007 June 5 (China declares it will not sacrifice its stellar economic growth to satisfy international demands for cutting greenhouse gas emissions)
Ban Ki Moon, Hear the first victims of climate change, IHT, 2007 June 4 (solutions to global warming proposed by developed nations cannot come at the expense of less fortunate neighbors on the planet)
UN warning over global ice loss, BBC, 2007 June 4 (hundreds of millions of livelihoods will be affected by the world's declining ice and snow cover)
China unveils climate change plan, BBC, 2007 June 4 (China has unveiled its first national plan for climate change, saying it is intent on tackling the problem but not at the expense of economic development)
Global warming: Struggling to save the planet, Economist, 2007 June 2 (a new American proposal on combating climate change will not defuse the row over the issue in the run-up to the G8 summit)
Nick Davies, Abuse and incompetence in fight against global warming, Guardian, 2007 June 2 (up to 20% of carbon savings in doubt as monitoring firms criticised by UN body)
Leader, Climate change: Stamping all over Kyoto, Guardian, 2007 June 1 (George Bush has a history of making visionary speeches which come to nothing; but nothing quite prepared his G8 partners for the proposal he made yesterday on climate change)
Julian Borger, David Adam and Suzanne Goldenberg, Bush kills off hopes for G8 climate change plan, Guardian, 2007 June 1 (US president proposes 'new global framework' to curb emissions as alternative to UN plan)
Dale Fuchs, Spain hit by plague of blood-sucking black flies, Guardian, 2007 June 25 (a plague of black flies has prompted authorities to issue warnings on TV and fliers advising people to cover up)
Juliette Jowit and Javier Espinoza, Wonder of nature under threat from illegal logging, Observer, 2007 June 17 (one of the world's greatest wildlife spectacles is under threat because environmental projects to protect the monarch butterfly are failing)
Andra Jackson, Surfers fear salt pipe will damage coastal life, The Age, 2007 June 25 (the dispersal of salinity waste is a big local concern given the proposed site's proximity to the marine park; recreational anglers also use the area)
Juliette Jowit, Price of saving London from floods could exceed £20bn, Observer, 2007 June 10 (the cost of protecting London and the south-east from flooding will be at least £4bn as sea levels rise and the south-east coast sinks over the next century)
Alok Jha, Call for wildlife reserve to cover 30% of oceans, Guardian, 2007 June 9 (scientists have called for almost a third of the world's oceans to be turned into protected areas for marine wildlife)
Liz Minchin, Insurance coverage being reviewed as coastal areas face higher risk of damage, The Age, 2007 June 4 (insurance policies being reviewed and withdrawn in some coastal areas of Australia because of climate change)
Stefaan Simons, Society 'needs the right chemistry', BBC, 2007 June 29 (chemical engineering, not carbon offsetting, is needed to deliver a low carbon future)
Royce Millar, Water tank rules to be softened, The Age, 2007 June 25 (Victorians building new homes will no longer be made to install a rainwater tank or solar hot water system under new building rules)
Stephen Cauchi, Toxic metal takes shine off new lights, The Age, 2007 June 24 (fluorescents last four times longer than incandescent bulbs, and are five times more efficient at using electricity, but contain mercury, regarded by the Environment Protection Agency as the most toxic known substance apart from radioactive materials)
Telegraph, Galapagos Islands green scheme alarms scientists, The Age, 2007 June 22 (a US company is poised to dump iron filings off the Galapagos Islands in an experiment designed to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere)
Crispin Aubrey, Environment: On a roll, Guardian, 2007 June 20 (Cornwall led the wind power revolution in Britain and now the county plans to utilise its miles of coastline to provide both renewable energy and economic regeneration; but is everyone onside?)
Louise William, Emission possible, The Age, 2007 June 18 (the Howard Government has warned of economic disaster if carbon emissions are cut too drastically; but in Sweden, the opposite has occurred; bold policies have turned a city into an eco-powerhouse)
Robin McKie, Britain's lost opportunity to protect the planet, Observer, 2007 June 17 (carbon storage could not only help the world, it could aid Great Britain plc)
Air travel: Travelling green tonight, Economist, 2007 June 16 (aircraft are getting cleaner all the time)
Air travel: Time to land, Economist, 2007 June 16 (lots of little things could make air travel a whole lot better)
Ziggy Switkowski, What will you tell your children?, The Age, 2007 June 15 (there's no stopping global warming, but its fallout can be controlled)
Recycling: The price of virtue, Economist, 2007 June 9 (how to get people recycling more—even if they do not particularly want to)
Clemens Betzel, Switching on to nanogeneration, BBC, 2007 June 8 (electronic devices that generate their own power can play a major role in the battle against climate change)
Sian Watkins, Memo humans: stop breeding like bunnies, The Age, 2007 June 8 (the environment is stuffed because there are so many of us)
Global warming: A stairway to heaven?, Economist, 2007 June 2 (Earth has a natural transport system standing ready to get rid of carbon dioxide; here is how it might be turned on)
Emma Duncan, Business and climate change: Cleaning up, Economist, 2007 June 2 (business is getting down to cutting carbon, but needs more incentives to make much difference to climate change)
The environment: Cleaning up, Economist, 2007 June 2 (how business is starting to tackle climate change, and how governments need to help)
Business and climate change: Irrational incandescence, Economist, 2007 June 2 (people can't be bothered to make easy energy savings)
Alan Moran, Nuclear, not solar, power is brown coal alternative, The Age, 2007 June 19 (going nuclear is the only way we can reduce carbon emissions)
Jack Pezzey and Frank Jotzo, Pre-election greenhouse grab is on, The Age, 2007 June 18 (emissions trading can create vast new riches, but for whom?)
Richard Di Natale and Adam Bandt, Liberal and Labor, make a call: how much heat can you stand?, The Age, 2007 June 11 (a temperature-rise target is fundamental, vital—and missing)
Michelle Grattan, Convert or still a sceptic?, The Age, 2007 June 8 (in the lead-up to APEC, the PM's utterances on climate change are for domestic consumption)
Katharine Murphy, What the parties really think on global warming, The Age, 2007 June 5 (election campaigns run on a simple formula; Campaign equals Myth plus Rhetoric minus Substance)
Liz Minchin, Castlemaine does a power of good tackling the angles of environmental change, The Age, 2007 June 5 (the town of 8000 has seen people from all walks of life—from businesses and schools to the council—working to slash the town's greenhouse emissions and water use)
Tim Colebatch, Government asking us to take it on trust, The Age, 2007 June 2 (in designing an emissions trading framework, it had to be one that suits the emission-intensive industries; and it had to be one that minimises political costs for a government that so long opposed both emissions trading and setting emissions targets)
Lorna Edwards, Baby, it's cold outside—but not cold enough for this endangered 'baby', The Age, 2007 June 25 (numbers of the mountain pygmy possum, Australia's only native hibernating animal, have dwindled to 30 at Mount Buller, down from 300 when discovered there in 1996)
Luke Harding, The end of the wilderness: bears starve as poachers pillage Russia's wealth of salmon, Guardian, 2007 June 22 (remote Kamchatka faces ecological meltdown as fish stocks are obliterated)
Animal conservation: The year of the elephant, Economist, 2007 June 9 (the wrongs and rights of ivory sales)
James Randerson, Hundreds of bird species at risk, Guardian, 2007 June 5 (up to 900 threatened by 2050, says global analysis; habitat loss dwarfs effects of climate change)
Farmers' anger grows over plan to pipe water, The Age, 2007 June 30 (Alison and Bruce Bassed would prefer to continue their painstaking restoration of an 1867 homestead at Colbinabbin but there is a petition to circulate)
Rachel Kleinman and Ben Doherty, Stormy waters ahead, The Age, 2007 June 30 (still reeling from the announcement of a massive plant on the Bass Coast near Wonthaggi, locals are demanding to know why it's slated for their patch and are mobilising to fight the plans)
Roz Bulleid, Something in the water, Guardian, 2007 June 27 (contamination has closed more than 40 groundwater sources in the past five years; so who's going to pay the clean-up costs?)
Ian Black, New boost for planned canal between Red Sea and Dead Sea, Guardian, 2007 June 27 (firms commissioned to study feasibility of link; 25-year project would ease region's water shortage)
Brahma Chellany, Averting water wars in Asia, IHT, 2007 June 26 (water has emerged as a key issue that could determine if Asia is headed toward cooperation or competition; no country would influence that direction more than China, which controls the Tibetan plateau, the source of most major rivers of Asia)
Royce Millar, Katharine Murphy, Ben Schneiders and Rachel Kleinman, Tanks for city dwellers, The Age, 2007 June 26 (farmers call on State Government to make rainwater tanks compulsory for all new homes in Melbourne)
Rachel Kleinman, Trucks of sludge in brine drain, The Age, 2007 June 25 (an estimated 30,000 tonnes of iron-rich sludge will be trucked to landfill each year from Victoria's desalination plant when it is up and running)
Barry Hart and Chris Walsh, Stormwater is a much better option than desalination, The Age, 2007 June 22 (hundreds of gigalitres are wasted in run-off from our suburbs)
David Rood and Orietta Guerrera, Ambushed, say angry landowners, The Age, 2007 June 21 (Premier Steve Bracks' hard sell of his water package falters when Wonthaggi landowners accuse him of an ambush and local council condemns a lack of consultation)
Rachel Kleinman, Josh Gordon and David Rood, Pass on the salt, The Age, 2007 June 21 (Victoria is about to enter the brave new world of desalination; the $3.1 billion desalination plan means Melburnians will pay more for water and some South Gippsland landholders will lose their land; 10 key questions about one of the most expensive infrastructure projects in Victorian history)
Desalination 'not the solution', BBC, 2007 June 19 (turning salt water into drinking water is not a solution to tackle global water scarcity, a WWF report says)
Abby Goodnough, Florida unprepared for looming water crisis, IHT, 2007 June 19 (awareness that Florida's water supply, seemingly endless given the abundance of springs, lakes, canals, aquifers and rainfall, is not)
David Rood, Orietta Guerrera and Rachel Kleinman, Bracks' $4.9bn water plan, The Age, 2007 June 19 (Melburnians have been warned their water bills will double to pay for the State Government's controversial remedy for the water crisis)
David Rood, Bracks to back dual water plan, The Age, 2007 June 19 (country Victorians and environmentalists are expected to revolt against the Bracks Government's contentious, double-barrelled plans to solve Melbourne's water crisis)
Stephen Cauchi, On a wing and a prayer for rain, The Age, 2007 June 17 (many experts see cloud seeding as a dubious way to break a drought)
Jason Dowling, Taboo water plan in pipeline, The Age, 2007 June 17 (the controversial proposal for a massive water pipeline from the Goulburn Valley to Melbourne that could pump an extra 150 billion litres of water into the city each year, looks set to move a step closer)
Mark Gould, Quality designs with renewal in mind, Guardian, 2007 June 13 (more than a million South Africans have safe drinking water thanks to Playpumps - a simple invention that uses the energy generated by children playing on a roundabout to pump groundwater from boreholes)
Reuters, LA told to turn off its taps, The Age, 2007 June 8 (Los Angeles residents have been urged to take shorter showers, turn off lawn sprinklers and stop flushing rubbish down toilets, in a bid to cut water usage by 10 per cent in the driest year on record)
AFP, Freshwater lake in crisis, The Age, 2007 June 6 (authorities in Beijing have shut down all polluting industries around the country's third largest freshwater lake because of a water crisis)
Russell Skelton and Jewel Topsfield, Water deal on as Bracks gets his way, The Age, 2007 June 5 (the Commonwealth would enforce the states' water caps—the amount each state is entitled to extract from the basin—and take responsibility for water metering, while the water market would be regulated by the ACCC)
Belinda Robinson, Let's hear it for natural gas, The Age, 2007 June 1 (natural gas-fired power generation is an efficient user of water)
Sasha Shtargot, Wimmera wonder: water runs amok in Natimuk, The Age, 2007 June 1 (water restrictions are being eased in several towns in Victoria's north-east after heavy rainfall in the past month, boosting local morale)
Jeffrey D Sachs, Sustainable Developments: Climate Change Refugees, Scientific American, 2007 June (as global warming tightens the availability of water, prepare for a torrent of forced migrations)
Steve Boggan, Who will the floods hit next?, Guardian, 2007 June 28 (the Met Office has issued an early warning of heavy rainfall, probably peaking on Saturday, which could bring fresh flooding and disrupt clean-up operations in existing flood-hit areas)
AP, Lightning kills 37 people over 3 days in eastern China, IHT, 2007 June 26 (fierce storms swept across central, southern and eastern China over the weekend, causing an additional 11 deaths blamed on flooding or house collapses; about 73,000 people were displaced and 8,100 homes destroyed)
Rachel Williams and Lee Glendinning, Three dead and 1,000 evacuated as floods strike, Guardian, 2007 June 26 (man killed trapped in drain and boy, 14, swept away by river)
Somini Sengupta, Monsoon sweeps India, taking with it 160 lives, IHT, 2007 June 25 (over the last week, the fury of nature and the frailty of Indian infrastructure once more came into sharp relief, as the death toll from just five days of rain exceeded 160 and thousands of people across five southern and western states were displaced)
Zarar Khan, Hundreds die as rains lash Karachi, Guardian, 2007 June 25 (heavy rains and thunderstorms kill at least 228 people in Karachi as houses collapsed and electrical cables snapped)
Dan Glaister, Scarce water and population boom leads California to 'perfect drought', Guardian, 2007 June 25 (no rain forecast in south of state until September)
Chris Smythe, Flood defences save Boscastle from disaster, Guardian, 2007 June 22 (three years after it was devastated by flash flooding, Cornish village Boscastle has been given another soaking)
Martin Wainwright, Summer comes in—with thunder, floods and an earthquake, Guardian, 2007 June 21 (storms leave trail of chaos across the country; villages cut off as roads and railway closed)
Catherine Brahic, Freak winter is Europe's warmest for 700 years, New Scientist, 2007 June 20 (the last time Europeans saw similar temperatures to the autumn and winter of 2006-07, they were eating strawberries at Christmas in 1289, according to Jürg Luterbacher at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and colleagues)
Reuters, Concern rises over flooding and landslides in China, IHT, 2007 June 17 (Chinese forecasters warned on Sunday against floods and landslides in the nation's west as summer rains continue to menace lives, with eight farmers missing after one village was struck)
Juliette Jowit, Britain mops up after summer deluge, Observer, 2007 June 17 (Britain yesterday began to clear up the chaos caused by summer downpours across much of the country as forecasters promised a brief respite from the rain before the wet weather returns this week)
Alexandra Topping and Helen Pidd, Soldier missing and 40 factory staff trapped in floods, Guardian, 2007 June 16 (soldier who fell into river still missing after thunderstorms and torrential rain cause severe flooding across UK)
Chad Watson, Killer storm wreaks havoc, The Age, 2007 June 10 (widespread blackouts, flooding, torrential rain, giant seas and howling winds combined yesterday to create apocalyptic scenes throughout the Hunter Valley and Central Coast of NSW)
Ben Cubby and Edmund Tadros, Seven lost in storm as disaster looms, The Age, 2007 June 9 (at least seven people are feared dead and a giant coal ship is leaking oil off Newcastle threatened environmental disaster, as storms wreak havoc across New South Wales)
The hurricane season: Hunkering down, Economist, 2007 June 9 (Florida prepares for the worst yet again)
James Randerson, Warmest spring on record, says the Met Office, Guardian, 2007 June 6 (UK has just experienced the warmest spring on record, with temperatures 0.2C higher than the previous record in 1945)
Maria Aspan, Suddenly, the Weather Channel is controversial, IHT, 2007 June 4 (the daily weather forecast is rarely controversial, but the broader topic of climate change has generated no end of debate)
Tim Colebatch, State rainfall best in 12 years, The Age, 2007 June 2 (believe it or not, but Victoria has had its wettest start to the year since 1995. Rain gauges across the state have filled with an average of 239 millimetres of rain between January and May, the best rainfall for 12 years)