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Accuweather reports :

At 5 a.m. Wednesday, Hurricane Julia was upgraded to a Category 4 storm, while her brother, Hurricane Igor, maintained his Category 4 status.
In doing so, Julia also became the strongest hurricane on record so far east.
Although the storm was downgraded to a Category 3 at 5 p.m., this 12-hour period marks only the second time in recorded history that two Category 4 hurricanes were active at the same time in the Atlantic.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11313328

The first state visit by a Pope to the UK gets under way later when Benedict XVI flies into Edinburgh.

He will meet the Queen at Holyrood House and parade through the city before an open-air Mass in Glasgow.

Tens of thousands of people are expected to line the streets to catch a glimpse of the Roman Catholic leader.

Julienne Stroeve from NSIDC sent over some additional information on Arctic happenings.

We called the minimum today, even though JAXA and Bremen showed a decline today.  It still might jump up and down a bit, regions like the Beaufort and Chukchi seem to oscillate daily between increases and decreases, with overall decreases from the first of September until yesterday.  The E. Siberian shows a larger  decrease for the month thus far (twice as much as the Beaufort and Chukchi seas), but the last few days it shows a clear increase and you can see new ice forming in  the MODIS  imagery.  The Laptev Sea is also still showing slight decreases.

Yesterday I discussed sins of omission – where people create a false impression by telling only half of the story. Today’s topic is just as egregious. When you hear “it is worse than we expected” that normally means “it isn’t anywhere near as bad as we expected.”

Dr. John Christy did an excellent post on WUWT where he showed that temperatures have risen much more slowly than forecast by Dr. Hansen.

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Anthony noted an error on the NOAA web site, where they claimed that Arctic ice extent was second lowest on record.

On further examination, I noticed another serious problem.

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From The Guardian

Mike Castle’s belief in the science of climate change and support for cap and trade laws saw him lose the nomination to rightwing Christine O’Donnell

While we can’t specifically blame this primary loss on global warming, we expect election losses to become more common for people who cling to expensive and useless policies.

The Vatican has declared the UK to be  a “third world country”

But at least the English football teams are doing OK. At 60 minutes Chelsea leads MSK Zilina 4-1.

Chelsea scored all five goals – but coming from a third world country they occasionally shoot into the wrong net.

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2010/091510.html

Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its annual minimum extent on 10 September. The minimum ice extent was the third-lowest in the satellite record, after 2007 and 2008, and continues the trend of decreasing summer sea ice.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1933_Atlantic_hurricane_season_map.png

The 1933 Hurricane season was the second most active on record, but no storms were reported in the mid-Atlantic. This was typical of the era – the technology did not exist to track or locate far offshore hurricanes in real time.

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Norway is absolved.

Changes over the last four days.