NOTE: I've been scarce on writing diaries, I know. It's weird how I've been feeling about politics since Rep. Weiner essentially lied to us about those pictures, and then was forced to resign while Sen. Vitter is sitting "pretty" (sic) in his Louisiana seat despite having done patently illegal acts.It's depressing ... both sides of it. Both the lying when he knew it would really hurt him, and the "bad guys" getting away with it. I disappeared altogether for a few days after all that.
But I digress.
The latest annual climate summary (for 2010) is out from NOAA (I see now it was put in yesterday's midday open thread as well.). A 13-slide PDF brieifing can be found here, while the full report can be found here. Summary and full report documents can be found at the latter. For those of you who are members of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the full report will appear in the June 2011 Bulletin of the AMS (BAMS).
A couple of highlights from the report appear below the cute little squiggle.