Judge quashes Cuccinelli subpoena of U-Va. records.

An Albemarle County Circuit Court judge has set aside
a subpoena issued by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to the
University of Virginia seeking documents related to the work of climate
scientist and former university professor Michael Mann.

Nasa GISS summary for July 2010  Link

This last month has seen conditions in western Russia that have never occurred before. In fact nothing even remotely close has ever been recorded. It's not possible to attribute a single incident to anthropogenic global warming. As the GISS summary notes though

What we can say is that global warming has an effect on the probability and intensity of extreme events.

Well, the big news out of the floods here is that a large dam is in trouble.

There will be testing over the next few days, but it looks like no more oil is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, thanks to a "mystery plumber".

The Economist has a piece on the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), which reviewed the IPCC reports.  They found errors and bias, but not enough to warrant the overturning of conclusions.  The summary below.

Most important news of the day is that the gov't just doubledits estimate of the pre-cut & capped flow of oil out of the Macondo
well.

The singularity? Famed artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and futurist Ray Kurzweil developed the idea in a 2005 book. It's about the ending point of AI development once humans invent an AI system that is more intelligent than us. I'm quoting from an April 2010 paper by philosopher David Chalmers:

The point in question here.