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By Clive Cookson in San Diego Published: February 22 2010 01:29 | Last updated: February 22 2010 01:29 Public trust in science as a whole has suffered from recent attacks on climate research, the head of the senior US scientific body admitted at the weekend. “There is evidence that the corrosion in the public attitude to climate science has spread over to other areas of science,” said Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences , citing public opinion surveys in the US and elsewhere. Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Diego, Prof Cicerone and other research leaders said scientists must work to regain public trust by being more open about their findings. “We need to be more transparent and provide more access to our research data,” he said. In the “climategate” scandal at University of East Anglia in the UK, emails showed researchers at the Climatic Research Unit refusing to release da...

With an average monthly temperature of 68.9 degrees...July 2009 will go down as the 3rd coldest on record at Detroit. The record is 67.2 degrees set back in 1891...with second place being 68.8 degrees set in 1992. To further illustrate how cool this month has been...this is only the fourth time in July the high temperature for the month failed to reach 87 degrees. Also...18 days during this past month the low temperature dropped below 60 degrees...this is the third most on record...with the record being 20 days back in 1891. Detroit area temperature records date back to 1870.