The state of the climate in 2013 and other news and views for Friday 18 July

• The State of the Climate in 2013 – a supplement to the July 2014 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
• .The Rise of the Non-Working Rich – “The real non-workers are the wealthy who inherit their fortunes. And their ranks are growing. In fact, we’re on the cusp of the largest inter-generational wealth transfer in history. The wealth is coming from those who over the last three decades earned huge amounts on Wall Street, in corporate boardrooms, or as high-tech entrepreneurs. It’s going to their children, who did nothing except be born into the right family.”

• A real-time picture of how flights are now avoiding Ukrainian airspace - You can do your own real time update at flightradar.com
• Mexico restricts soft drink TV ads to fight obesity
• Punting Martin Parkinson a symbol of Tony Abbott’s folly – “Once you cut through the colour of the last parliamentary fortnight, it is striking how much of the “drama” has been no more than people not knowing what they were doing. And now the spectre of someone being appointed to head Treasury who might not know anything about either the Australian economy or Australian politics.”
• Chinese Communists’ adultery ban – a propaganda stunt? – “According to a report in the English-language newspaper China Daily, “adultery” is now banned for party members. The newspaper says that members were warned in June by the Communist Party watchdog that they must adhere to “higher moral standards” than the public. … According to a government report in 2007, an astonishing 90% of top officials brought down by corruption scandals had kept a mistress – and in many cases they had more than one.”