11th August - Today's News: Climate Change Implicated in Russian Heatwave, Asian Floods

Russian wildfires raise radiation fears as co-pilot Putin helps put out wildfires and the death rate doubles in Moscow as heatwave continues. However, according to the Voice of Russia today, wildfire situation improves in Russia. Notwithstanding which, there may be wider implications as Russia fires cause brown cloud, may hit Arctic - leading to more warming and sea ice melt.

China braces for more floods as heavy rains predicted and there are five Europeans among 177 dead in Himalayan floods

And due to the extremeness of these events, it's been suggested that climate change 'partly to blame' for sweltering Moscow and also with the Pakistan floods: climate change experts say global warming could be the cause

More daft medical news with it being claimed that climate change 'will increase heart deaths' - basically if it gets warmer or it gets colder we become more prone to heart attacks. Presumably if we spend our lives at a constant 18c we'll live forever then?

In Africa, Niger river floods destroying homes and crops while clean-up begins in flood-hit Central Europe.

Typhoon Dianmu kills five in S Korea

Rice yields falling under global warming

In Australia, wild weather causes mini-tornado - we've yet to educate the Aussie press about there being a mini clubman and a mini convertible, but they don't as yet make a mini tornado ....

Greenland's ice sheet faces 'tipping point in 10 years'

Gondwana supercontinent underwent massive shift during Cambrian explosion - sounds to me like evidence of true polar wandering. Though not by any means rapid.

New study examined effects of drought in Amazon

In England and Wales, rivers running low despite rain

Climate change and illegal logging could wipe out our rain forest wildlife by 2100 - we're currently in the midst of the biggest extinction event for at least 65 million years. I've seen it said that the rate can now be measured in species per hour. And it's mostly down to humans. We may be the biggest disaster to befall Earth since blue-green algae first poisoned the air with deadly oxygen ....

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