8th June 2012 - Summer Storm Batters Britain

I'm glad I'm not on holiday this weekend with today's Wales weather: gales, heavy rain and floods warning.  Elsewhere in the country, three escape as high winds batter Devon and Cornwall, the Suffolk show near Ipswich abandoned due to high winds and rain and in Ireland freaky June weather: more downpours in store as Donegal gets ice storm

But whilst May in Britain ended up just average and April was cool and wet, the US experienced second warmest May, warmest Spring on record, NOAA report

Powerful storms damage himes on Colo., Wyo.

The Big Apple is at big risk for hurricane damage, analysis shows

Snow dump gives NZ ski season great start  and in Christchurch they've just had their coldest day on record

Flash floods hit Thailand's southern provinces

Earthquake strikes area 60km off Mayo coast

Supervolcanoes 'can grow in just hundreds of years' - and there's already a big magma pool under Yellowstone .....

Scientists discover huge phytoplankton bloom in ice-covered waters of the Arctic

Today's climate more sensitive to carbon dioxide than in past 12 million years - or rather, for the past few million years it's been more sensitive than it was 12 million years ago.   All down to contintental configuration and the way pesky landmasses disrupt the natural redistribution of heat around the planet by ocean currents.

100 species of Amazon birds risk extinction due to deforestation according to BirdLife International