31st May - Today's News: Coldest Spring for 50 Years
Back from Essan after a very good workparty in fine weather - and no midges!
So a bit of a catch up with the news today ....
So a bit of a catch up with the news today ....
With below average temps again in May, Spring will be the coldest in 50 years, Met Office says
Lleyn peninsular hit by earthquake of 3.8 magnitude (note: the BBC can't spell!)
Hurricane Barbara weakens to tropical storm, kills 2 people. And could it become a storm with two names: will Pacific Barbara morph into Atlantic Andrea to give us the first named tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season?
In France there are further flood warnings in place for southwest whilst the bad weather means that, unsually, Pyrenean ski slopes are open in June
Floods kill cyclist and block roads in Germany
Earlier in the week, in Norway, floodwaters crest 'the worst is over'
And in Russia, deluge causes serious flooding in Yaroslavl
Storms reek havoc in southern Poland (sic)
But Lapland sets heat record, more sun on way
Floods kill cyclist and block roads in Germany
Earlier in the week, in Norway, floodwaters crest 'the worst is over'
And in Russia, deluge causes serious flooding in Yaroslavl
Storms reek havoc in southern Poland (sic)
But Lapland sets heat record, more sun on way
Climate disasters displace millions of people worldwide - 32 million in fact, in 2012
Global warming caused by CFCs, not carbon dioxide, researcher claims in controversial study - it may be true that CFCs contribute to global warming, but they can only be the sole cause if we can eliminate every other cause - like black soot, contrails, urbanisation etc, as well as atmospheric CO2, methane, water vapour ...... And I don't think anyone has yet proven that these do not also cause warming!
Rainforests take the heat, paleontolgists show, but can they take the rapid deforestation? I don;t think so ....
Arctic current flowed under deep freeze of last ice age, study says
A mammoth find: preserved ice age giant found with flowing blood in Siberia - though I'm not entirely convinced they actually found blood flowing at -10c. The pictures are unrelated to this latest discovery.
A mammoth find: preserved ice age giant found with flowing blood in Siberia - though I'm not entirely convinced they actually found blood flowing at -10c. The pictures are unrelated to this latest discovery.
And pebbly rocks testify to old streambed on Mars
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