8th August - Today's News: TS Franklin Hits Yucatan

Tropical Storm Franklin makes landfall on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula

Homes evacuated, drivers rescued as flooding swamps San Antonio, Texas

Lightning strike puts France teenagers in hospital

More storms, heavy winds hit Balkans after blistering heat wave

 

Tropical storm brings heavy rain, strong winds to Honshu

Researchers crack the 'Karakoram anomaly': Why glaciers near K2 are growing in size

By the end of the century extreme weather events may affect two in three Europeans every year

Apparently, a US federal department is censoring use of term 'climate change', emails reveal

'Dodgy' greenhouse gas data threatens Paris accord - basically, we don't really know who is producing what emissions .....    Yet another reason to end ridiculous targets and concentrate on just reducing emissions across the board; reducing demand and developing cleaner and alternative technologies -  whilst simultaneously tackling the other causes of climate change.  Like deforestation ...   Of course, targets are what bureaucrats like though.  And bureaucrats also like expensive (pointless) meetings in exotic places ....

And the Daily Mail offers us some of the most jaw-dropping storm photographs ever