24th May - Today's News: Mississippi Flooding Worst Since 1927

Flooding worst Mississippi's seen since Great Flood of 1927. Here's why.

Thankfully the Jefferson City tornado proved not to be as bad as initial reports suggested, and there were no reported deaths there, although some extensive damage to property.  But an elderly couple who were sucked out their house by tornado and hurled 600ft are identified as two of the seven people who died when twisters hit Missouri

A "near-normal" Atlantic hurricane forecast offers little comfort

Fires rage across Israel amid heat wave; homes evacuated, roads closed

This April saw big decline in Arctic sea ice cover - which is a little ironic given I recently saw someone on Facebook comparing current sea ice cover with that of September to "prove" that contrary to claims, ice cover is in fact increasing!

Climate change may make the Arctic tundra a drier landscape

Unexpected observation of ice at low temperature, high pressure questions water theory

Around the world more school students walk out in global climate strike - before being picked up by mummy in their SUV, given a bottle of imported water and whisked off to the airport for a half-term holiday flight ......  But hey, it's someone else's problem and we just demand they do something about it.  Not us.  Right?

And the congestion on Everest leads to backlog of climbers in 'death zone' - these are, of course, tourists, not real mountaineers (technically, climbing Everest is easy, if you have a sherpa and good weather) and the hill is like Pen y Fan or Snowdon on a sunny bank holiday.  Not something I'd ever be interested in climbing ....