12th July - Today's News: Record Heatwaves in Europe, N Africa, & USA; Record Rain in Japan & USA.

Heatwave Cerberus hits Europe: Deadly heat claims first life in Italy and Spain faces a scorchio 44C whilst Europeans seek shade as heatwave grips much of the continent and more warnings as heat wave expected to grip Istanbul, southern Türkiye this week

In North Africa there's a heat wave in the Maghreb with more records falling already

Meanwhile, Arizona swelters through 117F heatwave that forecasters say could be longest and hottest ever but elsewhere it's been wet as Vermont governor calls floods 'historic and catastrophic'

And the heatwave last summer killed 61,000 people in Europe, research finds

Obviously, global warming is a hoax perpetuated by scientists for decades in order to allow the WEF to suggest we should eat our own excrement (seriously, that's what some tinfoil hatters are suggesting!) - and this is proven by the fact the UK is experiencing cooler and quite unsettled weather .....

In South Korea, the no. of mosquitoes carrying malaria surges amid heat wave, torrential rain whilst in Japan floods: three die as island hit by 'heaviest' rainfall

South Africans marvel at snow and sleet in Johannesburg during cold snap

In Australia, WA's Kimberley breaks 35-year-old record for winter rain as dry season gets off to wet start

Mount Fagradalsfjall volcano erupts in Iceland whilst seismic activity around Ubinas volcano set to trigger state of emergency in Peru

Introducing the Anthropocene: Canadian lake mud 'symbolic of human changes to Earth'.  We've made our mark in the geological record, forever.

And reinventing cosmology: New research puts age of universe at 26.7 -- not 13.7 -- billion years