Dzud kills more than one million animals in Mongolia
Dzud is a bad drought followed by a harsh cold winter. So far this year, more than one million animals have been killed by the dzud in Mongolia. In Mongolia it hasn’t rained since last July and this...
View ArticleRecord cold morning in Sydney
Sydneysiders awoke to record cold weather and frost on Monday. Richmond airport had its coldest morning since 1987 at -2.1C, the coldest morning for May on record in 23 years of data. The previous was...
View ArticleNew Zealand – Mt Ruapehu lake temperature doubles in just weeks
Temperatures at Mt. Doom’s Crater Lake doubled from 25C to 45C in just a few weeks. Lake is also showing huge increase of both carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide. Tourists and hikers are being warned...
View ArticleA different take on The Cassandra Sanction
A few weeks ago I recommended The Cassandra Sanction, by Scott Mariani. I called it a fantastic novel. However, reader Toni Petrinovich does not agree. Here’s Toni’s take on it: A different take on The...
View ArticleFirst Zimbabwe ‘snowfall’ in history
Reached a depth of 30 cm (12 inches) The “Zimbabwe Snowfall” of last Friday was not a hoax, but real. Albeit it was technically not snow, but a form of sleet, frozen rain. There have been thunder...
View ArticleWyoming – Snow and blizzard conditions close Beartooth Pass
May 31, 2016 – The Wyoming side of the Beartooth Pass to Montana remains closed at the state line. Rapidly changing road conditions over this holiday weekend forced the temporary closure of the scenic...
View ArticleHail destroys vines in France
31 May 2016 – ‘Catastrophic’ hail in Chablis, Beaujolais and Cognac. Fierce hailstorms have damaged vineyards in parts of Chablis in Burgundy, plus Beaujolais and Cognac, leading the country’s farming...
View ArticleGlobal Cooling – UK Temps lower than Xmas
“The only evidence it’s summer in Britain is the calendar,” says Bloomberg.com. “The U.K. is as chilly as it was in parts of December, pushing the price of the nation’s main fuel for heating to the...
View ArticleGlobal warming? Snowfalls in Siberia on June 1
In Surgut, Noyabrsk, Novy Urengoy and other cities it looked more like Christmas … on June 1. In some areas there were even snow drifts. In Noyabrsk, the local administration restarted heating supplies...
View ArticleHeavy snowfall in Argentina
“Maybe the Pope could drive around through the snow in his popemobile, in his native country,” says reader Argiris Diamantis. “This could) teach the world what climate change really means: the world is...
View ArticleDeadly floods in Germany
Record floods have killed at least 89 people in Germany, Russia, Austria and the Czech Republic over the last week. The Elbe rose from a normal summer level of about two meters (7 ft) to 9.16 meters...
View ArticleUnreal – The Seine is flooding Paris
Louvre scrambling to save priceless artworks from floodwaters “The streets of Paris nearby the river are now canals of water and residents are fleeing their buildings,” says Business Insider....
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Greenland ice mass balance increasing
Maybe even a record breaker. “The non-commencement of the thaw in Greenland at the end of May is without precedent in past years, at least since 1990.” “Greenland to historic failure thaw Record:...
View ArticleHow the West got healthy and prosperous
How can it be that – after countless millennia of malnutrition, disease, wretched poverty and early death – so many mostly western nations became healthy and prosperous in just 200 years? A number of...
View ArticleArgentina – More than 10,000 people isolated by snow
Worst snowfall in 30 years – up to 4½ meters (14 ft) in the mountains. Sorry for the confusion here. I looked up Mundo Perdido on Wikipedia, which said it was located in northern Guatemala. I...
View ArticleChile – 71 workers trapped by snow
Isolated by three meters (10 ft) of snow that hit the central area of the country. 5 June 2016 – About 71 workers of the Libertadores Complex were trapped by snow. Road machinery has worked since...
View ArticleArgentina – Two meters of snow near Chilean border
June 6, 2016 – Los Andes reports school classes suspended, two meters of snowfall and temperatures of minus 20°C (-4°F). “Mountain Zone red alert follows the snowstorm plaguing these locations since...
View ArticleBrazil – Could be coldest week in 16 years
Will be detrimental to bananas and passion fruit. 6 June 2016 – Thermometers can reach -2 degrees in rural Criciuma. will be detrimental to the planting of banana and passion fruit. This week will be...
View ArticleCalifornia Wants to Outlaw ‘Climate Change Dissent’
Senate Bill 1161 would authorize prosecutors to sue fossil fuel companies, think tanks and others that have “deceived or misled the public on the risks of climate change.” Masquerading under the...
View ArticleSouth American ski resorts buried by early snow
A number of storms have pounded the Andes recently. Chile’s El Colorado ski resort has opened five weeks earlier than scheduled. Portillo, Chile has received more than 100 inches of snow over the past...
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