30 July - 05 August 2018 | 94 comments (94 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Week of 29 July 2018
Hot AFRICAN Air Brings Scorching Heat, Dust to Europe
[AFRICAN] Heat wave hits Japan
-- "Seoul's temperature was raised by a so-called foehn [AFICAN] phenomenon, in which the easterly wind moves westward over the Taebaek Mountains."
Hot and dry [AFRICAN] El Niño-fuelled summer on the cards out east after 'wintry' spring
B.C.'s [AFRICAN] heat wave is breaking maximum temperature records that have stood for over 100 years: report, illustrated
waitwut
97 injured as Mexican plane crashes at airport in HAIL STORM
AFP | Deadly heat waves to threaten China's northern breadbasket due to [AFRICAN] climate change

Wet-bulb temperatures take humidity into account, providing a better measure of potential health impacts. [...] Unless drastic measures are taken to limit the greenhouse gas emissions warming the globe, "the North China Plain is likely to experience deadly heat waves with wet bulb temperatures exceeding the threshold defining what Chinese farmers may tolerate," he added.

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"We will see BIBLICAL movements of people from the South to the North"
A 'biblical disaster'
Saharan dust registers highest levels in a decade

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Thu Aug 2nd, 2018 at 05:55:54 PM EST
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By 2100, if we get 10 degrees of warming, sub tropical areas in each hemisphere could become only seasonally habitable without life support systems. Dinosaurs used to migrate seasonally from arctic areas to what is now the latitudes of Montana, Wyoming and Colorado.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Fri Aug 3rd, 2018 at 01:55:06 AM EST
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but where were those places back then?

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Aug 3rd, 2018 at 07:08:56 AM EST
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30 July - 05 August 2018 | 94 comments (94 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)