Earth Changes
Footage of a powerful storm in Russia has recently emerged online. Eyewitnesses call the storm "apocalyptic," given its scale and the damage it has inflicted.
Comment: More images from the storm:
On the 20th a similar down burst was reported in the same area:
And more signs of the changing weather in Russia was a plague of mosquitoes brought about by the record breaking floods and unusual heat.
The short answer, is not all that well.
On June 23, 1988, NASA scientist James E. Hansen testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, where he expressed his "high degree of confidence" in "a cause-and-effect relationship between the claimed CO2 induced "greenhouse effect and observed warming."
The 30th anniversary of Mr. Hansen's predictions affords an opportunity to see how well his forecasts have turned out.
In an article in the Wall Street Journal today, climatologist Dr Patrick Michaels and meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue compare Hansen's predictions to actual reality over the past 30 years. Instead of the gloom and doom we heard in 1988, we have an earth that is only moderately warmer, and closer to Hansen's "scenario C", the bottom graph below, which is overlaid with actual global temperature data in red.
This video is a compilation of such events over the last last week on our favorite planet, Earth. More snow Europe, floods and freezes out of season. Her we go, I do hope you are at least beginning to accept that the changes you see around you isn't all CO2 based.
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Resorts on the south-eastern coast of the country were hit with blizzard conditions at the start of this week - the storm, which has been nicknamed Stormin' Norman, battered resorts for six days.
Severe weather warnings were issued by the Bureau of Meteorology for the regions of Victoria and New South Wales.
It's an extreme weather pattern than mimics the series of storms that hit the Alps at the start of last winter.
Australia's top five resorts have all benefited from Norman's snowy onslaught. Perisher, arguably the most well-known resort, and part of Vail Resort's Epic Pass, received 71cm of snow in the space of three days and is opening new parts of its ski area daily.
More than 3,000 people have been stung on area beaches since June 8, Volusia County beach safety officials told WFLA Thursday.
On Monday alone, 347 people were stung and treated. No one was seriously injured.
Mary Lane, an instructor with the Jimmy Lane Surfing Academy in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, told the station she found herself wrapped in the tentacles of a jellyfish that she had to pull off her torso.
"This has probably been the worst summer in a long time," she said.
Purple flags warning of dangerous marine life in the waters continue to fly on the county's beaches.
Rain slowed Thursday. Venture Drive is currently blocked as crews work to repair a pair of 20-to-30-foot sinkholes along the road.
Channel 2's Berndt Petersen was at the scene as trucks carrying heavy equipment arrived to start repairs, but by Thursday afternoon, none of the major repair work had begun.
According to farmer Doddau Venkataiah, while he was tilling his field, he left the plough tied with the bull in the field and came out to take shelter from the sudden thunder showers.
However, as soon as he came out of the field, sudden lightning struck the bull, killing it on the spot.
Venkatiah has lost his bull worth Rs. 50,000 and he is helpless to carry out his farming without the bull.
The owner of Klaboe Livestock says it's one of the most devastating events they've encountered in 50 years raising livestock.
You can see the original Facebook post below. The ranch owner says it's been viewed and shared thousands of times already.
Ukrinform learnt this from Head of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Center for Hydrometeorology Volodymyr Fryhovych.
"Snow mix with rain has fallen in the Carpathians. Snow cover reaches 13 mm at the mountain peaks. Tomorrow we expect a drop in the temperature in the mountain regions to 1-2 degrees below zero," he said.















Comment: World seismic and volcanic activity appears to be rising:
- 'Bizarre new normal': Kilauea eruptions no sign of slowing down
- Telica volcano in Nicaragua spews huge ash cloud and rocks
- New explosive eruption at Shinmoedake volcano, Japan
- Powerful M6.1 quake strikes Port Villa, Vanuatu - Location considered "unusual"
- Vancouver Island hit with over 150 tremors in 24 hour
- M4.4 earthquake shakes part of northern Oklahoma
- Kilaeua: Lava covers more than 9 miles of island, M5.4 quake reported
- Series of stronger eruptions at Stromboli volcano in Italy
- Volcano in the Galapagos Islands erupts after series of 9 earthquakes
- Powerful earthquake in Bárðarðarbunga, Iceland, one of Vatnajökull's monster volcanoes
- Sakurajima volcano erupts again in southwestern Japan
- Another major eruption at Mount Sinabung, Indonesia
- Yellowstone's Steamboat Geyser has now erupted eight times in less than three months intriguing scientists
For more on the changes occurring on our planet, check out SOTTs' monthly documentary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - May 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor FireballsAs well as SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?