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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Record heat 2018 exaggerated and here's why


Adapt 2030
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 07:59 UTC
Extreme temps in Europe
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
With the media over the last week screaming the world is frying and scaring the Europeans saying it would be over 50C which is over 125F this all turned out to be false. The hottest in Spain was 46C at one location with a host of others at 45C and everything else below that, and those were only 2pm day time temps, it got cool in the evenings to the high 80F range or 28-30C.

Global temperatures are registering 0.32C above the 30 year average so in my opinion it is a full push to control the narrative and keep the CO2 myth going as global crop yields decline and food prices rise. Powers that be don't want you to know that this is a 20 year event of cooling, you may panic and pull your funds out of the banks and markets. The mis-truths will be pushed until the end.


Comment: Globull warming? Africa, Antarctic, Arctic, Atlantic, Brazil, Greenland, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Philippines, Southern Ocean... were colder than usual

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EU worst fruit and veg crisis for 40 years due to erratic seasons and extreme weather


The Watchers
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 18:02 UTC
drought map europe 2018
© EC/CopernicusCombined Drought Indicator, based on SPI, soil moisture and fAPAR. Watch: when a relevant precipitation shortage is observed. Warning: when this precipitation translates into a soil moisture anomaly. Alert: when these two conditions are accompanied by an anomaly in the vegetation condition.
The European vegetable processing sector raised concerns last month about potential losses to crop quantity and quality as a result of the very hot summer and prolonged drought conditions in all leading European production regions. Today, these regions have been affected by exceptional weather conditions, where crop evaporation levels have been exceptionally high, many watercourses have run dry, and extraction of irrigation water has frequently been restricted.

With the hot and dry weather continuing throughout July across most parts of the continent, vegetables have continued to suffer and crop yields have fallen sharply. Today the situation for vegetable growers and processors is the most serious that has been experienced in the last forty years, according to the European Association of Fruit and Vegetable Processors (PROFEL).

In addition, 2018 is the third year in a row that the sector has faced serious weather-related issues, exposing the vulnerability of European vegetable growers and processors to changing European weather patterns.

Comment: Spring planting was delayed by frosts and relentless rainfall, now summer is here and farmers are battling with drought causing low yield, and hail so big it decimates crops. And as the changes to weather patterns affect even larger areas and with successive years, prices are rocketing, there's food shortages across the board, and it's set to get even worse: And while some areas suffer through extreme drought, other areas are inundated by torrential rain - and some get both:

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"World weather issues" see rise in grain prices with lowest global yield in five years

Suzie Horne
Farmers Weekly
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 12:00 UTC
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Barley damaged in hail storm south of High River, Calgary, on Monday, July 30.
Feed wheat prices rose by almost £4/t in just two days, with the spot ex-farm value averaging £181.23/t towards midday on Friday (3 August).

November futures touched £200/t during the week and stood at £192.25/t at lunchtime on Friday.

On the same day, the AHDB estimated wheat yields at 5-8% below the five-year average of 8.2t/ha. This would give a harvest of 13.3-13.7m tonnes, the lowest for five years.

With the GB winter wheat harvest estimated at about 25% complete, there is caution around the figures.

Comment: Farmers are facing an endless torrent of weather related disasters, from brutal cold and record breaking rainfall that delay planting, devastating drought that lead to lower yield, or destructive hail and early frost that completely decimate the crop: Also check out SOTT's monthly documentary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - June 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Record heat everywhere, why are Northern Hemisphere temperatures balanced?


Adapt 2030
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 15:06 UTC
sea pier
Record heat in Portugal and 0.2F above normal water in California, which matches 1931 Dust Bowl era temperatures. But looking at all northern hemisphere temperatures, not just where the media wants you to look, you will find an enormous amount of below normal temperatures that balance total temperatures to 0.0C across the entire N. Hemisphere. Incredible as that sounds, lets take a look.


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Unprecedented drought in the Korea's kills 29 people, millions of livestock and decimates crops

Benjamin Haas
Guardian
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 11:37 UTC
drought korea
© Kim Kwang Hyon/APTemperatures have reached more than 40C in some regions of North Korea since late July.
The North Korean government has called on its people to wage an "all-out battle" against a record heatwave as the country's already fragile crops face drought and the authorities struggle to respond.

The drought represented an "unprecedented natural disaster", reported the Rodong Sinmun newspaper, the mouthpiece of the ruling Workers' party. It urged citizens to "join the struggle" to save food production in a country that is no stranger to famine. Temperatures have reached more than 40C (104F) in some regions since late July and there have been sporadic reports of deaths from the heat.

"This high-temperature phenomenon is the largest, unprecedented natural disaster, but not an obstacle we cannot overcome," a commentary in Rodong Sinmun said. "Extreme high temperatures and droughts have begun affecting farming crops, including rice and corn. We should muster all our power and capacity to fight high temperatures and droughts."


Comment: The Guardian is well known for peddling the much discredited theory of Globull Warming and so it's expected that the main thrust of their story would be that the heat is to blame for this natural disaster, but it should be borne in mind that it's probably not the 'heat' that has killed the cattle and crops, but the drought.


Comment: Record breaking drought conditions all over the world are making the headlines this year, meanwhile so are stories of torrential rains causing dams to burst:

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Massive hail injures multiple people, kills zoo animals and damages 400 vehicles in Colorado Springs

Benjamin Lloyd
KOAA News 5
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 11:35 UTC
colorado hail August zoo
Colorado Springs Police and the Fire Department rushed to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo to help people with serious injuries at the facility from a major hail storm around 3 p.m. The fire department says five people were taken to the hospital by ambulance while 11 others were treated on scene and released.

The zoo is currently closed and will remain closed for a damage assessment Tuesday. Unfortunately, a 4-year-old muscovy duck named Daisy and a 13-year-old cape vulture Motswari were killed by the hailstones.

People at the zoo were told to stay in place as emergency personnel made arrangements for evacuations to Cheyenne Mountain High School for reunification efforts for families and large groups.

Comment: Hail is increasingly becoming a threat to life both in the form of a direct hit and its ability to decimate crops. Its sudden appearance all over the planet and at any time of the year provides more evidence that our atmosphere and climate patterns are changing, with a trend toward serious cooling:




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1911: When Britain boiled and society began to shift

Juliet Nicolson
Daily Mail
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 22:00 UTC
1911 heatwave UK
August 1911: A group of girls have waded into the Serpentine in London's Hyde Park to keep cool during the heatwave
During a steamy, record-breaking British summer, unease - even madness - filtered through the bright sunshine.

One sweltering August morning, it became too much for one man, who set off on the ten-mile walk from his Essex village to his office in the town of Braintree.

He had never known temperatures like it. After each mile, he removed a piece of clothing and hurled it into the hedgerow as he passed.

Hat, jacket, waistcoat, tie, shirt, trousers, all decorated the wilting hawthorn on his route. He was arrested as soon as he hit Braintree High Street, stark naked, semi-raving and certified by Braintree police as suffering from 'heat insanity'.

Then, like now, it was a summer of unprecedented heat lasting from May to September, as temperatures rocketed above 100F.

Comment: The aberrations in weather, in wealth disparity, social discord, in political scheming and establishment control, and in how (some) people viewed that time seemed to be "running out", is eerily similar to our own era. What followed 1911 were two world wars and unimaginable change so one wonders what our own future has in store:

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Devastating drought, heat wave hammer farms across northern Europe

Rachel Elbaum
MSN
Thu, 02 Aug 2018 11:51 UTC
Algarheim in Akershus. drought norway
© Fredrik Hagen / NTB scanpixAlgarheim in Akershus.
Brown is the color of summer in northern Europe this year.

Fields that are usually covered in lush green grass have now turned to dust, trees are shedding their leaves and animals eating dry hay or grain instead of grazing in pastures.

Farmers in around a dozen countries — from Ireland to the Baltics — are grappling with a once-in-a-generation drought. The unrelenting heat wave has devastated crops, with more than half of the harvest expected to be lost in some areas.

"I have never seen this type of hot and dry weather, and I've been farming over 30 years," Max Schulman told NBC News from his farm about 35 miles outside of Helsinki, where he grows beans, oats, wheat and oilseeds.

Schulman says his farm has received just 3 inches of rain since the end of April, compared with 10 to 14 inches most years.
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Temperatures reach 47C in parts of Spain and Portugal as intense heatwave in western Europe continues


Severe Weather Europe
Sun, 05 Aug 2018 09:57 UTC
spain heatwave
© AP Photo/Francisco SecoPeople cool off in an urban beach at Madrid's Rio park, Friday, Aug. 3, 2018. Spain’s Meteorological Agency says eight provinces in the southern Andalusia region and around Madrid are under high risk because of the heatwave.
The intense heat wave in the southwestern part of the Iberian peninsula continues. For three days in a row now temperatures have peaked at 46-47 °C. Today will be hot again, with peak temperatures just slightly lower than in the past days.

This has been an very intense heat wave for parts of Spain and Portugal. While it did not break the all time European record, temperatures climbed to 46.6 °C on Friday. Yesterday pushed up to at least 46.6 °C, we will be posting an analysis shortly.

Today will be another very hot day, however, peak temperatures will likely be about a degree or so lower than the past few days. Expect peak temperatures around 44-45 °C. The hottest regions will again be southern and central Portugal and southwestern Spain (Andalusia and Extremadura).

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Temperatures in southwestern Iberia August 4, 2018
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Drought in Norway causes over $133 million in crop losses - Lowest rainfall in 70 years


Xinhua
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 01:05 UTC
Algarheim in Akershus. drought norway
© Fredrik Hagen / NTB scanpixAlgarheim in Akershus.
Preliminary calculations in Norway showed crop damage caused by drought this summer might worth 1.1 billion kroner (133.7 million U.S. dollars), news agency NTB reported Friday.

"This shows what extremely demanding situation we are in when there are such big damages. It says both about the challenges of the farmers and how solid the compensation scheme for crop damage is. It will cover these costs," Minister of Agriculture and Food Jon Georg Dale said.

Grass and grain producers in southern Norway will apply for state compensation of more than 1 billion kroner, while potato, vegetables, berry and fruit producers will probably seek compensation of around 60 million kroner, NTB wrote.

Comment: Compensation for crop losses can only do so much, people still need to eat! Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?

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