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Ice Age Farmer Report: "Nobody's Prepared For This..."


Ice Age Farmer
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:43 UTC
dead cow
Food production is collapsing. Finland posted its worst grain yield this century; the situation is dire across Europe. Orange peels and sour watermelons are the only thing keeping some livestock alive in Australia. Damages due to weeks of rain in Japan. Christian shares reports from farmers on the ground, and makes clear the very real effects on food production and prices globally. Start preparing now.

Spread the truth - these are natural cycles, and it's up to us to build anti-fragile communities in order to thrive in the times ahead.


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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: NOAA satellites malfunction as Arctic ice increases, 4 year gap expected


Adapt 2030
Fri, 27 Jul 2018 12:33 UTC
arctic ice
Expect a "Gap" in Arctic ice measurement as ageing satellites are all planned to go down at the same time starting next year. Beyond that strange circumstance, the replacements planned are now on hold as NOAA's newest launch malfunctioned and all other launches are on hold, which include ice mapping satellites for a gap of 4 years, all while Arctic ice begins to recover in cooler water pulses into the Arctic and the Grand Solar Minimum intensifies.

Its as if the satellites are being purposefully taken off line so the media and governments of the planet wont have to explain why ice recovered so quickly with such summer thickness.


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Heat relief with a price: Thunderstorms forecast to sweep Britain; Met warns of possible hail, strong winds and flash flooding

Harriett Agerholm
The Independent
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC
Londoners keeping cool Jul 2018 heatwave
Relief from a blistering heatwave across the UK could come on Friday afternoon, when sunny skies are expected to give way to scattered thunderstorms.

Friday could be Britain's warmest ever July day - and possibly even its hottest day on record.

While temperatures of 35C to 36C are widely forecast for the south east, "there is a possibility that the July maximum temperature - 36.7C - will be reached," Bonnie Diamond, a press officer at the Met Office, said.

"There is also a 20 per cent possibility the all-time high could be reached."

The hottest temperature on record is 38.5C in August 2003.

But torrential downpours are forecast to hit parts of the UK, with as much as 30mm expected to fall in just an hour.

"Scattered thunderstorms will develop and there is a danger of flash flooding," Ms Diamond said.
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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Drought reveals ancient henges and ruins in Europe


Adapt 2030
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:31 UTC
Cropmarks of a large Bronze Age barrow cemetery on the Llyn Peninsula
© Crown Copyright RCAHMWCropmarks of a large Bronze Age barrow cemetery on the Llyn Peninsula
The drought in Europe has revealed an enormous amount of ancient ruins and henges across the UK and Ireland. Astonishing that these foundations and structures were undiscovered all these years.

Massive hail storms in France, feet deep snow in Italy and lightning that is a plasma bolt.


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Scorched Sweden faces continued "extreme" fire risk in coming days


New Straits Times
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:46 UTC
sweden wildfire 2018
© EPA By AFPA chartered helicopter dumps a load of water ontio a smouldering spot in a forest near the village Grotingen in the Bracke municipality to fight one of many wild fires in central Sweden, 22 July 2018. Sweden meanwhile has called for emergency assistance from the European Union to tackle the dozens of wildfires raging across the country. Italian and French fire fighting planes as well as fire engines from Poland and firefighters from other EU countries joined in the efforts to contain and extinguish the wild fires. July 24, 2018 @ 2:00am
Sweden warned Monday of an "extreme" risk of fresh forest fires as much of Scandinavia baked in a heatwave and dozens of fires hit countries across northern Europe.

Sweden's civil protection agency MSB counted 27 active fires across the country on Monday, half the previous day's number, as temperatures were expected to soar as high as 35 Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) this week.

Other European countries including France, Italy and Germany have sent a mix of plane, trucks and firefighters to help tackle the blazes as Sweden, where usual summer temperatures are closer to 23 Celsius, has struggled to contain the crisis.

Some 25,000 hectares (62,000 acres) of land has already gone up in smoke or continues to burn - an area twice the size of the city of Paris.

Comment: After a brutally cold winter and epic flooding throughout spring, Europe is now on fire:

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"Perfect storm": UK farming crisis as areas suffer worst drought for 225 years

Zoie O'brien
Daily Mail
Mon, 23 Jul 2018 15:53 UTC
Cracks in the ground on Hampstead Heath, London,
© PACracks in the ground on Hampstead Heath, London, as the hot weather continues across the country.

Britain may be enjoying the summer sunshine now - but the weather could soon have upsetting consequences for the nation's farmers, who are struggling to save both their crops and their animals.

Soaring temperatures have led to a heatwave bringing prolonged dry spells, meaning while Brits basked on the beaches, farmers were manually carrying water to cattle to try to keep them hydrated, on the hottest day of the year so far, on Monday.

Greg Cotterell, of Bank Top farm in Fenny Bentley, said to The Derby Telegraph the well he was forced to manually dug up for his cows is only producing a quarter of what they need.

The drastic way to get water to them was necessary because of the water shortage in seven villages in the area, he revealed.

Cattle are used to grazing on green grass with plenty of water but the drought conditions across the country are causing major problems for farmers
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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: How did the media overlook this in the northern hemisphere


Adapt 2030
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 19:31 UTC
Resolute Bay, NU
Resolute Bay, NU (Stock photo)
Record heat in Scandinavia brought by the remnants of a warm water hurricane pulled into the atmospheric flow, centering that heat over northern Europe. All the while 2000 miles west, its snowing in Canada with well below normal temperatures. Looking at temperatures across N. America, doesn't seem like the end of the world heat, at all. You decide if what you are being told in the news is true.


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Sweden now battling over 50 wildfires, authorities say some 'impossible to extinguish'


DW
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC
Sweden wildfires Jul 2018
Large numbers of evacuations have taken place over the past two days, and thousands more residents have been ordered to keep their windows shut to avoid breathing the smoky air.

More than 50 wildfires - 10 more than the previous day - are now alight across central and western Sweden, but also above the Arctic Circle, authorities confirmed on Friday.

Sweden's head of civil defense Dan Eliasson said fire crews were struggling to bring the most ferocious forest fires in years under control.

He said four of the fires had become too large for firefighters to extinguish. And with no rain in sight, the situation was unlikely to improve over the weekend, he said.

"We will not be able to extinguish the largest fires," Eliasson said. "In these cases, rescue services are working to minimize the spread of the flames and wait until the weather changes."

Comment: Euronews reports Poland has joined other EU countries helping to battle the wildfires which are being attributed to hot weather and low rainfall:
Data from the European Commission's Joint Research Centre showed that there had been 53 wildfires this year, as of Thursday.

Normally by this time of year, there would have been three such fires, its data showed.

Many parts of Sweden have seen their driest weather in the May to mid-July period since records began in the 19th century, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) said.


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US and Mexico offer assistance as Canada battles 63 forest fires in northern Ontario


CBC News
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:13 UTC
wildfires ontario July 2018
© Dr. Crayfish/TwitterAn environmental scientist who calls himself 'Dr. Crayfish' tweeted this photo of the scene from a boat in northern Ontario on Saturday. He wrote: 'Scary forest fires burning near Key River Ontario yesterday turned the sky orange!'

Crews fighting forest fires in northern Ontario are receiving help from other provinces, the U.S. and Mexico as they try to contain a cluster of blazes after days of hot and humid weather.

Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry said in a release that, as of Sunday afternoon, 63 forest fires were burning in the northern and northeastern parts of the province, with 28 of them out of control. The ministry said 35 fires are either being held or being observed.

Isabelle Chenard, a fire information officer for the ministry, says 775 fires have consumed 181,000 hectares of the province this year. That number has grown more than 75 per cent since this time last year, she explained.

Since Canada Day, Chenard says, a swath of fires have been started by lightning strikes.

"Several waves of lightning that have passed through the northeast side of the province with very little precipitation," she added.
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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Grand Solar Minimum resources, July snow Greenland and 1930's hurricanes


Adapt 2030
Mon, 23 Jul 2018 19:20 UTC
hurricane
New interactive Grand Solar Minimum Resource, Abundant Harvest, hyperlinks to resources/ videos, websites and topics covered in the PDF by section. Also Joe Bastardi talking about a repeat of 1930's intensity of hurricane patterns over these next few years because of Atlantic water temperature set up similar to 1903's. Greenland expecting 2+ feet of snow over the next few days, covering the entire island and Arctic sea ice is still incredibly thick with the onset of freeze season in just five weeks.


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