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6/28/2019 5:38:15 PM

The heat wave in Europe is so intense that a weather map of France looks like a screaming heat skull of death

  • Sinéad Baker
  • Jun 27, 2019, 5:19 AM


  • France is facing its worst heat wave since 2003, with the screaming heat skull of death looming.
    Meteoceil
    • Much of Europe is being blasted by an intense heat wave that is causing fear and frustration for locals and officials.
    • And weather maps seem to feel the same way - a temperature forecast for Thursday looked like giant, screaming face looming over France.
    • The forecast map, made by the website Meteociel on June 20, came as Europe prepared for record-breaking temperatures that officials worry could cause significant numbers of deaths.
    • Authorities across Europe are taking precautions such as installing new fountains and pools, canceling school, and restricting driving to help citizens cope with temperatures of more than 40 degrees Celsius, or 104 Fahrenheit.

    The intense heat wave blasting Europe with record-breaking temperatures manifested on a recent weather forecast as a screaming heat skull of death looming over France.

    A forecast map for Thursday, first created June 20, showed France's scorching temperatures creating a giant, screaming face over the country as the country braced itself for the hottest temperatures since a 2003 heat wave killed 15,000 people in the country.

    A French meteorologist named Ruben Hallali first spotted the map, and he shared it on Twitter alongside Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream."

    A gauche carte des températures à 1500m prévues par GFS. A droite le cri de Munch.
    Jamais vu ça en 15 que je regarde des cartes météo

    He said he had never seen anything like the image in 15 years of looking at maps of heat waves.

    The map was published by the French website Météociel, which uses different forecasts to generate visualizations of the weather. A Météociel spokesman told CNN that the map was generated from the US Global Forecast System and that its distinctive form happened by chance.

    Read more: 'Hell is coming': Western Europe braces for its hottest weather since a 2003 heat wave killed 15,000 people in France

    "It just happened to be possible to imagine a special form of a skull in this map," he said.

    "There are so many maps created on our site for each updated forecast that it is statistically possible for some to look like something."


    Tourists and Parisians cooling off in the water of the Trocadero fountain at the foot of the Eiffel Tower on Monday.
    Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images

    Areas of France, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Spain have experienced record-breaking temperatures this week, with some areas seeing heat of more than 40 degrees Celsius, or 104 Fahrenheit. Temperatures could still rise further as the weekend approaches.

    People are bathing in public fountains, and a man in Germany is said to have run naked through a supermarket freezer aisle.

    Paris has banned older cars from the city, and Germany's autobahn highways have introduced speed limits in a bid to prevent excessive pollution in the heat, the Associated Press reported.

    Read more: Bathing in fountains, new speed limits, and running naked down the freezer aisle: Here are all the ways people are trying to keep cool in Europe's heat wave

    In France, schools have been closed and state exams postponed as cities install extra swimming pools, water fountains, mist machines, and "cool rooms" meant to keep people cool.

    Zoo animals across the continent are also being given frozen treats and extra water.

    At least three people have died as a result of the heat wave, according to the regional French newspaper Midi Libre. It reported that the people died of cold shock after jumping into cold water to escape the heat.


    (amp.businessinsider.com)


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    7/1/2019 10:34:41 PM

    The Earth Strikes Back – 10 Signs That Nature Has Turned Against Humanity

    June 30, 2019


    All over the planet, nature is starting to behave in some very unusual ways. And unfortunately for us, a lot of the changes that we are witnessing in nature are quite detrimental for humanity. Of course the truth is that we haven’t exactly been too kind to the planet that we are living on. In fact, many would argue that we are in the process of absolutely devastating the Earth, and most of us don’t feel bad about that at all. So could it be possible that it is now payback time?

    Let me give you just one quick example of how we are destroying the planet. According to a recent survey of U.S. beekeepers, an astounding 37 percent of all honeybee colonies were lost over the winter…

    Every year since 2006, the University of Maryland’s nonprofitBee Informed Partnership (BIP) conducts an annual survey to determine how many bee colonies were lost over the course of the year. The 2018–2019 survey asked 4,696 U.S. beekeepers to report how many colonies they lost, and the preliminary results of the survey suggest that things aren’t looking so good.

    Of the more than 319,000 managed bee colonies in the survey, 37.7 percent were lost over the winter. This represents the largest die-off since the survey began, and a full 7 percentage points higher than the previous year. Having fewer honeybees is more than just an ecological problem, it’s also an economic one: Every year, honeybees contribute a nearly $20 billion value to U.S. crop production.

    Of course we don’t have to look too far to find the culprit. We are the ones that are killing all the bees off, and in the process we are setting the stage for an unprecedented ecological disaster, because if all the bees suddenly vanished human civilization would not last much longer at all.

    In the end, we will be held accountable for what has been entrusted to us, and it appears that we are starting to get what we deserve.

    The following are 10 signs that nature has turned against humanity…

    #1 In the middle of the country, farmers are freaking out because giant black vultures are literally eating their farm animals alive. And since the vultures are “federally-protected”, the farmers can’t do anything about it

    They’ll devour slimy newborn calves, full-grown ewes and lambs alive by pecking them to death.

    First the eyes, then the tongue, then every last shred of flesh.

    And there isn’t much defense against black vultures and turkey vultures, both of which are federally protected and cannot be killed without a permit.

    #2 All up and down the east coast, Americans are becoming the victims of “flesh-eating bacteria” when they go into the water. Here is one recent example from Florida

    A woman who cut herself while walking along the water on the Florida beach she loved died after contracting necrotizing fasciitis, becoming the latest victim of the flesh-eating bacteria.

    Lynn Fleming, from Ellenton, about 15 miles north of Sarasota, fell and cut herself while she was walking at Coquina Beach on nearby Anna Maria Island two weeks ago.

    At this point things have gotten so bad that the CDC is telling people with open wounds “to avoid bodies of water, especially swimming pools and hot tubs.”

    #3 For decades, cockroaches have been multiplying despite our best efforts to eradicate them with insecticides. But now they are developing resistance to our insecticides, and researchers are warning that this will make them“invulnerable”

    The day that squeamish humans—and exterminators—have long feared may have come at last: Cockroaches are becoming invincible. Or at least German cockroaches (Blattella germanica) are, according to a new study. Researchers have found that these creatures, which have long been a prevalent urban pest, are becoming increasingly resistant to almost every kind of chemical insecticide.

    Not all insecticides are created equal. Some degrade the nervous system, whereas others attack the exoskeleton; they also have to be left out for varying amounts of time. But many insects, including cockroaches, have evolved resistance to at least one of the most commonly-used insecticides.

    #4 Last week it was hotter in some parts of Europe that it has ever been before. In fact, in one region in France the temperature actually hit 114 degrees Fahrenheit

    Hundreds of firefighters battled on Saturday to contain wildfires in southern France as a stifling heatwave brought record-breaking temperatures to parts of Europe, killing at least three people in Italy.

    In the Gard region, where France’s highest temperature on record was registered on Friday at 45.9 degrees Celsius (114 degrees Fahrenheit), scores of fires burned some 600 hectares (about 1,500 acres) of land and destroyed several houses and vehicles, emergency services said.

    #5 Along the California coastline, temperatures have been so hot that mussels have actually been “roasting in their shells”

    A record-breaking June heatwave apparently caused the largest die-off of mussels in at least 15 years at Bodega Head, a small headland on the northern California bay. And Sones received reports from other researchers of similar mass mussel deaths at various beaches across roughly 140 miles of coastline.

    While the people who flocked to the Pacific to enjoy a rare 80F beach day soaked up the sun, so did the mussel beds – where the rock-bound mollusks could have been experiencing temperatures above 100F at low tide, literally roasting in their shells.

    #6 And of course the east coast is not being left out either. According to meteorologists, some portions of the east coast could see heat index values hit 110 degrees “as early as Wednesday”

    Another round of oppressive heat is already in the forecast this week for the East Coast with oppressive heat index values on the way for the parts of the Southeast by midweek. Heat index values could approaching 105 to 110 degrees in parts of the region as early as Wednesday.

    Major cities from North Carolina to New Jersey will see a long stretch of temperatures at or above 90 degrees, which means another heat wave is on the way for cities like Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.

    #7 Thanks to the unusually high temperatures, wasp nests are absolutely thriving across the southern United States. In fact, one expert anticipates that there will be dozens of “super nests” in his area this year…

    Warmer winters contribute to these nests, Mr. Ray said. Most yellow jackets don’t survive the cold months because they freeze to death or have trouble finding food. They need a fair amount of sugar and carbohydrates, he said.

    “The queens are the only ones who have an antifreeze compound in their blood,” Mr. Ray said. “So normally, a surviving queen will have to start a colony from scratch in the spring. With our climate becoming warmer, there might be multiple surviving queens producing more than 20,000 eggs each.”

    #8 Meanwhile, the middle of the country is being absolutely hammered by the wettest year that it has ever experienced. And just when you thought that it couldn’t possibly get any wetter, more storms are scheduled to come rolling through

    But a new system was moving through the Northern Plains Sunday morning and already bringing some severe storms to Minnesota.

    The system will attempt to bring some cooler air down from Canada, which will interact with the heat situated in the Midwest and spark storms across parts of the Plains and the Midwest, from Wyoming to Illinois.

    #9 In recent months we have also seen unusually large hail absolutely hammer communities all over the country. For example, it is being reported that some portions of Montana were just hit with “baseball-sized hail”…

    Thunderstorms that moved through southwestern Montana dropped baseball-sized hail in western Powder River County and golf ball-sized hail as the storm moved to the east.

    The National Weather Service reports Wednesday night’s storm left behind broken windows and damaged crops.

    Baseball-sized hail fell near Moorhead, a community about 35 miles southwest of Broadus, while Broadus recorded a 70 mph (113 kph) wind gust. Communities just north of Moorhead reported golf ball-sized hail.

    #10 Needless to say, all of this wet weather has just continued to feed the unprecedented flooding that we have seen along our major rivers. At this point, we are being told that the horrific flooding along the Mississippi River may go beyond the end of the summer

    The 2019 Mississippi River flood fight is going to slog deep into the summer — and maybe much longer.

    While communities north of St. Louis are beginning the expensive path to recovery after record-breaking winter and spring precipitation and runoff, people below the Missouri River are shoveling mud from their houses and praying for a dry spell.

    The Lower Mississippi Valley remains in a flood crisis as high water continues to swamp streets, homes, businesses, sewage and water treatment plants, and farm fields, including across some of the poorest counties in the United States.

    These are ten examples that have just been in the news during the past few days. If I wanted to cover all of the unusual events that we have witnessed so far in 2019 I would have to write an entire book.

    The truth is that global weather patterns are dramatically shifting and our planet is becoming increasingly unstable. And no matter how hard humanity tries to find solutions, the reality of the matter is that things are going to continue to get worse.

    We have passed the tipping point, and we are starting to experience the consequences for decades of exceedingly foolish decisions.

    We have entered the time of “the perfect storm”, and everything that can be shaken will be shaken.

    (endoftheamericandream.com)


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    7/24/2019 5:05:17 PM

    Intense European heat wave roasts millions as all-time records tumble

    A child runs under sprinklers on July 23 during a heat wave in Vienna. (Lisi Niesner/Reuters)
    July 23, 2019 at 1:14 PM EDT

    A vast and intense heat wave is underway in Europe as an unusually strong area of high pressure, also known as a “heat dome,” tightens its grip across much of the continent. This event is similar in its causes, but in many ways more intense than the heat wave that enveloped much of Europe in late June and early July.

    Since peak summer temperatures typically occur in mid-July, it is difficult to set all-time records during this time. However, such records are falling, which demonstrates the historical magnitude of this extreme weather event.

    Already on Tuesday, some all-time high temperature records had fallen across France. In Bourdeaux, for example, the high reached at least 106.2 degrees (41.2 Celsius) Tuesday, breaking the record for that location by nearly a full degree, according toMeteo France meteorologist Ettiene Kapikian. Bourdeaux also set an all-time highest minimum temperature Tuesday, Meteo France reported.

    In Paris, the city’s all-time heat record may fall Wednesday or Thursday, if temperatures exceed 104.7 degrees (40.4 Celsius). That record has stood since 1947. Current forecasts show a high of 107.6 in Paris on Thursday.

    Computer model projections show that the heat wave, known in French as la canicule, could last through Friday in Paris and much of the rest of France.

    Londoners are sweltering

    In London, high temperatures are already climbing into the 90s and will continue to do so before the heat wave breaks at the end of the week. The U.K. Met Office is forecasting that the national July heat record of 98.1 degrees (36.7 Celsius) will fall this week, and it is possible that the all-time hottest temperature of 101.3 degrees (38.5 Celsius) will be tied or bested as well.


    The jet stream pattern on July 23, showing the large heat dome diverting upper-level winds north of Western Europe. (Earth Simulator)

    London’s hottest temperature record of 100.6 degrees (38.1 Celsius) is also in jeopardy Thursday.

    As The Washington Post’s Jennifer Hassan reports from London, “air conditioning is not widely available in the United Kingdom, meaning that many across Britain are preparing for hot and sticky commutes to work and, of course, sleepless nights.”

    In Portugal and Spain, the hot, dry conditions are escalating the risk of wildfires, and some large blazes were already burning when the heat wave boosted temperatures further.

    This heat wave is not limited to the westernmost countries in Europe, either. The heat dome responsible for it, which is drawing up air from the Sahara Desert and sending it surging northeastward into continental Europe, will expand north and east, eventually setting up shop as one of the most intense such weather features on record over Scandinavia. Temperatures in Sweden and Norway are forecast to soar by the weekend.

    Kapikian tweeted that the all-time heat records of Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands “will be clearly threatened.”

    The ongoing heat adds to the national heat records set during the June heat wave in eight European countries.

    Climate change is loading the dice in favor of more extreme heat

    The widespread heat wave is tied to both ongoing weather events as well as long-term, human-caused climate change. The Met Office, for example, reports that the country is now experiencing “higher maximum temperatures and longer warm spells” than it used to.

    “The hottest day of the year for the most recent decade (2008-2017) has increased by 0.8°C above the 1961-1990 average*. Warm spells have also more than doubled in length — increasing from 5.3 days in 1961-90 to over 13 days in the most recent decade (2008-2017). South East England has seen some of the most significant changes, with warm spells increasing from around six days in length (during 1961-1990) to over 18 days per year on average during the most recent decade,” the Met Office stated in aresearch report.

    Many other studies have shown that heat waves are now more likely to occur and are more intense and longer-lasting when they do take place across much of the globe because of the overall warming of the planet’s climate.

    For example, in 2019, one study found a record-breaking summer heat wave in Japan during 2018 “could not have happened without human-induced global warming.” A recent rapid attribution analysis, which has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed science journal, showed that the early summer heat wave in Europe was made at least five times more likely to occur in the current climate than if human-caused warming had not occurred.

    (The Washington Post)

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    8/1/2019 5:36:23 PM


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    THE 99 PERCENT

    ‘There’s no doubt left’ about scientific consensus on global warming anymore

    The scientific consensus that humans are causing global warming is likely to have passed 99 percent, according to the lead author of the most authoritative study on the subject, and could rise further after separate research that clears up some of the remaining doubts.

    Three studies published in Nature and Nature Geoscience use extensive historical data to show there has never been a period in the last 2,000 years when temperature changes have been as fast and extensive as in recent decades.

    It had previously been thought that similarly dramatic peaks and troughs might have occurred in the past, including in periods dubbed the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Climate Anomaly. But the three studies use reconstructions based on 700 proxy records of temperature change, such as trees, ice, and sediment, from all continents that indicate none of these shifts took place in more than half the globe at any one time.

    The Little Ice Age, for example, reached its extreme point in the 15th century in the Pacific Ocean, the 17th century in Europe, and the 19th century elsewhere, saysone of the studies. This localization is markedly different from the trend since the late 20th century when records are being broken year after year over almost the entire globe, including this summer’s European heat wave.

    Major temperature shifts in the distant past are also likely to have been primarily caused by volcanic eruptions, according to another of the studies, which helps to explain the strong global fluctuations in the first half of the 18th century as the world started to move from a volcanically cooled era to a climate warmed by human emissions. This has become particularly pronounced since the late 20th century, when temperature rises over two decades or longer have been the most rapid in the past two millennia, notes the third.

    The authors say this highlights how unusual warming has become in recent years as a result of industrial emissions.

    “There is no doubt left — as has been shown extensively in many other studies addressing many different aspects of the climate system using different methods and data sets,” said Stefan Brönnimann, from the University of Bern and the Pages 2K consortium of climate scientists.

    Commenting on the study, other scientists said it was an important breakthrough in the “fingerprinting” task of proving how human responsibility has changed the climate in ways not seen in the past.

    “This paper should finally stop climate change deniers claiming that the recent observed coherent global warming is part of a natural climate cycle. This paper shows the truly stark difference between regional and localized changes in climate of the past and the truly global effect of anthropogenic greenhouse emissions,” said Mark Maslin, professor of climatology at University College London.

    Previous studies have shown near unanimity among climate scientists that human factors — car exhausts, factory chimneys, forest clearance, and other sources of greenhouse gases — are responsible for the exceptional level of global warming.

    A 2013 study in Environmental Research Letters found 97 percent of climate scientists agreed with this link in 12,000 academic papers that contained the words “global warming” or “global climate change” from 1991 to 2011. Last week, that paper hit 1 million downloads, making it the most accessed paper ever among the 80-plus journals published by the Institute of Physics, according to the authors.

    The pushback has been political rather than scientific. In the U.S., the rightwing think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute is reportedly putting pressure on NASA to remove a reference to the 97 percent study from its webpage. The CEI hasreceived event funding from the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers and Charles Koch Institute, which have much to lose from a transition to a low-carbon economy.

    But among academics who study the climate, the convergence of opinion is probably strengthening, according to John Cook, the lead author of the original consensus paper and a follow-up study on the “consensus about consensus” that looked at a range of similar estimates by other academics.

    He said that at the end of his 20-year study period there was more agreement than at the beginning: “There was 99 percent scientific consensus in 2011 that humans are causing global warming.” With ever stronger research since then and increasing heat waves and extreme weather, Cook believes this is likely to have risen further and is now working on an update.

    “As expertise in climate science increases, so too does agreement with human-caused global warming,” Cook
    wrote on the Skeptical Science blog. “The good news is public understanding of the scientific consensus is increasing. The bad news is there is still a lot of work to do yet as climate deniers continue to persistently attack the scientific consensus.”


    (GRIST)


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    8/7/2019 6:29:56 PM

    The Death Throes of a Collapsing Empire

    What will we choose to do with the resurgence of seemingly random mass shootings in the U.S.?

    The view from altitude suggests a series of staged events using specific actors to achieve a desired result. It’s not a stretch to speculate that what’s always been intended by setting such things in motion is to disarm the population and discredit a hated enemy who also happens to be POTUS. All in a desperate and vain attempt to maintain control.

    I found a post on the QRV (1) today that made some excellent points.

    https://voat.co/v/QRV/3368468

    Stocks down 900 points. Citizen journalism wiped off the internet (8ch shut off, VOAT under continued sustained DDoS, Reddit quarantine). Mushroom clouds rising over Russia. Back-to-back mass shootings.

    Why? Because one million documents are set to be made public through the courts that implicate world leaders in Epstein’s criminal activities.

    Why? Courts found that Julian Assange committed no crimes leaking Podesta emails and found no evidence of Russian communications with Wikileaks.

    Why? Dan Coats is out and they lose all access to US intelligence resources.

    Why? Because Mifsud was an FBI agent posing as a Russian agent.

    Why? Because this is their last option to prevent public disclosure.

    This is Shock and Awe, the death throes of a collapsing empire. Stay strong. Don’t be reactionary. We all know our roles as information holders. We are the educators and researchers… the fine-point quill that defies empires with ink.

    The Storm of the Century is here. Flashzones everywhere. Keep your wits. As they panic, remain calm.

    Truth shall prevail.

    Footnote ~ (1) QRV is the forum on VOAT asked for by Q and delivered by a Chan Wizard



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