There’s a 90 percent chance Earth?s temperature will climb between 3 and 9 degrees this century, an international team of scientists reported today. The most likely scenario, according to the European and American scientists, is a rise of between 4 and 7 degrees Fahrenheit above normal temperatures, a spike of about five times the increase recorded this century. If melting arctic areas start outgassing massive quantities of methane, the heating process could be even faster, possibly much faster.
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Scientists are now reporting that Britain?s winter climate could become as cold as Moscow?s, according to new evidence that the vital ocean currents of the North Atlantic are beginning to change.

Measurements over the past 50 years have shown that a key deep-sea current running along the ocean floor that separates Scotland from the Faeroe Islands has slowed down by at least 20 percent. If the discovery is matched at other sites in the North Atlantic it could be the first sign that the warm Gulf Stream, which controls the British climate, is beginning to slow down.
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We are taking the unsual step of devoting the front page entirely to a group of climate stories that have appeared in the last few days. When Whitley Strieber and Art Bell published their book the Coming Global Superstorm, they never dreamed that it would happen this fast. Whitley has said, “these headlines read about like what we were expecting to see in, say, 2015.”

Behind these headlines, there are some crucial facts that must be recognized. First, melting permafrost is releasing massive quantities of methane, which happened just before the last climate flip 14,000 years ago, as was reported in Superstorm.

Second, ocean currents are weakening, another sign that sudden climate change is beginning.
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The National Earthquake Reporting Center of the US Geologic Survey has been offline and its information unavailable since July 18. In addition, the IRIS seismic monitor at the University of Washington is not providing data underneath its map, although the map is allegedly updated through today.

The last updates provided by Seismo-Watch were for July 17, when a 5.8 quake and subsequent micro-quake storm were reported in the area of Corso, California.

In addition to the NERC site being down, the entire USGS site is down. The site replies to ping packets and a route can be traced to it normally, but it ignores connection attempts.
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