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Climatologist Dr. Mark Serreze at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, has announced that the recent appearance of open water at the North Pole “is nothing to be necessarily alarmed about.” He continued, “we have no clear evidence at this point that this is related to global climate change.” He stated that open water at the North Pole is a commonplace occurrence, but the only earlier satellite data showing the phenomenon was from July of 2000, a month earlier than the event reported recently.
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Private reports from the North of England indicate that snow accompanied heavy thunderstorms and a possible tornado earlier today, surprising people in York and Hull, who were dressed in summer clothing. The British Meteorological Bureau issued a severe weather alert for the area, but as yet the snowfall, which was estimated at four inches, has not been officially recorded.

The Met’s Severe Weather Warning

ISSUED BY THE MET OFFICE MONDAY 0830 Slow moving and heavy thunderstorms will affect eastern and northern England, Northern Ireland and southern and central Scotland this afternoon. Some hail is also likely. Localised flooding is expected, along with dangerous driving conditions. Valid until 2000 today
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On Saturday, August 19, 2000, the New York Times reported that the North Pole is melting. “The thick ice that has for ages covered the Arctic Ocean at the pole has turned to water, recent visitors there reported yesterday.” For the first time in fifty million years, there is open water at the very top of the world. “It was totally unexepcted,” said oceanographer Dr. James McCarthy, the co-leader of a group working for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change. Dr. McCarthy was a lecturer aboard a Russian icebreaker that takes tourists to the North Pole during the summer, normally breaking through six to nine feet of ice. For the first time in the ten years the ship has been making the voyage, according to the captain, it has encountered water instead of ice at the North Pole.read more

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As persistent heavy rains and flooding dogged the eastern United States, wildfires raged out of control in the west. As of Friday, August 20, there were 85 major fires burning across the region, with over a million acres burning. Eleven new fires started on Saturday, August 21. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbit said that the fires are likely to get worse, and high winds predicted over the weekend seemed to confirm this. Babbit said that every available fire crew supervisor is already on the job, including some from as far away as Australia and New Zealand. Despite this, 500 more troops are being rushed into the area, even though there are no supervisors available to manage their efforts.

Babbit stated that firefighters have “a blank check” to draw on the US Treasury.
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