New record-breaking heat wave, Europe, Asia!! Record-breaking heat, UK: 98-degrees heat, breaks all records!!!

Historic, deadly heat wave slams Japan with blistering temperatures headed into August
Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY Published 12:15 p.m. ET July 24, 2018



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More fake news.

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No less than 10 distinct facets of what scientists call the Earth System could switch from neutral or helpful to harmful, eventually dumping more CO2 and methane into the atmosphere than all human activity combined.

Most have temperature “tipping points” beyond which the release of these planet-warming gases would be irreversible, at least on a human timescale.

“The feedback process becomes self-perpetuating after a critical threshold is crossed,” the study said.

“The Earth System may be approaching a planetary threshold that could lock in a continuing, rapid pathway towards much hotter conditions — Hothouse Earth.”

Weakened carbon “sinks”

Earth’s forests and oceans have together absorbed more than half of carbon pollution over the last several decades, even as those emissions grew.

But forests are shrinking and oceans are showing signs of CO2 saturation, according to recent studies.

These carbon sponges or “sinks,” in other words, may be weakening.



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tangential science item:


The rarest diamonds on Earth were forged hundreds of miles below its surface, scientists announced on Thursday.

A team of geologists and gemologists from Australia and the U.S. analyzed 46 blue diamonds, including one from South Africa that sold for $25 million in 2016, to determine that the precious gems are formed at depths of 410 miles below the Earth’s surface. The findings were published in the journal Nature.

For perspective, the International Space Station orbits about 250 miles above the Earth and the deepest humans ever have drilled below the surface is about seven miles.

Blue diamonds comprise about 0.02 percent of mined diamonds, according to experts, but they include some of the world’s most exquisite jewels. Their origins long have been shrouded in mystery.

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So then, how do they reach the surface?? volcanoes? plate tectonics?

Meanwhile in Scotland...

up to 40 Celcius (104 F) in Poland during a day since 2 weeks. 30 C ( 86 F) at night.

Norway Artic Circle 30 C

The killer weather conditions have already claimed three lives around the Continent and temperatures threaten to break the Greek 47C 1977 record, today.

A shocking map from WXCharts shows Spain and Portugal turning black for the intensity of the scorching temperatures.

The weather model also shows other parts of Europe, including the UK, being hit by sweltering temperatures above the 30C mark.

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