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In the New York Times article, the farmer said that wet summers were forecast by computer models, but the State of Minnesota reports the opposite.

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We’ve all heard about Chelsea’s problems in defence – they don’t really have one at the minute – but Newcastle’s central pairing have exactly no league starts between them this season. Today looks like a good opportunity for Chelsea to end their woeful recent run.

Six minutes later …

GOAL!!!!!!!!!! Newcastle 1-0 Chelsea (Carroll 6min) Remember what I was saying about Chelsea having no decent centre-backs? Alex cleverly beats his own keeper who scrambles out of his goal for no apparent reason. Carroll is pelting back and nudges the ball into an empty net. Oh dear.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/nov/28/newcastle-united-chelsea-live

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/208012/Winter-to-be-mild-predicts-Met-Office/#

http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFLDE6AO17120101125

http://www.thedailygreen.com/

http://www.france24.com/en/20100106-cold-spell-europe-snow-chaos-uk-weather

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/opinion/28hedin.html

He probably would have liked the Dust Bowl better.

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Meteorological Autumn is September/October/November.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11855579

h/t to reader “Malaga View”

http://earth.350.org/

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This is an obviously brilliant solution, other than the fact that Brighton Beach hasn’t changed for at least 120 years.

http://www.shellbellestikihut.com/2009/07/vintage-beach-photos-bathing-machines.html

Up to three billion people could lose access to clean water supplies because global temperatures cannot now be stopped from rising by 4C.

We will reach a tipping point from which temperatures will go up even faster. The world will then start to look very different.”

this could lead to the creation of “ghost states” whose governments-in-exile would rule over scattered citizens and land lost to rising seas.

Researchers such as Richard Betts, head of climate impacts at the Met Office, calculate that a 4C rise could occur in less than 50 years, with melting of ice sheets and rising sea levels.

Devastating changes to sea levels, rainfall, water supplies, weather systems and crop yield

http://www.guardian.co.uk/