Massive storm descending in Iceland - will be among worst ever

The hurricane-force low pressure center is intensifying rapidly northwest of Ireland, with a swirling cloud pattern visible on satellite imagery moving toward Iceland. The storm is projected to peak in intensity with a minimum central pressure of between 927 and 933 millibars on Wednesday morning.

This could be strong enough to bring it into the top 5 strongest storms on record in this part of the North Atlantic.

“It might get into the top 5, but I highly doubt it’ll break the record,” said Dave Kosier, a meteorologist with the Ocean Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, in an interview with Mashable.

Read the Mashable story - “Historic storm set to slam Iceland, northern UK with hurricane-force winds.”

2015 a big year for climate change

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015 is a big year for climate change.

Besides the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to take place in Paris later this year, the U.N. is scheduled to ratify its 17 proposed sustainable development goals in September — several of which aim to preserve the world's ecosystems and combat climate change.

With Mashable's sixth annual Social Good Summit just months away, and the United Nations Foundation promoting climate change as its #Action2015 theme this month, we pulled search data from Google Trends to take a closer look at interest in climate change around the world.

Study the Mashable story - “These are the countries most and least interested in climate change”.

Climate change brings inexplicable and confusing weather

Climate change brings with it weather conditions which to most people are inexplicable, confusing and so far beyond our experience that we struggle to make sense of them.

Climate change, or global warming, is about a base warming of the planet and that brings multiple disruptions to earth’s weather system and subsequently unsettles centuries of human experience about what is normal.

The benign weather system that has allowed humanity to tighten its grip on earth is vanishing and we are now seeing events that are beyond traditional experience to explain.

Mashable talks about these contradictory happenings in its story: “Despite frigid conditions in the East, U.S. seeing more record warmth this winter”.

It says: “The U.S. is experiencing one of the most unusual winters in years, with a pronounced and enduring bubble of warm, high pressure over the West, and blast after blast of frigid Arctic air and heavy snow in the eastern two-thirds of the country.”