Hot African air brings scorching heat, dust to Europe

Hot air sweeping north from Africa is bringing more brutal, paralyzing temperatures across Europe. 

In addition to prompting health warnings across the continent, the heat has reshaped life — and sometimes the very landscape — of the continent.

Sweden has a new highest point.

As of Wednesday, the country’s highest peak had lost its title because record heat has melted away the tip of a glacier atop the Kebnekaise mountain.

Read the story from The Boston Globe - “Hot African air brings scorching heat, dust to Europe.”

The thing we dare not speak of - revolution

James Hansen.

Civil disobedience has been discussed Beneath the Wisteria, but never revolution.

But now, it seems, any response that is going to have an impact will be just that, a revolution.

The profit and growth machinery of the rather brutish capitalistic machinery is such that it seems it will only ever be slowed by something equally brutal, a revolution.

James Hansen, who voluntarily ended his career with NASA to allow him unimpeded freedom of thought and action to concentrate on climate change advocacy, is contemplating a legal challenge to the U.S. Government for failing to act on climate change on behalf of younger generations.

In a story headed: “The only way to stop climate change now may be revolution”, Quartz said discussed a paper presented at the American Geophysical Union that called for: “Environmental direct action, resistance taken from outside the dominant culture, as in protests, blockades and sabotage by indigenous peoples, workers, anarchists and other activist groups”.