Posts Tagged ‘downpours’

Extreme Heat Followed by Downpours Once Characterized ‘Hothouse Earth’

New research has found that the so-called hothouse Earth periods in our planet’s remote past were actually periods of extreme hot dry temperatures, hotter than today by 20-30 degrees Fahrenheit (17 degrees Celsius), followed by rain deluges hundreds of miles wide that could offload as much as a foot (30 centimeters) of rain in just […]

Seven killed in floods after torrential downpours on Greek island

At least seven people including a baby and an elderly couple have died following flash flooding caused by torrential rain on the Greek island of Evia. Many people had to be airlifted to safety after roads were flooded, and the fire department has received hundreds of calls to pump water from houses and vehicles. One […]

Why the Russian diplomatic corps continuously shows up its US counterpart

     All too often, US diplomats are little more than campaign finance hustlers, totally ill-equipped to handle their Russian colleagues I was reading a post on RI today written by the Saker entitled Russia Inflicts Another Massive Defeat on the USA in which he analyzed the dramatic loss US diplomats suffered at the hands of […]

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