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Megafire in Oregon and 60 wildfires in 10 US states, 800,000 hectares of forest destroyed so far in Siberia, the world is a burning torch

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The world is burning like hell! Oregon wildfire becomes Megafire and biggest in the US after burning over 200,000 acres, while more than 60 wildfires are burning in 10 states on the US West Coast.

In the meantime, flames are tearing across 800,000 hectares of forest, and the hardest-hit region of Yakutia in the north has been in a state of emergency for weeks… Terrible!

Russia’s army has sent water-bombing planes to support 2,600 firefighters battling huge wildfires in Siberia.

Flames are tearing across 800,000 hectares of forest, and the hardest-hit region of Yakutia in the north has been in a state of emergency for weeks.

Firefighters are suffocating, their lungs are being poisoned by acrid smoke.

Fires in Russia’s central Chelyabinsk region last week killed one man and destroyed dozens of village homes.

Similar conditions in parts of Canada and the US Pacific north-west have also lead to wildfires. Nearly 60 wildfires were burning across 10 states in the parched American west on Tuesday, with the largest, in Oregon, consuming an area nearly twice the size of Portland.

The Bootleg Fire started in Klamath County on July 6. It has now burned more than 201,000 acres across the state and is currently the largest fire in the nation.

As of Tuesday, the megafire destroyed 54 structures and 21 homes and forced officials to place more than 100 homes under mandatory evacuation orders. The cause of the fire is currently unknown.

The inferno will continue to spread in areas with above-average temperatures and will only be fueled by dry ground and high winds.

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Biblical floods ravage Germany and Belgium killing at least kill 47 – 50 missing, building collapses, widespread power outages

At least 47 people have died and dozens more are missing on July 15 in western Germany after unseasonal heavy rains brought severe flooding to the region.

Biblical floods kill at least 46 in Germany and Belgium in July 2021. Picture via Twitter

Devastating floods swept across a swath of Europe on Thursday, killing at least 47 people in Germany and Belgium and leaving dozens more missing after buildings collapsed, cars were swept away and helicopters were mobilized for rescues amid torrential rainfall.

At least 42 people died in Germany, by far the worst-hit country, as rivers burst their banks, buildings collapsed and whole districts were cut off from rescuers. Others were evacuated over fears dams would give way with more rainfall forecast later this week.

Four more people were killed in the Belgian city of Verviers, prompting prime minister to appeal for international aid. Severe flooding also impacted the Netherlands and Luxembourg, with warnings also issued in France.

“It is a catastrophe, there is no other way to put it,” Malu Dreyer, the premier of Rhineland Palatinate, one of the German states most devastated by flooding, said in a speech to the local parliament. “Entire villages are flooded,” she said. “Houses float away just like that.”

New anomalous jet stream pattern imperils global food supplies

Scientists have identified systematic meanders in the globe-circling northern jet stream that have caused simultaneous crop-damaging heat waves in widely separated breadbasket regions — a previously unquantified threat to global food production.

The new research shows that certain kinds of waves in the atmospheric circulation can become amplified and then lock in place for extended periods, triggering the concurrent heat waves. Affected parts of North America, Europe and Asia together produce a quarter of the world food supply.

Researchers have identified two wavelengths of meanders in the northern hemisphere jet stream that can cause massive heat waves across several major agricultural regions at once. Top, a wave-7 pattern, which over the past 40 years has hurt crop yields in the red-marked areas of central/west North America, western Europe and western Asia. Bottom, a wave-5 pattern, which has affected central North America, eastern Europe and eastern Asia.

“We found a 20-fold increase in the risk of simultaneous heat waves in major crop-producing regions when these global-scale wind patterns are in place,” said lead author Kai Kornhuber, a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. “Until now, this was an underexplored vulnerability in the food system. During these events there actually is a global structure in the otherwise quite chaotic circulation. The bell can ring in multiple regions at once.”

Why Are Hundreds Of Giant Sinkholes Suddenly Opening Up All Over The Planet?

 Michael Snyder

Is something very unusual happening to our world?  Hundreds of giant sinkholes have been suddenly appearing all over the globe, and this is deeply alarming a lot of people.  For months, I have been coming across news stories about giant sinkholes during my daily research sessions, and at first I ignored them.  But lately there have been so many stories about giant sinkholes that I decided to start looking into this phenomenon.  Of course there have always been sinkholes, and so it isn’t a shock when one suddenly appears somewhere.  In many cases, they are caused by heavy rain, broken water pipes or earthquakes.  But what is different about 2021 is the fact that hundreds and hundreds of absolutely enormous sinkholes have been suddenly appearing all over the globe.  Is this just a “bad year”, or is this an indication that something truly strange is happening to the crust of our planet?

Let me start by talking about a giant sinkhole that just keeps growing in Mexico.  It is now 124 meters wide, and it has already swallowed a house and two dogs…

But this sort of a thing is happening all over the globe.  For example, a 17-year-old kid recently discovered a sinkhole that is 200 feet deep in his grandfather’s field that literally developed in just one night…

The night before, he’d been walking in the area, and he said there was no indication of the geologic disturbance. But the next morning, he says he nearly fell into the hole. Had he done so, tragedy would have resulted as the sinkhole is 9 feet across and roughly 200 feet deep.

On Sunday, two vehicles fell into a large sinkhole that suddenly appeared in a key section of Manhattan…

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