BEIJING, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) — China lifted an average of 13.9 million people out of poverty each year from 2012 to 2016, and the annual per capita income in impoverished rural areas has grown 10.7 percent every year, according to a report from the State Council Tuesday.

Blöschl et al (2017, ref 1) published a paper in Science that purports to show flooding in S England occurs every year but only ever in January and that flooding is disconnected in time from extreme rainfall events via water storage in soils. The changing pattern with time is ascribed to man-made climate change and implications for insurance were highlighted by the Financial Times.

On the international stage, there are few things more frightening to the world at large than the looming possibility of nuclear war.

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Strange goings on onboard Pen Hadow’s little expedition. You may recall what he said when he announced on Aug 30th they were turning back south:

Australia is a large continent in the Southern Hemisphere. The temperatures measured and recorded by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology contribute to the calculation of global averages. These values, of course, suggest catastrophic human-caused global warming.

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One of the most powerful X-ray machines ever built has officially opened in the German city of Hamburg. The facility, which has cost more than a billion euros to build, will be used to study the detailed structure of matter, atom by atom.

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The apparent hydrogen bomb that North Korea is believed to have detonated underground on Sunday was a massive explosion.

Way back in February, Global Weather Oscillations (GWO) veteran meteorologist David Dilley predicted that the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season would be “the most dangerous and costliest in 12 years for the United States.”

Three potentially habitable Earth-sized planets in another solar system are likely to contain substantial amounts of water, say astronomers.

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A manta ray mothership, eel-like drones and fish-shaped torpedoes… not things from a sci-fi movie but visions of the Royal Navy submarines of the future.

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A planetary takeover by ocean-dwelling algae 650 million years ago was the kick that transformed life on Earth.

That’s what geochemists argue in Nature this week, on the basis of invisibly small traces of biomolecules dug up from beneath the Australian desert. The molecules mark an explosion in the quantity of algae in the oceans.

Again and again, our sympathies, donations, and support for the victims of hurricane Harvey should be foremost in everyone’s mind. But let’s pause and reflect as the climate hysterics are at it again.

Hurricane Harvey presented a golden opportunity to global warming hysterics who are trying mightily to connect the storm’s intensity to climate change.

Arctic sea ice extent is up 25% over the past five years. Green shows ice gain since August 30, 2012.

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Extent is fourth highest in a decade.

Ten years ago, the government of Australia announced the permanent drought.

This drought may never break – Environment – smh.com.au

Two years later it was raining so much in Australia that sea level was falling.

We keep being told by climate [alarmists] that global warming is responsible for more intensive rainfall, the theory that a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture. Funny then that when we look at rainfall records across the US for all sorts of different timescales, we find none at all since 1981. –Paul Homewood, Not A Lot Of People Know That, 30 August 2017