SOTT Earth Changes Summary - August 2016: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

While TV audiences were distracted by the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the farcical build-up to the US presidential election, the relentless pace of increasing extreme weather events around the world continued in August. Among the trends in environmental upheaval in August, we observed... A record-breaking number of tornadoes in the US for August Another ’1-in-1,000-year flood event’, this time in Louisiana A destructive earthquake in central Italy The fastest comet ever recorded Lots more lightni