January 31, 2007 Wednesday

Extracting Earth's Energy: US Geothermal Ready to Tap Steam
Energy Central - Denver,CO,USA
The earth houses a vast energy supply as geothermal heat. That's a domestic resource that is equivalent to at least a 20000-year energy supply at our ...

’’Veecos MOCVD technology supports Spectrolabs record-breaking ...
Semiconductor Today - Oxford,Oxfordshire,UK We look forward to teaming with Spectrolab for continued solar cell efficiency improvements,” commented Piero Sferlazzo, VP, GM of Veeco's MOCVD Operations.

Tassie farmers concerned about chemical drift
ABC Online - Australia... OGILVIE: Jackie Cox is worried the chemicals will kill her garden and affect her drinking water. JACKIE COX: The only water supply we have is rainwater, ...

Ground radar to be used to find vaults hidden under city streets
Journal Times Online - Racine,WI,USA
“Many of these buildings, when they were built 100-plus years ago, they had underground vaults that extended out beneath the street,” said Rick Jones, ...

Property prices dry up
Courier Mail - Australia
Mr Matusik said if owners expect to get a decent sale price, they "really must have" measures in place, including rainwater tanks and drip systems,

—Risk confidence By thinking the unthinkable, preparedness expert ...
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
Technically, when there's no fallout — after an EMP attack or a massive earthquake, for example — you wouldn't need an underground shelter. ..

Staying out on a limb
Hotel interactive - Smithtown,NY,USA
Tree house style hotels have yet to be common but there are more than a dozen of them worldwide, including some in the United States. .

FACTBOX-What is a lahar and why is it dangerous?
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
Most are produced by intense rainfall sweeping debris down a volcano's slopes after an eruption. - Earthquakes, glacial melting and steam explosions can

Map of volcanoes in Northern Eurasia
innovations report - Bad Homburg,Germany
Klyuchevskaya Sopka’s eruption happen once in several years, but for multiple volcanoes, calm periods can last for centuries. If a volcano has not erupted ...

Supporters say coal should be included in energy plan
Coshocton Tribune - Coshocton,OH,USA
Neither plant does carbon sequestration - piping carbon dioxide into underground storage tanks or reserves to keep it out of the atmosphere. ...

Delta Electronics Chairman Bruce Cheng Endows NCKU with NT$100 ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
The YS Sun Green Building Research Center is to be built at NCKU’s Li-Sin campus. The building will have three levels above ground and one level underground

Earth-shattering proof of continents on the move
PressZoom (press release) - Amsterdam,Netherlands
The 28-strong team is led by University of Leeds geophysicist Dr Tim Wright, who has secured a £2.5 million grant from the Natural Environment Research ...

Chris Freear: Wind power is the best way forward
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand
In conjunction with our hydro and geothermal system, it provides the ability for renewable energy to power this country forever. ...

New Report Finds Potential in New Geothermal Technology
Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
... crust and convert it into electricity. The report found the potential to generate 100000 megawatts of power from geothermal resources within 50 years. ...

January 29, 2007 Monday

Wall to wall adventure
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... half of Gansu to Shanhaiguan in the coastal province of Hebei, and between these two points the wall is made up of rammed earth, stone and brick. ...

Sun starting to shine on power company
Business Edge - Calgary,Alberta,Canada
Now that he has placed an emphasis on solar technology, the sun is starting to shine, albeit slightly, on his fledgling firm.

ESA upgrades satellite radio technology
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Space Test For Swiss-designed Solar Antennas (September 29, 2005) -- A satellite equipped with novel solar antennas developed by the EPFL

Sharp Develops Mass-Production Technology for Triple-Junction Thin ...
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
Sharp Corporation has successfully developed mass-production technology for stacked triple-junction thin-film solar cells by turning a conventional

Bush takes baby steps on carbon emissions
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
But in his State of the Union address, the president did acknowledge ``the serious challenge of global climate change'' and proposed an alternative energy ...

Clouds lift on climate change
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
Another EBG promotion is solar panels on existing homes which have a similar effect on carbon emission from hot water. Frances believes it is economic to ...

ECHOES OF A WAR ROOM
Electric New Paper - Singapore,Singapore
The centre has remained hidden from the public eye for the last six decades, but experts are now calling for a detailed study of the site,

35-acre underground city in the UK
By LeisureGuy
Over a kilometre in length, and boasting over 60 miles of roads, the underground site was designed not only to accommodate the then Conservative Prime Minister, Harold MacMillan, but the entire Cabinet Office, civil servants and an army

Divine Strake Meeting
Fox 12 Boise - Nampa,ID,USA
Downwinders are concerned the ten thousand foot plume generated by the explosion would send radioactive fallout into the air. But government experts like

The Civil War
Valley Beautiful Beacon - Erwin,TN,USA
Cabbage and turnips were buried in the ground, and other items were hidden in haystacks in barn lofts. Important documents, such as deeds and other legal ...

S. Korea to acquire high tech nuclear test detection systems
Yonhap News - Seoul,South Korea
South Korea officially confirmed that the large underground explosion was caused by nuclear device on Oct. 25, several days after the United States reached ...

N. Korea helping Iran with nukes
World Peace Herald - Washington,DC,USA
LONDON -- European defense officials say North Korea is sharing its nuclear data on last year's test explosion with Iran, London's Daily Telegraph reported

N. Korea blasts Western news media over its alleged aid to Iran's ...
Yonhap News - Seoul,South Korea
North Korea carried out its first-ever underground nuclear weapon test on Oct. 9. Western experts believe that Iran is pushing its own nuclear weapons ...

Eliminating Plowpan
By Dovey(Dovey)
Plowpan can seem as firm as a rammed-earth house; once established, it can last a long, long time. My own garden land is part of what was once an old wheat farm, one of the first homesteads of the Oregon Territory. ...

January 25, 2007 Thursday

Blind Mole Rats Shed Light On Diseases Caused By Lack Of Oxygen
Science Daily (press release) - USA
"Blind mole rats live most of their lives in underground tunnels and therefore have developed special adaptation mechanisms for dealing with lack of oxygen. ...

Bunker night at the movies
Ottawa Citizen (subscription) - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
The unusual thing about the evening was that everyone was 21 metres underground, on the third level down in a subterranean bomb shelter built into the side ...

Inventor of Next-Generation Display Technology Joins Faculty
Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Tang, the world leader in organic electronics including OLEDs and solar cells, is the first to hold the new chair. In addition to the discovery of efficient ...

Insultec heat reflective membrane from Solar Cool
Ferret - Australia
While the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, reported impressive variations of up to 21 0 C. MPN Timar Martin, Brisbane based air conditioning ...

Campfire pizza goes all out
Battle Creek Enquirer - Battle Creek,MI,USA
But it's not just any tree house. Nestled in the limbs of a large oak, the fully-carpeted tree house comes equipped with a computer, Internet access, ...

Copper thieves plague churches
WRDW-TV - Augusta,GA,USA
Eight churches in Edgefield County are being left in the cold this week, all for a piece that's worth up to $1.50 a pound. It's no gold or silver...but for ...

Heat for $50 a month
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins,CO,USA
When 61-year-old Thane DeStigter built his first eco-house 25 years ago, he didn't have the innovative materials available today. ...

Pipes freeze as Las Vegas endures record breaking chill
North Lake Tahoe Bonanza - Incline Village,NV,USA
"As long as people remember to shut their sprinklers off, they'll be all right," said Charlie Schlott, a National Weather Service meteorogist in Las Vegas, ...

Watt a waste
Independent - London,England,UK
The Energy Saving Trust estimates that UK families commit an average of 32 energy-wasting actions per week. But if we can make a game of cutting consumption

Watt's your 'EQ'?
phillyBurbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Refrigerators use more energy than any other appliance in your home. An Energy Star qualified refrigerator uses about half the energy of a 10-year-old ...

Idaho Declaration of Energy Independence: An Idaho Energy Policy ...
Sun Valley Online.com (press release) - Hailey,ID,USA
Idaho has 860 megawatts of geothermal electricity potential by 2015 and up to 18000 megawatts of wind power capacity. This compares to Idaho electrical ...

Alaska communities scramble after tsunami warning
Daily Herald - Provo,UT,USA
The 27 people on Shemya Island, caretakers of an Air Force station, took refuge in an underground shelter, as did the 20 residents in nearby Attu who staff ...

Israel is ready to blitz Iran
The Sun - London,UK
Some have rock-blasting warheads which can reach deep underground, where Iran’s nuclear workshops are hidden. With more pilots per aircraft than any other ...

®®HADCO & SOLARONE SOLUTIONS - JOINT DEVELOPMENT OF SOLAR LIGHT
Earthtoys (press release) - USA
Increases in LED and solar cell efficiency combined with refinements in control technology enable SolarOne’s system to produce dramatically more light for ...

Emerging alternate energy breakthroughs
Goodnewsindia.com - Chennai,India
What was the state of solar technology that Nanosolar has improved on? The first generation technology used bulky, brittle and expensive silicon wafers to ...

’®Open Energys SolarSave Roofing Membranes Receive UL Approval to ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Open Energy is the first and only provider of solar technology that integrates with each of these major roofing material manufacturers. ..

January 22, 2007 Monday

’Staples green roof
Worcester Telegram - Worcester,MA,USA
Pursuing wind and solar power technology as a key economic driver was a major theme of Deval L. Patrick’s gubernatorial campaign. ...

Metal thieves a plague
Campbell River Mirror - Campbell River,British Columbia,Canada
Like rats in the middle of the night, thieves are tearing wire from all things electrical. Emboldened by high copper prices, scavengers have ripped off ...

Lead Paint, Dust Plague PD Building
New Canaan News Review - New Canaan,CT,USA
Lead-laced dust and paint contaminate the attic and exterior of the police station, but cleaning should start soon. The Board of Finance approved an $110000

Northern Michigan investing time into energy
Petoskey News-Review - Petoskey,MI,USA
Energy based on solar, wind or geothermal is not new, but Queen and the instructors reintroduce the old practices fused with today's technology. ...

Tesco USA to Install $13 Million Solar Roof
Environmental Leader - Fort Collins,CO,USA
the development of low carbon technology (not least by ring-fencing nearly $200m for investment in sustainable technology) and by empowering consumers by ...

Solar Thermal Installer Certification: Raising Visibility
RenewableEnergyAccess.com - Peterborough,NH,USA
Some utilities such as Keyspan Energy LLC now provide separate incentives for deploying solar thermal technology in new or existing business properties. ...

Canada's safest theatre shows Cold War movies
Ottawa Citizen (subscription) - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
The unusual thing about the evening was that everyone was some 20 metres underground, on the third level down in a subterranean bomb shelter built into the ...

’’One mans trash, another mans treasure
By hardheaded239
Earthships are a unique design of passive solar, rammed earth homes. Constructed from natural and recycled materials, they are often completely independent from the grid. Earthship electricity is harvested through PV panels, ...

Profile: Marcy Bowman
Muncie Star Press - Muncie,IN,USA
"Most people who come to me want stained glass for their home or garden. I also do clear texture glass like rainwater or crackle." ...

Adept Technology Expands Into Rapidly Growing Solar Power Market
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... such as thin film solar panels and string ribbon production methods,” said Robert Bucher, chief executive officer of Adept Technology, Inc. ...

Planned 'Divine Strake' Bomb Test Incenses Locals
NPR - USA
The military says the massive explosion is part of an effort to create weapons to destroy deeply buried enemy targets, but there are those who argue the ...

AK Steel Pledges $750000 to National Underground Railroad Freedom ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
The Freedom Center is a museum that pays tribute to all efforts to abolish human enslavement, with an emphasis on the history of the Underground Railroad,

Underground obsession
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
''The Forestiere Underground Gardens: A Pictorial Journey'' (Ionian Publications, $29.99) is a new room-by-room tour through one of the most unusual

January 18, 2007 Thursday

US scientists, evangelicals join global warming fight
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - US scientists and evangelical Christian leaders joined forces on Wednesday ...

Working-Class Housing Complex Will Rise as Part of the Greenery
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
They would help with solar and rainwater harvesting systems. Every apartment would have two facades, allowing cross-ventilation and plenty of light; ...

"Solar Hybrid" Technology To Bring Power To Interior Schools
Bernama - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 (Bernama) -- Schools in the interior which cannot obtain 24-hour electricity supply are to get power under a pilot "solar hybrid" ...

More solar power to the people
The Nation Newspaper - Bridgetown,St. Michael,Barbados
THE USE OF EXISTING renewable energy technology by homeowners to generate electricity from sunlight may be the next money-saving move for Barbados.

Crescent City Undamaged by Ocean Surges
KCBS - CA,USA
Crescent City harbor is undamaged this morning after a powerful earthquake in Japan last night triggered tsunami advisories. Although the advisories for

How to build an eco-house
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg,South Africa
An outbuilding will have a sod roof. In the United Kingdom the market for ethical goods and services, at £29-billion, now exceeds that for cigarettes and ...

Plague of voles destroys crops in Spain
Reuters.uk - UK
MADRID (Reuters) - Unusually warm winter has led to an explosion in the vole population in central Spain, one of the country's main agricultural regions. ...

Freezing temperatures plague Arizona
WRIC - Richmond,VA,USA
PHOENIX A cold snap that is causing concern for citrus growers and other farmers in California is bringing freezing temperatures to southern Arizona. ...

Couple so impressed by cave homes they now sell them!
Easier - Chester,UK
... love with the area and the idea of owning their own cave house - so much so that they bought the second cave they saw, from Spanish Inland Properties. ...

Work to start on Sheffield green homes
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
This means that, as well as being affordable green homes, current and future residents of these properties will benefit from reduced running costs,

Mercury is on the rise nationwide
Providence Journal - Providence,RI,USA
Temperatures for December soared to record-breaking levels in Connecticut, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont and Minnesota. The mid-December heat wave turned ...

Iowa combines wind and geothermal
Earthtimes.org - USA
The project, called the Iowa Stored Energy Park, is backed by the US Department of Energy and would use electricity generated by the 75 to 100 megawatt wind ...

Parsnips: A treasure trove of nutrition
Juneau Empire (subscription) - Juneau,AK,USA
... restricted to what they had canned the summer before, and to hardy vegetables like potatoes, carrots and turnips which could be stored in root cellars. ...

Freightliner prepares for first unveiling of hybrid truck
Today's Trucking News - USA
The first of its kind in the medium-duty truck industry, the hybrid walk-in van chassis from FCCC will make its debut at the Technology & Maintenance ...

Mineral formations give scientists climate-change clues
ESPN - USA
That search has led researchers at the University of California-Davis 60 feet underground to a unique archive of California climate records: stalagmites and ...

Ridgway Finalizes 175-Acre RiverSage Annexation
Telluride Watch - Telluride,CO,USA
The average acreage of the home sites will be two acres, and 18 new lots will join an improved lot that contains the rammed-earth, partial-subterranean ...(The family of Dennis Weaver)

January 15, 2007 Monday

Tapping into green mainstream
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
The first issue of G contains articles on sustainable house renovations (rainwater tank to flush toilets and irrigate garden beds; a garden of native ...

Enertia: Houses Heated and Cooled by the Sun
By tak8it
While other materials can be used to build homes that need no heating or cooling (my great-uncle, for instance, built rammed-earth houses in the 70s), Enertia’s houses combine their zero-energy heating and cooling properties with design ...

Saved by the plague
Times Online - UK
The near-global Justinian Plague of 540–42 ad, for example, which killed an estimated 40 per cent of the populations of Europe and the Middle East,

Avalanches continue to plague BC highway
Edmonton Journal (subscription) - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
CALGARY - An avalanche Tuesday afternoon forced the closure of the Trans-Canada Highway between Golden and Revelstoke, BC, for the second time in a week.

Carmanah unveils solar battery for computer monitors
Victoria Times Colonist - Victoria,BC,Canada
“We’ve taken our proven solar technology and created a self-contained solar generator for a new application,” he said. “Uses like this mark a new direction ...

A solar solution for world power
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg,South Africa
... Europe, the Middle East and North Africa should be building vast solar farms in North Africa's deserts using a simple technology that more resembles ...

From hot springs to rice farms, new insights into the secret lives ...
Stanford Report - USA... yet discovered—rock samples that are 2.71 billion to 2.65 billion years old that were collected from a deep underground gold mine in Ontario, Canada. ...

Report: Nuclear Explosion in Iran
Jawa Report - Arlen,TX,USA
The explosion took place at what would be the Islamic Regime's testing ground for an atomic weapon. Since even North Korea tested its nuke underground,

Russia honors Sputnik's long-secret designer on 100th anniversary ...
USA Today - USA "We are like miners — we work underground. No one sees or hears us," he said in a conversation recalled by his daughter. ...

Gardens Are Good Teachers
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA
Then I did a story on rain gardens - beds dug deep to create basins where plants' roots capture rainwater before it runs off into storm sewers.

Steamy industry may clear the air
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA The hot water welling up from underground often contains small amounts of arsenic, nickel and silicates that build up within pipes and turbines and ...

Volunteers dig up facts to educate public on Maribel caves
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA They then sent electrical currents through the cord and measured the resistivity of the electricity in what's underground

January 10, 2007 Wednesday

Abuse beneath the US Capitol ?
Mountain Mail Newspaper - Salida,CO,USA
Miles of underground utility tunnels connect these and a few other federal buildings in a spidery web of pipes, spreading heat and cooled air, ...

Businessman Demands Answers after Sinkhole Opens
WNEP-TV - Scranton,PA,USA
There is an underground tunnel beneath the property. Then, just this week, the sinkhole opened up on the back end of Wharton's property. ...

Montserrat Orders Evacuations as Volcano Shoots Ash Into Sky
Voice of America - USA
The Soufriere Hills volcano became active in 1995. An eruption in 1997 buried much of the southern part of Montserrat, including the capital of Plymouth.

President, First Lady Moved To Shelter As Storms Passed
KWTX - Waco,TX,USA
The White House says the vehicle was driven to a tornado shelter on the ranch. The president and Mrs. Bush remained inside the vehicle, rather than enter ...

Tree House Refrigerator departs from the norm
Pocket-lint.co.uk - UK
It's a design concept right now, but the idea, according to Yanko Design, is that it “[tries] to bring the memory of tree house in our childhood to the

Mr. Ovonic
Greenville Daily News - Greenville,MI,USA
“The technology we have today took decades of work. Certainly Mr. Ovshinsky was one of those pioneers. He helped develop solar into a product ready for the ...

Ethanol plant planned for Washington
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
Other spin-off projects could include a biomass digester, soybean crushing and other renewable fuel systems, Hanshaw said. ...

System X Used to Model Behavior of Entire Structures
YubaNet - Nevada City,CA,USA
With an infinite amount of money or by placing a building underground, "we can prevent the catastrophic structural failure that occurred with the World ...

Geothermal power moves ahead as reliable source of renewable energy
International Herald Tribune - France
In Unterhaching, geothermal energy will produce electricity as well as heat. Power from a 3.4-megawatt generator being installed by Siemens will be sold to ...

Tree House Refrigerator Design for the Certifiably Insane
Gizmodo.com - Budapest,Hungary
This refrigerator design concept is more weird than it is beautiful. Its midsection is like the trunk of a tree, and it has five mini refrigerators arrayed

Weather worries farmers
Baraboo News Republic - Baraboo,WI,USA
While crops like alfalfa can suffer from a warm winter, mold and other crops diseases that are usually eliminated by the sub-zero temperatures are also ...

Visible Light Transmitted Through Nanocable
Photonics.com - Pittsfield,MA,USA
The research could lead to advances in solar technology and optical computing. (Photo: Gary Gilbert). The researchers said their achievement opens the door ...

Mild weather makes some rethink Canada's identity
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Vancouver was a seasonable 10 degrees on Saturday, but has seen weeks of record-breaking wind and rain storms. "Vancouver's different because we usually get

A green card
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA The reality show will offer tips – Begley, for example, replaced all the regular light bulbs in the house with long-lasting, energy-saving compact

Weather throws region, may reach record-breaking temperatures
Norwich Bulletin - Norwich,CT,USA
The unseasonably warm weather has turned things upside down -- snow plow operators are taking advantage of slow business to do paperwork and tourist ...

Couple's eco-home dream dashed
Diss Mercury - Diss,Norfolk,UK
A couple's dream of creating a south Norfolk eco-house has been dashed because its design and innovative features were not of the exceptional standard ...

January 8, 2007 Monday

The many upsides of going underground
calendarlive.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Architect Malcolm Wells of the "earth-sheltered" movement was the visionary-guru, with designs that recalled the dwellings of Tolkien's hobbits. ...

Poll: One in Four Says Jesus May Return in 2007 Beliefnet.com - New York,NY,USA
By Adelle M. Banks. Twenty-five percent of Americans believe it is at least somewhat likely that Jesus Christ will return to Earth in 2007, a new poll from ...

Have We Become Crypto-Christians?
ChristianityToday.com - Carol Stream,IL,USA The Crypto-Christians even constructed Buddhist shrines in their homes with secret compartments where Christian icons and statues were hidden and prayers

The Iranian who wants an apocalypse
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
Sharati incorporated these worldly concerns with the Shia longing for the return of the Twelfth Hidden Imam, who departed this earth in 874.

Going underground to give homes estate of art heating
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
AN eco-friendly underground system will be used to heat an entire housing estate in a pioneering new development in East Lothian. .

IRAN NUCLEAR: TEHRAN ADMITS BUILDING UNDERGROUND ATOMIC DEPOSITS
AKI - Rome,Italy (AKI) - The president of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Reza Aghazadeh, admitted Friday that Iran has built underground tunnels to use as

•Validation: Eneco Low-Heat-to-Electricity Tech PESN - Eagle Mountain,UT,USA
The science is done, what remains is to engineer for production, with applications such as waste-heat and concentrated solar energy harnessing. ...

January 3, 2007 Wednesday

Northern Va. county plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
... The county will also refit one or two county buildings with solar technology and require all new major public buildings to be green-certified.

Michigan poised to become leader in alternative fuels
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... Hybrid vehicles, which are powered by a gasoline engine and electric motor ... biodiesel plant opened in 2006 in Bangor, in southwestern Michigan's Van Buren County ..

Birmingham gets greener
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK... in partnership with Birmingham City Council, Family Housing Association has already installed a wind turbine and solar panel on its first eco-home and the new ...

Has solar push lost its luster in Florida?
San Luis Obispo Tribune - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA... Solar backers say Florida is far behind California, arguably the worldwide leader in pursuing solar technology. The state Legislature

‘’Whole Foods Roof Could Get Green
Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill Courier - Brooklyn,NY,USA
... Moreover, a green roof could act as a sponge for rainwater—which could reduce the amount of combined sewage overflows, the stinky bane of the neighborhood ...

2006: the year the weather went balmy
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... There had been scattered periods of wet weather earlier, notably in late March ... totals were still well short of those logged during the record-breaking year of ...

ñWorld faces hottest year ever, as El Nio combines with global ...
Independent - London,England,UK... The UN agency noted that the weather pattern was already having "early and ... But it will probably add to the likelihood of record-breaking temperatures in the UK ...