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More proof our weather is out of whack: When it’s winter in the US and Europe, it’s summer in Australia, which normally has temperatures of around 86 degrees Fahrenheit at this time of year, but just like the UK, this country finds itself plunged into a blizzard. The equivalent to this would be if the US experienced Christmas weather in July.

In the Telegraph, Bonnie Malkin quotes hotel manager Michelle Lovius as saying, "First thing this morning everything was just very still, very peaceful and every single thing was just blanketed in a thick cover of white."
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As Whitley Strieber predicted it would in 1999, the Gulf Stream is now failing. It has diminished 30% in strength in just a few years, and it’s impending end raises fears of much colder European weather. As outlined in Whitley Strieber and Art Bell’s book Superstorm, which was the basis for the film The Day After Tomorrow. The consequences could be much more far-reaching and severe if the current should stop suddenly, over a period of weeks or months, rather than slowly declining over years.
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Something has caused the breakers to disappear from Europe’smost famous surfing beach. The Basque Wave, which may reachupwards of 20 feet as it breaks, has been reduced to littlemore than a ripple.

Scientists are unable to explain the disappearance of thewave, which was discovered by surfer Craig Sage about 20years ago. The Basque Wave was famous for sweeping in fromfar out at sea, and offered the most exciting surfingexperience in Europe.

The wave may have been affected by offshore dredging or bychanging sand bars, but its sudden disappearance suggeststhat changes in ocean currents or the structure of the seafloor could also be responsible.
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Award winning science reporter Linda Moulton Howe hasproduced by far the world’s best story on the slowing of theGulf Stream, why it is happening and its consequences.

Aside from a few brief stories in the European press, themedia has all but ignored the single most importantenvironmental story in history. But Linda Howe offers atEarthfiles.coma thorough explanation of what is happening, an interviewwith the scientist who discovered the problem, and clearanswers about what might happen next.
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