Sea Ice is melting.

From:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2008/08/29/2003421697

This year’s results suggest the latter because the ice had recovered a bit more than usual thanks to a somewhat cooler winter, Serreze said. Then this month, when the melting rate usually slows, it sped up instead, he said.

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On top of that, researchers were investigating “alarming” reports in the last few days of the release of methane from long frozen Arctic waters, possibly from the warming of the sea, said Greenpeace climate scientist Bill Hare, who was attending a climate conference in Ghana.

Giant burps of methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas, is a long feared effect of warming in the Arctic that would accelerate warming even more, scientists said.

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Storms are very strong.

From:
http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/home/contentposting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20080827%2fgustav_strengthen_080827

Forecasters say Gustav could become very strong in the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend, possibly reaching Category 3 hurricane status.

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A bad storm churning in the Gulf could be a nightmare scenario," Phil Flynn, an analyst at Alaron Trading Corp. in Chicago, told The Associated Press. "We might see oil prices spike US$5 to US$8 if it really rips into platforms."
Gustav has already triggered landslides and caused flooding in Dominican Republic and Haiti, killing at least 23 people.

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Earthquake are powerful.
From:
http://technology.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/abc/news/ContentPosting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CBC-TECH-SCIENCE-V3&showbyline=True&newsitemid=bc-thursday-quake

A violent earthquake shook the ocean floor off the northwest coast of Vancouver Island, 191 kilometres west of Port Alice, B.C., early Thursday in the latest in a swarm of tremors this week.

The U.S. Geological Survey, which initially measured the quake as magnitude 6.1 with a depth of 10 kilometres, has downgraded it to a magnitude 5.8, according to its website.

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http://www.iris.edu/seismon/last30.html

Earthquakes Worldwide
in the Last 30 Days
(of magnitude >= 4.0)

280 earthquakes displayed.

I suspect that all these effects are related to changes in the Earth’s atmosphere.