Their findings will infuriate environmental campaigners who argue by 2030 we could be facing increased sea levels and flooding due to glacial melt at the poles. However, at the National Astronomy Meeting in Wales, Northumbria University professor Valentina Zharkova said fluctuations on an 11-year cycle of solar activity the sun goes through would be responsible for a freeze, the like of which has not been experienced since the 1600s.

From 1645 to 1715 global temperatures dropped due to low solar activity so much that the planet experienced a 70-year ice age known as Maunder Minimum which saw the River Thames in London completely frozen.

The event, titled “Putting Socialist Revolution on the Table,” kicks off Saturday at the Shabazz Center and includes panel discussions on Black Lives Matter. It covers women and LGBT leadership, how to be a revolutionary and dispelling myths about China’s socialism.

It also includes the discussion topic “fighting imperialism means building internationalism,” according to an advertisement sent out by the WWP. The group’s second planned panel is aimed at getting into the specifics of spreading socialism, including how far-left activists can team with Black Lives Matter to push the agenda.

“It is called ‘Building Worldwide Solidarity with Black Lives Matter and Migrants’ and will begin after the first panel ends,” WWP said. Discussions will also include ways socialists can influence the 2016 elections.

The gold monetization scheme aims to unlock about 20,000 tons of gold worth over $800 billion lying idle in homes and temples. Under the plan, banks will collect gold for up to 15 years and pay 2.25-2.50 percent interest per year. This is higher than previous rates of around one percent. The government hopes that higher interest rates will help in mobilizing the gold as previous attempts have been unsuccessful.

"Gold is a security, it gives you earnings and now on it is going to be a part of our nation building," Modi said. By launching sovereign gold bonds with 2.75 percent interest, Indian authorities hope to cut the physical buying of the precious metal.

There is nothing wrong with the food he's using - it's all good, fresh stuff - but it has been rejected by supermarkets. These ingredients - including quality fruit, veg and meat - haven't even made it to the shelves. They've been turned away before they get to the stores because there simply isn't space for them. Overproduction, it turns out, is the very cornerstone of our whole food retail system. And it comes with a massive side-order of waste. What's more, these big retailers are so big they can afford to sell only a proportion of "units" and discard the rest. Waste - hundreds of thousands of tonnes of it - is built into the system.

If you try to find out what supermarkets do with the rest of their spare stock, you will come across much talk of "anaerobic digestion". This is an industrial process that uses micro-organisms to break down organic matter, producing a methane-rich gas which can be burnt to produce electricity. Sounds very neat and eco-friendly, doesn't it?

But anaerobic digestion (AD) is a red herring. Proponents say it's better than dumping waste in landfill. That may be so, but if that "waste" is edible food, it ain't saying much. AD is a reasonable option for food that really is beyond being eaten - plate waste from the catering industry, for example. But making gas from good food is a very poor alternative to giving it to hungry people.

To most of us, that's obvious. Even if you look at it from a cold, hard economical viewpoint, it makes zero sense - AD recovers only a fraction of the energy available from food. If you or I eat it, we get all of it.

Locals say there are no jobs for the migrants in their sleepy hamlet, meaning they will all end up pocketing 500 euros a month from the German government in benefits. But astonishingly one ungrateful migrant - who claimed to have fled the Syrian capital Damascus - moaned that his new home was "boring", adding: "There's no PlayStation."

Meanwhile residents are devastated that their community has already changed forever, and railed against Angela Merkel's government who gave them "no say" over how many new arrivals they could accept.

Merkel's 'open doors' policy that precipitated one of the greatest mass exoduses in modern times has led to a serious rift between her CDU party, its sister organization, the CSU — led by Horst Seehofer, and Minister-President of Bavaria and their coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) led by Sigmar Gabriel.

Merkel, Seehofer and Gabriel failed to find agreement over her handling of the refugee crisis in talks on Sunday, with the Bavarian leader threatening "consequences" if Merkel did not take serious action over the crisis and agree to put a cap on the number of refugees Germany is prepared to take in. Gabriel, meanwhile, is threatening to pull ministers out of the coalition which would plunge the German Government into chaos.

If Merkel fails to find agreement this week, the strong woman of Europe and her powerbase will be seriously threatened and could lead to the demise of the European Union. Several countries in Eastern Europe are against her refugee policy and Europe is deeply divided on her calls for refugees to be allocated to each country on a quota basis.

Referencing the bloody conflicts in the former state of Yugoslavia, she said: "I do not want military conflicts to become necessary there again." The German leader, giving a speech in Darmstadt, southern Germany, said barbed wire fences along the borders of Hungary and Serbia "will build up fault lines" and threatens to provoke new tensions.

Ms Merkel has stressed the need for European solidarity on the migrant crisis. "I want people in Germany to be able to say in a few years 'they did it well, and we were able to manage it'," she said. Finland is also facing increasing tensions between ethnic Finns and asylum-seekers.

Interior minister Petteri Orpo said migration posed the biggest security threat to the Nordic country.

He said there was a "growing risk" of violent attacks against asylum-seekers and among asylum-seekers, saying some have been refused refuge because of their participation in terror-linked organisations.

But damning statistics released today show that, if anything, the flaky accord has only served to further highlight the cavernous divisions emerging within the 28-nation bloc. An astonishing dossier reveals how, in the six weeks since the controversial migrant quotas were agreed, just 116 refugees have been relocated from Greece and Italy to two other member states.

Even more worryingly for Europhiles it also shows how some of the continent's biggest players - most notably France and Germany - have effectively reneged on the agreement already. As part of the September accord, European nations agreed to relocate 120,000 migrants over the next two years.

Britain has opted out of the controversial quota scheme, which was fiercely opposed by frontline member states including Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania. Critics had already argued that the relocation plan was wildly insufficient, given that 770,000 migrants have already lodged asylum claims across the EU this year.

The man currently running a distant second for the Democratic presidential nomination, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, is a self-declared socialist, and most of his party’s voters now have a positive view of socialism. They are almost evenly divided as to whether they like capitalism or socialism more.

Socialism, Communism, Maoism, and National Socialism (eg the Nazi Party) are all offshoots of Marxism. They are all branches of the same defective tree. Marxism has failed in literally every venue it has been tried, despite progressives’ laughable efforts to claim certain countries have implemented it successfully. No country has and no country ever will.

El Nino is still growing rapidly with a peak forecast around Christmas and latest data suggests it will match the two strongest El Ninos ever recorded in 1997/98 and 1982/83 threatening serious consequences for the UK. El Nino, which sees ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific rise due to a change in wind direction, has been linked to colder than average winters in northern Europe.

However the almost unprecedented strength of the event now threatens to throw a spanner in the works next summer. Scientists warn that rather than recovering to normal values after El Nino peaks this winter, ocean temperatures will make a dramatic swing in the other direction. The so-called La Nina phenomenon will trigger a reversal of oceanographic conditions leading to a major cool down of the eastern Pacific.

Like its brother El Nino, La Nina - which means The Girl - can have major impacts on climatic conditions around the world. In the tropics La Nina is linked to wetter than average conditions while in the United States the southeast and central plains are drier than normal with the northwest unusually cold.

In the UK, a particularly strong La Nina threatens to quash any hopes of a decent summer with cold and wet weather associated with the pattern. Scientists say the exceptional strength of the current El Nino will trigger a ‘pendulum effect’ with an equally strong La Nina possible.

National Grid used a new emergency scheme to pay large businesses to cut their electricity usage, resulting in dozens of large office buildings powering down their air conditioning and ventilation systems between 5pm and 6pm. The scheme, which is paid for through levies on consumer energy bills, was introduced last year but had never been called upon before. National Grid blamed the power crunch on “multiple plant break downs”.

Several ageing coal-fired power plants had unexpected maintenance issues and temporarily shut down, experts said, reducing available supplies. The problem was compounded by low wind speeds meaning most of Britain’s 6,500 onshore and offshore wind turbines were barely generating any power just as demand hit its highest.

UK wind farms have a theoretical maximum capacity of more than 13,000 megawatts, but produced less than 400 megawatts of power for much of the peak demand period – meeting less than one per cent of the UK’s electricity needs, published data suggests. Britain's 8,000 megawatts of solar panel capacity would also have produced no power during the peak, because it was dark at the time.

Militant students stormed the compound and took 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. The two countries have had no diplomatic relations since then. However, current President Hassan Rouhani has made efforts to improve relations, including a landmark nuclear agreement reached with world powers this past summer.

Khamenei says the "aim of the slogan is not death to American people. The slogan means death to US policies and arrogance." The slogan has "strong support" In Iran, he said. Khamenei and hard-liners in the Iranian government remain deeply suspicious of the United States and view its policies as a threat to the country.