As a heat wave hits central Europe, record temperatures are being seen in places like Sion, Switzerland, which has registered 35.4 degrees Celsius, and in Austria, where temperatures of up to 38 degrees are making the month of August 2011 the hottest on record since weather records began in 1767.

http://www.thelocal.ch/national/20110822_917.html
http://austrianindependent.com/news/General_News/2011-08-23/8786/Heatwave_hits_Austria


Scientists say that water from ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica appears to be altering the Earth's gravity field, as the mass that was once concentrated as frozen ice at the North and South poles is now flowing into the oceans and collecting around the equator.

http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/melting-glaciers-alter-earth-gravity-1871/
http://www.livescience.com/15605-melting-glaciers-alter-earth-gravity.html