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Hawaii's Kilauea volcano lava 'firehose': 'Never seen anything like it' says scientist (VIDEO)


Big Island Video News
Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:08 UTC
Hawaii volcano lava firehose
© USGSWhen this USGS photo was taken over the weekend, scientists noted the lava stream “appeared wider… today compared to yesterday, and often had holes in the thin sheet.”
Scientists with the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory have been studying the mesmerizing lava stream, pouring out of the lava tube on the sea cliff at the Kamokuna ocean entry, inside the boundary of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

In a Monday phone interview, geologist Matt Patrick said he hasn't seen anything like it in his 9 years monitoring Kilauea volcano on Hawaii Island.

The activity is part of the 61g lava flow, erupting miles away from the vent of Puʻu ʻŌʻō on the East Rift Zone of Kilauea. As the molten lava flows into the cool seawater, pulsating littoral explosions throw spatter, or fragments of molten lava, high into the air.

Patrick was out at the edge of the lava flow recently, taking the spectacular photos and video that have since been posted to the USGS website. The scientists carefully approached the site in protective gear on Jan. 28, and took a look at an ominous crack that has developed on the cliff.

The geologists determined that "the eastern end of the hot crack was about 30 cm (11.8 in) wide and deeply cut into recent lava atop the older sea cliff."


Comment: There has been increased activity at Kilauea volcano in recent times. See also:

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Bizarro Earth

Underwater volcano eruption spotted near Tonga


Radio New Zealand
Wed, 01 Feb 2017 04:30 UTC
A New Zealand scientist says satellite images show that an underwater volcano has erupted near the main island of Tonga.
Underwater volcano near Tonga
© Auckland UniversityThe underwater volcano has erupted near the main island of Tonga.
Auckland University's Murray Ford, who is monitoring a volcanic island in the area, discovered the eruption when he noticed a large plume of dirty water between Tongatapu and Hunga volcano.

Dr Ford said the satellite imagery definitely showed a vent releasing volcanic debris into the water.

"We got a spectacular satellite image from the Landsat 8 satellite, which was largely cloud free, which is quite rare in the tropics, so in terms of that, it was quite spectacular."

GNS Science vulcanologist Brad Scott said the images confirmed that a submarine volcanic eruption had been ongoing since 23 January.
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Snowflake Cold

Black Blizzard: Cyclone wreaks havoc on Russia's Arctic city of Norilsk (VIDEO)


RT
Tue, 31 Jan 2017 18:29 UTC
Storm
© Norilsk News / YouTube
A powerful cyclone has triggered days of severe snowstorms in the world's northernmost city of Norilsk, leaving inhabitants battling to maintain a regular lifestyle in the face of extreme cold, biting winds, and low visibility.

Storm warnings have been announced every few days throughout the past month, with the latest declared on Sunday night, as a warm cyclone hit the city. Temperatures have risen from about -25C to -15C, but a third of the expected monthly snowfall fell on Sunday night alone, and precipitation has not subsided since. Average snow cover has reached seven inches.

Winds have regularly exceeded 25 km/h, and have on occasions reached 40 km/h, which is defined by Russian meteorologists as a "black blizzard" - a severe weather event. Visibility has fallen below 1 km, but videos posted by locals show that it is hard to make out the houses on the sides of the road even during daytime - which only lasts five hours - without streetlights.
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Ice Cube

Scientists to march on Washington in support of global warming censorship

Jon Rappoport
No More Fake News
Sun, 29 Jan 2017 17:11 UTC
earth on fire
USA Today has the story (1/26):
"American scientists worried about climate change and skeptical of President Donald Trump are planning a protest march in Washington, D.C."

"March organizers, on the event's website, said it serves as 'a starting point to take a stand for science in politics'."

"...The group's mission statement is set to come out on Monday."

"'There are certain things that we accept as facts with no alternatives', the statement said. 'The Earth is becoming warmer due to human action...'"
Well, all right, that's that. No alternatives.

Debate would be subversive.

Official science is the only science.

But oops; all along, there have been dissenters from the manmade warming mantra; they just haven't been allowed inside government and media portals.
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Snowflake

There's so much snow on Loveland Pass, Colorado that it buried an avalanche warning sign

Allison Sylte
9news.com
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:48 UTC
This sign is not very useful given the conditions.
© Jake Gronseth with Rex BerkeyThis sign is not very useful given the conditions.
If you've been reading the news at all over the past few weeks, you might have heard that it's been snowing in the mountains. A lot.

And how much snow has Loveland Pass gotten? So much snow that it's burying a sign warning of avalanche danger.

Viewers Jake Gronseth and Rex Berkey uploaded a photo of the buried sign to Your Take. They say they took the picture at around 11 a.m. on Thursday.

"Yes, it was cold," they write." Whatever the sign says, it doesn't help very much."

After a slow start, snow has been epic at Colorado's ski areas. Loveland has gotten 115 inches of snow this January. The average amount for this time of year? Fifty eight inches.

Yeah, that's pretty epic.
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Snowflake Cold

Upheaval by John Casey, instantly frozen fish and South California freeze warnings

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:38 UTC
frozen fish
John Casey's new book Upheaval is out and connects the anti-correlation of low sunspot activity and high earthquake activity. The take away is that during grand solar minimums such as the type we are entering now, there will be a major 8.0+ quake in the Mississippi River Valley destroying bridges, ripping apart gas pipelines and all trade crossing the Mississippi will come to a halt. Also Switzerland experiences the most days below zero since 1964 and flash frozen Pike with a fish in its mouth, Mastodon.
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Attention

Bear encounter sends man to hospital in Gulf Breeze, Florida

Grace Tennyson
weartv.com
Sun, 29 Jan 2017 12:14 UTC
Black bear
Black bear
A man and his dog were injured by a bear Saturday evening while out in Gulf Breeze.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said they are responding to the scene where the bear injured a man and his dog in Santa Rosa County.

The man reportedly let his dog out into the front yard, not knowing there was a bear outside. The dog was hurt so the man went to get the dog when the bear swatted him.

FWC said the man's injuries are not life-threatening and he was released from Gulf Breeze Hospital after receiving treatment Saturday night. The dog is also said to be okay.

FWC is investigating the incident, collecting evidence, and is starting trapping efforts in the area.
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Question

Mass seagull deaths mystifies biologists at Port of Tacoma, Washington

Craig Sailor
The Washington Times
Mon, 30 Jan 2017 10:47 UTC
Glaucous gull
Glaucous gull
A mysterious ailment that has killed or paralyzed sea gulls around the Port of Tacoma this week is baffling wildlife biologists.

About 50 sea gulls have been found dead or paralyzed from the neck down.

"We have never seen a situation like that," said state Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Michelle Tirhi. "It was a mystery to our biologists and veterinarians."

Ill birds have been found in a seated position with only their heads moving.

"One could walk up to them and pick them up," Tirhi said. "They can't fly, they can't walk, they can't move."

Port workers began finding dead and sick gulls Sunday night.
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Attention

Uptick in whale strandings in North Carolina

Christopher Thomas
publicradioeast.org
Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:53 UTC
Beached Cuvier Whale at the Outer Banks found Sept. 2016
© Credit Karen Clar / The Virginia-Pilot
Beached Cuvier Whale at the Outer Banks found Sept. 2016

Beached whale sightings in North Carolina have been on the rise over the past decade - the most recent being in September with a rare, Cuvier's beaked whale that washed ashore in Nags Head.

Chris Thomas has more possible causes for the increased number of strandings along our coast.

North Carolina is home to 8 kinds of whale, including humpback, pilot, and blue - many of which are endangered.

William McLellan is a research biologist at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington and is the state coordinator for its Marine Mammal Stranding Program.

"North Carolina has one of the highest diversity of whale, potentially the highest diversity of whale and dolphin/porpoise species on the Atlantic Ocean."
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Seismograph

Schoolchildren evacuated as more than 60 quakes shake Mount Etna, Sicily


The Local Italy
Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:16 UTC
An eruption at Mount Etna
© Giovanni Isolino/AFPAn eruption at Mount Etna, one of the world's most active volcanoes, in 2015.
Schools in Sicily were evacuated on Monday after the island's active volcano, Mount Etna, experienced a flurry of quakes.

Seismic experts at Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology (Ingv) registered more than 60 tremors on Monday morning - the most significant measuring at least 3.5 magnitude, at 10:51am. The quakes began shortly after 6am, and five have measured over 3.0 in magnitude.

Local authorities have alerted residents to the series of tremors, which have had their epicentre between Ragalna and Monte San Leo, at around 14km deep.

Ingv said there was "nothing unusual" about the volcanic activity, and there have not been any reports of damage to buildings or any injuries caused by the quakes. In the towns of Ragalna, Nicolosi and Bronte on the south side of the volcano, schoolchildren were evacuated on Monday morning as a precaution.

Etna, nestled between the cities of Messina and Catania, is Europe's most active and highest volcano and Italy's highest peak south of the Alps. Together with Mount Vesuvius near Naples, it is one of 16 volcanoes in the world designated as 'Decade Volcanoes' by the UN, which means that they are studied particularly closely due to the frequency of activity and density of nearby population.

It is in a near-constant state of activity, and striking video footage from the past week shows the snow-covered peak sending out clouds of smoke.
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