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'Black swan' cyclone could hit northern Australia

Richard A. Lovett
Cosmos Online
Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:42 UTC
Black Swan Cyclone
© Bill Bradley / Wikimedia
Cyclone Tracy, which hit Darwin, Australia, on Christmas Day 1974, killed 65 people and destroyed 70% of the city's homes, but is a "mere kitten" compared to a 'black swan' cyclone that could hit the city – and others – in the future.
San Francisco: There is a small but real chance, scientists say, that super cyclones with freak 10-metre storm surges could hit cities such as Darwin, Australia, Tampa, Florida and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Such a storm is an example of what Ning Lin, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Princeton University in New Jersey, USA, calls a "black swan" cyclone. Something similar, she says, could hit the Persian Gulf, inundating unprepared cities like Dubai - which has never seen a cyclone - with similarly enormous storm surges.

"A black swan is a surprise with huge impact," she said yesterday at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California. "For this study, we defined [it] as an event which cannot reasonably be anticipated based on historical records alone."
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Attention

Connecting the global cooling dots

Alan Caruba
factsnotfantasy.blogspot.co.uk
Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:43 UTC
"The sun is the primary source of heat for the Earth... This is worth keeping in mind when the Secretary General of the United Nations or any other lying politician or alleged scientist tell you otherwise."
ice age
Winter doesn't officially begin until December 21, but winter has a mind of its own as does all of nature. While the United Nations charlatans gathered in Doha, Qatar to try to save its global warming hoax by first calling it "climate change" and then by fashioning a funding mechanism to transfer the wealth of developed countries to those who are not, winter has arrived "early" around the world.

That might just have something to do with the cooling cycle that has been active for the past sixteen years, "inconveniently" blowing a big hole in the global warming lies we've been hearing and reading since the late 1980s.

From IceAgeNow.info, a site by Robert W. Felix, the author of a book about ice ages (the Earth has been through quite a few in its 4.5 billion years), here are some recent news stories:
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Cloud Precipitation

40 dead or missing as 160-mph typhoon hits Philippines


NBC News
Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:33 UTC
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© Agence France Presse/Getty Images
Residents brave heavy wind and rains during Typhoon Bopha on the southern island of Mindanao on Tuesday.
The strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year pounded the southern island of Mindanao on Tuesday and about 40 people were dead or missing, media said, after the storm destroyed homes and brought down power and communication lines.

Typhoon Bopha made landfall at dawn, uprooting trees and tearing off roofs. The Weather Channel said the storm was packing maximum sustained winds of 160 mph and was the equivalent of a category five hurricane.

About 40 people were killed or missing in flash floods and landslides near a mining area on Mindanao, ABS-CBN television reported, saying waters and soil had swept through an army post.

A television reporter said she saw numerous bodies lined up near the army base. A military spokesman earlier said about 20 people, including six soldiers, were missing.
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Arrow Down

Two enormous sinkholes swallow roads in Bay Area, California


CBS SF
Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:44 UTC
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A storm caused a 20-foot sinkhole to form along Mountain View Drive in Lafayette on December 2, 2012.
Two giant sinkholes formed in separate Bay Area communities during the heavy rain from a powerful storm that passed through the Bay Area over the weekend.

In one instance, a giant sinkhole swallowed two lanes of a street in a residential neighborhood in Lafayette Sunday.

High water levels and a clogged storm drain in Lafayette Creek destroyed a portion of Mountain View Drive Sunday, creating a sinkhole where the road once was, Lafayette City Manager Steven Falk said.

Comment: Here's a video of the other sinkhole in Santa Cruz (more of a landslide really):



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Cloud Lightning

'Very, very big' Typhoon Bopha hits Philippines, killing 27 people and destroying homes

Jethro Mullen
CNN
Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:58 UTC
An intense typhoon thumped into the southern Philippines on Tuesday, destroying homes, setting off a landslide and killing more than two dozen people, authorities said. Typhoon Bopha struck the large southern island of Mindanao, which is rarely in the direct path of tropical cyclones, fueling fears that it could be as devastating as a storm that killed more than 1,200 people there almost a year ago.

Bopha, the most powerful typhoon to hit Mindanao in decades, had top winds of 175 kph (110 mph) as it came ashore over the city of Baganga early Tuesday. Millions of people, many of whom live in remote and unprepared communities, were in the storm's path, Philippine authorities and aid groups said.


Watch: iReporter captures Typhoon aftermath in southern Philippines
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Radar

4.3 magnitude earthquake rattles Slovenia


Austrian Independent
Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:39 UTC
An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale rattled central and eastern Slovenia early on Monday morning. Epicentre of the quake was the village of Gornji Grad, some 30 km north-east of Ljubljana, the local Environmental Agency (ARSO) said.

The quake was powerful enough to be felt across the border in Carinthia according to the Austrian earthquake monitoring organisation which is part of the Austrian Weather Institute (ZAMG).

In a press release ZAMG said the earthquake had been most strongly felt in the Klagenfurt region.

There was no immediate reports of any damage or about anybody injured.
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Radar

4.8-Magnitude earthquake shakes Bulgaria's Black Sea coast


novinite.com
Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:36 UTC
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter Scale has been registered along Bulgaria's northeast coast in the Black Sea.

The earthquake struck at 8:58 EET, with an epicenter located 21 km east of the town of Kavarna, at a depth of 2 km, the Mediterranean Seismology Center reported, as cited by BTA.

The tremor led the residents of the northeastern Bulgarian town of Shabla to leave their homes but according to Shabla Mayor Rayna Bardareva, there was no panic, as cited by Darik Radio.

Bardareva had no data about injured persons or damages caused by the new tremor.

Monday night's earthquake off the Bulgarian Black Sea coast is the second in the past 24 hours, as a 2.6-magnitude earthquake was registered 45 km southeast of Varna Sunday night.

The newest earthquake near Shabla had roughly the same magnitude as the 4.7-magnitude earthquake that hit the town in the summer of 2009 causing material damages.
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Better Earth

Sydney's Malabar beach glows blue following red algae invasion


News.com.au
Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:03 UTC
After the eastern beaches coastline resembled the Red Sea last Tuesday, the "night lantern" visited Sydney's Malabar beach that evening. These photos have not been digitally enhanced - in fact, photographer Dr David Psaila said the water was an even more spectacular colour blue than that shown in these images, the Southern Courier reports. "The organism responsible, Noctiluca Scintillans known as "night lantern" is very aptly named, as it will luminesce a bright blue when it is disturbed by waves," he said. The Chifley scientist said the red algae that crept along the east coast last week contained a chemical called luciferin which was a common protein found in bioluminescent animals.
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© David Psaila
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Bizarro Earth

Earthquake Magnitude 5.8 rattles Anchorage, Alaska


The Extinction Protocol
Mon, 03 Dec 2012 07:58 UTC
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© USGS
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska on Monday, close to the city of Anchorage, rattling buildings and knocking bric-a-brac from shelves, but no serious damage or injuries were reported. The tremor, initially reported as a magnitude 5.7, struck at 4:42 p.m. (8:42 p.m. EST) 25 miles west of Anchorage, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake, relatively shallow at a depth of 33.1 miles, was widely felt in Anchorage, according to Guy Urban, a geophysicist for the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska."

Some people in Anchorage said some things fell off the shelves," he told Reuters, adding that the center was unaware of any severe property damage or anyone being hurt. Quakes of similar strength are fairly common in Alaska, one of the most seismically active parts of the United States. - Reuters
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Bizarro Earth

Energetic earthquake swarm reported at California's Coso Volcanic Field


The Extinction Protocol
Tue, 04 Dec 2012 07:54 UTC
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An energetic earthquake swarm centered beneath rhyolite domes in the Coso Volcanic Field (CA) continues, with over 20 earthquakes ranging between M1 and M3 so far today. Many smaller events (hundreds) are recorded as well. The swarm initiated on 27 November and has included earthquakes as large as M3.7. The Coso Volcanic Field is located in Inyo County, California, at the western edge of the Basin and Range geologic province and northern region of the Mojave Desert.

The Coso Volcanic Field is one of the most seismically active regions in the United States, producing dozens of tremors in the M1 and M2 range each week. Tremors in the M3 range occur at a rate of 2-6 per month and M4 quakes occur two-three times each year. Recent activity in the M5 range happened in 1996 and 1998 when tremors of M5.3, M5.1, M5.2, and M5.0 occurred with a day of each other.
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