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Extreme Ocean Storms Have Become More Frequent Over Past Three Decades, Study Of Tiny Tremors Shows


Science Daily
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:36 UTC
Data from faint earth tremors caused by wind-driven ocean waves -- often dismissed as "background noise" at seismographic stations around the world -- suggest extreme ocean storms have become more frequent over the past three decades. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other prominent researchers have predicted that stronger and more frequent storms may occur as a result of global warming trends. The tiny tremors, or microseisms, offer a new way to discover whether these predictions are already coming true, said Richard Aster, a geophysics professor at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

wind-driven ocean waves
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Data from faint earth tremors caused by wind-driven ocean waves -- often dismissed as "background noise" at seismographic stations around the world -- suggest extreme ocean storms have become more frequent over the past three decades.
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Cloud Lightning

Three killed, 40 missing as typhoon Neoguri hits south China


RIA Novosti
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:10 UTC
Three people were killed and 40 fishermen including 22 Vietnamese went missing after typhoon Neoguri hit south China on the weekend, national media said on Monday.

Two of the victims, an 80-year-old woman and an 11-year-old girl, died in a mudslide in Shenzhen on Sunday, and the third was killed in Zhuhai by an aluminum sheet that was blown off a roof by high winds, Xinhua news agency reported.
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Hourglass

Mysterious Flow Turns Yard Into Pond


Wesh.com
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00 UTC
A Longwood, Florida family's yard looks more like a pond as water surges from a mysterious hole on Monday.
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Snowman

Moose multiplying in Scandinavia


United Press International
Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:52 UTC
Oslo, Norway -- Biologists say there are now record numbers of moose in Scandinavia -- the greatest population since the Ice Age.

By the end of the 20th century, there were 30 times as many moose as there had been 100 years earlier, Aftenposten reports. The number of collisions between moose and trains, trucks and cars was also a record this winter.
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Hourglass

Loggerhead turtles on decline in Florida


United Press International
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:10 UTC
Tampa, Fla. -- The number of loggerhead sea turtle nests is on the decline throughout Florida, indicating a potential threat to the animals, wildlife experts say.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission official Anne Meylan said 4,692 of the 45,084 loggerhead nests counted last year in Florida are now gone, an alarming development for wildlife officials, The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune said Saturday.
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Roses

Why flowers have lost their scent

Geoffrey Lean
The Independent
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:04 UTC
Pollution is dulling the scent of flowers and impeding some of the most basic processes of nature, disrupting insect life and imperilling food supplies, a new study suggests.
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Evil Rays

4.5 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Illinois Continuing Series


eFlux Media
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:30 UTC
A 4.5-magnitude tremor struck southern Illinois on Monday continuing the series of aftershocks initiated by the 5.2 earthquake which hit the region Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) informed.
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Phoenix

US: Forest Fire Scorches 3,000 Acres in Ulster Park

Cara Buckley
The New York Times
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:22 UTC
A fast-moving forest fire that twice jumped trenches dug to hold it back has scorched 3,000 acres of the Minnewaska State Park Preserve near New Paltz, N.Y., an official said on Sunday.

Only minor injuries were reported in the fire, which started on Thursday in the northeast quadrant of the park, about 90 miles north of New York City in Ulster County.

But residents of a nearby hamlet have been told to prepare for evacuation, said Yancey Roy, a spokesman for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
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Cloud Lightning

Tornadoes hit Maryland, US

Tyeesha Dixon and Brent Jones
Baltimore Sun
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:17 UTC
Two tornadoes ripped through the Maryland suburbs of Washington yesterday, part of a weather system that sparked fires, spawned hail and flooded roads around the state.

Afternoon reports of severe weather in Charles and Prince George's counties were confirmed as tornadoes late last night by the National Weather Service in Sterling, Va. No injuries were reported.
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The fallacy of "Climate Change"

Hawkeye
View From Above Blog
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:18 UTC
"Climate Change" seems to be the new buzzword these days among environmentalists and politicians who were formerly the proponents of "Global-Warming". Unfortunately, the term "climate change" is a meaningless phrase. The climate is always changing, about as often as the weather in fact. Some years are warm, while others are cool. Some years are dry, while others are wet. There are El Niños, and there are La Niñas. There have been ice ages and warm periods throughout Earth's history. And the term "Global Climate Change" is not much better. That simply tells us that the climate is changing everywhere in the world. Yeah, and so...?
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