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Amusing tales of the warmist fantasy and other Smithsonian climate scare stories

James Delingpole
Breitbart
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 07:23 UTC
Too Warm for Golf!
© Breitbart
The Smithsonian Institution - established in 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge" - has weighed into the debate on climate change. And the news is grim.

Soon golfers in hotter parts of the world - such as Arizona - may find themselves unable to play a round. Indeed, according to one expert, quoted in the Smithsonian's online journal, that moment has already arrived.
"When I worked in Atlanta it was hot and humid, but there was never a day I couldn't go outside and hit a tennis ball," says Royal Norman, a meteorologist for station KTVK. "But there are days here where I'm never outside except to get in and out of my car."
But this is only the beginning of the horror of the burning hell we can expect to experience as a result of climate change, according to The Smithsonian - a world-renowned science institution which no way would prostitute its reputation by running some half-baked article in its house magazine based on little more than a few desperate quotes and some dodgy, parti-pris research from politicised university departments cherry-picked by an author to support his tendentious thesis.

Here are a few more of the tragedies that lie ahead.
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Cloud Precipitation

Sinkhole or landslide? Block-long street collapse in Baltimore swallows cars

Peter Hermann
Washington Post
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 20:49 UTC
Baltimore landslide
© Stacey Mink
Heavy rains cause a landslide in Baltimore, Maryland.
A street in the Charles Village neighborhood of Baltimore collapsed Wednesday, washing away cars and flooding CSX railroad tracks that run below street level.

Ian Brennan, a spokesman for the Baltimore Fire Department, said no injuries were reported.

One lane of the East 26th Street between North Charles and North St. Paul streets collapsed about 4 p.m. and slid down an embankment leading to the tracks below. The cause of the collapse was unclear, but it came on a day that the region was experiencing heavy rain storms.

Several streets were closed late Wednesday afternoon. St. Paul and Charles are major thoroughfares that are generally crowded during both the morning and evening commutes. The neighborhood is largely residential row houses. Traffic was reported to be snarled in the area of the collapse and downtown.
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Cloud Precipitation

Massive flooding caused by deadly storms in Florida and Alabama - over a foot of rain in both states


RT
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:27 UTC
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© Photo from Twitter/@IndianaWxOnline
As a deadly weather front continued to make its way across the Southern United States late Tuesday and early Wednesday, both Florida and Alabama were struck with severe flooding that's left at least one person dead.

According to the Associated Press, rainfall in the Florida Panhandle - especially the area around Pensacola - and the coast of Alabama has been relentless, dropping well over a foot of rain in both states. Houses have been flooded to the point where residents have had to seek higher ground, and overflowing roads have stranded drivers waiting to be picked up by rescue squads.

In Pensacola, where 15-20 inches of rain fell in a one-day period, at least one woman has been reported dead due to driving in perilously high waters. Florida Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in 26 counties.
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Phoenix

Explosions rock ammo depot near Russia's Lake Baikal: Forest fires are being blamed


RIA Novosti
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 08:45 UTC
At least three explosions rocked a military ammunition depot located to the east of Russia's Lake Baikal, a local official told RIA Novosti Tuesday.


"According to preliminary reports, three blasts hit an ammo depot near the village of Bolshaya Tura," the source said.

"Local residents are being evacuated, although no casualties have been reported so far," the official said.

Some four hundred people were evacuated from the danger zone, according to a local law enforcement source.

The Defense Ministry confirmed there were no casualties and said the personnel of a military unit stationed in the area have been timely evacuated.
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Cloud Lightning

Up to 20 inches of rain in 24 hours soaks Florida's Panhandle


Associated Press
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 06:46 UTC
Pensacola flooding
© Unknown
Photo reportedly shows flooding in Pensacola, Fla., amid severe storms.
Heavy rains and flooding killed at least one person and left others stranded in their houses and cars in the Florida Panhandle, the latest area of the country to be pummeled by a dayslong chain of severe weather.

Escambia County spokesman Bill Pearson told The Pensacola News Journal that at least one person died and several others were stranded by floodwaters in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. The circumstances surrounding the death were not immediately known.

Pearson said fire rescue crews aren't able to respond to some calls early Wednesday because of road flooding around Pensacola. He said some people have climbed into their attics because of rising waters.

"We are asking people to stay off the roads," Pearson told the newspaper.
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Nuke

Radiation level in tuna off Oregon coast triples after Fukushima


RT
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 05:15 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Yoshikazu Tsuno
While the state of Oregon gears up to test its shores for radioactive contamination from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster, university scientists have found that radiation levels in some albacore tuna caught off its coast have tripled.

According to researchers at the University of Oregon, the results came after tests analyzed the cesium levels in 26 tuna caught prior to the 2011 nuclear calamity - as far back as 2008 - and those caught after the accident.

Although the levels of radioactive isotopes in some of the tuna tripled after the disaster, the researchers found they are still "a thousand times lower" than the safety standards outlined by the US Department of Agriculture.

"A year of eating albacore with these cesium traces is about the same dose of radiation as you get from spending 23 seconds in a stuffy basement from radon gas," the study's lead author, Delvan Neville said to Oregon's Statesman Journal.

Still, Neville added that the discovery of any amount of radiation is significant.

Comment: Also see:
Fukushima nuclear radiation threat to U.S. - It's not just scare stories, it's the truth
Fukushima radiation to reach ocean along U.S. West Coast next month
Citizen scientists step in to study radiation effects in Western U.S. because there's no money in it for CorpGov
Fukushima radiation more than 10 times the normal level is detected on California beaches

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Newspaper

Man devoured by crocodiles in Costa Rica

Lindsay Fendt
The Tico Times
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 02:49 UTC
An unidentified man leapt from the main bridge over the Tárcoles River, near Costa Rica's central Pacific coast, on Tuesday evening at approximately 5:20 p.m. in what is believed to be a suicide, Jim Batres, assistant director for the Costa Rican Red Cross, told The Tico Times.
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© Lindsay Fendt/The Tico Times
A crocodile slithers into the water from the muddy bank of a Costa Rican river. For illustrative purposes only.
After falling into the water, the man reportedly was eaten by the river's famously abundant crocodiles.

Citing the testimonies of unidentified witnesses at the scene, Batres said the man had been causing a disturbance on the bridge earlier in the evening and was removed by police. He then went to a bar before returning to the bridge and leaping into the river.

Batres said the man's identity could not immediately be confirmed, and members of a Red Cross search team were unable to recover the body as of 7:50 p.m. Tuesday night.

A conflicting report in the daily La Nación said the victim did not jump from the bridge, but tried to swim in the river from the shore when he was attacked by a crocodile and disappeared.
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Cloud Lightning

Massive storm system: 70 million Americans under threat of severe weather

Michael Pearson
CNN
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:24 UTC
US massive storm system
© NOAA
A massive storm system moves across the United States.
From Missouri to New York, Michigan to Florida, forecasters urged millions of Americans to keep an eye on the weather Tuesday, warning of tornadoes, high winds and hail spawned by the storm system that's killed 31 people in the last two days.

Roughly 70 million people are being warned of a slight to moderate risk of severe weather in the eastern half of the United States, according to the National Weather Service. That was a slight downgrade from an estimated 75 million people earlier in the day.

Mississippi and Alabama -- where tornadoes Monday caused widespread destruction and several deaths -- were again in the bull's-eye for the worst of Tuesday's forecast.

Tens of thousands were without power in those two states, where suspected tornadoes chewed through homes and businesses late Monday. At least 13 people were killed in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee on Monday. Those deaths are in addition to 18 others reported in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Iowa from storms Sunday.
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Snowflake Cold

UK: Temperatures set to fall to minus 3C by the weekend - two weeks of frosts, snow coming

John Hall and Ted Thornhill
Daily Mail
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 12:03 UTC
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People walking their dogs during mist and frost in Richmond Park
Temperatures are set to plummet over the Bank Holiday weekend, falling to as low as -3C as a blast of cold air moves in from the Arctic, potentially lasting for up to a fortnight.

Forecasters say that parts of Britain will experience heavy overnight frosts, with the North facing a windchill factor of -5C and the potential for snow on hilltops by the end of the week.

The impending cold snap follows one of the mildest winters in recent years, although the wettest January for 250 years led to widespread flooding - particularly in the South-West.
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Cloud Lightning

At least 16 dead, 1,000 homeless in Bangladesh storm


Agence France-Presse
Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:21 UTC
Lightning
© Getty Images
A severe storm has left at least 16 people dead and 1,000 homeless in northern Bangladesh, officials say.

The storm tore through scores of villages overnight on Sunday, uprooting trees and electricity poles and derailing a train in an incident that injured dozens of passengers.

Nine people were killed in the worst-hit district of Netrokona, six died in neighbouring Sunamganj, and one person died after being struck by lightning in nearby Naogaon, police in all three districts said.

Among the nine killed in Netrokona was a pregnant woman and her three children, district police official Rashel Miah said.
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