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India: Tremors Cause Cracks in Kerala Dam


The Pioneer
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:09 UTC
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Small cracks appeared at least at three points in the 115-year-old Mullaperiyar dam in Kerala's Idukki district following two minor tremors that occurred early on Friday.

The tremors and cracks have created panic among the people in River Periyar's downstream areas. The district has more than a dozen large and medium-sized dams including Asia's largest arch dam, Idukki.

Officials of the Kerala Water Resources Department said the cracks had appeared in Block 17 and the joint of Block 17 and 18 following the tremors. The tremors also caused water seepage through the cracks from the Mullaperiyar reservoir, situated on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border. Officials said the cracks were no serious enough to cause panic.
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Igloo

IPCC Scientists Test The Exit Doors Over Predictions Gone Wrong

Jo Nova
The Global Warming Policy Foundation
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:11 UTC
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This is another big tipping point on the slide out of the Great Global Scam. IPCC scientists - facing the travesty of predictions-gone-wrong - are trying to salvage some face, and plant some escape-clause seeds for later. But people are not stupid.

A conveniently leaked IPCC draft is testing the ground. What excuses can they get away with? Hidden underneath some pat lines about how anthropogenic global warming is "likely" to influence... ah cold days and warm days, is the get-out-of-jail clause that's really a bombshell:
"Uncertainty in the sign of projected changes in climate extremes over the coming two to three decades is relatively large because climate change signals are expected to be relatively small compared to natural climate variability".
Translated: The natural climate forces are stronger than we thought, and we give up, we can't say whether it will get warmer or colder in the next twenty years.

Comment: For more information about the political agenda behind the global warming scam see:

Climate Change Swindlers and the Political Agenda

Wake The World Up Campaign

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Question

Colorado, US: Fort Collins middle school students sickened by mysterious odor

Tammy Vigil
Fox 31
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:21 UTC
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More than a dozen students were sent to the hospital after a mysterious odor swept through part of Blevins Middle School in Fort Collins.

The incident was first reported at about 12:30 p.m., initially from a laboratory classroom. Poudre Fire Authority investigated for nearly six hours and didn't locate the source. Investigators plan to return to the school on Saturday.

"When the firefighters arrived on scene they found the 12 students in front of the school and the remaining students in the process of being evacuated," said Poudre Fire spokesman Patrick Love.

Students say they were told it was fire drill and to evacuate.

"We were out there for 15 minutes. We were thinking something was wrong," says 8th grader Sean Papile.

The army of firefighters, police and paramedics made them question--and worry.

"When we came out we had no idea what was going on, so it was a little freaky for us," says 6th grader Jack Sexton.
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Wheeling, West Virginia, US: Mysterious Odor Returns at School


The Intelligencer
Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:14 UTC
No source inside St. John Central High School is causing the foul air that has plagued the Guernsey Street building on more than one occasion this month, most recently Friday.

Principal Sheila Blackmore said Bellaire Code Enforcer James Chase has assured her the cause of the noxious odors in the school are not the result of anything inside the structure. His assurance has been backed up by other professionals who have inspected the building, at the request of Paul D. Ward, director of the Diocese of Steubenville Office of Christian Formation and Schools.

The school was closed Nov. 3 when some students and the principal became nauseous and suffered headaches and eye irritation while at school. The school was closed the following day for the quality of air inside the building to be tested.
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Nuke

Europe's Mysterious Radiation Cloud May Be Coming from Hungary

Adrian Covert
Agence France-Presse
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:58 UTC
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Hungarian engineers watch the control-screen at the National Radioactive Waste Depository in Bataapati, about 200km south of Budapest, in 2008. Elevated levels of the radioactive element iodine-131 that were detected in several nations have been identified as likely originating at a Hungarian research institute, nuclear authorities said Thursday.
Elevated levels of the radioactive element iodine-131 that were detected in several nations have been identified as likely originating at a Hungarian research institute, nuclear authorities said Thursday.

Hungarian officials said the leak probably came from the Budapest-based Institute of Isotopes, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement.

The institute has acknowledged emitting higher quantities of iodine-131 than normal but denies being the source of any elevated radiation.

"Radiation levels in Hungary were only a little higher in Budapest than elsewhere," said Institute of Isotopes director Mihaly Lakatos.

"If the source of heightened radioactivity had been Budapest, the levels measured here should have been much higher."
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Cloud Lightning

Rare Bolivian Tornado Caught on Tape


The Weather Channel
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:00 UTC
A resident of Cochabamba, Bolivia caught this tornado as it moved through his town. It demolished buildings, uprooted trees and ripped metal sheeting from roofs. A Bolivian meteorologist says it is unusual for a tornado to hit a mountain city.

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Snowman

Canada, British Columbia: First snow hits parts of Metro Vancouver


CBC News
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:19 UTC
Snowfall warnings issued for eastern Vancouver Island and southern Interior.

Parts of Metro Vancouver got their first snow overnight Thursday, but there were few reports it was impacting the morning commute in most areas on Friday morning.

The heaviest snow was reported in the UBC area, parts of Surrey and higher elevations on the North Shore and Port Moody.

TransLink reported there were no major issues with their service but riders were advised to dress warmly and expect crowded conditions as people leave their cars at home.

No problems were reported with the SkyTrain lines or with buses at SFU.
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Bizarro Earth

US: Major Wildfire Outside Reno, Nevada closes 90 schools


MSNBC
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:48 UTC
State and county officials in northern Nevada have declared a state of emergency as a wind-whipped wildfire in Reno has destroyed more than 20 homes and forced the evacuation of thousands.

"It's tough man, it's tough," Reno Fire Chief Michael Hernandez told the Reno Gazette-Journal on Friday. "The winds are not helping us at all."

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Igloo

US: Early season record cold temperatures stun residents of Alaska

Tim Mowry
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:57 UTC
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A mid-November cold snap seems to have caught even seasoned Fairbanksans off guard.

"I don't think anybody was really expecting this," 43-year-old Shawn Ross, a lifelong Fairbanksan, said. "This came out of the blue."

For the second time in three days, Fairbanks set a new low temperature record on Thursday. A temperature of 41 degrees below zero - the first 40 below temperature of the season - was recorded at Fairbanks International Airport at 6:29 a.m., according to the National Weather Service in Fairbanks. That broke the old record of 39 below set in 1969.

The cold air settling in the flatlands has concentrated air pollution. The Fairbanks North Star Borough issued air quality advisories on Wednesday and Thursday because particulate matter was above the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's standards and rated as unhealthy for sensitive groups.

Fairbanks set a new record of 35 below on Tuesday and the temperature bottomed out at 39 below on Wednesday, two degrees shy of the record.

Thursday's record low of 41 below marked the sixth earliest 40-below temperature recorded by the National Weather Service in Fairbanks since 1904. The earliest it's ever hit 40 below in Fairbanks was Nov. 5, 1907, when it hit 41 below.
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Bizarro Earth

New Zealand - Earthquake Magnitude 6.0


US Geological Survey
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:29 UTC
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Earthquake Location
Date-Time
Friday, November 18, 2011 at 07:51:27 UTC

Friday, November 18, 2011 at 07:51:27 PM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location
37.558°S, 179.311°E

Depth
26.8 km (16.7 miles)

Region
OFF EAST COAST OF THE NORTH ISLAND, N.Z.

Distances
158 km (98 miles) NE of Gisborne, New Zealand

269 km (167 miles) ENE of Rotorua, New Zealand

405 km (251 miles) ESE of Auckland, New Zealand

561 km (348 miles) NE of WELLINGTON, New Zealand
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