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Woman in her 90s dies following attack by pit bull terrier in Virginia Beach

Mike Connors
The Virginian-Pilot
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 19:26 UTC
canine attack
© Angela Antunes / CC by 2.0
An elderly woman died Thursday after being attacked by a dog.

Shortly after 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, officers joined animal enforcement after receiving a report of an attack in the Pembroke Manor neighborhood, police said in a news release. They found a woman suffering from severe bites and lacerations.

The woman, who police said was in her 90s, was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. She died this morning. Police said that out of respect for the family's wishes, the victim's identity will not be revealed.

Police said a 50-pound, 1-year-old American pit bull terrier attacked the woman while she was lying on the floor after a fall. The dog is currently in quarantine at the Virginia Beach Animal Care and Adoption Center.

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Three earthquakes in 5 minutes reported at Bárðarbunga volcano in Iceland


Iceland Monitor
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 19:17 UTC
Bárðarbunga is a stratovolcano located under Vatnajökull, Iceland's largest glacier.

Bárðarbunga is a stratovolcano located under Vatnajökull, Iceland's largest glacier.
This morning, three earthquakes over the magnitude of 3 occurred in Bárðarbunga at a five minute interval.

All occurred in the northern part of the caldera, the first at 9:49, the second at 9:53 and the third at 9:54. This is reported by the Iceland Met Office.

Last week, nearly 600 earthquakes were measured in Iceland which is similar to the preceeding week. Only six of them exceeded the magnitude of 3, the largest occurring on May 27th in Bárðarbunga.

Iceland met office graph
Iceland Met Office link for current earthquake graphs
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Cloud Lightning

At least 10 killed and 27 injured by lightning strikes across Bangladesh


Dhaka Tribune
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 19:04 UTC
lightning
At least 10 people were killed and over 27 others injured in separate incidents of lightning strikes in Brahmanbaria, Barisal, Feni and Habiganj districts during the rain Thursday.

Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar police station Officer-in-Charge Abu Zafar said that lightning struck some fishermen as they were catching fish in Balikhola Haor of Bholakut union around 11pm.

Among the injured, Monju Mian, 54, Shahid Mian, 32, and Janu Mian, 30, all hailing from Balikhola village, died on the spot.
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Red Flag

Scientists: Humans bringing about sixth mass extinction of life on Earth

Ian Johnston
The Independent
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 17:07 UTC
Bengali tiger cub
© Ulises Rodriguez/Reuters
A two-month-old Bengali tiger cub in an animal refuge in El Salvador; the species is considered to be endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature
Humans are bringing about the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth, according to scientists writing in a special edition of the leading journal Nature.

Mammals, birds and amphibians are currently becoming extinct at rates comparable to the previous five mass extinctions when "cataclysmic forces" - such as massive meteorite strikes and supervolcano explosions - wiped out vast swathes of life, including the dinosaurs.

The growing human population - which has increased by 130 per cent in the last 50 years and is set to rise to more than 10 billion by 2060 - and our increasing demand for resources as we become wealthier is ramping up the pressure on the natural world.

Tens of thousands of species - including 25 per cent of all mammals and 13 per cent of birds - are now threatened with extinction because of over-hunting, poaching, pollution, loss of habitat, the arrival of invasive species, and other human-caused problems.
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Ice Cube

A Holocene Temperature Reconstruction Part 1: the Antarctic

Andy May
Watts Up With That?
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:36 UTC
global temperature anomaly from the 1961-1990
© Figure 1
The only recent attempt at a global Holocene temperature reconstruction available today is the one by Marcott, et al. (2013), the paper abstract can be viewed here. His reconstruction is shown in figure 1.

The Y axis is a reconstructed global temperature anomaly from the 1961-1990 mean. "Years BP" are years before 1950. This reconstruction shows a fairly flat Holocene Climatic Optimum (or HCO, also called the Holocene Thermal Optimum, see description here) temperature anomaly of +0.4°C from 9500 BP to 5000 BP, declining to a low of -0.4°C about 300 BP (1650 AD) in the Little Ice Age (LIA). This 0.8°C difference between the HCO and the LIA is smaller than the generally accepted difference of 1°C to 1.5°C.

This is documented in some detail by Javier here. The higher accepted difference is clear in glacial records as shown by Koch, et al., 2014 (link). It can also be seen in the biosphere as shown by Kullman 2001 (link); Pisaric et al. 2003 (link); MacDonald et al. 2000 (link); Tinner, et al. 1996 (link) and Thouret et al. 1996 (link)). Further, the marine biosphere also shows a larger temperature difference as seen in Werne et al., 2000 (link) and Rosenthal et al., 2013 (link).
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Bizarro Earth

Massive landslide engulfing California Highway 1 added 13 acres to the coastline


Los Angeles Times
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 05:45 UTC
big sur landslide
A massive landslide that engulfed Central California's Highway 1 has added 13 acres to the coastline.

Based on new aerial photographs, the May 20 slide in Big Sur created a bulge of land the size of 10 football fields, the East Bay Times reported Wednesday.

After a series of winter storms, more than 1 million tons of rock and earth slipped down a saturated slope in the Mud Creek area.

A quarter-mile of Highway 1 was covered by as much as 80 feet of stone and soil at its deepest point, Jonathan Warrick said. He is a U.S. Geological Survey research geologist who is leading a project to photograph the coast.

Comment: See also: Massive landslide buries California's iconic coastal Highway 1 under 40 feet of rock and dirt

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Bizarro Earth

An earthquake in the Arctic Circle?

David Jacobson
Temblor
Wed, 31 May 2017 16:26 UTC
Global Earthquake Activity Rate (GEAR) model for Svalbard

This Temblor map shows the Global Earthquake Activity Rate (GEAR) model for Svalbard in the Arctic Circle. This map shows that today’s M=5.0 earthquake (magnitude from the USGS) should not be considered surprising and that the region could experience larger quakes.
At 3:59 p.m. local time, a M=5.0 earthquake shook the island of Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Circle. According to the USGS, the quake occurred at a depth of 7.7 km, and was centered 133 km from Longyearbyen, the archipelago's largest settlement, which is home to a little over 2,000 people. This M=5.0 quake was preceded several hours earlier by a M=3.0. While very few people likely felt this earthquake, it highlights a lesser-known area, and the idea that seemingly inactive faults can rupture in earthquakes.

The Svalbard archipelago represents an uplifted portion of the Barents Sea, which separates Svalbard from Northern Europe. To the west of the archipelago is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and the Spitsbergen Fracture Zone, a divergent plate boundary between the North American and Eurasian plates. Much of the seismicity in this part of the Arctic Ocean occurs on or near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which has a spreading rate of approximately 2.5 cm/yr (1 inch). However, by examining the historical seismicity of the island of Spitsbergen and the rest of Svalbard, it is clear that this remote archipelago is no stranger to earthquakes.
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Fish

Deep sea fish missing for more than a century rediscovered off Sydney, Australia

Elle Hunt and AAP
The Guardian
Wed, 31 May 2017 13:40 UTC
The fish found by scientists from Museums Victoria and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
© John Pogonoski/AFP/Getty Images
The fish found by scientists from Museums Victoria and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
A "faceless" deep-sea fish not seen for more than a century has been rediscovered by scientists trawling the depths of a massive abyss off Australia's east coast, along with "amazing" quantities of rubbish.

The 40cm fish was rediscovered 4km below sea level in waters south of Sydney by scientists from Museums Victoria and the Australian government's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) on the weekend.

Dr Tim O'Hara, the chief scientist and expedition leader, who is a senior curator of marine invertebrates at Museums Victoria, said it was the first time the fish had been seen in waters off Australia since 1873, when one was dredged up by a British ship near Papua New Guinea.

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Cloud Lightning

7 people dead and 81 missing after cyclone Mora hits Bangladesh

Ashitha Nagesh
Metro (UK)
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:06 UTC
A satellite photo, taken by NASA, of Cyclone Mora as it caused devastation
© AFP/Getty Images
A satellite photo, taken by NASA, of Cyclone Mora as it caused devastation
A major search and rescue mission is underway for 81 people still missing from a devastating cyclone that killed at least seven people.

Cyclone Mora, which ravaged the north east with 85mph winds, also injured 50 and left thousands of people destitute and homeless in Bangladesh and northeast India.

Among them are 81 fishermen from Cox's Bazar, a sliver of land in southeast Bangladesh bordering Myanmar.

The men have not been seen since the cyclone first ravaged the area on Tuesday.

'Still 81 fishermen are missing out of 144 fishermen,' Mostaque Ahmed, head of the Cox's Bazar Mechanised Fishing Boat Owners Association, said.

'The Bangladesh Naval Force has rescued 33, and the Indian Naval Force has rescued 30.'

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2 + 2 = 4

One graph proves why the 'Paris Agreement' is useless

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That?
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 11:28 UTC
Global Warming Hoax Climate Change
Activists think the world will be uninhabitable for our children if the U.S. pulls out of the Paris Climate Accord. For example, via Vox
Quitting the Paris climate agreement would be a moral disgrace

President Trump is selling out our kids to give false hope to coal workers. [...]

There is no employment upside to an "America First" retreat from global leadership on one of the few issues that can accurately be described as a potentially existential threat to humankind.

There is only the profound immorality of abdication — of gleefully passing a mounting problem on to our children, and on to the poor.

Comment: Further reading: Climate Change - It's all about the money

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