Earth Changes

Hurricane-force winds wreak havoc in Britain, head to Europe

Erik Kirschbaum and Belinda Goldsmith
Reuters
Thu, 05 Dec 2013 10:59 UTC

© REUTERS/Ina Fassbender
A barrier with traffic signs is seen on the North Sea beach near the town of Norddeich, December 5, 2013.

Hurricane-force Storm Xaver blasted towards mainland Europe on Thursday after cutting transport and power in northern Britain and killing three people in what meteorologists warned could be the worst storm to hit the continent in years.

British authorities said the Thames Barrier, designed to protect London from flooding during exceptional tides, would shut on Thursday night and warned of "the most serious coastal tidal surge for over 60 years in England". Prime Minister David Cameron called two emergency meetings to discuss strategy.

Two people were killed in Britain as the nation's weather office measured winds of up to 225 km per hour (140 mph) when the storm slammed Scotland and parts of England.

A lorry driver was killed and four people injured when his vehicle overturned and collided with other vehicles in West Lothian, Scotland, police said, while a second man died near Nottingham in central England when he was hit by a falling tree.

In western Denmark the 72-year-old female passenger of a truck died when the vehicle overturned in high winds.

More than 100,000 homes were left without power across Britain, 80,000 of them in Scotland, according to energy company

Massive winter storm wallops Texas, much of the U.S. Midwest - possible prolonged power outages

Jason Sickles
Yahoo News
Fri, 06 Dec 2013 10:54 UTC

Tens of thousands of homes and businesses are without power here after a massive winter storm caked North Texas in a thick coat of freezing rain and sleet.

Motorists are being encouraged to stay off roads, and ice on power lines forced public transportation officials to suspend the region's light rail service.

Dallas' woes are part of a severe cold snap stretching hundreds of miles from Texas to Kentucky.

"Every few years there is a blockbuster ice storm somewhere in the U.S., and these storms are no stranger to the South Central region," said Jesse Ferrell, weather expert and storm chaser for AccuWeather.com, told Reuters.

As of Friday morning, the National Weather Service had issued ice and winter storm warnings for 10 states. Oklahoma, Arkansas and Tennessee already have declared states of emergency. At least two deaths had been reported on roads in Texas and Missouri, according to Reuters.

Government forecasters warned of possible prolonged power outages across portions of the southern Great Plains toward the Lower Ohio Valley.

9 dead, thousands affected as storm Xaver sweeps east across Europe

RT
Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:57 UTC

© AFP Photo / TT News Agency / Johan Nilsson / Sweden out
The sea hits the flooded Harbour Road in Helsingborg, southern Sweden, on December 6, 2013 as storm Xaver hit southern Sweden on Thursday night

Hundreds of thousands have been left without power or stranded by transportation chaos as the storm Xaver is sweeping across northern Europe. At least nine people have died in the disaster.

Emergency services across the region battled overnight to sandbag sodden dykes, evacuate flooded harbor areas and repair damage from toppled trees that crashed onto houses, roads and power lines.

Atlantic storm Xaver swept into northern Europe late Thursday after disrupting transport and power in northern Britain where two people have died.

The winds of up to 158 kilometers per hour barreled across Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and southern parts of Scandinavia.

Blackouts hit 400,000 homes in Poland and affected 50,000 people in Sweden, while thousands of air passengers were stranded as flights were canceled at Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg, Gdansk and other airports, AFP reports

Hurricane Xaver brings icy tidal surges and flooding across Northwestern Europe

Der Spiegel
Fri, 06 Dec 2013 07:12 UTC

© DPA
Floodwaters in Hamburg early on Friday morning. City officials closed off flooded areas and some people reportedly had trouble reaching work in the morning.

A low-pressure system is bringing the worst flooding in decades to parts of Northern Europe, which is being pummeled by snow, rain and hurricane-force winds. At least three deaths have been reported.

A major storm surge threatened parts of northern Europe on Friday as a low-pressure system dubbed "Xaver" began battering the coasts with chilly hurricane-force winds. The United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Scandinavia were most heavily affected by the severe storm, but cancelled flights and trains caused problems across Europe. By Thursday night, officials had reported at least three storm-related deaths in the UK and Denmark.

Thousands of residents living in the UK's eastern coastal areas were forced to spend the night in schools or emergency shelters amid warnings of flooding, which the UK's Environment Agency said could be the highest in some 60 years. Late on Thursday, authorities closed the Thames Barrier to protect London from rising waters.

The storm brought rain, hail and snow with the tidal surge, and the German port city of Hamburg has seen its worst flooding in decades, forcing authorities to close off parts of the city center on Thursday night. "We have a tidal surge the likes of which we have rarely seen in the last 10 or 20 years," said a city official on Friday. Water levels were reportedly some 6 meters (20 feet) above sea level early on Friday morning, a level last reached just twice in the early 1990s.

Crack NOAA forecasters predicted a hot winter for the U.S.

Steven Goddard
Real Science
Fri, 06 Dec 2013 03:32 UTC

Data

They are doing great so far.

Record number of volcano eruptions in 2013 - Is catastrophic global cooling dead ahead?

Michael Snyder
The Truth
Fri, 06 Dec 2013 01:18 UTC

Have you noticed that this December is unusually cold so far? Could the fact that we have had a record number of volcanoes erupt in 2013 be responsible? Certainly an unusually calm solar cycle is playing a significant role in producing all of this cold weather, but as you will see below the truth is that throughout human history volcanic eruptions have produced some of the coldest winters ever recorded.

In fact, there have been some major eruptions that have actually substantially reduced global temperatures for two to three years. So should we be alarmed that the number of volcano eruptions this year was the highest ever recorded? Could it be possible that we are heading for a period of global cooling as a result?

And if the planet does cool significantly, could that lead to widespread crop failures and mass famine? Don't think that it can't happen. In fact, it has happened before and it is only a matter of time until it happens again.

I knew that we were seeing an unusual amount of volcanic activity around the planet so far this year. In fact, I wrote about it in my recent article entitled "Why Have 10 Major Volcanoes Along The Ring Of Fire Suddenly Roared To Life?" But I had no idea that we were on the verge of a new yearly record.

Blaming the developed world for the forces of nature

Tom Harris and Madhav Khandekar
Washington Times
Tue, 03 Dec 2013 00:00 UTC

Delegates at the recent U.N. climate conference in Warsaw decided that $1 billion a day, the amount currently being spent across the world on "climate finance," is not enough. Far greater funding is needed to save the world from what U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls the "greatest threat facing humanity." That climate science is highly immature and global warming actually stopped 17 years ago was never mentioned.

Here's what our representatives just agreed to:

Starting in 2014, the U.N.'s Green Climate Fund, a plan to divert an additional $100 billion per year from the treasuries of developed countries to those of developing nations to help them "take action on climate change," will commence operation. The heads of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are scheduled to take part in a launch ceremony for the GCF headquarters in South Korea on Wednesday.

A timetable was accepted to pave the way toward the establishment of a new international treaty in 2015 that will force developed countries to spend untold billions more to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions. The fine print in the negotiating text includes an escape clause for developing nations, indicating that carbon-dioxide emission targets their governments agree to will not be enforced. Developed nations do not have this escape clause.

Four planes struck by lightning over Honolulu in just six hours

Sophie Cocke
The Huffington Post
Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:56 UTC

For hundreds of Hawaii residents and visitors, the Thanksgiving holiday ended with a bang - from a lightning strike.

A little after noon on Sunday, Hawaiian Airlines Flight 19 was struck by lightning about 12 miles southwest of Honolulu International Airport as it was arriving from Sacramento.

Four hours later, Hawaiian Airlines Flight 1121 was also hit as it was en route from Hilo to Honolulu.

Hawaiian Airlines Flight 278 took a blow at 5 p.m. while it was flying from Honolulu to Kona. And less than an hour later, Flight 236 was hit as it shuttled passengers from Honolulu to Maui.

Four lightning strikes in a span of six hours is highly unusual, according to aviation experts. And while pilots are trained to avoid storm clouds, the heavy cloud cover and pounding rains on Sunday may have given them little choice but to punch through the turbulence.

"It gives you an indication that there must have been lots of rain that the planes were flying through and an environment for static issues," said Peter Forman, a local aviation historian.

Global warming "proof" is evaporating but the media and warmists are trying to keep it a secret

Michael Fumento
NY Post
Thu, 05 Dec 2013 11:14 UTC

The 2013 hurricane season just ended as one of the five quietest years since 1960. But don't expect anyone who pointed to last year's hurricanes as "proof" of the need to act against global warming to apologize; the warmists don't work that way.

Warmist claims of a severe increase in hurricane activity go back to 2005 and Hurricane Katrina. The cover of Al Gore's 2009 book, "Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis," even features a satellite image of the globe with four major hurricanes superimposed.

Yet the evidence to the contrary was there all along. Back in 2005 I and others reviewed the entire hurricane record, which goes back over a century, and found no increase of any kind. Yes, we sometimes get bad storms - but no more frequently now than in the past. The advocates simply ignored that evidence - then repeated their false claims after Hurricane Sandy last year.

Loud Booms, Earth shaking, reported in Pennsylvania

YorkDispatch.com
Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:28 UTC

Reports of the earth shaking and hearing booms in the night are preliminary evidence that an earthquake may have struck in Wellsville Borough in Northern York County Saturday night, according to a local geologist.

Jeri Jones, of Jones Geological Services, said he received reports from several people that they felt shaking and heard booming noises around 9:20 p.m. Saturday.

Jones said many of the reports came from the Wellsville area, but they extended north to Lower Allen Township in Cumberland County and south to East Berlin in Adams County.

Jones said the presence of a rock caused diabase could be the cause of the tremors, especially if it is settling after heavy rainfall, like the 10 inches of rain that fell in the area in mid-October.

Jones said diabase is also present in the Dillsburg area, where local residents reported multiple instances of tremors from 2008 until 2010.

"It seems like a common denominator," Jones said.

Jones said it will take a few more days to collect residents' reports to determine an epicenter. Jones said the tremors were too small for the nearest seismic station in Millersville to detect them.

No significant damage was reported.

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parzival

Bill Gates is going to be the one with the uncertain future,,, * New Lt. Governor of Virginia Winsome Sears: "We're going to have safer...

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The more we hear about adverse affects the more we will merely shrug. It's a catch 22. Is that an asteroid trail in the photo?

sass

Welcome to the new normal. The more sensory exposure we have about such things, the less it is an issue.

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Earth Changes

Hurricane-force winds wreak havoc in Britain, head to Europe

Massive winter storm wallops Texas, much of the U.S. Midwest - possible prolonged power outages

9 dead, thousands affected as storm Xaver sweeps east across Europe

Hurricane Xaver brings icy tidal surges and flooding across Northwestern Europe

Crack NOAA forecasters predicted a hot winter for the U.S.

Record number of volcano eruptions in 2013 - Is catastrophic global cooling dead ahead?

Blaming the developed world for the forces of nature

Four planes struck by lightning over Honolulu in just six hours

Global warming "proof" is evaporating but the media and warmists are trying to keep it a secret

Loud Booms, Earth shaking, reported in Pennsylvania

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