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Heat waves, floods and storms: Scientists warn world to prepare for extreme weather


MSNBC
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:30 UTC
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'I've been a meteorologist for 30 years, and I've never seen a year like 2011'

Top international climate scientists and disaster experts meeting in Africa have a sharp message for the world's political leaders: Get ready for more dangerous and unpredictable weather caused by global warming.

They're calling for preparations that they say will save lives and money.

The experts fear that without preparedness, crazy weather extremes may overwhelm some locations, making them uninhabitable.

The Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a new special report on global warming and extreme weather Friday after meeting in Uganda.

This is the first time the group of scientists has focused on the dangers of extreme weather events such as heat waves, floods, droughts and storms.

Those are more dangerous than gradual increases in the world's average temperature.

The Washington Post reported that the report said there was at least a 66 percent chance that climate extremes had been changed because of carbon emissions produced by fossil fuels and other human activity.

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Space and Weather Science Gone Wild
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Cosmic Changes, Planetary Instability and Extreme Weather

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Bad Guys

Science panel: Get ready for extreme weather


Yahoo News / Associated Press
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:03 UTC
Top international climate scientists and disaster experts meeting in Africa had a sharp message Friday for the world's political leaders: Get ready for more dangerous and "unprecedented extreme weather" caused by global warming.

Making preparations, they say, will save lives and money.

These experts fear that without preparedness, crazy weather extremes may overwhelm some locations, making some places unlivable.

The Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a new special report on global warming and extreme weather after meeting in Kampala, Uganda. This is the first time the group of scientists has focused on the dangers of extreme weather events such as heat waves, floods, droughts and storms. Those are more dangerous than gradual increases in the world's average temperature.

"We need to be worried," said one of the study's lead authors, Maarten van Aalst, director of the International Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre in the Netherlands. "And our response needs to anticipate disasters and reduce risk before they happen rather than wait until after they happen and clean up afterward. ... Risk has already increased dramatically."

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Bizarro Earth

Turkey: Earthquake Magnitude 5.2 - Near Van


US Geological Survey
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:26 UTC
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© USGS
Date-Time:
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 22:08:15 UTC
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 12:08:15 AM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location:
38.664°N, 43.099°E

Depth:
10 km (6.2 miles)

Region:
EASTERN TURKEY

Distances:
30 km (18 miles) NW of Van, Turkey

117 km (72 miles) S of Agri (Karakose), Turkey

133 km (82 miles) NNW of Hakkari, Turkey

896 km (556 miles) E of ANKARA, Turkey
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Bizarro Earth

US Seismologists want Portland residents to help track earthquakes

ZJoe Rojas-Burke
OregonLive.com
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:01 UTC
The Pacific Northwest sits atop an earthquake zone that's nearly a mirror image of the deep fault that ruptured the sea floor off Japan in March, killing thousands.
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A car rests against a cottage in Seaside after a tsunami hit the Oregon coast in 1964, triggered by a powerful earthquake in Alaska. The tsunami killed five people in Oregon.

Scientists are looking for volunteers in Portland to help track earthquakes by having a seismograph placed in their home or business in a citizen science project called NetQuakes. The U.S. Geological Survey says it's trying to build networks with more dense and uniformly spaced seismographs in select urban areas to provide better measurements of ground motion during earthquakes:
These measurements improve our ability to make rapid post-earthquake assessments of expected damage and contribute to the continuing development of engineering standards for construction.
NetQuakes seismographs send data over the Internet to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. Seattle is already well covered. Now it's Portland's turn.
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Bizarro Earth

US: Earthquake Magnitude 4.6 - Washington


US Geological Survey
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:29 UTC
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© USGS
Date-Time:
Friday, November 18, 2011 at 13:09:00 UTC
Friday, November 18, 2011 at 05:09:00 AM at epicenter

Location:
48.469°N, 119.607°W

Depth:
11.9 km (7.4 miles) set by location program

Region:
WASHINGTON

Distances:
8 km (5 miles) WSW (243°) from Riverside, WA

9 km (6 miles) NW (317°) from Omak, WA

12 km (7 miles) N (350°) from Okanogan, WA

186 km (115 miles) WNW (299°) from Spokane, WA

223 km (139 miles) ENE (64°) from Seattle, WA
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Bizarro Earth

New Zealand: 2 Earthquakes Magnitude 5.7 and 5.2 - Off Coast


US Geological Survey
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:23 UTC
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© USGS
Date-Time:
Friday, November 18, 2011 at 04:34:07 UTC
Friday, November 18, 2011 at 04:34:07 PM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location:
37.586°S, 179.292°E

Depth:
20.1 km (12.5 miles)

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

Distances:
163 km (101 miles) NE of Gisborne, New Zealand

274 km (170 miles) ENE of Rotorua, New Zealand

409 km (254 miles) ESE of Auckland, New Zealand

565 km (351 miles) NE of WELLINGTON, New Zealand
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Bizarro Earth

Sun's Solar Flares Connected to Yesterday's US Killer Storms

Mitch Battros
Earth Changes Media
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:49 UTC
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Over the last 7 days, several solar flares and CMEs (coronal mass ejections) have set off from the Sun as part of Cycle 24 continues towards its apex or maximum. My research over the last 13 years, have pointed to the Sun as the main cause of cyclical natural disasters.

Since the publishing of my two books: Solar Rain: The Earth Changes Have Begun and Global Warming: A Convenient Disguise, the world's leading scientific bodies - such as NASA, NOAA and ESA have come on-board supporting my 1998 "Equation."

Beginning yesterday, six US states were hit with 'extreme weather' in the form of tornadoes, straight-line winds, micro-burst, and wind shears. The states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama S. Carolina, N. Carolina and Georgia suffered at least six deaths, numerous injuries, and severely damaged buildings.
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Bizarro Earth

Last of 91 Whales Stranded in Australia, New Zealand Dies

Nick Perry
The Guardian, UK
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:00 UTC
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© AP Photo
People gather in the water around stranded pilot whales.
Rescuers have been unable to save the last surviving sperm whale from separate mass-strandings in Australia and New Zealand that have seen 91 whales die since the weekend.

Though whale strandings are relatively common in both countries, the past few days have been particularly tough for conservation authorities.

In all, 24 sperm whales and two minke whales died in a stranding on and around remote Ocean Beach in Tasmania. In an equally remote New Zealand location, the tip of Farewell Spit in the South Island, 65 pilot whales died.

Australian authorities were trying to guide the last surviving sperm whale to open water from Macquarie Harbour when the whale died late Wednesday. They had earlier managed to free two sperm whales from the harbor, which is located near Ocean Beach.

"We did everything possible to save this whale," said Liz Wren, a spokeswoman for the Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service. She said the whale appeared to be swimming strongly before it died at about 7 p.m.
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Bizarro Earth

Restless underwater volcano disrupts life on Canary Island


News24
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:25 UTC
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© Guardia Civil
Madrid - Steaming magma is bubbling onto the sea surface. The earth shakes, and a smell of sulphur floats in the air.

For over a month, residents of the Spanish Canary Island of El Hierro have lived with an active underwater volcano that not only poses a security threat, but also scares off tourists and endangers the inhabitants' livelihoods.

Volcanic eruptions could continue for weeks, civil protection science representative Carmen Lopez said this week.

However, the situation has been deemed safe enough for the 550 evacuated residents of the fishing village of La Restinga to return home, though the island was still being hit by earthquakes.

The earth began trembling on El Hierro on July 19, in a sign that magma was rising toward the surface of the smallest Canary Island.
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Cloud Lightning

Crews seek survivors as Southeast storm death toll rises to 6


MSNBC
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:45 UTC
The death toll from a storm system that spawned several possible tornadoes as it slammed the Southeast has risen to at least six, officials said Thursday as search crews went out to look for more victims and survivors.

Officials in central North Carolina said the deaths of a woman and a child in Davidson County were weather-related. However, Emergency Services director Jeff Smith did not have any other details early Thursday.


Suspected tornadoes were reported Wednesday in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina. Severe weather also hit Georgia.

Dozens of homes and buildings were damaged and thousands of people were without power as trees and power lines were downed.

In South Carolina, three people were killed and five injured when a likely tornado swept through a rural community near Rock Hill, about 20 miles south of Charlotte, N.C. One person died in northern Georgia when a tree fell on a car, the fire department in Forsyth, Ga., confirmed.

NBC station WCNC reported that search crews in York County, S.C., were to head back out Thursday morning to look for anyone who still might be unaccounted for and help cleaning up.
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