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Al Gore on record cold wave: 'Bitter cold is exactly what we should expect from climate crisis' - UPDATE: Twitter responds

Stop global warming sign under snow
Former Vice President Al Gore has weighed in on the record cold and snow in the U.S. "It's bitter cold in parts of the US, but climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann explains that's exactly what we should expect from the climate crisis," Gore wrote on January 4 on Twitter.

Gore linked to one of his organizations' articles on the brutal winter weather written by Climategate professor Michael Mann: The Climate Reality Project: A 'PERFECT STORM': EXTREME WINTER WEATHER, BITTER COLD, AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Snowflake Cold

Ice-cold iguanas plunge from Florida trees during winter storm cold snap - UPDATE (VIDEO)

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© Jorge Silva / Reuters
Frozen iguanas are tumbling off their perches in Miami's suburbs, as South Florida and much of the US Southeast are in the grips of a frigid winter storm, as the freezing weather grows in intensity as it moves up the East Coast.

The iguanas were seen dropping from the trees Thursday because they are cold-blooded creatures, and if the temperature drops below 50 degrees, the reptiles become sluggish. If the temperature drops lower than 50, as it has in some parts of South Florida, the creature becomes completely immobilized, according to the Daily News.

The National Weather Service (NWS) reported Thursday morning that some parts of South Florida experienced temperatures below 40 degrees.

Snowflake Cold

Antarctic dry valleys experiencing significant shifts in flora and fauna

In Antarctic dry valleys, early signs of climate change-induced shifts in soil
© Ashley Shaw
There are no plants, birds or mammals in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, which are located in the largest region of the Antarctic continent.
In a study spanning two decades, a team of researchers led by Colorado State University found declining numbers of soil fauna, nematodes and other animal species in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, one of the world's driest and coldest deserts. This discovery is attributed to climate change, which has triggered melting and thawing of ice in this desert since an uncharacteristically warm weather event in 2001.

There are no plants, birds or mammals in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, located in the largest region of the Antarctic continent. But microbes and microscopic soil invertebrates live in the harsh ecosystem, where the mean average temperature is below -15 degrees Celsius, or 5 degrees Fahrenheit.

Comment: The climate is certainly changing, it's getting colder and weather events are becoming much more intense, but it has nothing to do with the global warming lie and this is becoming clear for all to see, even Al Gore has had to change his tune: Al Gore's Global Warming: 'Bitter cold' is 'exactly what we should expect from the' err 'climate crisis'

The planet experiences periods of cyclical cooling and other more dramatic changes driven by much more massive influences than cow farts and old cars, see:


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UK: 'Very unusual' sinkhole on train tracks after Storm Eleanor, 'ground shifting' say engineers

sinkhole rail storm eleanor
A "mysterious void" has been discovered next to train tracks on the Cumbrian coast.

The sinkhole is around 4ft deep and 2ft wide and was found in the village of Harrington.

Engineers said the ground around the hole appeared to be "shifting". Services between Whitehaven and Workington were disrupted.

Network Rail, which manages Britain's railway infrastructure, said in a statement: "Engineers are working to repair and make safe the section of line after the mysterious void appeared yesterday in the wake of Storm Eleanor."

Phil James, head of operations for Network Rail's London North Western route, said: "Sinkholes are very unusual on the railway.

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Snowflake Cold

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Bombogenesis USA - Icy sea flooding - Blizzards rage (VIDEO)

Boston icy floods
© Nancy Lane
Billy Carey and Justin Plaza, at right, from Boston Fire Rescue swift water team haul their boat after saving a man from his flooded car on Commercial Wharf during the storm on Thursday, January 4, 2018.
Here we are again same as 2016, Bombogenesis. Once considered rare, now twice in two years. The grand solar minimum is here. Ten thousand flights cancelled, blizzard warnings from Alabama to Maine, Florida swimming pools freeze, NYC snow bound, ocean ice floats in on floods from 100MPH + winds. The amplification begins, 2018 will be the year the world wakes up.


Comment: An update to this report can be found here.

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Sherlock

Sea recedes in unusually strong syzygy in Santa Elena, Ecuador

Sea recedes in Santa Elena Ecuador
© Twitter
Sea disappeared in Santa Elena, Ecuador stranding hundreds of boats in the Bay.
After the powerful hailstorm that buried several cars in ice in Biblian, another strange phenomenon occurred on the coast of Ecuador. After several months, the strange phenomenon of the 'disappearing sea' has been reported again by frightened fishermen in Santa Rosa, a small port located in the province of Santa Elena, Ecuador. Yes, the sea receded 'a little more than normal', stranding at least 800 fishing boats on January 3, 2018 as well as two days before.

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Seven Sisters cliffs in the UK caught on camera shattering, falling into sea

Seven Sisters cliffs
© Sojka Libor / Global Look Press
An enormous chunk of Britain's iconic white cliffs has collapsed into the sea, as Storm Eleanor battered the country. Dramatic footage shows a huge slab of chalk stone breaking away, before crashing into the sea.

The footage was uploaded to social media and has since gone viral, garnering more than 7,000 views in less than 24 hours.

Comment: Three cliff falls in just two days near iconic Seven Sisters, UK; woman killed


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Rare ivory gull from Arctic turns up in Lake County Fairgrounds, Illinois

An adult ivory gull, pure white with yellow tip on black bill, sits in the parking lot at the Lake County Fairgrounds on Jan. 3, 2018.
© Amar Ayyash
An adult ivory gull, pure white with yellow tip on black bill, sits in the parking lot at the Lake County Fairgrounds on Jan. 3, 2018.
If anyone deserves to find an ivory gull at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Grayslake, it's Amar Ayyash.

Known throughout the nation as a gull expert and the administrator of the North American Gulls Facebook page, Ayyash of Orland Park has found plenty of rare gulls for birders to look at.

Still, Ayyash said it was pure luck that he discovered on a bitterly cold January day a very rare, small, all-white gull that flew into the parking lot and landed next to his car near several other much more common gull species called herring gulls.

Ivory gulls nest in Russia, Greenland and Canada, and, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, spend winter on icy waters north of Newfoundland. The gull's population is estimated to be at the most 27,000 individuals in the world, according to Birdlife International.

"It's a dream bird," said Ayyash. "It's one of the holy grails. There are not a lot of people who get the chance to find their own ivory gull in the lower 48 states."

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Storm Grayson blitzes U.S. east coast, Storm Eleanor batters Europe and Storm Ava builds up near Africa

nasa storm grayson
© NASA
Infrared image of Winter Storm Grayson collected on the morning of Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018.
By the time Friday is here, people along the length of North America's East Coast will be recuperating from a punishing round of heavy snow, high winds, and bitter cold. This nor'easter-dubbed Grayson by The Weather Channel-will rank among the most impressive of recent decades in its fast development, deep low pressure, and fierce winds. Various models agreed that Grayson's surface low would deepen by an astounding 30-40 millibars or more from late Wednesday to late Thursday, more than qualifying the midlatitude cyclone as a meteorological "bomb" (defined as 24 millibars of deepening in 24 hours). The deepening rate could be among the strongest observed off the East Coast in the last several decades of records, according to David Roth (NWS).

Update:
Preliminary analyses from NOAA/NWS Weather Prediction Center as of midday Thursday show that Grayson deepened by an incredible 59 millibars in just 24 hours, which would be a record for midlatitude storms in this part of the Northwest Atlantic. The central pressure at 10 AM EST was analyzed by WPC at 951 mb.

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Mysterious big bang, possibly an ice quake, shakes Alberta village during the night

Residents examine a crack in the ground after a mysterious bang in Alberta Beach, Alta., Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018

Residents examine a crack in the ground after a mysterious bang in Alberta Beach, Alta., Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018

Some residents of a village west of Edmonton awoke earlier this week to a very loud bang, and in the morning they reported cracks in homes and the ground.

Alberta Beach mayor Jim Benedict says people thought something had hit their houses -- or that something had fallen on their houses -- very early Tuesday morning.

Alberta Energy Regulator spokesman Jordan Fitzgerald says staff at the regulator's Alberta Geological Survey confirm there were two seismic events of approximately 2.0 magnitude late Monday night.