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Stunned tourists capture spectacular moment a humpback whale rises from the water in middle of sleepy Californian fishing harbor


DailyMail.co.uk
Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:54 UTC
An amateur shutterbug happened upon a stunning scene as a pod of humpback whales emerged from the water as a curious crowd of watchers gathered around.Retiree Bill Bouton was driving in San Luis Obispo, California on Saturday when he glanced over at the coast to see a group of the massive mammals feeding in the shallow waters, which has been occurring occasionally in the area over the past few days.

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© Bill Bouton
Meal time: Fearless onlookers try and get close to capture pictures of a feeding humpback whale in the waters of San Luis Obispo, California on Saturday
The 69-year-old managed to pull his car over and set up his camera tripod near the water's edge to capture snapshots of the event.

Boaters and kayakers in the waters had cameras of their own poised to take pictures, fearlessly advancing toward the hungry animals, typically from 39 - 52 ft (12 - 16 metres) in length with an average weight of around 79,000 lb (36,000 kilograms).

Bouton explained on NBC's Today Show on Monday how he had spent most of the morning that day trying to photograph birds nearby but had been unsuccessful finding any compelling subjects.
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Bizarro Earth

Due to low water levels in the Mississippi River, salt water has been moving far upriver

Chillymanjaro
TheWatchers.com
Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:16 UTC
Salt water is threatening drinking water in the New Orleans area. Due to low water levels in the Mississippi River, salt water has been moving far upriver and was at the outskirts of New Orleans by August 15, reaching about 145 km (89 miles) north of the mouth of the Mississippi. The Mississippi River's volume of water flow has fallen to a level that allows saltwater to intrude upstream into the Mississippi River above the Head of Passes according to USACE Team New Orleans. The Mississippi River has been closed temporarily as contractors placed a pipeline in the Mississippi River to build an underwater barrier that the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) says will stop the advance of salt water.

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© NASA JSC, STS-51C-143-027, 1/85
Space-shuttle photograph of the Mississippi Delta region, southeastern Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi
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Bizarro Earth

More strange sky sounds, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Karuan Nunes Bertoluci
YouTube
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:00 UTC
Amazing and strange sound in the sky in Brazil (São Paulo) on the morning of August 22, 2012, approximately 4:27 (AM).

The sound was so loud and intense that made wake up and look in the sky where the noise was very loud.

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Arrow Up

Huge sinkhole in Hanoi causes serious traffic jams


VietNamNet Bridge
Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:01 UTC
vietnam sinkhole
Nam Cuong Group, the investor of expanded Le Van Luong road, claimed the construction of USilk City apartment buildings as the reason causing the sinkhole on the road. Meanwhile, the investor of USilk City laid the blame on downpours.

On August 20, the hole kept spreading to more than 20m wide, 30m long and 7m deep, causing serious traffic jams on Hanoi's key role. The hole is very close to the USilk City apartment building, invested by the Song Da Thang Long JS Company.

The hole can continue expanding.

According to Nam Cuong Group, the investor of Le Van Luong Road, said that the road was broken because of the construction of the foundation of the USilk City building, which is located close to the road.
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Snowflake

Aurora Season Begins Over Arctic


The Extinction Protocol
Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:00 UTC
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The long days of northern summer are coming to an end, and auroras are appearing in the darkening Arctic skies. "Yesterday I saw my first stars since last spring, and tonight the first auroras!" reports Fredrik Broms, who sends this picture from Kvaløya, Norway: "It felt almost unreal to see them dancing across the light blue sky where only Jupiter, Venus and the brightest of the stars were visible," adds Broms. "I saw both green and red rays dancing over my head while standing barefoot in the grass - a somewhat unusual combination here in Tromsø! The return of the auroras was most welcome after a summer without any stars (save one)." More arctic auroras are in the offing tonight as a high-speed solar wind stream buffets Earth's magnetic field. NOAA forecasters estimate a 25% to 30% chance of polar geomagnetic storms.
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Cloud Lightning

Multiple Typhoons Threaten Taiwan


The China Post
Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:08 UTC
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Taipei -- Tropical Storm Tembin (天枰) has been upgraded to a typhoon and is likely to turn northwest toward Taiwan today, the Central Weather Bureau said yesterday.

If the typhoon turns as forecast, its eye may make landfall on Taiwan's east coast Thursday, according to the weather bureau.

As of 8 a.m., the eye of Tembin was located 620 kilometers southeast of Eluanbi, off the southernmost tip of Taiwan, moving at a speed of 8 km per hour in a northerly direction.

Tembin, the 14th storm of the Pacific typhoon season, is packing winds of 119 kph, with gusts of up to 155 kph, and has a radius of 150 km, the bureau said.

The typhoon is likely to move toward Taiwan on a northwesterly track Tuesday and take a more westerly turn Wednesday, the bureau said.

A sea warning for Tembin is likely to be issued Tuesday morning and areas around Taiwan should be prepared for strong winds and heavy rain Wednesday to Friday, the bureau warned.
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Attention

Heatwave Fuels Wildfires Across Southern Europe


Sky News
Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:44 UTC
Wildfire France
© Sky News
France: An air tanker spreads water above a forest fire in a devastated area near the French sea resort of Lacanau on the Atlantic coast.
The Greek secret service is called in to investigate arson as firefighters tackle blazes that are raging across southern Europe.

Wildfires have been spreading across southern Europe, fuelled by the hot, dry climate.

Firefighters in Spain are struggling to cope with the country's worst blazes in a decade while thousands of acres of forest are being destroyed by fires spreading across Greece.

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, a state of emergency has been declared around a town in the northeast of the country, as fires have left many residents suffering heat exhaustion.
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Sun

Southern France Struggles With Extreme Heat, Wildfires


The New York Times
Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:38 UTC
French authorities are fighting wildfires, keeping an eye on isolated elderly populations and advising people to drink fluids as temperatures soar. Heat wave warnings were issued for a swath of central and southern France, from Burgundy to the Pyrenees. Temperatures are expected to reach up to 104 degrees in some areas.
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Attention

Climate FAIL: GISS is presenting 2012 US temperature as 'off the chart', while preventing older data from being archived

Anthony Watts
Watt's Up With That?
Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:13 UTC
Like the erroneous graph at California Governor Jerry Brown's climate denier slam site, here's another one of those things that I've been sitting on for about a week, waiting for somebody to fix it. Since they haven't, and I've given adequate time, I suppose it is time to bring this latest GISS miss to the global attention of everyone.

Last week during my email group exchanges, somebody (I forget who) pointed out this graph from NASA GISS:
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That is part of the GISTEMP graphs page here.

I chuckled then, because obviously it is some sort of data error, and not worth reporting since I figured surely those RealClimateScientists would notice in a day or two and fix it. Nope. But still there a week later? Now it is newsworthy.
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Cloud Lightning

Hurricane Warning? McKibben Alert


Watt's Up With That?
Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:04 UTC
With Joe Bastardi stating an opening for an east coast hurricane is possible the next three weeks, it might be timely to submit this semi-humorous look at the dangers of an east coast hurricane versus the dangers of heeding Bill McKibben's Alarmism, from the view of a writer criticizing a writer, rather than a scientist criticizing a scientist.

Guest post by Caleb Shaw

I would like to venture two predictions which I believe have a, (as they say,) "high degree of probability" of proving true.

The first is that a terrible hurricane, as bad as the ferocious 1938 "Long Island Express," will roar north and bisect New England. True, it might not happen for over a hundred years, but it also might happen this September. The fact is, 1938 showed us what could happen. 1938 set the precedent.

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