Earth Changes

Mysterious 'man-eating' holes appear in sand dune

Marc Lallanilla
Live Science
Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:54 UTC

Last summer, 6-year-old Nathan Woessner was walking across the sands of Mount Baldy in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore when he suddenly disappeared into a deep hole.

It took a team of rescuers about three hours to pull Woessner to safety from beneath 11 feet (3.4 meters) of sand and sediment, according to the Chicago Tribune.

More holes have appeared in Mount Baldy, forcing officials with the National Park Service (NPS) to close part of the park, located 55 miles southeast of Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan. But why are these dangerous holes suddenly appearing in the sand dunes?

"We don't know exactly what's going on out there," Ken Mehne, law enforcement specialist for the park, told the Tribune. "We can't let folks out onto the area until we know it's safe."

Army rescues 2,000 tourists stranded by sudden snowfall in East Sikkim, India

The Economic Times
Mon, 28 Apr 2014 13:00 UTC

Around 2,000 tourists stranded at Thegu in East Sikkim due to sudden snowfall were rescued and evacuated by the Army personnel.

Around 2,000 tourists stranded at Thegu in East Sikkim due to sudden snowfall were rescued and evacuated by the Army personnel of Black Cat Division, Army said today.

250 tourist vehicles with around 2,000 tourists were stranded at Thegu, below Nathu La, due to unexpected and sudden snowfall on Saturday, an Army press release said.

Troops stationed nearby, quickly rose to the occasion and helped to push the tourist vehicles across the steep slopes and rescued the tourists.

The weather deteriorated further in the evening and despite heavy snowfall and hailstorm, the troops cleared all the tourist vehicles by 7 PM on Saturday, the release said, adding all the tourists safely returned to Gangtok by nightfall.

Source: Press Trust of India

Deadly tornadoes devastate US states

BBC News
Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:03 UTC

At least 17 people have been killed by tornadoes as a huge storm system swept across the central and southern United States.

Sixteen of the victims were in several suburbs of Little Rock in Arkansas, officials said.

One other person was killed in the town of Quapaw in the north-east of Oklahoma where officials said many buildings were badly damaged.

Tornadoes also struck in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Missouri.

Former NASA Scientist: Global warming is nonsense

Nick Hallett
Breitbart London
Sat, 26 Apr 2014 12:55 UTC

A former NASA scientist has described global warming as "nonsense", dismissing the theory of man-made climate change as "an unsubstantiated hypothesis" and saying that it is "absolutely stupid" to blame the recent UK floods on human activity.

Professor Les Woodcock, who has had a long and distinguished academic career, also said there is "no reproducible evidence" that carbon dioxide levels have increased over the past century, and blamed the green movement for inflicting economic damage on ordinary people.

Professor Woodcock is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Thermodynamics at the University of Manchester and has authored over 70 academic papers for a wide range of scientific journals. He received his PhD from the University of London, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a recipient of a Max Planck Society Visiting Fellowship, and a founding editor the journal Molecular Simulation. (h/t Climate Depot)

Eastern North Carolina tornadoes confirmed

ABC News11 - Raleigh-Durham
Sun, 27 Apr 2014 07:50 UTC

The National Weather Service is confirming multiple tornado touchdowns in eastern North Carolina, and an emergency management director reports more than a dozen people were taken to the hospital as a result.

Meteorologists said Saturday that while its survey is continuing, they have confirmed EF-2 tornadoes touched down in Pitt and Beaufort counties on Friday. A final assessment is expected late Saturday.

Specifically, the meteorologists said a low-end EF-2 struck near Chicod in Pitt County. A moderate EF-2 hit near Chocowinity and a high-end EF-2 struck Whichards Beach.

On the enhanced Fujita scale, an EF-2 has winds of between 111 mph and 135 mph for a 3-second gust.

Flagstaff hit by late spring snow in Arizona

Lauren Vargas
abc15.com
Sat, 26 Apr 2014 09:40 UTC

Flagstaff is blanketed in white after the National Weather Service confirms at least five inches of snow fell on Saturday.

Flagstaff hasn't seen this much snow since Christmas.

Conditions were most dangerous on the highways in the afternoon, with low visibility and blowing snow and winds up to 50 miles an hour in some spots.

In downtown Flagstaff, the aftermath left parked cars covered in snow, and locals breaking out the winter wardrobe again.

The huge temperature drop caught some people off-guard.

"It's snowing here, it's crazy!" said Sherry Neimier, who just moved to Arizona two weeks ago from Florida. "I didn't think I'd see snow, but I love it. It's cold as can be but it's awesome."

But some locals say they'll see snow on the mountains sometimes as late as July, so they're prepared for a storm anytime during the year in Flagstaff.

Ohio confirms "probable connection" between fracking and earthquakes

Lindsay Abrams
Salon.com
Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:54 UTC

State regulators announced stricter rules to help prevent future quakes

When Russell Gold, the senior energy reporter for the Wall Street Journal, spoke with Salon about the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, he emphasized that one of the biggest problems is the speed at which the industry is moving - drilling almost 100 wells per day, and leaving little time to assess the potential impact of their activity. Often, it's only long after something bad has happened - methane is leaked into the atmosphere, or local air and water is polluted - that regulators (sometimes) push for more caution.

Case in point: last month, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources temporarily suspended drilling at a number of wells in the northeastern part of the state out of concern that it may have been responsible for a series of earthquakes.

North Carolina tornadoes injure 15 people, damage hundreds of homes

Mark Leberfinger
AccuWeather.com
Sun, 27 Apr 2014 05:07 UTC

© AP Photo/The Daily Reflector, Aileen Devlin
People stand among the remains of a mobile home Saturday, April 26, 2014, that was destroyed when a tornado touched down along Black Jack-Simpson Road in Greenville, N.C. on Friday, April 25, 2014.

At least 15 people were transported to the hospital on Friday evening after a tornado struck in Beaufort County, N.C., an emergency management official said Saturday.

There were also an undetermined number of "walking wounded" who went to the hospital, Beaufort County Emergency Coordinator John Pack told AccuWeather.com.

"The good news is that nobody died. That's remarkable in itself," Pack said.

The National Weather Service at Newport/Morehead City, N.C. reports that an EF-3 tornado was confirmed along Whichards Beach in Friday night's storm.

The tornado was an EF-0 when it touched down near Chocowinity but grew in strength to an EF-3 with an estimated wind speed of 150 mph by the time it reached Whichards Beach, the weather service said.

Oh! The Irony! "Too much spring ice threatens Alaskan polar bears"

CNS News
Sun, 27 Apr 2014 06:29 UTC

Five meters of ice - about 16 feet thick - is threatening the survival of polar bears in the Southern Beaufort Sea region along Alaska's Arctic coast, according to Dr. Susan J. Crockford, an evolutionary biologist in British Columbia who has studied polar bears for most of her 35-year career.

Female polar bear with cubs.

That's because the thick ice ridges could prevent ringed seals, the bears' major prey, from creating breathing holes they need to survive in the frigid waters, Crockford told CNSNews.com.

"Prompted by reports of the heaviest sea ice conditions on the East Coast 'in decades' and news that ice on the Great Lakes is, for mid-April, the worst it's been since records began, I took a close look at the ice thickness charts for the Arctic," Crockford noted in her Polar Bear Science blog on April 18th.

"Sea ice charts aren't a guarantee that this heavy spring ice phenomenon is developing in the Beaufort, but they could be a warning," she wrote, noting that they "don't bode well" for the Beaufort bears.

"What happens is that really thick ice moves in because currents and winds from Greenland and the Canadian islands push it against the shore," Crockford told CNSNews.com.

Another Singapore sinkhole opens up

InSing
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:39 UTC

People have been snapping pictures of a lorry caught in a sinkhole around the Upper Changi area and posting them on social media.

The earliest picture was uploaded by Twitter user "Isaac976" at 8.47am on Thursday 24 April 2014.

Another Twitter user "Andre Giam" who shot another picture of the lorry wrote that the road "caved in under the sheer weight of the lorry".

Twitter user "Diana Ramdzan" said that the lorry was located just "beside my house" at Upper Changi Road East.

Check out pictures of the incident below.

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Earth Changes

Mysterious 'man-eating' holes appear in sand dune

Army rescues 2,000 tourists stranded by sudden snowfall in East Sikkim, India

Deadly tornadoes devastate US states

Former NASA Scientist: Global warming is nonsense

Eastern North Carolina tornadoes confirmed

Flagstaff hit by late spring snow in Arizona

Ohio confirms "probable connection" between fracking and earthquakes

North Carolina tornadoes injure 15 people, damage hundreds of homes

Oh! The Irony! "Too much spring ice threatens Alaskan polar bears"

Another Singapore sinkhole opens up

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