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More global warming hoax proof: West Antarctic Glacier melt due to volcanoes, not global warming


The Daily Caller
Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:00 UTC
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A new study by researchers at the University of Texas, Austin found that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is collapsing due to geothermal heat, not man-made global warming.

Researchers from the UTA's Institute for Geophysics found that the Thwaites Glacier in western Antarctica is being eroded by the ocean as well as geothermal heat from magma and subaerial volcanoes. Thwaites is considered a key glacier for understanding future sea level rise.

UTA researchers used radar techniques to map water flows under ice sheets and estimate the rate of ice melt in the glacier. As it turns out, geothermal heat from magma and volcanoes under the glacier is much hotter and covers a much wider area than was previously thought.

"Geothermal flux is one of the most dynamically critical ice sheet boundary conditions but is extremely difficult to constrain at the scale required to understand and predict the behavior of rapidly changing glaciers," UTA researchers wrote in their study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Attention

'First ever' tornado hits Korea

Shin Se-min
Arirang News
Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:40 UTC
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Tornado and Korea are two words you would never normally hear in the same sentence.

But you will now... because a tornado was spotted in Korea earlier this week.

News of this twister, coupled with freak thunderstorms and torrential rain showers in recent days, has people asking if it's all down to climate change.

The worst flooding in the Balkans in over a century... an unusually heavy hailstorm in Sao Paulo, Brazil... and exceptionally heavy snowstorms in the central United States.

The effects of climate change are being seen across the globe through abnormal weather events... and Korea is no exception... as evidenced by the last few days.

A tornado near Ilsan in Gyeonggi-do province this Tuesday... was the first ever spotted on the mainland.

The twister lasted for at least an hour... leaving a trail of destruction in its path... with at least 21 greenhouses destroyed.


Comment: Indeed, 'climate change' is underway, but it's not quite turning out the way authorities predicted.

Clearly what's happening on this planet at this time goes way beyond carbon footprints and fossil fuel consumption.

Check out the recent episode of SOTT Talk Radio where we discussed 'Earth Changes' and what 'climate change' is really all about.

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Cloud Lightning

Floods hit Natal, Brazil before US World Cup game


USA Today
Sun, 15 Jun 2014 15:55 UTC
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Two days of near non-stop rain have dumped a month's worth of precipitation on the World Cup city of Natal, leading to a flood alert and raising worries that the deluge could affect the U.S. team's debut match against Ghana.

No deaths or injuries have been reported in the rains, which began early Friday and abated only on Sunday, dumping in 50 hours as much rain as is usually seen in the northeastern Brazilian city during the entire month of June. With more rains forecast for the next five days, some people worried that the weather could affect the U.S.-Ghana match on Monday afternoon.

Natal's City Hall declared a flood alert on Saturday and evacuated dozens of residents as a precaution in the Mae Luiza neighborhood in the city's west. News reports showed images of residents wading through knee-deep waters as others pushed cars submerged up to the door handles. Additional reports showed a huge crater cutting across a street in a residential neighborhood.
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Snowflake

Snow expected in Nevada this Summer solstice!


Elko Daily Free Press
Sun, 15 Jun 2014 00:00 UTC
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Did you think summer was here? Snow could fall in Elko County early this week at elevations above 7,000 feet, according to a National Weather Service advisory.

"In what will seem more like spring than almost summer, a strong weather-maker will bring enough cold air and moisture to higher terrain starting late Monday to produce snow showers over parts of northern Nevada," the notice stated.

Most valleys will not see any snowflakes, but northern Elko County - especially the Jarbidge Wilderness and other mountains east of Mountain City Highway - could get a couple inches of accumulation between late Monday and Wednesday.

The Ruby Mountains and East Humboldts also could receive a couple inches of snow.
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Snowflake

Norway experiences freak snowfall in the middle of June


thelocal.no
Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:19 UTC
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© Jan-Morten Bjørnbakk/NTB scanpixJimi Bradshaw from Florida plays with snow for the first ever in Tromsø on Monday.
A blast of ice-cold wind from the North Pole is sending temperatures plummeting across northern Norway, with the city of Tromsø on Monday seeing June snowfall for the first time in living memory.

"There have been both sleet and snow showers tonight, and people have even observed snow settling on the ground," Trond Lien, a local meteorologist, told the Tromsø-based Nordlys newspaper. "This is very rare, and I cannot remember the last time it snowed on June 16. It must be a long time ago."

He said he had found reports indicating snowfall in the city during July a century previously, but had yet to find any record of snow in June.

Odd Arne Thomassen, a professional driver, told NRK that he had encountered roughly four inches of snow when driving over Kvænangsfjellet in North Troms on Monday morning.
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Bizarro Earth

Twin 5.7 and 5.6 magnitude earthquakes strike offshore near Fukushima


Times of India
Sun, 15 Jun 2014 20:45 UTC
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Two moderate earthquakes struck off Japan's eastern coast near Fukushima in the early hours on Monday, the US Geological Survey said, predicting a low chance of any major damage being caused. The epicentre of the first quake, with a magnitude measuring 5.7, was located some 91 kilometres (56 miles) off the coast of Honshu, Japan's largest and most populated island, at a depth of 22 kilometres shortly after 3am local time (2330 IST Sunday).

A second, 5.6-magnitude quake struck two hours later slightly closer to shore at a depth of 39 kilometres. Cities nearest to the epicentre included Iwaki, Kitaibaraki, Namie and Hitachi, USGS said. The same coastline was struck by a devastating quake and subsequent tsunami in 2011 that killed more than 18,000 people and sparked a meltdown at the Fukushima power plant - the world's worst nuclear accident in a generation.

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USGS data magnitude 5.7
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Bizarro Earth

"Very intense" seismic vibration under Chaparrastique volcano, El Salvador, Central America


Volcano Cafe
Sun, 15 Jun 2014 20:40 UTC
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Volcanic tremor under Chaparrastique volcano now reached similar to the pre-eruption of December 2013 measured values.
Chaparrastique (San Miguel) volcano, El Salvador, Central America

The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN) reports seismic vibration under Chaparrastique volcano has been very intense in the last days. Local observers reported hearing a booming noise about this day at 2:00 am. There have been very little vapor or gas emissions so far. This indicates that the duct system of the volcano is partially obstructed, withstanding the pressure of magmatic fluids, so there is a high probability of eruptive activity, either through the central crater or on its flanks. Eruptions in the last 500 years have been in the VEI-1 to VEI-2 range.

In the last few days the vibration of the volcano reached similar to the pre-eruption of December 29, 2013 measured values. Since February 2014 several hundred microearthquakes have been recorded under the northern flank of the volcano.

MARN informs about the tremor status every hour and new reports here on twitter.
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Cloud Lightning

Texas tornado carries home 100 yards with family inside: Literally like in Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz!

Shannon Murray
KVUE
Fri, 13 Jun 2014 20:09 UTC
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© KVUERed arrow: Place where the house was standing before the tornado, Yellow arrow: Place where the tornado left the house
A tornado touched down in Burnet County, just outside Bertram. It even carried a home about a football field distance away. The home is still standing, the family of four inside was not hurt. Surveyors with the National Weather Service said they haven't seen anything like this. They spent the day there following the path of the tornado.

"We were calling on God. Have mercy on us please," said Jeremiah Ashworth,
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The Ashworth family is trying to salvage what they can from inside their home after a night they'll never forget.

"You could feel the pressure. The windows blew out and you could feel that pressure, extreme pressure," explained homeowner Trenton Ashworth.


Comment: There is good possibility that Tuesday's X-class solar flares, which were expected to hit earth Friday/Saturday, played an important role in charging the ionosphere and setting off discharges like this event, as well as the rich electric storms over Europe on Saturday.

The sun's positively charged 'wind gushes' create big potential differences between pockets of positively charged layers of atmosphere (clouds and dust) and its attracted electrons from below, leading to discharge events. In a nutshell, much in the same way our sun's activity's interaction with earth's conductive environment creates other discharging 'air-spirals' like hurricanes and lightning.

For an interesting and helpful read about our solar systems electromagnetic setup, see Pierre Lescaudron's book:

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Snowflake

A week before the Summer Solstice in Europe and 8 inches of snow falls in Turkey!

Robert Felix
iceagenow.info
Sat, 14 Jun 2014 08:15 UTC
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At higher altitudes, snow thickness reached 20 cm (8 inches) in Rize, Turkey.

Two more days of snowfall is expected.

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Thanks to Argiris Diamantis for this link
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Cloud Precipitation

Summer turns to winter: Damages in the order of millions after hailstorm hits Switzerland


SRF.ch
Fri, 13 Jun 2014 03:30 UTC
Hail and heavy rain on Thursday evening caused in Switzerland damages of over ten million francs ( over $10 million). The hail caused especially damage to cars, but also agricultural areas were damaged. No one got injured.
Hail in Emmental
© 20 MinutenA heavy thunderstorm hit on Thurday evening (12/6/2014) over Emmental (near Bern)
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