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IPCC forgets cloud circulation in Antarctica; vertical farming solutions

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 18:57 UTC
Ice ship
Antarctica still gaining ice, a look at where underwater volcanoes are melting sea ice and why the IPCC didn't take into account cloud circulation models when doing projections for the continent. Long term 37 year look at global ice concentrations look as they always have.

Aerofarms vertical farming using aeroponics for micro-greens.


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Cloud Precipitation

Floods in New South Wales, Australia after 500 mm (20 inches) of rain in a week

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Mon, 20 Mar 2017 17:30 UTC
Ten staff and four students had to be rescued from a school in Shellharbour yesterday after it was flooded while a school bus got stranded in Albion Park
Ten staff and four students had to be rescued from a school in Shellharbour yesterday after it was flooded while a school bus got stranded in Albion Park
Some parts of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, have recorded over 500 mm of rain in the last 7 days as a low-pressure system drenched the region.

Over the weekend of 17 to 19 March, parts of the state's northeast and Mid North Coast were hardest hit. On 18 March, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said that 21 stations had recorded more than 100 mm of rain that day and Evans Head had recorded around 100 mm in just two hours.

According to BoM figures, New Italy recorded 506 mm, Mt Seaview 509 mm of rain in 7 days to 20 March 2017.

In an update of 18 March, NSW State Emergency Service (SES), said:
"The worst affected areas have been around the Mid-north Coast and southern areas of the North Coast. According to the Bureau of Meteorology, approximately 150mm of rain fell around the town of Yamba since midnight, which led to the short-term isolation of the town's 6000 residents."
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Flashback A sign? Men cut open an anaconda's belly and found - another anaconda

Andrew McDonald
Daily Star
Mon, 27 Feb 2017 00:00 UTC
anaconda cannibalism

A starving anaconda was found attacking one of its own after it struggled to find food in the jungle.

Three ramblers discovered the monster snake unconscious while enjoying a stroll with their pet dog.

And - despite the dangers - the trio decided to investigate what creature lay inside the creature's belly.

In terrifying footage - available above - the giant snake lies in sand and grass paralysed.

Hoping the killer creature is of no danger, one of the men approaches it with a large knife.
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Fire

U.S. witnesses furious start to the wildfire season; 10 times the average

Doyle Rice
USA Today
Mon, 20 Mar 2017 15:41 UTC
Wildfire
Wildfires have charred a whopping 2 million acres across the U.S. so far this year, an area larger than the state of Delaware.

It's a gigantic number for so early in the season, roughly 10 times the average and also the most acres burned as of mid-March since 2006, according to spokeswoman Jessica Gardetto of the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.

Many of the blazes have been massive grass fires in Oklahoma and Kansas, which have both set records for number of acres burned in March, Gardetto said.

An Oklahoma truck driver died two weeks ago in Clark County, Kan., due to smoke inhalation from a fire, the Kansas state fire marshal's office reported. There have also been at least seven fire-related injuries, two of whom were first responders.
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Dead dolphin, fish and crustaceans washed ashore in Malaysia, cause unknown


The Borneo Post
Sat, 18 Mar 2017 14:52 UTC
The dead dolphin and other marine life washed ashore at Luak
The dead dolphin and other marine life washed ashore at Luak
A dolphin believed to be an adult male Fineless Porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) locally known as Lumba-lumba was among dead marine creatures washed ashore since last Monday.

Oswald Braken Tisen from Sarawak Marine Mammal Stranding Network (SMMSN) said a staff of a club house - Beach Republic at Luak - found the carcass of the 1.39 metre dolphin at the beach between the club house and the nearby Luak Esplanade.

"Swift action was taken by the Department of Forestry, Miri and Sarawak Forestry Corporation , SFC Miri and other members of the Network upon knowing about the incidence this morning," he said when contacted by the Borneo Post yesterday.
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Attention

Bodyboarder bitten by shark in New South Wales, Australia

Andrew Pearson
Illawarra Mercury
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 12:27 UTC
Shark attacks
A Spanish tourist has had a lucky escape after he was bitten on the bottom by a shark while boogie-boarding at The Farm on Sunday evening.

Gonzalo Mompo Fernandez was with a group of other tourists at the popular Killalea State Park surfing spot when the incident happened about 6.30pm.

The 30-year-old received small puncture wounds to his backside, but didn't require medical treatment.

"We were paddling for a wave, or just going over the lip of a wave, and then the shark's come up the back and tried to grab hold of his arse,"Jordan Hirst, who was with Gonzalo at the time, told the Mercury.

"He's tried to bash it off and it kept swimming up ... a few guys saw the tail like splashing around.

"The shark was pushing itself on top of him. He was on a boogie board, so like lying down with his feet in the water, and it's come up the back and the tail's been smashing him on the leg."
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Shallow 4.0-magnitude earthquake jolts Islamabad, Pakistan


Pakistan Today
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:14 UTC
GRAPH
A 4.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Islamabad, Rawalpindi and surrounding areas on Tuesday, Pakistan Meteorological Department reported.

"The epicentre of the quake was near Hazro, Punjab and occurred at a depth of 12km," PMD said on Twitter.
An Earth Quake Originated on 10:57PST
Magnitude: 4.0
Depth: 12 Km
Lat: 33.89N
Lon: 72.54E
Epicenter: Near Hazro Punjab #Earthquake

— Pak Met Department (@pmdgov) March 21, 2017
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Eye 2

Two people attacked by crocodiles in Queensland, Australia; one fatality


Sky News
Mon, 20 Mar 2017 11:30 UTC
Adult male saltwater crocodile underwater, where it can remain completely motionless for at least an hour.
© Adam BrittonAdult male saltwater crocodile underwater, where it can remain completely motionless for at least an hour.
There are renewed calls for a widespread cull of crocodiles in north Queensland after a spearfisherman was killed and a teenager mauled in waters around Innisfail.

Warren Hughes, 35, went missing on Saturday, and a search was sparked after his dinghy and speargun were found off Palmer Point, just north of Innisfail.

Water police pulled his body from the waters south of Palmer Point around 8am on Monday and say initial investigations suggest he was taken by a large crocodile.

It's believed to be the second crocodile attack in two days in far north Queensland.

Comment: Another report from Queensland state in the same time frame as that above: Call for croc cull after dogs taken by reptiles in three separate attacks:
A woman whose dog was attacked by a crocodile north of Port Douglas is calling for a cull before more lives are taken by the dangerous reptiles.

Rangers are investigating reports of three separate attacks on dogs in the Port Douglas and Daintree on Friday.

A dog was reportedly attacked while walking with its owner along the southern end of Four Mile Beach late Friday night.

Two other dogs were also attacked by crocodiles at Cow Bay and at Rocky Point.


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Bizarro Earth

Deadly 'Seiche' waves hit Dayyer, Iran


The Watchers
Mon, 20 Mar 2017 06:54 UTC
Deadly Seiche waves smash Dayyer, Iran
© MEHR News Agency / Mehdi RoozbazarDeadly Seiche waves smash Dayyer, Iran on March 19, 2017.
18 people were injured and 6 are still missing after a natural phenomenon called "Seiche" hit the Iranian port city of Dayyer, Bushehr province. The event left behind flooded homes and significant infrastructural damage.

Governor Hamzeh E'temad said giant waves smashed the port city at 08:10 local time on March 19, 2017, injuring 18 people and killing at least 1. Six people are still missing, according to Deputy Governor Namdar Darvishi.

For MEHR News Agency, the head of Bushehr's Persian Gulf Oceanography Centre Ehsan Abedi said the reason behind the giant waves and sea overflow is a natural phenomenon called Seiche. The effect is caused by resonances in a body of water that has been disturbed by one or more of a number of factors, most often meteorological effects (wind and atmospheric pressure variations), seismic activity or by tsunamis.

Seiches are often imperceptible to the naked eye, and observers in boats on the surface may not notice that a seiche is occurring due to the extremely long wavelengths. They can be considered long period or infragravity waves, which are due to subharmonic nonlinear wave interaction with the wind waves, have periods longer than the accompanying wind-generated waves.

Heavy rain and strong winds caused dangerous conditions in the sea, sinking a number of fishing boats.

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Trinidad jolted by strong shallow tremor of magnitude 4.9


Jamaica Observer
Mon, 20 Mar 2017 20:39 UTC
GRAPH
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9 jolted Trinidad and Tobago on Monday but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

The Seismic Research centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI), said that the quake, which occurred at 3:01 pm (local time) had a depth of 10 kilometres.

It said felt in Port of Spain and Arima as well as in Scarborough, the capital of Tobago.

The location of the quake was given as Latitude 11.26N and Longitude: 60.92W.
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