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Turkey vulture freezes, falls from sky, lands on Sioux Falls, South Dakota deck

Beth Wischmeyer
ArgusLeader.com
Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:24 UTC
Frozen Vulture
© Adam Weber
A large turkey vulture dropped out of the sky on the deck of the home of Adam Weber, taking shelter under the table.
On top of the rain, sleet and snow that fell from the sky yesterday, birds are also dropping, as one Sioux Falls resident found out.

A large turkey vulture dropped out of the sky on the deck of the home of Adam Weber, taking shelter under the table.

"My wife was making breakfast, and she suddenly yelled, 'Adam! A large bird just fell out of the sky!'," said Weber, who lives two blocks north of McKennan Park.

"That was the last thing I expected to see when I looked out on the deck yesterday."

Weber, who is a pastor at Embrace Church, said the bird was completely iced over and sat straight upright under the table on the deck. The bird moved around a bit, letting Weber know it was still alive, and allowed him to get close to it to take a photo.

The turkey vulture spent all day under the table, Weber said, and left at some point during the night, as he looked all around the house and didn't see it.
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Peru: 10 Dolphins found dead in northern beaches

Manuel Vigo
peruthisweek.com
Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:19 UTC
Dead dolphins continue to wash up on Peru's northern shores, Peru21 reported on Thursday.

According to the daily, over 10 dolphins have been found dead on various beaches in the Lambayeque region, over the past 15 days.

Francisco Niquen, head of Lambayeque's Fishermen's Association, said the group had reported the incident to Peru's Sea Institute (Imarpe), but said the agency had not been to the site.
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.0 - NW of Sumoto, Japan


US Geological Survey
Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:05 UTC
Japan Quake_120413
© USGS
Event Time
2013-04-12 20:33:16 UTC
2013-04-13 05:33:16 UTC+09:00 at epicenter

Location
34.413°N 134.827°E depth=5.3km (3.3mi)

Nearby Cities
9km (6mi) NW of Sumoto, Japan
20km (12mi) NNE of Fukura, Japan
28km (17mi) SSW of Akashi, Japan
32km (20mi) NE of Naruto, Japan
465km (289mi) WSW of Tokyo, Japan

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Fish

Scientists baffled by how Japanese fish survive 5,000-mile trip across Pacific in tsunami boat

Elaine Porterfield
Yahoo News / Reuters
Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:34 UTC
Scientists are baffled as to how a group of small fish native to Japan survived a journey across the Pacific after they were found on a boat swept away by the 2011 tsunami and washed up last month on the coast of Washington state. The batch of striped beak fish - five in all - were discovered submerged in the hold of the 20-foot-long fishing skiff, dubbed the Sai-shou-maru, on Long Beach in southwestern Washington.

The vessel, found beached right-side-up, was confirmed this week to have originated from the region of northern Japan devastated in the immense tidal surge generated by the March 2011 Fukushima earthquake. Other boats carried away by the tsunami have previously washed up along the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Alaska, as have chunks of piers and large quantities of other debris. But the fish found aboard the Sai-shou-maru are the first vertebrates - animals with backbones - known to have made the voyage.

Marine biologists studying the phenomenon are puzzled over precisely how striped beak fish, natural denizens of warmer, shallow southern Japanese waters, ended up as live stowaways in the well of the boat, and how they endured a two-year journey across the ocean.
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Ice Cube

Is the UK heading for ANOTHER Arctic winter? Met Office calls emergency meeting to discuss if melting ice is causing Britain to freeze

Emma Innes
Mail Online
Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:55 UTC
Britain's winters are getting colder because of melting Artic ice changing global weather patterns, the Met Office has claimed.

Forecasters are concerned that high levels of ice melt in the Arctic in recent years could be behind Britain's increasingly bitter and longer winters.

The organisation's leading climate change expert, Dr Julia Slingo, is to convene experts from around the world to establish whether this explains why Britain has been experiencing the coldest temperatures for almost 100 years.
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Springtime in London: April snow showers in Kensington Gardens come amid Met Office claims that high levels of ice melt in the Arctic in recent years could be responsible for Britain's bitter winters
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Question

150 Black vultures mysteriously die in Chaguaramas, Trinidad

Camille Clarke
Trinidad Guardian Newspaper
Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:04 UTC
The Environmental Management Authority (EMA) believes approximately 150 dead and sick corbeaux found at the Heliport in Chaguaramas may have been feeding on the carcass of an animal which was poisoned. The Veterinary Public Health Unit of the Ministry of Health, the Poultry Surveillance Unit (PSU) of the Ministry of Food Production, the EMA and Forestry Division went to the heliport yesterday to try to determine the cause of the birds' death.

In a telephone interview yesterday, CEO of the EMA Joth Singh said the authority had received reports about the dead and dying birds and had launched an investigation. "We can't identify an environmental cause as such that they were exposed to," he reported. "There were 150 birds, we estimated. There was nothing else in the vicinity. We have been liaising with the Poultry Surveillance Unit, which is part of the National Disease Centre, to see if it was a case of the avian flu."

Singh said preliminary tests had shown avian flu had not killed the birds. "That was not the cause and there is speculation that they may have been poisoned, that they were poisoned by an animal or carcass that they ate. We are trying to eliminate the causes and we have not found any chemical spills or seen any anywhere," he said.
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© Abraham Diaz
A Ministry of Health official wears protective gear as he carries a dying corbeaux past several others that are dead or dying at the Chaguaramas heliport yesterday. The birds began literally falling from the skies in mysterious circumstances.
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Ice Cube

Ice Age cometh: Global cooling consensus is heating up - cooling over the next one to three decades

Matt Vooro
No Tricks Zone
Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:14 UTC
Blizzard
© NOAA
Cooling seems to be the trend
As winters get harsher and the snow piles up, more and more scientists are now warning of global cooling. Reader Matt Vooro has compiled a list (see below) of 31 prominent scientists and researchers who have words that governments ought to start heeding.

Are we headed for global warming or cooling?

For many years now a good number of non-AGW scientists, meteorologists, engineers, researchers and the like have looked at the possibilities of a cooling planet. I enclose some of the ones that I have noted in my research. Indeed there is a significant number of scientists, academics, meteorologists and researchers who disagree with IPCC's belief that the globe is very likely headed for unprecedented global warming due to man-made greenhouse gases.

The climate of this planet oscillates between periods of approximately 30 years of warming followed by approximately 30 years of cooling. Rather than 100 years of unprecedented global warming as predicted by IPCC, the global temperatures have leveled off and we seem to be heading for cooler weather.
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Igloo

Ice Age Cometh: Russian Academy of Sciences experts warn of imminent cold period: "Global warming is a marketing trick"

P Gosselin
No Tricks Zone
Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:03 UTC
Earth
© NASA (public domain)
The European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) here links to an article published by Stimme Russlands (Voice of Russia). The article is titled: Die Welt vor einer Eiszeit, in English: The World On The Verge Of An Ice Age.

Reports of global cooling are becoming more frequent. FLASHBACK: 30 experts predict cooling.

You'll notice that this Voice of Russia report is more than a month old, and so one wonders why it was never picked up by the western mainstream media.

The article writes that Russian scientists are predicting that "a little ice age will begin in 2014". The article adds:
They reject the claim of global warming and call it a marketing trick."
Wow! That's heavy.
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Coffee

Climate models got the North Atlantic Oscillation all wrong - Climate science now plagued by contradictory explanations

P Gosselin / Juraj Vanovcan
No Tricks Zone
Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:51 UTC
Northern hemisphere winters in the big picture

According to the climate models, anthropogenic warming is supposed to predominantly manifest itself by increasing the winter temperatures th the middle latitudes - caused by the increased "greenhouse effect" or increased amount of long wave infrared radiation LWIR from the sky to the surface. Children won't know what the snow is, was the meme in 2000s after a string of warm winters in Europe.

Central England temperature vs Arctic oscillation index.
© Unknown
Central England temperature vs Arctic oscillation index.
Only a decade later, things changed and cold and snowy winters are now becoming the norm and not the exception over all of Europe. Now the warming is the cause of invasions of cold Arctic air into mid-latitudes, some climatologists insist. They are basically admitting that not LWIR, but prevailing direction of air circulation makes a winter season warmer or colder than average. Of course there is another popular ad-hoc theory plugging the hole. It relates to the loss of summer ice to weather half a year later.
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Cloud Lightning

Tornado smashes Arkansas homes


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Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:04 UTC
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