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Blaming the developed world for the forces of nature

Tom Harris and Madhav Khandekar
Washington Times
Tue, 03 Dec 2013 00:00 UTC
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Delegates at the recent U.N. climate conference in Warsaw decided that $1 billion a day, the amount currently being spent across the world on "climate finance," is not enough. Far greater funding is needed to save the world from what U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls the "greatest threat facing humanity." That climate science is highly immature and global warming actually stopped 17 years ago was never mentioned.

Here's what our representatives just agreed to:

Starting in 2014, the U.N.'s Green Climate Fund, a plan to divert an additional $100 billion per year from the treasuries of developed countries to those of developing nations to help them "take action on climate change," will commence operation. The heads of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are scheduled to take part in a launch ceremony for the GCF headquarters in South Korea on Wednesday.

A timetable was accepted to pave the way toward the establishment of a new international treaty in 2015 that will force developed countries to spend untold billions more to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions. The fine print in the negotiating text includes an escape clause for developing nations, indicating that carbon-dioxide emission targets their governments agree to will not be enforced. Developed nations do not have this escape clause.
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Four planes struck by lightning over Honolulu in just six hours

Sophie Cocke
The Huffington Post
Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:56 UTC
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For hundreds of Hawaii residents and visitors, the Thanksgiving holiday ended with a bang - from a lightning strike.

A little after noon on Sunday, Hawaiian Airlines Flight 19 was struck by lightning about 12 miles southwest of Honolulu International Airport as it was arriving from Sacramento.

Four hours later, Hawaiian Airlines Flight 1121 was also hit as it was en route from Hilo to Honolulu.

Hawaiian Airlines Flight 278 took a blow at 5 p.m. while it was flying from Honolulu to Kona. And less than an hour later, Flight 236 was hit as it shuttled passengers from Honolulu to Maui.

Four lightning strikes in a span of six hours is highly unusual, according to aviation experts. And while pilots are trained to avoid storm clouds, the heavy cloud cover and pounding rains on Sunday may have given them little choice but to punch through the turbulence.

"It gives you an indication that there must have been lots of rain that the planes were flying through and an environment for static issues," said Peter Forman, a local aviation historian.
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Global warming "proof" is evaporating but the media and warmists are trying to keep it a secret

Michael Fumento
NY Post
Thu, 05 Dec 2013 11:14 UTC
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The 2013 hurricane season just ended as one of the five quietest years since 1960. But don't expect anyone who pointed to last year's hurricanes as "proof" of the need to act against global warming to apologize; the warmists don't work that way.

Warmist claims of a severe increase in hurricane activity go back to 2005 and Hurricane Katrina. The cover of Al Gore's 2009 book, "Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis," even features a satellite image of the globe with four major hurricanes superimposed.

Yet the evidence to the contrary was there all along. Back in 2005 I and others reviewed the entire hurricane record, which goes back over a century, and found no increase of any kind. Yes, we sometimes get bad storms - but no more frequently now than in the past. The advocates simply ignored that evidence - then repeated their false claims after Hurricane Sandy last year.
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Comet 2

Loud Booms, Earth shaking, reported in Pennsylvania


YorkDispatch.com
Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:28 UTC
Reports of the earth shaking and hearing booms in the night are preliminary evidence that an earthquake may have struck in Wellsville Borough in Northern York County Saturday night, according to a local geologist.

Jeri Jones, of Jones Geological Services, said he received reports from several people that they felt shaking and heard booming noises around 9:20 p.m. Saturday.

Jones said many of the reports came from the Wellsville area, but they extended north to Lower Allen Township in Cumberland County and south to East Berlin in Adams County.

Jones said the presence of a rock caused diabase could be the cause of the tremors, especially if it is settling after heavy rainfall, like the 10 inches of rain that fell in the area in mid-October.

Jones said diabase is also present in the Dillsburg area, where local residents reported multiple instances of tremors from 2008 until 2010.

"It seems like a common denominator," Jones said.

Jones said it will take a few more days to collect residents' reports to determine an epicenter. Jones said the tremors were too small for the nearest seismic station in Millersville to detect them.

No significant damage was reported.
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Comet 2

Massachusetts Police Blame shaking gound and loud booms on car wash!


Patriot Ledger
Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:17 UTC
It wasn't an earthquake, but it sure felt like one to a lot of people in North Weymouth when a car wash started shaking.

"They felt the building rattle," Capt. Michael Crowley of the Weymouth Fire Department said.

Crowley said Tuesday morning's tremor originated at the Super Shine Auto Wash on Route 3A.

A faulty heating system at the car wash produced vibrations and noise strong and loud enough to convince neighbors that something big was happening, he said.

At about 6 a.m., the fire department started getting calls about loud booms and the ground shaking at or around the car wash, which is at 697 Bridge St. (Route 3A). A police officer who was about 100 yards from the car wash said he felt the tremors, Crowley said.

Crowley called the Weston Observatory to see if a quake had hit the region.

"I thought they were going to say, 'You're out of your mind,' but they did have a small (earthquake) north of Boston," Crowley said.

The observatory said the quake was so minor that it couldn't have been felt in Weymouth.
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Fireball 4

More North Texas 'skyquakes'? Loud morning boom rattles Sanger residents


Dentonrc.com
Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:13 UTC
Sam Alexander wasn't the only one who noticed it at about 10:40 a.m. Wednesday, when he heard a big boom. The windows and patio doors of his Sanger area home rattled.

"I was just sitting here at my computer and my glass was just bouncing," Alexander said.

His wife, Kelli Alexander, called him to report that she felt the boom where she was staying in Lindsay.
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Fireball 3

Frequent earthquakes, loud booms in North Texas rattle Azle residents


Kera News
Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:09 UTC
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On Nov. 26, another earthquake jolted the small town in northwest Tarrant County. And on Friday, yet another one hit nearby. About 20 quakes rattled North Texas in November -- five of them in or near Azle.

The minor earthquakes haven't caused significant damage, but residents in Azle are getting nervous and seismologists are trying to get to the bottom of what's going on.

Some point to natural gas drilling that's happening in the Barnett Shale, a massive geological formation that covers about 20 North Texas counties. But a geophysicist with the National Earthquake Information Center says more testing is needed to make such a connection.
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Snowflake

So much for summer: snow predicted in Victoria, Australia

Stephen Cauchi
The Sydney Morning Herald
Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:55 UTC
Snow will fall on Victoria's Alps on Thursday as a cold blast of wintry air hits the state.
Between 10 and 20 centimetres could fall on the Alps while rain will continue steadily elsewhere, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

Already more than 30 millimetres of rain has fallen in Melbourne and regional areas.

"We'll see that snow falling, snow down to 1100 metres on Thursday," said Bureau forecaster Michael Efron.

"We'll see that really cold air arriving over the state."

Nearly 20 millimetres has fallen on Melbourne since rain began on Tuesday night.

Falls have been markedly heavier in the south-eastern suburbs, with Moorabbin receiving 30 millimetres and Mentone, Hampton and Sandringham 29.
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Windsock

European storm and tidal surge cause evacuations and travel chaos


BBC
Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:21 UTC
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Winds of up to 228 km/h (142 mph) battered Scotland
A major storm has hit northern Europe, leaving at least four people dead or missing, causing transport chaos and threatening the biggest tidal surge in decades.

Dozens of flights were cancelled or delayed in the Netherlands, Germany and Scotland, while rail services were shut down in several countries.

One of Europe's longest bridges - connecting Sweden to Denmark - closed.

Tens of thousands of homes were also left without power as the storm hit.

Winds of up to 228 km/h (142 mph) battered Scotland, where a lorry driver was killed when his vehicle was blown over near Edinburgh. At least two other people were injured by falling trees.

Police have confirmed reports that a man has been killed by a falling tree in Nottinghamshire, central England.
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Snowflake Cold

Britain battered by hurricane-force winds, worst coastal surges in 60 years

Mark Duell & Sam Webb
Daily Mail, UK
Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:55 UTC
  • More than 240 Environment Agency flood alerts in place in England and Wales, with most in East Anglia
  • Gusts of 140mph in parts of Aberdeenshire and Inverness-shire as ALL trains in Scotland are cancelled
  • Environment Secretary Owen Paterson will chair emergency Cobra meeting today on storm disruption
  • Police Scotland advise motorists not to drive in the south, west, central belt and south Perthshire
  • Storm will create the biggest waves in living memory off north-east over next few days, peaking on Saturday
  • Public should expect 36 hours of disruption, Norfolk Police warns as Great Yarmouth homes are evacuated
  • Evacuations planned in Essex and Suffolk as people are seen being rescued in North Wales and Merseyside
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    Huge waves engulf Whitehaven harbour, in the northwest of England. This part of the British coastline is usually protected by Northern Ireland, meaning there are never normally such big waves and tidal surges

    Thousands of people have been evacuated and hundreds rescued today as 140mph winds battered Britain in a hurricane-force storm.

    A lorry driver died in Scotland and a man riding a mobility scooter in King's Park in Retford, Nottinghamshire, was also killed when hit by a falling tree.

    More than 120,000 homes were left without power as the most serious tidal surge for 60 years is predicted to hit the east coast tonight.

    More than 10,000 homes in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex are being evacuated, while residents were also rescued in Rhyl, North Wales, and Merseyside.

    As they were taken away from their homes in dinghies, forecasters feared the worst is yet to come during tonight's high tide at around 10pm.

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