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Ivanka - Anyone who tells you we're enduring "unprecedented global warming" is lying or woefully misinformed

Holocene graph
It is colder right now than throughout almost all of history. I understand that you've been lead to believe that global warming is a problem, but that is not true. Please look at this chart. The blue line shows temperatures for the past 600 million years.

Look at the far right side of the chart (today), and you'll see that temperatures have plunged to their lowest point in almost 250 million years.

There have been only two periods in the past 600 million years when it has been colder than today.

We are now living through one of the coldest periods in geologic history. The last few year's minor rise in temperature is too minuscule to even show up on the chart.

Anyone who tries to tell you that we're enduring "unprecedented global warming" is lying or woefully misinformed.

Your father's instincts about the global warming hoax are absolutely spot on. Please, please do not try to push him in the opposite direction.

Bizarro Earth

Swarm of earthquakes rattle Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

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More than 450 people felt a 'moderate' earthquake near Whakatane when it hit at 9pm yesterday. It was followed hours later with another shake in the Bay of Plenty.
More earthquakes have been felt in the Bay of Plenty. Geonet recorded four moderate quakes throughout the past 24 hours about 30km northwest of Whakatane. The last hit at 1.41am with a magnitude of 3.6 and was felt in Tauranga.

At 9.06pm yesterday a 4.2 magnitude quake struck at 10km deep. Only eight people reported feeling the early morning quake, but 454 said they felt last night's tremor. The quakes follow a 4.1 shake in the same spot at 1.35pm and another at 11.39am. Geonet recorded at least 86 "felt" reports from people describing yesterday afternoon's quake between "strong" and "light".

Cloud Precipitation

1 dead, 2 missing as Taiwan fights floods; nearly 2 feet of rain in under 11 hours

Taiwan's forecasters have predicted further heavy rain into the weekend.
© AFP/SAM YEH
Taiwan's forecasters have predicted further heavy rain into the weekend.
Roads turned into rivers in northern Taiwan Friday (Jun 2) as rain lashed the island, killing one woman and leaving two others missing.

State power company Taipower said a transmission pylon on a hill in New Taipei city toppled during torrential downpours, causing a reactor at a nuclear plant there to cut out.

A second reactor automatically shut down as safety measures were activated and neither were damaged, it added.


Bizarro Earth

Evacuated Manam Islanders facing food shortages after April eruption

manam volcano eruption

Manam Volcano
Over 800 people evacuated from the volcanic island of Manam are facing food shortages on Papua New Guinea's mainland. The islanders were evacuated after the eruption alert level for the Manam volcano was raised to stage three in late April.

According to the newspaper The National, the islanders have been at the Potsdam Care Centre in Madang for almost a month. Manam leader Paul Maburau said the Madang provincial disaster office gave each family a bail of rice, 5kg of flour and two litres of oil when they first arrived.

He said they had now run out of food and couldn't find any way of obtaining more. Mr Maburau said people at the care centre were also getting sick and the nearest health centre did not have any medical supplies. Citing a lack of communication with the Madang government, he said the islanders were confused about whether they would be going back to the island or not.

Cloud Lightning

10,000 lightning strikes light up the Australian state of Victoria

Lightning
As autumn draws to an end, another front swept over Victoria over the weekend bringing more rain and blustery conditions. Along with this, a band of thunderstorms that a one point stretched from Nhill to Apollo Bay, generated a total of just over 10,000 lightning strikes across the state.

As the front moved eastwards it delivered healthy amounts of rainfall to southern and central parts of the state, with 16.2mm recorded in just under 2 hours at Lara and 16mm in 3 hours at Ballarat. Eastern parts of Victoria saw lighter falls and as the front began to weaken and rain became more patchy.

Wolf

Pack of 3 dogs attack man and woman in Sydney, Australia

Dog attack
A woman has been injured and a man was forced to climb onto his car in two separate attacks by a pack of three dogs in Daceyville in Sydney's eastern suburbs today.

CCTV shows three dogs leaping on the man and biting him before he seeks safety on the top of his car parked in the street.

The man, aged in his 50s, suffered minor cuts and bruises to his back and leg.

He told 9NEWS it's the third time the dogs have been seen out on the street in three weeks.

"I called the police because I was worried, they were ferocious" he said.


Arrow Down

Car falls into sinkhole in El Cajon, California

car in sinkhole
A car fell into a sinkhole that formed Tuesday morning on Olde Highway 80 in the El Cajon area.

Just after 4 a.m., crews responded to a water main break that caused a sinkhole on the roadway at Pecan Park Lane.

Crews arrived to find an Uber vehicle had partially fallen into the hole, but the driver and his passenger climbed out of a window as water began pouring into the car.

Tasha Mills said she got the scary early morning call from her husband, who was working his second job driving overnight for Uber.

"I was sleeping and I got a phone call. It scared us pretty bad, so we rushed out here," she told 10News.

Snowflake Cold

Coldest start to winter since 1943 for Adelaide, Australia

A cold morning at Renmark, where the mercury dropped to -3.2C.
© Dylan Coker
A cold morning at Renmark, where the mercury dropped to -3.2C.
If you were feeling a little chilly this morning it's no surprise — it was our coldest start to winter since 1943, with the mercury plummeting to a frosty 2.9C in Adelaide.

Elsewhere in the state it was even colder, with Yunta -4.7C, Renmark -3.2C and Loxton, Snowtown and Murray Bridge -1.9C, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
Cold morning for #SAweather: Yunta -4.7 °C, Renmark -3.2 ° C, Loxton, Snowtown and Murray Bridge -1.9 °C https://t.co/OazoPRe4P8 pic.twitter.com/3lgum4rTyF

— BOM South Australia (@BOM_SA) May 31, 2017

Sun

South Africa's Cape Town contends with worst drought in over a century

Cape Town drought
The worst drought in a century is forcing the most stringent water restrictions ever implemented for South Africa's second largest city. Cape Town has less than 10% of its useable water remaining for its nearly 4 million residents.The city is implementing Level 4 water restrictions, which ask residents to limit daily usage to 100 liters (26 gallons) per person.

The measure is meant to reduce demand and conserve what little water is still available, and means significant sacrifices for residents.For Cape Town resident Suzanne Buckley, the restrictions mean adapting to a new lifestyle. "We have buckets in our shower and bathroom sink to save excess water," Buckley said. "The gray water is then used to flush our toilets."

The restrictions are in effect across the city in an aggressive effort to preserve its remaining drinking water, but it may not be enough. South Africa ranks as the 30th driest country in the world and is considered a water-scarce region. A highly variable climate causes uneven distribution of rainfall, making droughts even more extreme.

Speaking to CNN, Cape Town Executive Mayor Patricia de Lille explained her concerns about the growing water crisis."Climate change is a reality and we cannot depend on rainwater alone to fill our dams, but must look at alternative sources like desalination and underground aquifers."

Cloud Lightning

One of the strongest storms in two decades hits Mexico City

mexico city storm
The rain that fell late Monday night was one of the six strongest in the last two decades in Mexico City, the capital's government said.

"Rainfall reached 98.5 mm and has only been exceeded 5 times in recent years," the authorities said in a statement.

Previous recordings: 119 mm in the Cuauhtemoc delegation in 2005; 118 mm in Huayatla, Magdalena Contreras, on August 10, 2006; 117.5 mm in Cuajimalpa in 2000; 117 mm in Cuajimalpa in July 2015 and 100 mm in Miguel Hidalgo in September 2015.

"There were 41 colonies with the greatest impact, mainly in the Tlalpan, Xochimilco, Coyoacán and Álvaro Obregón delegations," they added.

Emergency services received 800 reports from the people asking for flood help and other types of damage through 9-1-1 services.

Today, a broad storm system is forecast to be very strong and intense, accompanied by lightening, hailstorms and wind gusts during storms in southern, central, northern and eastern entities of the national territory, according to the Meteorological Service National (SMN).

The agency detailed that intense storms are anticipated in localities of Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, Veracruz, Puebla and Oaxaca; Heavy storms in areas of Coahuila, Nuevo León, Querétaro, Estado de México, Mexico City, Morelos and Guerrero, and strong storms in regions of Chihuahua, Durango, Guanajuato, Tlaxcala, Michoacán and Chiapas.