Earth Changes
Coronet Peak is in the midst of a three-day spring snow storm with 15cm of fresh snow on Tuesday morning.
Short term variations, local record hots and colds, don't mean much, that's just weather. What matters is long term global trend lines over decades, centuries, millennia, eons, epochs.
Expanded record of temperature change since the end of the last glacial period
The only 'normal' in climate is constant change
Some places are hotter than average and some places are cooler than average on any particular day (I don't use 'normal' because the only 'normal' in climate is constant change).
Researchers at the University of New Mexico believe it was the RECORD COLD WEATHER that caused the hundreds of thousands of birds to fall from the NM skies earlier this month, due to a lack off edible insects and hypothermia.
For weeks social media was ablaze with speculation and theories, and it being social media, one cause was permitted to take-flight: the California wildfires. However, objective science has now spoken and, as usual, it completely contradicts the mainstream narrative.
According to UNM Ornithology PhD students Jenna McCullough and Nick Vinciguerra, who were busy collecting samples around the Sandia Mountains while the parrots on SM were blindly tweeting #climatebreakdown!, the historic Arctic front that rode anomalously-far south on the back of a meridional jet stream flow was the primary cause of the deaths.
Just Count the Cold-Records that Fell over the Past 24hrs
"The day after the [early-September snow]storm, I was contacted via email by my supervisor, Mariel Campbell, the collections manager of the Genomic Resources Division of the Museum of Southwestern Biology, about birds dead and acting weird in Tijeras," said Jenna McCullough.
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Flood damage in Oaxaca, Mexico, September 2020.
Flood damage in Oaxaca, Mexico, September 2020.
Figures from the country's meteorological agency Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN), show heavy rainfall in Oaxaca from 14 to 19 September. The town of Santa María Jacatepec recorded more than 165.5mm of rain in 24 hours to 19 September.
Flash floods, overflowing rivers and landslides since then have prompted authorities to declare a state of emergency in several municipalities in the Papaloapan Region. Local media said the overflowing Chiquito and Manso rivers flooded parts of San Juan Lalana, Santiago Choapam and Santiago Jocotepec municipalities.
Fatalities were reported in San Agustín Chayuco and San Juan Comaltepec municipalities.
Comment: Severe flooding also hit the city of Cuernavaca in the state of Morelos over the same time period:
Andrew Charles Eddy of Georgia was snorkeling near Sombrero Key Light with family on a private boat when he was bitten in the shoulder.
Eddy was taken to Sombrero Beach, and then airlifted via the Trauma Star air ambulance to Ryder Trauma Center in Miami.
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Comment: See also:
- NASA announces Solar cycle 25 has begun, will be weakest since records began in 1755
- Professor Nils-Axel Mörner: 'The approaching grand solar minimum and little ice age conditions'
- Professor Valentina Zharkova: "We entered the 'modern' Grand Solar Minimum on June 8, 2020"
- New scientific study finds we could be entering the next Grand Solar Minimum
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Interview with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaudron
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Floods in Sukabumi, West Java, Indonesia 21 September 2020.
Floods in Sukabumi, West Java, Indonesia 21 September 2020.
In West Java, heavy rainfall from 20 September caused the Cipeuncit River to break its banks flooding areas of Cicurug District in Sukabumi Regency on 21 September. Flooding was also reported in Parung Kuda and Cidahu Districts in the Regency.
Initial assessments suggested at least one house and one vehicle were swept away by the flash floods. Over 300 houses and 10 bridges were damaged. Disaster officials report that 20 people were injured and 210 families displaced. Indonesia's National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) later confirmed that 2 people had died in the floods.
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Police, marine experts and scientists have rushed to a pod of about 250 whales that are believed to be stranded on a sandbar at Macquarie Harbour on Tasmania’s west coast on Monday.
Police, marine experts and scientists have rushed to a pod of about 250 whales that are believed to be stranded on a sandbar at Macquarie Harbour on Tasmania’s west coast on Monday.
At least 25 pilot whales have died and more than 200 are stranded at Macquarie Harbour on Tasmania's west coast in what is believed to be one of Australia's worst beaching events.
A government marine conservation team was assessing the health of the whales late on Monday after they became stranded in three spots in and outside Macquarie Heads, near the town of Strahan.
Nic Deka, incident controller from the Tasmanian department of primary industry, parks, water and environment, told reporters it appeared from the air that about 25 of 30 whales stranded near Ocean Beach, outside the heads, have died.
Comment: The BBC reports on Sept.22:
At least a third of 270 whales stranded off Tasmania have died and more are feared to be dying, rescuers in Australia say.
However, crews were able to save 25 of the animals on Tuesday and are aiming to escort more back into the sea.
The pilot whales were discovered in shallow waters off the west coast of the island on Monday.
It's unknown what drew the whales to the shore. Marine biologists say the rescue mission will likely take days.
Whale beachings are common in the region, but one of this size has not been seen in over a decade.
Tasmania last recorded a mass stranding in 2009 involving around 200 whales.
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Trained rescuers are helping move the whales into deeper waters
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Floods in Anlong Veng district, Oddar Meanchey province, Cambodia.
Floods in Anlong Veng district, Oddar Meanchey province, Cambodia.
Previously flooding had affected Preah Sihanouk province, where 2,000 people were affected and 1 fatality was reported.
On 21 September, Cambodia's National Committee for Disaster Management reported that the impact of the typhoon Noul over the past few days has caused devastating flooding across the provinces of Pursat, Oddar Meanchey, Koh Kong and Pailin, as well as Preah Sihanouk.
According to a post from the page 'Typical Balakovo', on the Russian social networking site VK, residents of the city, in the Saratov Region, around 1,000km south of Moscow, witnessed a road strewn with dozens of dead birds.
Comment: To read more about the true drivers behind our planet's climate, see:
- The Seven Destructive Earth Passes of Comet Venus
- Volcanoes, Earthquakes And The 3,600 Year Comet Cycle
- Has Nibiru/Planet X Been Sighted?
- Forget About Global Warming: We're One Step From Extinction!
- How the sun affects temperatures on Earth: Interview with Professor Valentina Zharkova
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