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The Arctic is unaware of global warming: Sea ice and snow cover reaches highest extent of the last eleven years

Translated & edited by P Gosselin
No Tricks Zone
Sun, 08 Nov 2015 22:28 UTC
sea ice chart
© dmi.dk
The DMI chart for sea ice extent (30% and more) shows that it is now (7 November 2015 – black line) considerably more than at any time for the date over the past 11 years.
With an ice extent of 8 million square kilometers at the start of November, the Arctic has reached the highest sea ice extent of the last eleven years. A chart (above) from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) clearly shows the highest extent for sea ice cover with 30% or more ice on 7 November 2015.

This chart comes as no surprise for those who have been monitoring the weather and ice developments in the North Atlantic and Greenland.

The net growth of the Greenland ice sheet, which surely is a surprise for many, saw an increase in October of approximately 200 km³ (200 billion cubic meters) since September 1, 2015, i.e. in just 2 months:

Comment: The once high hyped canary-in-the-coal mine Arctic is just not getting much attention from the alarmists this year - because it is doing the very opposite of what they predicted!

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Bizarro Earth

20-foot sinkhole opens up on housing estate in Newcastle, northern England

Emma Glanfield
Daily Mail
Thu, 12 Nov 2015 21:20 UTC
Newcastle sinkhole

Residents have been left horrified after a 20ft sinkhole suddenly opened up on a housing estate built over an abandoned colliery.

The huge crater appeared above old mine workings at Craster Square in the Coxlodge area of Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, just before 11am today.

Dramatic pictures show the sheer size of the deep hole, which stretches the width of the road, and how it has left one lone car stranded on a driveway.
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Snowflake Cold

John Kerry: Master of global warming propaganda

Dr Sircus
drsircus.com
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 19:25 UTC
John Kerry
John Kerry would probably enjoy hearing that he is a master of propaganda meaning master of the big lie. Joseph Goebbels was born in 1897 and died in 1945. Goebbels was Hitler's Minister of Propaganda and one of the most important and influential people in Nazi Germany. Kerry works for President Obama and it seem like these teams of men have enjoyed lying to people. Goebbels met a nasty end, poisoning his six children, his wife and then himself.

If you tell a lie, tell a big one. The essence of propaganda consists
in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in
the end they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it. --Joseph Goebbels

Secretary of State John Kerry says that global warming skeptics should be disqualified from "high public office." French mathematicians, on the other hand, blast the 'absurd, costly & pointless crusade' against global warming. "The figures that are being released are biased and dishonest," says damning paper drawn up by a society of French mathematicians. "(This) crusade is absurd." "You would probably have to go quite a long way back in human...history to find [such a] mad obsession," according to a translated summary of the document released in September by the Paris-based Société de Calcul Mathématique SA.

Comment: See also:

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Attention

Humpback whale washes up at Warrnambool beach, Australia

Madeleine McNeil and Jono Pech
Newcastle Herald
Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:00 UTC
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Whale washes up at Warrnambool beach
The carcass of a young humpback whale has washed up at Levy's Point.

Two Warrnambool residents walking their dog made the discovery on Tuesday evening and reported it to the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning on Wednesday afternoon.

Their father, who contacted The Standard, said the whale washed up at the eastern end of the beach, near the rocks.

"It's in a reasonable condition at the moment and is washed fairly high on the sand," he said.

The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning confirmed the reports on Wednesday night.
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Bizarro Earth

Mystery purple slime coats Norway fjord


The Local, Norway
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:12 UTC
Purple Slime
© Roger Larsen/University in Tromsø
The slime has been described as "a plague" by local fishermen.
A mysterious purple slime has emerged off the coast of northern Norway, coating millions of cubic meters of a picturesque fjord with a strange mucoid, margarine-like substance.

"We have not been able to find out what this really is, other than that we are talking about large amounts of jellyfish," Roger Larsen, associate professor at the University in Tromsø, told state news broadcaster NRK on Sunday.

"The images we are picking up from the echo sounders and other equipment are totally atypical.

We have tried to gather information to find the answers, but I am absolutely sure that this is something we've never seen before."

Larsen, who has been surveying the emergence of the slime since fishermen first began reporting it in late August, said that the substance had collected in a 200m wide belt around the Lyngen Fjord.

"We are talking about millions of cubic metres," he said.
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Attention

Boy saved from black bear attack by his friend and a daredevil dachshund in Russia


The Siberian Times
Thu, 12 Nov 2015 19:23 UTC
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© Channel 1, The Siberian Times
It was discovered that earlier the bear had rampaged into the yard of the resident of Amgu Anatoly Ardashov.
Black bear pounced on Stas Nagornov as he returned home from the shop in the centre of Amgu village.

His friend Nikita Nikonov said: 'He caught up with Stas first. The bear threw him to the ground, began to trample him, bite him. He grabbed his head, then shoulder and back. I watched - and ran at the bear. I didn't think about myself or what would happen. I just wanted to save my friend.'

Stas, 8, said: 'Nikita ran and saved me. He hit the bear's head with a stone.' This made the bear turn his attention to Nikita, gnawing and clawing him instead.

Comment: See also: Russian town besieged by hungry bears; one man killed and other locals attacked

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Attention

4.5-magnitude earthquake hits near Haast in New Zealand


BNO News
Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:07 UTC
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© Google
An earthquake described as "strong" shook parts of New Zealand's South Island on early Thursday, seismologists say.

The preliminary 4.5-magnitude earthquake, which struck at 9:03 a.m., was centered about 45 kilometers east of Haast in the Westland District, or just outside the Mount Aspiring National Park, according to GeoNet. It struck about 15 kilometers below the surface, making it a shallow earthquake.

The early morning tremor was felt across different parts of the island, with some reports saying very light shaking was noticed as far away as Dunedin.

GeoNet described the felt intensity of the tremor as "strong", but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, and none are expected.

Other details about Thursday's earthquake were not immediately available.
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Attention

Magnitude 5.6 earthquake rocks Darwin, Australia


9news.com.au
Thu, 12 Nov 2015 19:01 UTC
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An earthquake north of Darwin has given buildings in the city a "good shake", the Bureau of Meteorology says.

The 5.6 magnitude earthquake, located in the Banda Sea at a depth of 100km, hit at 9.06am on Thursday.

A number of people in Darwin took to Twitter to say they felt the quake, including some who said it shook their building.

"Wonder where the epicentre of that earthquake just felt in Darwin was? Must have been a strong one!" Jacqui Murdoch wrote.

There are also reports it was felt at the Darwin Central Hotel.

The bureau says there is no tsunami risk and police say there are no reports of damage.

Source: AAP
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Bizarro Earth

5.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Aleutian Islands off Alaska coast


RT
Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:20 UTC
Alaska earthquake
© earthquake.usgs.gov
A medium-power earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 struck the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska. This comes only two days after the archipelago was hit by a 6.2 magnitude quake.

The earthquake occurred at 2:28 p.m GMT (5:28 a.m. local time) on Thursday, about 68 miles (109 km) of the small town of Atka, putting it squarely between the United States and Russia, according to the US Geological Survey.

The Thursday tremblor is only the latest in the series of similar geological events that have hit Alaska. On Monday, the sparsely-populated island chain was hit by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake around 7 a.m. local time, this time 58 miles southeast of Atka.
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Tornado2

Snow, tornadoes, thunderstorms across the U.S. threaten millions

Alastair Jamieson, Jon Schuppe & M. Alex Johnson
NBC
Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:14 UTC
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© NBC
A powerful system of storms churned across the Rocky Mountains and into the Midwest on Wednesday, dumping snow, driving high winds and leaving tens of millions of people in its projected path.

Blizzard conditions hit the Denver area on Wednesday morning — less than 24 hours after it hit a high temperature of 70. Strong winds reduced visibility, and ice closed roads in the Eastern Plains.
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