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Light quake rattle nerves in Southern California


Yahoo! News
Sat, 05 Jul 2014 00:00 UTC
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© Rick Sforza/AP
Part of a tree broken lies along State Route 18 after a rockslide blocked the road in the Southern California community of Snow Valley, enroute to Big Bear Lake on Saturday, July 5, 2014. Randy Naquin of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said he had no reports of damage from the widely felt small earthquake on Saturday
A small earthquake rattled nerves and jostled store shelves in and around the Southern California community of Big Bear Lake on Saturday.

Randy Naquin of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said he had no reports of damage from the widely felt temblor. But the state Transportation Department said a section of nearby highway was closed by a rockslide. It wasn't immediately clear if the slide had been caused by the shaking.

City News Service reported that snowplows were dispatched to clear rocks and at least six vehicles were stranded temporarily.
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Bad Guys

Agriculture: The surprising leading contributor to pollution

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:09 UTC
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Did you know that the modern agricultural system is responsible for putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than the actual burning of fossil fuels? Understanding this reveals an obvious answer to pressing global problems.

There are only three places for carbon to go: land, air, and water. Our agricultural practices have removed massive amounts of valuable carbon from land, transferring it into air and water. Carbon management is critically important regardless of one's views of climate change.

By paying greater attention to carbon management, we have the opportunity to make a dramatic difference in this area, which is having major negative consequences to our agriculture, our air, and our oceans, lakes, streams and rivers.

One important factor that some experts believe is KEY for reversing environmental devastation like desertification, which is when land turns to desert, is to return much of our land to grasslands and build a network of herbivore economics.

There is no better way to improve the conditions for animals, solve the carbon problem, bring more revenue to farmers, and improve our health by purchasing nutritious foods from properly pastured animals - vs the horrible CAFO model based on the monocultures of corn and soy fed to the animals in questionable conditions in which they are proactively fed antibiotics to make them fat and keep them alive in such atrocious conditions.

Returning to more sustainable organic farming methods is also necessary in order to support the regeneration of soils which, ultimately, dictates how nutritious the food grown in it will be.

Comment: Dr. Vandana Shiva states in the video clip above "Industrial agriculture is 75% of the ecological devastation on the planet!" This statement is clearly supported by other data and documentation for more information on the destructive nature of industrial agriculture listen to the excellent discussion on SOTT Talk Radio: Dissecting the Vegetarian Myth - Interview with Lierre Keith
This week on SOTT Talk Radio we interviewed author and activist Lierre Keith, whose book The Vegetarian Myth examines the tenets of vegetarian ideology from dietary, environmental and philosophical perspectives.

Lierre Keith believed in that plant-based diet and spent twenty years as a vegan. But she now argues that people have been led astray - not by our longings for a just and sustainable world, but by our ignorance.

The truth is that agriculture is a relentless assault against the planet, and more of the same won't save us. In service to annual grains, humans have devastated prairies and forests, driven countless species extinct, altered the climate, and destroyed the topsoil - the basis of life itself. Keith argues that if we are to save this planet, our food must be an act of profound and abiding repair: it must come from inside living communities, not be imposed across them.

Part memoir, part nutritional primer, and part political manifesto, The Vegetarian Myth will challenge everything you thought you knew about food politics.


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Cloud Lightning

Storm Arthur blows rare bird into southern Nova Scotia, Canada

Brian Medel and Frances Willick
The Chronicle Herald
Sat, 05 Jul 2014 11:51 UTC
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© BRIAN MEDEL / Yarmouth Bureau
This black skimmer was seen wandering beside a sand dune at Mavillette Beach near Yarmouth early Saturday. The bird was likely blown in from Florida or the Carolinas where they breed at this time of year.
Walking along the side of a windswept sand dune at Mavillette Beach on Saturday morning, apparently dazed and confused, was a rare bird.

The dominant feature of this black and white visitor was a slender, two-tone red and black needle-sharp bill some 10 centimetres in length.

He didn't want to fly until someone came a little too close and forced him to lift off and circle around, only to land a few metres away.

Most agree the bird is a black skimmer, likely exhausted after being blown to Digby County from Florida or the Carolinas, where the birds would be breeding just about now.

The bottom of a black skimmer's beak is longer than the top, says the All About Birds website. The bird will skim low over the water with its beak open, hoping to trap small fish, according to the site, operated by Cornell University.
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Cloud Precipitation

More unusual downpours: Cars submerged and floating in Russian streets of Izhevsk


RT
Sun, 06 Jul 2014 09:17 UTC
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Heavy rains in the town of Izhevsk in central Russia flooded its streets, plunging hundreds of cars under water. The rain not only washed off the traffic, but also tarnished the city administration's reputation as residents complained on social networks.

The rain began in Izhevsk on Friday, flooding several of the city's central streets and blocking traffic. The city authorities said they were aware of the situation and later reported that public utility services had pumped out the water and cleared the roads of stones brought by the torrents.

Comment: The recent years radical growth in extreme downpours and floodings all over the world can in part be explained by the atmosphere increasingly being loaded with comet dust, restricting fair weather circulation: Which means that the localized atmospheric dust pockets both serve as potential cloud condensation nuclei as well as binds electrons causing more frequent discharge events.

For an illustrated look at of how our cosmic weather works, as well as what it has in store for us, see Pierre Lescaudron's: Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.

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Cloud Lightning

Recent storms cover Lake Winnipeg beach with hundreds of dead birds


winnipeg.ctvnews.ca
Fri, 04 Jul 2014 10:24 UTC
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After Tuesday’s storm the water of Lake Winnipeg rolled up and over Patricia Beach, leaving hundreds of dead birds behind as the water receded.

Flooding isn't just taking a toll on humans and crops, it is also impacting wildlife.

After Tuesday's storm the water of Lake Winnipeg rolled up and over Patricia Beach, leaving hundreds of dead birds behind as the water receded.

Michael Almey, who owns a cottage on Patricia Beach, said the birds covered the beach.

After Tuesday's storm the water of Lake Winnipeg rolled up and over Patricia Beach, leaving hundreds of dead birds behind as the water receded.

"They were all obviously drowned, victims of the storm, the surge of the tide," said Almey.

A naturalist on site told us the baby seagulls were too young to fly away during the storm but may have survived had the storm hit a week or two later.

Residents said conservation crews plan to start clean-up Friday.
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Arrow Down

80 foot deep sinkhole appears in Fairbanks man's yard, Alaska

Matt Buxton
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Sat, 05 Jul 2014 10:02 UTC
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© Matt Buxton / News-Miner
Al Schultz peers down a sinkhole on July 4, 2014, while his granddaughter Keirra watches from the driveway. The hole appeared in the front of his home in the Gold Hill area of Fairbanks.
A Gold Hill resident got a nasty surprise after returning from vacation this week when he discovered a sinkhole diving to depths of a stomach-churning 70 to 80 feet in his front yard.

Al Schultz on Friday had cordoned off the roughly 4-foot wide hole that appeared in a roadside ditch and covered the opening with wood planks. Schultz didn't have a clear solution to the problem.

"I called about three excavation companies and with the holiday got one to come out and look at it," he said. "We tied a truck hitch to his rope and threw it down there."

But the contractor's rope was too short and the hitch dangled somewhere down the hole, Schultz said. To reach the bottom, Schultz tied another length of rope to the contractors' rope.

They measured 82 feet.

But just what it looked like down there, they didn't know, and Schultz couldn't get a quote for the fix at the time.

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Cloud Lightning

Burgundy vines destroyed in three minutes by 'machine gun' hail storm

Rory Mulholland
Daily Telegraph
Sun, 29 Jun 2014 06:02 UTC
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© AFP/GETTY

Grape vines near Pommard in Burgundy that were seriously damaged after a summer hailstorm in 2013. The hail has struck again this year, ruining up to 70% of the crop.
Some of Burgundy's finest vineyards have had their hopes of a bumper harvest dashed after a fierce hail storm "machine-gunned" their vines for the third summer in a row, damaging up to 90 per cent of the plants in the worst-affected areas.

Hailstones as big as golf balls and strong winds on Saturday lashed France's Côte de Beaune region, which is home to the Santenay, Meursault, Volnay, and Pommard appellations.

"It was like a machine-gun attack," said Anne Parent, who makes Pommard wines, adding that the devastating hail storm lasted a mere three minutes.

It will be several days before winemakers can assess the full damage, but officials said that between 50 and 90 per cent of the harvest may be lost.

Hopes had been high that this year's harvest would be a good one as a wet spring followed by a hot and sunny June had provided perfect conditions for winegrowers.
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Phoenix

Mandatory evacuations ordered as crews battle fire near Vernal, Utah

Mark Green
Fox13
Sat, 05 Jul 2014 17:31 UTC
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© Sarah Richens
Officials said a wildfire is burning on about 700 acres 10 miles north of Vernal, and they said structures are threatened and mandatory evacuations are in progress.

Kelsey Birchell, a fire information officer with the Bureau of Land Management, did not say how many people are being evacuated but did say the evacuations are mandatory; they are calling the blaze the Taylor Mountain Road Fire.

Fire officials tweeted that the evacuations are for Taylor Mountain Road and Steinaker Reservoir, and they stated Highway 191 is under vehicle restrictions.

As of about 4:30, 20 engines, one type 1 helicopter, three heavy air tankers and various other resources have been dispatched to the fire. Photos from FOX 13 News viewers show the scene.
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Cloud Precipitation

Intense rainfall causes flooding in northern Spain


Globalpost.com
Fri, 04 Jul 2014 13:25 UTC
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© Policia Foral
Intense rainfall early on Friday morning has caused the river Baztan in the north Spanish Community of Navarra to burst its banks and flood parts of the town of Elizondo, it was reported on Spanish television.

The heavy rain, which was caused by a deep area of low pressure over central and northern Spain, saw the river Baztan unable to cope with a flow of 350 cubic meters per second and its level rose to almost four meters, flooding the heart of Elizondo, where several people needed to be rescued from their homes and cars were carried away by the strength of the floodwater.

This is the latest incident in what has been a chaotic 48 hours in terms of weather in Spain.

Tuesday saw a spectacular hailstorm leave around one meter of ice in the streets of the town of Almazan, which is in the province of Soria.

Comment: Hailstorm hits Spain, floods homes, blocks roads

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Snowflake Cold

Hailstorm hits Spain, floods homes, blocks roads

Liam Dutton
Blogs.Channel4.com
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 13:10 UTC
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© Facebook
On Twitter on Wednesday evening, I saw some amazing footage of a hailstorm that hit town of Almazan, just outside the city of Soria in northern Spain.

The hailstorm lasted around 45 minutes and caused flooding of homes and businesses, as well as blocking roads, leading to traffic chaos.

There were reports of hail one metre deep next to the Duero river. Local police, the civil guard and firefighters used snow ploughs to help clear the streets. But you're probably thinking, how can hail in summer when it's hot?

How does hail form?

Within a cumulonimbus cloud, there are many particles of ice and super-cooled water - water that remains in liquid form at temperatures below freezing due to a lack of condensation nuclei for them to freeze around.

Ice tends to be at near the top of the cloud, where the air temperature can be as low as minus 60C. Super-cooled water tends to be nearer the bottom half of the cloud, where temperatures are closer to freezing.
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