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Cold-water fish of northern latitudes turns up in Irish waters

Lorna Siggins
The Irish Times
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:20 UTC
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© Joe O’Shaughnessy
Fishmonger Stefan Griesbach with the Golden Red Fish in Galway. It was served to visitors to the Galway arts festival.
Golden Redfish commonly found off Iceland, Greenland and Norway

A long-living fish which prefers the chillier waters of northern latitudes has been caught by an Irish fishing vessel on the Porcupine Bank.

The golden redfish, or sebastes norvegicus, is prevalent in Iceland, and can be found along the North American coast, south of Greenland and along the Norwegian coast.

The 5.9kg specimen was caught by Aran islander Tomás Conneely of the Ocean Harvester II, a Rossaveal, Co Galway, vessel which fishes for prawns on the Porcupine.
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Bizarro Earth

Mystery behind giant hole in Siberia clearer as 2nd hole is discovered


The Moscow Times
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:43 UTC
2nd Siberian Hole
© Marya Zulinova / Governor of Yamal-Nenets Region's Press Service
The craters, believed to be formed by an underground explosion, are now filled with snow and ice.
Reindeer herders in Russia's Far North have discovered yet another mysterious giant hole about 30 kilometers away from a similar one found days earlier.

Located in the permafrost of the subarctic Siberian region of Yamal, which means "end of the earth" in the local Nenets language, both craters appear to have been formed in recent years and have icy lakes at their bases.

Scientists who examined the first hole theorized that it could have been created when a mixture of water, salt and gas exploded underground, the Siberian Times news site reported.
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Bizarro Earth

Single lightning strike kills 45 head of Black Angus cattle on Montana ranch


The Republic
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:37 UTC
Herd of Black and Red Angus
© Wikimedia Commons
Mixed herd of Black and Red Angus.

Darby - A bolt of lightning killed 45 head of cattle on a ranch near Darby.

Rancher Jean Taylor tells the Ravalli Republic the cows, calves and a prize bull were crowded under some small crabapple trees on July 14 when the lighting struck.

Taylor says the clap of thunder awakened her at 10:28 p.m.

Taylor says the family spent years building their herd of Black Angus cattle, and now they only have eight to 10 cows left.

Area ranchers helped the family dispose of the dead animals.

Source: Associated Press
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Bizarro Earth

Province of Son La, Vietnam rocked by three earthquakes in one night


Tuoi Tre News
Sun, 20 Jul 2014 05:04 UTC
vietnam earthquake july 2014 map

Muong La District (in the red dashed line) in the northern Vietnamese province of Son La is seen in this Google Map screen capture.
The northern Vietnamese province of Son La experienced three earthquakes in a row on Saturday night, one of which reached a magnitude of 4.3 on the Richter scale, the Earthquake Information and Tsunami Warning Center said.

The three quakes struck Muong La District and their aftershocks were felt in Hanoi, 278 km away from Son La, according to the center under the Institute of Global Physics.

The first quake measuring magnitude 4.3 rocked the district at 7:14 pm, with its epicenter around eight kilometers underground.

The tremor lasted for about 30 seconds, shaking or throwing household furniture and tools to the ground, local residents said.

Many people rushed out of their houses during the earthquake, locals said.

Another quake happened in the same district at 8:20 pm, with a lower strength of magnitude 3.2. Its epicenter was the same as that of the previous one.

More than an hour later, the third earthquake, measuring magnitude 3.5, hit the locality at 9:42 pm, with its epicenter about seven kilometers underground.
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Snowflake

New research on ocean heat content: Deep oceans are cooling amidst modeling uncertainty

Jim Steele
Wattsupwiththat.com
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:50 UTC
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Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist's Journey to Climate Skepticism:

Two of the world's premiere ocean scientists from Harvard and MIT have addressed the data limitations that currently prevent the oceanographic community from resolving the differences among various estimates of changing ocean heat content (in print but available here).3 They point out where future data is most needed so these ambiguities do not persist into the next several decades of change. As a by-product of that analysis they 1) determined the deepest oceans are cooling, 2) estimated a much slower rate of ocean warming, 3) highlighted where the greatest uncertainties existed due to the ever changing locations of heating and cooling, and 4) specified concerns with previous methods used to construct changes in ocean heat content, such as Balmaseda and Trenberth's re-analysis (see below).13 They concluded, "Direct determination of changes in oceanic heat content over the last 20 years are not in conflict with estimates of the radiative forcing, but the uncertainties remain too large to rationalize e.g., the apparent "pause" in warming."
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Water

Five of the world's lakes drying up completely due to drought, water reallocation and big business

Kristen Rodman
Accuweather.com
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 02:00 UTC
Due to drought, water reallocation and industrialization, nations across the globe are finding that some of the world's most iconic bodies of water are disappearing.

1. Aral Sea

Once the world's fourth largest lake, located between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea has undergone numerous changes over the centuries, but today it is nearly dried up.

Formed by the combined flows of both the Syr Darya and Amu Darya rivers, the Aral Sea was re-figured in the 1960's by the Soviet Union, in an attempt to make the region's desert landscape more hospitable for farming.

Nearly 40 years later, the northern and southern parts of the lake separated and the southern part of the lake was split into two parts - east and west. In 2001, the southern connection was detached and the eastern portion of the lake began to recede. Soon after a drought plagued the area for approximately four years, from 2005 to 2009, cutting the water flow of the southern part of the lake to the Amu Darya, according to NASA.
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© NASA Earth Observatory)
The Aral Sea is captured by NASA's Earth Observatory on Aug. 25, 2000, showing the diminished shoreline from where the lake sat in 1960.
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Cloud Precipitation

Typhoon Matmo wallops Taiwan - First typhoon to make landfall in Taiwan this year


Weather.com
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:07 UTC
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Typhoon warnings have been issued for most of Taiwan as Typhoon Matmo (Philippines name: Henry) bears down on the island. Matmo is the third typhoon to threaten the western Pacific Basin in less than three weeks.
Typhoon Matmo is the first typhoon to make landfall in Taiwan this year. As of Tuesday morning (U.S. time), the center of Matmo was about 150 miles south-southeast of Taipei, which is on the far northern part of Taiwan. Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau (CWB) has issued a typhoon warning for the entire main island of Taiwan and the offshore islands of Ludao and Lanyu, southeast of Taiwan.

Taiwan authorities ordered all schools and businesses closed on its east coast Tuesday night, according to Bloomberg.com. The National Fire Agency says 8,000 military personnel have been readied for any needed typhoon-related rescue effort.

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Fish

Thousands of dead fish wash up on Manresa Beach in Aptos, California

Vince Cestone
nbcbayarea.com
Sat, 19 Jul 2014 09:34 UTC
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Thousands of dead gray and white fish washed up on the sand of Manresa State Beach in Aptos Friday morning, according to NBC affiliate KSBW.

Monterey Bay marine biologist Giancarlo Thomae told KSBW he thinks the fish died from asphyxia after the fish swam too close to shore.

"When too many are packed inshore, they deplete the oxygen. That is why the Santa Cruz harbor aerates the upper harbor," Thomae said to KSBW.

But a NOAA biologist told KSBW the fish may have been trapped in squid boat nets and dumped by the crew.


Comment: Yet more spurious 'explanations' by ''experts' for this event, while ignoring the larger context of the increase in reports of unusual mass animal deaths that have occurred across the globe in recent years.

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Fish

Rare deep sea fish caught in fishing net off east coast of Sri Lanka


Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 09:11 UTC
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A rare deep sea fish was found entangled in a fishing net of a boat that went fishing off the Valaichchenai seas today. The fish is four feet long and about 7.5 kilograms in weight and it is to be handed over to the National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency (NARA).

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© M.M. Anaam
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© M.M. Anaam

Comment: See also Strange deep sea fish caught at Pamban, India

Creatures from the deep signal major Earth Changes: Is anyone paying attention?

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Arrow Down

Over 2070 cold records broken in last 7 days in the US

Robert Felix
iceagenow.info
Mon, 21 Jul 2014 08:39 UTC
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This compares to only 281 record warm temps

Record cold numbers are double and triple the amount of record warm temps.

Look at the Month to Date for the Monthly temp records.

No wonder why the media is shooting blanks. Wow!

Source.

Thanks to Ralph Fato for this info
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