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Mystery as 130 dead seals wash up on Lake Baikal, Russia

Cecile Borkhataria
Daily Mail
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 18:51 UTC
Baikal Seals (pictured) are an exclusively freshwater species of seal that occur in Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, Russia,
Around 130 dead seals have washed up on the shores of Russia's Lake Baikal, authorities said Tuesday, as they launched a probe into the latest problem to hit the world's deepest lake.

The Baikal seal is the smallest in the world, and exactly how and when the species colonised the ancient Siberian lake is still a mystery.

'There were about 130 animals found dead' over the past few days, said environmental ministry spokesman Nikolai Gudkov.

'We took water samples to understand whether we can talk of water pollution as the reason,' he told AFP, though results have not yet been processed.

Scientists have also taken biopsies of the animals, he said.

The animal is not endangered and Gudkov said the species' population has actually increased in recent years, growing to around 130,000.

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Elderly man killed by 2 of his dogs in Richmond County, North Carolina


wsoctv.com
Sat, 04 Nov 2017 17:54 UTC
PIT BULL ATTACK
An elderly man was mauled and killed by two dogs in Richmond County while a boy threw bricks to get the dogs off the man, the Hamlet police chief confirmed.

The attack, by a pit bull and mixed breed dog, happened just before 12:30 p.m. Saturday on West Hamlet Avenue near the intersection of High Street.

The man owned five dogs, including the two that attacked him. Both dogs were taken to an animal shelter.

Authorities said a little boy next door tried throwing bricks to get the dogs off the man, who lived alone with the five dogs.

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Lightning bolt kills two teenagers in Botswana

Boikany Sarefo
The Voice
Sun, 05 Nov 2017 17:12 UTC
Lightning

Lightning
Two teenagers will be laid o rest today at Tobela settlement near Shakawe village after they were struck by lightning last weekend.

When giving a police update yesterday (Friday), Senior Superintendent Samuel Kgomo of police District No5 told this publication that the two siblings, a 16-year-old boy and 18-year-old girl were struck by lightning on Saturday afternoon as they were running from one house to another in their yard.

Their 63-year-old father who reported the case told the police that as it rained hard the deceased insisted on moving from the house they were in, as it had a porous roof, to another house in the yard. "Unfortunately as they tried to seek refuge at another house during the storm, they were struck by lightning and died".

Kgomo said the lightning further struck the house they were running to and burnt it to ashes.

Kgomo said it was imperative that people practice precaution measures during rain storms to avoid being struck by lightning. "Running in the rain as well as using cell phones are some of the examples that people should desist from when it is raining," he said
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Snowflake Cold

Massive snow accumulation records in U.S. & Canada & Greenland all time ice gain

Adapt 2030
YouTube
Sat, 04 Nov 2017 06:19 UTC
Al Gore movie flop global cooling
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
Record snows blanket western USA and Canada, its not only the depth of the snowfall, but the record early start for such depths. Additionally record early melt season end in the Arctic, rebounding sea ice growth and record Greenland ice growth especially on the western edge which used to be the IPCC favorite area to prove global warming. Its here, time is up, welcome to the grand solar minimum intensification.


Comment: See also:

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Easter Egg

Trump brought to heel on climate change dogma: White House forced to approve man-made global warming report


RT
Sat, 04 Nov 2017 22:16 UTC
global cooling ice age
After President Donald Trump declared the "war on coal is over," his administration was forced to release a report that contradicts his assertions about climate science. The report makes dire predictions that climate systems could reach a tipping point soon.

On Friday, the Trump administration released a new scientific report, which states it is "extremely likely" human activity, especially via carbon dioxide emissions, has been the "dominant" cause of global warming and there is "no convincing alternative explanation" that anything other than human activity is to blame.

"This report has some very powerful, hard-hitting statements that are totally at odds with senior administration folks and at odds with their policies," Philip Duffy, president of the Woods Hole Research Center, told the New York Times. "It begs the question, where are members of the administration getting their information from? They're obviously not getting it from their own scientists."


Comment: They're getting it form the real owners of the USA.


The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy signed off on the final release of the Climate Science Special Report, which is mandated by law. Under the Global Change Research Act, which was signed by former President George H.W. Bush, Congress is required to release a report every four years in order to "assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change."

Comment: Rubbish. No policy changes can alter the climate, nor offset climate shift.

There IS real climate change: we are facing glacial rebound and an Ice Age. And no one is preparing for it.

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19 dead after strongest typhoon in 16 years strikes southern Vietnam

Kristina Pydynowski and Adam Douty
AccuWeather.com
Sat, 04 Nov 2017 11:07 UTC
Typhoon Damrey
© STR / AFP
A women recovers a wooden window as she walks past heavily damaged houses at the coastal commune of Hai Thinh.
Damrey, the strongest typhoon to make landfall in southern Vietnam in 16 years, has left at least 19 people dead with hundreds of homes destroyed.

Damrey made landfall in southern Vietnam, near Nha Trang, with the equivalent strength of a Category 2 hurricane in the eastern Pacific or Atlantic oceans.

Not since Lingling in November 2001 has a typhoon that strong struck Vietnam south of Qui Nhon.

Damrey has left at least 19 people dead across central and southern Vietnam, according to Reuters.

Homes were damaged and destroyed. More than 370 homes had collapsed with the roofs of 1,000 others torn off. Hundreds of electricity poles were knocked down as trees were uprooted.

While the most destructive winds targeted Nha Trang and surrounding communities, the threat for flooding and mudslides expanded over a much larger area as heavy rain spread northward across central Vietnam and into the neighboring mountains of Laos.

Rainfall topped 130 mm (5.10 inches) in Nha Trang, while nearly 255 mm (10 inches) of rain inundated Qui Nhon in the 24 hours ending Saturday evening, local time.

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Seismograph

Shallow 6.8-magnitude earthquake strikes off Tonga


ABS-CBN News
Sat, 04 Nov 2017 12:34 UTC
Tonga earthquake
© US Geological Survey
A map of the earthquake which struck off the coast of Tonga.
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Tonga Saturday in the tectonically active Pacific region, but there was no tsunami threat, seismologists said.

The tremor hit at a depth of 10 kilometres (six miles) some 90 kilometres off the Tonga island of Niuatoputapu, and 230 kilometres southwest of the Samoan capital Apia, the US Geological Survey reported.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no current tsunami threat.

The quake lasted for almost one minute, and caused residents to leave their homes for open spaces across Samoa, according to reports cited by the Samoa Observer news website.

Tonga and Samoa are part of the "Ring of Fire", a zone of tectonic activity around the Pacific that is subject to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Comment: See also: Pay attention to the Pacific Ring of Fire as major geo events trigger concern

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Snowflake Cold

Future volcanic eruptions could cause more climate cooling


Science Magazine
Sat, 04 Nov 2017 08:37 UTC
volcano eruption tent camping
Major volcanic eruptions in the future have the potential to affect global temperatures and precipitation more dramatically than in the past because of climate change, according to a new study led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).


Comment: In the past the effect of volcanic eruptions was similar, a major volcanic eruption leads to global cooling:


The study authors focused on the cataclysmic eruption of Indonesia's Mount Tambora in April 1815, which is thought to have triggered the so-called "year without a summer" in 1816. They found that if a similar eruption occurred in the year 2085, temperatures would plunge more deeply, although not enough to offset the future warming associated with climate change. The increased cooling after a future eruption would also disrupt the water cycle more severely, decreasing the amount of precipitation that falls globally.

The reason for the difference in climate response between 1815 and 2085 is tied to the oceans, which are expected to become more stratified as the planet warms, and therefore less able to moderate the climate impacts caused by volcanic eruptions.
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Blue Planet

Ozone hole shrinks to smallest size since 1988


RT
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 19:13 UTC
Ozone
© NASA
The ozone layer shrank to its smallest size since 1988 in 2017, NASA has confirmed. They currently attribute the shrinkage to an increase in air temperatures across the globe.

NASA's Aura satellite and the joint NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite measure ozone in Earth's atmosphere from space.

"In the past, we've always seen ozone at some stratospheric altitudes go to zero by the end of September," said Bryan Johnson, an atmospheric chemist with NOAA. "This year our balloon measurements showed the ozone loss rate stalled by the middle of September and ozone levels never reached zero."

Comment: Some scientists attribute the shrinkage to global warming. It would be more honest to say they don't have a clue as to why the ozone expands or shrinks!

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Cow Skull

Several hundred dead sea turtles found floating off coast of El Salvador


Phys.Org
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:20 UTC
dead turtles el salvador
© MARN El Salvador
A decomposing turtle floats in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of El Salvador
Hundreds of dead sea turtles have been found floating off El Salvador's Pacific coast, leaving officials scratching their heads as to what caused the massacre.

The environment ministry said on Twitter on Thursday that its officers "found between 300 and 400 dead sea turtles floating around seven nautical miles (eight miles, or 13 kilometers) offshore from Jiquilisco Bay."

Most of the animals were decomposing when they were found, the ministry said, without giving their species.

"We don't know what caused the sea turtles' death," the ministry said, adding that laboratory tests would be carried out.

The discovery recalled a similar find in 2013, between September and October, when hundreds of sea turtles were found dead off El Salvador's coast.

Authorities at the time attributed the cause to toxic algae eaten by the turtles.

Comment: See also:

Dead marine life on Gulf coast sets off concerns over dead zone; 47 dolphins and 51 sea turtles found so far in 2017

Signs and Portents overload: Not one but two double-headed sea turtles found on the Cayman Islands in a week

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