Earth Changes

Wheat kill-off in the U.S. heartland from extreme cold during November

Robert Felix
Ice Age Now
Sat, 29 Nov 2014 20:21 UTC

2015-2035 Mini Ice Age - Extreme cold in the U.S. heartland where farming takes place
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With 130-year cold sweeping across the USA, temperatures -50F below normal are bound to have an effect on winter wheat seedlings that are just a few inches tall.

Temperatures dropped to -26F/-32C, which caused an 8% increase in wheat futures.

Thanks to David DuByne, who created this video.

"I think the cold will not be the regular interval of Dalton or Maunder Minimum type cold," says David. "I think we may be heading into a 5125-year cold cycle."

Comment: SOTT has been talking about this for quite some time: Fire and Ice: The Day After Tomorrow

Rare ice storm strikes Waldviertel in Austria

thelocal.at
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:00 UTC

The fire service was called out more than 200 times over the weekend in the district of Zwettl (Lower Austria) as a rare ice storm hit the region, bringing chaos with layers of frozen ice in trees.

Firefighters have been busy clearing away hundreds of trees from the vicinity of homes and power lines. The trees' branches had been bent almost double by the weight of the ice. The area near Ottenschlag has particularly been hit hard. A combination of very low temperatures and high humidity caused many layers of thick frost to form into heavy ice.

Motorists in the region have been asked to exercise extreme caution due to icy conditions on the roads. Northeast Fire Department spokesman Franz Resperger described on Sunday how many trees were destroyed by the ice, including some with trunks more than a meter in diameter.

Biocide! Abandoned fishing nets trapping the ocean's turtles, seals, sharks and birds

Melissa Hills
Daily Mail, UK
Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:22 UTC

Experts say up to 14,000 turtles could have died at the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia in the last nine years

These appalling photos reveal the largely unknown damage that abandoned fishing gear dubbed 'ghost nets' in a new campaign is doing to animals in the ocean surrounding Australia.

Turtles are the main victims that get trapped in abandoned nets in the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia and experts estimate there could have been 14,000 that have died over the last nine years, large numbers of seals are also getting caught up in the nets across the country's waters.

World Animal Protection has launched the Sea Change campaign with the aim to make fishermen, fisheries and the general public more aware of this problem and they want to save one million animals by 2018.

UN agency declares emergency due to severe flooding in Gaza

Scoop.co.nz
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 15:12 UTC

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza, has declared an emergency in Gaza City, following extreme weather and severe flooding over the past 48 hours exacerbating the already poor humanitarian situation in the enclave, which is dealing with the aftermath of a last summer's conflict, and an acute fuel and energy crisis.

"We are particularly concerned for those families still seeking adequate shelter and preparing for the winter months, and for the impact the flooding is already having on children unable to attend school," said UNRWA's Director of Operations Robert Turner in Gaza on Thursday.

No casualties or injuries have been reported, but hundreds of residents in the flooded areas around the Sheikh Radwan storm water lagoon have evacuated their homes. One UNRWA school and an UNRWA Collective Centre in Gaza City have been affected by the rising waters.

The Agency has established an Area Emergency Operations room in Gaza City following contingency planning undertaken last week. As the largest UN agency in the Gaza Strip, UNRWA supplies emergency fuel to municipalities, water, sanitation and health facilities, partially through the WASH and Health clusters led by UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Southern France recovers from the worst flooding it's seen in years

TheLocal.fr
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 15:03 UTC

As southern France recovers from the worst flooding it's seen in years, The Local takes a look at some of the most shocking images of the damage done by the forces of nature. The latest victim was a 73-year-old man who died of heart failure in Rivesaltes, in the Pyrenees-Orientales region, when trying to force his car through a big dip in a road that was flooded.

Along the banks of the Agly river in the same region, some 2,800 people had been evacuated by late afternoon Sunday, the government office there said. The flooding was considered already more serious than deadly overflows in 1999 and "we are evacuating residents within 200 metres (yards) of either side of the river," the government said.

The prime minister's office dubbed the flooding "exceptional" in a statement but said "the situation is under control."

4.7 magnitude earthquake strikes near Sedona, Arizona

Lynne LaMaster
Prescott News
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:56 UTC

Despite some rock falls, there appear to be no injuries due to Sunday night's earthquake. According to the US National Weather Service, "An earthquake just hit northern Arizona this evening Nov 30th at 10:57pm. The magnitude as reported by the USGS was 4.7 on the Richter Scale.

The location was near the West Fork of Oak Creek Canyon 12 km north of Sedona. Multiple reports of this earthquake were received in Flagstaff, Sedona and Camp Verde this evening." Rock falls have been reported along 89A near the epicenter. ADOT crews worked to remove the rock and debris overnight from the roadways. Drive carefully!

Here is the information from the USGS website

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 4.7 12km N of Sedona, Arizona

US Geological Survey
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:50 UTC

Event Time:
2014-12-01 05:57:38 UTC
2014-11-30 22:57:38 UTC-07:00 at epicenter

Location:
34.977°N 111.740°W depth=10.2km (6.4mi)

Nearby Cities:
12km (7mi) N of Sedona, Arizona
13km (8mi) NNE of West Sedona, Arizona
25km (16mi) SSW of Flagstaff, Arizona
36km (22mi) NE of Cottonwood, Arizona
172km (107mi) N of Phoenix, Arizona

USGS data

Arctic snowy owls may be preparing for another irruption into the U.S.

Marcus Schneck
The Patriot-News
Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:20 UTC

Cedar Cliff High School in Camp Hill was visited Tuesday by a snowy owl, one of several of the Arctic birds that have shown up in Pennsylvania in recent days. The large, mostly white birds may be the precursors of a repeat of last winter's mass invasion into Pennsylvania and several other states.

Scott Weidensaul, one of the owl researchers who organized the Project SNOWStorm banding and radio-tracking effort in response to last winter's record-setting irruption by snowies, said already this year owls have been spotted in the Gratz Valley of northern Dauphin County, near Morgantown in Berks County, on Presque Isle in Lake Erie and "a bunch on the coast."

Dozens of additional snowy owls have been reported throughout the Northeast, around the Great Lakes, and as far south as Illinois and Maryland.

2 Rare Arctic ross's geese turn up in Hardeeville, South Carolina

Sarah Bowman
The State (South Carolina)
Mon, 24 Nov 2014 00:00 UTC

When avid birdwatcher Carol Clemens had a chance to see a rare species -- one that usually migrates only along the West Coast -- just 45 minutes from her Hilton Head Island home, she couldn't pass it up.

A Ross's goose, similar to but smaller than a snow goose, had been spotted in the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge near Hardeeville, and Clemens hopped in her car almost as soon as she heard.

"This bird is so unusual that if I hadn't called my friend to go out and see it, then it would have been a lost opportunity," said Clemens, membership co-chairwoman of the Hilton Head Island Audubon Society.

"We were hoping to get a glimpse of the goose, but thought that it would be just a white speck on the horizon," she added. "But then we got almost 10 feet away and could really admire it."

Sadly, the visit by both the goose and its apparent companion proved short-lived -- both have been found dead, within about 10 days of their arrival, according to refuge spokeswoman Monica Harris.

The first goose is believed to have been killed last week by a bobcat, Harris said. The second was found dead Monday morning, though the cause is not yet known.

30 Kemp's ridley sea turtles suffering from hypothermia taken from Cape Cod to the Florida Keys

EyesOnNews.com
Thu, 27 Nov 2014 16:44 UTC

© Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau/HO
Bette Zirkelbach checks a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle’s heart rate Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014, at the Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Fla.

The Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital is caring and warming up 30 Kemp's ridley sea turtles suffering from hypothermia just days after they were rescued from a frigid beach on Cape Cod Bay, Mass. On Wednesday, each cold-stunned turtle had a full physical examination, X-rays, a swimming test and was administered intravenous fluids and Vitamin D, according to Bette Zirkelbach, the hospital's manager

"We're trying to slowly raise their body temperatures," Zirkelbach said. "We're hoping they will get healthy enough so they can be released."Zirkelbach said some of the turtles have secondary issues including head trauma and pneumonia.

The 30 are a portion of 193 flown to Orlando in banana boxes by the U.S. Coast Guard Tuesday evening with the balance going to four other Florida-based marine animal rehabilitation centers.

New Lt. Governor of Virginia Winsome Sears: "We're going to have safer neighborhoods, safer communities, and our children are going to get a good...

parzival

Bill Gates is going to be the one with the uncertain future,,, * New Lt. Governor of Virginia Winsome Sears: "We're going to have safer...

parzival

The more we hear about adverse affects the more we will merely shrug. It's a catch 22. Is that an asteroid trail in the photo?

sass

Welcome to the new normal. The more sensory exposure we have about such things, the less it is an issue.

sass

more misbehaving phuqqin' jewzskies starring on the sott; speaks for itself

Jibrish

Earth Changes

Wheat kill-off in the U.S. heartland from extreme cold during November

Rare ice storm strikes Waldviertel in Austria

Biocide! Abandoned fishing nets trapping the ocean's turtles, seals, sharks and birds

UN agency declares emergency due to severe flooding in Gaza

Southern France recovers from the worst flooding it's seen in years

4.7 magnitude earthquake strikes near Sedona, Arizona

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 4.7 12km N of Sedona, Arizona

Arctic snowy owls may be preparing for another irruption into the U.S.

2 Rare Arctic ross's geese turn up in Hardeeville, South Carolina

30 Kemp's ridley sea turtles suffering from hypothermia taken from Cape Cod to the Florida Keys

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