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The unidentified spearfisherman posted video of the incident on his YouTube Channel called Over the Edge on Tuesday and wrote, "this clearly could have been much worse." Warning for a couple of expletives at the end and the wound itself:
The spearfisherman said the shark came out of nowhere. While holding a black grouper he had speared, the spearfisherman appeared to point at the shark at the 14-second mark. Fifteen seconds later the shark was near the surface and in clear view in the video.
"He first went at my dive buddy Justyn but immediately turned toward me," the victim wrote. "He first bit my left fin then took a chunk out of the right one before biting my leg and cutting the speargun line.
© NASAThe Great Lakes' water levels are surging way above normal.
The latest reading measured just 7.32 inches below the all-time record high set in 1986. Within the next week, the level could increase to just 6 inches below that record.
The high water is due to the recent heavy rain and months of snow melt surging into the lake. In May, Lake Erie received 150 percent of its typical rainfall, and it hasn't gone unnoticed. Some locals have complained about the rising tides along beaches and piers, but no physical damage has been reported along the Erie coastline.
The rest of the Great Lakes are also higher than normal.
© US Army Corp of Engineers/DetroitGreat Lakes' current water levels compared to historical parameters.
© Spence Denny ABC Radio conducted an icy pole test in Adelaide to see how cold it was this morning.
Duty forecaster Paul Bierman confirmed the city had its equal coldest June 1 on record, a temperature not seen since 1943.
"The minimum temperature at Kent Town got down to 2.9 degrees at 6:44am this morning. It has already started to warm up slightly, we're up to 3.3 degrees," he said just before 8:00am.
He said a cold front that moved across the state earlier in the week combined with overnight light winds and clear skies to produce the chilly morning.
"[We're going to have] very cold mornings right through until at least next Sunday ... around 3 or 4C," Mr Bierman said.
© Ministry of InformationDead rats are piling up in Irrawaddy Division’s Ngapudaw Township as locals try to control infestations in a handful of villages
Residents of Haingyi island, one of the larger islands in the Irrawaddy Delta, have been battling the plague of rodents since the critters scurried into their villages over the weekend.
Short of pied pipers, desperate authorities have resorted to paying residents 50 kyat (four US cents) for each dead animal in a bid to contain the outbreak.
"More than 4,000 rats have been killed since they tried to enter the villages," regional MP Phyo Zaw Shwe told AFP.
"According to traditional beliefs, these animals can predict bad weather. So people here are also worried about floods or earthquakes."
Studies by Japanese scientists have shown mice and rats are sensitive to electromagnetic waves similar to what often occurs before a major earthquake—although there has been no notable seismic activity in Myanmar the last few days.
© Robin Adams/Weekend Argus
Rain and strong winds are battering the city.
Emergency shelters are on standby as a vicious storm lashes the Western Cape.
Several people have been displaced in Imizamo Yethu in Hout Bay, where the roofs of some homes have blown off.
Displaced people are being housed at a school in Maitland.
In Lavender Hill, two people have been injured.
Roofs also blew off homes in Strand, Kalkfontein, Delft and Mfuleni.
Trees were uprooted in Durbanville and in Plumstead a tree landed on a block of flats.
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
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In the early days of Global Warming, the theories predicted that the upper atmosphere would heat due to increases in CO2. Well, that didn't happen. One recent article by NASA says that the Thermosphere (above 100,000 ft) has cooled in recent years due to decreased solar activity and a reduction in ultraviolet light. That certainly seems reasonable. Another article stated that if the lower atmosphere warms, the upper atmosphere must cool, which makes no sense to me.
Other articles posit that as CO2 increases the level at which radiation escapes to space also increases and the upper atmosphere warms. That also made no sense to me.
I decided to take a look at temperatures aloft and reasoned that the difference between day and night temperatures in the upper atmosphere might reveal whether the nighttime atmosphere is cooling faster or slower than in previous years. If cooling slower the temperature curves at 00z and 12z would tend to converge and if cooling faster the curves would diverge. Simple, right?
A 21-strong rescue team arrived at the scene and dug an underground passage to try and get to the father and son
Teenager Rahim Khan was sweeping an area in front of his shop in the town of Jharia, in the country's north eastern Jharkhand province when he was sucked into a crater which opened up in the road.
His desperate father, Bablu Khan, 40, saw him slip into the hole before he too was killed after being buried under debris as he tried to save the 14-year-old.
Pictures show smoke coming from the burning sink hole which was caused by fires that have raged underground in the area for decades.
Comment: While activists scream bloody murder over any confrontation to the doctrine of global warming, they should obviously be much more concerned with the very real impending challenges of global cooling!