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Fish

US 'sea bass' makes history as first of its kind to swim to Dover... then get caught!

A fish native to North America has shocked British anglers by showing up on this side of the pond for the very first time.

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© BNPSThe striped sea bass was caught in the waters of Dover
The striped bass- a relative of the European bass- was caught by fisherman Martin White at Dover, Kent.

The 2lbs 7oz sea fish is the first of its kind ever to be hooked in Britain.

The striped bass is usually a bit of a homebody, and rarely strays more than five miles from America's east coast- so experts are baffled at its capture.

Dr Gary Nelson from Massachusetts State Fisheries said: "It's unheard of for a striped bass to travel all the way across the Atlantic.

"It is possible that it came over to the UK in the warm waters of the Gulf Stream when it was just a fry.

Bug

Desperate times in climate alarmism

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© AP
Computer models, scare stories and ad hominem rants underscore the alarmists' desperation

Al Gore is in full attack model, employing his ridiculous "Climate Reality Project" to "Draw the Line on Denial," even as he laid off 90% of the staff at his "Alliance for Climate Protection." Greenpeace has joined the fray, launching a "Dealing in Doubt" campaign that blames ExxonMobil for funding the "global warming denial machine."

ClimateProgress.org blogger Joe Romm faithfully echoes "Goreacle" and Greenpeace hysterics and blame-casting. To serve his partisan propaganda, he completely ignores the reality that the climate cataclysm cabal outspends the "deniers" by at least $1,000 to $1; ExxonMobil hasn't supported skeptic groups for years; and the real Big Oil money has gone to extreme green groups.

Chesapeake Energy alone gave $25 million to the Sierra Club, to advance the radical organization's anti-coal campaign. That one grant is ten times more money than the Heartland Institute received from all fossil fuel energy companies in its entire 29-year history, notes Heartland president Joseph Bast.

Meanwhile, President Obama continues to blame CO2-driven climate warming for tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires and droughts that are at the same level as, or lower than, they have been for many decades. His State Department is orchestrating climate treaties with island nations that contribute perhaps 0.1% of global carbon dioxide emissions - knowing the treaties could obligate the United States to severe and costly CO2 emission reductions that will drive up energy costs and strangle job creation and economic growth.

Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.8 - 96km NNE of Awaran, Pakistan

Awaran Quake_280913
© USGS
Event Time
2013-09-28 07:34:07 UTC
2013-09-28 12:34:07 UTC+05:00 at epicenter

Location
27.263°N 65.587°E depth=14.8km (9.2mi)

Nearby Cities
96km (60mi) NNE of Awaran, Pakistan
135km (84mi) NNW of Bela, Pakistan
147km (91mi) S of Kharan, Pakistan
151km (94mi) SSW of Surab, Pakistan
811km (504mi) ENE of Muscat, Oman

Technical Details

Bad Guys

IPCC climate report is a crime against humanity as it continues to deny reality and perpetrate the obvious lie: humans 'dominant cause' of warming

A landmark report says scientists are 95% certain that humans are the "dominant cause" of global warming since the 1950s.

The report by the UN's climate panel details the physical evidence behind climate change.

On the ground, in the air, in the oceans, global warming is "unequivocal", it explained.

It adds that a pause in warming over the past 15 years is too short to reflect long-term trends.

The panel warns that continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and changes in all aspects of the climate system.

To contain these changes will require "substantial and sustained reductions of greenhouse gas emissions".

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© IPCCProjections are based on assumptions about how much greenhouse gases might be released
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After a week of intense negotiations in the Swedish capital, the summary for policymakers on the physical science of global warming has finally been released.

The first part of an IPCC trilogy, due over the next 12 months, this dense, 36-page document is considered the most comprehensive statement on our understanding of the mechanics of a warming planet.

It states baldly that, since the 1950s, many of the observed changes in the climate system are "unprecedented over decades to millennia".

Comment: As we are already tired of pointing out the obvious, we invite the reader to analyze international weather reports or just look out of the window and see for themselves if our world is warming, or actually on the brink of a new Ice Age. IPCC's continuous and deliberate lying to the public is nothing short of criminal and negligent. The so called scientists should be ashamed of intentionally misleading the public, and for allowing psychopaths in power to execute their soulless agenda.


Snow Globe

First snowfall hits Moscow - Earlier than usual

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© RIA Novosti. Vladimir Astapkovich
Moscow was hit with the first snow of the year on Wednesday, eyewitnesses in a southern district said, with forecasters predicting the current cold spell isn't going away any time soon.

"The snow was falling for five-seven minutes, it started at about 3:07 p.m.," a resident who lives close to the Yugо-Zapadnaya subway station, the southernmost stop on the Red line, told RIA Novosti. "Now the sun is out again."

Temperatures are expected to drop below freezing on Wednesday night, forecasters from the Fobos weather center told RIA Novosti. Wet snow and rain is in the forecast for Thursday.

Snowflake

16 feet of snow possible at Mt Rainier next 4 days

193 inches ! (490 cm !) - In late September !

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© Wikimedia CommonsMount Rainier
Mt Rainier WA

7 Day Forecast

Tonight Snow. Could be heavy at times. Low around 18. South southwest wind 11 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation 100%. New snow accumulation of 17 to 23 inches possible.

Saturday Snow. Could be heavy at times. High near 24. Windy, with a southwest wind 16 to 26 mph increasing to 26 to 36 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 46 mph. Chance of precipitation 100%. New snow accumulation of 37 to 43 inches possible.

Saturday Night Snow. Could be heavy at times. Low around 15. Windy, with a southwest wind around 37 mph, with gusts as high as 48 mph. Chance of precipitation 100%. New snow accumulation of 25 to 31 inches possible.

Igloo

Snow already? Crater Lake gets record-smashing 8 inches

Crater Lake
© Wikimedia Commons
Crater Lake - Crater Lake received a record-smashing 8 inches of snow in 24 hours Tuesday into Wednesday, the National Weather Service reported.

More than one month ahead of schedule, the frosty blanket made its earliest appearance since 1986, when snow fell a week earlier on Sept. 18. Before that, the earliest appearance of a winter wonderland at Crater Lake was Sept. 24, 1948.

"It looks like there were sharply higher values of snowfall above 6,000 feet," said meteorologist Shad Keene. "Crater Lake tends to get the brunt of all the precipitation, so the chance of them exceeding a forecast is higher than in most places. It'll really come down."

At elevations 6,000 feet and below, there was anywhere from 1 to 3 inches. "The higher elevations definitely got more than we expected," Keene said.

The snowfall resulted in the closures of Crater Lake's West Rim Drive, East Rim Drive, North Entrance and Pinnacles Road Wednesday, according to the park's website. The West Entrance and South Entrance off Highway 62, Highway 62's access to the park's headquarters, and park headquarters to the Rim Village remained open.

Igloo

Climate expert warns of impending global cooling crisis

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© Wikimedia Commons
A prominent climate scientist says the earth actually faces a global cooling crisis on the eve of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) release of its latest climate change report.

David Archibald, an Australian scientist and visiting fellow at the The Institute of World Politics (IWP) in Washington, D.C., said during an IWP presentation Wednesday that contrary to a perceived consensus among the scientific community, the planet's climate is not warming. Global temperatures have essentially remained flat in the last thirty years, he said.

While temperatures have increased by a modest 0.8 degrees Celsius in the last 150 years, that rise is unremarkable compared to previous increases in earth's history, he said. Temperature spikes have occurred for hundreds of thousands of years and were slightly higher in the Roman Empire and Medieval periods, he added, according to a Swedish study and data from ice cores in Vostok, Antarctica.

Additionally, about 80 percent of the warming that has occurred can be attributed to water vapor compared to about 10 percent for carbon dioxide, said Archibald. The IPCC's report, scheduled for release Friday, is expected to state with 95 percent certainty that greenhouse-gas emissions generated by humans are responsible for 20th century warming.

Ice Cube

Arctic ice extent booming

Rapid Ice Growth Over The Past Six Days, says Steven Goddard website.

Green shows ice gain since September 18. Red shows ice loss.

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Also, see map showing the huge increase in western Arctic ice since this date last year.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/09/25/rapid-ice-growth-over-the-past-six-days/#comment-275941

Thanks to Ron de Haan for this link

Bug

Hornet attacks kill 18 in China

Hornet attack
© AlamyThis year has been unusually severe for hornet attacks in Shaanxi province, possibly because of weather changes, says a local health official.
An unusual spate of hornet attacks in central China has killed at least 18 people.

Zhou Yuanhong, a health official in the city of Angkang, in Shaanxi province, said more than 100 people in the area had been stung by swarms of the insects in recent months and treated at hospital, and that 18 of them died.

The local state-run newspaper Huashangbao reported that 21 had died in hospitals.

Zhou said a handful of people are killed every year in the region by hornets, especially in forested areas, but that this year has been unusually severe, possibly because of weather changes.

In the affected village of Sanping, local official Wang Zhengcai said people have been warned to be vigilant if they go into the woods.