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Terrifying moment British teacher is gored by an elephant through her car as it flips it with its trunk on a Safari park's dirt road

Tom Kelly
Daily Mail, UK
Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:39 UTC
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The enraged bull elephant pushes the car over
  • Sarah Brooks from Spalding, Lincolnshire was injured last week
  • Elephant's tusk ripped through the back of Ms Brooks' upper thigh
  • Their car rolled three times and was flung 40 metres in the attack
  • Ms Brooks is in a stable condition in hospital
This is the moment an enraged bull elephant flipped over a car containing a British teacher and her fiance during an African safari.

Sarah Brooks, 30, and her fiance were filming the animal from their car as it drank at a waterhole when it turned and went for them.

It flipped their vehicle and shunted it around 130ft down a track into thick bushland.

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Attention

Australia warns of fire danger as heatwave hits

Amy Coopes AFP
Yahoo News
Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:59 UTC
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© AFP Photo.Map showing three-day heatwave forecast for Australia starting Tuesday.
Australian authorities warned Tuesday of some of the worst fire danger since a 2009 inferno which killed 173 people, with most of the continent's southeast sweltering through a major heatwave.

Victoria state, where the so-called Black Saturday firestorm flattened entire villages in 2009 and destroyed more than 2,000 homes, was again bracing for extreme fire weather.

"These next four days promise to be amongst the most significant that we have faced in Victoria since Black Saturday," said acting state premier Peter Ryan.

Tens of thousands of firefighters were on standby, and 1,290 brigades were in a "state of high preparedness", he added, with the peak danger day expected on Friday when very strong winds are forecast.

Two separate grass-fires tested crews early at Little River, west of Melbourne, and Kangaroo Ground to the east.

The flames raced out of control and triggered brief emergency alerts before water-bombing aircraft and engine teams managed to bring them under control.
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Bizarro Earth

6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes north of Puerto Rico on heels of 4 year anniversary of deadly Haiti quake


Source
Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:53 UTC
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© USGS
A strong quake of magnitude 6.5 struck north off Puerto Rico on Monday and could trigger a local tsunami, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.

It said the quake, initially reported as a magnitude 6.4, was very shallow, at a depth of 17.7 miles below the seabed. It struck at 12:01 a.m. (0401 GMT), 35 miles north of the town of Hatillo.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the quake could trigger a local tsunami.

"There is the small possibility of a local tsunami that could affect coasts located usually no more than a hundred kilometers (63 miles) from the earthquake epicenter," the tsunami center said in its advisory.
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Cloud Precipitation

Floods hit South Philippines; 20 dead, 13 missing


ABC News
Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:50 UTC
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Two days of heavy rains set off floods and landslides in the southeastern Philippines, leaving at least 20 people dead, 13 missing and thousands displaced, officials said Monday.

Most of the dead and missing came from floods and landslides that hit Compostella Valley and Davao Oriental provinces, said Maj. Reynaldo Balido, spokesman for the disaster-response agency.

A landslide Monday damaged five houses in Cagdianao municipality in Dinagat Island, off the northeastern coast of the main southern island of Mindanao, killing six residents including two boys aged 2 and 14, said police officer Elbert Ompoc.

Another man drowned in Agusan del Sur province's Prosperidad township, on Mindanao, and seven others were missing, according to the civil defense regional bureau.

The flooding, triggered by rains from a low pressure area, has affected 132,000 people from 10 provinces.
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Bizarro Earth

El Salvadoran officials on alert for Chaparrastique Volcano activity


Prensa Latina
Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:46 UTC
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The alert status remains today in El Salvador by seismic activity of the Chaparrastique volcano, except in the eastern department of San Miguel, where the volcano of 2130 meters above sea level is located. According to the latest special report from Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), as vibrations persist and gases column is visible, the possibility of another eruption is not ruled out in the coming days or weeks through the central crater or their flanks.

Environment officials are urging people not to approach the volcano crater and abide by the instructions issued by the General Department of Civil Protection.

MARN explained that the vibration levels and emission have shown changes but remain.
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Ice Cube

Sea freezes so fast in Lovund, Norway that thousands of fish are killed instantly

Jesus Diaz
Sploid
Mon, 13 Jan 2014 02:51 UTC
Norwegian public radio (Google-translated) reports on the instant death of thousands of fish in a bay in the island of Lovund, Norway. An air temperature of -7.8 C (17.96 F) combined with a strong east wind froze the sea water instantly, trapping and killing the fish. You can see it in this fishapocalyptic image:

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The dog owner says that he has never seen such a phenomenon. NRK claims that the herrings were chased by predators into the bay when the deadly freezing happened. Aril Slotte - the head of pelagic fish department at Norway's Institute of Marine Research - says it is not uncommon for herring to get very near the shore when chased by predators, sometimes getting trapped by the low tide in areas like this bay.
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Bizarro Earth

Whales wash up at Farewell Spit, New Zealand


One News
Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:19 UTC
Stranded Whales
© One NewsOne of the 13 whales stranded at Farewell Spit.
Thirteen pilot whales have washed up on one of the world's greatest "whale traps".

The Department of Conservation (DOC) says the whales are stranded near the base of Farewell Spit at the top of the South Island.

It says the rest of the pod of about 50 whales is just offshore and there is a risk some of those whales may also become stranded.

DOC says it was alerted to the stranding this morning.

Marine mammal charity Project Jonah is in the process of contacting rescue volunteers in the area.

Volunteers will work to keep the whales alive until they can attempt to refloat them at the next high tide tonight.
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Bizarro Earth

Spaghetti-like formations found in Finnish lake


Lake Scientist
Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:57 UTC
Unusual Formation
© Vesa Kaloinen
A boater has photographed spaghetti-like formations floating in a Finnish lake. And no one seems to know what they are.

Vesa Kaloinen lives on the shore of Suolijärvi Lake in southern Finland. He was working on the waterfront when he saw the floating white stuff on January 8. So he grabbed his mobile phone, jumped in a rowboat and set sail.

Making his way toward the floating strands, he snapped a few photos with his phone. But since he was still curious what the soggy white matter was, he dipped his hand into the water and grabbed a handful.

The white strings looked to be tens of meters long. His hand cut through a few, as he dug out what appeared to be slush. He crushed some together to make a snowball and threw it.
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Bizarro Earth

Toilet snake appearances are on the up according to a Brisbane snake catcher

Lesley Hunter-Nolan
Courier Mail, Australia
Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:49 UTC
Python in Toilet
© Geoff Jacobs/www.snakecatcher.comPython removed from a toilet in Tarragindi.
A Brisbane snake catcher says he is not surprised a snake took over a suburban toilet this week as he has seen a significant increase in this behaviour.

Darren Jacobs of Queensland Wildlife Solutions said he has attended four jobs involving snakes in toilets in suburban Briusbane since shortly before Christmas.

He usually gets ten in an entire year.

"There's definitely been an increase and I believe its down to the stormy weather," he said.

"They are chasing rats and mice who are forced out of their hiding places due to the wet.

"The snakes go into the sewer after them and if they see a hole, they'll go up it, unfortunately some of those holes lead to people's toilets."

His comments follow the ordeal of a Carina couple who had a 1.5m carpet python take up residence in their bowl on Monday night.

Mr Jacobs said he removed a 9ft Carpet Python form a Tarragindi residence in similar circumstances last week.
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Bulb

German scientists show climate driven by natural cycles

Prof. H. Luedecke and C.O. Weiss
No Tricks Zone
Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:35 UTC
Climate reveals periodic nature, thus no influence by CO2
We reported recently about our spectral analysis work of European temperatures [1] which shows that during the last centuries all climate changes were caused by periodic (i.e. natural) processes. Non-periodic processes like a warming through the monotonic increase of CO2 in the atmosphere could cause at most 0.1° to 0.2° warming for a doubling of the CO2 content, as it is expected for 2100.

Fig. 1 (Fig. 6 of [1] ) shows the measured temperatures (blue) and the temperatures reconstructed using the 6 strongest frequency components (red) of the Fourier spectrum, indicating that the temperature history is determined by periodic processes only.

One sees from Fig. 1 that two cycles of periods 200+ years and ~65 years dominate the climate changes, the 200+ year cycle causing the largest part of the temperature increase since 1870.

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Fig. 1: Construction of temperatures using the 6 strongest Fourier components (red), European temperatures from instrumental measurements (blue). It is apparent that only a 200+ year cycle and a ~65 year cycle play a significant role.

Comment: No, CO2 has nothing to do with the extreme climatic changes that we are currently experiencing - and according to the above article, we might have seen nothing yet!

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