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Could Gas Leaking From California Sea Floor Be Source Of Mystery Odor?


10News
Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:01 UTC
Encinitas California
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Scripps Institution Of Oceanography Grad Students Discovered Site Of Methane Seepage 20 Miles West Of Del Mar

The strange smell 10News viewers reported Tuesday is now being reviewed by the San Diego Air Pollution Control District.

Comment: Sure sounds as if things are opening up here on the big blue marble.

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Bizarro Earth

Mysterious, Gas-Like Odor Reported In North County, California


10News
Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:27 UTC
Encinitas California
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Residents In Encinitas, Del Mar, Carmel Valley, Solana Beach Reported Strange, Gas-Like Smell

A mysterious odor was reported along the North County coast on Tuesday.

Lifeguards in Encinitas were first to report the strong, pungent odor at about 5 p.m. The odor was described as a gas-like smell rolling in off the ocean.

Comment: More out-gassing as the planet destabilizes?

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Cloud Lightning

El Nino could strike as early as third quarter forecaster warns

Rene Pastor
Reuters
Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:55 UTC
El Nino
© File / NOAAThis satellite image illustrates the classic El Nino condition of warm water piling up in the eastern Pacific.
The feared El Nino weather phenomenon could strike as early as the third quarter of 2012, raising prospects of wreaking weather havoc from North and South America to Asia, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center (CPC) said on Thursday.

"Overall, the forecaster consensus reflects increased chances for El Nino beginning in July-September 2012," the agency said in a monthly update.

The monthly report is the strongest prediction yet about when the El Nino weather phenomenon could emerge this year. Last month, it issued an El Nino watch, warning the phenomenon could materialize in the second half of the year, but said conditions were still neutral between June and August.
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Fish

Fish kill at Lake Erie result of 'upwelling of cold water'


Erie Times-News
Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:36 UTC
Lake Erie fish kill
© Josh Barber / Erie Times-NewsThis dead freshwater drum, commonly known as a sheepshead, was photographed on the beach at Chautauqua park in Erie on July 24.

Hundreds of dead and dying sheepshead showed up along the Lake Erie shore in recent days.

The fish, also known as freshwater drum, were spotted over the weekend along North East Township near the Pennsylvania-New York state line and also in western Erie County between Elk Creek in Girard Township and Crooked Creek in Springfield Township.

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection officials said the die-off was due to a "natural phenomenon" called a seiche and was unrelated to pollution or other stresses caused by humans.
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Sun

Drought categories rise by 50% - in 1 week

Miguel Llanos
NBC News
Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:30 UTC
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The drought ruining crops, shrinking water supplies and exacerbating wildfires intensified dramatically over the last week, U.S. forecasters reported Thursday.

The weekly Drought Monitor shows "widespread intensification" in the central U.S., the National Drought Mitigation Center said in a statement.

Across the contiguous U.S., the total area under all kinds of drought grew only slightly but the most severe categories -- extreme and exceptional -- rose from 13.5 percent to 20.5 percent, the monitor showed.

The jump "this week was the largest since we started the U.S. Drought Monitor" 12 years ago, Brian Fuchs, a climatologist and Drought Monitor author, told NBC News. "This is really showing the rapid intensification of the drought due to the heat/dryness over the region with little relief for anyone."

The 20.5 five percent in extreme/exceptional drought is the most since 2003, he added.

"We've seen tremendous intensification of drought through Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Arkansas, Kansas and Nebraska, and into part of Wyoming and South Dakota in the last week," Fuchs said in the center's statement.

Comment: The MSM has been saying that the current drought will cause prices to go up in 2013 but here in America we are already seeing prices for food going up. This is the second year in a row there has been major drought in the United States.

From 2011: Drought may have killed a half-billion trees
Worst drought on record, trees dying by the millions
Floods to North, but Drought Spreads in U.S. South

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Bug

Omaha man's home overrun by Brown Recluse spiders

Laura Pullman
The Daily Mail
Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:13 UTC
An Omaha man is desperate to move out of his home after an army of venomous spiders have invaded.

Dylan Baumann is cautiously moving around his small apartment after seeing at least forty brown recluse spiders crawling up the walls and across the floors.

A single bite from a brown recluse can hospitalise victims. Baumann has not yet been bitten after taking special precautions.

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© KETVDangerous: Dylan Baumann is sharing his Omaha home with dozens of venomous brown recluse spiders
He has moved his bed away from the wall and pulled up the skirt of the bed to try and avoid being attacked in his sleep.

Every day he shakes out his clothes before putting them on and makes sure none of the dangerous arachnids are hiding in his shoes. After a shower, he shakes his towel before drying off.
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Cloud Lightning

Rare Superstorm May Hit New York city Thursday Evening

Eric Holthaus
The Wall Street Journal
Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:00 UTC
A severe-weather outbreak could arrive on New York City's doorstep Thursday evening, in an event that might prompt comparisons to the meteorological conditions prior to Washington D.C.'s derecho last month.

According to the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., there is "potential for a widespread damaging wind event/derecho" on Thursday afternoon and evening stretching from roughly Cincinnati to Hartford. Some 32 million people will be in the path of the storm, including those in and around New York City. Derechos can pack straight-line winds of hurricane force (74 mph) or greater, causing extensive damage and lingering power outages.

Forecasters upgraded the entire tri-state to a "moderate risk" of severe weather Thursday, specifically noting that the New York City area will also have an unusually high chance of tornadoes as well. At the moment, the city itself has about a 45% chance of experiencing winds stronger than hurricane force in the evening.
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.7 - Mauritius, Reunion Region


US Geological Survey
Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:28 UTC
Mauritius Quake_260712
© USGSEarthquake Location
Date-Time
Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 05:33:31 UTC

Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 09:33:31 AM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location
17.593°S, 66.363°E

Depth
9.8 km (6.1 miles)

Region
MAURITIUS - REUNION REGION

Distances
387 km (240 miles) NE of Port Mathurin, Mauritius

388 km (241 miles) NE of Ile Rodrigues, Northern Mariana Islands

954 km (592 miles) ENE of Bel Air, Mauritius

955 km (593 miles) ENE of Centre de Flacq, Mauritius
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Cloud Lightning

4 tornadoes confirmed in Saskatchewan


CBC News
Tue, 24 Jul 2012 05:15 UTC
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© Kathy RosenkranzA twister was reported near Davin, Sask., 36 kilometres east of Regina.
Environment Canada says four tornadoes have been confirmed in Saskatchewan Tuesday afternoon by trained spotters.

Officials said one twister hit an area west of the town of Assiniboia, a second touched down near the village of Fillmore, a third hit an area southwest of the town of Grenfell and the fourth was caught on tape by a storm chaser just east of Regina near the Town of Balgonie.

Greg Johnson, a dedicated tornado hunter, was following a late afternoon storm that roared through southern Saskatchewan Tuesday.

He said the twister touched ground for about six or seven minutes on a farm property about 10 kilometres south of the Trans-Canada Highway near Balgonie.

"We watched it rip through a farmyard," Johnson said. "[It] kicked up a lot of debris. We stopped in at the home and fortunately everything was OK. The house was spared but a number of the outbuildings were destroyed."
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Igloo

Niels Bohr Institute: CO2 Increase Points to Natural Shift in Climate


New York Daily News
Tue, 24 Jul 2012 05:03 UTC
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Copenhagen - The greatest climate change ever recorded by the world over the last 100,000 years has been the transition from the ice age to the warm interglacial period.

New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen indicates that, contrary to previous opinion, the rise in temperature and the rise in the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) follow each other closely in terms of time.

In the warmer climate, the atmospheric content of CO2 is naturally higher. CO2 is a green-house gas that absorbs heat radiation from the Earth and thus keeps the planet warm. In the shift between ice ages and interglacial periods the atmospheric content of CO2 helps to intensify the natural climate variations, the journal Climate of the Past reports.


Comment: Which means that the rise in CO2 they've been noticing in recent decades points to the intensification of a natural shift that is under way.


It had previously been thought that as the temperature began to rise at the end of the ice age approximately 19,000 years ago, an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere followed with a delay of up to 1,000 years, according to a Copenhagen statement.

Comment: There you have it. CO2 does not lead to warmer temperatures; it is the other way around, meaning that man-made CO2 cannot be responsible for so-called 'climate change'.

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