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Best of the Web: 2013 is Strange! Part 23, November

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Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:38 UTC
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Submarine eruption of the volcano Nishinoshima created a new volcanic island.
Roll clouds, crepuscular rays, strange-as-yet-to-be-named clouds, extreme storms, volcanoes erupting everywhere, meteor fireballs turning night into day, a child in the U.S. hit by a meteorite, massive hail pelting parts of Australia, more strange lights in the sky, flooding in southern Italy, major storms in the U.S. bringing 'unseasonal' and devastating tornadoes to the Midwest, more strange 'sky sounds', more mass animal deaths, UFOs, unseasonal and heavy snowfall, more massive sinkholes swallowing everything in the vicinity... the following video is a sample of just some of the weird, wonderful and scary environmental and celestial events that took place across, above and below the planet in the latter half of November 2013.
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Snowflake Cold

Another round of Arctic air forecast to deep freeze the U.S.

Marc Marcano
ClimateDepot.com
Sun, 01 Dec 2013 14:54 UTC
From Steven Goddard:
Arctic Air Forecast To Deep Freeze The US
Arctic cold blast
© Steven Goddard
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Ice Cube

Almost 1,000 record low max. temps versus 17 record high temps for last week of November in U.S.

Robert Felix
Ice Age Now
Sat, 30 Nov 2013 14:47 UTC
Let's face it. The idea of human-caused global warming is a con job.

Records in the last 7 days:
205 snowfall records.
969 Low Max. 203 Low temps.
17 High Temp.
61 High minimum.
Record cold events
© Unknown
Yes, those are snowfall records in Texas. And yes, it is still Fall.
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Incredible Hawk Owl invasion in Estonia!


estoniannature.blogspot.co.uk
Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:35 UTC
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© Remo SavisaarHawk Owl (Surnia ulula)
This year has seen the biggest invasion of Hawk Owls to take place in Estonia for many years. The first birds started to appear in late August - nearly two months earlier than usual. During this autumn up till the end of November birders have found 32 different Hawk Owls, an astonishing number for such a little country. Some of Estonian Nature Tours autumn bird trips offered brilliant views of this stunning northern owl.

Normally there are no more than 10 individuals encountered during one season. Yet this years movement has been already more spectacular than ever. It is impossible to predict the final numbers we will have by the end of winter, but it is clear that this is the best time ever to twitch hawk owls in Estonia this winter.

Comment: See also. Ice Age Cometh: Snowy Owl invasion coming in North America?

Maine experiencing a Canadian owl invasion

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Bizarro Earth

Arctic Ocean leaking methane faster than anticipated

Julie S
Headlines & Global News
Sun, 01 Dec 2013 13:04 UTC
Arctic Ocean
© Creative CommonsThe researchers focused on examining the permafrost on the continental shelf located in the northern coast of eastern Russia known as the “East Siberian Arctic Shelf.”
A new study found that the Arctic Ocean is under threat of methane. This gas is found to be up to 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide which scientists discovered to be leaking faster than previously anticipated.

Researchers Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov at the University of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center have been monitoring the Arctic's greenhouse emissions for more than 10 years. They found that the Arctic Ocean has been releasing methane more than twice as what was previously thought.

The Arctic region is one the numerous natural sources of the greenhouse gas methane. The process is a long-term natural process but it is being accelerated by global warming. Current methane release has previously estimated at 0.5 megatonne per year. Most of the methane is deposited on the Arctic's permafrost - a thick subsurface layer of soil that remains on a freezing point all year round.
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Monterey Bay sea life anomalies: What is driving it?


Beforeitsnews.com
Fri, 29 Nov 2013 04:20 UTC
fukushima radiation plume
© UnknownFukushimas radiation plume driving sea life towards shore?
The story excerpted below from the Deccan Herald appears to tell a happy tale of countless sea creatures living inhabiting the shores around Monterey Bay in California. Quite strangely scientists tell us, "it's all around" and "it's a very strange year"...but why...why are all the sea creatures now living so close to the shores of the West Coast? Something strange is surely happening in California, but it's not the $64,000 question they call it in the story below... the name is Fukushima, and sea animals bum rushing the shoreline while millions of creatures perish within the same Pacific Ocean is not a good thing.

It began with the anchovies, miles and miles of them, their silvery blue bodies thick in the waters of Monterey Bay. Then the sea lions came, by the thousands, from up and down the California coast, and the pelicans, arriving in one long V-formation after another.

Comment: The answer to what might be driving this anomalous behavior may lie in between:

Fukushimas radiation belt: Fukushima Radiation Found In West Coast Tuna

The great plastic polution of the pacific :
'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' Plastic Has Increased Hundredfold Since the 1970s
and:
The ocean is broken

AND in a more overarching way the magnetic anomalies created by the greater cosmic environment, including the bombardment of our atmosphere of comets and meteors loading the atmosphere with cometary dust, causing changes in earth's electromagnetic field :
Cyclones, Earthquakes, Volcanoes And Other Electrical Phenomena
Celestial Intentions: Comets and the Horns of Moses

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USGS: Magnitude 6.0 - 69km SE of Sinabang, Indonesia


US Geological Survey
Sun, 01 Dec 2013 08:17 UTC
Earthquake in Indonesia
© USGS
Event Time
2013-12-01 06:29:57 UTC
2013-12-01 12:29:57 UTC+06:00 at epicenter
2013-12-01 07:29:57 UTC+01:00 system time

Location
2.063°N 96.851°E depth=11.2km (7.0mi)

Nearby Cities
69km (43mi) SE of Sinabang, Indonesia
215km (134mi) WSW of Kabanjahe, Indonesia
217km (135mi) W of Sibolga, Indonesia
242km (150mi) SSE of Meulaboh, Indonesia
550km (342mi) WSW of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Arrow Down

From the forest giraffe to the flufftail: Shocking report reveals that 21,286 animal species are under threat of extinction

Ted Thornhill
The Daily Mail, UK
Fri, 29 Nov 2013 06:20 UTC
  • The Okapi is revered in Congo and even features on banknotes
  • The sub-Saharan White-winged Flufftail is one of Africa's rarest birds
The Okapi, or forest giraffe, and the sub-Saharan white-winged flufftail - one of Africa's rarest birds - are now on the brink of extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

The two animals are the latest additions to its Red List of Threatened Species, which now runs to a shocking 21,286 species.

However, there is good news. Two species of albatross, the leatherback turtle and the island fox native to California's Channel Islands are showing signs of recovery.

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Endangered: The Okapi is a close relative of the giraffe and is revered in Congo as a national symbol
The update highlights serious declines in the population of the okapi (okapia johnstoni), a close relative of the giraffe, unique to the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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Outgassing? Mysterious odor fills Fond du Lac, Wisconsin on Friday

Laurie Ritger
FDL Reporter
Fri, 29 Nov 2013 05:49 UTC
A bad odor that has settled in a large area of the city is making some people sick to their stomachs.

The Fond du Lac Dispatch Center received calls from businesses and homeowners beginning around 9:45 a.m. Friday.

"It's pretty much a mystery," said Lt. Joe Maramonte of the Fond du Lac Fire Department.

Calls started coming from the areas around Lenz Truck, Fleet Farm and then Holiday Dodge and a Fond du Lac County Airport hangar.

A crew checked an Alliant station across from Fleet Farm that injects odor into natural gas and determined that it was not the cause of the foul stench.
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Bizarro Earth

Over a dozen 'earthquakes' hit north Texas in November, and nobody has a clue what caused them

Doualy Xaykaothao
Kera News
Wed, 27 Nov 2013 22:23 UTC
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© Doualy Xaykaothao / KERA NewsOn Tuesday morning, yet another earthquake rocked the small Tarrant County town of Azle.
On Tuesday morning, yet another earthquake rocked the small Tarrant County town of Azle. It was the sixth within a week in Tarrant and Parker counties. More than a dozen quakes have rattled North Texas in November.

Azle residents are getting nervous and seismologists are trying to get to the bottom of what's going on. Some point to natural gas drilling that's happening in the Barnett Shale, a massive geological formation that covers about 20 North Texas counties. But a geophysicist with the National Earthquake Information Center says more testing is needed to make such a connection.

Azle isn't the kind of place with a Starbucks or a quaint coffee shop. But at the popular gas station, Centerpoint Kwik Stop, the morning coffee crowd could only talk about one thing:

"Bam. It was like something hit the side of my house -- and it wasn't nothing but the earthquake," Janice Hammond said.
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