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Ambulance

US: Chunk of LA street, cliff slide into Pacific

Los Angeles - Residents of a coastal neighborhood were worried Monday about safety and property values after a large chunk of a street and the coastal bluff it sat on crumbled into the ocean amid heavy rains on Sunday.

A section of Paseo Del Mar in the San Pedro area that for months had been creeping toward the ocean collapsed as a storm struck, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said in a statement. In recent weeks the section had been moving at about 4 inches a day.


"My greatest concern (is) that all these homes right here are going to end up in the water and that we're going to be separated and our own little island," said one resident interviewed by nbclosangeles.com just outside the closed-off area. "I have three kids and two grandkids and I want them to be able to have the ocean view and be able to stick their feet in the sand and not fall off a cliff."
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© Chuck Bennett/Torrance Daily Breeze/APA portion of Paseo Del Mar in San Pedro, Calif. slid into the ocean Sunday.
Another resident said locals were talking about how the slide would undermine property values.

Bizarro Earth

Volcano Near Mexico City Spews Ash, Smoke

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© APA large plume of ash rises from the Popocatepetl volcano as seen from the highway to Atlixco, Mexico early Friday, June 3, 2011.
Mexico's largest active volcano has spewed ash and smoke into the air on Sunday, and local civil protection authorities warned people not to go close as burning ash could fall for hours, reported China's Xinhua news agency.

The Popocatepetl volcano, 60 kilometres (km) southeast of Mexico City, were clearly visible from the capital and nearby cities of Puebla, Morelos and Mexico State.

Access to the volcano has been restricted to a radius of 12 km around the crater following a powerful explosion, which was reported at 12:05 p.m. local time (1805 GMT).

The explosion caused the earth to shake and sent smoke and ash over 7 km high into the air, and has alarmed some 20 million people living nearby.

However, officials said that no casualties or damages had been reported so far, Xinhua reported.

The Popocatepetl volcano is 5,452 meters high and located in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt.

Nuke

Architect of Fukushima's Reactor 3 warns of massive hydrovolcanic explosion

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Architect of Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 3, Uehara Haruo, the former president of Saga University had an interview on 11/17/2011.

In this interview, he admitted Tepco's explanation does not make sense, and that the China syndrome is inevitable.

He stated that considering 8 months have passed since 311 without any improvement, it is inevitable that melted fuel went out of the container vessel and sank underground, which is called China syndrome.

He added, if fuel has reaches a underground water vein, it will cause contamination of underground water, soil contamination and sea contamination. Moreover, if the underground water vein keeps being heated for long time, a massive hydrovolcanic explosion will be caused.

He also warned radioactive debris is spreading in Pacific Ocean. Tons of the debris has reached the Marshall Islands as of 11/15/2011.

Cloud Lightning

Death toll from Thailand's floods tops 600

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Bangkok - The death toll from Thailand's worst flooding in more than half a century has passed 600.

The floods began in late July, fed by heavy monsoon rains and a series of tropical storms. The floodwaters swamped entire towns as they moved south through the country's central heartland to Bangkok and the Gulf of Thailand. More than two-thirds of the country's 77 provinces have been affected.

The government said Sunday that the death toll has reached 602, the majority from drowning. It said the number of affected provinces is currently 17.

The situation has improved dramatically in recent days and cleanup has begun in many areas, though some still face weeks more under water.

Igloo

UK: Scores of flights cancelled as fog shrouds the country... and we've got gales and even SNOW on the way

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© Stephen Simpson/LNPTricky: As this photo shows, Heathrow Airport was shrouded in thick fog this morning
Dozens of flights were cancelled in central England today after a thick fog descended on much of the country.

The Met Office issued a severe weather warning this morning for regions including London and the South-East, the East and West Midlands, Yorkshire and Humber and the east of England.

And there are even reports that the UK could be facing snow later this week as the spell of unseasonably warm weather comes to an end.

By 8.30am a total of 24 flights from Heathrow were already cancelled, according to a spokesman.

The destinations affected included Manchester, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Brussels, Stockholm, Cologne and Nice.

Ten flights due to depart from London City had also been cancelled, with services to Dublin, Rotterdam and Paris among those hit.

Bizarro Earth

Earthquake Rocks Assam, Manipur and Nagaland

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© The Times of IndiaAn earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale rocked India's northeast, Myanmar and Bangladesh on Monday, triggering panic among people.
Guwahati: An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale rocked India's northeast, Myanmar and Bangladesh on Monday, triggering panic among people.

The tremor was felt at 8.47am in most parts of Assam, Nagaland, and Manipur, besides in Bangladesh and Myanmar.

The epicentre was located at 24.947°N, 95.226°E in Myanmar, about 130 km east of Manipur capital Imphal, the website of US Geological Survey said.

Seven northeastern states - Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur - are considered by seismologists to be the sixth most earthquake-prone belt in the world.

The region experienced one of the worst earthquakes, measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale, in 1897, that claimed the lives of over 1,600 people.

In September, more than 50 people died after a killer quake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale shook the region.

Take 2

Brazil: Up to 2,600 barrels of oil leaked

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© AP Photo/IbamaIn this image taken Nov. 13, 2011 and released by Chevron oil company, ships try to control an oil spill in an offshore field operated by Chevron at the Bacia de Campos, in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. More than 2,600 barrels of oil may have spilled into the Atlantic ocean because of a leak at an offshore Chevron drilling site, IBAMA officials said Friday.

Rio De Janerio - Nearly 110,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into the Atlantic Ocean because of a leak at an offshore Chevron drilling site, Brazil's environmental protection agency said Friday.

Officials think between 8,400 to 13,800 gallons of oil leaked each day from Nov. 8 through Tuesday, Ibama said in a statement on its website. Chevron had said that only 16,800 to 27,300 gallons in total leaked into the ocean.

Officials are still investigating the cause of the leak, which has been almost entirely contained, but the Ibama statement said it was a result of drilling.

Igloo

There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998

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© APGlobal wha'?... Snow knocks out power to over 2 million homes in the Northeastern US... before Hallowe'en in 2011
For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco. Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero).

Yes, you did read that right. And also, yes, this eight-year period of temperature stasis did coincide with society's continued power station and SUV-inspired pumping of yet more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

In response to these facts, a global warming devotee will chuckle and say "how silly to judge climate change over such a short period". Yet in the next breath, the same person will assure you that the 28-year-long period of warming which occurred between 1970 and 1998 constitutes a dangerous (and man-made) warming. Tosh. Our devotee will also pass by the curious additional facts that a period of similar warming occurred between 1918 and 1940, well prior to the greatest phase of world industrialisation, and that cooling occurred between 1940 and 1965, at precisely the time that human emissions were increasing at their greatest rate.

Igloo

Best of the Web: Anthropogenic (Human Caused) Global Warming Debunked


If you apply proper scientific method to the data relating to anthropogenic global warming, the myths that have been created are clearly exposed for what they are...
"There has never in human history been a greater disconnect between the basic science and what is going on at the moment... ...it is absolutely astonishing the disjunct between the politics and the socio-economics of the "green agenda".... Climate has always changed, it always will, there is nothing unusual about present day rates of change.

Atmospheric CO2 is not a pollutant, nor is it the primary forcing cause of climate change.

Attempting to stop climate change is an expensive act of utter futility you are literally trying to stop the clouds crossing the sky." (Paraphrased)
Professor Bob Carter's presentation is an easy to understand explanation of this important issue.

HTH Understanding

Arrow Up

Propaganda Alert! Biggest-ever jump seen in global warming gases

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Eyjafjallajokull erupting in 2010: The CO2 emissions from increased volcanism dwarfs anything human activity can produce
Total emissions jump 6% between 2009 and 2010 - beyond amounts projected in a worst-case scenario. Extra pollution in China and the U.S. accounts for more than half the increase.

The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped last year by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-made global warming.

The new figures for 2010 mean that levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the worst-case scenario outlined by climate experts just four years ago.

"The more we talk about the need to control emissions, the more they are growing," said John Reilly, co-director of MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

The world pumped about 564 million more tons of carbon into the air in 2010 than it did in 2009. That's an increase of 6%. That amount of extra pollution eclipses the individual emissions of all but three countries - China, the United States and India, the world's top producers of greenhouse gases.