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Ice Cube

Is the UK heading for ANOTHER Arctic winter? Met Office calls emergency meeting to discuss if melting ice is causing Britain to freeze

Emma Innes
Mail Online
Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:55 UTC
Britain's winters are getting colder because of melting Artic ice changing global weather patterns, the Met Office has claimed.

Forecasters are concerned that high levels of ice melt in the Arctic in recent years could be behind Britain's increasingly bitter and longer winters.

The organisation's leading climate change expert, Dr Julia Slingo, is to convene experts from around the world to establish whether this explains why Britain has been experiencing the coldest temperatures for almost 100 years.
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Springtime in London: April snow showers in Kensington Gardens come amid Met Office claims that high levels of ice melt in the Arctic in recent years could be responsible for Britain's bitter winters
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Question

150 Black vultures mysteriously die in Chaguaramas, Trinidad

Camille Clarke
Trinidad Guardian Newspaper
Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:04 UTC
The Environmental Management Authority (EMA) believes approximately 150 dead and sick corbeaux found at the Heliport in Chaguaramas may have been feeding on the carcass of an animal which was poisoned. The Veterinary Public Health Unit of the Ministry of Health, the Poultry Surveillance Unit (PSU) of the Ministry of Food Production, the EMA and Forestry Division went to the heliport yesterday to try to determine the cause of the birds' death.

In a telephone interview yesterday, CEO of the EMA Joth Singh said the authority had received reports about the dead and dying birds and had launched an investigation. "We can't identify an environmental cause as such that they were exposed to," he reported. "There were 150 birds, we estimated. There was nothing else in the vicinity. We have been liaising with the Poultry Surveillance Unit, which is part of the National Disease Centre, to see if it was a case of the avian flu."

Singh said preliminary tests had shown avian flu had not killed the birds. "That was not the cause and there is speculation that they may have been poisoned, that they were poisoned by an animal or carcass that they ate. We are trying to eliminate the causes and we have not found any chemical spills or seen any anywhere," he said.
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© Abraham DiazA Ministry of Health official wears protective gear as he carries a dying corbeaux past several others that are dead or dying at the Chaguaramas heliport yesterday. The birds began literally falling from the skies in mysterious circumstances.
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Ice Cube

Ice Age cometh: Global cooling consensus is heating up - cooling over the next one to three decades

Matt Vooro
No Tricks Zone
Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:14 UTC
Blizzard
© NOAACooling seems to be the trend
As winters get harsher and the snow piles up, more and more scientists are now warning of global cooling. Reader Matt Vooro has compiled a list (see below) of 31 prominent scientists and researchers who have words that governments ought to start heeding.

Are we headed for global warming or cooling?

For many years now a good number of non-AGW scientists, meteorologists, engineers, researchers and the like have looked at the possibilities of a cooling planet. I enclose some of the ones that I have noted in my research. Indeed there is a significant number of scientists, academics, meteorologists and researchers who disagree with IPCC's belief that the globe is very likely headed for unprecedented global warming due to man-made greenhouse gases.

The climate of this planet oscillates between periods of approximately 30 years of warming followed by approximately 30 years of cooling. Rather than 100 years of unprecedented global warming as predicted by IPCC, the global temperatures have leveled off and we seem to be heading for cooler weather.
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Igloo

Ice Age Cometh: Russian Academy of Sciences experts warn of imminent cold period: "Global warming is a marketing trick"

P Gosselin
No Tricks Zone
Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:03 UTC
Earth
© NASA (public domain)
The European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) here links to an article published by Stimme Russlands (Voice of Russia). The article is titled: Die Welt vor einer Eiszeit, in English: The World On The Verge Of An Ice Age.

Reports of global cooling are becoming more frequent. FLASHBACK: 30 experts predict cooling.

You'll notice that this Voice of Russia report is more than a month old, and so one wonders why it was never picked up by the western mainstream media.

The article writes that Russian scientists are predicting that "a little ice age will begin in 2014". The article adds:
They reject the claim of global warming and call it a marketing trick."
Wow! That's heavy.
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Coffee

Climate models got the North Atlantic Oscillation all wrong - Climate science now plagued by contradictory explanations

P Gosselin / Juraj Vanovcan
No Tricks Zone
Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:51 UTC
Northern hemisphere winters in the big picture

According to the climate models, anthropogenic warming is supposed to predominantly manifest itself by increasing the winter temperatures th the middle latitudes - caused by the increased "greenhouse effect" or increased amount of long wave infrared radiation LWIR from the sky to the surface. Children won't know what the snow is, was the meme in 2000s after a string of warm winters in Europe.

Central England temperature vs Arctic oscillation index.
© UnknownCentral England temperature vs Arctic oscillation index.
Only a decade later, things changed and cold and snowy winters are now becoming the norm and not the exception over all of Europe. Now the warming is the cause of invasions of cold Arctic air into mid-latitudes, some climatologists insist. They are basically admitting that not LWIR, but prevailing direction of air circulation makes a winter season warmer or colder than average. Of course there is another popular ad-hoc theory plugging the hole. It relates to the loss of summer ice to weather half a year later.
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Cloud Lightning

Tornado smashes Arkansas homes


YouTube
Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:04 UTC
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Bizarro Earth

Another one: Giant sinkhole splits ground in central region of Portugal


The Extinction Protocol
Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:57 UTC
Excess water in the soil may be the cause of geological phenomenon occurred in Marvão in Alto Alentejo, which resulted in the opening of a crater about 100 meters deep and 17 meters in diameter. The geologist Victor Lambert explained this Tuesday that this is "a typical phenomenon" of areas where there is limestone and soil conditions exist, though in Portugal nothing has appeared of this size." The geologist, who develops work for research institutions and ornamental rocks, reported in the local area that has Marvão caves and type of existing rock (limestone) tends to 'dissolve,' forming caves. "Here in Marvão, we had lots of rain a year.

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Cloud Precipitation

Major ice storm could be on the way after freezing rain blankets southern Ontario

Scott Sutherland
Yahoo! Canada News - Geekquinox
Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:26 UTC
Ontario ice storm
A weather system moving into Ontario this morning is bringing a combination of rain, freezing rain and ice pellets.
For anyone who remembers the ice storm of 1998, that spread up to 120 mm (5 inches) of freezing rain across areas of eastern Ontario, southern Quebec and the Maritimes, seeing the words 'potential for a major ice storm' in your forecast might send a chill down your spine.

That's the word from the latest Environment Canada forecasts though, as a weather system moves into Ontario this morning, bringing a combination of rain, freezing rain and ice pellets for today, tonight and into Friday morning. As a result, weather warnings have been issued for regions across the southern part of the province.

Freezing rain has already started to fall across areas of southwestern Ontario, with reports of ice build up on roads and sidewalks from the Kitchener-Waterloo/Cambridge/Guelph area through parts of the Greater Toronto Area. Ice pellets and snow are mixing in with this in some areas, and this mix of precipitation is expected to press eastward throughout the day.

Icy roads along the 401 corridor from east of London, through the Greater Toronto Area are expected to make for a difficult commute this morning, and possibly even a worse time later as the freezing rain continues, sometimes heavy at times, throughout the day.
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Bizarro Earth

2013 California sea lion unusual mortality event in California


National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:06 UTC
Overview

Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (as amended), an Unusual Mortality Event (UME) has been declared for California sea lions in California from January 2013 through the present.

Beginning in January 2013, elevated strandings of California sea lion pups have been observed in Southern California (Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego Counties). The area with the highest reported stranding rates is currently Los Angeles County, followed by Orange County, and strandings are increasing in San Diego County.

The increase of sea lion strandings continues and has intensified over the last few weeks. Live sea lion strandings are nearly three times higher than the historical average.

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Live California sea lion historical stranding rates for 2008-2012 (admits to rehabilitation facilities from Jan 1-March 31).
Data for 2013 is as of March 24, 2013.
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Snow Globe

Rare birds killed off after migration north sees them face freezing temperatures back in UK

Charlotte Philby
The Independent, UK
Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:20 UTC
Remains of 8 malnourished stone curlews recently back from Africa and Spain found in Norfolk, Suffolk and Wiltshire
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The stone curlew is one of the UK's most threatened birds and has recently returned from their wintering grounds in Africa and Spain
Rare birds have fallen victim to Britain's prolonged cold weather with the bodies of several breeds found dead across the country.

The remains of eight malnourished stone curlews - one of the UK's most threatened birds, recently returned from their wintering grounds in Africa and Spain - were discovered in fields in Norfolk, Suffolk and Wiltshire in the past few days, the RSPB has reported.

The malnourished creatures, which weighed around 300g each compared to a healthy weight of 450g, are believed to have died after struggling to find enough food to survive following their annual migration to the UK.

A number of puffins and other seabirds including razorbills and guillemots were found dead off the coast of Scotland and North East England two weeks ago as a result of continuous freezing conditions and stormy seas making it hard to find food.

There have also been reports of short-eared owls and barn owls found dead after cold weather hindered their ability to hunt.
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