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Flash floods kill 27 in Afghanistan- scores missing


Terra Daily / AFP
Tue, 08 May 2012 09:08 UTC
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© AFPResidents move their belongings to higher ground after flooding in the Nahr-i Shahi district of Balkh province on February 21, 2012. Some 40 houses were damaged in overnight flooding in Nahr-i Shahi district of Balkh province.
At least 26 people were killed and more than 100 missing after flash floods hit a wedding party and three villages in northern Afghanistan, an official said Monday.

Most of the victims were women and children as the floods, caused by heavy rains, swept through areas of Deh Mardan district in Sari Pul province, said Fazlullah Sadat, head of the provincial disaster management authority.

"We have found 26 bodies mostly women and children -- and more than 100 others are still missing," he told AFP.

Wedding parties are traditionally large and joyous occasions in rural Afghanistan, but 21 people from one gathering were among the victims, he said.

"This is a human tragedy. We have a lot of human losses," said Sadat.
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Attention

Howler!! Dinosaur Gases 'warmed the Earth'


BBC Nature News
Mon, 07 May 2012 10:43 UTC
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Apatosaurus, formerly known as Brontosaurus, produced a lot of wind
Giant dinosaurs could have warmed the planet with their flatulence, say researchers.

British scientists have calculated the methane output of sauropods, including the species known as Brontosaurus.

By scaling up the digestive wind of cows, they estimate that the population of dinosaurs - as a whole - produced 520 million tonnes of gas annually.

They suggest the gas could have been a key factor in the warm climate 150 million years ago.

David Wilkinson from Liverpool John Moore's University, and colleagues from the University of London and the University of Glasgow published their results in the journal Current Biology.

Comment: The PTB are desperate to push an agenda by showing that climate change results from animal and human emissions, rather than solar activity. For more information read: Climate Change Swindlers and the Political Agenda

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Bizarro Earth

Massive Florida Sinkhole Forced Evacuations


Daily Mail, UK
Mon, 07 May 2012 08:10 UTC
One family are grateful to be alive after a massive sinkhole opened up in their back garden stopping just three feet from their home.

Lou and Denise Lambros and their four children were immediately evacuated from their Florida home after the huge hole, that measures 100 feet across and nearly 50 feet deep, suddenly appeared overnight.

A few days after the 'unreal' incident, Lou Lambros says it has sunk in that his family narrowly escaped potential tragedy and spoke of his relief that none of the neighbourhood children, who often came to play in the garden, were hurt.

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© WFTVThat sinking feeling: A massive sinkhole 100-ft across appeared in the backyard of the Lambros family's house overnight.
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© WFTVWake-up call: Denise Lambros noticed the huge sinkhole around 7am when she let the dog out.
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© SplashUnbelievable: It took Denise Lambros a few moments to comprehend what she was witnessing when she first saw the sinkhole.
'It is almost frightening for me. I know that my kids played back there...neighborhood children used to come over to play,' he told MSNBC Today.

The cause of the sinkhole is unknown, but officials believe the dry weather conditions experienced in parts of the south could have contributed to the hole.
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Bizarro Earth

More Weird Weather: Supercell brings tornado to England


UK Press Association
Mon, 07 May 2012 19:59 UTC
Rare Storm
© Richard Glazer/Press AssociationA storm taken from the A34 heading south at Kidlington, Oxfordshire.
A "special" type of storm has swept across the country, bringing with it a tornado to some areas.

The storm, thought to be an unusual "supercell" storm, travelled through the south Midlands, bringing rain, large hailstones, and a tornado in Oxfordshire.

The thunderstorm started in the afternoon in Wiltshire, and moved across Oxfordshire - where a tornado was reported in several places including Bicester, Eynsham, and Kidlington - then moved to Buckinghamshire.

Richard Glazer drove through the tornado with his wife and son on the A34 near Kidlington, Oxfordshire.

"It was very wet, we were just driving on the A34 and looked up and realised one part of the sky was moving in one direction and another in the opposite direction," he said. "I thought, 'that looks like a tornado!' We pretty much drove through it, we were right underneath it. As we drove into it the trees were blowing left to right and as we got through it they were blowing the other way."

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Question

Mystery smell in Tel Aviv: Source still unknown

Sharon Udasin
Jerusalem Post
Mon, 07 May 2012 15:36 UTC
A criminal investigation is still ongoing in order to identify the source of the mysterious, chlorine-like smell that overtook the Gush Dan area on Thursday, according to the Environmental Protection Ministry. The ministry said it would continue to conduct tests and update the public as to the results.

On Monday morning, Ramat HaSharon residents complained of a second smelly situation - entirely unrelated to the Thursday incident. This stench was due to a gas pipe replacement on Sokolov Street, and quickly dissipated, the ministry reported.
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Evil Rays

Mysterious Noises, Vibrations Reported in Austin

Jason M. Volack
ABC News
Mon, 07 May 2012 15:25 UTC
Mysterious vibrations - which sounded like a bass guitar and caused homes to shake - frightened Austin area residents over the weekend, prompting calls to 911.

"I heard a shaking noise - it sounded like wind hitting something," resident Denzell Hutchinson told ABC News affiliate KVUE. "I just thought it was wind blowing hard outside - until I went outside and there was no wind."

The vibrations started early Sunday morning. That's when fire crews arrived in the Harris Branch neighborhood of Austin and noticed homes vibrating. They eventually traced the mysterious vibrations back to the nearby Sunset Farms Landfill.
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Smiley

Climate Change Nonsense: Dinosaur flatulence may have led to global warming


CBC News
Mon, 07 May 2012 13:00 UTC
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© Carin L.Cain/AAAS/APAn artist's rendering shows a giant sauropod. These giants of the dinosaurs may have warmed prehistoric earth with their flatulence.
Dinosaurs may have warmed the prehistoric Earth's climate thanks to enormous amounts of methane-producing flatulence, researchers say.

Sauropods - the long-necked, long-tailed dinosaurs that included some of the largest ever land animals - could have produced enough methane to have "an important effect" on climate change, according to a report to be published in Tuesday's edition of Current Biology.

"Indeed, our calculations suggest that these dinosaurs could have produced more methane than all modern sources - both natural and man-made - put together," Dave Wilkinson of Liverpool John Moores University said in a statement.

Sauropods were plant-eaters. As happens in cows, microbes in the dinosaurs' digestive tract that aided digestion also produced methane, which is a greenhouse gas.

Comment: Completely speculative nonsense from the anthropogenic global warming camp desperate to cling on to the dis-proven corrupt scientific view that blames humans for global warming climate change.

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Igloo

Bering Sea Sees Surprising Record Ice Cover


OurAmazingPlanet
Mon, 07 May 2012 10:11 UTC
Bering Sea Ice Covered
© NASAOn April 11, sea ice still covered the Bering Sea.

Arctic sea ice has persistently dwindled over the last three decades, yet sea ice set record highs in waters around Alaska this past winter.

Ice in the Bering Sea not only covered more area than usual, it also stuck around longer, bucking the downward trend in sea ice cover observed since 1979, when satellite records for the region began.

The Arctic as a whole had below-average sea ice cover during the 2011 to 2012 winter season. At its maximum, reached in mid-March, sea ice covered 5.88 million square miles (15.24 million square kilometers), the ninth lowest in the satellite record.

Yet Alaskan waters were choked with ice.

Sea ice cover in the Bering Sea was well above normal for much of the season, and reached a record-high extent in March 2012. In addition, ice surrounded the Pribilof Islands, tiny volcanic islands in the middle of the Bering Sea, for a record number of days this winter.
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Source of Vibrating Houses Traced to Methane Gas From Landfill

John Bumgardner
KXAN
Sun, 06 May 2012 15:41 UTC
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Austin, TX- Several KXAN viewers called Sunday morning after vibrations in a North Austin neighborhood woke people.

In a statement to the media, fire officials now say they believe the source of the strange rumblings can be traced to the Sunset Farms landfill.

"The source of the "vibrations" in Southeast Austin was found to be from the Sunset Farms Landfill at 9912 Giles Rd."
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Butterfly

Red Admiral, 'Butterfly of Doom,' Population Explodes in NY

Victoria N. Alexander
Digital Journal
Sat, 05 May 2012 18:50 UTC
Red Admiral Butterfly
© Luc Viatour/Wikimedia Commons

Brooklyn - The Red Admiral Butterfly, known as the "Butterfly of Doom," was especially abundant the year the Russian Tsar Alexander II was assassinated. Lepidopterist Kurt Johnson reports an unusually large number of the species are descending upon Brooklyn, NY According to Dr. Kurt Johnson, a retired lepidopterist from the American Museum of Natural History, in the last two days there has been
an outbreak of Red Admirals (Vanessa atalanta) in Brooklyn the likes of which I have never seen (not even close), and I've been here 45 years. ... [T]here were at least a half dozen Red Admirals for every 10 paces one walked.... [At] the Botanical Garden, Red Admirals were also flying all over the place, chasing each other etc.
Butterfly population explosions are not particularly common, says Dr. Johnson. In 1881, the Red Admiral, also known as the Red Admirable, was found in great abundance in Russia. According to Russian lore, the undersides of the wings bore markings that resembled the numbers "1881." Russians came to call the insect the "Butterfly of Doom," and some believe its great numbers "signaled" the beginning of the revolution and the death of the Tsar.
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