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Mexico to Cull 50,000 Wild Boars Invading from US Border


Agence France Presse
Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00 UTC
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© (AFP/DPA/File, Patrick PleulMexican officials have unveiled plans to slaughter some 50,000 wild boars that have crossed the border from the US
Mexican officials have unveiled plans to slaughter some 50,000 wild boars that have crossed the border from the United States and now threaten agriculture in Mexico.

The Ministry of Environment in Chihauha state said some 1,500 hectares (3,700 acres) of farmland in the border town of Ojinaga have been affected by the large number of feral pigs that have come from Presidio County, Texas.

"We must get rid of these European wild boars because they sleep overnight on US soil during the day and cross over to the Mexican side to feed," Ignacio Legarreta, a state official, told local media.
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Cloud Lightning

Kenneth becomes late-season hurricane in Pacific


Associated Press
Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:49 UTC
Forecasters say Kenneth has strengthened into a rare late-season hurricane in the eastern Pacific, although there is no current threat to land.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Monday that Kenneth had maximum sustained winds near 80 mph (130 kph). The storm was centered about 705 miles (1,135 kilometers) south of the southern tip of Baja California, Mexico, but was moving away from the coast. It could become a major hurricane in the next day or so.

It is moving west-northwest at 14 mph (22 kph)

Projections show Kenneth moving west out to sea, away from land. There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect.

The eastern Pacific hurricane season ends Nov. 30.
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Ambulance

US: Chunk of LA street, cliff slide into Pacific


MSNBC
Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:10 UTC
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.
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Bizarro Earth

Volcano Near Mexico City Spews Ash, Smoke


Bernama.com
Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:10 UTC
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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.
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Nuke

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

Mochizuki
Fukushima Diary
Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:49 UTC
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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.
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Cloud Lightning

Death toll from Thailand's floods tops 600


Associated Press
Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:49 UTC
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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.
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Igloo

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

Tamara Cohen
DailyMail.co.uk
Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:06 UTC
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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.
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Bizarro Earth

Earthquake Rocks Assam, Manipur and Nagaland


The Times of India
Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:18 UTC
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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.
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Take 2

Brazil: Up to 2,600 barrels of oil leaked

Bradley Brooks
Associated Press
Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:25 UTC
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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.
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Igloo

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

Bob Carter
The Telegraph, UK
Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:45 UTC
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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.
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