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Chile quake 1000 times greater than Haiti.Tsunami on the move.


Digital Journal
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:21 UTC
An earthquake with an initial magnitude of 8.8 has hit Chile. Early reports of buildings having collapsed and communications disrupted. Tsunami warning issued as far as Australia.

Update#7. Almost all countries in the Pacific have been issued a warning, including New Zealand, Tonga, Samoa, Hawaii and as far as Russia and Japan.

There has been no contact with the Chilean city of Concepcion, a coastal area home to more than 600,000 people which is under 100 kilometres from the quake epicentre.
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Target

7.3 quake rattles Japan's Okinawa


Press TV
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:40 UTC
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A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 jolts south of Japan in the Pacific Ocean, the government's Meteorological Agency says.

The quake struck the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, 84 km east of Naha, and about 1,600 km south of Tokyo, at 5:31 a.m. local time Saturday (2031 GMT Friday), at a depth of 29 km below the seabed.

A tsunami warning for waves of up to two meters in some areas was issued, the agency said.
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Question

Flamingos die en masse in Cyprus but experts say they are not worried yet


Cyprus Mail
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:28 UTC
The number of dead or dying flamingos on Larnaca's Salt Lake has increased to between 30 and 40 from around ten earlier this week, it emerged yesterday.

Fifteen more birds have been collected from the lake and taken to the Veterinary Department for testing but the results are still pending. The results of water samples taken are also pending.

The flamingo deaths were briefly discussed during the Parliament's Environmental Committee meeting yesterday but no new information emerged, said Martin Hellicar, Campaign Manager for Bird Life Cyprus.
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Bizarro Earth

Quake hits off Japan's southern coast, tsunami warning briefly issued

Mari Yamaguchi
Associated Press
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:06 UTC
Quake
© AFP/FileA quake reading on a seismograph. A 7.0 magnitude quake struck southern Japan early Saturday the USGS …
Tokyo - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit off Japan's southern coast early Saturday, shaking Okinawa and nearby islands, where a tsunami warning was briefly issued, Japan's Meteorological Agency said.

The quake occurred off the coast of the island of Okinawa at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) at 5:31 a.m. Saturday (2031 GMT Friday), the agency said.

There have been no reports of major damage or casualties so far, except for reports of ruptured water pipes in two locations, Okinawa police official Noritomi Kikuzato said.

The Meteorological Agency had initially predicted a tsunami up to 6 feet (2 meters) near the Okinawan coast, warning nearby residents to stay away from the coastline. The agency later lifted the warning within two hours after observing only a small swelling of tide.
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Brick Wall

Best of the Web: Global warmists insist this winter has been the hottest the world has ever seen!

David Fogarty
Reuters
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:45 UTC
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Singapore - The pace of global warming continues unabated, scientists said on Thursday, despite images of Europe crippled by a deep freeze and parts of the United States blasted by blizzards.

The bitter cold, with more intense winter weather forecast for March in parts of the United States, have led some to question if global warming has stalled.

Understanding the overall trend is crucial for estimating consumption of energy supplies, such as demand for winter heating oil in the U.S. northeast, and impacts on agricultural production.

"It's not warming the same everywhere but it is really quite challenging to find places that haven't warmed in the past 50 years," veteran Australian climate scientist Neville Nicholls told an online climate science media briefing.
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Attention

Yanomami fear for their lives as miners invade their land


Survival
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:23 UTC
Yanomami
© Steve Cox/SurvivalYanomami mother and child.
Yanomami shaman and spokesman Davi Kopenawa has made an urgent appeal for support as the Yanomami territory in northern Brazil is being invaded by gold-miners.

Davi said, 'The arrival of miners is increasing, and the Yanomami are very worried... Soon there will be conflicts between the miners and the Yanomami... I know how the miners treat the Yanomami and I am also very sad because some Yanomami are working at the mining sites in return for food. They will fall ill; they'll catch malaria and sexually transmitted infections, because the miners will use the Indian women as they have done in the past'.

He added, 'I am very angry with FUNAI (the Brazilian government's indigenous affairs department) and the police; they have not controlled the entrance of miners. The Yanomami territory is being invaded'.

Davi Yanomami's warning comes just months after he met with President Lula to ask him to remove all the gold-miners working illegally in the Yanomami territory.
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Mr. Potato

Al Gore Is Lying Low - for Good Reason

Rex McBride
American Thinker
Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:06 UTC
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Maybe Al Gore's been advised by legal counsel to lie low. He may be the leader of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) movement, but he's not defending it in public, not even when it's falling apart and his new fortune is based upon it.

Mr. Gore and his financial backers earned millions of dollars in start-up "green" companies and carbon trading schemes. If the scam worked, he could've become the first "carbon billionaire."

"What goes up can fall down" applies to ill-gotten gains in the stock market or "carbon trading" schemes. In such schemes, it's foreseeable that trusting investors will (a) not only get hurt when the scam collapses, but they'll also (b) pursue legal remedies and sue him for fraud.

Mr. Gore's financial gains were based on the contradictory and error-plagued assertion that man's release of the trace gas CO2 will fry the planet.
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Bandaid

Mission Impossible! UK Met Office to re-examine 150 years of temperature data in futile effort to re-sell 'global warming'

Fiona Macrae
UK Daily Mail
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:22 UTC
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Temperature records dating back more than 150 years are to be re-examined by the Met Office because public belief in global warming has plummeted.

The re-analysis, which was approved at a conference in Turkey this week, comes after the climate change email scandal which dealt a severe blow to the credibility of environmental science.

The Met Office says that the review is 'timely' and insists it does not expect to come to a different conclusion about the progress of climate change.

But the reassessment, which will take an international group of experts three years to complete, will be seen as a tacit admission that previous reports have been tainted by the association with the University of East Anglia's controversial Climatic Research Unit.

Since the leak of more than 1,000 emails and documents from the unit in November, belief in global warming has fallen from 41 per cent to 26 per cent.
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Bizarro Earth

'Open the dam and let the water flow' - desperate plea from Omo Valley


Survival
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:21 UTC
Kwegu Boy
© SurvivalA Kwegu boy outside his hut. The Omo Valley tribes are finding it hard to feed their children in these times of drought.
Many tribal people in the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia are starving as the region is in the grip of a drought and the river's annual flood has failed.

The Kwegu, a small hunter-gatherer tribe, have been badly hit. Survival has received reports that two Kwegu children and four adults died from hunger in November.

A Kwegu man sent this message: 'Go and give this news to your elders, we Kwegu people are hungry. Other tribes have cattle, they can drink milk and blood. We don't have cattle; we eat from the Omo River. We depend on the fish, they are like our cattle. If the Omo floods are gone we will die.'
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Bizarro Earth

Mammoth Iceberg May Alter Ocean Circulation: Study

Marlowe Hood
Agence France-Presse
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:23 UTC
Paris - An iceberg the size of Luxembourg knocked loose from the Antarctic continent earlier this month could disrupt the ocean currents driving weather patterns around the globe, researchers said Thursday.

While the impact would not be felt for decades or longer, a slowdown in the production of colder, dense water could result in less temperate winters in the north Atlantic, they said.

The 2550 square-kilometre block broke off on February 12 or 13 from the Mertz Glacier Tongue, a 160-kilometre spit of floating ice protruding into the Southern Ocean from East Antarctica due south of Melbourne, researchers said.

Some 400 metres thick, the iceberg could fill Sydney Harbour more than 100 times over.

It could also disturb the area's exceptionally rich biodiversity, including a major colony of emperor penguins near Dumont d'Urville, site of a French scientific station, according to the scientists.
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