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Surprising Activity Discovered at Yellowstone Supervolcano

Sara Goudarzi
Live Science
Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:52 UTC
Supervolcanoes can sleep for centuries or millennia before producing incredibly massive eruptions that can drop ash across an entire continent. One of the largest supervolcanoes in the world lies beneath Yellowstone National Park, which spans parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.

Though the Yellowstone system is active and expected to eventually blow its top, scientists don't think it will erupt any time soon.

Yet significant activity continues beneath the surface. And the activity has been increasing lately, scientists have discovered. In addition, the nearby Teton Range, in a total surprise, is getting shorter.

The findings, reported this month in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, suggest that a slow and gradual movement of a volcano over time can shape a landscape more than a violent eruption.
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Snowman

Five Scientists Testify Before Congress, 2003, on Abrupt Climate Change - Sudden Glacial Rebound


nationalacademies.org
Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:14 UTC
The report does not focus on large, abrupt causes - nuclear wars or giant meteorite impacts - but rather on the surprising new findings that abrupt climate change can occur when gradual causes push the earth system across a threshold. Just as the slowly increasing pressure of a finger eventually flips a switch and turns on a light, the slow effects of drifting continents or wobbling orbits or changing atmospheric composition may "switch" the climate to a new state. And, just as a moving hand is more likely than a stationary one to encounter and flip a switch, faster earth-system changes - whether natural or human-caused - are likely to increase the probability of encountering a threshold that triggers a still-faster climate shift.
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Cloud Lightning

Abrupt Climate Change


NOAA
Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:04 UTC


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Increased Storm Activity is one consequence of Global Warming. Tornadoes and Hurricanes are "heat exchangers." An increase in their frequency and strength can lead to massive and sudden cooling.
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Snowman

SOTT Focus: Climate Change Swindlers and the Political Agenda

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Sott.net
Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:15 UTC
Climate Change
What is the truth about Climate Change?
Some time ago I wrote about Climate Change as being probably the most pressing problem facing humanity today. It is so pressing that I am convinced that possibly 90% of the human race - over 6 billion people - could be at risk of certain death in the very near future - like within twenty years - if this matter is not addressed adequately and appropriately very, very soon by our "glorious leaders" who seem to have little on their mind other than blowing up innocent people.

But then, that war-mongering has a hidden agenda behind it: to grab and hold resources.

But rest assured that the intent is not to grab and hold those resources for you and me; it is to get them for the "elite," that 6% of humanity that is on the top of the heap and intends to stay there regardless of the fact that those genes should never be passed on.

Well, the Climate Change Confusion factor is heating up.

Channel 4 recently broadcast a special on the "Climate Change Swindle," that was intended to "expose the myths about climate change that have been promulgated in order to hoodwink the world into accepting the man-made theory of global warming."

As far as it went, this special wasn't too bad. However, it didn't really tell the whole story which is that, yes, Climate Change is real and a serious threat, but not for the reasons given.

As it happens, one of the experts included in the presentation has now announced that he was badly mis-quoted, or quoted out of context, and he is back-pedaling like mad.

Keep in mind that this is really just a distraction, something to keep the masses busy so that they don't see the real agenda: that it is intended that they should be "left out in the cold" because they didn't act to get rid of corrupt leaders in time to do anything to prepare for what is coming.

To make the point, let's look at this little debacle a bit more closely.
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Bizarro Earth

Oceanographers puzzled by huge mass of cold water off Sydney

CSIRO
Physorg.com
Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:25 UTC
Cold-water eddy 'monsters' mighty current off Sydney

©CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Diagram compiled from satellite data of the cold-water eddy off Sydney.

Oceanographers have identified a huge, dense mass of cold water off Sydney but know very little about what causes it or the influence it has in the Tasman Sea ecosystem.

"What we do know is that this is a very powerful natural feature which tends to push everything else aside - even the mighty East Australian Current," says CSIRO's Dr David Griffin.

Dr Griffin, from the Wealth from Oceans Flagship Research program, said cold-water eddies regularly appear off Sydney.
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Attention

As Predicted: Global Warming Skeptics Linked With Holocaust Denial

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:32 UTC
In an article we published in November about global warming being caused by the sun, we commented somewhat tongue in cheek that people who express doubts about global warming would soon be compared to holocaust deniers by the media and other self-appointed cultural kingpins who demand total adherence to orthodox religion style beliefs about climate change.
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Attention

The creeping fascism of global warming hysteria: A dogma of coercion, bias, and junk science

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:23 UTC
The hoax of the doctrine of man-made global warming that is being foisted upon the world by decree, and the junk science that is manipulated to support it, represents a creeping fascism whose agenda to stifle open debate betrays the fact that climate change hysteria is a farce intended to crush freedoms and further centralize global power.
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Snowman

Powerful Documentary Trounces Man-Made Warming Hoax

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:17 UTC
An astounding documentary that was broadcast in the UK last night completely trounced the man-made explanation for global warming, not with emotionally-laden propaganda or by attacking the messenger as its adherants resort to, but by presenting carefully considered and rational science.

The Great Global Warming Swindle brought together a plethora of scientists, professors, climatologists and weather experts to expose the myths about climate change that have been promulgated in order to hoodwink the world into accepting the man-made theory of global warming.
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Better Earth

Old Earthquake Faults are Like Worn Brake Pads

Ker Than
Live Science
Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:07 UTC
Earthquake faults are worn smooth over time by friction, like the brake pads of an old car, according to a new study.

The finding, detailed in the March issue of the journal Geology, suggests old and new faults might generate different types of earthquakes.

Researchers were able to see the wear patterns by using a fairly new technology called laser imaging detection and ranging (LIDAR) to create detailed topographical maps of the vertical sides of exposed fault lines. Like radar, LIDAR sends out a pulse of energy and then records information from bounced back reflections. LIDAR is more sensitive than radar, and can collect data points as close as every 0.12 inches during scans of enormous rock faces.
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Snowman

Expedition to highlight global warming called off due to extreme cold...

PATRICK CONDON
Associated Press
Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:13 UTC
MINNEAPOLIS - A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment.

"Ann said losing toes and going forward at all costs was never part of the journey," said Ann Atwood, who helped organize the expedition.
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