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Signs and Portents: Mutant turtle born with two heads in China still alive after 3 months

Scott Feng and Elaine McCahill
Mirror
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 14:03 UTC
A mutant turtle born with two heads has defied the odds to live for three months
© AsiaWire
A mutant turtle born with two heads has defied the odds to live for three months
A mutant turtle born with two heads has defied the odds by surviving for three months.

The red-eared slider was given to a wildlife rescue shelter in Shangrao city in East China's Jiangxi province.

Officials say they will not release it into the wild because it may not survive on its own - and might lead to unwanted effects in the turtle gene pool.

The red-eared slider is native to the southern United States and northern Mexico, and is considered an invasive species in China and other countries in the world due to their popularity as pets.

Wildlife rescue shelter staff member Tu Jun said: "It is a red-eared slider, but its probability of survival is very low because of the mutation."

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Japan hit by unseasonal high temperatures after Typhoon Trami leaves four dead, hundreds injured & travel chaos


The Straits Times
Mon, 01 Oct 2018 14:35 UTC
Typhoon Trami: The storm has blasted across Japan
© THE WEATHER CHANNEL
Typhoon Trami: The storm has blasted across Japan
Tokyo woke up to unseasonal heat and bright cloudless skies on Monday (Oct 1), hours after the ferocious Typhoon Trami caused widespread power outages, cancelled flights and shut down train services as it churned towards the Pacific Ocean.

Commuters in central Tokyo experienced massive transport snarls during the morning rush hour - with many unable to get to work on time - as rail operators delayed the start of train services to clear fallen trees and other debris.

One of the services was the Keio Line, after a train hit a collapsed wall in Setagaya ward at about 4.45am, halting services for over four hours. No one was injured.

Across the country, the season's 24th typhoon left at least four people dead, one missing and more than 200 injured, according to a tally by public broadcaster NHK as at 9pm (8pm in Singapore).

The storm first slammed into the south-western Okinawa chain of islands on Saturday, before moving north-east and making landfall in Wakayama, south of Osaka, on Sunday. It then traversed north-east across the main island of Honshu.

At its peak, the typhoon packed gusts of 216kmh, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Though it gradually lost strength after making landfall, the western Tokyo suburb of Hachioji still recorded winds of up to 164kmh.

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Major 7.5 earthquake & devastating tsunami ravage Indonesia's Sulawesi island, Death toll reaches 832, prisoners escape - UPDATES


RT
Sat, 29 Sep 2018 04:24 UTC
Comment: Update Sunday 30 September 2018

The affected area is apparently bigger than originally reported. There have been around 170 aftershocks. The death toll from the tsunami alone may run into the thousands...


indonesia sulawesi earthquake

indonesia earthquake
© Antara Foto/Reuters
Hundreds are confirmed dead following the earthquake and tsunami.
indonesia earthquake
© Antara Foto/Reuters
A bridge collapsed at the mouth of the bay in Palu.

earthquake in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
© Antara Foto/BNBP / Reuters
A shopping center heavily damaged following an earthquake in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia September 28, 2018
Scores of people have been killed in Indonesia's Sulawesi island, struck by a 7.7-magnitude quake, which triggered a tsunami that swept through two coastal towns. Dozens of houses have been flattened, burying victims under rubble.

Harrowing images have come from Indonesia, showing the scale of destruction that the Sulawesi quake inflicted on the towns of Palu and Donggala, located close to the epicenter of the quake that wrought havoc on the island on Friday afternoon.

The quake severely damaged roads, rending some of them impassable.


Comment: Indonesia earthquake: Powerful shallow 7.5-magnitude quake strikes east of Borneo - one of 6.1 hit 3 hours earlier

UPDATE: RT on 29th Sept. reports:
The disaster claimed the lives of some 384 people and left around 500 injured after the tsunami hit the coastline with 3-meter (10 foot) high waves, the spokesman of Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency said on Saturday.

He added that the number of victims may further rise. The announced death toll only includes the data from Palu, but the casualties in nearby Donggala Regency are currently unknown.

Harrowing images have come from Indonesia, showing the scale of destruction that the Sulawesi quake inflicted on the towns of Palu and Donggala, located close to the epicenter of the quake that wrought havoc on the island on Friday afternoon.

Earlier this year, a series of powerful earthquakes hit Lombok in Indonesia, killing more than 550 people on the tourist island and neighboring Sumbawa. Some 1,500 people were injured and about 400,000 residents were displaced after their homes were destroyed.

UPDATE: Sky News on 30th Sept. reports:
The death toll from Indonesia's earthquake and tsunami disaster has risen to 832, officials have confirmed.

The national disaster mitigation agency warned the figure could climb higher as the affected area on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is bigger than initially thought.

Many people were reported trapped in the rubble of buildings brought down in the 7.5 magnitude earthquake which struck on Friday and triggered tsunami waves as high as six metres (20 feet).

Almost all the deaths have been recorded in Palu, two days after the waves slammed into the city of 350,000.

Eleven deaths had been recorded in the nearby region of Donggala to the the north of Palu, agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.

An aerial view of part of the city destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami in Palu

An aerial view of part of the city destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami in Palu

"The death is believed to be still increasing since many bodies were still under the wreckage while many have not able to be reached," he said.

He added that the access to Donggala, as well as the towns of Sigi and Boutong, is limited and there are no comprehensive reports from those areas.

The new toll comes after Indonesian vice-president Jusuf Kalla said the final number of dead could be in the "thousands".

Risa Kusuma, a 35-year-old mother comforting her feverish baby boy at an evacuation centre in Palu, said: "Every minute an ambulance brings in bodies.

"Clean water is scarce. The minimarkets are looted everywhere."

Hundreds of stricken people have been looting supermarkets and petrol stations amid an acute shortage of water, food and fuel.

Residents were seen scrambling over broken glass and through broken-down barricades at a supermarket in the centre and making off with plastic bin bags full of goods including nappies, crisps and gas canisters.

Residents outside a badly damaged shopping mall following Friday's tsunami in Palu
© Antara Foto/Rolex Malaha via REUTERS
Residents outside a badly damaged shopping mall following Friday's tsunami in Palu
One man shouted: "There has been no aid, we need to eat. We don't have any other choice, we must get food."

Rescuers have been trying to reach trapped victims in collapsed buildings after the tsunami hit the two central Indonesian cities - sweeping away buildings with massive waves.

People could be heard calling out from the eight-story Roa-Roa Hotel which toppled in the disaster.

"I can still hear the voices of the survivors screaming for help while inspecting the compound," said Muhammad Syaugi, the head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency.

The previous official death toll from the earthquake and tsunami was reported at 405, with all fatalities coming from Palu.
Drone footage shows the damage after the earthquake and tsunami:


As the death toll soars frantic search and rescue operations continue:



Oct. 1: RT reports over a thousand prisoners are missing from detention facilities:
More than 1,000 prisoners escaped from devastated detention facilities after an earthquake and tsunami struck Indonesia. The death toll of the disaster is expected to reach 2,000 as rescue operations continue. A powerful quake hit the region of Sulawesi on Friday, triggering a huge tsunami and wreaking havoc across communities. Indonesia's Directorate General of Corrections said that inmates escaped from three over-capacity detention facilities.

According to reports, between 1,200 to 1,400 prisoners are now missing from jails. Ministry of Justice official Sri Puguh Utami said the prisoners had run for their lives "because they feared they would be affected by the earthquake."


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Teen attacked by shark while diving near San Diego, California


sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
Sat, 29 Sep 2018 13:20 UTC
Shark attacks
A 13-year-old boy diving for lobsters was attacked by a shark on the Southern California coast early Saturday but was quickly pulled from the water by others and flown to a trauma center, authorities said.

The boy suffered traumatic upper torso injuries but the attack was "nonfatal," city Lifeguard Capt. Larry Giles told reporters at Beacon's Beach in Encinitas, about 27 miles north of downtown San Diego.

The attack occurred just before 7 a.m., during the opening hour of California's popular spiny lobster season.

The boy was attacked in about 9 feet of water approximately 150 yards offshore. He was brought to shore by three bystanders, Giles said.

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3rd Minke whale this season found dead in Cape Cod waters


San Francisco Chronicle
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 13:03 UTC
Third minke whale this season found

Third minke whale this season found
A minke whale has died in Cape Cod waters, the third such whale found in area waters this season.

The 18-foot whale that was hauled ashore Saturday in Barnstable was first spotted alive Friday morning in Wellfleet Harbor.

Brian Sharp is a marine mammal research and rescue manager for the International Fund for Animal Welfare. He tells the Cape Cod Times rescuers escorted the whale out to sea. It was found dead Saturday east of Barnstable Harbor.

A necropsy will be performed on the 3,500-pound whale.

Minke whale deaths are under scrutiny by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has declared an unusual mortality event along the East Coast. Since the event was declared in early 2017, 42 minke strandings have occurred from Maine to South Carolina.

Source: AP

Comment: See also: 14 minke whale deaths in Canadian Maritime Provinces this year surpasses annual average

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Rare green flash of Venus photographed on horizon in Rome


Space Weather
Sat, 29 Sep 2018 12:00 UTC
green flash venus 2018
© Paolo Palma
Green Flash Of Venus
Taken by Paolo on September 29, 2018 @ Roma
Green flashes on the sun are so rare, they were once thought to be mythological. Saturday evening in Rome, Paolo Palma witnessed a green flash with real ties to mythology: A green flash on Venus. "The planet was low on the horizon and its light looked like a long fiery bubble, with flames of red, orange, yellow and green," says Palma. "When Venus went below the horizon, the last ray was clearly green in color."

"I took this picture using my smartphone at the eyepiece of a 12-inch telescope at 76x magnification," he says.

Green flashes on the sun are formed when the prismatic action of the atmosphere splits the setting sun into basic R-G-B colors. Temperature inversions (usually above a sea surface) create a mirage, magnifying the green into an eye-catching flash. The same physics created this green flash on Venus. "The sea is only 8 km away from me!" notes Palma.

Comment: It would appear that the increase in sightings of rare atmospheric phenomena point to our rapidly changing atmosphere: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?

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Ice Cube

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Earth's thermosphere record cold & auroras with no CME


Adapt 2030
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 07:04 UTC
The TIMED satellite monitoring the temperature of the upper atmosphere

The TIMED satellite monitoring the temperature of the upper atmosphere
NASA coming out stating that Earth's Thermosphere is entering record territory and even mentions "Solar Minimum Cold" that's a huge change from warming, warming, warming. I feel the are covering themselves as it cools and people begin to ask questions. For example like how there was no geomagnetic storm and Earth had immense auroras over Alaska, how is that possible unless the magnetosphere is in decline.


Comment: See also:

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Second dead minke whale found in Bay of Fundy, Canada in less than a month

Jordan Gill
CBC News
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 19:19 UTC
Crews from the Marine Animal Response Society,
© New Brunswick Museum
Crews from the Marine Animal Response Society, Atlantic Veterinary College, Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative, Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station and the New Brunswick Museum are performing a necropsy on a dead minke whale that washed up onshore on Grand Manan.
Discovery of dead minke whale on Grand Manan follows death of minke whale off the coast of Campobello

A necropsy is being performed Sunday on a minke whale that washed up on the shores of Grand Manan Island, N.B., making it the second minke whale found dead in the Fundy Isles in less than one month.

The first whale died after it got wrapped up in a herring weir off of Campobello Island.

Tonya Wimmer, the executive director of the Marine Animal Response Society, said they first heard about the whale on Thursday.

She said there hasn't been any obvious signs of trauma.

"There's nothing obvious from the initial external examination, but we do need to do sort of complete look at the animal from the outside in," said Wimmer.
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Number of people being mauled by dogs reaches all-time high in the UK

Nicola Small
Mirror
Sun, 30 Sep 2018 18:43 UTC
canine attack
© Angela Antunes / CC by 2.0
There were 8,014 dog attack victims in England in just 12 months - including 1,500 kids, 527 toddlers and 42 babies

Dog attacks have hit an all-time high despite tougher sentences for owners.

Nearly 22 people a day needed hospital treatment in the 12 months to April this year.

And of the 8,014 victims in England, 1,500 were kids, 527 toddlers and 42 babies.

The overall figure was 600 up on the previous year and 27 per cent higher than in 2012/13.

The rise uncovered by the Sunday People comes despite a legal clampdown.

In 2016 the minimum sentence for a death caused by a dangerous dog was increased to six years.
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Ice Cube

Rethinking the mystery of stratospheric cooling

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That
Sat, 29 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
This paper claims that stratospheric cooling is the work of "greenhouse gases". Saying: "An extended satellite temperature record and the chemistry‐climate models show weaker global stratospheric cooling over 1998-2016 compared to 1979-1997."
Stratospheric Cooling

Figure 1 from the paper. Time series of global monthly mean temperature anomalies (K) for the period 1979–2016 for the data sets andaltitude ranges stated in thefigure. Anomalies are shown relative to a baseline of 1979–1981. The number of individualensemble members plotted for each model is shown in the legend. The multimodel mean is shown in thick purple.Note that only the CESM1(WACCM), GEOSCCM, ULAQ-CCM, and UMUKCA-UCAM models include the radiative effectsof volcanic aerosols over the hindcast period in the refC2 experiment. Note the UK Met Office SSU data set is shown as6-month averages. (a) SSU channel 3 (~40–50 km). (b) SSU channel 2 (~35–45 km). (c) SSU channel 1 (~25–35 km). (d) MSUchannel 4 (~13–22 km). SSU = Stratospheric Sounding Unit.

Comment: See also: Temperatures have dropped to -91°C (-131,8°F) in the stratosphere!

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