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Heavy rains trigger floods in Ivory Coast

Philemon Mbale NSONGAN with AFP
AfricaNews
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 17:48 UTC
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Flooding has reached alarming heights in the streets of Yaou, a small town located in the South East of Ivory Coast.

Since Friday heavy rains have killed five people and an extensive damage to properties and businesses.

The country's economic capital is also affected by these floods. Traffic to the east of Abidjan has become difficult as firefighters step up efforts to rescue victims.

Last year, the rainy season, which runs from May to July, resulted in 18 deaths and hundreds of affected families.

Abidjan has 5 million inhabitants, many of whom live in precarious conditions, with uncontrolled construction, often in flood-prone areas.

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28 killed in floods after 8 days of torrential rain in north-eastern Ghana


New Zimbabwe
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 17:26 UTC
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At least 28 people have been killed and several others injured following eight days of torrential rains in north-eastern Ghana. Authorities fear the casualty figures could rise.

Some 1,264 houses were partially damaged while another 286 were completely destroyed, they said.

The country's National Disaster Management Organisation has started supplying relief items to the more than 600 people displaced.

"The latest situational report indicates that 28 people have lost their lives in the Upper East region of the republic of Ghana. The rains are still ongoing. We have about 640 people displaced," the agency's spokesman George Ayisi said on Wednesday.

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Family of 4 killed by landslide due to ongoing heavy rains in Kenya

John Mbati
Kenyans.co.ke
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 17:09 UTC
Mourners at the scene of the tragedy where a landslide claimed 4 lives on Friday, October 16, 2019.

Mourners at the scene of the tragedy where a landslide claimed 4 lives on Friday, October 16, 2019.
Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen is in mourning after his area residents succumbed to a landslide.

Murkomen took to social media to send his condolences to the family of Titus Kiptoo on Friday, October 18.

"My condolences to the family of Titus Kiptoo and his wife Lorna together with their children Jepchirchir and Jelimo," the Senate majority leader expressed.

"They were unfortunately killed when their house was swept by a landslide in Tuturung, Marakwet East as a result of the ongoing heavy rains. What a tragedy! Pole sana (Sincere condolences)," he added.

Reports indicated that the family was buried by the debris and recovery efforts commenced on Friday morning, October 18.

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State of Emergency: Vital oil pipeline shuttered by snow storms in Canada

Irina Slav
OilPrice.com
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:36 UTC
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TC Energy, formerly known as TransCanada, has declared force majeure on the Keystone oil pipeline after a snow storm in Manitoba disrupted operations, Reuters reports, citing a confirmation from the pipeline operator.

"Due to the recent storm in Manitoba over the weekend, we did declare force majeure as the province declared a state of emergency. We are currently operating at reduced flows," a spokesperson for TC Energy told Reuters in a statement.

The Keystone pipeline has a capacity to carry 590,000 bpd of Canadian crude to the United States refineries. While it is unclear exactly how much TC Energy had reduced the flow of oil through the pipeline, but Western Canadian Select was down on the news, extending a losing streak.
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Propaganda

Climocentricism

Tony Heller
YouTube
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:03 UTC
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Climate alarmists believe humans control the climate. This self-infatuation and arrogance is very similar to 500 years ago, when ignorant people believed humans were at the center of the universe.

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Global grains take massive 14% hit where will our food come from


Adapt 2030
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:30 UTC
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Global grain ending stocks are reduced 14% in 2019, Argentina production slashed from 21 to 18.3 million tons, Brazil reducing 3 million tons, Australia now a net wheat importer, USA & Canadian grow zones decimated by two early season blizzards, Ukraine wheat forecast down and somehow we are not warned of imminent price increases in our daily food stuffs. Look at China 50% increase in food inflation through 2019 alone. The rest or the globe is next are you ready?


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'Bomb cyclone' slams US Northeast, knocks out power to half a million customers

Clyde Hughes
UPI
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 11:01 UTC
US Northeast bomb cyclone
© NOAA/GOES-East
More than 500,000 homes and businesses in the Northeast lost power Thursday as a quickly moving "bomb cyclone" knocked down trees and electrical lines throughout the region.

The storm pushed some of the coldest air of the season through the Northeast. Wind gusts of up to 55 mph could be felt along the coast from Maine to as far south as Cape May, N.J., and some parts of Delaware.

Towns like Duxbury, Mass., saw homes damaged as strong gusts blew through the area forcing schools to close.

"This whole town got hit pretty hard," Duxbury Fire Capt. Rob Reardon told ABC News. "You can tell by just the amount of trees, the wires, the damage to houses. Roads are blocked, schools are shut down because school buses can't access these streets at all. We're having a difficult time trying to get to calls from one side of town to the other."


Comment: The 'bomb cyclone' set a record as the strongest October storm ever in the Boston area.



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Cooling or Warming?

Tony Heller
YouTube
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 19:59 UTC
chill
In this video I show how the current symptoms of global warming are identical to the ones which were blamed on global cooling 40 years ago.

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Bizarre: Pigs attack, kills septuagenarian sleeping in shed in Telangana, India

P Pavan
Mumbai Mirror
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 19:39 UTC
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In a heartrending incident, pigs attacked a hapless septuagenarian sleeping in a shed outside his son's house in Telangana village.

The senior citizen died of heavy bleeding after three to four pigs indiscriminately attacked him.

The incident took place in Bijinepally block in Nagar Kurnool district on Tuesday evening.

Local police sub-inspector told Mirror that C Kondaiah (in his late 70s) was living in a shed outside his son's house. On Tuesday, he kept the door open and slept. There was nobody at home.

Some pigs roaming around attacked him. Neighbours saw the pigs with blood on their mouths and suspected that they attacked somebody. They went into Kondaiah's shed and found him lying dead in a pool of blood.
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Study finds extreme Arctic snowfall in 2018 caused near 'complete reproductive failure of plants and animals'

Andrea Germanos
Common Dreams
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:06 UTC
The Zackenberg valley in Northeast Greenland
© Lars Holst Hansen
The Zackenberg valley in Northeast Greenland, summer 2018. Huge amounts of snow still covered the ground in late June, where the snow-covered season usually is coming to an end.

"2018 may offer a peep into the future, where increased climatic variability may push the arctic species to — and potentially beyond — their limits."

A new study published Tuesday looked at the implications of extreme snowfall in the Arctic in 2018 — the kind of increased precipitation event scientists link to climate change — and researchers say the scenario could be a harbinger of how ecosystems in the region will be negatively affected by a rapidly warming planet.

"The result was an almost complete reproductive failure of plants and animals of all sizes," the authors wrote.

The takeaway for arctic ecosystems, the authors found, is that "changes in precipitation may prove as crucial as changes in temperature — if not even more."

For the study, published in the journal PLOS Biology, researchers focused on the monitoring site of Zackenberg in Northeast Greenland. In 2018, the Arctic — including the High Arctic where the Zackenberg facility is — saw unusually large amounts of snow. That meant there was a significant delay in snow melt, which in turn made it difficult for plants to grow and for animals to access resources.

The result? The "most complete reproductive failure encountered in the terrestrial ecosystem during more than two decades of monitoring," said the study.

Comment: Elsewhere in the Arctic a wildflower meadow photographed in Arctic oases surprises scientists.

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