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Two people injured in Colorado elk attack captured on video

Dennis Romero
NBC News
Sat, 28 Sep 2019 06:43 UTC
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Two people were injured when a male elk attacked a woman in Estes Park, Colorado, a state parks official said.

Video showed a woman thrown to the ground and poked with the bull elk's antlers, said Jason Clay, a spokesman for Colorado Parks and Wildlife. The Thursday morning attack took place near the town's visitors center.

"She miraculously came out unharmed," Clay said. "She had some scrapes. She was not transported and did not require medical attention."

A man who is seen on video jumping out of the way slipped and hit his head on a rock but did not make contact with the wild animal, Clay said. The unidentified man was hospitalized in unknown condition.

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Section of Mont Blanc's Planpincieux glacier on verge of collapse - Italy declares emergency


Sputnik
Fri, 27 Sep 2019 21:27 UTC
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© The Sun
The glacier on the mountain range's south side is sliding up to 60cm a day, threatening to dump 245,000 tonnes of ice on the surrounding area.
Tourists are not allowed near the Grandes Jorasses mountain citing the impending collapse of 250,000 cubic meters of ice. The issue was brought up by Italy's Prime Minister at UN General Assembly debate.

Italy's authorities ordered the closure of roads and the evacuation of huts on its side of Mont Blanc, saying the Planpincieux glacier at Grandes Jorasses mountain is about to collapse, CNN reported Wednesday.

According to the report, a slab of some 250,000 cubic meters of ice is about to break off the rest of the glacier, as the ice moves at a speed of 50 to 60 centimeters each day.
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The climate cynicism crisis

Tony Heller
YouTube
Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:45 UTC
cartoon
There is no climate crisis. What we do have is a crisis of people making claims about climate which aren't true - and they don't even believe.

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Two stranded pygmy killer whales euthanized in Hawaii, second stranding incident in recent weeks


Maui Now
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:19 UTC
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Two pygmy killer whales were found stranded at Sugar Beach in South Maui today. The incident comes on the heels of a mass stranding last month on Aug. 29, in which 10 adult pygmy killer whales (initially believed to be melon headed whales) beached themselves along with a baby whale calf of the same species in the same area.

"We'll do the same process that we did with the whales from three weeks ago. Which is analyze tissues, look at the gross results, meaning the immediate results and will try to as quickly as we can report that back to the public," said David Schofield, Regional Marine Mammal Health and Response Program Coordinator.

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Mass stranding of 134 melon-headed whales on Cape Verde's Boa Vista island


VOA News
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:38 UTC
134 dead whales emerge in a mass stranding in Cape Verde

134 dead whales emerge in a mass stranding in Cape Verde
A group of melon-headed whales died in a mass stranding on Cape Verde's Boa Vista island, Thursday, September 26.

The rescue teams counted 134 dead whales on Wednesday and autopsies are being carried out to try to determine the cause of death, according to local reporter Elsa Vieira.

Many factors could contribute to such whale and dolphin strandings, including sickness, navigational error, geographical features, a rapidly falling tide, being chased by a predator or extreme weather.


Source: Reuters
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15 pilot whales dead in Georgia's 2nd stranding since July


Yahoo News
Fri, 27 Sep 2019 09:11 UTC
Agencies respond to pilot whale stranding at St. Catherines

Agencies respond to pilot whale stranding at St. Catherines
Roughly two dozen pilot whales beached themselves on and near a Georgia barrier island, leaving 15 dead in the whale species' second mass stranding along the state's coast since July, wildlife officials said Thursday.

Scientists are performing necropsies on the dead whales found on privately owned St. Catherines Island roughly 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Savannah for any clues to why the animals may have come ashore, said Clay George, a wildlife biologist with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

"It's too early to say anything about the findings," George said in a phone interview.

He said the beached whales on St. Catherines Island were discovered Wednesday morning by a group of volunteers checking sea turtle nests for hatchlings. Others were found on beaches and marshes nearby.

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Feds scrapped 100 years of data on climate change

Lorrie Goldstein
Toronto Sun
Thu, 19 Sep 2019 07:46 UTC
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© Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, is seen during a press conference in Ottawa on Tuesday, June 25, 2019.
Canadians already suspicious of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's carbon tax are likely be even more suspicious given a report by Ottawa-based Blacklock's Reporter that Environment Canada omitted a century's worth of observed weather data in developing its computer models on the impacts of climate change.

The scrapping of all observed weather data from 1850 to 1949 was necessary, a spokesman for Environment Canada told Blacklock's Reporter, after researchers concluded that historically, there weren't enough weather stations to create a reliable data set for that 100-year period.


Comment: The scrapping was "necessary" as it suited their man-made global warming narrative!


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Early snowfall in Alaska

Anna Rose MaCarthur
kyuk.org
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 06:39 UTC
Hatcher Pass was hit by its first significant snow storm! The road over the summit has been closed for the season
© Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities
Hatcher Pass was hit by its first significant snow storm! The road over the summit has been closed for the season
Snow has come to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. In Emmonak, resident Lilly Westlock estimates that over an inch fell on Tuesday evening.

"First time I've seen snow falling in September," she said. "The snowflakes were kind of bigger than usual, and it stayed for the evening, and then it started raining and melted."

Westlake says that the snow began around 5 p.m. when she was leaving work. On the way to a friend's house she passed a little girl playing in the snow.

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Hurricane Lorenzo becomes a rare eastern Atlantic Ocean category 4

Jonathan Erdman
The Weather Channel
Fri, 27 Sep 2019 18:38 UTC
An infrared satellite image of Hurricane Lorenzo on September 26, 2019
© NOAA/NASA
An infrared satellite image of Hurricane Lorenzo on September 26, 2019.
Lorenzo rapidly intensified into a Category 4 hurricane Thursday farther east in the Atlantic Ocean than all but one hurricane on record.

The storm is currently not threatening land, but it may do so when it approaches the Azores next week as a weaker, but still formidable hurricane.

Lorenzo strengthened from a tropical storm on Tuesday into a hurricane on Wednesday, before reaching Category 4 hurricane strength by late Thursday morning.

September 2010's Hurricane Julia is the only other hurricane on record to intensify to Category 4 status farther east in the Atlantic Ocean than Lorenzo, according to Dr. Phil Klotzbach, a tropical scientist at Colorado State University.

If considering only those Category 4 hurricanes from Sept. 26 through the end of the season since the 1960s, Lorenzo is even more of an anomaly, noted Richard Dixon, a meteorologist at CatInsight and visiting research fellow at the University of Reading.

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At least 20 die after shallow 6.8-magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia's Maluku islands (UPDATE)

Kharishar Kahfi
Jakarta Post
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 07:12 UTC
Indonesia earthquake
© NATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY (BNPB)
The quake struck about 37km offshore northeast of Ambon in Maluku province at 8.46 am local time, at a depth of 29km, said the US Geological Survey.
At least three people have died after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolted Ambon in Maluku on Thursday morning, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB).

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) first reported that the quake was felt at 6:46 a.m. Jakarta time with an epicenter located about 40 kilometers northeast of Ambon at a depth of 10 km. No tsunami alert was issued.

The agency also reported that the quake was followed by a 5.6-magnitude aftershock at 7:39 a.m. Jakarta time, with an epicenter located about 18 km northeast of the provincial capital of Ambon at a depth of 10 km.

The BNPB confirmed that three people had died as a result of the earthquake. The victims have been identified as Narti Rumain, Mateis Frans and Lai Nai -- all of whom were crushed by collapsed buildings.

BNPB spokesperson Agus Wibowo added that three people had suffered injuries following the earthquake, two of whom were identified as Djamila Lasaiba and Gamar Assegaf.


Comment: Update: CBS News reports on 26th September:
A strong earthquake Thursday killed at least 20 people and damaged a bridge, a hospital and other buildings on one of Indonesia's less populated islands. Parts of a building at an Islamic university collapsed in Ambon, the capital of Maluku province. Local disaster official Albert Simaela said a teacher was killed there when parts of the building fell on her.

Simaela said a main hospital in Ambon was damaged and patients were evacuated to tents in the hospital's yard.

National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Agus Wibowo said at least 19 others were killed and more than 2,000 people took refuge in various shelters.

A damaged traditional market building is pictured following an earthquake in Ambon, Maluku province, on Thursday, September 26, 2019.
© REUTERS
A damaged traditional market building is pictured following an earthquake in Ambon, Maluku province, on Thursday, September 26, 2019.
The magnitude 6.5 quake was centered 20.5 miles northeast of Ambon at a depth of 11 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey said.



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