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Two buried alive in landslide caused by heavy rainfall in Madang, Papua New Guinea

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Two people were buried alive in a landslide as heavy rain caused havoc in Madang last week.

Raicoast MP Peter Sapia travelled to Ranara in the Naho Rawa local level government to assess the damage with the disaster office team from Madang.

Madang disaster office director Rudolf Mongallee said heavy rain in the area caused the landslide which buried the two people alive.

It could not be confirmed whether their bodies had been recovered.

He said people living along the Finisterer mountain range has been subjected to landslides.

He warned the villagers to be careful as water coming down the mountains were causing more soil erosion.

Propaganda

Study saying massive insect loss due to global warming based on compromised data

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If you believe the Guardian and the BBC, the world is on the brink of Insectapocalypse: A mass extinction of creepy crawlies that threatens the "collapse of nature."

But if I were you, I'd take these claims with a big pinch of salt, especially if they include the words "climate change." That is because the most dramatic, oft-quoted study that links insect loss with climate change turns out to be flawed to the point of uselessness. It is so bad that the Global Warming Policy Foundation has sent a formal complaint to its publishers calling for its withdrawal.

The study by Brad Lister and Andres Garcia was published last year by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). Titled Climate-driven declines in arthropod abundance restructure a rainforest food web, it appeared to tell a very worrying story about a precipitous decline in the number of insects in Puerto Rico's Luquillo rainforest.

Comment: Obviously something is happening with the insect collapse. Global warming is apparently the only lens through which environmental phenomena can be understood. That's a big problem. It is also a clue that the theory has a stronger basis in ideology than in reality, which is also demonstrated in the overzealous and desperate attempts toward validation. It doesn't matter to its adherents that there really is no validation nor that such studies are flawed. Presenting facts that show glaring errors in the theory actually only deepens ideological convictions. We see the same dynamic play out across all realms. It's only when people become more interested in truth than their chosen beliefs that the hold of ideological possession can be broken.


Snowflake Cold

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Grand Solar Minimum is the real national emergency

Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows set a record for snowfall in February with 205 inches for the month.

Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows set a record for snowfall in February with 205 inches for the month.
New legislation the books to declare climate change a national emergency, all the while ignoring the Grand Solar Minimum. Snow was going to be a thing of the past, record snow at Squaw Valley for 2nd year in a row, Mammoth buried, northern hemisphere snow totals up and a look at Ghost Apples, the future of our global agricultural output.


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Attention

3 humpback whales wash ashore in 5 days on the Outer Banks, North Carolina

The whale beached Sunday.
© Corolla Beach Rescue
The whale beached Sunday.
Five days after a humpback whale washed ashore at North Carolina's Oregon Inlet, two more appeared over the weekend on the barrier islands that line the Virginia-North Carolina coast, according to a Facebook post by the Lago Mar on the Back Bay community in Virginia.

One humpback whale was found around midnight Saturday in Corolla, N.C., and the second came ashore Sunday near Sandbridge in Virginia's Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, said the post.

"These are the second and third juvenile Humpbacks found dead on the Currituck Banks Peninsula in less than a week," said the post. "Another was found on February 12 north of Oregon Inlet near Nags Head."


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Rare snow blankets Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS SNOW
Residents of Las Vegas, Nevada work up on Monday morning to something they don't normally bet on.

A blanket of snow covering their desert city.

A rare snowfall came to the city streets, covering lawns and roads and making for traffic nightmares.

The Nevada Highway Patrol reported that Interstate 15 was closed Monday morning from the south end of the valley to the California border due to a number of crashes.

This is the first accumulation of measurable snow in the valley in a decade.


Cloud Precipitation

Floods leave 2 dead after record rainfall in Zimbabwe - 8 inches in 24 hours

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Local media in Zimbawe are reporting that at least 2 people have died in flooding in Chiredzi District in Masvingo Province.

Meteorological Services Department of Zimbabwe (MSD) reported record rainfall of 203 mm in 24 hours, 13 to 14 February, breaking the previous high of 98 mm set in 1977. MSD had issued heavy rainfall warnings for Masvingo, Manicaland, Midlands Provinces and surrounding areas on 12 February.

Around 50 homes have been damaged or destroyed in the floods in Chiredzi, affecting approximately 300 people. The government has started mobilising support for the flood victims according to media reports.


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Jammu-Srinagar highway in India closed after fresh landslides triggered by rain

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After remaining partially open for three days, the strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway was closed on Friday due to fresh landslides in Ramban-Ramsoo sector.

"Rain has triggered fresh landslides on the highway in Panthal. The operation to remove the debris has started and the highway is likely to be restored for one-way traffic in the afternoon," an traffic department official said.

"There are around 1,700 trucks carrying essential supplies stranded on the highway. Once the highway is restored, only stranded traffic will be allowed to move from Jammu to Srinagar," he said.


Snowflake Cold

Colorado avalanche kills 2 backcountry skiers in area called 'Death Pass'

Owen Green, left, and Michael Goerne
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Owen Green, left, and Michael Goerne were killed in an avalanche near Crested Butte on Saturday.
Two backcountry skiers were killed over the weekend in an avalanche in an area of Colorado known as "Death Pass," officials said.

Crested Butte Search and Rescue said in a Facebook post the two backcountry skiers were reported missing on Saturday night near the town of Crested Butte, and tracks were discovered leading into a fresh avalanche field near the area known as "Death Pass."

"No tracks exiting the slide were found and faint beacon signals were located in the slide area," the group said.

A search and rescue group determined shortly after midnight that conditions were too dangerous, and the search was called off for the night, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. On Sunday, a team of six Crested Butte Search and Rescue members found the men's bodies.

Sun

'Three suns' phenomena seen over China

An optical phenomenon known as a solar halo, or a sun dog, has been caught on camera in China.
Sun dog over China
© CCTV
Video footage courtesy of CCTV can be viewed here.

Snowflake

Let it snow! Sierra ski resorts get up to 9 feet of snow from recent storms

Sierra ski resorts get up to 9 feet of snow

Sierra ski resorts get up to 9 feet of snow
An astonishing amount of snow has fallen in the Sierra courtesy of the latest storms that have wreaked havoc from the Bay Area all the way up to Lake Tahoe.

The totals may be measured in inches, but the ski resorts have received several feet, much to the delight of skiers and snowboarders seeking fresh powder.

ABC7 news meteorologist Drew Tuma looked at the numbers on Sunday night and they are incredible.

These are 7-day totals. Squaw Valley leads the way with a whopping 109 inches of snow! That's about 15-and-a-half inches of new snow every day. Homewood Mountain Resort is right on Squaw's heels with 108 inches. Northstar comes in with 95 inches. Heavenly follows with 91 inches. Then comes Kirkwood Mountain Resort at 88 inches. Sierra-at-Tahoe received 79 inches.


Comment: NASA releases image of massive February snowpack in the Sierra Nevada compared to that of same month in 2018