Earth Changes
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.
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: See also:
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- Solar minimum: Biggest decline, maybe ever
- Italian forecasters think solar minimum is causing global cooling
- Grand solar minimum: Data shows this is the lowest cycle since records began
- Solar minimum for 2018 - 2020 could be unprecedented in modern astronomy
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Piers Corbyn - What to expect moving deeper into the Grand Solar Minimum (Part 1)
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."
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.
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.
"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.

Owen Green, left, and Michael Goerne were killed in an avalanche near Crested Butte on Saturday.
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.
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: 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.