Earth Changes

Natural disasters on the rise says scientist, unprecedented cold, wildfires and hurricanes signify 'profound changes'

Sean Martin
Express
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:55 UTC

A SPIKE in devastating natural disasters is on the way as the planet has exceeded a "tipping point" for climate change, a leading scientist has claimed.

The east coast of the US continues to be ravaged by a freezing cold snap while the other side of the country has been hit by wildfires.

These are a signs of the times according to one professor, who says that the situation will only worsen in the next few years.

Nearly 5,000 lightning strikes in 3 hours leaves thousands without power in Sydney, Australia

The Big Wobble
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 10:57 UTC

Nearly 5,000 lightning strikes in 3 hours left thousands without power in Sydney

After temperatures approaching 50 deg C, 122 deg F melted roads and killed thousands of flying fox bats the weather in Sydney has gone from one extreme to the other.

A heavy thunderstorm hit Sydney with more than 4600 lightning strikes between 3am and 6am this morning, leaving thousands without power after days of extreme heat.

The western and northwestern suburbs bore the brunt of the storm, with Blacktown particularly hard hit with tiles off roofs and trees brought down.

Heavy snowfall wreaks havoc in China: 1.5 million people affected, 21 killed and 700 homes destroyed

Firstpost
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 21:13 UTC

Heavy snowfall in China continued to wreak havoc on Monday, damaging houses, agriculture and power facilities, with authorities saying 21 people have been killed and millions hit in the last one week.

The provinces that have been badly hit by the weather are Anhui, Henan, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Shanxi and Chongqing Municipality, the China National Commission for Disaster Reduction said.

More than 3,700 people have been relocated and 14,000 are in need of emergency assistance, said the commission, noting that over 700 houses had collapsed and nearly 2,800 were damaged, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

The weather has affected more than 2,33,100 hectares of farmland, with more than 8,100 hectares destroyed, causing direct economic losses of 5.55 billion yuan ($854 million), it said.

Nineteen expressways in northeast Liaoning province have been closed or controlled since the snow started last night, according to local transport authorities.

In North America, it's so cold that windows break

Sputnik
Sat, 06 Jan 2018 22:32 UTC

The unprecedented cold snap that struck North America has created surprises for the people. Even those who are accustomed to the cold recognize that the windows hadn't broken yet because of the weather...

North Americans share photos of their broken windows on the Net... because of the cold!

North America is facing an extreme cold snap.

People prepared for the worst after weather forecasters warned them about the region's sharp drop in air pressure and record low temperatures.

Settled science: Snowfalls will soon become a thing of the past (say climate scientists)

Charles Onians
The Independent
Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:55 UTC

Comment: They got this so wrong, they were not even wrong.

© Ben Cawthra/LNP
This car in Buckinghamshire, England, had to be rescued from snow on December 10, 2017. Climate scientists said this was not supposed to happen.

Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.

Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain's culture, as warmer winters - which scientists are attributing to global climate change - produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries.

The first two months of 2000 were virtually free of significant snowfall in much of lowland Britain, and December brought only moderate snowfall in the South-east. It is the continuation of a trend that has been increasingly visible in the past 15 years: in the south of England, for instance, from 1970 to 1995 snow and sleet fell for an average of 3.7 days, while from 1988 to 1995 the average was 0.7 days. London's last substantial snowfall was in February 1991.

Comment: Just ridiculous. But that's what typically passes for 'science' these days; reading tea-leaves (and guessing wrong).

Russian scientist: 'The new Little Ice Age has started'

Marc Morano
Climate Depot
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 13:01 UTC

Featured in new skeptical global warming book: New Book: Evidence-Based Climate Science: 'Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming'

Chapter 17:

Astrophysicist Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov, Head of Space Research Laboratory at the Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia in new book:

Since 1990, the Sun has been in the declining phase of the quasi-bicentennial variation in total solar irradiance (TSI). The decrease in the portion of TSI absorbed by the Earth since 1990 has remained uncompensated by the Earth's long-wave radiation into space at the previous high level because of the thermal inertia of the world's oceans. As a result, the Earth has, and will continue to have, a negative average annual energy balance and a long-term adverse thermal condition.

The quasi-centennial epoch of the new Little Ice Age has started at the end 2015 after the maximum phase of solar cycle 24. The start of a solar grand minimum is anticipated in solar cycle 27 ± 1 in 2043 ± 11 and the beginning of phase of deep cooling in the new Little Ice Age in 2060 ± 11.

The gradual weakening of the Gulf Stream leads to stronger cooling in the zone of its action in western Europe and the eastern parts of the United States and Canada. Quasi-bicentennial cyclic variations of TSI together with successive very important influences of the causal feedback effects are the main fundamental causes of corresponding alternations in climate variation from warming to the Little Ice Age.

Comment: See also:

NY passenger says "this was the worst moment of my life", Norwegian cruise ship sailed through thick of monster winter storm

CBS
Fri, 05 Jan 2018 11:10 UTC

Thursday's winter storm was tough to take around the Tri-State Area, but imagine being in the thick of it on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

For 21 members of the Ross family, of Stony Brook, it was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime - cruising to the Bahamas for their patriarch's 80th birthday. Instead, they returned Friday after what they called a nightmare onboard the Norwegian Breakaway.

"I thought I'd never be in a situation where I would say that's the scariest moment of my life. This was the worst moment of my life," said Karoline Ross, speaking exclusively with CBS2's Carolyn Gusoff.

She and Del Ross spoke with CBS2 while they were en route to New York, after they said their 4,000 passenger cruise ship sailed right into the storm Tuesday night for two harrowing days in ocean swells up to 30 feet. The seasoned boaters called it traumatic.

Comment: See also: 'Bomb cyclone' leaves frozen wake of destruction and kills 22 in eastern US

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Snowing again in Sahara Desert - Tornado in SW France - Magnetosphere weakening (VIDEO)

Adapt 2030
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:54 UTC

The media is scrambling to explain the all time record cold that descended on the US and Canada over the holiday break through the beginning of the New Year. I heard repeatedly that N. America was the only cold place on the planet, well that's not entirely true, Asia shivered through record cold with crop losses as far south as Myanmar. The explanations never include grand solar minimum forces, weakening magnetosphere or 400 year repeating cycles. Now there are tornadoes in France in January, snow storms over the Sahara Desert again. CO2 in not to blame, its the Sun.

Flooding in Singapore due to unusually heavy rainfall

Lydia Lam
The Straits Times.
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 19:06 UTC

A flash flood in Upper Changi Road on Jan 8.

Heavy rain fell across Singapore early on Monday morning (Jan 8), causing flash floods in at least nine areas in the eastern part of the island which stranded cars and stopped traffic.

National water agency PUB attributed the floods to intense rainfall from the prevailing north-east monsoon.

The rain was exacerbated by a Sumatra squall - lines of thunderstorms characterised by a sudden onset of strong gusty surface winds and heavy rain lasting one to two hours - that developed over the Strait of Malacca and moved eastwards, affecting Singapore.

Heavy rain, floods and landslides leave at least 37 dead in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 15:42 UTC

Flooding in Kinshasa

Heavy rain from 03 January has caused flooding and landslides in and around the city of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

At least 37 people are thought to have died, and it is feared that this figure could rise as further assessments are carried out.

Local media said that the fatalities occurred in several areas around the city, including in Ngaliema, Selembao, Bandalungwa, Limete and Barumbu.

The provincial minister for health and social affairs, Dominique Weloli, told AFP that the district of Ngaliema, a poor hillside community, was particularly hit. Other affected areas include Kingabwa, Mombele and Ndjili.

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Earth Changes

Natural disasters on the rise says scientist, unprecedented cold, wildfires and hurricanes signify 'profound changes'

Nearly 5,000 lightning strikes in 3 hours leaves thousands without power in Sydney, Australia

Heavy snowfall wreaks havoc in China: 1.5 million people affected, 21 killed and 700 homes destroyed

In North America, it's so cold that windows break

Settled science: Snowfalls will soon become a thing of the past (say climate scientists)

Russian scientist: 'The new Little Ice Age has started'

NY passenger says "this was the worst moment of my life", Norwegian cruise ship sailed through thick of monster winter storm

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Snowing again in Sahara Desert - Tornado in SW France - Magnetosphere weakening (VIDEO)

Flooding in Singapore due to unusually heavy rainfall

Heavy rain, floods and landslides leave at least 37 dead in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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