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Dead trees in California: 27 million more killed in past year

Guy McCarthy
The Union Democrat
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 14:01 UTC
trees
Scientists and pilots in aircraft equipped with cameras and sensors have updated the number of dead trees they believe are standing today in California forests.

There are now about 129 million dead trees on 8.9 million acres in the Golden State, up from estimates of more than 102 million dead trees statewide a year ago, federal Forest Service people based in Vallejo said Monday.

Aerial surveys this year show an additional 27 million trees, mostly conifers, have died in California since November 2016.

Tuolumne and Calaveras counties remain listed among the 10 counties most impacted by tree mortality statewide, Ginessa Stark with the Forest Service said Monday. The other eight counties listed north to south are Placer, El Dorado, Amador, Mariposa, Madera, Fresno, Tulare and Kern. These are the same 10 counties identified as most impacted a year ago.

Comment: See also: An American tragedy: Why are millions of trees dying in the country?

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Attention

Cleveland volcano explosion recorded with ash to 20,000 ft altitude in Aleutian Islands, Alaska


Volcano Discovery
Wed, 13 Dec 2017 13:45 UTC
Cleveland Volcano on July 25, 2016
© Cindy Werner
Cleveland Volcano on July 25, 2016
The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) raised the aviation alert level of the volcano back to orange after an explosion was detected from the volcano this morning 04:20 AKST local time (13:20 UTC).

Today's eruption was detected in seismic and infrasound data, and an ash plume was observed in satellite data to an altitude of up to 20,000 ft asl and moving to the east.

Earlier today, AVO had briefly lowered the alert level to yellow, as only weak signs of activity had been detected during recent weeks and it was assumed that effusive activity in the summit crater had ceased. This might have been the case, actually, while at the same time a new phase of activity could have started today.
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SOTT Earth Changes Summary - November 2017: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs


Sott.net
Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:47 UTC
From fireballs to floods to unseasonable snow in both hemispheres of our planet, this past November saw many meteorological records broken.
comet
After an unusually strong X-class solar flare and unusual solar activity back in September - possibly related to a series of powerful earthquakes above 7.0M in New Caledonia and Mexico - last month was marked by three powerful earthquakes that caused widespread damage - in Iraq/Iran, Chile and South Korea. Meanwhile, volcanic activity seems to have reached a seasonal peak (yes, soon we'll have to start talking about 'volcano season').

These increased geological phenomena, and the official predictions of an increase in earthquake activity in 2018 due to the slow-down of Earth's rotation, have left affected people with a feeling of dread.

Droughts also worsened in Portugal and Spain last month, while sheets of rain fell in South America, Australia, and in most parts of Asia. All this at a time when meteorologists are finding themselves having to use the term 'atmospheric phenomena' because 'rainfall' just doesn't cut it anymore.

Trumpet sounds and portents in the sky were seen as harbingers of changing times in the past, from the social and political arena, to significant cosmic events. So fasten your seat belts folks, because it seems that things are going to get rough.

Check it out below, and watch it in full screen!

Comment:
Check out the other releases of 2017:


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Attention

13th century USA drought, bizarre bird deaths in Sweden & massive winds hit Slovenia


Adapt 2030
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:12 UTC
dead birds sweden
© Mikael Lind
Native American populations were tracked as suddenly collapsing twice over a 500 year period. They used corn and pottery production to measure populations. Interestingly these correlate to collapses of Chinese dynasties during Grand Solar Minimums. Ice bridge forms from Greenland to Iceland, massive winds in Slovenia, 50+ above normal temperatures and birds freeze and fall from the sky in Sweden.


Comment: See also: Bizarre sight as hundreds of birds found dead on a road in northern Sweden

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Bizarro Earth

Cartoon science - Global warming will weaken winds in the Northern Hemisphere, but speed them up downunder!

Joanne Nova
JoNova
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 02:52 UTC
Now they tell us! Climate warming to weaken wind power in northern hemisphere, increase in Australia: study

After building 341,000 wind turbines, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, now climate modelers reveal that winds will decrease in the Northern Hemisphere!
Warming temperatures caused by climate change are set to weaken wind energy in the northern hemisphere, a study shows, lessening the amount of wind power produced for wind farms.

However the southern hemisphere would see a boost in wind, which could potentially turn north-eastern Australia into an attractive investment for energy companies.
Rush, invest your money now. The theory called polar amplification has the success rate of a coin toss. Buy a wind farm in NE Australia!

Luckily wind speeds are not also influenced by cloud cover, jet streams, oceans currents, forest growth, atmospheric tides, solar factors, magnetic fields, ozone levels, cosmic rays, or butterflies. Otherwise this study might be inadequate, uninformed guesswork being used to inform investment decisions!
Cartoon Science
© JoNova
Key points:
  • Atmosphere instability which creates wind changing in northern hemisphere
  • North-east Australia could become an attractive investment for energy companies
  • At present there is only one operational wind farm in Queensland
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Moon

Long-lasting moon halo seen over Tucson, Arizona

Deborah Byrd
Earth Sky
Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:42 UTC
Moon halo over Arizona
© Eliot Herman
December 9, 2017 photos – 2 a.m. to dawn.
Halos around the sun or moon are caused by ice crystals, like those in high cirrus clouds. Sometimes you can't see clouds, but - in these photos - you can.

Eliot Herman is Tucson, Arizona has been working all year to compile a series of images of every major meteor shower in 2017. So last weekend, as this week's Geminid meteor shower was rising to its peak, he had his automatic camera set-up running all night. You can see one result in the images above. He didn't catch a Geminid (although he did catch a random meteor, which exploded as it fell). But he caught something equally wonderful, a long-lasting halo around the moon.

Eliot said the halo lasted from 2 a.m. to dawn. You can see twilight coming up in the bottom right image. Then, he said, the halo just: "... blinked out."
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Ice Cube

Huge chunk of 'ice from a plane' crashes through California couple's home


CBS News - Los Angeles
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 23:20 UTC
Ice crashes into San Bernadino home
A San Bernardino couple has lived in their neighborhood since the 1960s, and they say they've always heard the planes overhead going to both Ontario and Los Angeles. They never imagined something like what happened Sunday could happen to them.

Claudell Curry and his wife Odell were watching TV Sunday night when all of a sudden:

"This horrendous boom and our house just shook and trembled," Curry said.

At first, they couldn't tell what had happened. Then Claudell walked past their bedroom. "Side glance and I saw all that stuff and I thought what in the world? I went in, and all of the stuff there," he said.

Comment: See also: Megacryometeor? Chunks of ice fall through home roof in Chino, California

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Question

Sott Exclusive: Mysterious boom heard in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, military jets blamed

Meg MacDonald
Sott.net
Wed, 13 Dec 2017 23:10 UTC
Mystery boom in Tampa Bay, FL
© WFLA
On December 9th, around 2:00 pm, another mysterious boom was heard in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. Residents reported that the boom triggered car alarms, shook windows and houses. In an interview with WFLA, one resident stated that the sound 'moved a glass door in his home about a quarter of an inch'.

Here's a recording of the boom:


For comparison, this boom (and flash of light) was heard in Bridgewater, New Jersey on November 2nd:

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Black Cat

Man fights off leopard with his bare hands in Uttar Pradesh, India

Sanjay Pandey and Liz Dunphy
Mirror
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 21:02 UTC
A horrified crowd watched as the man was almost ravaged by the wild cat in the village of Khairi in the Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh last week
© Newslions
A horrified crowd watched as the man was almost ravaged by the wild cat in the village of Khairi in the Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh last week
This is the terrifying moment that a 60-year-old man fights off a leopard with his bare hands.

Blood curdling screams can be heard as the man wrestles with the big, muscular cat in the video, after it went on a rampage in an Indian village where it attacked at least two other people.

A horrified crowd watched as the man was almost ravaged by the wild cat but villagers eventually managed to scare it away from the village of Khairi in the Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh last week.

During the attack, the cat pounced on the man and plunged its claws into his flesh while sinking its teeth into his limbs while trying to wrestle him to the ground.

But he grappled with the cat and grabbed a large stick to use as a weapon and a shield, and eventually managed to pull free from the predator's grasp.

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Snowflake

Avalanche warnings as Valais in Switzerland recovers from record snowfall


The Local (Switzerland)
Tue, 12 Dec 2017 18:10 UTC
Sion
© Le Nouvelliste
Sion, Switzerland
Police in the canton of Valais have warned skiers to keep on the marked runs as the avalanche risk rises to 3 or 4 out of 5 in resorts across the region.

Valais has experienced some of the heaviest December snowfall in years over the last few days, not just in the mountains but down to the valley floor.

Sion, the cantonal capital, received a record 65cms of snow over the weekend, and pictures published by local paper Le Nouvelliste showed residents skiing down the streets. Around 80cms fell at higher altitude.

While most of Switzerland experienced some snow on the weekend, temperatures warmed up on Sunday afternoon turning the precipitation to rain in many places, however the particular meteorological conditions in the Valais meant it kept snowing.

Comment: Even heavier snowfall was recorded in other parts the Alps (as well as other European mountains) over the same weekend, see: Over a metre of snow in 72 hours for the Alps; big falls in the Dolomites and Pyrenees too

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