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Arctic winds and heavy snowfall hitting Italy

Robert Felix
Ice Age Now
Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:05 UTC
Snow on car
© Unknown
One-and-a-half meters of snow in some places.

"We have snow at 100 meters (330 ft) in the southern part of the peninsula, and one dead due to the cold," says geologist Mirco Poletto in Italy.

"Snow in the Marche and Puglia, and a snow alert Romagna. Abruzzo buried under the snow. Schools closed in many municipalities. Whitewashed also Foggiano. Snow falling in L'Aquila."

Arctic cold air invading Italy from the Adriatic regions. Snowfalls are underway at very low elevations (100m) of Marche, Abruzzo, Molise, Puglia and Basilicata, and the situation is expected to get worse during the afternoon and evening. At night, all regions of the Adriatic from Rimini to Puglia will be affected by snowfalls at low altitudes , even as rain mixed with snow even along the coast of Abruzzo. Wednesday begins in the north with cold -5 ° C, while snowfall will continue at low altitudes over the entire Adriatic coast and also Umbria .
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Stop

Bubble trouble for East Siberian Arctic Shelf: Increasing storminess and rapid sea-ice retreat cause increased methane fluxes from the sea


The Siberian Times
Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:09 UTC
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© resilientearth.com
'Increasing storminess and rapid sea-ice retreat causing increased methane fluxes from the sea are a possible new climate-change-driven processes'.
Scientists used sonar-derived observations of bubble flux and measurements of seawater methane levels to monitor the emission of methane from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf to the overlying ocean, reported a study published online this week in Nature Geoscience.

Large amounts of methane, generated by the degradation of submarine permafrost over thousands of years, are escaping the East Siberian Shelf, according to Natalia Shakhova from the University of Alaska and colleagues.

'Bubbles escaping from the sea floor carry large amounts of methane into the overlying ocean', it was reported. 'Furthermore, they observed that concentrations of methane in the sea water fell significantly following the passage of two storms, suggesting that storms help transport of methane to the atmosphere, where it acts as a potent greenhouse gas.'

Their findings 'have important implications for atmospheric emissions of methane from all Arctic seas that are underlain with subsea permafrost', state the authors. 'Increasing storminess and rapid sea-ice retreat causing increased methane fluxes from the sea are a possible new climate-change-driven processes.'
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Ice Cube

Forget global warming: Heavy ice delays Australian Antarctic icebreaker Aurora Australis for second year in a row


ABC News
Mon, 25 Nov 2013 21:09 UTC
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Aurora Australis in sea ice
The summer Australian Antarctic Division program will have to be modified because its icebreaker the Aurora Australis has been delayed in heavy ice. The ship was due to return to Hobart more than a week ago after a resupply mission, but it is still navigating through heavy ice about 180 nautical miles off the Davis research station.

Antarctic Division director Tony Fleming says there is no risk of the crew's food or water running low. He says some open water was spotted from the air a couple of days ago but there is heavy ice between the ship and the break in the ice.

Dr Fleming says one ship voyage will have to be dropped because of the delay.
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Cloud Lightning

Hundreds of dead seabirds wash ashore on Alaska island in Bering Sea

Alex Demarban
Alaska Dispatch
Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:27 UTC
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© Joanne Goldby / cc via flickr
The common murre was among the species of dead seabirds that recently washed ashore on St. Lawrence Island.

Nature's cold brutality apparently marked hundreds -- and perhaps thousands -- of seabirds for death following storms that slammed into Western Alaska earlier this month and littered stretches of St. Lawrence Island with the carcasses of crested auklets, murres, ducks and other birds.

Facebook alarmists feared Fukushima radiation was to blame for the deaths that began appearing last week, but an expert said the island between Russia and the Alaska mainland is too far north for that to be possible. And Savoonga residents who walked the beaches to calculate the carnage said they're convinced this fall's powerful winter storms are the real culprit.

Residents in the village of Gambell -- about 40 miles west of Savoonga on the island -- also found dead birds near their village, said Peter Bente, a wildlife biologist with the state Fish and Game.
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Info

16 migrating dolphins wash up dead in northeast Florida


NBC Miami
Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:37 UTC
Dead dolphins were found on beaches from Volusia County to Jacksonville between Saturday and Monday.

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© SeaWorld
Wildlife officials say at least 16 dead dolphins have washed up on northeast Florida beaches.
Wildlife officials say at least 16 dead dolphins have washed up on northeast Florida beaches.

The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported dead dolphins were found on beaches from Volusia County to Jacksonville between Saturday and Monday.

Volusia County Beach Safety and Ocean Rescue spokeswoman Tammy Marris says five dolphins were collected Monday, including two in Volusia County. She says the water was "pretty rough" because of high winds in the area.

In addition, NOAA fisheries spokeswoman Allison Garrett says 11 other dolphins were recovered over the weekend.

Federal officials fear the morbillivirus would make its way to Florida as dolphins migrate south. Garrett says all the dolphins found over the weekend appeared to have symptoms of the virus.
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Attention

Giant deepwater oarfish washing up on California shores: Harbingers of death!

TheKajaMartin
Youtube
Thu, 07 Nov 2013 14:24 UTC
Rare Giant Oarfish are washing up on California shores. Now, according to the Japanese, these fish are warnings of impending earthquakes! Which California is definitely past due for!


Comment: See also:

Waiting for the big one: giant oarfish start shock waves in LA

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Cow Skull

Staggering concessions by Austria's national weather service: "Natural factors substantial... models inadequate"!

P. Gosselin
No Tricks Zone
Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:02 UTC
A November 11, 2013 press release by Austria's national weather service, the Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik (ZAMG), somehow got by me. And not surprisingly it was completely ignored by the German-language mainstream media. It's titled: "Slower temperature increase: climate models under scrutiny".

In the introduction the ZAMG writes:
If one compares the temperature development of the last 15 years to the simulations from the new climate model generation, then one sees a substantial deviation between reality and model: the so-called temperature hiatus."
Air temperature is the preferred parameter that experts use to gauge climate change. On the hiatus the ZAMG writes, "In the last 15 years there has been a clear weakening in the global temperature rise; only 3 of 114 climate model simulations account for it (Figure 1)."

Global temperature 1986-2010
© IPCC 2013
Figure 1: Change in global near-surface temperature relative to the 1986–2005 period from observation data (black) and model simulations (coloured)
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Cult

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's damning book review: Today's climate hysteria resembles witch hunts of the Dark Ages

P. Gosselin
No Tricks Zone
Wed, 27 Nov 2013 11:25 UTC
Perhaps some leading opinion-shapers in Germany have become aghast at the hysterical and hyper-irrational reaction coming from "climate scientists" in the wake of typhoon Yolanda, a single, destructive storm supposedly brewed by the misdeeds of darker forces, e.g. the 90 top carbon emitters of the world.

Despite the progress science and technology we've seen since the European Dark Ages centuries ago, the very same kind of madness seen back then seems to have found fertile ground in the minds of today's leading figures - at least that's what one leading book reviewer seems to be telling us.

A book review authored by Claudius Seidl appearing in Germany's influential political daily, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) on Sunday, carries the title: Witch hunting and climate change - The winter of the world. The book: The Victims of the Franconian Witchhunts.

Die Opfer der Hexenverfolgung in Franken
© Birke Grießhammer

Comment: See also: Witches, Comets and Planetary Cataclysms

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Nuke

Ten most radioactive places on earth mapped out [GRAPHIC]

Jim Lee
CV News
Sun, 24 Nov 2013 02:06 UTC
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© Unknown.
Do you know the dirty side of the nuclear industry? After researching this article by brainz.org, we were shocked to find out how truly awful our radioactive waste problem is and how it is going to be hurting us all, for a long time to come. Please take the time to read the links below, share this with your friends, and discuss solutions to these problems.

While the 2011 earthquake and worries surrounding Fukushima have brought the threat of radioactivity back into the public consciousness, many people still don't realize that radioactive contamination is a worldwide danger. Radionuclides are in the top six toxic threats as listed in the 2010 report by The Blacksmith Institute, an NGO dedicated to tackling pollution. You might be surprised by the locations of some of the world's most radioactive places - and thus the number of people living in fear of the effects radiation could have on them and their children.

Comment: in.fondo.al.mar (under the sea) is an info-visualization project about a series of sinkings and incidents in the Mediterranean Sea, involving ships which are suspected of having carried toxic and radioactive waste.

in.fondo.al.mar is a work-in-progress project, which will be subject to corrections and updates and welcomes the contributions of users and experts.

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Snowflake Cold

Volcanic eruptions, rising CO2, boiling oceans, and why man-made global warming is not even wrong

Doug DiPasquale and Niall Bradley
Sott.net
Wed, 27 Nov 2013 11:55 UTC
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The spectacular eruption of an undersea volcano off the coast of Tonga in the South Pacific in 2009
Perhaps in an effort to ward off yet another long cold winter, officially-sanctioned climate science has been pumping out hot air at exponentially-increasing rates of late. An IPCC report in September told us that global warming "paused" unexpectedly in 1998, and shows no sign of resuming. Actually, the work that went into that report found that warming had stopped altogether, but the wording was altered to describe it as a "pause". You'd think that a pseudo-acknowledgement like this from on-high would dampen the Global Warmists' enthusiasm, but you'd be wrong.

Their driven need to 'fit the facts around the policy' is illustrated by a couple of recent articles that caught our eye. Here USA Today reports on the findings of a study that claims:
"The middle depths of a part of the Pacific Ocean have warmed 15 times faster in the past 60 years than they did during the previous 10,000 years."
Then this BBC article cites "the world's leading experts on ocean acidification", who claim that:
"The world's oceans are becoming acidic at an unprecedented rate and may be souring more rapidly than at any time in the past 300 million years, [...] causing a 30% loss of species in some ocean ecosystems."
And, as you can probably guess, these experts are certain that it's all your fault.

By now you know the drill:

You produce too much CO2 ---> this contributes to the 'greenhouse effect' --> planet heats up --> ice caps melt --> sea levels rise, etc...
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