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Thick Arctic ice stops yet another ship of 'Climate Change' documentary filmmakers

Cap Allon
Electroverse
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 07:22 UTC
MS MALMO came to a grinding halt on Sep 3 off Longyearbyen, the Svalbard Archipelago.

MS MALMO came to a grinding halt on Sep 3 off Longyearbyen, the Svalbard Archipelago.

The MS MALMO is the latest in a long list of ships to have gotten stuck in surprisingly thick Arctic sea ice this year.

The Swedish vessel, built in 1943 and refurbished in 2014, was on an "Arctic tour" with the noble mission of ferrying a team of Climate Change documentary filmmakers to the front line. The teams intention was to capture some of the catastrophic ice melt being reported by the worlds media — ice melt which it would appear still refuses to manifest despite decades of furious willing from the UN & IPCC.

The MS MALMO came to a grinding halt on Sep 3 off Longyearbyen, the Svalbard Archipelago, halfway between Norway and the North Pole, when it encountered impenetrably thick ice.

All 16 icehuggers on-board wound up being evacuated by helicopter in very challenging conditions and at the expense of a carbon-footprint of yeti proportions:

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Biohazard

Deadly algae on Brittany's beaches is killing dozens of people annually

Angelique Chrisafis
The Guardian
Sun, 08 Sep 2019 09:24 UTC
Activists say stinking sludge is linked to nitrates in fertilisers from intensive farming

algae at the Valais beach in Saint-Brieuc.
© Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images
A woman looks at properties declared out of bounds due to algae at the Valais beach in Saint-Brieuc.
André Ollivro stepped carefully down the grassy banks of an estuary in the bay of Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, not far from his beachfront cabin. The pungent smell of rotting eggs wafting from decomposing seaweed made him stop and put on his gas mask. It was a strange sight in what is usually a tourist hotspot.

"You can't be too careful," said the 74-year-old former gas technician, who is leading the fight against what has come to be known as France's coastal "killer slime".

"When I was 16, I used to bring a boat here with my uncle," Ollivro said. "In those days, it was all about natural beauty and you didn't see seaweed piled up. It's a shame this place has come to be associated with death."

Comment: Apparently the gas released by these algae is hydrogen sulfide, which, at high concentrations, can quickly become lethal.

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Windsock

Powerful Typhoon Faxai kills three, injures 40 and wreaks havoc on Tokyo transport system


The Japan Times
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:38 UTC
Typhoon Faxai
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Typhoon Faxai, which assaulted the Kanto region from late Sunday night to early Monday morning, toppled a utility pole and pillars, several stories high, that held up netting around a golf driving range in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture.
A powerful typhoon landed near Tokyo early Monday morning, killing at least three people and injuring about 40 as well as affecting hundreds of thousands of rush-hour commuters in the metropolitan area at the start of the week.

East Japan Railway Co., also known as JR East, had suspended all lines in the greater Tokyo area as Typhoon Faxai made landfall near the city of Chiba, shortly before 5 a.m., as one of the strongest typhoons on record in the Kanto region.

A woman in her 50s in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, was confirmed dead after a security camera captured her being blown off her feet and into a wall, according to police.

An 87-year-old man died in the town of Otaki in Chiba Prefecture after being struck by a tree that fell as he tried to clear storm debris nearby.

At the Yokosuka base of the Maritime Self-Defense Force in Kanagawa Prefecture, a 47-year-old company employee who was working to fix a power generation unit was found collapsed and later confirmed dead at a hospital. Police believe he was blown off balance by a strong gust in the typhoon and may have fallen from a terrace on the second floor.

The weather agency had warned that central and eastern Japan, including Tokyo, could see record winds, forcing airlines to cancel flights and some major roads to be closed. Authorities issued voluntary evacuation warnings to more than 390,000 people, as forecasters cautioned the rain and wind could reach "record" proportions.

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Snowflake Cold

Stone fruit production in Río Negro, Argentina affected by severe frost


Fresh Plaza
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:02 UTC
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The last frosts in the Alto Valley of Rio Negro, which had extremely cold temperatures of almost -10º C for 14 hours, could have damaged much of the region's fruit production, especially stone fruits, such as peaches and plums. The damages are currently being evaluated by the technicians of the Secretariat of Fruit Cultivation of Rio Negro.

Fortunately, as stated by the provincial Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries, Alberto Diomedi, "the Inter-jurisdictional Authority of the Limay, Neuquen, and Negro River Basins (AIC) had announced this extreme weather event five days in advance, which allowed producers to prepare to face it." The government sent water through the irrigation canals so that the producers could spray it as a defense against the frost, the official said.

Comment: Elsewhere recently in the country: Argentine stone fruits expected to suffer serious losses due to harsh late frosts

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Sun

NASA admits climate change occurs because of changes in Earth's solar orbit, not because of SUVs and fossil fuels

Ethan Huff
Natural News
Fri, 30 Aug 2019 00:01 UTC
earth on fire
For more than 60 years, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has known that the changes occurring to planetary weather patterns are completely natural and normal. But the space agency, for whatever reason, has chosen to let the man-made global warming hoax persist and spread, to the detriment of human freedom.

It was the year 1958, to be precise, when NASA first observed that changes in the solar orbit of the earth, along with alterations to the earth's axial tilt, are both responsible for what climate scientists today have dubbed as "warming" (or "cooling," depending on their agenda). In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet by driving SUVs or eating beef, in other words.

But NASA has thus far failed to set the record straight, and has instead chosen to sit silently back and watch as liberals freak out about the world supposedly ending in 12 years because of too much livestock, or too many plastic straws.

Comment: One aspect not mentioned in the article is the effect the cosmic environment has on the planet's weather. None the less, those perpetuating the 'man-made climate change' narrative are selling us a load of horse hockey.

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Snowflake

Early snowfall for Labrador, Canada


VOCM
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:49 UTC
snow
© Phoebe Davis
While most of the province was battling high winds and rain over the weekend, a section of Labrador faced a different kind of precipitation.

Phoebe Davis took to Facebook to share a photo of snow-covered roadways that her kids ran into on their way to Goose Bay.

Environment Canada Meteorologist, Rob Carroll says this is Dorian's doing.
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Seismograph

Earthquake hits southwest China - 1 dead


The Weekly Times
Sun, 08 Sep 2019 12:39 UTC
5.4-magnitude earthquake jolted Weiyuan county of Neijiang city in Southwest China's Sichuan province at 6:42 am Sunday.
© IC
5.4-magnitude earthquake jolted Weiyuan county of Neijiang city in Southwest China's Sichuan province at 6:42 am Sunday.
A moderate earthquake struck China's mountainous southwest on Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring 63.

The magnitude 5.4 quake struck Neijiang, a city in Sichuan province, at 6:42 am, the government earthquake monitor reported.

At least 132 houses collapsed and more than 5,000 were damaged, according to a city government statement. It said 2,417 people were relocated.

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Snowflake

Early snowfall piles up in the Alps - up to 20 inches deep

Roger Fulton
Snow Magazine
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:52 UTC
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The past weekend has brought heavy snowfall on glaciers in the central and eastern Alps with totals up to 40cm on Austria's Hintertux and Stubai glaciers and 50cm at Passo Stelvio in Italy.

And though France largely missed out, there was a dusting at Val Thorens, while the Dolomites in Italy saw white coverings to mountain tops, and sometimes down to resort level, as low as 1500 metres, for example at Alta Badia.

It's way too soon to see this as a sign of what's in store for the main winter season, but it will be welcomed by anyone heading to one of the handful of glaciers offering skiing at this stage in September.

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Attention

Signs and Portents: Two-headed serpent spotted in Bali, Indonesia


New Straits Times
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 11:12 UTC
A rare two-headed snake is seen in the palm of a person's hand in Tabanan, on the resort island of Bali.
© AFP
A rare two-headed snake is seen in the palm of a person's hand in Tabanan, on the resort island of Bali.
Residents of a village in Bali got a shock when they spotted a two-headed snake in their midst — a rare find in the wild.

The reptile was seen slithering in the central part of the Indonesian holiday island last week.

"When I got home from work, I parked my motorbike next to the snake," said local resident Gusti Bagus Eka Budaya.

"I looked more closely and it turned out to have two heads. I was shocked."

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Cloud Precipitation

Morocco floods kill 11 in bus accident


Yahoo! News
Mon, 09 Sep 2019 10:54 UTC
Security forces search the wreckage of a flood-related bus accident in southern Morocco on September 8, 2019
© AFP
Security forces search the wreckage of a flood-related bus accident in southern Morocco on September 8, 2019
At least 11 people were killed Sunday in Morocco after their bus was overturned by a flood in the kingdom's southeast, authorities said.

Rescue crews evacuated 27 passengers from the bus, including several injured, after it flipped over on a bridge by "flood waters" in El Khank, local officials said in a statement.

Search operations were ongoing, they said, adding that the evacuees had been transferred to hospital in the city of Errachidia.

Morocco has been hit by violent storms this summer.

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