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Probable solar superstorm puts humanity at risk of catastrophe


The Telegraph
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:29 UTC
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NASA image of a solar storm from 2012
Scientists predict a solar superstorm every 150 years, meaning we are currently five years overdue

Solar "superstorms" pose a catastrophic threat to humanity, scientists have warned.

Solar storms are accompanied by coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, the most energetic events in the solar system, which see huge bubbles of plasma and magnetic fields being spewed from the sun's surface.

A solar superstorm occurs when a CME of sufficient magnitude tears into the Earth's magnetic field and rips it apart. Scientists expect one every 150 years.

Such an event would induce huge surges of electrical currents, causing widespread power failures. The last one was in 1859, before the world depended on electronics.

Ashley Dale, who was a member of SolarMAX, an international task force set up to identify the risks, warned that it was a "matter of time" before such a storm hit again.

Comment: Yet another reason to prepare by setting up one's home with alternative sources of energy, food, first aid, etc.

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Extinguisher

Hellfire from gas explosion at electricity plant in central Argentina: One killed, seven injured


Shanghai Daily
Sat, 02 Aug 2014 10:38 UTC
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At least one person was killed and seven others injured Friday in a gas explosion at an electricity plant in Argentina's central Cordoba province, local health officials and firefighters said.

Civil Defense sources told state news agency Telam that rescuers found a burnt body inside a truck.

The part of the gas pipeline that exploded runs across a roadway and all the victims appeared to have been motorists on the road when the explosion occurred in the city of Pilar, 659 km northwest of the capital Buenos Aires, the daily Clarin said, adding that the accident forced closure of several roadways.
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Cloud Lightning

Freak ball of lightning explodes at farm in China: Woman hospitalized and hundreds of pigs killed

Steve Kelly
Daily Mirror
Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:04 UTC
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Decimated: Lu Qinsheng fears for his livelihood after the hogs were killed
A freak ball of lightning has exploded at a farm in China killing 170 pigs and injuring a woman.

Farmer's wife Jun Li, 48, was hurt when a rare lightning ball struck at the pig farm in southern China's Hunan province.

She said: "It was like a big ball of fire, but it suddenly split into two forks that hot the rails scorching the animals.

"I saw all sorts of colours before my eyes and I couldn't see anything properly for at least 10 minutes afterwards.

"My left eye was also left blackened and my foot was bleeding."

Ball lightning is an electrical phenomenon that occurs during thunderstorms when a usually spherical object slowly floats to the ground before exploding often with devastating effects.

The ball of lightning struck metal railings, sending a massive charge through the entire building containing 400 pigs.

The surviving 110 pigs needed medical treatment for burns, but the damage could cost £30,000.

Comment: Lightening strikes have been killing people and animals much more frequently. To understand more about the factors that are causing this and other freak weather patterns, read Pierre Lescaudrons' book Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.

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Attention

Taiwan gas pipeline explosion in pictures


nguoivietblog.com
Sat, 02 Aug 2014 10:10 UTC
A series of gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung has killed 25 people and injured 267 others on the evening of July 31st 2014. The explosion appears to have occurred along the full length of some sections of pipe running under the streets of Kaohsiung, causing almost the entire street to be blown into the air. No official cause has as yet been determined, although it is highly likely that movement of the ground beneath the pipeline caused it to rupture and some ignition source, possibly piezoelectric in nature.

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Bizarro Earth

Massive landslide triggered by heavy rains near Kathmandu, fears of flash floods

Ghopal Sharma
Reuters
Sat, 02 Aug 2014 00:00 UTC
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A massive landslide triggered by heavy rains in northeast Nepal on Saturday has killed at least eight people, injured 40, buried dozens of homes and stoked fears of flash floods, officials said.

The landslide created a mud dam blocking the Sunkoshi river near Jure in the Sindhupalchowk district, about 60 kms (37 miles) northeast of Kathmandu, heightening fears of downstream floods that could reach as far as Bihar in India.

Home ministry officials said eight bodies have been recovered so far from the debris of collapsed houses and search and rescue operations were under way.

Army helicopters have taken seven injured, including a Belgian national, for treatment in Kathmandu, Nepal's army spokesman, Jagadish Pokharel, said.

The Sunkoshi river is popular for white water rafting, which is not normally done during the rainy season.

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Bizarro Earth

Vast methane plumes discovered escaping from Arctic seafloor north of Siberia


EarthSky
Sat, 02 Aug 2014 09:30 UTC
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Methane mega flare event on the Laptev Sea slope of the Arctic Ocean, at a depth of about 62 meters.
"We are 'sniffing' methane. We see the bubbles on video from the camera ... All analysis tells the signs. We are in a [methane] mega flare."

An international team of scientists aboard the icebreaker Oden - currently north of eastern Siberia, in the Arctic Ocean - is working primarily to measure methane emissions from the Arctic seafloor. On July 22, 2014, only a week into their voyage, the team reported "elevated methane levels, about 10 times higher than background seawater." They say the culprit in this release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, may be a tongue of relatively warm water from the Atlantic Ocean, the last remnants of the Gulf Stream, mixing into the Arctic Ocean. A press release from University of Stockholm described the discovery as:
... vast methane plumes escaping from the seafloor of the Laptev continental slope. These early glimpses of what may be in store for a warming Arctic Ocean could help scientists project the future releases of the strong greenhouse gas methane from the Arctic Ocean.
The scientists refer to the plumes as methane mega flares.

Comment: Scientists have been recording methane plumes in the Arctic ocean for some time and have been using this to push the 'global warming' hysteria, saying that any day now a tipping point will be reached. However, Arctic ice has been rebounding lately in spite of the methane releases.

CryoSat shows Arctic sea ice volume up 50% from last year
Arctic ice extent booming
NASA stumped: Summer Arctic ice extent among highest this decade, Antarctica "headed toward record extent"

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Arrow Down

Truck topples into sinkhole in central Rome


thelocal.it
Fri, 01 Aug 2014 14:45 UTC
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A truck driver is recovering from shock after his vehicle toppled into a sinkhole in the heart of Rome on Friday morning. Scroll down the article for photos.

The accident happened at around 10am on Friday morning on via Palestro, by Rome's busy Termini Station, Roma Today reported.

Several images of the vehicle and the hole, which was four metres wide by two metres deep, were posted on Twitter (see below).

Initial reports suggest that the road gave way while road works were being carried out. The cause of the accident, however, has yet to be determined.
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Bizarro Earth

Mysterious jellyfish-like creature washing up on California coast

Richard Farrell
Discovery News
Fri, 01 Aug 2014 12:35 UTC
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Creatures like these have been washing up along the California coast.
It's not just hordes of anchovies attacking the California coastline this summer, as a small, jellyfish-like creature with a cool blue hue has been washing up by the millions along shores up and down the state's coast since the middle of July.

The beach-crashing creature's full name is Velella velella (not a typo; it's the only species in its genus), sometimes referred to as "by-the-wind sailors," because they live on the surface of the water and are at the mercy of the winds for all of their travel plans.

As befits their nickname, velella have a kind of sail affixed to their tops, which is what allows them their out-of-control seafaring. They have few predators, although some sea slugs and water-bound snails will eat them.
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Bear attacks kill at least three people with many others injured in Siberia and far-east Russia

Alec Luhn
The Guardian
Fri, 01 Aug 2014 12:44 UTC
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A brown bear fishes for sockeye salmon in the Ozernaya river, Kamtchatka, Russia, in June last year.
Experts suggest extreme weather could be disrupting biorhythms and food supply, and fishing nets cutting off access to salmon

A rash of bear attacks in Russia have left at least three people dead and many more injured in recent weeks as record high temperatures, freak snow, hailstorms and flooding hit Siberia and the country's far east.

Human activity may be behind some of the attacks. Experts cited by the news agency Interfax said nets and obstacles have prevented salmon from swimming up rivers to spawn, leaving bears without a regular food supply.

Extreme weather can also disrupt the predators' biorhythms and food supply, said Vladimir Krever, director of the biodiversity programme at WWF Russia.

Recent attacks include one at 2am on Wednesday at a meteorological station in the forests of Sakha Republic. A bear broke down the door of a residential trailer and bit the arm of the woman inside, only to be scared away by her loud screaming.

Three days earlier another bear ambushed a boy on Iturup island as he was walking home from his grandmother's house. The bear had dragged the 14-year-old to the shore by the time police arrived and shot it dead. The boy had 170 stitches and remains in critical condition.
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Cloud Precipitation

Ontario County farmers suffer crop damage from extreme hailstorm

Josh Nichols
whec.com
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:30 UTC
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It was a harsh wakeup call. People around our area were woken up by a strong thunderstorm. In some places, that storm dropped enough hail to cover the ground like snow. In addition to the hail, the storm brought heavy rain, lots of lightning and strong winds. Places in eastern Ontario County were among the hardest hit by the weather.

In his eighty years, Nicholas Legott had never seen a hailstorm in Geneva like he saw Thursday morning. He certainly did not expect to be shoveling hail out of his driveway.

Legott said, "The force of the hail hitting the house. It wasn't just that. It was coming down in buckets. It was unbelievable."

Just Wednesday, Legott and his family were ecstatic about how well their new garden of organic tomatoes and peppers were doing. Now, they are a shredded, icy mess.

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