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US: State Of Emergency Declared In Seven Wisconsin Counties


Chanel3000.com
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:03 UTC
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Buffalo, Jackson, Marathon, Portage, Wood Counties Added In Wake Of Flooding

Madison -- Gov. Jim Doyle declared a state of emergency in Buffalo, Jackson, Marathon, Portage and Wood counties on Friday following strong storms that caused flooding in the area.

Seven counties are currently under a state of emergency. Doyle announced a state of emergency in Clark and Trempealeau counties on Thursday.

According to state officials, Wisconsin's Emergency Management and Department of Natural Resources officials are working with the National Guard to assist in recovery efforts.

State officials say the declaration is a response to widespread flooding and storm damage in the affected counties. The storms caused damage to homes and businesses, flooding roads and bringing down power lines.

In Clark County, officials have reported at least three bridges washed away and damage estimates nearing $500,000.
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Igloo

Propaganda! Ocean Cold Snap Paused Global Warming in '70s, Study Says

Alister Doyle
MNN.com
Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:07 UTC
Reasons for the chill were unclear, but it coincided with a sudden inflow of cold water from the Arctic.

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© Zuma PressCold Oceans: Some skeptics say breaks in a warming trend of the 21st century cast doubt on findings by the U.N. panel of climate scientists that climate change is man-made.
A cold snap in northern oceans around 1970 may have caused a dip in world temperatures that briefly interrupted a trend of global warming, scientists said Wednesday.

Many experts had previously explained a slight global cooling around 1970 as a side-effect of a slow build-up of sun-dimming air pollution from factories, power plants and cars that cleared up in later years with stricter air pollution laws.

But scientists in the United States and Britain said an examination of temperature records revealed "a rapid drop in Northern Hemisphere sea surface temperatures of about 0.3 degree Celsius (0.5 F) between about 1968 and 1972."

The cooling was most in the North Atlantic. Reasons for the chill were unclear but it coincided with a sudden inflow of cold water from the Arctic.
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Canada: Calgarians make the best of it as snow - yes, snow - clouds forecast

Sean Myers
Calgary Herald
Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:05 UTC
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Fewer than 10 days remain in summer, and most Calgarians have been left wondering if it ever really began.

One year ago Thursday, the temperature soared to just over a blistering hot 30 C.

On the same day this year, meteorologists are forecasting a high of 5 C and a chance of snow.

Summer officially ends with the fall equinox Sept. 22, but for most Calgarians, summer never arrived at all.

"This is the worst summer I've seen," said Ronell Toledo, who moved to the city from the Philippines in 2004.

"Compared to other years, this year it's been damp and wet."

The poor weather didn't stop Toledo from heading out on the bicycle pathways between Rundle and Ogden with two buddies and their mountain bikes Monday.
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Snowfall in Garhwal Himalayas nearly a month ahead of schedule


Economic Times
Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:40 UTC
Gopeshwar - Nearly a month ahead of schedule, the higher reaches of Garhwal Himalayas today received snowfall, sending the mercury plummeting in Chamoli and Rudraprayag districts.

The hills around Badrinath and Kedarnath temples have received snowfall while lower areas received rainfall forcing the people to take out their woollens.

Usually, the Garhwal Himalayas experience snowfall during October.
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Stadium lies in ruins after roof caves-in from weight of snow in New Zealand


TVNZ
Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:31 UTC
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© Wayne Calderwood Heavy snow caused the roof of Invercargill's Southland Stadium to collapse.
Heavy snow has severely damaged one of Invercargill's most important venues.

The weight of snow caused the roof on the main netball court to collapse at the multi-purpose and world-class Stadium Southland this morning.

Stadium Southland General Manager Nigel Skelt said it was lucky it did not happen during a busy time of week.

"We've never had a snow fall this big before, in our history. We've been going ten years and unfortunately in this instant it just hasn't been able to sustain it.

"The result could've been far more catastrophic."
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5.6 earthquake hits Waikato, New Zealand


TVNZ
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:19 UTC
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake has hit south Waikato tonight.

The quake struck 10 kilometres east of Tokoroa just before 8pm, at a depth of 200 kilometres.

It was widely felt throughout the North Island.
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Igloo

'Freak' cold snap in Britain as temperatures fall 12C below seasonal average, follows coldest August in 17 years

Sarah Westcott
UK Express
Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:10 UTC
Britain will be hit by the first frosts of winter this weekend - with warnings of snow in the hills.

The freak cold snap has come weeks early, after the coldest August for 17 years. Temperatures could plummet to -1C (30F) at night - 12 degrees C below the seasonal average, forcing millions to switch the heating on.

The chilly conditions come before the official end of summer - the autumn equinox on September 23 - and will see Britons digging out their duvets to keep warm at night. Forecasters warned the Midlands and Wales would be worst hit and the cold snap is a headache for farmers still harvesting spring barley.
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Igloo

Up to a millions lambs could die as New Zealand freezes over


TVNZ
Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:02 UTC
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Farm lobby group Federated Farmers says this month's spring storm in Southland looks set to cause the agricultural sector greater economic losses than the Canterbury earthquake imposed on farmers, and they want the government to declare it an adverse event.

"Federated Farmers is now working with Agriculture Minister David Carter on a medium scale adverse event declaration," a federation spokesman said tonight.

Such a declaration could give help such as that provided to farmers in recent serious droughts, including funding for a rural support trust to offer financial advice.

Agriculture Minister David Carter will tomorrow visit the small farm the federation's national president, Don Nicolson, and his wife Gail run at Waimatua, southeast of Invercargill, and the farms of Matthew and Vanessa Richards and David and Alana Clarke.
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Igloo

Cassandra Says It Will Get Very Cold

Alan Caruba
FamilySecurityMatters.org
Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:53 UTC
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In the Greek myth about Cassandra, she could foresee the future, but no one believed her warnings. Her name is believed to be derived from the words for beauty and the sun.

Any number of solar scientists and others are warning that the Earth is on the brink of a new Ice Age at worst, a mini ice age at best. Dr. Achim Brauer of the German Research Center for Geosciences in Potsdam has concluded that the next Ice Age will come on so swiftly that in barely a year much of the northern hemisphere will be encased in ice and snow.

The Little Ice Age from around 1300 to 1850 lasted long enough to transform European society and have a profound affect on the histories of America and France. In England, they went from growing grapes to skating on a completely frozen Thames.

All the signs are in place and throughout the northern hemisphere nations, their leaders prattle on about global warming, clean energy, endangered species, and all the other environmental foolishness without once casting an eye toward the source of all climate on Earth, the Sun!
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Bizarro Earth

The Oil and the Turtles

Alex Shoumatoff
Vanity Fair
Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:14 UTC
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© Gary BraaschRidley-turtle hatchlings head into the Gulf in Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Every year, Rancho Nuevo, 900 miles southwest of the Deepwater Horizon blowout, sees a spectacular phenomenon: the arribada - mass nesting - of the Kemp's ridley sea turtle, which has already neared extinction. This year, thousands of baby ridleys swam off toward a deadly new enemy.

Of all the devastation in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the Deepwater Horizon blowout, no one single species is being directly affected as much as the critically endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle. Only 8,000 adult females nested in 2009, and the adult males are thought to be even fewer. Those that remain have been hit hard. Most of the surviving juveniles inhabit the waters 20 to 30 miles from shore, feeding and growing in the same currents and gyres that collected the bulk of the four million barrels spewed by the now capped well. There were confirmed reports of ridleys being burned alive in the pools of corralled, concentrated oil that BP had been burning off during the spill.
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