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Brazil: Up to 2,600 barrels of oil leaked

Bradley Brooks
Associated Press
Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:25 UTC
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In this image taken Nov. 13, 2011 and released by Chevron oil company, ships try to control an oil spill in an offshore field operated by Chevron at the Bacia de Campos, in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. More than 2,600 barrels of oil may have spilled into the Atlantic ocean because of a leak at an offshore Chevron drilling site, IBAMA officials said Friday.

Rio De Janerio - Nearly 110,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into the Atlantic Ocean because of a leak at an offshore Chevron drilling site, Brazil's environmental protection agency said Friday.

Officials think between 8,400 to 13,800 gallons of oil leaked each day from Nov. 8 through Tuesday, Ibama said in a statement on its website. Chevron had said that only 16,800 to 27,300 gallons in total leaked into the ocean.

Officials are still investigating the cause of the leak, which has been almost entirely contained, but the Ibama statement said it was a result of drilling.
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Igloo

There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998

Bob Carter
The Telegraph, UK
Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:45 UTC
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Global wha'?... Snow knocks out power to over 2 million homes in the Northeastern US... before Hallowe'en in 2011
For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco. Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero).

Yes, you did read that right. And also, yes, this eight-year period of temperature stasis did coincide with society's continued power station and SUV-inspired pumping of yet more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

In response to these facts, a global warming devotee will chuckle and say "how silly to judge climate change over such a short period". Yet in the next breath, the same person will assure you that the 28-year-long period of warming which occurred between 1970 and 1998 constitutes a dangerous (and man-made) warming. Tosh. Our devotee will also pass by the curious additional facts that a period of similar warming occurred between 1918 and 1940, well prior to the greatest phase of world industrialisation, and that cooling occurred between 1940 and 1965, at precisely the time that human emissions were increasing at their greatest rate.
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Igloo

Anthropogenic (Human Caused) Global Warming Debunked

bluesman979
YouTube
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:28 UTC

If you apply proper scientific method to the data relating to anthropogenic global warming, the myths that have been created are clearly exposed for what they are...
"There has never in human history been a greater disconnect between the basic science and what is going on at the moment... ...it is absolutely astonishing the disjunct between the politics and the socio-economics of the "green agenda".... Climate has always changed, it always will, there is nothing unusual about present day rates of change.

Atmospheric CO2 is not a pollutant, nor is it the primary forcing cause of climate change.

Attempting to stop climate change is an expensive act of utter futility you are literally trying to stop the clouds crossing the sky." (Paraphrased)
Professor Bob Carter's presentation is an easy to understand explanation of this important issue.

HTH Understanding
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Arrow Up

Propaganda Alert! Biggest-ever jump seen in global warming gases


LA Times
Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:34 UTC
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Eyjafjallajokull erupting in 2010: The CO2 emissions from increased volcanism dwarfs anything human activity can produce
Total emissions jump 6% between 2009 and 2010 - beyond amounts projected in a worst-case scenario. Extra pollution in China and the U.S. accounts for more than half the increase.

The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped last year by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-made global warming.

The new figures for 2010 mean that levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the worst-case scenario outlined by climate experts just four years ago.

"The more we talk about the need to control emissions, the more they are growing," said John Reilly, co-director of MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

The world pumped about 564 million more tons of carbon into the air in 2010 than it did in 2009. That's an increase of 6%. That amount of extra pollution eclipses the individual emissions of all but three countries - China, the United States and India, the world's top producers of greenhouse gases.
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Bizarro Earth

India: Tremors Cause Cracks in Kerala Dam


The Pioneer
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:09 UTC
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Small cracks appeared at least at three points in the 115-year-old Mullaperiyar dam in Kerala's Idukki district following two minor tremors that occurred early on Friday.

The tremors and cracks have created panic among the people in River Periyar's downstream areas. The district has more than a dozen large and medium-sized dams including Asia's largest arch dam, Idukki.

Officials of the Kerala Water Resources Department said the cracks had appeared in Block 17 and the joint of Block 17 and 18 following the tremors. The tremors also caused water seepage through the cracks from the Mullaperiyar reservoir, situated on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border. Officials said the cracks were no serious enough to cause panic.
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Igloo

IPCC Scientists Test The Exit Doors Over Predictions Gone Wrong

Jo Nova
The Global Warming Policy Foundation
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:11 UTC
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This is another big tipping point on the slide out of the Great Global Scam. IPCC scientists - facing the travesty of predictions-gone-wrong - are trying to salvage some face, and plant some escape-clause seeds for later. But people are not stupid.

A conveniently leaked IPCC draft is testing the ground. What excuses can they get away with? Hidden underneath some pat lines about how anthropogenic global warming is "likely" to influence... ah cold days and warm days, is the get-out-of-jail clause that's really a bombshell:
"Uncertainty in the sign of projected changes in climate extremes over the coming two to three decades is relatively large because climate change signals are expected to be relatively small compared to natural climate variability".
Translated: The natural climate forces are stronger than we thought, and we give up, we can't say whether it will get warmer or colder in the next twenty years.

Comment: For more information about the political agenda behind the global warming scam see:

Climate Change Swindlers and the Political Agenda

Wake The World Up Campaign

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Question

Colorado, US: Fort Collins middle school students sickened by mysterious odor

Tammy Vigil
Fox 31
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:21 UTC
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More than a dozen students were sent to the hospital after a mysterious odor swept through part of Blevins Middle School in Fort Collins.

The incident was first reported at about 12:30 p.m., initially from a laboratory classroom. Poudre Fire Authority investigated for nearly six hours and didn't locate the source. Investigators plan to return to the school on Saturday.

"When the firefighters arrived on scene they found the 12 students in front of the school and the remaining students in the process of being evacuated," said Poudre Fire spokesman Patrick Love.

Students say they were told it was fire drill and to evacuate.

"We were out there for 15 minutes. We were thinking something was wrong," says 8th grader Sean Papile.

The army of firefighters, police and paramedics made them question--and worry.

"When we came out we had no idea what was going on, so it was a little freaky for us," says 6th grader Jack Sexton.
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Question

Wheeling, West Virginia, US: Mysterious Odor Returns at School


The Intelligencer
Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:14 UTC
No source inside St. John Central High School is causing the foul air that has plagued the Guernsey Street building on more than one occasion this month, most recently Friday.

Principal Sheila Blackmore said Bellaire Code Enforcer James Chase has assured her the cause of the noxious odors in the school are not the result of anything inside the structure. His assurance has been backed up by other professionals who have inspected the building, at the request of Paul D. Ward, director of the Diocese of Steubenville Office of Christian Formation and Schools.

The school was closed Nov. 3 when some students and the principal became nauseous and suffered headaches and eye irritation while at school. The school was closed the following day for the quality of air inside the building to be tested.
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Nuke

Europe's Mysterious Radiation Cloud May Be Coming from Hungary

Adrian Covert
Agence France-Presse
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:58 UTC
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Hungarian engineers watch the control-screen at the National Radioactive Waste Depository in Bataapati, about 200km south of Budapest, in 2008. Elevated levels of the radioactive element iodine-131 that were detected in several nations have been identified as likely originating at a Hungarian research institute, nuclear authorities said Thursday.
Elevated levels of the radioactive element iodine-131 that were detected in several nations have been identified as likely originating at a Hungarian research institute, nuclear authorities said Thursday.

Hungarian officials said the leak probably came from the Budapest-based Institute of Isotopes, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement.

The institute has acknowledged emitting higher quantities of iodine-131 than normal but denies being the source of any elevated radiation.

"Radiation levels in Hungary were only a little higher in Budapest than elsewhere," said Institute of Isotopes director Mihaly Lakatos.

"If the source of heightened radioactivity had been Budapest, the levels measured here should have been much higher."
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Cloud Lightning

Rare Bolivian Tornado Caught on Tape


The Weather Channel
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:00 UTC
A resident of Cochabamba, Bolivia caught this tornado as it moved through his town. It demolished buildings, uprooted trees and ripped metal sheeting from roofs. A Bolivian meteorologist says it is unusual for a tornado to hit a mountain city.

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