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2012-10-01 22:21:45 UTC
2012-10-02 08:21:45 UTC+10:00 at epicenter
Location
39.853°N 143.047°E depth=9.7km (6.0mi)
Nearby Cities
96km (60mi) ENE of Miyako, Japan
103km (64mi) ENE of Yamada, Japan
112km (70mi) ENE of Otsuchi, Japan
119km (74mi) ENE of Kamaishi, Japan
548km (341mi) NNE of
Tokyo, Japan
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A 52-year-old British woman has been reported missing in severe floodingwhich has so far claimed nine lives in southern Spain, authorities saidtoday.
Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes after torrential rain led to flash flooding in the Andalucian provinces of Malaga, Almeria and Murcia.
The woman, who has yet to be named, was reported missing in Almeria, a spokeswoman for the regional government of Andalucia said.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was looking into the reports as "a matter of urgency".
Heavy downpours and resulting high waters have killed five people in the province of Murcia, three in Almeria and one in Malaga. Five people originally declared missing had been found alive.
An Alaska scientist whose observations of drowned polar bears helped galvanize the global warming movement has been reprimanded for improper release of government documents.
Juneau, Alaska - An Alaska scientist whose observations of drowned polar bears helped galvanize the global warming movement has been reprimanded for improper release of government documents.
An Interior Department official said emails released by Charles Monnett were cited by a federal appeals court in decisions to vacate approval by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management of an oil and gas company's Arctic exploration plan.
The official, Walter Cruickshank, deputy director of BOEM, said in a memo that an inspector general's investigation contained findings that Monnett had improperly disclosed internal government documents, which he said were later used against the agency in court. He also said the investigation made other findings in regards to Monnett's conduct, but he wasn't taking action on those. He would not specify those findings.
Cruickshank called Monnett's "misconduct very serious," and said any future misconduct may lead to more severe discipline, including removal from federal service.
Fidockave213
YoutubeFri, 28 Sep 2012 07:17 UTC
Note: this video does not imply the world is going to end in 2012.Extreme weather and global unrest in September 2012. Earthquakes, sinkholes, volcanic eruptions, steam plumes, riots, floods, UFOs, meteors, fireballs... major Earth changes are underway.
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2012-09-30 16:31:35 UTC
2012-09-30 11:31:35 UTC-05:00 at epicenter
2012-09-30 09:31:35 UTC-07:00 system time
Location:1.972°N 76.329°W depth=162.1km (100.7mi)
Nearby Cities:10km (6mi) WNW of Isnos, Colombia
34km (21mi) WNW of Pitalito, Colombia
60km (37mi) SSE of Popayan, Colombia
67km (42mi) SW of La Plata, Colombia
344km (214mi) NE of Quito, Ecuador
When he was asked whether he wanted to help tow some of the thousands of vehicles that were destroyed in the May 22, 2011, tornado in Joplin, Mike Forest jumped at the chance.
"The day after the tornado, he was there,'' said his wife, Dina, of Olathe, Kan. "It was the third week he was there that it happened.''
Forest awoke one morning to a blood-stained pillow from a nosebleed he did not know had happened. His shins were covered with blisters up to his knees. He had an excruciating headache.
He is now in the Shawnee Mission Medical Center in the Kansas City area, where doctors are trying to find out why he became ill and why he is still ill. His most recent tests include a spinal tap to determine whether he was exposed to something toxic.
"He's very sick. He describes it as someone taking a spoon and raking his bones. He has a headache that just disables him,'' said his wife in a recent telephone interview. "No one has a clue. If we don't get some answers here, we're going to the Mayo Clinic next. He can't go on like this.''
Charles Choi
Space.comFri, 28 Sep 2012 05:50 UTC
© Charlotte Lücking, based on images from ESA and NASA.An artist's depiction of what a spacecraft spewing asteroid dust might look like. It is patently obvious that this hair-brained scheme would never work and that the idea is being put out there so conspiracy-minded people can refer to the changes in our cosmic and planetary environment as being the result of such 'geoengineering'.
To combat global warming, scientists in Scotland now suggest an out-of-this-world solution - a giant dust cloud in space, blasted off an asteroid, which would act like a sunshade for Earth.
The world is warming and the climate is changing. Although many want to prevent these shifts by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases that trap heat from the sun, some controversially suggest deliberating manipulating the planet's climate with large-scale engineering projects, commonly called geoengineering.
Instead of altering the climate by targeting either
the oceans or
the atmosphere, some researchers have suggested geoengineering projects that would affect the entire planet from space. For instance, projects that reduced the amount of solar radiation Earth receives by 1.7 percent could offset the effects of a global increase in temperature of 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C). The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has noted climate models suggest average global temperatures will likely rise by 2 to 11.5 degrees F (1.1 to 6.4 degrees C) by the end of this century.
"A 1.7 percent reduction is very small and will hardly be noticeable on Earth," said researcher Russell Bewick, a space scientist at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. "People sometimes get the idea of giant screens blocking the entire sun. This is not the case ... as [the device] is constantly between the sun and the Earth, it acts merely as a very light shade or filter."
Comment: Well now, this is a very interesting development. With the recent admission from NASA that noctilucent clouds are the result of '
meteor smoke' - and that they are showing up in our skies with greater frequency and at further latitudes from the poles, along with the
increased fireball flux that their
rocket/missile cover-stories are failing to hide - they are clearly 'psyching' people with these fanciful crackpot schemes so that there is a reference point for such time that these effects (lower temperatures and decreased sunlight, among other things), which are
already being caused by increased cosmic debris in the solar system, take ahold and people en masse begin to take notice.
As much as they have tried, so-called 'geo-engineering' doesn't work as it's supposed to. They can affect local weather fronts or set off earthquakes at targeted locations, but altering the climate in any particular direction is impossible because it is too non-linear - there are too many unknowns.
It takes extraordinary hubris to believe that you possess the technological capabilities of regulating how much sun reaches the planet's surface - hubris which at root is due to science having been taken over by psychopaths. But also, and much more importantly, getting these stories out there is important to the Powers That Be because people are sitting up and noticing that
something is going on.
Whether or not such schemes actually work is besides the point. Just hyping them up reassures people that
someone's doing
something to take care of the situation, that Big Brother/Big Government remains in control. He doesn't; the Emperor has no clothes!
There is nothing they can do to stop a cometary swarm, much less redirect or harness asteroids for combating so-called global warming.
The tornado that touched down in the area of the Spanish town of Gandia on Spain's South Eastern coast.
A tornado struck a fairground in Gandia, Spain, knocking down a Ferris wheel, damaging several rides and causing a power outage at the site. The twister left 35 people injured.
The fair was closed to the public when the tornado touched down, and all of those injured were fair workers, local media reported.
Fifteen people were seriously hurt and treated on site, the website for Gandia's town hall said.
The tornado ripped roofs off buildings, uprooted trees and overturned a truck which landed on cars.
Further North on the Valencia coast, two large cargo ships ran aground as a result of the high winds and seas.
In the provinces of Murica, Almeria and Malaga, 10 people were killed when the inclement weather caused flash floods that swept away cars and bridges and flooded many villages.
Two cargo ships ran aground on the Valencia coast
At least eight people have died after heavy rains triggered flash floods in southern Spain, officials have said.
The strength of the floods overturned cars, closed roads, damaged homes and forced hundreds to leave their properties.
The hardest hit areas were the provinces of Malaga and Almeria, and the Murcia region.
Further north in the town of Gandia, a tornado struck a temporary fairground, injuring 35 people, 15 seriously.
'Hit hard'
At least 600 people had to be evacuated from their homes in the Andalucia region, which contains Malaga and Almeria, officials said.
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Comment: Interesting that the scientist in question was reprimanded for releasing government documents, but not for perpetrating a hoax. A government investigation into the supposed science surrounding this now-infamous urban legend has revealed that it was likely nothing more than a pseudoscientific hoax propagated by faulty math and perfunctory observations.
Global warming fraud: Iconic polar bear on melting ice cap a hoax
Polar bear expert barred by global warmists
Stubborn glaciers fail to retreat, awkward polar bears continue to multiply
Forget About Global Warming: We're One Step From Extinction!