Earth Changes

Tennis ball-sized hail stones pound French villages

Agence France-Presse
Fri, 22 May 2009 17:00 UTC

Roanne - Fist-sized hail stones "like rocks from the sky" smashed roofs and car windows across a 20-kilometre (13-miles) wide strip of central France, witnesses and firefighters said Friday.

The violent 15-minute squall blew up at around nightfall on Thursday after an otherwise pleasant day around Roanne, a small town in central France. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

"I was just feeding the horses when the first hail fell. At first, for about 20 seconds, it was light and scattered, then it was a deluge, like rocks from the sky," said a resident of Pouilly-sous-Charlieu.

"The flowers and orchards were ripped to shreds and some of the cars in the neighbourhood look like they've been worked over with a hammer. Many of them had shattered windscreens," he said.

North Korean Earthquake Magnitude 4.3 During Nuclear Testing

U.S. Geological Survey
Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:35 UTC

Magnitude:
4.3 (Light)

Date-Time:
- Monday, October 09, 2006 at 01:35:28 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time
- Monday, October 09, 2006 at 10:35:28 AM - local time at epicenter

North Korean Earthquake Magnitude 4.7 A Possible Nuclear Test

U.S. Geological Survey
Mon, 25 May 2009 08:59 UTC

The shallow seismic event that occurred on 25 May 2009 at 00:54:43 UTC has been claimed as a nuclear test by North Korea, according to news reports.

While the USGS cannot confirm that the recent event was a nuclear test, it was shallow and located in the vicinity of the October 2006 North Korean nuclear test (magnitude 4.3).

Roger Pielke Sr. responds to disparaging remarks of AGW proponent Stephen Schneider: Let's Talk Science

Roger Pielke Sr.
Climate Science
Sun, 24 May 2009 04:49 UTC

There is part one of an interview with Professor Stephen Schneider regarding global warming and climate change issues published on Examiner.com on May 24 2009. It is titled "The global warming debates: Stephen Schneider" and is written by Thomas Fuller who is the San Francisco Policy Environmental Policy Examiner reporter. This interview is an excellent example of the failure to present a balanced presentation of the climate science issues.

The reporter asked the following question

"More specifically, the principal skeptic websites (Watt's Up With That, Climate Skeptic, Climate Audit and Climate Science) that I look at regularly seem to think they are winning the day. They think data is coming in that questions the established paradigm."

First, the reporter erroneously presented my perspective as a "skeptic" website.

Steve Schneider, unfortunately, chose not only to fail to correct this error, but demeaned the scientific value of these websites.

Uncertain climate

The Washington Times
Sun, 24 May 2009 04:33 UTC

A person needn't be a buffoon or political hack to be skeptical of global warming. That would be news to The Washington Post's news desk, however.

A Post article on May 19 falsely reported that there is a "consensus" among scientists and a growing portion of the American public that human carbon emissions are causing a dangerous, long-term increase in worldwide temperatures. The facts, overwhelmingly, show no such consensus.

The Post's David A. Fahrenthold reported that Republican "warming skeptics" are becoming ever bolder on Capitol Hill even as "most" or a "consensus" of "scientists around the globe have rejected their main arguments - that the climate isn't clearly warming, that humans aren't responsible for it, or that the whole thing doesn't amount to a problem." He continued: "Public opinion has also shifted" in favor of warming's existence and importance.

5.2 earthquake shakes Zambales, Metro Manila

JC Bello
MB.com.ph
Sun, 24 May 2009 08:25 UTC

An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale shook Iba, Zambales and Subic, Olongapo City Sunday morning.

The tremor, which occurred at 9:06 a.m., was also felt in Quezon City; Ortigas Ave., Pasig City, and Makati City, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.

Strong quake hits Macedonia near Greek border

Associated Press
Sun, 24 May 2009 14:14 UTC

Skopje - A strong earthquake struck southern Macedonia near the Greek border on Sunday night, damaging some houses, officials said. No casualties were immediately reported

Thieving Whale Caught on Video Gives Rare Clues about Hunting Strategy, Sound Production

Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Mon, 25 May 2009 03:58 UTC

Marine mammal videotaped stealing fish provides information about animal's physical features

Scripps Institution of Oceanography / University of California, San Diego
For decades scientists have been intrigued by the variety of sounds emitted by sperm whales, partly due to a popular theory that suggests that the sounds might contain information about the animals' size. But historically it has been extremely difficult to demonstrate that these curious clicking noises can reveal information about the physical characteristics of the massive marine mammals. Now, researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego are unlocking some of the mysteries of sperm whale sound production in collaboration with Jan Straley, assistant professor of marine biology at the University of Alaska Southeast, Sitka Campus, and fisherman Kendall Folkert of Sitka, Alaska.

Cyclonic storm Aila to make Bengal landfall in 24 hours

Indian Express
Mon, 25 May 2009 03:09 UTC

Deep depression over the Bay of Bengal has intensified into cyclonic storm Aila. In the next 24 hours, heavy rains and gale winds are likely to sweep over Bangladesh and West Bengal, according to the Meteorological Department.

The deep depression over west central and adjoining east central and north-west Bay of Bengal intensified into a cyclonic storm and lay centred about 350 km south-southeast of Sagar Island. The system is likely to intensify further and move in a near northerly direction and cross West Bengal-Bangladesh coast.

6.1-magnitude earthquake hits New Zealand's Kermadec Islands

People's Daily
Sun, 24 May 2009 21:53 UTC

An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck the remote Kermadec Islands, north of New Zealand North Island on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The quake hit the New Zealand territory, 915 km north east of Auckland at 12:58 p.m. New Zealand local time (0058 GMT) at a depth of 12.5 km.

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Earth Changes

Tennis ball-sized hail stones pound French villages

North Korean Earthquake Magnitude 4.3 During Nuclear Testing

North Korean Earthquake Magnitude 4.7 A Possible Nuclear Test

Roger Pielke Sr. responds to disparaging remarks of AGW proponent Stephen Schneider: Let's Talk Science

Uncertain climate

5.2 earthquake shakes Zambales, Metro Manila

Strong quake hits Macedonia near Greek border

Thieving Whale Caught on Video Gives Rare Clues about Hunting Strategy, Sound Production

Cyclonic storm Aila to make Bengal landfall in 24 hours

6.1-magnitude earthquake hits New Zealand's Kermadec Islands

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