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Oil spills add to the damage of flood disaster in Colorado

JG Vibes
IntelliHub
Fri, 20 Sep 2013 00:00 UTC
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© Dana Romanoff/Getty Image
Workers attempt to clear a drainage that was clogged from a flash flood September 12, 2013 in Boulder, Colorado. An estimated 6-10 inches of rain fell in 12-18 hours and more is expected throughout the day. Flash flood sirens warned people to stay away from Boulder Creek and seek higher ground.
5,250 gallons of crude oil has spilled from two tank batteries in to the South Platte River south of Milliken.

The spill from a damaged tank was reported to the Colorado Department of Natural Resources Wednesday afternoon by Anadarko Petroleum, the company responsible for the spill.

Nearly 1,900 oil and gas wells in flooded areas of Colorado are shut, and 600 workers are inspecting and repairing sites, according to the Colorado Oil and Gas Association.

Anadarko, the second-largest operator in the operator in the Denver-Julesburg Basin, has shut down 250 tank batteries and 670 wells.

Comment: See also: Is there a media blackout on the fracking flood disaster in Colorado?

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Snowflake

Snow covers parts of California


Foxdc.com
Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:26 UTC
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© KCRA/NBC
California's Sierra Nevada Mountains get the season's first dusting of snow on Saturday.
The first day of fall looked more like the first day of winter in parts of California!

The area around the Sierra Nevada Mountains hit with snow and heavy rains.

The wet weather even causing slick road conditions and caught residents by surprise - who said they were just in t-shirts a few days ago!
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Bizarro Earth

Pakistan's new quake island emits methane gas


PressTV
Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:04 UTC
New Island Pakistan
© PressTV
People walk on an island that that rose from the sea just off Pakistan’s southern coast following Tuesday’s earthquake on September 25, 2013.
A new island that rose from the sea just off Pakistan's southern coast following Tuesday's earthquake is emitting methane gas.

The 7.7-magnitude quake, which killed at least 328 people, occurred on Tuesday at 4:29 p.m. local time (1129 GMT). Its epicenter was 20 kilometers below ground in the Awaran district of southwestern Balochistan province, which borders Iran.

The powerful quake caused the seabed to rise and create a new island about 600 meters off the South Asian country's Gwadar coastline in the Arabian Sea.

A man living near the coastline sent a text message to local journalist Bahram Baloch, saying "a hill has appeared outside my house."

"I stepped out, and was flabbergasted. I could see this grey, dome-shaped body in the distance, like a giant whale swimming near the surface. Hundreds of people had gathered to watch it in disbelief," the text message said.
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Bizarro Earth

New Arctic island discovered

Gayathri Vaidyanathan
Discovery News
Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:15 UTC
New Arctic Island
© RIA Novosti. Anna Yudina
New strait divides Notrbrook island in two parts.

The Russian Navy has confirmed the presence of a new island in the Arctic, which would increase the number of islands in the Franz Josef Land archipelago to 192. The report was published in the Russian news service RIONOVOSTI.

The archipelago - named after an Austrian emperor - is among the last true frontiers. Even Google maps can't zoom in close. The ice-covered islands resemble a white smattering of freckles near the Norwegian island of Svalbard below the North Pole.

Fjords and sounds surround the islands, with water depths exceeding 250 meters. The waters are covered in sea ice for 9 months a year. More than 85 percent of the islands are made up of glaciers. A forbidding place, to be sure.

It is a remoteness that men (and a few women) attempted to conquer in the early days of Arctic exploration. Franz Josef Land was officially discovered in 1873, and became a base for a number of expeditions.

The British explorer Frederick George Johnson traveled to Franz Josef Land beginning in 1894 and arrived on the Northbrook Island, the southernmost of the archipelago. He settled at so-called Camp Flora, with the goal of exploring the archipelago and collecting rocks and fossils. His collections revealed to the British Geological Society that the islands were of volcanic origin (as opposed to continental).

In 1896, Johnson suddenly saw a man not of his party on the island: "a tall man, wearing a soft felt hat, loosely made, voluminous clothes and long shaggy hair and beard, all reeking with black grease."
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Cloud Lightning

Heavy rain floods Russia's Winter Olympics site Sochi


RIA Novosti
Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:42 UTC
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© RIA Novosti. Oleg Smerechenskii
Heavy Rain Floods Russian City of Sochi
Torrential downpours in Russia's southern resort city Sochi - due to host the Winter Olympic Games in February - flooded streets and homes on Tuesday, but water is nearly gone from the streets and Sochi's swollen river levels are dropping, emergency officials said Wednesday.

Irina Rossius, the press secretary for Russia's Emergencies Ministry, said that rain had stopped completely in some areas and there was no threat to land or population, but because of "the negative outlook" of Tuesday night, a state of emergency was still in effect.

Earlier on Wednesday, however, the local Emergency Ministries branch denied that a state of emergency had been declared.
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Yellowstone National Park registers 130 earthquakes in less than a week

Tamarra Kemsley
Nature World News
Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:26 UTC
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A total of 130 earthquakes shook Yellowstone National Park between Sept. 10 and Sept. 15, according to a University of Utah press release, though most were too small for a person to feel.

Bob Smith is a geophysicist who has spent the last 53 years monitoring seismic activity in and around the Yellowstone Caldera. During this time, he told The Associated Press, he only recently witnessed two simultaneous earthquake swarms, or groupings. Then, last week, he detected three.

"It's very remarkable," Smith said. "How does one swarm relate to another? Can one swarm trigger another and vice versa?"

The answers aren't clear, though Smith said he "wouldn't doubt" if at least two of the swarms were related.

According to the University of Utah Seismograph Stations, the sequence of swarms began on Sept. 10 and have concentrated around Lewis Lake, the Lower Geyser Basin and northwest of Norris Geyser Basin.

"Notably much of the seismicity in Yellowstone occurs as swarms," the press statement notes.

"This is pretty unusual, to be honest," Smith said, explaining that an earthquake generally isn't felt until it reaches a magnitude of 3.0 on the Richter scale. The range for the latest swarms have fallen between 0.6 and 3.6.
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 7.0- 46km S of Acari, Peru


US Geological Sruvey
Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:39 UTC
Peru Quake_250913
© USGS
Event Time
2013-09-25 16:42:43 UTC
2013-09-25 11:42:43 UTC-05:00 at epicenter

Location

15.851°S 74.562°W depth=45.8km (28.5mi)

Nearby Cities
46km (29mi) S of Acari, Peru
91km (57mi) SE of Minas de Marcona, Peru
120km (75mi) SSE of Nazca, Peru
135km (84mi) SSW of Puquio, Peru
498km (309mi) SSE of Lima, Peru

Technical Details
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Snowflake Cold

September 21 breaks the record for most sea ice ever measured at either pole

Steven Goddard
Real Science
Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:09 UTC
On September 21, Antarctica had the most sea ice ever measured at either pole - 19,514,000 km². The extent of southern hemisphere sea ice has increased dramatically since the start of satellite records in 1979.
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Most people with an IQ over 30 understand that ice forms when the air is cold, but this seems to exclude a significant number of government scientists.
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Snow Globe Xmas

1975 Science News: Climate change: Chilling possibilities

John H. Douglas
Science News Vol. 107
Thu, 25 Sep 1975 03:40 UTC
Global Cooling
© Science News
The winter of 1780-81 was a particu-larly bitter one for the American Revo-lutionary forces. Washington's troops hunkered down, ill-clothed and ill-fed, around their campfires at Morristown, N.J., while a few miles away British troops enjoyed the relative luxury of an occupied New York City. But even the British had their problems, for the win-ter was so cold that parts of New York harbor froze for weeks at a time, block-ing movement of their powerful fleet. The ice even got thick enough to allow hauling cannons from Manhattan to Staten Island. The colonists had struggled against devastating winters ever since establish-ment of the earliest settlements, when one of the few holidays celebrated by the stern Piiritans was that of Thanks-giving-for a harvest bountiful enough to ensure survival until spring. Though they didn't realize it, these hardy pio-neers were trying to conquer a New World in the midst of some of the worst weather in over 2,000 years, a cold spell that had begun in the early 15th century and was to continue until around 1850, known to later climatolo-gists as the "Little Ice Age."
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Snow Globe

1975: Climatologists wanted to melt the North Pole - to keep the Earth from freezing

Steven Goddard
Real Science
Wed, 25 Sep 2013 03:24 UTC
Climate change graph
© Steven Goddard
Climatologist fear global cooling
© Newsweek
denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf
Note that this super cold period from 1975 is now understood by climatologists to have been a super hot period, thanks to pioneering work done at Penn State University.
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