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Nature bites back: Study shows lethal control of wolf populations increase livestock depredations


Phys.org
Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:00 UTC
pack wolves
© Wikipedia
Mollies Pack Wolves Baiting a Bison.
Washington State University researchers have found that it is counter-productive to kill wolves to keep them from preying on livestock. Shooting and trapping lead to more dead sheep and cattle the following year, not fewer.

Writing in the journal PLOS ONE, WSU wildlife biologist Rob Wielgus and data analyst Kaylie Peebles say that, for each wolf killed, the odds of more livestock depredations increase significantly.

The trend continues until 25 percent of the wolves in an area are killed. Ranchers and wildlife managers then see a "standing wave of livestock depredations," said Wielgus.

Moreover, he and Peebles write, that rate of wolf mortality "is unsustainable and cannot be carried out indefinitely if federal relisting of wolves is to be avoided."

Comment: This study is timely, as there have been numerous reports of wolf attacks in the past several months, so it is becoming obvious that measures being taken aren't working so well:

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Report claims consumers are uninformed regarding 'cowgate' contribution to global warming

Bob Yirka
phys.org
Fri, 05 Dec 2014 17:44 UTC
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Chatham House of the British Royal Institute of Affairs has published a report titled Livestock - Climate Change's Forgotten Sector (Global Public Opinion on Meat and Dairy Consumption) outlining the results of a survey the group commissioned to learn more about the public's perception of the impact that the livestock industry has on carbon emissions and ultimately global warming. Their report suggests that consumers have vastly differing views on the subject based on where they live in the world.

In addition to offering results of the 12-country survey, the authors of the report offer some background information and opinions about the carbon emission impact of the livestock industry and conclude by offering suggestions of where changes might be made. They note that global carbon emissions from the livestock industry - which they claim currently account for 14.5% of total man-made global emissions - actually surpass that of global transportation and are mainly due to emissions released directly from animals in the form of belching, flatulence or from their excrement. The main animals involved in the industry are cows, pigs and chickens - globally pork is the most popular consumed meat due to its huge popularity in China. The report also offer graphs showing the largest meat consumers by country (China tops the list) along with growth forecasts. They also offer warnings, suggesting that the livestock industry is currently on a trajectory that will see meat consumption rise by 75 percent and dairy 65 percent over just the next six years.


Comment: According to a report to the American Chemical Society by Frank Mitloehner, an air quality expert at the University of California at Davis, has denounced such scare-mongering as "scientifically inaccurate". He reveals that the UN report lumped together digestive emissions from livestock, gases produced by growing animal feed and meat and milk processing, to get the highest possible result, whereas the traffic comparison only covered fossil fuel emissions from cars. The true ratio, he concludes, is just 3 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions in America are attributable to rearing of cattle and pigs, compared with 26 per cent from transport


Comment: This report is 'a load of hot air' (excuse the pun!) - and highlights the desperate measures (like turning lights off during sex!) being taken to maintain the illusion that 'global warming' is a 'man-made' problem, so they can therefore offer the masses a 'man-made' solution. They cannot. Global warming is a scam!

The global warming scam (which is being challenged by more and more scientists) has been a goldmine for Al Gore and his ilk who have benefited like kings from their carbon trading schemes - and that is one reason the elites have been trumpeting this meme for so long

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New South Wales, Australia battered by storms all week, more on the way


news.com.au
Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:00 UTC
sydney radar
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Sydney radar this Friday arvo. Bring your brolley!
The radar image says it all. A big blob of red, yellow and blue heading your way.

If you've been in Canberra, Sydney or Brisbane in recent days and weeks, you've seen storms just about every afternoon.

This weekend, more thunderstorms, hail and powerful winds are expected in New South Wales set to last until early next week. Saturday is likely to be the worst day with heavy rains across one third of the state.

It comes after three days of severe weather in New South Wales that saw the State Emergency Service receive about 300 calls for help overnight and has led to thousands of volunteers being put on standby.

Comment: Australia is not getting a break this week - these storms are hitting just after two powerful thunderstorms in years hit Brisbane:

SOTT EXCLUSIVE: Worst Supercell thunderstorm in decades hits Brisbane, Australia and injures 39 people

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Attention

Killer whale washes up dead off Courtenay, Canada


cbc.ca
Fri, 05 Dec 2014 17:32 UTC
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© George Bates
The whale was towed in around 2 p.m. Thursday afternoon after a local resident notified DFO of what they thought was a dead orca off the beach.
Young adult female was believed to have been pregnant when spotted this summer

A young adult killer whale that washed up on the shores of Vancouver Island on Thursday has been identified as a member of the endangered southern resident population.

The whale was discovered by residents in Courtenay who saw it floating in the water and towed it to shore.

A biologist from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans - along with a whale watching expert - took preliminary samples as well as photos of the whale's dorsal fin in order to identify it.

The whale was identified as 18-year-old J-32, according to Paul Cottrell, a marine mammal coordinator with the department.
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Typhoon Hagupit triggers one of largest peacetime evacuations in Philippines

Rosemarie Francisco
Reuters
Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:48 UTC
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© Reuters
People take shelter inside a evacuation centre after evacuating from their homes due to super-typhoon Hagupit in Surigao city, southern Philippines December 5, 2014.
Around half a million people fled coastal villages and landslide-prone areas in the central Philippines on Friday, a day before a powerful typhoon was expected to hit the island nation where thousands died in a storm 13 months ago.

Typhoon Hagupit weakened slightly as it churned slowly across the Pacific, dipping below the category 5 "super typhoon" level, the Philippine weather bureau PAGASA said, but was likely to remain destructive when it hit land on Saturday.

Philippine Airlines and Cebu Pacific cancelled more than 150 flights to central and southern Philippines on Friday and Saturday. Ports shut across the archipelago after the coastguard suspended sea travel.

"Over 100,000 families are already in evacuation centers," said Corazon Soliman, Social Welfare secretary. "Multiply it by five (persons per family), that's 500,000," she said, adding that most of the residents had volunteered to leave.

Comment: People are taking no chances as most remember super Typhoon Hayain which was said to be the most powerful typhoon or hurricane in recorded history.

10,000 feared killed in Philippines by super typhoon Haiyan

Super typhoon Haiyan makes landfall in the Philippines

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Snowflake

Waist-deep snow in China with the most severe snowstorm seen in years

Robert Felix
iceagenow.info
Thu, 04 Dec 2014 15:41 UTC
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The snow is up to 3 feet (90 cm) deep, leaving residents struggling to open doors.

A blizzard lasting more than 60 hours hit Fuyuan County, a border town in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Thursday.

Local communities banded together to clear snow from roads, and the county government said a contingency plan is in place to relieve economic stresses due to the snow.

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Snowflake

First winter snowfall breaks Juneau, Alaska records

Matt Miller
ktoo.org
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 15:21 UTC
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© Matt Miller/KTOO
Return of the berm: Sunday’s record snowfall in Juneau was partially cleared by Monday morning’s commute, but it also brought the return of those familiar white piles.
The National Weather Service says Saturday night's winter storm brought record-setting snowfall to Juneau.

Eight-and-half inches of snow fell at Juneau International Airport over the 24-hour period that ended at midnight on Sunday. That broke a record of 6.3 inches of snow set back in 1946.

Just over 9 inches (9.1) fell at the National Weather Service office on Back Loop Road. That broke the record of 5.4 inches set in 2010.

An 11-year-old record of 5.8 inches of snow at Lena Point was broken with Sunday's snowfall of 9.6 inches.

At Outer Point on Douglas Island 5 inches fell, while 4.5 inches fell in Pelican on Sunday. That was nearly double the old record of 2.5 inches that fell in Pelican on Nov. 30, 2006.
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Thousands of mollusks wash ashore in South Africa - event believed to be tied to 'heavy seas'?

David Strege
Grind TV
Thu, 04 Dec 2014 20:55 UTC
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Black mussels wash ashore on a South African beach. Photo is a screen grab from the video
A stretch of Rodderg Beach in South Africa turned into "mussel beach" recently when hundreds of thousands of black mussels washed ashore in a mystery that has local officials searching for the reason why.

The beach in Plettenberg Bay was covered with the black mussels over a 325-yard section. Some believed it was caused by a red tide, a harmful algal bloom, but marine experts dismissed that possibility.

Dr. Mark Brown of Nature's Valley Trust told The Herald of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, that the massive beaching is not linked "to red tide or anything sinister at this stage."

Instead, Brown believes the black mussels were dislodged by heavy seas.

"A similar event happened in November last year in the same spot," Brown told The Herald. "Essentially large swells and currents break beds of mussels off the reef and they wash up."

Comment: Residents evacuated as Pico do Fogo volcano in Cape Verde erupts after a 20 year silence

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Wolf

Man likely to have died from a dog pack attack in Madison, North Carolina

Danielle Battaglia
News and Record
Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:31 UTC
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It was 1 p.m. and there was a chill in the air when Jose Robles left family he was visiting and went for a stroll down Bethany Road.

For Robles, 62, it would be the last steps of his life.

For his family, it was the last time they would see him alive.

That was Nov. 23.

About 10 a.m. the next day, deputies found Robles at the bottom of a steep embankment about a mile from where he was staying. He was dead.
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Arrow Down

Courtesy of Shell Oil: One of the worst oil spills in years causes environmental disaster in Niger Delta


RT
Thu, 04 Dec 2014 06:20 UTC
niger delta oil spill
© Reuters / Tife Owolabi
A villager shows a bucket of of crude oil spill at the banks of a river, after a Shell pipeline leaked, in the Oloma community in Nigeria's delta region November 27, 2014.
Fishermen and the environment of Niger Delta continue to suffer the consequences of a massive Shell oil spill in the Niger Delta - one of the worst in years. The oil giant says 1,200 barrels had been recovered as of Tuesday.

Traveling to the affected areas of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, Reuters witnessed the devastation in the delta which covers 20,000 km² within wetlands of 70,000 km².

Crude is everywhere, enough in some cases to fill Jerry can with the black gold.

"We saw dead fish, dead crabs ... This spill occurred 7-8 nautical miles from the shore ... so the volume runs into thousands of barrels," Alagoa Morris, head of the Niger Delta Resource Center for Environmental Rights Action, told Reuters.

Morris was referring to the Shell oil spill at the site on the Okolo Launch on Bonny Island in late November where an estimated 3,800 barrels of oil have leaked into the data, according to an investigation by Shell and government officials.

According to the oil giant, the spill was caused by a failed crude theft.

Comment: Once again a fragile ecosystem in Nigeria is destroyed by Shell Oil, who continues to blame saboteurs when the truth is that they refuse to properly maintain pipelines. The company has still not decontaminated the area or compensated the Bodo residents where a 2008 oil spill caused an environmental catastrophe. It seems that everywhere oil is drilled, from Louisiana to Nigeria, human rights violations abound and the oil industry's negligence continues to inflict damage on the environment with near impunity.

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