Earth ChangesS


Bad Guys

Goodbye Global Warming, Hello Biodiversity

After three decades of trying to push the global warming scam to a point where billions could be made selling and trading bogus "carbon credits", the global schemers have abandoned it in the wake of 2009 revelations that a handful of rogue climate scientists were literally inventing the data to support it.

If there is one lesson to be learned from and about environmentalists, it is that they are utterly relentless. The ultimate goal is one-world government directed from the United Nations by unelected bureaucrats who are soulless strangers to the truth, to morality, to humanity.

The United States supports this abomination to the tune of billions every year.

The United Nations is a place where some of the world's dictatorships have delegates representing them on its Human Rights Council, where a vast Oil-for-Food scandal flourished while Saddam Hussein held power in Iraq, where a single agency's sole purpose is to ensure that Palestinians remain refugees six decades after the rebirth of Israel.

Frog

Frozen Ark project collects 1000th animal DNA sample

Red Eyed Frog
© PAThe Frozen Ark Project are focusing on amphibians and sea corals.
Scientists from the University of Nottingham's Frozen Ark project have now collected over 1000 gametes, cells and DNA from endangered animals.

The samples have been frozen for possible resurrection by cloning technology in the future.

Ann Clarke, from the project, said: "They [the samples] are all to be used for a conservation of last effort before the animal goes extinct."

The material already held includes that of the endangered yellow sea horse.

The Frozen Ark project began in 2004 after scientists witnessed the extinction of the Polynesian tree snail.

Ann Clarke said: "When you watch a species die out it sharpens the mind and we thought we had to try and do this."

Animal species are dying out at an unprecedented rate according to scientists.

Bizarro Earth

New eruption could be looming in Iceland, experts warn

Iceland Volcano
© AFPThe sun sets in a sky dusted with ash from Iceland's Eyjafjoell volcano, in May.
Reykjavik - An Icelandic volcano has shown signs it could be about to burst into life, just months after an eruption from another volcano caused Europe's biggest air shutdown since World War II, experts said Monday.

"The water levels have tripled in (the river) Gigja since last night," water measurement specialist Gunnar Sigurdsson of the Icelandic Meteorological Institute told AFP.

The water flooding into the Gigja, on the Vatnajoekull glacier in eastern Iceland, comes from an icy lake in the crater of the Grimsvoetn volcano.

Due to increased thermal temperatures, the lake and surrounding glacier area has melted, filling the crater to a point where it has spilled over and caused a so-called river-run, which in turn could easily set off an eruption.

"When a river-run occurs, the pressure, in this case, in Grimsvotn, decreases, and with less pressure, there is a chance of an eruption from the volcano," Thorunn Skaftadottir, a geophysicist also with the Icelandic Meteorological Institute told AFP.

"This is not guaranteed," she pointed out, since an eruption "can only happen if the volcano has collected enough magma."

Bizarro Earth

Germany: Sinkhole Swallows Car Overnight

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© Deutsche Presse-AgenturNovember 1st 2010. Tiefenort, Germany. Depth is about 65 feet (20m).
A large sinkhole opened up overnight in the middle of residential area in Thuringia, sucking a nearby auto into its depths and forcing authorities to evacuate residents, police said on Monday.

The crater, measuring some 40 by 15 metres, appeared in the town of Schmalkalden, a police spokesperson said. The hole is believed to be some 20 metres deep, she added.

No-one was injured in the incident, but another vehicle near the hole is in danger of falling into the hole.

A number of homes in the vicinity were evacuated, and a large contingent of police and fire fighters were out trying to secure the site.

Authorities remain uncertain of what may have caused the sinkhole.

Comment: From The Telegraph, UK:

An unexplained 25m "crater" has appeared beneath a village in central Germany, swallowing a car




Cloud Lightning

Flash floods leave four dead in Vietnam

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© UnknownLast month's floods killed more than 130 people in Vietnam.
Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have left four people dead and two more missing in south-central Vietnam, officials say.

The National Steering Committee on Flood and Storm Control reported a downpour of 165 to 545 millimeters of rain over the last three days in the worst-hit region, DPA reported.

Flood waters have destroyed nearly 600 houses in central and southern parts of the country. More than 5,000 hectares of rice paddies have gone underwater.

More rain has been forecast for the coming days.

This is the latest in a series of deadly storms hitting Vietnam this autumn. Last month's floods killed 134 and left six missing in Vietnam.

Figures show that annual heavy rains and floods have killed an average of 750 people in the pacific nation for each of the past 10 years.

Arrow Down

Thailand's worst flooding for decades claims 100 lives, 5 million affected

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© MCOT
Extensive flooding in central Thailand this month killed up to 100 people and affected 5 million others, officials said Saturday.

Unusually heavy monsoon rains since Oct 10 caused flooding in 38 of 76 provinces, swamping 640,000 hectares of farmland and causing more than 10 billion baht ($333 million) in damage, the disaster prevention and mitigation department said.

It said 22 provinces were still partly submerged.

At least 100 people died during the past three weeks, mostly from drowning, the Emergency Medical Institute said.

Many died attempting to catch fish in the floodwaters, officials acknowledged. The institute said it would launch a campaign to teach more Thais how to swim.

Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said Friday that medical teams had treated 229,398 patients for flood-related ailments. Half of the patients suffering foot infections.

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Cloud Lightning

Weather in US reflects political turmoil as Midwest battered by 56 tornadoes in two days

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© Associated Press
Residents of US states from North Dakota to North Carolina are cleaning up after a fierce storm unleashed driving rain, blustery winds, heavy snow and 56 tornadoes in just two days.

The National Weather Service said the storm had caused the second-largest October tornado outbreak on record.

Injuries from the storm have been reported in states across the US.

Conditions in many states returned to normal on Thursday as the storm made its way north-east toward Ontario.

But windy weather is still being felt in some regions in the Midwest, the Great Lakes and the Ohio Valley.

Hourglass

French may bid adieu to oysters

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The herpes virus is devastating oyster populations

French oyster farmers are sounding the alarm that their business is on the verge of collapse. The much-loved mollusc is at risk of disappearing from plates due to a virus that is wiping out populations.

Over the past three years, the "huitres creuses" or cupped oysters Laurence Maheo produces have been struck by the herpes virus, which has been killing vast numbers of baby oysters throughout France and the rest of Europe.

"It's very possible that in three or four years there won't be anymore oyster farmers in France," she said last week at the Salone del Gusto, a five-day event organized by Slow Food, an international movement for the protection of biodiversity and traditional food production.

Cloud Lightning

Hurricane Tomas Hits Eastern Caribbean

Hurricane Tomas damage
© Chris Brandis/Associated PressA woman walks by damaged power lines and infrastructure after the storm hit St. James parish, Barbados, on Saturday.

Hurricane Tomas caused extensive damage to the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent on Saturday night, before weakening to a Category1 storm.

The Category 2 storm was packing winds of 155 km/h when it made landfall. It tore the roofs from homes and knocked out electricity all over the island. But as the storm moved northwest over the Caribbean early Sunday, the winds were clocked at 150 km/h.

St. Lucia, Barbados and Martinique were tallying the damage done by Tomas earlier Saturday. Torrential rain made a number of roads impassible in Barbados and high winds destroyed roofs in several communities.

Authorities in St. Vincent said they had unconfirmed reports that three people died during the storm, including two men who might have been blown off a roof.

Bizarro Earth

New Britian Region: Earthquake Magnitude 6.1 - Papua New Guinea

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© USGSEarthquake Location
Date-Time:
Sunday, October 31, 2010 at 16:38:49 UTC

Monday, November 01, 2010 at 02:38:49 AM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location:
6.604°S, 150.241°E

Depth:
5.6 km (3.5 miles)

Region:
NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Distances:
90 km (55 miles) ESE of Kandrian, New Britain, PNG

115 km (75 miles) S of Kimbe, New Britain, PNG

460 km (285 miles) NE of PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea

2325 km (1450 miles) N of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia