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Go Figure! Times Atlas is 'wrong on Greenland climate change'

John Vidal
The Guardian UK
Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:03 UTC
Glaciologists say the ice cover is melting - but at nowhere near the 'misleading' 15% rate represented by cartographers

Map of Greenland
© Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World
The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World shows Greenland has lost around 15% of its ice cover between the 1999 10th edition (left) and 2011 13th edition.
Leading scientists have accused the world's top cartographers of making a blunder in their representation of the effects of climate change in Greenland, prompting a robust defence by the map-makers' publisher.

Maps in the 13th edition of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, published last week, show large areas of the eastern and southern coasts of Greenland coloured brown and pink, and the permanent ice cap now covering a significantly smaller area than it did in the 1999 12th edition of the atlas. The atlas shows that 300,000 sq km, or 15%, of Greenland's ice cover had been lost in the period.

"This is concrete evidence of how climate change is altering the face of the planet forever - and doing so at an alarming and accelerating rate," said the publishers of the atlas, HarperCollins in information given to the media last week and reiterated by a spokeswoman on Monday.
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More than 30 million climate migrants in Asia in 2010, report finds

Fiona Harvey
The Guardian UK
Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:03 UTC
Numbers of people displaced by environmental and weather-related disasters likely to increase, Asian Development Bank warns
Climate Refuges
© Akhtar Soomro/Reuters
A family displaced by floods shelters under a tarp during a monsoon downpour at a makeshift camp for flood victims in the Badin district in Pakistan's Sindh province, September 2011.

More than 30 million people were displaced last year by environmental and weather-related disasters across Asia, experts have warned, and the problem is only likely to grow worse as climate change exacerbates such problems.

Tens of millions more people are likely to be similarly displaced in the future by the effects of climate change, including rising sea levels, floods, droughts and reduced agricultural productivity. Such people are likely to migrate in regions across Asia, and governments must start to prepare for the problems this will create, the Asian Development Bank warned.

The costs will be high - about $40bn is the likely price for adapting and putting in place protective measures, from sea walls to re-growing mangrove swamps that have been cut down, and that can help to protect against the impacts of storm surges.

Comment: The climate changes happening right now forcing many to migrate have nothing to do with "global warming" as some see it, and are more likely to do with changes in our cosmic environment.

Global Warming And The Corruption Of Science

Forget About Global Warming: We're One Step From Extinction!

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Bizarro Earth

US Alaska: Earthquake Magnitude 5.8 - Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands


US Geological Survey
Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:08 UTC
Image
© USGS
Date-Time:
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 08:14:15 UTC

Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 11:14:15 PM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location:
52.041°N, 171.858°W

Depth:
34.7 km (21.6 miles)

Region:
FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

Distances:
65 km (40 miles) SW of Amukta Island, Alaska

104 km (64 miles) SW of Yunaska Island, Alaska

1678 km (1042 miles) WSW of Anchorage, Alaska

2430 km (1509 miles) W of WHITEHORSE, Yukon Territory, Canada
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Bizarro Earth

5.8 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Guatemala


MyFoxPhoenix.com
Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:58 UTC
Image
© USGS
A 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook Guatemala Monday around 12:30pm local time -- just a half hour after a 4.8-magnitude tremor struck near the same spot, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).

The first quake struck at a depth of 37.9 miles (61km) just 25 miles (41km) southeast of Guatemala City.

The more powerful second quake hit at a depth of 24.5 miles (39.4km) and was located 33 miles (52km) southeast of the capital city, according to USGS data.
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Bomb

History's deadliest volcano comes back to life in Indonesia, sparking panic among villagers

Robin McDowell
The Washington Post
Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:15 UTC
Indonesia Volcano
© The Washington Post
Bold farmers in Indonesia routinely ignore orders to evacuate the slopes of live volcanoes, but those living on Tambora took no chances when history's deadliest mountain rumbled ominously this month.

Villagers like Hasanuddin Sanusi have heard since they were young how the mountain they call home once blew apart in the largest eruption ever recorded - an 1815 event widely forgotten outside their region - killing 90,000 people and blackening skies on the other side of the globe.

So, the 45-year-old farmer didn't wait to hear what experts had to say when Mount Tambora started being rocked by a steady stream of quakes. He grabbed his wife and four young children, packed his belongings and raced down its quivering slopes.

"It was like a horror story, growing up," said Hasanuddin, who joined hundreds of others in refusing to return to their mountainside villages for several days despite assurances they were safe.
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Phoenix

US: Minnesota Wildfire Now 19 Percent Contained


WISN Milwaukee
Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:07 UTC
mn wildfire smoke
© WISN Milwaukee
Hundreds of firefighters continue to make progress in containing a huge wildfire in northeastern Minnesota that began a month ago.

A spokesman for the firefighters, Larry Helmerick, said Monday the 147-square-mile fire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is 19 percent contained, an improvement from 11 percent on Sunday.

Helmerick says 598 firefighters are on the ground in the Boundary Waters, where helicopters, tankers and bulldozers are being used to battle the blaze that started with a lightning strike Aug. 18.

Smoke from the blaze traveled nearly 400 miles to Southeast Wisconsin early last week. Two days of smoke and ash prompted air quality alerts across southern Wisconsin.
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Life Preserver

US: Nebraska flood victims must decide to rebuild, demolish or burn homes

Algis J. Laukaitis
Souix City Journal
Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:36 UTC
Nebraska Flood Home
© ERIC GREGORY/Lincoln Journal Star
Floodwaters in John Adkins' Plattsmouth home reached nearly the windows this summer. It now stands empty and filled with reeking mold from floor to ceiling.
As the Missouri River recedes, flood victims like Marilyn Roueche of Plattsmouth are returning home and finding what little is left of their former lives.

"The mold is so terrible in there. It's just unbelievable. It's on the ceiling and everywhere. It's eating the walls. And the cupboard doors -- they're falling off," Roueche said.

She and her husband, John Adkins, took most of their belongings and left their house along the river June 8. They rented a house in Plattsmouth and returned for the first time Sept. 6.

Inside their house, they found a stinking mess. Black, toxic mold. Seven feet of water in the basement. Floating sewage residue.

Their house appears to be a total loss. They are waiting for the insurance adjuster to make that decision and issue them a check.
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Bizarro Earth

18 Dead in India, Nepal After Magnitude-6.9 Quake


CNN
Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:07 UTC
Nepalese personnel in Kathmandu
© CNN
Nepalese personnel in Kathmandu stand on the rubble of a British Embassy wall that collapsed in Sunday's earthquake.
At least 18 people -- 13 in India and five in Nepal -- died when a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck the northern Indian state of Sikkim near the border between the two nations Sunday night, local government officials told sister network CNN-IBN.

The dead include three in Nepal's capital of Kathmandu, who died when a wall of the British embassy collapsed, according to Kedar Rijal, Kathmandu police chief. They included an 8-year-old girl, her father and a third person.

The British Foreign Office confirmed a "compound perimeter wall" of the embassy collapsed, adding that its ambassador has met with the community and offered condolences.

Police said in a statement that two more people died in the Nepalese town of Dhara, about 217 miles east of Kathmandu. About a dozen people were injured when they jumped from their houses during the quake, police said.
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Cloud Lightning

Pakistan Floods: World Ignoring Humanitarian Crisis

Dean Nelson
The Telegraph, UK
Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:40 UTC
The world is ignoring a growing humanitarian crisis in Pakistan's Sindh province where a second year of catastrophic floods has forced up to two million to flee their homes, washed away vital crops and left millions at risk of disease, according to aid agencies and local political leaders.

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Info

25 Signs That A Horrific Global Water Crisis Is Coming


The Economic Collapse Blog
Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:00 UTC
steer skull @ desert
© n/a
Every single day, we are getting closer to a horrific global water crisis. This world was blessed with an awesome amount of fresh water, but because of our foolishness it is rapidly disappearing. Rivers, lakes and major underground aquifers all over the globe are drying up, and many of the fresh water sources that we still have available are so incredibly polluted that we simply cannot use them anymore. Without fresh water, we simply cannot function. Just imagine what would happen if the water got cut off in your house and you were not able to go out and buy any. Just think about it. How long would you be able to last? Well, as sources of fresh water all over the globe dry up, we are seeing drought conditions spread. We are starting to see massive "dust storms" in areas where we have never seem them before. Every single year, most of the major deserts around the world are getting bigger and the amount of usable agricultural land in most areas is becoming smaller. Whether you are aware of this or not, the truth is that we are rapidly approaching a breaking point.

If dramatic changes are not made soon, in the years ahead water shortages are going to force large groups of people to move to new areas. As the global water crisis intensifies, there will be political conflicts and potentially even wars over water. We like to think of ourselves as being so "advanced", but the reality is that we have not figured out how to live without water. When the water dries up in an area, most of the people are going to have to leave.

And yes, it will even happen in the United States too. For example, once Lake Mead dries up there is simply no way that so many people are going to be able to live in and around Las Vegas.
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