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Aftershock rocks China lake, creates landslides

Cara Anna
news.yahoo.com
Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:45 UTC
QINGLIAN - A magnitude 5.0 aftershock shook a brimming, earthquake-formed lake and sent landslides tumbling down surrounding mountains Sunday, underscoring the persistent threat of flooding to more than 1 million weary refugees downstream.

Hongshihe quake-formed lake
©AP Photo/Color China Photo
Workers widen a sluice channel at the Hongshihe quake-formed lake at Qingchuan County in southwest China's Sichuan province, Saturday, June 7, 2008. Soldiers blew up wooden houses and other debris Sunday in a lake formed by China's deadly earthquake to speed the flow of water into a diversion channel and ease the threat of flooding for more than 1 million people in the sprawling disaster zone.

No new evacuations were ordered and the lake's dam of unstable mud and rocks did not collapse, said Hu Peng, a media officer at the disaster relief headquarters of the lake. He had no additional details.

More than 250,000 people downstream have been evacuated in recent weeks.

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Cloud Lightning

US: Authorities say 3 drowned in Midwest flooding


Associated Press
Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:20 UTC
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana - A possible tornado toppled trees in Nebraska and record flooding chased people from their Indiana homes early Sunday as the Midwest braced for still more violent weather.
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Cloud Lightning

Worst rainstorms in 50 years hit southeast China


Reuters
Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:20 UTC
The heaviest rainstorms in 50 years drenched parts of Guangdong province over the past two days, killing at least 1 student and causing widespread flooding, local media reported on Sunday.
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Update: Greece Hit by Earthquake; Two People Dead

Maria Petrakis
Bloomberg
Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:09 UTC
Greece was hit by an earthquake classified as "strong'' on the Richter magnitude scale around 3:25 p.m. local time, the U.S. Geological Survey and Greek scientists said.

The death toll stands at two, said a spokeswoman at the Interior Ministry in Athens, who commented on condition she not be identified by name in accordance with departmental policy.
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Attention

Indonesia raises alert of volcano as it spews lava

Telly Nathalia, Sugita Katyal and Alex Richardson
Reuters
Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:34 UTC


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©REUTERS/Stringer
People from a district in Minahasa look at columns of ash spewed from Mount Soputan, in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province June 6, 2008.

Indonesia has raised the alert level for a volcano on Sulawesi island to the highest after it began spewing hot lava and clouds of smoke, a vulcanology official said on Saturday.

Lava from Mount Soputan has been gliding down its slopes about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) from the crater since Friday but has not reached the foot of the mountain, said Saut Simatupang, head of Indonesia's Vulcanology Survey.
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Earthquake shakes southern Greece


BBC News
Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:53 UTC
A strong earthquake has struck southern Greece, including the capital, Athens, but there are no reports of injuries.
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Cloud Lightning

Heavy rains inundate central Indiana, forcing evacuations

Tom Murphy
Associated Press
Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:46 UTC


Indiana flood I70
©WRTV Photo
Flooding in Putman County has closed Interstate 70

Franklin, Indiana - Floodwaters forced countless residents from their homes, breached dams and closed portions of major highways, yet officials said the worst could still come as rivers continued to swell in south-central Indiana.

Gov. Mitch Daniels declared emergencies in 10 counties Saturday, after storms dumped up to 10 inches of rain on already soggy ground.
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Watch out for the "carbon nightmare"? You have got to be kidding.


From the Duke Blog
Fri, 30 May 2008 01:00 UTC
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune has a major article written by Zac Anderson titled, "Not so cool: Sarasota-Bradenton tops for 'greenhouse gas emissions".

Actually, the Sarasota-Bradenton area should get a medal for producing more CO2 than other areas. We are helping our plants grow because you see CO2 is plant food. When we breath we emit CO2. The plants love us.
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Global Warming: Facts and Fiction

Randy Pullen
Pullen for the Party
Thu, 29 May 2008 00:39 UTC
Part 1:

On a recent Sunday Square Off debate (seen Sunday mornings at 8:00am on NBC, Channel 12 in Phoenix), Arizona Democrat spokesperson Emily Bittner stated, "I am so sick of the debate as to whether or not global warming is real." Well, I had not heard the debate was over and a consensus reached. Although as time passes, the "true facts" on global warming are refuting more and more the theory that man is the cause. What follows is a three part series on facts and fiction.
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Global Warming Theory on Ice?

Joseph D'Aleo
Right Side News
Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:54 UTC
The global warmers are becoming increasingly desperate to prop up their failing prophesy in every way possible. Behaving just as Leon Festinger predicted in When Prophecies Fail. As the earth shows no net warming in a decade and cooling into its 7th year, as new models suggest cooling may continue because of natural ocean cycles, as the sun stays quiet now 12 years since the last solar minimum, usually a signal of cooling, as more and more peer review calls into question the importance of CO2 and of the the accuracy of the models and the entire greenhouse theory because of the failure of fingerprinting, the alarmists begin a frantic effort to save their failing theory. You see so many have won the lottery and want to ensure the annuity checks keep coming.
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