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The optical phenomena was caused by light reflecting through ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.
It produced a blindingly beautiful double circular rainbow effect surrounding the mid-day sun over the city in South East Asia.
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The optical phenomena was caused by light reflecting through ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.
It produced a blindingly beautiful double circular rainbow effect surrounding the mid-day sun over the city in South East Asia.
But a new book reveals the long history of climate activists making opposite predictions so they can always claim they "predicted it" correctly.
Excerpted from the new Amazon 'best seller' The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change By Marc Morano, available at Amazon & Barnes & Noble & Walmart. See: Wash Times front page feature: Morano's 'Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change' uses humor to battle alarmists.
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A section of the collapsed Maai Mahiu-Narok road near Karima in Kenya.
A section of the collapsed Maai Mahiu-Narok road near Karima in Kenya.
However the Kenya National Highway Authority (KENHA) Director General Engineer Peter Mundinia has rubbished such reports and stated that the road collapse was a result of volcanic activity in the area.
"The Mai Mahiu road was damaged as a result of volcanic activity. We can say rains catalyzed the destruction. However nobody can tell why the volcanic activity happened in that manner. If the development was caused by water alone, then we would have seen the road cut, but not the extent of this fault line. As you aware Suswa is in the Rift Valley and volcanic activities are still taking place in Suswa. We cannot be sure that tomorrow volcanic activities will take place in Suswa, it could be somewhere else."
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A homeless man asks for money outside a donut shop during white-out, blizzard-like conditions in a winter nor'easter snow storm in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. February 9, 2017.
A homeless man asks for money outside a donut shop during white-out, blizzard-like conditions in a winter nor'easter snow storm in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. February 9, 2017.
The study, published in a Nature Communications January 2018 issue, claimed historical data showed an East Coast cold snap is two to four times more likely when the Arctic is abnormally warmer than when the pole is colder. It's not a widely accepted theory among climate scientists, but the study's made the rounds in the media, touted as more evidence man-made warming is making U.S. winters colder.
The study "basically" confirmed "the story I've been telling for a couple of years now," the study's co-author, Rutgers University scientist Jennifer Francis, said. "This is no coincidence" and that "it's becoming very difficult to believe they are unrelated," Francis, who's regularly cited in the media during intense cold snaps, added.
Comment: Touting global warming nonsense is failing the acid test for whether or not someone is capable of independent thought.
See also:
- Over 31K scientists sign a petition against the global warming agenda
- Politicized science & phony icons: Polar bears keep thriving even as global warming alarmists keep pretending they're dying
- Unprecedented cold? That's global warming!
- Groupthink drives global warming zealotry
- Scientists blame the 'fudge factor' on failed global warming policies
- Scientists claim bitter cold in Southeast US part of mysterious 'hole' in global warming
- Author: Global warming and environmentalism scare has roots in Nazi tactics
Erie cracked the 190-inch mark with its snowfall Wednesday and Thursday, continuing to shatter its previous record of 152.1 inches by 3 feet.
A lot of which can be attributed to the bludgeoning it took around Christmas.
In case you haven't been outside lately, winter doesn't appear to exactly be going anywhere yet.
And Erie is closing in on Buffalo's all-time seasonal snowfall record for 199.4 inches, which stands as the big-city record, from the 1976-77 season.
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A cougar
A cougar
Wildlife biologists around the world studying these big cats have had difficulty explaining why these attacks occur, even after tracking the predators with GPS collars. A study from Colorado State University and Colorado Parks and Wildlife provides new insight. Researchers found that while the animals are generally fearful of and avoid humans, hunger can dampen that fear.
The study, "Hunger mediates apex predator's risk avoidance response in wildland-urban interface," was recently published online in the Journal of Animal Ecology.
From the Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past department and the Finnish Meteorological Institute comes this press release today.
Exceptionally large amount of winter snow in Northern Hemisphere this year
The new Arctic Now product developed by the Finnish Meteorological Institute shows with one picture the extent of the area in the Northern Hemisphere currently covered by ice and snow. This kind of information, which shows the accurate state of the Arctic, becomes increasingly important due to climate change. The Arctic region will be discussed at the Arctic Meteorological Week which begins in Levi next week.
In the Northern Hemisphere the maximum seasonal snow cover occurs in March. "This year has been a year with an exceptionally large amount of snow, when examining the entire Northern Hemisphere. The variation from one year to another has been somewhat great, and especially in the most recent years the differences between winters have been very great", says Kari Luojus, Senior Research Scientist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
Exceptionally large amount of winter snow in Northern Hemisphere this year
The new Arctic Now product developed by the Finnish Meteorological Institute shows with one picture the extent of the area in the Northern Hemisphere currently covered by ice and snow. This kind of information, which shows the accurate state of the Arctic, becomes increasingly important due to climate change. The Arctic region will be discussed at the Arctic Meteorological Week which begins in Levi next week.
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Comment: Did you catch the comment about the 'thinning' arctic ice cover?
- The Ice Age Cometh! Arctic sea ice shrinks to smallest extent ever recorded
- Why Britain Could Face Years of Artic Winters Because of Dramatic Decline in Arctic Sea Ice
NSIDC visually eliminates record Arctic sea ice gains for Autumn 2017
Nor was this the first deadly attack by a tiger in the area. In January a female worker was mauled to death by a Sumatran tiger at a palm oil plantation some 20km away.
A week ago another attack by a Sumatran tiger ended in tragedy when a local was mauled to death in the village of Mandailing Natal in North Sumatra. Villagers, believing the wild tiger to be a shapeshifting evil spirit called a "siluman," hunted the animal down and killed him. They proceeded to disembowel the dead tiger before hanging his carcass up in a hut.
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Birds NZ have found 64 little blue penguins dead on the east coast of the upper North Island, from Mangawhai to Kauri Mountain, in January.
Birds NZ have found 64 little blue penguins dead on the east coast of the upper North Island, from Mangawhai to Kauri Mountain, in January.
Little blue penguins have been particularly hard hit, with hundreds of them washing up dead or exhausted.
Seabird experts said a combination of bad weather, a lack of food, heat and a change in the prevailing maritime wind directions had coincided with when the little blues like to come ashore to moult - putting them under great stress.
Karen Saunders, director of the National Bird Rescue on Waiheke Island - an established penguin breeding ground - said she'll remember this summer as the summer of seabird starvation.
Comment: See also this report from the beginning of the year: Thousands of dead penguins wash up on beaches in Northland, New Zealand
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BIZARRE:It had had two conjoined heads, four eyes, two ears and two mouths
BIZARRE:It had had two conjoined heads, four eyes, two ears and two mouths
It had two conjoined heads, four eyes, two ears and two mouths but was unable to stand up.
The farmer said its mother rejected it so he tried to keep it alive by hand-feeding it.
But his efforts were in vain and the creature died just two days after birth, local media report.
The lamb suffered from diprosopus or craniofacial duplication, resulting in shared features.
It is rare for such creatures to survive more than a few hours after birth because their internal organs are often deformed.
Comment: Further reading: Yale's Two Climate Bombs Point to Impending Ice Age