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Personal liability of company directors for climate change and broadcasters no consensus on CO2

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In Australia now little talked about is company directors can be held personally liable if their companies do not take unrealistic actions to combat climate change. The beginning fines start at $200,000. This all based on "the 97% consensus" that dictates climate change is irrefutable and due to human activity. When looking at the 2016 National Survey of Broadcast Meteorologist just 12% believe changes in Earth's weather patterns are entirely due to human influence. There need to be some serious questions asked as to what a financial regulatory board is doing leading the climate change regulation rewrite.


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10 resorts in California's Central Sierra mountains receive 50 feet or more snowfall for the season so far

A March 6 shot of Heavenly, after nearly two feet of snow had dumped over the weekend.
© Elizabeth RauchA March 6 shot of Heavenly, after nearly two feet of snow had dumped over the weekend.
This year's snowfall count has been creeping higher and higher with each winter storm that has hit Lake Tahoe, causing several area resorts to hit a notable mark: Northstar, Kirkwood and Heavenly all either reached or surpassed 600 inches of snow on the season after this most recent storm. Put another way, that's 50 feet of snow.

As of March 7, Northstar, Kirkwood and Heavenly have all collected between 600 and 612 inches.

It should be noted, however, that these aren't the only resorts piling on the powder. There are a total of 10 resorts in the region that have surpassed 600 inches this year. At a virtual tie, Mt. Rose and Sugar Bowl are leading the pack and nearing 700 inches. Mt. Rose is boasting 680 inches, while Sugar Bowl is just behind at 679.

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A months' worth of snow fell in just 2 hours on Kamloops, Canada

A truck plows a parking lot in Sahali as Kamloops residents dig out of a surprise snow storm March 8, 2017.
© BRENDAN KERGIN / iNFOnews.caA truck plows a parking lot in Sahali as Kamloops residents dig out of a surprise snow storm March 8, 2017.
A month's worth of snow fell in about two hours this morning in Kamloops, leading to slow roads and car crashes.

The vast majority of the snow arrived between 4 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. Environment Canada meteorologist Alyssa Charbonneau says while only 3 centimetres were reported at the Kamloops Airport, she's seen unverified reports of up to 10 cm around the city.

"There was a line of heavy flurries that swept through the Kamloops and South Thompson area," she says. "It was quite intense and it was actually fairly localized."

The flurries hit Kamloops hard though, with streets slick with snow before crews could clear them. In the downtown area, Coun. Denis Walsh witnessed a pedestrian nearly crushed by a pickup truck after the driver lost control and slide sideways through the intersection at 3 Avenue and Seymour Street and into the building on the northeast corner of the intersection.

"The man pushed off the building," Walsh says. "He got his hand stuck by the truck, otherwise he'd be pasted up against the building."

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SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - February 2017: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

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Februrary 2017 continued on as January started. Massive flooding in California due to "atmospheric rivers" dumping large amounts of rain on coastal areas and snow on the Sierra Nevada. The snow melt from this caused further flooding in Nevada. Eastern Canada also experienced record snowfall, as did Iran, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan and Japan.

Wildfires broke out in Eastern Australia and New Zealand while record rainfall inundated Western Australia. Major flooding also hit several South American nations including Chile, Peru and Colombia.

There are at least 30 active volcanoes around the world right now, including a really impressive one in Guatemala. Massive earth cracks opened in Pakistan and Italy.

These are just some of the chaotic events we present in this month's Sott 'Earth Changes' video compilation.


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Shock finding: P-T mass extinction was due to an ice age

From the UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE

The cold exterminated all of them

Through age determinations that are using the radioactive decay of uranium,scientists have discovered that one of the greatest mass extinctions was due to an ice age and not to a warming of Earth temperature.
Permian-Triassic boundary
© H. Bucher, ZürichPermian-Triassic boundary in shallow marine sediments, characterised by a significant sedimentation gap between the black shales of Permian and dolomites of Triassic age. This gap documents a globally recognized regression phase, probably linked to a period of a cold climate and glaciation.
The Earth has known several mass extinctions over the course of its history. One of the most important happened at the Permian-Triassic boundary 250 million years ago. Over 95% of marine species disappeared and, up until now, scientists have linked this extinction to a significant rise in Earth temperatures. But researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, working alongside the University of Zurich, discovered that this extinction took place during a short ice age which preceded the global climate warming. It's the first time that the various stages of a mass extinction have been accurately understood and that scientists have been able to assess the major role played by volcanic explosions in these climate processes. This research, which can be read in Scientific Reports, completely calls into question the scientific theories regarding these phenomena, founded on the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere, and paves the way for a new vision of the Earth's climate history.

Teams of researchers led by Professor Urs Schaltegger from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Faculty of Science of the UNIGE and by Hugo Bucher, from the University of Zürich, have been working on absolute dating for many years. They work on determining the age of minerals in volcanic ash, which establishes a precise and detailed chronology of the earth's climate evolution. They became interested in the Permian-Triassic boundary, 250 million years ago, during which one of the greatest mass extinctions ever took place, responsible for the loss of 95% of marine species. How did this happen? for how long marine biodiversity stayed at very low levels ?

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Etna volcanic ash advisory and world starts transition to indoor agriculture

Satellite image of Etna volcano on 27 Feb 2017
Satellite image of Etna volcano on 27 Feb 2017
Volcanic Ash Advisory from the Etna Volcano eruption, new ways to grow tomatoes at -45C on the permafrost of Siberia in triple enclosed greenhouses and Australian farmers and cherry growers are moving to enclose crops and orchards in hectare sized greenhouses due to the destabilizing climate.


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Yacht club reopens after crew clears away huge ice shoves in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

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© Fond Du Lac Yacht Club
The view of the Fond Du Lac Yacht Club shoreline Friday morning, a much different scene by Friday night.

"We've had ice shoves, but nothing like this," said Jim Meisinger, with the Fond du Lac Yacht Club.

Winter Storm Donna's gusty winds shoved ice covering Lake Winnebago onto the shoreline; it piled up against the building.

"The whole side of the wall was completely engulfed in ice," said Tom Clausen, a board member at the Yacht Club.

The ice shoves were so severe the Yacht Club closed until the necessary equipment arrived to deal with the ice.


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Hawaii picks up 8 inches of snow overnight following blizzard

A NASA satellite captured snow on the Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa volcanoes on December 25, 2016
© NASAA NASA satellite captured snow on the Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa volcanoes on December 25, 2016
Do you want to build a snowman in paradise? Hawaii's mountainous peaks picked up 8 inches of snow overnight this week after a blizzard hit the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Most of the snow fell late Tuesday into early Wednesday, and a blizzard warning for Mauna Kea and its sister peak Mauna Loa was canceled Thursday. A few additional snow showers were forecast, with no accumulation expected.

While the summits received snow, the rest of the Big Island dealt with heavy rain and thunderstorms that pelted the lower elevations. Both Oahu and Kauai were under flash flood warnings. Temperatures were mild, with highs in the 70s and 80s.

Snow on Hawaii's peaks is not uncommon in the colder months because they are nearly 14,000 feet high. Mauna Kea has a sub-Arctic climate, the weather service said.

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Western USA snowpack is so deep that scientists can't measure it accurately

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© Benjamin Spillman/Reno Gazette JournalHydrologist Jeff Anderson and district conservationist Jim Gifford of the Natural Resources Conservation Service Nevada ready a 20-foot tube used to measure snow depth in order to take a measurement of the snowpack on Slide Mountain on March 1, 2017. The pack measured 212 inches.
One sure sign the Sierra Nevada is experiencing a historic winter is the snowpack is getting too deep for devices scientists use to measure it.

It's a problem that cropped up Wednesday when researchers sought to confirm snow depth at a data site on Slide Mountain at Mount Rose Ski Tahoe near Reno.

"We're not even close," hydrologist Jeff Anderson said after jamming an aluminum tube more than 16 feet into the snowpack hoping to reach the ground below.

The snow-measuring snafu provided real life confirmation of what scientific instruments on the site already showed.

The Sierra Nevada is wrapping up a historic winter and that's huge news for Nevada and California, states that have spent the past several years parched in drought.

"Who would have thought this two years ago when we were measuring the worst snowpack on record," Anderson said.

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Record snow blankets Iceland, food costs spike in EU & Spring arrives early to parts of US

People had some hard work in store for them on Sunday when it came to retrieving their cars.
© Gunnar FreyrSnow blankets Iceland.
Record snows blanket Iceland, inflation up 8.8% in EU driven by 60% rises in vegetables and food. Weather channel claims spring arrives 20 days early and then freeze blankets S.E USA. Polar Vortex is set to roll over North America in coming week and Alaska -40C.