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East Siberian Sea 'boiling' with methane

Karen Graham
Digital Journal
Thu, 10 Oct 2019 21:03 UTC
Scientists studying the consequences of methane emissions from underwater permafrost in the Arctic Ocean announced this week that they found a 50-square-foot area of the East Siberian Sea "boiling with methane bubbles."
Frozen methane bubbles
© US Geological SurveyFrozen methane bubbles.
The research team, led by Igor Semiletov, from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) found the methane leak east of Bennett Island in the East Siberian Sea. The methane bubbles, which create a boiling appearance on the surface of the water, spanned an area over 50 feet. The bubbles were so pronounced they could be scooped up in buskets.

"This is the most powerful seep I've ever seen. It is manifested by an increase in methane concentration in the air up to 16 ppm (millionths of a share), which is 9 times more than the average planetary values. No one has ever registered this before," said Semiletov in a TPU statement.

Semiletov, a Russian researcher who has participated in 45 Arctic expeditions, set out on the Academic Mstislav Keldysh last month, accompanied by an international group of scientists representing the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden, reports Common Dreams.
Russian Research Ship
© Twitter
According to expedition member Sergei Nikiforov, a journalist, "They took samples of bottom sediments, water, and gas, scooping up the extraordinarily large methane bubbles in buckets rather than small plastic capsules and filling several pressurized canisters."

"The next day, the expedition stumbled upon another giant seep of roughly the same size, even though discovering seeps among rough ocean waves is usually harder than finding a 'needle in a haystack,'" Mr. Nikiforov said.
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Temperature drops more than 50 degrees as 'all-out blizzard' sets sights on Dakotas

Amanda Woods
New York Post
Thu, 10 Oct 2019 19:29 UTC
Snow in South Dakota
Snow in South Dakota
A "potentially historic" fall snowstorm is set to wallop a large stretch of the country — evolving into an "all-out blizzard" as it passes over the Dakotas and sending an arctic blast into much of the northern US, forecasters predict.

Denver was downright balmy on Wednesday with a high in the lower 80s — but the temperature had already plummeted into the upper 20s by 1 a.m. as snow began to fall, according to Accuweather. From 1 to 3 inches of snow is expected to fall in the Mile High City on Thursday.

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Snow, freezing temperatures threaten northern U.S. corn, soybeans

Karl Plume
Reuters
Wed, 09 Oct 2019 19:21 UTC
snow crop
Plunging temperatures and heavy snow forecast for the upper U.S. Plains from Friday to Sunday are likely to damage unharvested corn and soybean crops in parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa, meteorologists said on Wednesday.

The winter-like blast could dump up to 3 feet of snow in central and eastern North Dakota and send temperatures plunging into the 20s Fahrenheit in Nebraska, western Iowa, southwest Minnesota and the Dakotas, said Kyle Tapley, senior agricultural meteorologist with space technology company Maxar.

The forecast sent corn and soybean futures on the Chicago Board of Trade to multi-month highs this week on concerns that late-planted crops that have not yet reached maturity could be destroyed or damaged by the hard freeze.

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Atmospheric shift: Rare early snow & cold in the N. Hemisphere


Adapt 2030
Thu, 10 Oct 2019 12:16 UTC
Spokane early snow
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
Explanations abound why the second Historic snowstorm descends in N. America why record cold sweeps through the Netherlands, Russia, Hungary and the earliest snowfalls on record in Latvia. A million without power in California as inadequate infrastructure is blamed on climate change not poor upkeep all the while crops decimated by winter cold and snow across the USA & Canadian grow zones. Question: Where will the worlds food come from?


Comment: Professor Valentina Zharkova explains and confirms why a "Super" Grand Solar Minimum is upon us

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Early snow stalls western Canadian harvest

Marc Montgomery
RCI
Wed, 09 Oct 2019 11:15 UTC
A farmer checks on his wheat crop after snowy weather near Cremona, Alberta, north of Calgary on Sept. 30. Early snow and frost is threatening the harvests across western Canada
© Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian PressA farmer checks on his wheat crop after snowy weather near Cremona, Alberta, north of Calgary on Sept. 30. Early snow and frost is threatening the harvests across western Canada
With crops like wheat, canola, barley, peas and others ready for harvest, an early snow has caused havoc across much of western Canadian farmland.

Farmers have been as busy as possible trying to get as much harvested as possible before frost and snow ruined crops and stalled the process.

An early crop killing frost and snowfall on the last day of summer, dumped anywhere from 10 cm to one metre of snow across various regions of Alberta, basically halting harvesting. In the south, 60 per cent of the canola crop had been harvested, but province-wide less than 16 per cent had been combined. Province wide wheat harvesting was only 35 per cent complete.
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Over 500 people rescued from snow-struck Rohtang Pass in India

Suresh Sharma
Times of India
Tue, 08 Oct 2019 17:54 UTC
Himachal: Rohtang pass receives six inches snowfall,
Rohtang pass receives nearly 10 inches snowfall
More than 500 people, including tourists, were rescued from Rohtang Pass Monday morning after being stranded there for a night because of heavy snowfall.

Around 150 buses, tourist taxis, private cars and military vehicles going towards Manali from the Lahaul side on Sunday had got stuck near the pass after the area received over 25cm of snow, Manali sub-divisional magistrate Raman Gharsangi said. "A fleet of four-wheel drive vehicles was deployed to bring back the stranded. All are safe now," he said.

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Winter is coming, or is it here? Up to 10 inches of snow at Stevens Pass, Washington

Scott Sistek
komonews.com
Tue, 08 Oct 2019 17:09 UTC
Snow falls along Stevens Pass on Oct. 8, 2019
© Benjamin JurkovichSnow falls along Stevens Pass on Oct. 8, 2019
It was a dark and stormy....day?

Scattered showers moved into the Puget Sound region Tuesday as a potent Puget Sound Convergence Zone slowly moved through the region. Some of these showers brought small hail and a few bolts of lightning.

A small hail storm coated the ground on the Eastside, with photos from the area showing rather wintry scenes.

Hail reports came in from Bellevue, Renton and the Issaquah Highlands.

In Seattle, the rains brought January-like temperatures to those caught outside. The thermometer at Sea-Tac Airport registered 44 degrees at 1 p.m. -- a 10 degree drop in 33 minutes. At that moment, Seattle was 7 degrees warmer than Reykjavik, Iceland despite it being late evening in Iceland.

Meanwhile, it was all snow up in the mountains where 7-10 inches have already fallen at Stevens Pass.

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Mount Olympus receives first heavy snowfall for 2019 season in Greece


Greek City Times
Wed, 09 Oct 2019 16:55 UTC
snow
The first heavy snow for the 2019 season fell yesterday morning on Mount Olympus!

Even though in some parts of Greece people are still swimming, up north the temperature dropped to minus four degrees Celsius and the slopes and peaks of Mount Olympus were filled with snow.

A few days ago, the first snowflakes had fallen onto the highest mountain in Greece but yesterday there was a great amount that turned the entire area white!
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Ice Age Farmer Report: "Frost Apocalypse" - NoHarvest19 - When Will Feed Shortage 2020 Start? - Grand Solar Minimum


Ice Age Farmer
Wed, 09 Oct 2019 09:41 UTC
A Foot of Snow Is Forecast to Bury Crops in Great Plains, Canada
A foot of snow is forecast to bury crops in Great Plains, Canada
Say a prayer for the farmers, as a winter storm for the record books is arriving this week, marking the likely end of a very soggy autumn. For many, the worst planting on record (#NoPlant19) has devolved into the worst season in history (#NoHarvest19). Some counties are launching emergency contingency plans for animal feed shortages expected by July 2020. Christian asks: when do you see them beginning? Start growing your own food now.


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Climate models are unreliable and predictions of warming "absurd" says German professor

P. Gosselin
NoTricksZone
Tue, 08 Oct 2019 20:07 UTC
Fritz Vahrenholt
© Marcelo HernandezChairman of the Supervisory Board of Aurubis AG and Member of the Board of the German Wild Animal Foundation: Fritz Vahrenholt was Environmental Senator from 1991 to 1997.
Yesterday the online Hamburg Abendblatt published an interview with Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt on the recent climate demonstrations and alarmism. Vahrenholt calls the demonstrations and demands "over-the-top", and a real threat to the economy. He says the climate models are unreliable and predictions of great warming "absurd".

Vehrenholt is one of founders of Germany's modern environmental movement, the founder of the country's largest renewable energy company, Innogy and a member of Germany's SPD socialist parties. Lately the retired professor has become renegade among his peers by criticizing the "over-the-top climate debate" and warning against "hasty reforms".

Atmosphere of fear and hysteria

Vahrenholt tells the Abendblatt the climate debate has become hysterical and that in fact "we don't have a climate emergency." He adds: "If Greta Thunberg's demands are implemented, global prosperity and development will be massively endangered."

Vahrenholt is one of the more prominent signatories of the letter to the UN: "There is no climate emergency."

In the interview with the Abendblatt, Vahrenholt rejects Thunberg's bleak world view, noting that human society has markedly improved on almost every front over the recent decades.

"The number of hungry people in the world has halved, life expectancy has doubled, and infant mortality has been reduced to tenths. These successes have been largely due to the supply of energy for electricity, heat, transport and nutrition," said Vahrenholt.

When asked why so few German scientists (12) signed letter to the UN, Vahrenholt told the Abendblatt: "People no longer dare to express themselves differently."

The German chemistry professor says spreading panic and fear is "irresponsible" and that we should: "Stop scaring the children - they are already getting delusions."
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