tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post1484265680622901311..comments2024-03-20T06:07:07.676-06:00Comments on Jumping Jack Flash Hypothesis: It's A Gas Gas Gas: Event Update For 2018-08-24Jonny Mnemonichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516458612879773986noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-57852120946168350402018-08-26T18:11:47.303-05:002018-08-26T18:11:47.303-05:00[just for fun]
Water slide sends woman flying
http...[just for fun]<br />Water slide sends woman flying<br />https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/downtime/water-slide-sends-woman-flying/vi-BBLSWy2<br /><br />[from a different perspective]<br />A sportswriter looks at the job of wildland firefighters<br />https://wildfiretoday.com/2018/08/26/a-sports-writer-looks-at-the-job-of-wildland-firefighters/<br /><br />Peter King has been covering sports for almost 40 years and has been named National Sportswriter of the Year three times. Every week he publishes a lengthly article analyzing professional football in depth. When he wrote for Sports Illustrated the column was named Monday Morning Quarterback, but after his recent move to NBC Sports it was retitled Football Morning in America.<br /><br />Mr. King probably does not know that wildland firefighters have been called “tactical athletes”, but in his August 20 column he briefly digressed to mention wildland firefighting and honor a firefighter who was killed by a falling tree on the Mendocino Complex of Fires in Northern California [more]<br /><br />Satellite photo shows smoke from wildfires<br />https://wildfiretoday.com/2018/08/26/satellite-photo-shows-smoke-from-wildfires/<br /><br />Six states have Red Flag Warnings in effect, August 26, 2018 [more]<br /><br />[mostly Nevada and Wyoming - GEEZ it's OVER HALF of each state!]<br /><br />Picture of the Day <br />https://www.sott.net/pic-of-day/485134<br /><br />Salting the earth: North Dakota farmers struggle with a toxic byproduct of the oil boom<br />http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2018/08/salting-earth-north-dakota-farmers.html<br /><br />For the past two decades, Peterson and his wife Christine have been dealing with the spillage of saltwater — a byproduct of oil production — on their land, which grows peas, soybeans and various types of grain. Almost 40 years ago, they signed a contract with an oil company "land man" who came to their house and said there might be oil on their land. <br /><br />In 1997, two spills covered dozens of acres with more than 50,000 gallons of saltwater. A decade later, another 21,000 gallons of saltwater spilled. And since then, though their land never produced much oil or oil revenue, the Petersons say they have seen another 10 spills.<br /><br />They claim these spills were never properly cleaned up. [more] <br /><br />[clean-up? BWAH-HAH-HAAAA-HAAAAA!]<br /><br />British Columbia wildfire season in 2018 now second worst on record, behind only 2017<br />http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2018/08/british-columbia-wildfire-season-in.html<br /><br />Government statistics indicate this year's wildfire season is the second worst in British Columbia's history, burning 945 square kilometres of land. [more]<br /><br />['sheee-man, dey-ain' e'en-aw ow yeh'; but they had 600 MORE fires this year - just not as large in total area.]<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-73572629396028579472018-08-26T17:52:28.674-05:002018-08-26T17:52:28.674-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Mike Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14457050132624768898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-70129983954715805922018-08-26T14:10:13.418-05:002018-08-26T14:10:13.418-05:00Renowned coral scientist: Great Barrier Reef heade...Renowned coral scientist: Great Barrier Reef headed for massive death – “It’s the beginning of a planetary catastrophe” <br />http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2018/08/great-barrier-reef-headed-for-massive.html<br /><br />John "Charlie" Veron – widely known as "The Godfather of Coral" – is a renowned reef expert who has personally discovered nearly a quarter of the world's coral species and has spent the past 45 years diving Australia's Great Barrier Reef.<br /><br />But after a lifetime trying to make sense of the vast ecosystems that lie beneath the ocean's surface, the 73-year-old is now becoming a prophet of their extinction.<br /><br />"It's the beginning of a planetary catastrophe," he tells CNN. "I was too slow to become vocal about it." [more]<br /><br />Heat-related deaths in UK to triple by 2050, lawmakers warn <br />http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2018/08/heat-related-deaths-in-uk-to-triple-by.html<br /><br />[HAH - the ol' 2050 nonsense; probably reach that rate in 2 - 3 yrs.]<br /><br />Florida’s red tide crisis shows how global warming will make [bullshit "will make" - "IS MAKING"] the world an ugly place<br />http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2018/08/floridas-red-tide-crisis-shows-how.html<br /><br />[fucking journalists really have a hard time using the PRESENT TENSE]<br /><br />All the water birds—pelicans, egrets, cormorants—are gone.<br />Flies swarm the coast of the seaside city of Sarasota, Florida. Crows caw. The air stinks of death. Carpets of fish, belly-up, mouths gaping, line the shore. This is the putrid new world created by a toxic red algae bloom spanning 130 miles of the state’s west coast, which has so far killed masses of fish, 12 dolphins, more than 500 manatees, 300 sea turtles, countless horseshoe crabs, a whale shark, and the local economy. [more]<br /><br />Says he "couldn't believe what he was seeing!" - Amazing Sky Phenomenon<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGThLej9uFA&list=PLo273xJs-T3S873dM8-U6AuEE49Pl1LId [~ 8 min. MrMBB333 video]<br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-41832740276454980692018-08-26T14:10:08.593-05:002018-08-26T14:10:08.593-05:00Iranian F-5 fighter jet crashes at air base, pilot...Iranian F-5 fighter jet crashes at air base, pilot killed <br />https://www.sott.net/article/394420-Iranian-F-5-fighter-jet-crashes-at-air-base-pilot-killed<br /><br />The jet was flying a training mission when it crashed while trying to land on a runway at Dezful Air Base in the southwestern Khuzestan Province on Sunday, Iranian media reports. <br /><br />The spokesperson for the air base said that the jet suffered a "technical malfunction" while in flight, and commended the crew for managing to bring the plane to the runway, avoiding greater destruction. [more]<br /><br />Hurricane Harvey’s ominous forecast and how meteorologists reacted a year ago – “We’ve never forecast this much before”<br />http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2018/08/hurricane-harveys-ominous-forecast-and.html<br /><br />A year ago Hurricane Harvey rewrote the U.S. rainfall record books after a catastrophic strike and then an agonizing crawl for days along the Gulf Coast.<br />"Harvey was the most significant tropical cyclone rainfall event in United States history, both in scope and peak rainfall amounts, since reliable rainfall records began around the 1880s," meteorologists Eric Blake and David Zelinsky wrote in the National Hurricane Center's final report on Harvey. [more]<br /><br />Hurricane Lane brings record rain to Hawaii, inundates parts of Big Island<br />http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2018/08/hurricane-lane-brings-record-rain-to.html<br /><br /> Hurricane Lane secured its place in the history books before it quickly dissipated into a tropical storm and moved off from Hawaii. The storm caused damage, mostly on the Big Island, where rivers raged near Hilo and nearly 40 people had to be rescued from homes.<br />There were no deaths from the storm, which had the potential to cause much more destruction. <br /><br />As it lingered, the storm's outer bands were already over the Big Island, allowing Lane to drop 45.8 inches (116 centimeters) of rain, according to preliminary figures, National Weather Service meteorologist Brooke Bingaman said.<br /><br />That puts it in fourth place for the most rain from a storm in the United States since 1950. Hurricane Harvey, which stalled over Houston last year, dropped the most rain in that span with 60.58 inches (154 centimeters), Bingaman said. Hurricane Hiki dropped 52 inches (132 centimeters) in Hawaii in 1950, and Amelia produced a 48-inch (122 centimeter) rainfall in 1978.<br /><br />Rain was still falling on the Big Island, and the total could still increase. [more]<br /><br />[more below]<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-90833344272714668802018-08-26T08:18:51.613-05:002018-08-26T08:18:51.613-05:00Media coverage of break -up of oldest, thickest ic...Media coverage of break -up of oldest, thickest ice in the Arctic <br />ZERO coverage in New Zealand media.<br /><br />The Arctic’s oldest, thickest sea ice is ‘breaking apart’ for first time in recorded historical past<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/08/media-coverage-of-break-up-of-oldest.html<br /><br />“If this turns into a everlasting characteristic with ice away from the coast, polar bears will not have any ice to hunt on. You’ll lose the polar bear habitat.” [more; oh there's a LOT more than THAT at stake]<br /><br />Warmonger, John McCain dies <br /><br />I for one won’t be shedding any tears for this warmonger.<br /><br />Senator John McCain dies of brain cancer aged 81<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/08/warmonger-john-mccain-dies.html<br /><br />BLACK BEAR NEWS 8.25.18 Climate Change Study Finds Last Fossil Fuel Car Must Be Sold By 2035<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO0BSNh8XNY [~ 33.5 min. video]<br /><br />Mysterious violet ring appears in the sky as astronomer captures amazingly rare atmospheric phenomena over Russia on video<br />http://strangesounds.org/2018/08/mysterious-violet-ring-russia-video-sky-phenomenon.html<br /><br />In just one night, this Russian astronomer took pictures of almost all rare atmospheric phenomena, including sprites, elves, airglow, meteors, fireballs, northern lights over Irbit, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. [more]<br /><br />Climate Change Policy Toppled Australia’s Leader. Here’s What It Means for Others.<br />https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/climate/australia-climate-change.html<br /><br />Hurricane Lane Brings Hawaii a Warning About Future Storm Risk<br />https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25082018/hurricane-lane-climate-change-ocean-sea-surface-temperature-hawaii-global-warming-tropical-weather<br /><br />Climate scientists have been warning that warmer oceans and atmosphere will supercharge tropical weather systems. Globally, they generally expect fewer tropical storms overall but an increase in the most intense storms. But they also say it's important to understand that there will be regional nuances. [more]<br /><br />ME sparks G3 Strong geomagnetic storm; reverse polarity sunspot appears on the Sun<br />https://watchers.news/2018/08/26/cme-sparks-g3-strong-geomagnetic-storm-reverse-polarity-sunspot-appears-on-the-sun/<br /><br />G3 Strong geomagnetic storm levels associated with the passage of slow-moving August 20th Coronal Mass Ejection were observed early August 26, 2018. [more]<br /><br />Climate change is melting the French Alps, say mountaineers<br />http://www.fasterthanexpected.com/blog/<br /><br />Emissions in savannas triple previous estimates<br />http://www.fasterthanexpected.com/2018/08/24/emissions-in-savannas-triple-previous-estimates/<br /><br />Widespread tree felling in African savannas is producing at least three times as many carbon emissions as was previously thought, research suggests. <br /><br />Combined carbon losses from degradation and deforestation are between three and six times higher than previously thought, depending on the data used, the team says. [more]<br /><br />Sea level rise already causing billions in home value to disappear<br />http://www.fasterthanexpected.com/2018/08/23/sea-level-rise-already-causing-billions/<br /><br />Sea level rise may seem like a far-off threat, but a growing number of new studies, including one out Thursday, shows that real estate markets have already started responding to increased flooding risks by reducing prices of vulnerable homes. [more]<br /><br />Crop damage mounts for EU farmers after torrid summer<br />http://www.fasterthanexpected.com/2018/08/22/crop-damage-mounts-for-eu-farmers-after-torrid-summer/<br /><br />European farmers are counting the cost of a summer heatwave that has shrunk cereal harvests and shriveled pastures, leaving some farms struggling to survive and shutting the EU out of lucrative export markets. [more]<br /><br />Bear Defending Cub Attacks 10-Year-Old Boy at Yellowstone National Park<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/bear-defending-cubs-attacks-10-123653528.html<br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-87591805679693815412018-08-26T08:18:46.513-05:002018-08-26T08:18:46.513-05:00It was only a matter of time before the H2S began ...It was only a matter of time before the H2S began making itself known, as in past extinction events. Sure, it's always around in sewer systems, oil facilities and such, but now it's blowing around in the atmosphere, bubbling up from the ocean and - like the full hypothesis states - coming from all sorts of water sources (and probably from peat bogs and boreal forest waste too). The IPCC isn't really doing ANYTHING but noting what's coming, and downplaying that, at best (to me they're out and out LYING about all of it). Meanwhile, as Jonny documents unexplained "medical events" or "episodes" are erupting all over.<br /><br />Boy saves older brother from attack by man-eating Hyena in Somaliland <br />https://www.sott.net/article/394384-Boy-saves-older-brother-from-attack-by-man-eating-Hyena-in-Somaliland<br /><br />'Worst flooding in a century' kills 106 across Kerala state in India - UPDATE: Death toll rises to 445 <br />https://www.sott.net/article/394383-Worst-flooding-in-a-century-kills-106-across-Kerala-state-in-India-UPDATE-Death-toll-rises-to-445<br /><br />[more here, including ~ 7 min. video]<br />Flooding in Kerala, India.<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-floods-in-kerala.html<br /><br />Woman fights off alligator while swimming in lake in Hernando, Florida <br />https://www.sott.net/article/394376-Woman-fights-off-alligator-while-swimming-in-lake-in-Hernando-Florida<br /><br />Felicitie Gillette was swimming in Lake Hernando about 1 a.m. Wednesday when an alligator, estimated to be between 5 and 6 feet, grabbed her left arm, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation (FWC) Commission said. <br /><br />Gillette, who authorities said is homeless, wrestled with the gator until she freed herself from its grip and made it to land, where she called 911. <br /><br />"It came up out of nowhere and attacked," Gillette reportedly said in the call. "I'm freaking out." [more; WOW, she fought it off!]<br /><br />Waterspout filmed over lake in Odisha, India <br />https://www.sott.net/article/394369-Waterspout-filmed-over-lake-in-Odisha-India<br /><br />Toddler killed at home by dog in Bloemfontein, South Africa <br />https://www.sott.net/article/394347-Toddler-killed-at-home-by-dog-in-Bloemfontein-South-Africa<br /><br />Sunday, 26 August 2018<br /><br />8/25/2018 -- Large Earthquakes strike Mideast Iran + Alaska -- Global seismic unrest underway<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/ [contains next story too]<br /><br />2 killed, 240+ injured in 6.1 quake in western Iran's border with Iraq<br /><br />[article begins with ~ 77 min. Dutchsinse video]<br /><br />Predicting the final weeks of the ice melt <br /><br />[more here]<br />Shallow M6.0 earthquake hits Kermanshah, killing at least 3 people and injuring over 300, Iran<br />https://watchers.news/2018/08/26/shallow-m6-0-earthquake-hits-iran/<br /><br />At least 3 people have been killed and more than 300 were injured after M6.0 earthquake hit western Iran at 22:13 UTC on August 25, 2018 (02:43 local time, August 26). USGS is reporting a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles). EMSC is reporting M6.1 at a depth of 10 km. The Iranian Seismological Center is reporting M5.9 at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). The quake was followed by at least 5 M4+ aftershocks and numerous smaller ones. [more]<br />Slow melt rate appears on the verge to take a dive<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/08/predicting-final-weeks-of-ice-melt.html<br /><br />Drought wipes out Qld grain crops, forces tonnes to be imported from WA to help farmers<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/08/queensland-has-to-import-grain-to-help.html<br /><br />The commodity is normally exported from Queensland, but due to poor growing conditions it is having to be shipped in to supply feedlots.<br /><br />"It is certainly not common, and unfortunately it doesn't look like stopping in the near future." [more]<br /><br />[more below]<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.com