tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post2614327725114470087..comments2024-03-20T06:07:07.676-06:00Comments on Jumping Jack Flash Hypothesis: It's A Gas Gas Gas: Event Update For 2017-08-02Jonny Mnemonichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516458612879773986noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-32927396677655642422017-08-04T16:32:09.974-05:002017-08-04T16:32:09.974-05:00African sand over Florida: The world’s largest des...African sand over Florida: The world’s largest desert, the Sahara, covers Florida with dust<br />http://strangesounds.org/2017/08/sahara-dust-florida-map.html<br /><br />Earthquake swarm continues within and around The Long Valley Caldera: 371 quakes in one week<br />http://strangesounds.org/2017/08/earthquake-swarm-continues-within-and-around-the-long-valley-caldera-371-quakes-in-one-week.html<br /><br />Yellowstone earthquake activity is currently at elevated levels<br />http://strangesounds.org/2017/08/yellowstone-earthquake-activity-elevated-july-2017.html<br /><br />Popsicles that don’t melt exist<br />http://strangesounds.org/2017/08/popsicles-that-dont-melt.html<br /><br />TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-24124096327980745492017-08-04T15:09:57.518-05:002017-08-04T15:09:57.518-05:00Thanks Jonny. I grok.
Flash flood traps drivers ...Thanks Jonny. I grok.<br /><br />Flash flood traps drivers in Acton, California; 1.5 inches of rain in just half an hour <br />https://www.sott.net/article/358341-Flash-flood-traps-drivers-in-Acton-California-1-5-inches-of-rain-in-just-half-an-hour<br /><br />It felt like monsoon season in car-loving California when a freak downpour in Acton, north of Los Angeles, triggered a flash flood that washed out roads and trapped drivers inside their vehicles. <br /><br />The sludge engulfed roads, overflowed onto a busy motorway and even halted local train services. [more]<br /><br />Wildfire covers 110 square kilometres in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia; closes large stretch of highway <br />https://www.sott.net/article/358315-Wildfire-covers-110-square-kilometres-in-Kootenay-National-Park-British-Columbia-closes-large-stretch-of-highway<br /><br />[Verdant Creek Wildlfire]<br /><br />Shallow 5.1 magnitude earthquake registered in Tonga region <br />https://www.sott.net/article/358307-Shallow-5-1-magnitude-earthquake-registered-in-Tonga-region<br /><br />82-year-old man found dead in field probably struck by lightning in Brewster, Ohio <br />https://www.sott.net/article/358306-82-year-old-man-found-dead-in-field-probably-struck-by-lightning-in-Brewster-Ohio<br /><br />East Field farming wife recalls crop circles appearing in Wiltshire in the 1940s and 50s <br />https://www.sott.net/article/358323-East-Field-farming-wife-recalls-crop-circles-appearing-in-Wiltshire-in-the-1940s-and-50s<br /><br />Tom<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-61579014211072323622017-08-04T12:02:21.822-05:002017-08-04T12:02:21.822-05:00Actually, H2S doesn't absorb easily through th...Actually, H2S doesn't absorb easily through the skin. But if you get it in your eyes or ears or nose or mouth then I think that's what affects you, or at least really seriously affects you. So that's probably what's killing people in the water. And some of these people dying in the water must be getting knocked unconscious or dying virtually instantly. If someone holds their breath and jumps in the water, then how is it that they don't resurface? The ONLY way that can happen - given that they've just taken a big breath, which provides buoyancy - is if they immediately exhale that breath after they enter the water and then inhale water. A person would only do that if they'd been rendered unconscious or dead before they surface even once - which means that at least sometimes people are being affected nigh-instantly after entering the water.<br /><br />As for the people dying NEAR bodies of water, I think they're either inhaling it in gas form - and the smell might be masked by other nearby odors, or they never get a chance to talk about what they smelled because they're dead, or at higher concentrations it may not even smell that terrible, like flowers or licorice or something - not incredibly alarming.<br /><br />The gas may also have accumulated in areas where there is water, e.g. low-lying areas, then adsorbed onto matter in the area. Then if you sit in the grass and touch the grass then rub your eyes, or eat some food with contaminated hands...that sort of thing.<br /><br />And finally, there's also the delayed-reaction ability, where you get poisoned, but don't drop dead for minutes, hours or even a few days later. That adds to the appearance of randomness in the dying and makes it more sneaky and insidious (and also easier for 'the authorities' to keep secret).<br />Jonny Mnemonichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06516458612879773986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-48678685708306821052017-08-04T09:42:00.020-05:002017-08-04T09:42:00.020-05:00ok, whatever (the original comment is on zeta, so ...ok, whatever (the original comment is on zeta, so you can check to see what's missing) - here's some more stuff I hope gets delivered, starting with an article mentioned in one of the previous comments (Rice Farmer, above)<br /><br />According to WikiLeaks, this is how the CIA spies on your everyday life <br />https://www.sott.net/article/358314-According-to-WikiLeaks-this-is-how-the-CIA-spies-on-your-everyday-life<br /><br />[Home Security Systems, Smart TVs, Android devices, Apple products, WiFi, Microsoft] <br /><br />Cannabis company buys entire California ghost town to create marijuana tourist destination <br />https://www.sott.net/article/358309-Cannabis-company-buys-entire-California-ghost-town-to-create-marijuana-tourist-destination<br /><br />A 100-year-old ghost town founded during the California Gold Rush is being modernized for the "green rush" after a cannabis company purchased all the land, buildings and businesses for $5 million. [more]<br /><br />Top US military official says US plans 'global' drills to counter Russia and other 'complex threats' <br />https://www.sott.net/article/358316-Top-US-military-official-says-US-plans-global-drills-to-counter-Russia-and-other-complex-threats<br /><br />[pfft - the military that's lost the last bunch of "wars" it "fought" - wasting TRILLION$ and costing too many (innocent) lives - r i g h t ...]<br /><br />TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-43374013642094066652017-08-04T09:23:43.609-05:002017-08-04T09:23:43.609-05:00Top EPA official resigns over direction of agency ...Top EPA official resigns over direction of agency under Trump – “The truth is there is NO war on coal, there is NO economic crisis caused by environmental protection, and climate change IS caused by man’s activities”<br />http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2017/08/top-epa-official-resigns-over-direction.html<br /><br />Elizabeth "Betsy" Southerland ended her 30-year run at the agency with a scathing exit letter in which she claimed that “the environmental field is suffering from the temporary triumph of myth over truth.” She last worked as the director of science and technology in the Office of Water.<br /><br />“The truth is there is NO war on coal, there is NO economic crisis caused by environmental protection, and climate change IS caused by man’s activities,” Southerland wrote, directly rejecting many of Trump’s claims.<br /><br />Southerland said that since EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt took over the agency, dozens of regulations designed to protect the environment had been repealed, and Trump’s proposed budget cuts to the agency would devastate its ability to enforce existing protections and create new ones. [more]<br /><br />[as soon as I captured this, an inexplicable "this page is having trouble loading" message appeared on a blank screen]<br /><br />The strongest storm of the the year moving dangerously slowly hits southern Japan a month after 36 people died in the area from storms <br />http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/08/the-strongest-storm-of-the-year-moving.html<br /><br />At a whopping 8,776 square miles (22,730 sq km): The Gulf of Mexico has yielded the largest 'dead zone' ever recorded in the area. <br />http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/08/at-whopping-8776-square-miles-22730-sq.html<br /><br />[how much of this is the "after-effect" of the huge oil rig blowout in the Gulf that's been forgotten by many?]<br /><br />In the words of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, this finding shows that "nutrient pollution, primarily from agriculture and developed land runoff in the Mississippi River watershed is continuing to affect the nation's coastal resources and habitats in the Gulf." [more]<br /><br />Heavy monsoon storm in the Valley, Arizona: Downbursts, high winds, tornado in Phoenix, 20,000 people in the dark<br />http://strangesounds.org/2017/08/heavy-monsoon-storms-valley-phoenix-arizona-video-picture.html<br /><br />Powerful monsoon storms brought heavy rain, flooding, wind, lightning, hail and even a tornado to parts of the Valley on August 3, 2017. [more]<br /><br />The Buzzer: The mysterious and ghostly radio station that nobody seems to run<br />http://strangesounds.org/2017/08/the-buzzer-the-mysterious-and-ghostly-radio-station-that-nobody-seems-to-run.html<br /><br />This ghostly Russian radio station has ‘buzzed’ every day since the 1970s. [more]<br /><br />On Environment and Energy, Trump Often Picks His Own Facts<br />https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/climate/trump-climate-fact-check.html<br /><br />Australia's carbon pollution soars, government data shows <br />http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/australias-carbon-pollution-soars-government-data-shows-20170804-gxpd71.html<br /><br />Keystone XL: Low Oil Prices, Tar Sands Pullout Could Kill Pipeline Plan<br />https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04082017/keystone-xl-pipeline-tar-sands-oil-competition-hearing-future<br /><br />[leaving what? an environmental disaster]<br /><br />TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-67468756421494711882017-08-04T09:23:12.150-05:002017-08-04T09:23:12.150-05:00[heh, make that 3 comments - I forgot how big it w...[heh, make that 3 comments - I forgot how big it was]<br /><br />Friday, 4 August 2017<br />Climate highlights in Alaska <br />Emissions from melting permafrost in Alaska occuring more rapidly than expected<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2017/08/climate-highlights-in-alaska.html<br /><br />Pollution from fires in Pacific Northwest <br /><br />Portland’s Air Is Even More Polluted Than Shanghai’s Right Now Due to Wildfire Smoke<br />The air quality is so bad, Portland has even closed its pools for today and tomorrow.<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2017/08/pollution-from-fires-in-pacific.html<br /><br />Carbon dioxide and methane released in November 2016 Kaikoura earthquake <br />Solving the mystery of the Kaikōura bubbles<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2017/08/carbon-dioxide-and-methane-released-in.html<br /><br />There is “an awful lot of methane dissolved in the seawater,” said Matthew, “the highest levels in New Zealand seawater that Cliff’s ever measured.”<br /><br />Eight months after mysterious sheets of bubbles appeared rising from the seabed off the Kaikōura coast, scientists have made a surprising discovery about their origins.<br /><br />new data suggests the bubbles are coming from two sources – one deep within the earth’s crust, and the other related to shallower oil and gas deposits. [more]<br /><br />Dangerous heatwave in Europe <br /><br />Southern, eastern Europe and the Balkans plunged into a dangerous heatwave from southern Spain to Hungary as temps rise above 40 deg C!<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2017/08/dangerous-heatwave-in-europe.html<br /><br />[where's SOTT on this?]<br /><br />B.C.’s heat wave is breaking maximum temperature records that have stood for over 100 years: report<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2017/08/bc-heatwave-breaking-records.html<br /><br />[see also, embedded article]<br />Blistering Heat Wave Threatens Seattle, Where Only a Third Have Air-Conditioning<br /><br />[more below]<br /><br />Tom<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-34818723933795787932017-08-04T09:21:34.852-05:002017-08-04T09:21:34.852-05:00Here's the 1st two comments that somehow got l...Here's the 1st two comments that somehow got lost in translation this morning. [from zeta]<br />Another fire rips through Dubai 'Torch' Tower: That's 6 skyscrapers in 3 years! <br />https://www.sott.net/article/358302-Another-fire-rips-through-Dubai-Torch-Tower-Thats-6-skyscrapers-in-3-years<br /><br />Dubai's firefighters battled the huge fire for hours before snuffing out the flames at the 79-storey Dubai Torch Tower. <br /><br />Videos posted online show the flames spreading upwards while pieces of burning debris are falling onto the streets of Dubai's marina. <br /><br />It's the second time in two years the Torch Tower has been engulfed in flames. [more]<br /><br />[SOTT]Comment: See also: 5 skyscraper infernos in 4 years: Massive fire rips through 2 residential towers in Ajman, Dubai <br /><br />Humans had farms 30,000 years earlier than previously thought <br />https://www.sott.net/article/358304-Humans-had-farms-30000-years-earlier-than-previously-thought<br /><br />It's an idea that could transform our understanding of how humans went from small bands of hunter-gatherers to farmers and urbanites. Until recently, anthropologists believed cities and farms emerged about 9,000 years ago in the Mediterranean and Middle East. But now a team of interdisciplinary researchers has gathered evidence showing how civilization as we know it may have emerged at the equator, in tropical forests. Not only that, but people started farming about 30,000 years earlier than we thought. [more]<br /><br />Meteorite crashes into field in Rajasthan, India <br />https://www.sott.net/article/358305-Meteorite-crashes-into-field-in-Rajasthan-India<br /><br />Flash floods kill 7 and leave 27 missing in Vietnam <br />https://www.sott.net/article/358301-Flash-floods-kill-7-and-leave-27-missing-in-Vietnam<br /><br />Mount Sinabung volcano spews ash cloud sparking 'doomsday' scenes on Indonesian island <br />https://www.sott.net/article/358295-Mount-Sinabung-volcano-spews-ash-cloud-sparking-doomsday-scenes-on-Indonesian-island<br /><br />The Indonesian island of Sumatra is reeling after being struck by one of Mount Sinabung's biggest eruptions of the year. Villagers were pictured running for cover, as volcanic ash as high as 4.2km into the sky came raining down from the skies above.<br /><br />On Wednesday, the volcano erupted at least 19 times between 8am and noon local time causing heavy lava flows, volcano monitoring expert Isya Nurrahmat Dana told the AP. [more]<br /><br />Signs and Portents: Two-headed piglet born in Hebei province, China<br />https://www.sott.net/article/358284-Signs-and-Portents-Two-headed-piglet-born-in-Hebei-province-China<br /><br />[continued below]<br /><br />Tom<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-7098063919202979022017-08-04T07:57:37.535-05:002017-08-04T07:57:37.535-05:00News Links, August 4, 2017
Rice Farmer
http://ric...News Links, August 4, 2017<br />Rice Farmer <br />http://ricefarmer.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Carmageddon for Hyundai, GM, Chrysler, Ford<br /><br />Venezuelan Currency Now Worth Less Than World Of Warcraft Gold<br /><br />Amazon is the New Tech Crash<br /><br />Australia's Commonwealth Bank accused of massive money-laundering breaches<br /><br />Toronto Housing Bubble Pops. "Genuine Fear" of Price Collapse<br /><br />USD: Setting Up a Rip-Your-Face-Off Rally or in Freefall?<br /><br />Shades of 2008: UK and US Savings Rate Plunges, Debt Comes Full Circle<br /><br />Central Banks Puzzled as Global Inflation Hits Lowest Level Since 2009: Solving the Puzzle<br /><br />Dollar's loss of reserve status will goose monetary metals, Embry tells KWN<br /><br />Gold Coins and Bars See Demand Rise of 11% in H2, 2017<br /><br />India's Economy Crashes After "Mind-Bogglingly Inane" Tax System Strikes Back<br /><br />Crypto-currencies are mirroring pre-crash banking systems<br /><br />Naked passenger delays Las Vegas flight<br /><br />The End of Globalism<br /><br />While you were paying attention to North Korea, another Asian nuclear power was destabilizing [Pakistan]<br /><br />China ramps up rhetoric in border row with India ahead of key meetings [the place they're talking about is TINY]<br /><br />European Migrant Crisis Escalates: Italy Impounds German NGO Refugee Ship<br /><br />Quebec Is "Close To Its Limits" As Refugees Flood Across US-Canada Border <br /><br />Do we need mining quotas to prevent mineral depletion? [quotas are no help - they only delay the inevitable]<br /><br />Nuclear Regulatory Commission accused of putting millions of lives and trillions of dollars at risk [NO SHIT!]<br /><br />Nuclear's Demise Continues: Another Huge Project Cancelled [GOOD!]<br /><br />Spain's Oldest Nuclear Power Reactor Facing Final Closure<br /><br />Who Should Pick Up The Tab For Abandoned Oil Wells?<br /> <br />U.S company Xcoal Energy to sell steam coal to fuel-strapped Ukraine<br /><br />Europe's Big Oil To Tackle Huge Debt Problem<br /><br />Americans Die Younger Despite Spending the Most on Health Care<br /><br />Want to Slow Global Climate Change? Don't Have Kids, Study Suggests.<br />Now you're talking! -- RF<br /><br />Humans Have Been Cutting Down Forests For 45,000 Years<br /><br />Study finds human influence in the Amazon's third 1-in-100 year drought since 2005<br /><br />Deforestation and climate change appear to be amplifying droughts in the Amazon<br /><br />'Flash Drought' Spreads Across Montana in Less Than 3 Months<br />The drought monitor estimates that 12 percent of the state — most of northeastern Montana — is in exceptional drought, which is the top end of the scale. That means widespread crop and pasture losses and water-shortage emergencies.<br /><br />Several earthquakes strike shale-rich Oklahoma<br /><br />New Court Documents Shine a Spotlight on the Shady Business Practices of Monsanto<br /><br />Seymour Hersh Cracks 'RussiaGate' as CIA-Planted Lie — Revenge Against Trump<br /><br />WikiLeaks Releases Docs on 'Dumbo' CIA Tool Allowing Control of Webcams<br /><br />Forbes Says Self-Reliant Homesteaders Are "Delusional" and "Mooching" Off "Civil Society" [oh, ok - the Amish are mooching when they don't use electricity? This is bullshit]<br /><br />Why did everyone stop talking about Population & Immigration?<br /><br />June radiation accident rated at Level 2 [Japan]<br /><br />China's debt troubles are rapidly going global<br /><br />Drug deaths hit record high in England and Wales, new statistics show<br /><br />These 5 retailers may not survive 2017<br /><br />This One Chart Perfectly Explains Why The Auto Market Is Doomed<br /><br />Meet The Tens Of Thousands Of Americans Desperate For A Warehouse Job At Amazon<br /><br />More than 6,300 stores are shutting down — here's the full list<br /><br />How Banks Hurt the Real Economy: FDIC's Hoenig to Senate<br /><br />Washington: A One Party State<br />It's exactly as I have been saying: The US has a China-style one-party system. -- RF<br /><br />"The US Is Staring Down A Technical Default" - Here Are The Five Debt Ceiling Scenarios<br /><br />Apple Now Owns $51.5 Billion In Treasurys, More Than Mexico, Turkey Or Norway<br /><br />Tom<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-14576287535848372932017-08-04T07:33:13.025-05:002017-08-04T07:33:13.025-05:00Heavy monsoon storm in the Valley, Arizona: Downbu...Heavy monsoon storm in the Valley, Arizona: Downbursts, high winds, tornado in Phoenix, 20,000 people in the dark<br />http://strangesounds.org/2017/08/heavy-monsoon-storms-valley-phoenix-arizona-video-picture.html<br /><br />Powerful monsoon storms brought heavy rain, flooding, wind, lightning, hail and even a tornado to parts of the Valley on August 3, 2017. [more]<br /><br />The Buzzer: The mysterious and ghostly radio station that nobody seems to run<br />http://strangesounds.org/2017/08/the-buzzer-the-mysterious-and-ghostly-radio-station-that-nobody-seems-to-run.html<br /><br />This ghostly Russian radio station has ‘buzzed’ every day since the 1970s. [more]<br /><br />On Environment and Energy, Trump Often Picks His Own Facts<br />https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/climate/trump-climate-fact-check.html<br /><br />Australia's carbon pollution soars, government data shows <br />http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/australias-carbon-pollution-soars-government-data-shows-20170804-gxpd71.html<br /><br />Keystone XL: Low Oil Prices, Tar Sands Pullout Could Kill Pipeline Plan<br />https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04082017/keystone-xl-pipeline-tar-sands-oil-competition-hearing-future<br /><br />[leaving what? an environmental disaster]<br /><br />Discovering The Limits Of Hyperbolic Bullshit <br />http://ponziworld.blogspot.com/2017/08/discovering-limits-of-hyperbolic.html<br /><br />Donny Trump has taken hyperbolic bullshit to level '11' as his words and deeds have gone in opposite direction. Nevertheless, fake-believe in the recovery and the casino remains pinned at record highs. Recall, back in 2011, it was the debt ceiling that caused the wheels to come off the bus, and now the debt ceiling is an issue again at the end of September. September is also when the Fed is expected to announce details around tapering the balance sheet. <br /><br />All of which means that the U.S. is the global weak link. But don't take my word for it<br /><br />The U.S. Dollar Is Weakest in 32 Years<br /><br />So while Trump is blowing smoke up everyone's ass while approaching another debt ceiling crisis, the Fed is doing their part to engineer recession via Quantitative Tightening<br /><br />Weak dollar and weak inflation. Two things that implode great together [more]<br /><br />Trouble In Trumptopia <br />http://ponziworld.blogspot.com/2017/08/trouble-in-trumptopia.html<br /><br />Prechter is right, I hate to admit it. This isn't actually about Trump. Nevertheless I enjoy railing against his buffoonish false bravado, because he is the ultimate manifestation of the global sociopathic behaviour that is leading us into the abyss. He is level '11' on the dumbfuck Richter scale, whereas all other leaders are calmly judging him from the comforts of level 10. The real problem in all of this is the mindless Borg, 100% confident in believing the exact opposite of the truth. [more]<br /><br />The $100 Trillion Dollar Question <br />http://ponziworld.blogspot.com/2017/08/a-hard-lessons-gonna-fall.html<br /><br />Can the least paid and hardest working people who've been shit on for eight years straight, now save the Supply-Side Casinotopia consisting of massively misallocated capital and zero demand?<br /><br />It depends upon how many good-paying jobs had to go under the bus to make the quarter [more]<br /><br />Russia Warns Trump U.S. 'Establishment' Aims to 'Remove Him From Power'<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-warns-trump-u-apos-100213408.html<br /><br />Caltrans aims to rebuild Highway 1 on top of massive landslide near Big Sur<br />http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-caltrans-mud-slide-highway-rebuild-20170802-story.html<br /><br />[what choice did they have? Debris too loose to tunnel under or through]<br /><br />Pet dog saves 10-year-old girl from being kidnapped by stranger on walk<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/pet-dog-saves-10-old-145000733.html<br /><br />“At approximately 3:50pm, the victim, a 10-year-old girl, was reportedly walking her dog in the 1800 block of Heather Glenn Ct in Woodbridge when an unknown man approached her and grabbed her arm.<br /><br />“During the encounter, the victim's dog bit the suspect who then released her and fled on foot. [more]<br /><br />Tom<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-7670511451720694592017-08-04T07:32:53.153-05:002017-08-04T07:32:53.153-05:00Friday, 4 August 2017
Climate highlights in Alaska...Friday, 4 August 2017<br />Climate highlights in Alaska <br />Emissions from melting permafrost in Alaska occuring more rapidly than expected<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2017/08/climate-highlights-in-alaska.html<br /><br />Pollution from fires in Pacific Northwest <br /><br />Portland’s Air Is Even More Polluted Than Shanghai’s Right Now Due to Wildfire Smoke<br />The air quality is so bad, Portland has even closed its pools for today and tomorrow.<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2017/08/pollution-from-fires-in-pacific.html<br /><br />Carbon dioxide and methane released in November 2016 Kaikoura earthquake <br />Solving the mystery of the Kaikōura bubbles<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2017/08/carbon-dioxide-and-methane-released-in.html<br /><br />There is “an awful lot of methane dissolved in the seawater,” said Matthew, “the highest levels in New Zealand seawater that Cliff’s ever measured.”<br /><br />Eight months after mysterious sheets of bubbles appeared rising from the seabed off the Kaikōura coast, scientists have made a surprising discovery about their origins.<br /><br />new data suggests the bubbles are coming from two sources – one deep within the earth’s crust, and the other related to shallower oil and gas deposits. [more]<br /><br />Dangerous heatwave in Europe <br /><br />Southern, eastern Europe and the Balkans plunged into a dangerous heatwave from southern Spain to Hungary as temps rise above 40 deg C!<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2017/08/dangerous-heatwave-in-europe.html<br /><br />[where's SOTT on this?]<br /><br />B.C.’s heat wave is breaking maximum temperature records that have stood for over 100 years: report<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2017/08/bc-heatwave-breaking-records.html<br /><br />[see also, embedded article]<br />Blistering Heat Wave Threatens Seattle, Where Only a Third Have Air-Conditioning<br /><br />Top EPA official resigns over direction of agency under Trump – “The truth is there is NO war on coal, there is NO economic crisis caused by environmental protection, and climate change IS caused by man’s activities”<br />http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2017/08/top-epa-official-resigns-over-direction.html<br /><br />Elizabeth "Betsy" Southerland ended her 30-year run at the agency with a scathing exit letter in which she claimed that “the environmental field is suffering from the temporary triumph of myth over truth.” She last worked as the director of science and technology in the Office of Water.<br /><br />“The truth is there is NO war on coal, there is NO economic crisis caused by environmental protection, and climate change IS caused by man’s activities,” Southerland wrote, directly rejecting many of Trump’s claims.<br /><br />Southerland said that since EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt took over the agency, dozens of regulations designed to protect the environment had been repealed, and Trump’s proposed budget cuts to the agency would devastate its ability to enforce existing protections and create new ones. [more]<br /><br />[as soon as I captured this, an inexplicable "this page is having trouble loading" message appeared on a blank screen]<br /><br />The strongest storm of the the year moving dangerously slowly hits southern Japan a month after 36 people died in the area from storms <br />http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/08/the-strongest-storm-of-the-year-moving.html<br /><br />At a whopping 8,776 square miles (22,730 sq km): The Gulf of Mexico has yielded the largest 'dead zone' ever recorded in the area. <br />http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/08/at-whopping-8776-square-miles-22730-sq.html<br /><br />[how much of this is the "after-effect" of the huge oil rig blowout in the Gulf that's been forgotten by many?]<br /><br />In the words of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, this finding shows that "nutrient pollution, primarily from agriculture and developed land runoff in the Mississippi River watershed is continuing to affect the nation's coastal resources and habitats in the Gulf." [more]<br /><br />[more below]<br /><br />Tom<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-50977791631139360452017-08-04T07:31:56.375-05:002017-08-04T07:31:56.375-05:00Here in PA, we not only can't drive without ha...Here in PA, we not only can't drive without having problems, but we can't even keep our TRAINS on the goddamn tracks (which they fail to maintain properly)!<br /><br />That story about the guy in the water who dunks his head and never resurfaces was weird - why didn't he succumb before he dunked his head, when another guy NEAR a canal keeled over without even getting wet? I get the water-soluble part, but why is the head so critical when your skin is porous? Shouldn't he have absorbed that H2S through his skin?<br /><br />The other great story today was the LOGJAM fire IN A RIVER! How the hell does THAT work? The logs are FLOATING ON WATER! What's to "catch fire"? <br /><br />[While I await your explanation(s), Jonny, here's some stuff to start off our day - from zeta (so I don't lose anything)] <br /><br />[as Jonny predicted}<br />Another fire rips through Dubai 'Torch' Tower: That's 6 skyscrapers in 3 years! <br />https://www.sott.net/article/358302-Another-fire-rips-through-Dubai-Torch-Tower-Thats-6-skyscrapers-in-3-years<br /><br />Dubai's firefighters battled the huge fire for hours before snuffing out the flames at the 79-storey Dubai Torch Tower. <br /><br />Videos posted online show the flames spreading upwards while pieces of burning debris are falling onto the streets of Dubai's marina. <br /><br />It's the second time in two years the Torch Tower has been engulfed in flames. [more]<br /><br />[SOTT]Comment: See also: 5 skyscraper infernos in 4 years: Massive fire rips through 2 residential towers in Ajman, Dubai <br /><br />Humans had farms 30,000 years earlier than previously thought <br />https://www.sott.net/article/358304-Humans-had-farms-30000-years-earlier-than-previously-thought<br /><br />It's an idea that could transform our understanding of how humans went from small bands of hunter-gatherers to farmers and urbanites. Until recently, anthropologists believed cities and farms emerged about 9,000 years ago in the Mediterranean and Middle East. But now a team of interdisciplinary researchers has gathered evidence showing how civilization as we know it may have emerged at the equator, in tropical forests. Not only that, but people started farming about 30,000 years earlier than we thought. [more]<br /><br />Meteorite crashes into field in Rajasthan, India <br />https://www.sott.net/article/358305-Meteorite-crashes-into-field-in-Rajasthan-India<br /><br />Flash floods kill 7 and leave 27 missing in Vietnam <br />https://www.sott.net/article/358301-Flash-floods-kill-7-and-leave-27-missing-in-Vietnam<br /><br />Mount Sinabung volcano spews ash cloud sparking 'doomsday' scenes on Indonesian island <br />https://www.sott.net/article/358295-Mount-Sinabung-volcano-spews-ash-cloud-sparking-doomsday-scenes-on-Indonesian-island<br /><br />The Indonesian island of Sumatra is reeling after being struck by one of Mount Sinabung's biggest eruptions of the year. Villagers were pictured running for cover, as volcanic ash as high as 4.2km into the sky came raining down from the skies above.<br /><br />On Wednesday, the volcano erupted at least 19 times between 8am and noon local time causing heavy lava flows, volcano monitoring expert Isya Nurrahmat Dana told the AP. [more]<br /><br />Signs and Portents: Two-headed piglet born in Hebei province, China<br />https://www.sott.net/article/358284-Signs-and-Portents-Two-headed-piglet-born-in-Hebei-province-China<br /><br />[continued below]<br /><br />Tom<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com