tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post7704805776487111510..comments2024-03-20T06:07:07.676-06:00Comments on Jumping Jack Flash Hypothesis: It's A Gas Gas Gas: Event Update For 2016-02-03Jonny Mnemonichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516458612879773986noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-68017804195397318022016-02-05T19:20:18.167-06:002016-02-05T19:20:18.167-06:00Strong quake hits Taiwan; 160 pulled alive, many t...Strong quake hits Taiwan; 160 pulled alive, many trapped<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/6-4-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-southern-taiwan-210602384.html<br /><br />A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Taiwan early Saturday, toppling a complex of two high-rise residential buildings where rescuers pulled out more than 160 people. More are still believed to be trapped inside.<br /><br />Landscape pattern analysis reveals global loss of interior forest<br />http://phys.org/news/2016-01-landscape-pattern-analysis-reveals-global.html<br /><br />Between 2000 and 2012, the world lost more forest area than it gained, according to U.S. Forest Service researchers and partners who estimated a global net loss of 1.71 million square kilometers of forest—an area about two and a half times the size of Texas. Furthermore, when researchers analyzed patterns of remaining forest, they found a global loss of interior forest—core areas that, when intact, maintain critical habitat and ecological functions.<br /><br /><br /><br />"In addition to the direct loss of forest, there was a widespread shift of the remaining global forest to a more fragmented condition," explains Kurt Riitters, a research ecologist and team leader with the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center and the lead author of a study describing the phenomenon, published in the January 2016 issue of Landscape Ecology.<br /><br />Forest area loss alone underestimates ecological risks from forest fragmentation. The spatial pattern of forest is important because the same area of forest can be arranged in different ways on the landscape with important consequences for ecosystem processes. In contrast to core areas of interior forest, non-interior forest edge areas are subject to impacts from invasive species, pollution, and variation in soil moisture, for example. [more]<br /><br />Playboy Model Katie May Dies at Age 34 After Suffering Stroke: Report<br />https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/playboy-model-katie-may-dies-at-age-34-after-140252409.html<br /><br />Playboy model Katie May passed away on Thursday, February 4, after suffering a serious stroke on Monday, February 1, according to TMZ. She was 34. <br /><br />Madoff Whistleblower Warns of 3 New Ponzi Schemes, 1 Bigger than Bernie’s<br />https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/madoff-whistleblower-warns-3-ponzi-180039992.html<br /><br />Almost 16 years after Harry Markopolos initially warned the SEC in vain that Bernie Madoff was operating a massive Ponzi scheme, Markopolos says he has found three more schemes that are multi-billion dollar pyramids of fraud.<br /><br />One of them, he told ABC News, is even bigger than Madoff's epic scam, estimated at fraud in the neighborhood of $65 billion.<br /><br />For now, Markopolos is declining to name names, because he wants the regulatory and enforcement agencies to get the information first.<br /><br />Tom<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-35361322636926073372016-02-05T15:59:55.326-06:002016-02-05T15:59:55.326-06:00Mysterious deep fissures appear in Bissarieh, Leba...Mysterious deep fissures appear in Bissarieh, Lebanon<br />http://www.sott.net/article/311637-Mysterious-deep-fissures-appear-in-Bissarieh-Lebanon<br /><br />Fish rain down on Dire Dawa, Ethiopia<br />http://www.sott.net/article/311636-Fish-rain-down-on-Dire-Dawa-Ethiopia<br /><br />Young beached gray whale rescued in Mexico<br />http://www.sott.net/article/311634-Young-beached-gray-whale-rescued-in-Mexico<br /><br />Crane collapses in New York City, 1 dead, 3 injured<br />http://www.sott.net/article/311643-Crane-collapses-in-New-York-City-1-dead-3-injured<br /><br />[i saw one of these in Montreal a long time ago. Scary.]<br /><br />Wichita: 2 earthquakes caused more than $100,000 damage<br />http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2016/feb/05/wichita-2-earthquakes-caused-more-100000-damage/<br /><br />Woman found dead in front seat of SUV, police investigating<br />http://www.kxxv.com/story/31142962/woman-found-dead-in-front-seat-of-suv-police-investigating<br /><br />Police: Death of woman found outside Salt Lake City home considered ‘suspicious’ <br />http://www.sltrib.com/news/3500231-155/police-death-of-woman-found-outside<br /><br />Tom<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-6239298173924256402016-02-05T10:17:27.144-06:002016-02-05T10:17:27.144-06:00Drought: Zimbabwe declared a state of disaster
htt...Drought: Zimbabwe declared a state of disaster<br />http://www.sott.net/article/311620-Drought-Zimbabwe-declared-a-state-of-disaster<br /><br />[update]<br /> Body of sperm whale that died on Norfolk beach to be tested; 29th to die in Europe within 4 weeks<br />http://www.sott.net/article/311619-Body-of-sperm-whale-that-died-on-Norfolk-beach-to-be-tested-29th-to-die-in-Europe-within-4-weeks<br /><br />[uh, that's like one a DAY, in-it?]<br /><br />RealClimate: How likely is the observed recent warmth?<br />http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2016/02/realclimate-how-likely-is-observed.html<br /><br />By Michael Mann<br /><br />With the official numbers now in 2015 is, by a substantial margin, the new record-holder, the warmest year in recorded history for both the globe and the Northern Hemisphere. The title was sadly short-lived for previous record-holder 2014. And 2016 could be yet warmer if the current global warmth persists through the year.<br /><br />One might well wonder: just how likely is it that we would be seeing these sort of streaks of record-breaking temperatures if not for human-caused warming of the planet?<br /><br />Precisely that question was posed by several media organizations a year ago, in the wake of the then-record 2014 temperatures. Various press accounts reported odds anywhere from 1-in-27 million to 1-in-650 million that the observed run of global temperature records (9 of the 10 warmest years and 13 of the 15 warmest years each having had occurred since 2000) might have resulted from chance alone, i.e. without any assistance from human-caused global warming.<br /><br />My colleagues and I suspected the odds quoted were way too slim. The problem is that each year was treated as though it were statistically independent of neighboring years (i.e. that each year is uncorrelated with the year before it or after it), but that’s just not true. Temperatures don’t vary erratically from one year to the next. Natural variations in temperature wax and wane over a period of several years.<br /><br />For example, we’ve had a couple very warm years in a row now due in part to El Niño-ish conditions that have persisted since late 2013 and it is likely that the current El Niño event will boost 2016 temperatures as well. That is an example of a natural variation that is internally-generated. There are also natural variations in temperature that are externally-caused or ‘forced’, e.g. the multi-year cooling impact of large, explosive volcanic eruptions like the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption, or the small-but-measurable changes in solar output that occur on timescales of a decade or longer. Each of these natural sources of temperature variation lead to correlations in temperature from one year to the next that would be present even in the absence of global warming. These correlations must be taken into account to get reliable answers to the questions being posed. [more]<br /><br />Tom<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-38367061209030554662016-02-05T07:53:57.820-06:002016-02-05T07:53:57.820-06:00Good mornin' Jonny! Geez, what is this - pick...Good mornin' Jonny! Geez, what is this - pick on PA day?<br />It's all turnin' ta shit here!<br /><br />Ozone hole forms over the UK<br />http://www.sott.net/article/311608-Ozone-hole-forms-over-the-UK<br /><br />Backyard in Kaliningrad swamped by unknown acid-green liquid<br />http://www.sott.net/article/311609-Backyard-in-Kaliningrad-swamped-by-unknown-acid-green-liquid<br /><br />An apartment block backyard in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad has been swamped with an unknown acid-green liquid. Pictures of it quickly spread across social media. Neither the tenants nor the authorities had any idea how it got there.<br /><br />The mysterious liquid was first noticed on Wednesday, witnesses say. It appeared near a manhole and took over almost all territory near the entrance of the apartment building.<br /><br />"It has no smell, it appeared yesterday, and it's still there. Everyone who stumbles upon it takes a picture of it," one of the tenants told Kaliningrad.ru. <br /><br />[this was touched upon earlier]<br /> Increasing winter methane levels in Arctic<br />Dramatic increase in methane in the Arctic in January 2013<br />http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2016/02/increasing-winter-methane-levels-in.html<br /><br />Sakurajima volcano erupts spectacularly in southern Japan<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/sakurajima-volcano-erupts-spectacularly-southern-japan-102449676.html<br /><br />[this has nothing to do with JJFH, just thought it was fascinating]<br />Woman dies in industrial mixer accident at Utah bakery<br />http://news.yahoo.com/woman-dies-industrial-mixer-accident-utah-bakery-163608839.html?hl=1&noredirect=1&nf=1<br /><br />Tonga declares Zika epidemic after five confirmed cases<br />http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-02-tonga-declares-zika-epidemic-cases.html<br /><br />150 people sick onboard cruise ship in Australia<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/video/150-people-sick-onboard-cruise-100516937.html<br /><br />Tom<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com