tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post8879590375699076526..comments2024-03-20T06:07:07.676-06:00Comments on Jumping Jack Flash Hypothesis: It's A Gas Gas Gas: Event Update For 2019-12-12Jonny Mnemonichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516458612879773986noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-41247977703097148652019-12-14T07:46:34.122-06:002019-12-14T07:46:34.122-06:00Massive flooding sweeps through 22 areas in South ...Massive flooding sweeps through 22 areas in South Trinidad<br />https://watchers.news/2019/12/13/massive-flooding-sweeps-through-22-areas-in-south-trinidad/<br /><br />Incessant heavy rain battered parts of South Trinidad beginning Tuesday, December 10, 2019, flooding roads and homes across 22 areas. Chairman of the Penal/Debe Regional Corporation (PDRC) Dr. Allen Sammy described the situation as the "worst ever". Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service said Penal recorded 127 mm (5 inches) of rain in two days.<br /><br />Deepest point on land discovered below glacier in East Antarctica<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/deepest-point-on-land-found-in-antarctica-132534040.html<br /><br />The deepest point on land has been found under the Denman Glacier, in East Antarctica.<br /><br />The canyon has a depth of 3.5km (11,500ft) below sea level.<br />[more]<br /><br />New USGS map shows increased earthquake risks in Bay Area<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/usgs-map-shows-increased-earthquake-124901024.html [~ 2 min. video - look @ map!]<br /><br />[oh please - just shut it down!]<br />Democrats, GOP Reach Deal to Avert Government Shutdown<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-republicans-reach-deal-avert-204002790.html<br /><br />Lawmakers from the House and Senate reached a bipartisan deal to fund the government before the Dec. 20 spending deadline, according to Nita Lowey, the New York Democrat who chairs the House Appropriations Committee. [more]<br /><br />[hey, let's go stand on the pier and look at the ocean!]<br />Waves Crash Over California Pier Amid High Surf Advisory<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/waves-crash-over-california-pier-213944320.html [~ 1 min. video]<br /><br />The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a high surf advisory for parts of coastal California on Friday, December 13, warning beachgoers of swells up to 14 feet high. [more]<br /><br />Trump’s Dud of a Deal Shows the Futility of Trade War<br />https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-dud-deal-shows-futility-033443636.html<br /><br /> After almost two years of tariffs, counter-tariffs, meetings, bad-tempered tweets, and backroom maneuverings, we may finally be on the brink of the first part of a hoped-for trade deal between the U.S. and China. It wasn’t worth it. [more]<br /><br />Pirates release three oil tanker crew kidnapped off Togo<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/pirates-release-three-oil-tanker-134235587.html<br /><br />[in other baseball news, free agent .. oh, sorry]<br /><br />Invention by a 25-year-old is finally catching trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch<br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/invention-25-old-finally-catching-175541538.html?guccounter=1<br /><br />[meanwhile more is being dumped in the ocean every day than the ship - even a whole fleet of them - can possibly recover]Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-50598188422476921082019-12-14T07:46:30.074-06:002019-12-14T07:46:30.074-06:00Queensland school runs out of water as commercial ...Queensland school runs out of water as commercial bottlers harvest local supplies <br />https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/12/queensland-school-water-commercial-bottlers-tamborine-mountain<br /><br />The Tamborine Mountain state school has run out of water, even as water miners in the Gold Coast hinterland are sending millions of litres to commercial bottling operations.<br /><br />Trucks sent by the Queensland government carrying emergency supplies to the school, including Mount Tamborine bottled water, have been passing trucks heading in the opposite direction taking local water to bottling plants for beverage giants such as Coca-Cola.<br /><br />The school remains open but parents have been advised by teachers to consider keeping their children at home.<br /><br />Water miners in the Mount Tamborine area supply roughly 130m litres of water each year to commercial bottling operations. Now the local bores are running dry. [more; becoming policy]<br /><br />Army’s Secret Flights Over Washington Now an ‘Enduring’ Mission<br />https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/army-s-secret-flights-over-washington-now-an-enduring-mission<br /><br />[no information except for its funding]<br /><br />Deadly floods and landslides hit Huanuco and San Martin, Peru<br />https://watchers.news/2019/12/13/deadly-floods-and-landslides-hit-huanuco-and-san-martin-peru/<br /><br /><br /><br />Heavy rain since December 6, 2019, has led to landslides and severe flooding that affected portions of Huanuco and San Martin regions in Peru. Reports confirmed total and partial damages to homes, schools, roads, and bridges, as well as dozens of fatalities. [more]<br /><br />Intense Genoa cyclone brings rain and heavy snow across north-central Mediterranean<br />https://watchers.news/2019/12/13/intense-genoa-cyclone-brings-rain-and-heavy-snow-across-north-central-mediterranean/<br /><br />An intense, deep cyclone traveling across the north-central Mediterranean has started bringing rain and snow locally on December 13, 2019. According to Severe Weather Europe, the pattern supporting the weather evolution has a large trough over western Europe. [more]<br /><br />[continued below]<br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-26298956208953087352019-12-14T07:45:58.783-06:002019-12-14T07:45:58.783-06:00Good morning Jonny and all your readers.
As we se...Good morning Jonny and all your readers.<br /><br />As we see from these news items, the toxic, flammable H2S and CH4 are a real problem now - evacuating buildings, causing massive fires, vehicle crashes, people dropping dead and more.<br />There's no "getting used to it." <br /><br />Hopes dim as COP25 delegates dicker over Article 6 and world burns: critics<br />https://news.mongabay.com/2019/12/hopes-dim-as-cop25-delegates-dicker-over-article-6-and-world-burns-critics/<br /><br /> Even as half a million protesters demonstrate outside, UN climate summit negotiators inside Madrid’s COP25 seem blind to the urgency of the climate crisis. In fact, instead of making effective progress, the rules they’re shaping to carry out the Paris Agreement’s Article 6 could worsen carbon emissions, not staunch them.<br /> For example, Article 6 doesn’t include rules to protect native forests. Instead it could promote turning forests into monoculture tree plantations — providing minimal carbon sequestration and no ecosystem services, while devastating biodiversity. Some critics think the policy may have been shaped by logging interests.<br /> The so-called biomass carbon accounting loophole is also not up for discussion. Its continuance will allow the burning of biomass wood pellets at power plants, energy production classified by the UN as carbon neutral. However, establised science has found that industrial biomass burning will add significantly to carbon emissions.<br /> According to activists at COP25, delegates are working to hide emissions and allow UN carbon accounting loopholes. One key aspect of Article 6 found in the original Paris Agreement which guaranteed “the protection of human rights” was deleted from a revised draft Saturday night, as was verbiage assuring civil society and indigenous consultations. [more]<br /><br />The enormity of the problem is hard to get one's head around: Untold millions of tons of wildlife died in 2019 from natural disasters, extreme weather events, disease, famine: Radiation officially reported <br />http://www.thebigwobble.org/2019/12/the-enormity-of-problem-is-hard-to-get.html<br /><br /> Untold millions of deaths.<br /> Hundreds of millions of pigs dead, a quarter of the world's population due to disease<br /> A study showed an increase in levels of Fukushima-related contamination off the shores of Alaska<br /> A study by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa revealed almost 50% of fish consumed on the islands of Hawai’i were contaminated with caesium 134 the radioactive finger-print of Fukushima. <br /> The report also showed that migrating organisms can transport the Fukushima-signature (caesium 134) over significant distances as they showed detectable 134Cs (6.3±1.5 Bq/kg) in Pacific bluefin tuna caught off the California coast only a year after the incident. <br /> Another study found caesium 134 in longfin tuna (Albacore) along the western coast of the US just one year after the Fukushima disaster.<br /> High levels of radiation had been monitored in giant clams close to the Central Pacific site where the United States entombed waste from nuclear testing almost four decades ago<br />[more]<br /><br />[more below]<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819564675299071481noreply@blogger.com