2015 - DEC - Other Stories

2015-12-01 - Volcano Momotombo erupts, hits nearby town with ash, in Nicaragua, first eruption in 110 years, evacuations ensue:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VE-20151201-51087-NIC
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Volcano-in-Nicaragua-Erupts-Causing-Thousands-to-Evacuate-20151202-0024.html
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2015/12/01/momotombo-volcano-erupts-for-the-first-time-in-110-years-nicaragua/
http://www.sott.net/article/307668-Volcano-in-Nicaragua-erupts-causing-thousands-to-evacuate
http://www.sott.net/article/307587-Nicaraguas-Mombotombo-volcano-erupts-for-first-time-in-110-years-4-explosions-in-an-hour

Quote: "This marks the first eruptive activity of the volcano in 110 years, the last confirmed eruption of Momotombo having been back in 1905."

2015-12-01 - Volcano Santiaguito erupts in Guatemala:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VA-20151202-51094-GTM
http://www.sott.net/article/307582-Powerful-explosion-of-Guatemalas-Santiaguita-volcano-prompts-air-traffic-precautions
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2015/12/01/a-powerful-explosion-of-santiaguito-volcano-in-guatemala-prompts-air-traffic-precautions/

2015-12-01 - Volcano Barujari erupts in Indonesia, ash cloud blows toward Bali:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VE-20151201-51078-IDN

2015-12-01 - Alert issued for four volcanoes in the Philippine Islands:
http://www.manilatimes.net/alert-level-1-up-over-4-major-volcanoes/232062/
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/alert-level-1-issued-for-four-restive-volcanoes-in-the-philippines/

2015-12-01 - Magnitude 5.2 earthquake shakes Kyrgyzstan:
http://www.eturbonews.com/66471/52-earthquake-kyrgyzstan
http://www.sott.net/article/307524-Magnitude-5-2-earthquake-rocks-Kyrgyzstan

2015-12-01 - Heatwave bakes Johannesburg (South Africa):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20151201-51082-ZAF

2015-12-01 - Third winter storm in a row hits Minnesota and South Dakota:
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/01/third-winter-storm-in-a-row-zeroes-in-on-minnesota-south-dakota.html

2015-12-01 - Fireball spotted in the skies over Armagh (Ireland):
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-34963892

2015-12-01 - Brazil GDP collapsing, some say Brazil entering depression:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-01/brazil-gdp-falls-more-than-analysts-expected-as-demand-withers
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/global-crisis-goldman-sachs-says-that-brazil-has-plunged-into-an-outright-depression

2015-12-01 - Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year:
http://www.sott.net/article/307575-Law-enforcement-took-more-stuff-from-people-than-burglars-did-last-year
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-took-more-stuff-from-people-than-burglars-did-last-year/

2015-12-01 - China 'clone factory' scientist eyes human replication:
http://news.yahoo.com/china-clone-factory-scientist-eyes-human-replication-061141389.html

Note: Connect the clone factory to a Soylent Green factory and connect that to a McDonald's - try the all new McManwich before you buy some bottled air and enjoy a virtual sunrise projected on a screen in the smog! Whoops, I probably just screwed my chances of ever becoming a tourism promoter for China...

2015-12-01 - Huge geometric shapes located in the Middle East date back 8500 years, older than the Nazca Lines:
http://www.livescience.com/52944-huge-geometric-shapes-in-middle-east-revealed.html
http://www.sott.net/article/307550-Hugh-geometric-shapes-located-in-the-Middle-East-date-back-to-8500-years

2015-12-02 - Landfill spewing hydrogen sulfide and sickening people in coastal Pensacola (Florida):
http://www.pnj.com/story/news/local/escambia-county/2015/12/01/hydrogen-sulfide-levels-high-northern-pensacola/76613326/

2015-12-02 - Man, tugboat operator, loses consciousness while mooring tugboat near coastal Southport (North Carolina), medevac'd off:
http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Jp-Mcallister-294919.html
http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/2745942/

2015-12-02 - Magnitude 5.0 earthquake strikes near Arequipa (Peru):
http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-earthquake-of-50-magnitude-registers-in-arequipa-108272
http://www.sott.net/article/307608-Earthquake-of-5-0-magnitude-recorded-in-Arequipa-Peru

2015-12-02 - Magnitude 4.6 earthquake shakes southern Alaska:
http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/0d8352ee1dc4433cbaee3f36bd288b31/AK--Southern-Alaska-Earthquake
http://www.sott.net/article/307616-Magnitude-4-6-earthquake-strikes-southern-Alaska

2015-12-02 - Two earthquakes, magnitudes 4.7 and 4.5, shake the island of Taiwan:
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201512020015.aspx
http://www.sott.net/article/307612-Eastern-Taiwan-shaken-by-two-moderate-earthquakes

2015-12-02 - Magnitude 3.2 earthquake strikes near Julian (California):
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earthquake-32-quake-strikes-near-julian-calif-w4uyno-story.html
http://www.sott.net/article/307722-3-2-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-near-Julian-California

2015-12-02 - Widespread red tide hits the coast of Alabama:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20151203-51101-USA

2015-12-02 - Plankton growing rapidly in ocean seen as sign of carbon dioxide loading:
http://hub.jhu.edu/2015/11/26/rapid-plankton-growth-could-signal-climate-change
http://www.sott.net/article/307662-Plankton-growing-rapidly-in-ocean-seen-as-sign-of-carbon-dioxide-loading

2015-12-02 - Massive El Niño sweeping globe is now the biggest ever recorded:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28595-massive-el-nino-sweeping-globe-is-now-the-biggest-ever-recorded/

2015-12-02 - Lightning strikes kill 5 people in Rajasthan (India):
http://www.ptinews.com/news/6805560_Lightning-strike-kills-five-in-Rajasthan.html
http://www.sott.net/article/307688-Lightning-strikes-kill-five-in-Rajasthan-India

2015-12-02 - Non-stop torrential rains pound southern India, worst flooding in a century:
https://www.rt.com/news/324223-india-torrential-rains-floods/
http://www.sott.net/article/307603-Worst-in-100-years-Non-stop-torrential-rains-flood-southern-India

2015-12-02 - Record December depth of snow hits Reykjavik (Iceland):
http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/nature_and_travel/2015/12/02/record_december_snowfall_for_reykjavik/
http://www.sott.net/article/307641-Record-December-depth-of-snow-for-Reykjavik-Iceland

2015-12-02 - Heatwave bakes the Philippine Islands:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20151203-51111-PHL

2015-12-02 - Heatwave killing poultry, drought killing cattle, in Swaziland:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20151203-51103-SWZ

2015-12-02 - Virus 'Tropical Race 4' may send bananas to extinction:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bad-news-banana-may-soon-221507852.html
http://qz.com/559579/the-worlds-favorite-fruit-is-slowly-but-surely-being-driven-to-extinction/

Quote: "Eat all the bananas you can now because soon, there won’t be any left. And it won’t be because you ate them all. It’ll be because they’ve gone … extinct. In the worst food news since the Great Avocado Shortage (which appears to happen every year), a new study in PLOS Pathogens claims that a virus named Tropical Race 4 is about to kickstart the bananapocalypse."

2015-12-02 - Majority of world economy weakening as US manufacturing PMI falls to 2-year lows:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-01/majority-world-economy-weakening-us-manufacturing-pmi-tumbles-2-year-lows

2015-12-02 - 11 critical indicators scream the global economic crisis is deepening:
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/alarm-bells-go-off-as-11-critical-indicators-scream-the-global-economic-crisis-is-getting-deeper

2015-12-02 - Western Digital ships world's first 10-terabyte helium-filled hard drive:
http://www.cio.com/article/3011617/infrastructure-storage/wd-ships-worlds-first-10tb-helium-filled-hard-drive.html
http://www.macnn.com/articles/15/12/02/helium.interior.reduces.atmospheric.drag.on.platters.lowers.power.needed.131500/

2015-12-03 - Mount Etna erupts in Italy, airport closed:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VE-20151203-51113-ITA
http://www.dw.com/en/major-eruption-of-italys-etna-volcano-shuts-down-airport/a-18896061?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
http://www.rt.com/news/324648-mount-etna-volcano-erupts/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/03/sicily-mount-etna-voragine-crater-erupts-lightning
http://www.sott.net/article/307719-Gods-of-fire-awakens-Mount-Etna-dazzles-with-first-eruption-in-two-years

Quote: "Hours after the volcano started to erupt, ash began to fall on the Sicilian city of Catania, which sits directly under the volcano. But atmospheric conditions also pushed the airborne particles 100 kilometers north-east. Residents in the Sicilian city of Messina and Reggio Calabria on mainland Italy, just over the Strait of Messina, woke up to find their cities covered in a fine dusting of ash."

Quote: "The eruption, according to INGV, is among the most 'energetic of the past 20 years.'"

2015-12-03 - Magnitude 5.0 earthquake strikes in the Southern Molucca Sea:
http://thepublicslate.com/2015/12/5-0m-earthquake-strike-southern-molucca-sea/
http://www.sott.net/article/307789-5-0-Magnitude-earthquake-strikes-Southern-Molucca-Sea

2015-12-03 - Officials can't explain the 'cat urine smell' that hit New Castle (Pennsylvania) last year:
http://bladenjournal.com/news/3231/officials-unsure-what-caused-towns-cat-urine-smell

2015-12-03 - Study claims planet has lost a third of its arable land in the last 40 years:
http://www.rt.com/news/324516-soil-erosion-study-catastrophic/
http://www.sott.net/article/307693-Catastrophic-loss-Study-claims-World-has-lost-33-of-arable-land-in-40yrs

2015-12-03 - Lightning strikes kill 5 people in Uttar Pradesh (India):
http://www.sott.net/article/307770-Lightning-strikes-kill-five-in-Uttar-Pradesh-India
http://www.sott.net/article/307770-Lightning-strikes-kill-five-in-Uttar-Pradesh-India

2015-12-03 - Deadly freak storm hits Uttar Pradesh (India), state capital thrown into darkness:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/lucknow/in-pics-lucknow-goes-dark-at-4pm/story-CYaUPRCyj6HDpDNL0iutSN.html
http://www.sott.net/article/307747-Deadly-freak-storm-hits-Uttar-Pradesh-India-plunging-state-capital-into-darkness

2015-12-03 - More rains forecast as India's Tamil Nadu grapples with worst floods in a century:
http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/12/03/more-rains-coming-as-south-india-grapples-with-massive-flood

2015-12-03 - Lightning strikes the same place twice in Australia:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/close-call-double-lightning-strikes-australia/vi-AAfPFO2

2015-12-03 - Pollution in Northern China ss bad, crazy bad:
http://thenanfang.com/beijing-air-pollution-year-high-govt-claims-pollution-reduction-achieved/

2015-12-03 - Scientists warn that changing climate likely to result in increase in incurable ciguatera:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-ciguatera-fish_565f2904e4b079b2818cca0a

2015-12-03 - Hawaii facing rise in dengue fever cases:
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2015/12/03/hawaii-facing-rise-in-dengue-fever-cases

2015-12-03 - Who pollutes the most in the US - here's a scorecard:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-pollutes-the-most-in-the-u-s-heres-a-scorecard/

2015-12-03 - Increased signs of Fukushima radiation contamination reported off US West Coast:
http://phys.org/news/2015-12-higher-fukushima-cesium-offshore.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/12/03/fukushima-radiation-west-coast/76752994/
http://www.sott.net/article/307727-Increased-signs-of-Fukushima-radiation-contamination-reported-off-US-West-Coast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoYj2t6yHIk

2015-12-03 - 27 major global stock markets that have already crashed by double digit percentages in 2015:
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/27-major-global-stocks-markets-that-have-already-crashed-by-double-digit-percentages-in-2015

2015-12-03 - Orcas seen in unique group ambush-and-kill attack on dolphins:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28621-orcas-seen-in-unique-group-ambush-and-kill-attack-on-dolphins/

2015-12-03 - Roadside whirlwind filmed in Parkes (Australia):
http://www.sott.net/article/307703-Roadside-whirlwind-filmed-in-Parkes-Australia
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/12/01/Large-roadside-whirlwind-caught-on-camera-in-Australia/9501448997257/?spt=sec&or=on

2015-12-04 - Man, 46, pronounced dead, comes back to life, in coma for three weeks, in Milwaukee (Wisconsin):
http://www.wlky.com/news/man-declared-dead-wakes-up-at-hospital-three-weeks-later/36775632

2015-12-04 - Strong magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes in the southern Indian Ocean:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us100043z2#general_summary
http://www.sott.net/article/307809-Strong-7-1-quake-hits-southern-Indian-Ocean
http://bnonews.com/news/index.php/news/id2951

2015-12-04 - Magnitude 3.4 earthquake strikes near Fort Bragg (California):
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earthquake-34-quake-strikes-near-fort-bragg-calif-wy6n59-story.html

2015-12-04 - Island that formed from subsurface volcanic eruption in 2013 grows twelvefold since then:
http://www.sott.net/article/307836-Japanese-volcanic-island-grows-12-times-in-size-since-forming-in-2013
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2015/11/23/new-island-grows-twelve-times-bigger-since-popping-up-two-years-ago/

2015-12-04 - Toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) outbreaks hit two lakes in the Menindee Lakes (Australia):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20151204-51128-AUS

Quote: "Potentially toxic algal blooms have broken out in parts of the Menindee Lakes system, sparking warnings for people not to enter or drink the water. The Sunraysia Regional Algal Coordinating Committee yesterday issued a Red Alert warning for blue green algae in lakes Wetherell and Tandure."

2015-12-04 - Lightning strike kills 2 people in Sri Lanka:
http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=2015/12/04/security/police-log-04122015
http://www.sott.net/article/307771-Lightning-bolt-kills-two-in-Sri-Lanka

2015-12-04 - Deadly flooding hits Chennai (India), death toll reaches 269:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/world/asia/chennai-india-rains-flooding.html
http://www.sott.net/article/307732-Chennai-floods-Death-toll-in-Indias-fourth-most-populous-metropolitan-area-reaches-269

2015-12-04 - Mysterious finger-looking clouds seen over Denmark:
http://strangesounds.org/2015/12/mysterious-finger-like-clouds-baffles-residents-of-denmark.html
http://www.sott.net/article/307793-Mysterious-finger-like-clouds-photographed-over-Denmark

2015-12-04 - Meteor explodes in the skies over the Pacific Northwest:
http://www.sott.net/article/307826-Exploding-meteor-Bright-bolide-lights-up-night-sky-over-Pacific-Northwest
http://www.theprovince.com/life/exploding+meteor+bright+bolide+lights+friday+night+from+chilliwack+nanaimo+seattle/11567266/story.html

2015-12-04 - Fireball spotted in the skies over Tucson (Arizona):
http://earthsky.org/todays-image/early-geminid-fireball-over-tucson-dec-3-2015
http://www.sott.net/article/307763-Early-Geminid-fireball-photographed-over-Tucson

2015-12-04 - Fermilab experiment finds no evidence that we live in a hologram:
http://gizmodo.com/fermilab-experiment-finds-no-evidence-that-we-live-in-a-1746130140

2015-12-04 - NASA’s Hubble Telescope spots faintest galaxy ever seen from the early universe:
http://news.yahoo.com/nasas-hubble-telescope-spots-faintest-galaxy-ever-093457056.html

2015-12-05 - Volcano Colima erupts in Mexico, belches large cloud of ash and gas:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-06/mexicos-colima-volcano-erupts/7004978
http://www.sott.net/article/307884-Giant-column-of-ash-gas-erupts-from-Mexicos-Colima-volcano-authorities-warn-of-falling-ash
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/giant-column-of-gas-erupts-out-of-mexicos-colima-volcano-authorities-warn-of-falling-ash/

2015-12-05 - People put icebergs on streets in Paris to call attention to rapid Greenland melting:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/12/05/3728651/greeland-icebergs-ice-watch-paris-art/

Quote: "Together, the icebergs weigh nearly 80 tons; due to rising global temperatures, the Greenland ice sheet currently loses thousands of similarly sized icebergs each second."

2015-12-05 - 91% of migratory birds face peril on their journeys, study says:
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-migratory-birds-unprotected-20151203-story.html

2015-12-05 - Storm Desmond hammers Britain, flooding ensues, cars blown around, Army called in to help:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35023558
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/the-dying-earth-extreme-weather.html
http://www.aol.co.uk/news/2015/12/06/storm-desmond-one-dead-another-missing-as-army-called-in-to-help-with-floods/
http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/14127172.Storm_Desmond__Worcestershire_and_national_round_up_so_far/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/live-storm-desmond-floods-cause-6958629
http://www.sott.net/article/307888-One-person-killed-as-Storm-Desmond-causes-chaos-across-UK
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/uk_national_news/14126986.Army_drafted_in_to_help_emergency_services_after_Storm_Desmond/
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/06/one-dead-as-storm-desmond-brings-flooding-and-gales-to-britain/

2015-12-05 - Most powerful storm in 18 years hits Paraguay:
http://strangesounds.org/2015/12/apocalytical-storm-sweeps-through-paraguay-destroying-parts-of-the-capital-city.html
http://www.sott.net/article/307912-Most-powerful-storm-in-18-years-hits-Paraguay

2015-12-05 - Heavy rains pound Singapore, flash flooding ensues:
http://www.sott.net/article/307882-Heavy-rain-causes-flash-flooding-in-Singapore
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/heavy-rain-causes-flooding-in-several-areas-of-singapore-on-saturday-afternoon

2015-12-05 - Powerful blizzard hits Khabarovsk (Russia):
http://iceagenow.info/2015/12/17408/
http://www.sott.net/article/307854-Powerful-blizzard-rages-in-Khabarovsk-Russia

2015-12-05 - Rare 'light pillars' photographed over North Vernon (Indiana):
http://fox41blogs.typepad.com/wdrb_weather/2015/12/what-in-the-world-are-those-giant-beams-of-light.html
http://www.sott.net/article/307948-Rare-light-pillars-photographed-over-North-Vernon-Indiana

2015-12-05 - Meteor spotted blazing through the sky over Cheltenham (Britain):
http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Meteor-caught-camera-blazes-night-sky-Cheltenham/story-28303591-detail/story.html
http://www.sott.net/article/307877-Meteor-captured-blazing-through-night-sky-over-Cheltenham-UK

2015-12-05 - Bright meteor filmed over Barcelona (Spain):
http://www.sott.net/article/307833-Bright-bolide-appears-over-Barcelona-Spain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVrCCV0oe7Q

2015-12-05 - Meteor lights up night sky in southwest British Columbia (Canada):
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/b-c/exploding-meteor-lights-up-southwest-b-c-s-night-sky-1.2127098
http://www.sott.net/article/307934-Meteor-lights-up-southwest-B-Cs-night-sky

2015-12-05 - Mexico bracing for massive default that could set off global debt bomb:
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/mexico-bracing-for-massive-default-that-could-set-off-global-debt-bomb-perversely-ironic-twist_12042015

2015-12-05 - Chemist stuns scientific community with fully recyclable biopolymer:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/chemist-creates-breakthrough-bioplastic-completely-020519302.html

2015-12-05 - Woman's car turns her in for hit-and-run crash in coastal Port St. Lucie (Florida):
http://www.news965.com/news/news/national/hit-and-run-driver-reported-car/npcpt/
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/12/03/a_florida_woman_s_car_turned_her_in_for_a_hit_and_run.html

2015-12-06 - Volcano Fuego spews lava in Guatemala, volcano entering new eruptive phase:
http://www.rt.com/news/324907-volcano-fuego-guatemala-erupting/
http://www.sott.net/article/307914-Guatemalas-Fuego-volcano-enters-new-eruptive-phase-increasing-activity

2015-12-06 - Magnitude 2.5 earthquake strikes near Piru (California):
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earthquake-25-quake-strikes-near-piru-calif-6yydtn-story.html

2015-12-06 - 50 small earthquakes in a week rattle the US Northwest:
http://kboi2.com/news/local/50-small-earthquakes-have-rattled-northwest-in-last-week
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/06/50-small-earthquakes-have-rattled-northwest-in-the-last-week/

2015-12-06 - Terrible flooding hits Sabah (Malaysia):
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/rahman-dahlan-over-600-firefighters-rescuers-needed-to-face-floods-in-sabah

2015-12-06 - After Desmond flooding in Britain, waterfall comes to life for first time in hundreds of years:
http://www.sott.net/article/308008-Storm-Desmond-brings-highest-waterfall-in-England-back-to-life-after-hundreds-of-years
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/storm-desmond-brings-malham-cove-waterfall-back-to-life-for-the-first-time-in-hundreds-of-years-a6763131.html

2015-12-06 - Hour-long hailstorm ravages banana and teak trees in Thailand:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/785165/hail-storm-ravages-bananas-teak-in-phrae
http://www.sott.net/article/308005-Hour-long-hail-storm-ravages-bananas-teak-trees-in-Thailand

2015-12-06 - World's third largest aquifer threatened as fracking expands in Latin America:
http://www.sott.net/article/307981-Worlds-third-largest-aquifer-threatened-as-fracking-expands-in-Latin-America
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33910-fracking-expands-in-latin-america-threatening-to-contaminate-world-s-third-largest-aquifer

2015-12-06 - Fireball caught inadvertently on news camera in coastal Providence (Rhode Island):
http://wivb.com/2015/12/07/fireball-caught-live-on-morning-weather-show/
http://wpri.com/blog/2015/12/06/fireball-caught-live-on-wpri-tv-sunday-morning/
http://www.sott.net/article/307968-Meteor-fireball-filmed-on-morning-weather-show-over-Providence-Rhode-Island

2015-12-06 - Fireball filmed over Santa Fe (New Mexico):
http://www.sott.net/article/307986-Meteor-fireball-filmed-over-Santa-Fe-New-Mexico
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRLXqVpZjHE

2015-12-06 - Fireball streaks across the sky in Brazil:
http://www.sott.net/article/307982-Meteor-fireball-streaks-across-Brazilian-sky-04-12-2015
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv3Mf3JOONU

2015-12-06 - Fireball filmed over Spain:
http://www.sott.net/article/307966-Bright-meteor-over-Spain-A-meteorite-said-to-have-fallen-in-the-Mediterranean-Sea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDObizV59bA

2015-12-06 - Today's jobs bear little in common with the jobs of yesteryear:
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/these-aint-your-grandfathers-jobs-why-fridays-rip-should-be-sold/

2015-12-07 - Volcano Turrialba erupts twice in Costa Rica:
http://www.ticotimes.net/2015/12/07/costa-ricas-turrialba-volcano-spews-ash
http://www.sott.net/article/308028-New-explosion-of-ash-at-Turrialba-Volcano-in-Costa-Rica
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/new-explosion-of-ash-at-costa-ricas-turrialba-volcano/
http://www.latinone.com/articles/28655/20151208/costa-ricas-turrialba-volcano-explosion-release-400-meters-ash-vapor.htm

Quote: "This is the second event this month after another 10-minute explosion recorded on Dec. 7. also spewed ash and gases into the air."

2015-12-07 - Mount Aso erupts on the island of Kyushu (Japan):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VE-20151207-51153-JPN

2015-12-07 - Mud volcano pukes up some stuff near Leninsky (Crimea):
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/Mud-volcano-erupts-in-Crimea.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308058-Mud-volcano-erupts-near-Leninsky-Crimea

2015-12-07 - Magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes Tajikistan, felt as far as India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 2+ killed:
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/at-least-two-dead-after-7-2-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-tajikistan/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/tajikistan-earthquake-magnitude-72-earthquake-felt-as-far-away-as-india-pakistan-and-afghanistan-a6762976.html
http://www.sott.net/article/307956-Magnitude-7-2-earthquake-hits-Tajikistan-felt-as-far-away-as-India-Pakistan-and-Afghanistan

2015-12-07 - Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes near Escuintla (Guatemala):
http://bnonews.com/news/index.php/news/id2989
http://www.sott.net/article/308085-Strong-earthquake-hits-near-Escuintla-in-Guatemala

2015-12-07 - Several earthquakes rattle people in Dallas and Irving (Texas):
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/12/new-quakes-rattle-nerves-homes.html/

2015-12-07 - ExxonMobil warns of catastrophic 7°F to 12°F warming without government action:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/12/07/3728921/exxonmobil-warns-catastrophic-global-warming/

Note: There's an implicit assumption here that governments CAN do much about the problem. That is one huge and erroneous assumption...

2015-12-07 - Greenland's glaciers retreating at record speeds:
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2015/12/07/Greenlands-glaciers-retreating-at-record-speeds/2531449497498/

Quote: "Greenland's glaciers are on retreat, shrinking at strikingly fast rates -- at least twice as fast as any time over the last 9,500 years."

2015-12-07 - Terrible smog descends on Beijing (China), red alert declared:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=ED-20151207-51160-CHN
http://www.rt.com/news/325008-beijing-red-alert-smog/
http://www.sott.net/article/307980-Red-alert-Beijing-issues-highest-possible-smog-warning-for-the-very-first-time

Quote: "Beijing just declared a 'red alert' as smog continued looming over China's capital city. The BBC reports that the alert will close schools, stop all outdoor construction, close factories and restrict the number of cars on the road for the next few days."

2015-12-07 - Horrifying pollution hits Delhi (India):
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-35023995
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/aaps-measures-on-curbing-delhi-pollution/article7958668.ece
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/06/delhi-car-ban-government-uses-odds-evens-to-curb-pollution.html
http://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news/delhi-governments-odd-even-formula-to-check-pollution-challenged-in-court-1252268
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/delhis-pollution-levels-shoot-up-to-severe-category/articleshow/50077811.cms

Note: Beijing versus Delhi, it's a smog-down!

2015-12-07 - Uranium contaminating drinking water in the US West:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fear-at-the-tap-uranium-contaminates-water-in-the-west/ar-AAg9oJJ

Quote: "Uranium, the notices warn, tests at a level considered unsafe by federal and state standards. The law requires the park's owner to post the warnings. But they are awkwardly worded and mostly in English, a language few of the park's dozens of Spanish-speaking families can read. 'It says you can drink the water — but if you drink the water over a period of time, you can get cancer,' said Alvarez, whose working-class family has no choice but keep drinking and cooking with the tainted tap water. 'They really don't explain.'"

Quote: "More broadly, nearly 2 million people in California's Central Valley and the U.S. Midwest live within a half-mile of groundwater containing uranium over the health limits, University of Nebraska researchers said in a study in September."

2015-12-07 - Severe heatwave hits Gauteng (South Africa):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20151207-51157-ZAF

2015-12-07 - NASA maps show 2015 storm season was one of extremes:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/12/nasa-maps-show-just-how-crazy-the-storm-season-was-in-the-pacific/
http://www.sott.net/article/308059-NASA-maps-show-2015-storm-season-was-one-of-extremes

2015-12-07 - Heavy flooding closes Zoo Miami (Florida):
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article48414730.html
http://www.islandpacket.com/news/nation-world/national/article48525265.html
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2015/12/07/zoo-miami-closed-due-to-rain-induced-flooding/
http://www.wsvn.com/story/30685354/zoo-miami-closes-due-to-flooding

2015-12-07 - 200 people sicken at catered party in coastal Seattle (Washington), blamed on norovirus:
http://news.yahoo.com/two-hospitalized-nearly-200-sickened-seattle-norovirus-outbreak-020731757.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308088-Two-hospitalized-almost-200-sickened-in-norovirus-outbreak-at-catered-office-party-in-Seattle

2015-12-07 - Meteor lights up sky over Edmonton (Canada):
http://globalnews.ca/news/2386464/watch-meteor-lights-up-sky-above-edmonton/
http://www.sott.net/article/308025-Meteor-lights-up-sky-above-Edmonton-Canada

2015-12-07 - Rare deep-sea squid caught on camera in the Pacific Ocean:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3348527/Rare-deep-sea-squid-caught-camera.html
http://www.sott.net/article/307955-Rare-deep-sea-squid-caught-on-camera-in-Pacific-Ocean

2015-12-07 - US deploys Poseidon P-8 spy plane in Singapore for 1st time:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/07/us-p8-poseidon-spy-plane-territory-tensions-south-china-sea
http://www.hickoryrecord.com/news/us/ap/us-deploys-poseidon-p--spy-plane-in-singapore-for/article_044f5584-e855-583e-bddf-180d1826beae.html

2015-12-08 - Graph of the Day: Simulated catastrophic decline of plankton in warming oceans:
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2015/12/graph-of-day-simulated-catastrophic.html

2015-12-08 - Strong winds and high waves hit the Arctic Ocean from both the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean:
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2015/12/strong-winds-and-high-waves-hit-arctic-ocean.html
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2015/12/extreme-conditions-in-arctic-ocean.html

Quote: "Such winds and waves can move a lot of warm water into the Arctic Ocean. There currently is only a very thin layer of sea ice present in the Bering Strait, which is prone to be broken up by strong waves. Moreover, warm water may move underneath the sea ice and cause warm water to mix down all the way to the seafloor, where it can destabilize sediments containing huge amounts of methane in the form of free gas and hydrates."

2015-12-08 - 'Monster' El Nino could usher in a decade of more and stronger events:
http://news.yahoo.com/monster-el-nino-could-usher-decade-more-stronger-182903391.html

2015-12-08 - Man, 68, has heart attack on ferry ship 'Cap Finistere' near coastal Penmarch (France):
http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Cap-Finistere-9198927.html

Quote: "On Dec 8, 2015, at 5.45 p.m. the CROSS Etel was alerted by the Maritime Medical Consultation Centre (MMCC) in Toulouse after a British passenger of 68 years on board the "Cap Finistère" had suffered a heart attack. The ship was 104 miles south of Penmarc'h."

2015-12-08 - Magnitude 3.0 earthquake strikes near Ridgemark (California):
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earthquake-30-quake-strikes-near-ridgemark-calif-zvjyda-story.html

2015-12-08 - Heavy rains pound Portland (Oregon), flooding and landslides ensue, sewers overflow:
http://www.oregonlive.com/weather/index.ssf/2015/12/portland_area_weather_heavy_ra.html
http://www.kgw.com/story/news/local/2015/12/07/hours-steady-rain-create-chaotic-commute/76925970/
http://koin.com/2015/12/07/landslides-road-closures-result-of-rains-flood/
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/07/heavy-rains-drench-portland-northwest-oregon-causing-flooding-landslides-sewer/
http://www.sott.net/article/308050-Heavy-rains-saturate-Portland-northwest-Oregon-causing-flooding-landslides-sewer-overflow

Note: Sh#t's happening in Portland!

2015-12-08 - Record rainfall causes severe flooding in south Norway:
http://floodlist.com/europe/norway-record-rain-causes-flooding-in-south
http://www.sott.net/article/308054-Record-rainfall-causes-severe-flooding-in-south-Norway

2015-12-08 - Geminid Meteor Shower 2015: peak times, how to watch, and more:
http://news.yahoo.com/geminid-meteor-shower-2015-peak-164032321.html

2015-12-08 - Two fireballs spotted in the skies over Nova Scotia (Canada), possible rocket remnants:
http://www.ngnews.ca/News/Local/2015-12-08/article-4368495/Bright-lights-draw-attention-in-Nova-Scotia-sky/1
http://www.sott.net/article/308129-2-fireballs-seen-over-Nova-Scotia-Canada

2015-12-08 - Physicists investigate unusual form of quantum mechanics:
http://phys.org/news/2015-12-physicists-unusual-quantum-mechanics.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308108-Physicists-investigate-unusual-form-of-quantum-mechanics

2015-12-08 - How gravitational waves work:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/inverse/how-gravitational-waves-r_b_8749744.html

2015-12-08 - Man gets hassled for zombie-themed nativity scene in Sycamore Township (Ohio):
http://cbs12.com/news/top-stories/stories/man-ordered-remove-zombie-nativity-scene-31785.shtml
http://www.yahoo.com/makers/officials-order-zombie-nativity-scene-000551232/photo-harmless-fun-or-a-zoning-1449533387428.html

2015-12-09 - Mount Bromo erupts, spews sulfur, in East Java (Indonesia):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VA-20151209-51182-IDN
http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/bromo/news/55730/Bromo-volcano-East-Java-Indonesia-increased-unrest.html
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/71-ash-emissions-and-growing-unrest-at-east-java-volcano-in-indonesia/

2015-12-09 - Magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes in the ocean near the island of Ambon (Indonesia):
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/earthquake-of-7-1/2332722.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308119-7-1-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-off-Indonesias-Ambon-island

2015-12-09 - Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes in the ocean near the Fiji Islands:
http://bnonews.com/news/index.php/news/id2997
http://www.sott.net/article/308123-5-7-earthquake-strikes-off-Nadi-and-Ba-Fiji

2015-12-09 - Official data shows US hit with huge spike of ‘most dangerous’ radiation from Fukushima:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/fukushima-radiation-in-us.html

2015-12-09 - Top climate expert says crisis is worse than we think and scientists are self-censoring to downplay risk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmL4t8TclGU

2015-12-09 - Deadly flooding hits Kinshasa (Congo), 31 killed in three weeks:
http://www.trust.org/item/20151208175721-x64gf/
http://www.sott.net/article/308118-Flooding-in-Congo-capital-kill-at-least-31-in-three-weeks

2015-12-09 - Violent storm hits Iceland, strongest in 25 years:
http://www.wunderground.com/news/iceland-storm-worst-weather-25-years
http://www.sott.net/article/308237-Violent-storm-hits-Iceland-strongest-in-25-years

2015-12-09 - Water in coastal Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) is the viral equivalent of sewage:
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2015/12/rio-olympic-water-worse-than-thought.html

Quote: "Athletes who ingest three teaspoons of water have 99 percent chance of infection..."

2015-12-09 - Scientists find Sun capable of destroying life on Earth with a massive superflare:
http://www.apextribune.com/sun-destroying-life-earth-superflare/213512/
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/scientist-find-sun-capable-of-destroying-life-on-earth-with-a-massive-superflare/

2015-12-09 - Two suns appear during sunset in Indonesia:
http://strangesounds.org/2015/12/surreal-two-suns-phenomenon-appears-at-sunset-in-indonesia.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308210-Two-suns-appear-during-sunset-in-Indonesia

2015-12-09 - Huge lenticular cloud photographed over Gevgelija (Macedonia):
http://strangesounds.org/2015/12/giant-lenticular-cloud-sky-picture-macedonia.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308152-Huge-lenticular-cloud-photographed-over-Gevgelija-Macedonia

2015-12-09 - Incredible sun halo captured over Jackson Hole (Wyoming):
http://www.sott.net/article/308242-Incredible-sun-halo-captured-over-Jackson-Hole-Wyoming
http://www.reddit.com/r/atoptics/comments/3vgo2e/incredible_display_from_jackson_hole_wy_this/

2015-12-09 - 'The King of Meteor Showers': brightly-colored Geminids to streak across sky this weekend:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/the-king-of-meteor-showers-brightly-colored-geminids-to-streak-across-night-sky-this-weekend/ar-AAgfiNA

2015-12-09 - Honduran TV presenter watches glass of water mysteriously move across table:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/spooky-moment-tv-presenter-watches-6973752
http://www.sott.net/article/308136-Honduran-TV-presenter-watches-glass-of-water-move-across-table

Note: Queue Twilight Zone music!

2015-12-09 - Man creates flame-throwing drone, uses it to cook Turkey, in Clinton (Connecticut):
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-connecticut-drones-idUSKBN0TS2YP20151209
http://wtvr.com/2015/12/09/teen-posts-video-of-flame-throwing-drone-to-youtube/
http://myfox8.com/2015/12/09/teen-posts-video-of-flamethrowing-drone-showing-how-to-roast-your-holiday-turkey/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/watch-teen-tests-fire-breathing-turkey-roasting-drone-article-1.2460793

2015-12-09 - Disabled kitty gets two titanium legs, becomes bionic cat:
http://www.cnet.com/news/disabled-kitty-goes-bionic-with-the-help-of-titanium-legs-tomorrow-daily-284/#ftag=CAD590a51e

2015-12-10 - Series of earthquakes shakes parts of Mindanao (Philippine Islands):
http://www.mb.com.ph/series-of-earthquakes-strike-in-some-parts-of-mindanao/
http://www.sott.net/article/308277-Series-of-earthquakes-hit-in-some-parts-of-Mindanao-Philippines

2015-12-10 - SOTT's Earth Changes summary for November 2015:
http://www.sott.net/article/308323-SOTT-Earth-Changes-Summary-November-2015-Extreme-Weather-Planetary-Upheaval-Meteor-Fireballs

2015-12-10 - Monster El Nino hurls 43+ foot waves at US West Coast:
http://robertscribbler.com/2015/12/10/monster-el-nino-hurls-43-foot-waves-at-us-west-coast/

2015-12-10 - Vicious storm pummels the US Pacific Northwest, 2 killed, Washington governor declares emergency:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/12/10/washington-gov-declares-weather-emergency/77081310/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3352321/Northwest-pummeled-rain-wind-storms-continue.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308172-2-deaths-many-rescues-after-latest-storm-pummels-the-Pacific-Northwest
http://news.yahoo.com/u-northwest-braces-more-storms-widespread-flooding-power-184433673.html

2015-12-10 - South Australia hit by 140,000 lightning strikes:
http://www.sott.net/article/308260-South-Australia-hit-by-140000-lightning-strikes
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/south-australia-hit-by-140000-lightning-strikes-overnight/news-story/1e3d8a9b0e7ea10b24325c64ef6c9239

2015-12-10 - Heavy rain hits Singapore, flash flooding ensues:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=FF-20151210-51197-SGP

2015-12-10 - The missing people of Yellowstone: A government cover-up?
http://www.sott.net/article/308072-The-missing-people-of-Yellowstone-A-government-cover-up
http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2015/11/the-missing-people-of-yellowstone-a-government-cover-up/

2015-12-10 - Scientists unravel mystery of bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres:
http://gma.yahoo.com/scientists-unravel-mystery-bright-spots-dwarf-planet-ceres-162630894--abc-news-topstories.html

Quote: "In the first study, scientists determined those unusual areas of brightness are likely deposits of a salty substance comprised of magnesium sulfate, similar to epsom salt on Earth. The deposits were likely left when water-ice sublimated, scientists said. The impact from asteroids would have then unearthed the salty mixture, according to the study."

2015-12-11 - Volcano Kanlaon erupts, spews ash cloud, in the Philippine Islands:
http://www.sott.net/article/308259-Kanlaon-Volcano-spews-ash-cloud-in-the-Philippines
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/12/11/15/look-ash-eruption-recorded-in-kanlaon-volcano
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/70-kanlaon-volcano-in-negros-oriental-spews-ash-anew/

2015-12-11 - Magnitude 5.3 earthquake strikes in the ocean near Bengkulu (Indonesia):
http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/101978/magnitude-53-earthquake-jolts-bengkulu
http://www.sott.net/article/308273-5-3-magnitude-earthquake-jolts-Bengkulu-Indonesia

2015-12-11 - More than 40 small earthquakes hit Idaho:
http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/idaho/2015/12/11/earthquake-swarm-idaho/77166256/
http://www.sott.net/article/308325-Another-earthquake-swarm-shakes-Idaho-US
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/mysterious-earthquake-swarm-continues-to-shakes-east-central-idaho/

2015-12-11 - Large wave slams into hotel, hotel damaged, in coastal Cannon Beach (Oregon):
http://www.kptv.com/story/30729542/large-wave-slams-into-cannon-beach-hotel-causing-damage-to-rooms

2015-12-11 - Lightning strike kills 3 horses in Warwick (Australia):
http://www.warwickdailynews.com.au/news/hail-storm-hits-warwick-more-wild-weather-forecast/2870543/
http://www.sott.net/article/308290-Lightning-bolt-kills-three-horses-in-Warwick-Australia

2015-12-11 - Rare winter tornado damages homes in Battle Ground (Washington):
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/12/11/Rare-winter-tornado-damages-homes-in-Washington-state/1041449844603/
http://www.sott.net/article/308326-Rare-winter-tornado-batters-homes-in-Battle-Ground-Washington-US

2015-12-11 - Flash floods hits Singapore for second day in a row, 3 inches of rain in under 2 hours:
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/downpour-causes-flash-floods-around-singapore
http://www.sott.net/article/308329-Flash-floods-hits-Singapore-for-second-day-in-a-row-3-inches-of-rain-in-under-2-hours

2015-12-11 - Freaky-looking Kelvin-Helmholtz wave clouds appear over Snowbasin (Utah):
http://www.sott.net/article/308337-Kelvin-Helmholtz-wave-clouds-appear-over-Snowbasin-Utah
http://strangesounds.org/2015/12/like-a-tsunami-in-the-sky-kelvin-helmholtz-clouds-engulf-the-sky-of-snowbasin-utah.html

2015-12-11 - Declassified US government report shows they knew how bad Fukushima was within the first weeks:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/12/declassified-u-s-government-report-week-fukushima-accident-100-total-spent-fuel-released-atmosphere-unit-4.html

Quote: "The source term provided to NARAC was: (1) 25% of the total fuel in unit 2 released to the atmosphere, (2) 50% of the total spent fuel from unit 3 was released to the atmosphere, and (3) 100% of the total spent fuel was released to the atmosphere from unit 4."

2015-12-11 - Radiation levels spike 400,000% beneath Fukushima:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/red-alert-radiation-spike-under-fukushma.html

2015-12-11 - Californians experiencing above average rates of advanced thyroid cancer:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cancer-california-idUSKBN0TT2YN20151210
http://www.sott.net/article/308288-Californians-experiencing-above-average-rates-of-advanced-thyroid-cancer

2015-12-11 - Pumped beyond limits, many US aquifers in decline:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/environment/2015/12/10/pumped-beyond-limits-many-us-aquifers-decline/76570380/

2015-12-11 - Meteor fireball filmed over northern Italy:
http://www.sott.net/article/308298-Meteor-fireball-filmed-over-northern-Italy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjbdkBSop4

2015-12-12 - Man, 46, has chest pains at 3 AM on boat, rescued by Captain Kirk and the USS Zumwalt off the coast of Maine:
http://www.wmtw.com/news/coast-guard-uss-zumwalt-rescue-fisherman/36931900
http://triblive.com/usworld/nation/9619997-74/officials-zumwalt-destroyer
http://www.centralmaine.com/2015/12/12/navys-new-stealth-destroyer-zumwalt-rescues-ailing-fishing-boat-captain-off-portland/

Note: They don't mention it in the stories, but Captain James A. Kirk is the commander of the Zumwalt...

2015-12-12 - Man sickens on fishing boat near coastal Penmarch (France), medevac'd off:
http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Fv-Okata-I314637.html

Quote: "On Dec 12, 2015 at 8 a.m. a fisherman aboard the 'Okata' had to be medevaced 72 km south of Penmarc'h by a Cayman helicopter of the naval air base Lanvéoc-Poulmic. The Portuguese sailor was reported to have fallen ill at 5:04 a.m. After a telephone conference, the decision was taken to evacuate the patient by helicopter to the hospital La Cavale Blanche in Brest."

2015-12-12 - Rising temperatures are driving hundreds of species to the poles:
http://gizmodo.com/rising-temperatures-are-driving-hundreds-of-species-to-1747446044

2015-12-12 - Ocean acidification threatening Monterey Bay (California):
http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_29242030/ocean-acidification-evil-twin-global-warming-threatens-monterey

2015-12-12 - Heatwave bakes Zimbabwe, highest temps in 60 years:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20151212-51216-ZWE

Quote: "As the El Nino phenomenon unleashes its fury, the Harare-based Meteorological Services Department says Zimbabwe is experiencing the highest temperatures in 60 years. With millions of families now at risk of starvation and large numbers of cattle perishing in a frightening drought, a sullen-faced President Robert Mugabe told the ongoing Zanu-PF conference: 'We continue to pray for more rain.'"

2015-12-12 - Earth's melting ice may be altering the Earth's rotational speed and causing the Earth to wobble:
http://news.yahoo.com/climate-change-making-earth-wobble-200121952.html
http://news.yahoo.com/melting-glaciers-blamed-subtle-slowing-earths-rotation-194451383.html

2015-12-12 - More signs of Gulf Stream slowdown as floods devastate Cumbria (Britain):
http://robertscribbler.com/2015/12/11/more-signs-of-gulf-stream-slowdown-as-floods-devastate-cumbria-england/

2015-12-12 - Rain, floods, mudslides and tornado hit the Pacific Northwest:
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/rain-floods-mudslides-and-tornado-hit-northwest/
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/dramatic-storms-easing-pacific-northwest

2015-12-12 - High surf and hazardous conditions continue on the Ventura Coast (California):
http://news.yahoo.com/video/high-surf-hazardous-conditions-continue-172922057.html

2015-12-12 - Tornado touches down in Willis (Texas), RVs flipped, steel facility torn apart:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=TO-20151213-51223-USA

Quote: "Once the tornado touched down it snapped trees in half, knocked down power lines, flipped over RVs and ripped apart a steel facility. 'There were trees and debris falling, just flying everywhere,' Young-Hector said."

2015-12-12 - Herd of buffalo runs loose in Tisdale (Canada):
http://www.sott.net/article/308352-Buffalo-herd-running-loose
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/herd-of-buffalo-crossing-highway-near-tisdale-1.3361260

2015-12-12 - Thousands of tumbleweeds filmed blowing across frozen Montana lake:
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/12/11/Thousands-of-tumbleweeds-blow-across-frozen-Montana-lake/6991449849128/
http://www.sott.net/article/308341-Some-good-Ol-apocalypse-weather-Thousands-of-tumbleweeds-filmed-blowing-across-frozen-Montana-lake

2015-12-12 - Global commodity crash indicates that a major deflationary financial crisis is imminent:
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-global-commodity-crash-tells-us-that-a-major-deflationary-financial-crisis-is-imminent

Quote: "If we really are plunging into a deflationary global financial crisis, we would expect to see commodity prices crash hard. That happened just before the great stock market crash of 2008, and that is precisely what is happening once again right now. On Thursday, the Bloomberg Commodity Index closed at 79.1544. The last time that it closed this low was 16 years ago. Not even during the worst moments of the last recession did it ever get so low."

2015-12-12 - Two suns photographed in Zimbabwe during sunset:
http://strangesounds.org/2015/12/two-suns-appear-in-the-sky-of-zimbabwe-during-sunset.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308393-Two-suns-photographed-in-Zimbabwe-during-sunset

2015-12-12 - Electron 'lifespan' is at least 5 quintillion times the age of the universe:
http://gizmodo.com/electron-lifespan-is-at-least-5-quintillion-times-the-1747606990

2015-12-13 - Historic climate accord approved by nearly 200 countries:
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/12/12/big-climate-wins.html
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/12/12/deadline-extended-protests-planned-as-paris-climate-talks-get-down-to-the-wire.html

2015-12-13 - Climate scientist James Hansen calls Paris climate talks 'a fraud':
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2015/12/james-hansen-father-of-climate-change.html

2015-12-13 - Another article on the impotence of the Paris accord:
http://www.theautomaticearth.com/2015/12/con21/

Note: You know who didn't sign any agreement? EARTH! The Earth is spewing increasing amounts of methane into the atmosphere every hour of every day, and nothing humans do - or don't do - is going to change that. We are now irrelevant. If we stick around on the surface of the Earth then we will also be dead...

2015-12-13 - Red tide spreads in the Gulf of Mexico, fish dying in multiple states:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20151213-51232-USA
http://thedailyvoicenews.com/2015/12/12/red-tide-kills-fish-closes-oyster-season-on-gulf-coast/
http://www.sunherald.com/latest-news/article49465635.html
http://www.sunherald.com/news/article49300005.html

2015-12-13 - Switzerland tries covering glaciers with white blankets to slow ice melt:
http://news.yahoo.com/blankets-cover-swiss-glacier-vain-effort-halt-icemelt-041843459.html

2015-12-13 - 'Unusual burst of extreme heat' to leave South Australia sweltering all week:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20151214-51245-AUS
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-14/sa-to-swelter-through-six-day-unusual-hot-spell/7025580

2015-12-13 - Unusual warmth hits New Jersey, records broken, expected to continue to the end of the year:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20151214-51239-USA

2015-12-13 - Enduring terrible drought, South Africa works to hire more firefighters:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2015/1213/Firefighters-wanted-S.-Africa-s-record-drought-sparks-recruitment-drive
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/13/wicked-weather-derails-several-train-cars-in-texas/

2015-12-13 - Lightning strike kills 6 people, injures 6 more, on the Eastern Cape (South Africa):
http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/757d99804aec90b09367972f1282c98c/Lightning-kills-six-in-Eastern-Cape-20151213
http://www.sott.net/article/308392-Lightning-bolt-kills-6-and-injures-another-6-in-Eastern-Cape-South-Africa

2015-12-13 - Intense Alaska storm ties strongest on record:
http://www.sott.net/article/308382-Intense-Alaska-storm-ties-strongest-on-record
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/powerful-bering-sea-storm-potential-record-breaking-fairbanks-anchorage-alaska/54125652

2015-12-13 - Fierce wind blows train cars off bridge in Lufkin (Texas):
http://www.wlox.com/story/30734564/train-cars-blown-off-railroad-bridge-at-loop-287-w-in-lufkin
http://www.newson6.com/story/30734696/winds-blow-train-off-tracks-in-lufkin-texas
http://www.sott.net/article/308401-Strong-winds-blow-train-off-tracks-in-Texas

2015-12-13 - Tornado rips through Canterbury (New Zealand):
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/regional/292025/tornado-whips-through-canterbury
http://www.sott.net/article/308377-Tornado-whips-through-Canterbury-New-Zealand

2015-12-13 - Rare winter tornadoes hit East Texas, 50 homes damaged:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3358273/Winter-tornadoes-touch-East-Texas-damaging-50-homes-injuring-two.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308479-Rare-winter-tornadoes-touch-down-in-East-Texas-surprising-residents-and-damaging-50-homes

2015-12-13 - Vicious hailstorm destroys hundreds of homes in Hluti and Lavumisa (Swaziland):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HS-20151214-51244-SWZ

2015-12-13 - Large upper atmospheric lightning caught on camera in Darwin (Australia):
http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=120718&PHPSESSID=33d00i6dv7l0g1iorovonpo1h5
http://www.sott.net/article/308396-Large-upper-atomspheric-lightning-caught-on-camera-in-Darwin-Australia

2015-12-13 - As garbage mountains rise, Indonesian capital faces waste crisis:
http://news.yahoo.com/garbage-mountains-rise-indonesian-capital-faces-waste-crisis-042125225.html

2015-12-13 - Report of discovery of large object in far outer edges of solar system incites skeptical reactions:
http://phys.org/news/2015-12-discovery-large-outer-edges-solar.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308438-Report-of-discovery-of-large-object-in-far-outer-edges-of-solar-system-incites-skeptical-reactions

2015-12-13 - Epocalypse soon: the great economic collapse is happening, says blog:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/12/epocalypse-soon-great-economic-collapse-happening.html

2015-12-13 - December 14th To 18th: A week of reckoning for global stocks if Fed raises interest rates?
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/december-14th-to-18th-a-week-of-reckoning-for-global-stocks-if-the-fed-hikes-interest-rates

2015-12-13 - Rare full moon will rise on Christmas Day, first time in 38 years:
http://abc13.com/weather/make-sure-to-catch-the-rare-full-moon-on-christmas/1121831/
http://www.latinospost.com/articles/80828/20151213/rare-full-moon-will-rise-christmas-first-time-1977.htm
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/rare-full-moon-will-rise-on-christmas-day-first-time-in-38-years/
http://www.sott.net/article/308443-Full-Moon-to-rise-on-Christmas-since-1977

2015-12-14 - Man goes out on boat, goes missing, empty 'ghost boat' found, near coastal Crystal Beach (Texas):
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Coast-Guard-searching-for-man-in-Crystal-Beach-6698011.php
http://www.khou.com/story/news/local/2015/12/14/officials-search-for-missing-boater-near-bolivar-peninsula/77325270/
http://www.fox26houston.com/news/57533371-story

Quote: "The Coast Guard received a report from the Galveston County Sheriff's Department Monday that a 19-foot boat was spotted steering in circles with crabpots and live crabs, but no driver."

2015-12-14 - 2015 hottest year ever recorded, and by a substantial margin:
http://robertscribbler.com/2015/12/14/1-06-c-above-1880-climate-year-2015-shatters-all-previous-records-for-hottest-ever-recorded/

2015-12-14 - Volcano Masaya showing signs of unrest, lava moving closer to the surface, in Nicaragua:
http://www.sott.net/article/308586-Masaya-volcano-in-Nicaragua-showing-signs-of-unrest-with-lava-close-to-surface
http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/masaya/news/55775/Masaya-volcano-Nicaragua-new-signs-of-unrest-.html
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/15/growing-unrest-at-masaya-volcano-is-another-nicaraguan-volcano-getting-ready-to-erupt/

2015-12-14 - Volcano Copahue hit by 100 earthquakes in one day in Chile:
http://strangesounds.org/2015/12/more-than-100-earthquakes-at-copahue-volcano-in-one-day.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308566-Over-100-earthquakes-at-Copahue-volcano-in-one-day-Chile

2015-12-14 - Seismic activity increases in Azerbaijan: 7,000 earthquakes in 2015:
http://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/90736.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308446-Seismic-activity-increases-in-Azerbaijan-7000-earthquakes-in-2015

2015-12-14 - Looming threat of volcano disasters in coastal Auckland (New Zealand):
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/news/2015/12/predicting-the-impact-of-an-auckland-eruption
http://www.sott.net/article/308417-Looming-threat-of-volcano-disasters-in-Auckland

2015-12-14 - Typhoon Melor roars into the Philippine Islands, thousands evacuated, 3+ killed:
http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-evacuated-typhoon-slams-philippines-035735066.html
http://news.yahoo.com/philippines-evacuates-700-000-ahead-powerful-typhoon-053811221.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308452-Over-700000-flee-as-powerful-typhoon-Melor-slams-Philippines
http://www.sott.net/article/308509-Typhoon-Melor-Three-people-dead-as-storm-slams-into-the-Philippines

2015-12-14 - Communities on high flood alert along River Shannon (Ireland):
https://www.newstalk.com/Communities-along-River-Shannon-remain-on-high-flood-alert-
http://www.sott.net/article/308440-Communities-on-high-flood-alert-along-River-Shannon-Ireland
http://www.sott.net/article/308500-Heavy-flooding-still-affecting-Ireland-as-Shannon-River-levels-rise

2015-12-14 - Heavy rain and flooding hits the Democratic Republic of Congo, dozens killed:
http://floodlist.com/africa/democratic-republic-congo-floods-bas-south-kivu-december-2015
http://www.sott.net/article/308546-Dozens-killed-as-more-floods-hit-the-Democratic-Republic-of-Congo

2015-12-14 - Winter storm warnings and watches issued for 15 US states:
http://iceagenow.info/2015/12/winter-storm-watches-warnings-for-at-least-15-states/
http://www.sott.net/article/308494-NOAA-Winter-storm-warnings-watches-issued-for-15-US-states

2015-12-14 - Winter storm sends temperatures plummeting across the US West, Arizona hits zero:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WESTERN_STORM
http://www.sott.net/article/308575-Winter-storm-sends-temperatures-plummeting-across-the-West-Arizona-hits-zero

2015-12-14 - Elon Musk says human race should go to Mars before WWIII or cataclysm destroys life on Earth:
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/15/elon-musk-says-human-race-should-go-to-mars-before-wwiii-or-cataclysm-destroys-life-on-earth/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3359076/We-Mars-World-War-Three-kicks-Elon-Musk-warns-religious-extremism-nuclear-attacks-prevent-landing-red-planet.html

Note: A cataclysm that will end human civilization on this planet is already in progress...

2015-12-14 - Physicists mathematically send a photon back in time:
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/12/did-physicists-just-prove-time-travel-sent-particles-of-light-into-the-past.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308471-Tinkering-with-time-travel-Physicists-mathematically-send-a-photon-back-in-time

Quote: "This particular experiment illustrates how what happens in the present can change what happened in the past. It also shows how time can go backward, how cause and effect can be reversed, and how the future caused the past."

2015-12-14 - Three high-yield funds collapse, financial crisis beginning?http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/this-is-what-a-financial-crisis-looks-like

Quote: "We are witnessing a race for the exits unlike anything that we have seen since the great financial crash of 2008, and many of those that choose to hesitate are going to end up getting totally wiped out."

2015-12-14 - Fireball leaves huge plume as it streaks across the sky over Sweden:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N2B7Z1xB3E
http://www.sott.net/article/308508-Meteor-fireball-leaves-huge-plume-as-it-streaks-across-Swedish-skies-14th-December-2015

2015-12-14 - Man leaves package of dog poop on his porch, package thieves steal it, in Las Vegas (Nevada):
http://wnep.com/2015/12/14/homeowner-tricks-holiday-package-thief-into-stealing-box-of-dog-poop/

2015-12-15 - Unknown fumes sicken 35 students at high school in West Babylon (New York):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HZ-20151216-51269-USA
http://abc7ny.com/education/long-island-high-school-evacuated-after-dozens-overcome-by-fumes/1123765/
http://patch.com/new-york/babylonvillage/breaking-west-babylon-high-evacuated-due-fumes-hallway
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/12/15/west-babylon-chemical-leak/
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/West-Babylon-High-School-Long-Island-Fumes-Overcome-Students-Investigation-362464251.html

Quote: "Apparently fumes or something in the air was causing them to have difficulty breathing..."

2015-12-15 - More than 100 inmates sickened from unknown cause at jail in Fargo (North Dakota):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20151216-51268-USA

2015-12-15 - 182 passengers and crew sicken on cruise ship 'Explorer Of The Seas' in coastal Sydney (Australia):
http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Explorer-Of-The-Seas-9161728.html
http://www.royalcaribbeanblog.com/2015/12/15/gastrointestinal-virus-hits-royal-caribbeans-explorer-of-the-seas
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/gastro-outbreak-hits-182-passengers-on-cruise-ship-docking-in-sydney-20151215-glogxc.html

2015-12-15 - Volcano Colima erupts three times in Mexico:
http://www.ibtimes.co.in/mexico-colima-volcano-triple-eruption-spews-ash-and-smoke-into-sky-659637
http://www.sott.net/article/308674-Triple-eruption-of-ash-smoke-recorded-at-Mexicos-Colima-volcano

2015-12-15 - Volcano Fuego erupts, spews lava and ash, activity intensifying, in Guatemala:
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2015/12/16/frequent-intense-explosions-and-new-lava-flows-at-fuego-volcano-guatemala/
http://www.sott.net/article/308640-Intense-more-frequent-explosions-new-lava-flows-at-Guatemalas-Fuego-volcano

2015-12-15 - Magnitude 3.3 earthquake strikes near King City (California):
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earthquake-33-quake-strikes-near-king-city-calif-rncxqj-story.html

2015-12-15 - Oklahoma reports surge in earthquakes during 2015:
http://www.sott.net/article/308673-Oklahoma-reports-surge-in-earthquakes-during-2015
http://www.oudaily.com/news/oklahoma-reports-surge-in-earthquakes-during/article_79a364da-a1d4-11e5-894a-5ba84c8399c1.html

2015-12-15 - Lightning strike kills 4 people and injures 10 more in Zambia:
http://www.znbc.co.zm/?p=27370
http://www.sott.net/article/308621-Lightning-bolt-kills-4-injures-another-10-in-Zambia

2015-12-15 - Daily snowfall record broken in Denver (Colorado):
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/12/15/biggest-storm-this-season-breaks-daily-snowfall-record-in-denver/
http://www.sott.net/article/308622-Daily-snowfall-record-broken-in-Denver-Colorado

2015-12-15 - Shanghai hit by worst smog in two years in China, emergency measures commence:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-15/shanghai-s-worst-smog-in-two-years-spurs-production-limits
http://www.sott.net/article/308510-Shanghais-worst-smog-in-two-years-prompts-introduction-of-emergency-measures

2015-12-15 - Children being hit by lead-poisoning in Flint (Michigan), emergency declared:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-flint-mich-there%E2%80%99s-so-much-lead-in-children%E2%80%99s-blood-they%E2%80%99ve-declared-a-state-of-emergency/ar-BBnzEbx

Quote: "The Hurley Medical Center released a study this September that confirmed what many Flint parents had feared for over a year: the proportion of infants and children with above average levels of lead in their blood has nearly doubled since the city switched from the Detroit water system to using the Flint River as its water source in 2014."

2015-12-15 - More than just trash: how chemicals that come with plastic pollution harm animals and you:
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/how-chemicals-in-plastic-pollution-harm-you-and-animals/
http://www.sott.net/article/308637-More-than-just-trash-How-chemicals-that-come-with-plastic-pollution-harm-animals-you

2015-12-15 - Disease-carrying mosquitoes will thrive as the climate warms:
http://news.yahoo.com/disease-carrying-mosquitoes-thrive-climate-warms-184136706.html

2015-12-15 - Colorful 'mother of pearl' cloud appears in skies over Sweden:
http://strangesounds.org/2015/12/fantastic-nacreous-cloud-appears-in-the-sky-of-abisco-sweden.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308567-Colorful-mother-of-pearl-cloud-appears-in-Swedish-skies

2015-12-15 - DNA dates domestication of dogs back 33,000 years:
http://news.discovery.com/animals/pets/dna-dates-dog-domestication-back-33000-years-151215.htm
http://www.sott.net/article/308521-DNA-dates-dog-domestication-back-33000-years

2015-12-15 - Studies show early human hunters more advanced than previously thought:
http://www.sott.net/article/308519-Studies-show-early-human-hunters-more-advanced-than-previously-thought
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fall-2015/article/studies-show-early-human-hunters-more-advanced-than-previously-thought

2015-12-15 - Life-friendly chemistry revealed inside Saturn's moon Enceladus:
http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/life-friendly-chemistry-revealed-inside-enceladus-151215.htm
http://www.sott.net/article/308520-Life-friendly-chemistry-revealed-inside-Saturn-moon

2015-12-15 - Professor issues call to fund studies on how to prevent possible zombie outbreak:
http://www.sott.net/article/308649-Professor-issues-call-to-fund-studies-on-how-to-prevent-possible-zombie-outbreak
http://www.latinoshealth.com/articles/13743/20151215/zombie-apocalypse-possibility-rise-infection-trigger-international-call-action-expert.htm

2015-12-15 - Ben Carson wants to make America safer by sending troops to the Canadian border:
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/ben-carson-wants-to-deploy-national-guard-troops-to-the-canadian-border

Note: Yeah, those dastardly Canadians are gonna get us. Wait...what?!

2015-12-16 - Arctic temps highest since records began in 1900, Arctic temps climbing twice as fast as anywhere else:
http://fortune.com/2015/12/16/arctic-report-card/

2015-12-16 - And this is where we're heading as methane continues to spew into the atmosphere across the world:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/and-this-is-where-we-are-headed-malcolm.html

2015-12-16 - December warmth continues in the US East, 4000 daily records broken:
http://www.weather.com/forecast/national/news/warm-united-states-december-2015

2015-12-16 - Intense pre-summer heat bakes Adelaide (Australia):
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-16/adelaide-40s-extreme-heat/7034372
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-17/climate-change-at-work-in-adelaide/7035926

2015-12-16 - Volcano Shiveluch erupts on the Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia), nearby town hit with ash:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/village-covered-in-film-of-soot-after-kamchatka-volcano-spews-ashes/552945.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308684-Shiveluch-volcano-in-Russia-spews-ashes-over-nearby-village

2015-12-16 - Mount Bromo continues erupting in East Java (Indonesia):
http://www.mb.com.ph/indonesias-volcano-in-east-java-continues-eruption/
http://www.sott.net/article/308740-Indonesias-Mount-Bromo-volcano-in-East-Java-continues-eruption

2015-12-16 - Lightning strikes kill two men in the Philippine Islands:
http://thestandard.com.ph/news/-provinces/194720/lightning-kills-soldier-fisherman.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308713-Lightning-strikes-kill-soldier-fisherman-in-the-Philippines

2015-12-16 - Freak storm with record 213-KPH winds lashes Sydney (Australia), big hail, tornadoes, flooding:
http://www.rt.com/news/326071-australia-storm-tornado-sydney/
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/wild-weather-in-sydney-australia.html
http://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/aftermath-tornado-and-wild-storm-leaves-trail-of-destruction-in-south-sydney.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308598-Freak-storm-rips-though-Sydney-with-rare-tornadoes-flooding-huge-hail-and-record-213kph-winds

2015-12-16 - Unusually large dust storm blows through Boulia (Australia):
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/must-see-5-unearthly-photos-of-massive-outback-dust-storm/61180/
http://www.sott.net/article/308730-Unusually-large-dust-storm-billows-through-Boulia-Australia

2015-12-16 - Strange clouds appear then disappear within minutes, in Santiago del Estero (Argentina), people scared:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/strange-cloud-formation-spotted-sky-7017811
http://www.sott.net/article/308642-Strange-cloud-formation-scares-residents-in-Santiago-del-Estero-Argentina

2015-12-16 - Mercury found in fog on the coast in California:
http://www.popsci.com/mercury-observed-in-coastal-fog-off-california

2015-12-16 - NASA cameras film fireball seen from Madison (South Carolina):
http://www.sott.net/article/308639-NASA-cameras-film-fireball-seen-from-Madison-South-Carolina
http://www.waaytv.com/space_alabama/nasa-cameras-capture-fireball-seen-from-madison/article_cc15e336-a36a-11e5-84c3-1b0f6cd4d832.html

2015-12-16 - Large asteroid to cruise by Earth on Christmas Eve:
http://www.weather.com/science/space/news/giant-asteroid-earth-christmas-eve
http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2015/12/16/enormous-christmas-eve-asteroid-sparks

2015-12-16 - Observations from ESO telescopes provide crucial third dimension in probe of Universe's dark side:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151215093943.htm
http://www.sott.net/article/308601-Observations-from-ESO-telescopes-provide-crucial-third-dimension-in-probe-of-Universes-dark-side

2015-12-16 - UK votes for fracking under national parks:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/uk-votes-for-fracking-under-national.html

2015-12-16 - Man stabs himself in the head at Heathrow Airport in coastal London (Britain):
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/man-stabs-himself-in-the-head-at-heathrow-airport-a6776216.html

Note: That'll show 'em!

2015-12-17 - Magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes in the ocean off the Pacific Coast of Mexico:
http://www.rt.com/news/326352-quake-mexico-guatemala-pacific/
http://www.sott.net/article/308726-USGS-reports-6-6-magnitude-quake-hits-off-southern-Pacific-coast-of-Mexico

2015-12-17 - Magnitude 5.2 earthquake strikes coastal Ilocos Sur (Philippine Islands):
http://cnnphilippines.com/regional/2015/12/17/earthquake-san-juan-ilocos-sur.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308714-5-2-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-Ilocos-Sur-Philippines

2015-12-17 - Phytoplankton dying off, fish stocks in decline worldwide:
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2015/12/fish-stocks-declining-worldwide-as.html

2015-12-17 - Lakes around the world warming at disturbing rate:
http://www.citylab.com/weather/2015/12/the-earths-lakes-are-warming-at-a-disturbing-rate/420921/
http://www.babwnews.com/2015/12/fresh-water-supplies-in-danger-due-to-warming-conditions/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2015/1217/Why-are-Earth-s-lakes-warming-up-so-fast
http://www.morningticker.com/2015/12/scientists-shocked-to-discover-what-climate-change-is-doing-to-our-lakes/

Quote: "The world’s lakes are warming faster than the atmosphere or the ocean, and this is a problem, say scientists."

2015-12-17 - Five new studies that change our understanding of permafrost:
http://www.hcn.org/articles/five-new-studies-that-change-our-understanding-of-permafrost

2015-12-17 - New storm approaches the Philippine Islands after typhoon kills 20:
http://news.yahoo.com/storm-approaches-philippines-typhoon-kills-20-161248822.html

2015-12-17 - Heavy rain pounds Johannesburg (South Africa), flooding ensues, streets turn into rivers:
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/heavy-rain-causes-joburg-flooding-20151217
http://www.sott.net/article/308771-Heavy-rain-causes-flooding-in-Johannesburg-South-Africa

2015-12-17 - Four inches of rain in an hour hits Ashkelon (Israel), flooding ensues, street collapses:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=FF-20151217-51288-ISR
http://www.timesofisrael.com/torrential-rains-flood-ashkelon-setting-new-record/
http://www.sott.net/article/308757-Torrential-rains-flood-Ashkelon-Israel-setting-new-record

2015-12-17 - Hailstones the size of cricket balls pound Sydney (Australia):
http://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/627851/Huge-hailstones-of-ice-fall-from-the-sky-in-terrifying-Sydney-storm
http://www.sott.net/article/308801-Hailstones-the-size-of-cricket-balls-pound-Sydney-Australia

2015-12-17 - Rare winter lightning hits house in Orono (Minnesota):
http://www.kare11.com/story/weather/2015/12/16/house-hit-by-rare-winter-lightning/77418552/
http://www.sott.net/article/308751-Rare-winter-lightning-hits-house-in-Minnesota-US

2015-12-17 - Meteor spotted in the skies over Henry County (Georgia):
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/nasa-fireball-over-henry-county-was-meteor-enterin/npm5r/
http://www.sott.net/article/308773-Fireball-meteor-seen-over-Henry-County-Georgia
http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2015/12/18/meteor-fireball-terrorizes-georgia-res

2015-12-17 - Meteor blazes across the sky over Labrador (Canada):
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/12/17/meteor-newfoundland-labrador_n_8831656.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308805-Meteor-fireball-blazes-through-the-Labrador-sky

2015-12-17 - Glut of tankers filled with oil floating offshore:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/a-glut-of-crude-oil.html

Quote: "In the latest sign that the world is simply running out of capacity when it comes to coping with an inexorable supply of commodities, three diesel tankers en route from the Gulf to Europe did something rather odd on Wednesday: they stopped, turned around in the middle of the ocean, and headed back the way they came!"

2015-12-17 - Closest potentially habitable planet found just 14 light years away:
http://www.gizmag.com/unsw-closest-habitable-exoplanet/40953/

2015-12-17 - Newly-discovered asteroid zooms past Earth:
http://www.sott.net/article/308817-New-discovered-asteroid-to-zoom-pass-Earth-tonight
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/628045/Asteroid-could-injure-THOUSANDS-skim-Earth-TONIGHT-two-days-after-its-discovery

Note: If you're reading this then we didn't die, so break out the champagne!

2015-12-18 - Magnitude 3.4 earthquake strikes near Niland (California):
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earthquake-34-quake-strikes-near-niland-calif-cgs3th-story.html

2015-12-18 - November 2015 was Earth's warmest November in recorded history and 2nd warmest of any month:
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2015/12/november-2015-earths-warmest-november.html

2015-12-18 - Met Office warns that next year will be hottest on record:
http://news.yahoo.com/next-year-will-be-the-hottest-on-record-met-104120616.html

Quote: "Next year will be the hottest ever recorded, according to a long-range forecast from the UK Met Office. If so, it will mean the three hottest years ever have occurred back to back - as this year already looks certain to beat temperature records set in 2014."

2015-12-18 - Heatwave bakes South Africa:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20151218-51298-ZAF

2015-12-18 - Horrible air pollution hits Beijing (China), red alert issued for second time ever:
http://www.smh.com.au/world/china-warns-of-widespread-smog-as-beijing-issues-second-red-alert-over-pollution-20151218-glrdka.html
http://news.yahoo.com/beijing-issues-2nd-smog-red-alert-month-040129140.html

2015-12-18 - Aircraft contrails could be 'unintentionally' changing the atmosphere and exposing us to more solar radiation:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3364867/Aircraft-contrails-unintentionally-changing-atmosphere-warming-planet-researchers-warn.html

2015-12-18 - Indonesia's disaster agency says La Nina weather to strengthen in mid-2016:
http://news.yahoo.com/indonesias-disaster-agency-says-la-nina-weather-strengthen-080641215.html

2015-12-18 - Official says Fukushima is unstoppable, journalists withholding information:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/fukushima-is-unstoppable.html
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/nuclear-news-12202015.html

2015-12-18 - California lieutenant governor orders environmental review of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant (California):
http://news.yahoo.com/california-lieutenant-governor-orders-environmental-review-nuclear-plant-015017113--finance.html

2015-12-18 - Strange clouds appear over both the North Pole and the South Pole:
http://www.sott.net/article/308784-Strange-clouds-spotted-over-both-Poles
http://mikes-awnr.blogspot.com/2015/12/strange-clouds-sighted-over-poles.html

2015-12-18 - Sundog spotted after snowstorm in Manitoba (Canada):
http://www.sott.net/article/308841-Sundog-illusion-appears-over-Manitoba-after-snowstorm

2015-12-18 - Sun halo spotted in Timaru (New Zealand):
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/75283201/halo-around-the-sun-nothing-sinister
http://www.sott.net/article/308803-Halo-surrounds-sun-in-Timaru-New-Zealand

2015-12-18 - Terrafugia gets FAA permission to test flying cars:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/flying-cars-get-faa-approval-for-testing/

2015-12-18 - Cops use donuts to lure stray pig in Bartlett (Tennessee):
http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/30784167/officers-use-donuts-to-lure-loose-pig

Note: I'm just gonna leave the obvious joke on the table here, cuz I'm nice like that!

2015-12-19 - Woman, 56, goes missing while walking near the Inner Harbor in coastal Gloucester (Massachusetts):
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/12/gloucester_police_coast_guard.html

2015-12-19 - Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes in the ocean near the Vanuatu Islands:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-19/magnitude-6.2-earthquake-hits-near-vanuatu/7043318
http://www.sott.net/article/308828-Magnitude-6-2-earthquake-hits-near-Vanuatu-islands-South-Pacific-Ocean

2015-12-19 - Magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes near Ovalle (Chile), near the coast:
http://bnonews.com/news/index.php/news/id3091
http://www.sott.net/article/308873-Chile-struck-by-6-0-magnitude-earthquake

2015-12-19 - Magnitude 5.4 earthquake shakes Uttarakhand (India):
http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/moderate-earthquake-hits-parts-of-uttarakhand-no-damage-reported-1256847
http://www.sott.net/article/308882-5-4-earthquake-hits-parts-of-Uttarakhand-India

2015-12-19 - Magnitude 3.3 earthquake strikes near Mammoth Lakes (California):
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earthquake-33-quake-strikes-near-west-bishop-calif-ety5lq-story.html

2015-12-19 - Magnitude 3.1 earthquake strikes near San Ramon (California):
http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_29282052/san-ramon-3-1-earthquake-reported-saturday-morning
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-earthquake-31-san-ramon-20151219-story.html

2015-12-19 - Ice loss in Greenland already massive, and it's speeding up:
http://www.adn.com/article/20151216/greenlands-ice-loss-already-massive-and-now-its-speeding

Quote: "A massive new study by 16 authors has calculated just how much ice the Greenland ice sheet has lost since the year 1900. And the number, says the paper just out in the journal Nature, is astounding: 9,103 gigatons (a gigaton is a billion metric tons). That's more than 9 trillion tons in total. And moreover, the rate of loss has been increasing, the research finds, with a doubling of annual loss in the period 2003 to 2010 compared with what it was throughout the 20th century."

2015-12-19 - Update on deteriorating conditions in the Arctic:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/the-state-of-arctic.html

2015-12-19 - Groundwater depletion adding to global sea-level rise:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/12/19/groundwater-depletion-adding-global-sea-level-rise/77651740/

2015-12-19 - Terrible air pollution hits Tehran (Iran), schools closed:
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/12/19/Iran-closes-capital-s-schools-due-to-air-pollution-.html

2015-12-19 - Record levels of toxic domoic acid found in wide range of marine organisms and commercial fish species:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151217151655.htm
http://www.sott.net/article/308821-Record-levels-of-algal-toxin-domoic-acid-found-in-wide-range-of-marine-organisms-and-commercial-fish-species

2015-12-19 - Genetically engineered animals make their way to American dinner tables:
http://www.alternet.org/food/brave-new-food-ges-and-clones-make-their-way-american-dinner-tables
http://www.sott.net/article/308860-Brave-new-food-Genetically-engineered-animals-make-their-way-to-American-dinner-tables

2015-12-19 - Tropical depression pounds the Philippine Islands, death toll rises as flooding spreads, state of emergency declared:
http://news.yahoo.com/death-toll-climbs-more-floods-threaten-philippines-040230631.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/12/state-calamity-declared-philippines-storms-151219045525091.html

2015-12-19 - Man named Bruce Campbell converts Boeing 727 into a home near Portland (Oregon):
http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/bruce-campbell-lives-inside-a-boeing-727-airplane/

2015-12-19 - City of Barnaul (Russia) wants to elect cat as mayor:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/mew-world-order-siberian-city-backs-cat-mayor-n483261
http://www.sunherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article50699990.html

Quote: "An informal online poll asking residents to express their preferences among the six and a Siamese cat named Barsik showed the feline nabbing more than 90 percent of the vote."

2015-12-20 - Unknown fumes sicken people at a Kohl's store in Secaucus (New Jersey), near the Hackensack River and the coast:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HZ-20151221-51331-USA
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2015/12/unknown_substance_sickens_at_least_a_dozen_at_seca.html
http://pix11.com/2015/12/20/secaucus-kohls-evacuated-due-to-reports-of-chemical-fumes/
http://abc7ny.com/news/investigation-into-fumes-that-sickened-shoppers-at-kohls-in-secaucus/1130222/
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/12/20/kohls-department-store-evacuated/

Quote: "The Kohl's at Mill Creek Mall was evacuated last night when more than a dozen shoppers fell ill from an unknown airborne substance, police said."

Note: The fumes were worst near the cash registers, which means near the entrance to the store, which means closest to the outside. Sounds like a cloud of hydrogen sulfide blew in through the entrance, or maybe some got sucked into the store via the HVAC system. Those people are lucky to still be alive, but hydrogen sulfide can kill with a delayed reaction of minutes, hours, or even a few days, so some of these people may yet drop dead of a heart attack or a stroke or 'Sudden Adult Death Syndrome' or have an 'untimely death'. Even if some of them do drop dead in the next few days, the odds are that we'll never hear about it...

2015-12-20 - Volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts, spews ash into the sky, in Colombia:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VA-20151221-51343-COL

2015-12-20 - Magnitude 3.1 earthquake strikes near coastal Costa Mesa (California):
http://news.yahoo.com/video/earthquake-3-1-magnitude-earthquake-235750861.html
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earthquake-31-quake-strikes-near-costa-mesa-calif-saqtmy-story.html

2015-12-20 - Silver Lake mysteriously drying up on Staten Island (New York):
http://nypost.com/2015/12/20/submerged-secrets-are-revealed-as-silver-lake-dries-up/

Quote: "Staten Island’s Silver Lake is giving up decades of soggy secrets — from a vandalized street sign to an old motorcycle — as the massive city reservoir mysteriously drains away."

2015-12-20 - Devastating drought hits Bolivia, second largest lake, Lake Poopo, almost dried up:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=DR-20151220-51324-BOL
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2015/12/19/bolivias-2nd-largest-lake-almost-dried-up-government-declares-it-natural-disaster/

2015-12-20 - Amazing pillars of light filmed in Russia:
http://strangesounds.org/2015/12/light-pillars-column-light-sky-picture-december-2015.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308923-Amazing-pillars-of-light-captured-in-Russia

2015-12-20 - Congress quietly ends federal ban on medical marijuana:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-medical-pot-20141216-story.html
http://www.hightimes.com/read/congress-effectively-ends-federal-ban-medical-marijuana
http://www.occupydemocrats.com/finally-war-on-medical-marijuana-ends-as-feds-lift-the-ban/
http://www.inquisitr.com/2645930/federal-ban-lifted-on-medical-marijuana-provision-lifting-the-ban-quietly-placed-in-the-recent-spending-bill/

2015-12-21 - Man, 50, goes out on boat, goes missing, empty 'ghost boat' found, at Hamburg Cove in coastal Lyme (Connecticut):
http://fox61.com/2015/12/21/after-hours-of-searching-boat-found-in-lyme-but-man-still-missing/
http://wtnh.com/2015/12/21/state-police-search-for-missing-boater-in-lyme/
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/State-Police-Search-for-Missing-Boater-at-Hamburg-Cove-in-Lyme-363112381.html

2015-12-21 - Man in his 50s goes out on boat, goes missing, empty 'ghost boat' found, on the St. Marys River in Camden County (Georgia):
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/news/local/georgia/2015/12/21/coast-guard-assisting-search-missing-boater-georgia/77731340/
http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2015-12-22/story/search-continues-tuesday-missing-kingsland-boater

2015-12-21 - Volcano Shiveluch erupts and spews ash 5 kilometers high on the Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia):
http://tass.ru/en/science/845609
http://www.sott.net/article/308929-Shiveluch-volcano-erupts-in-Russias-Far-East-spewing-ash-5km-high

2015-12-21 - Magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes right on the coast in Borneo (Indonesia):
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/strong-6-0-magnitude/2365308.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308918-6-0-magnitude-earthquake-rattles-Indonesias-Borneo

2015-12-21 - New theory to explain the San Andreas fault in California - 'zipper fault':
http://www.livescience.com/53165-san-andreas-zipper-fault.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308954-New-theory-to-explain-the-San-Adreas-fault-zipper-fault

2015-12-21 - Update on Arctic conditions as the heating progresses and conditions deteriorate:
http://robertscribbler.com/2015/12/21/record-hot-arctic-noaas-2015-report-card-shows-signs-of-failing-climates/

2015-12-21 - Scientists say we may be underestimating methane emissions from the Arctic:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/21/bad-news-scientists-say-we-could-be-underestimating-arctic-methane-emissions/

2015-12-21 - Scientists say climate change could cause a ‘massive’ tree die-off in the US Southwest:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/21/scientists-say-climate-change-could-cause-a-massive-tree-die-off-in-the-southwest/

2015-12-21 - Public warned of more flooding to come in West Wales (Britain):
http://www.carmarthenjournal.co.uk/Public-urged-prepare-risk-flooding-rain-heads/story-28401089-detail/story.html
http://www.sott.net/article/308989-Public-told-to-prepare-for-risk-of-further-flooding-as-more-rain-heads-for-West-Wales

2015-12-21 - Unusually warm weather hits Moscow (Russia), willows start blossoming:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20151221-51342-RUS

2015-12-21 - Waterspout forms near Costa da Caparica (Portugal):
http://www.sott.net/article/308982-Waterspout-seen-forming-in-Costa-da-Caparica-Portugal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMq8B7Oxbj8

2015-12-22 - Earthquake swarm hits major fault near Reno (Nevada):
http://news.yahoo.com/quake-major-fault-line-rattles-reno-experts-monitoring-225102897.html

2015-12-22 - Magnitude 2.7 earthquake strikes in Bergheim (Germany):
http://www.thelocal.de/20151222/earthquake-shakes-sleepy-german-town
http://www.sott.net/article/308998-2-7-earthquake-hits-Bergheim-Germany

2015-12-22 - Winter storm to bring heavy snow, strong winds to West, Plains, Upper Midwest, possible blizzard conditions to High Plains:
http://www.weather.com/forecast/national/news/winter-storm-goliath-forecast-snow-blizzard
http://www.sott.net/article/309072-Winter-storm-to-bring-heavy-snow-strong-winds-to-West-Plains-Upper-Midwest-possible-blizzard-conditions-to-High-Plains

2015-12-22 - Storm Eva brings fresh flooding fears for Cumbria (Britain):
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-35166747
http://www.sott.net/article/309045-Storm-Eva-brings-fresh-flooding-fears-for-Cumbria-UK

2015-12-22 - Loggerhead turtle normally found in the Caribbean found on beach in Britain:
http://www.sott.net/article/309067-Loggerhead-turtle-normally-found-in-the-Caribbean-found-on-British-beach
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3372236/The-weather-s-turtley-tropical-Three-foot-loggerhead-turtle-normally-Caribbean-washes-British-beach.html

2015-12-22 - Two snake species thought to be extinct found off the coast of Western Australia:
http://news.yahoo.com/snakes-alive-missing-species-found-off-australia-coast-034537883.html

2015-12-22 - Pope Francis says this may be the last Christmas:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/the-popes-apocalyptic-message.html

Quote: "While the world starves, burns, and descends further into chaos, we should realise that this year’s Christmas celebrations for those who choose to celebrate it may be their last..."

2015-12-23 - Dangerous storms unleash tornadoes in Iowa, Mississippi and Tennessee, 7 killed, 40 injured:
http://abc7.com/news/boy-among-7-dead-40-injured-in-tornado-and-storm-outbreak/1134225/
http://gma.yahoo.com/tornadoes-storms-hit-south-midwest-leveling-homes-causing-000158244--abc-news-topstories.html
http://abc7ny.com/weather/boy-among-3-dead-40-injured-in-tornado-and-storm-outbreak/1134474/
http://www.sott.net/article/309087-Large-extremely-dangerous-7-dead-in-United-States-after-21-tornadoes-sweep-through-South-Midwest-regions

2015-12-23 - Tornado rips through Johnson County (Tennessee), 2 killed:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=TO-20151224-51386-USA
http://www.local8now.com/home/headlines/Tornadoes-Hit-Middle-TN-2-Found-Dead-In-Debris-363438491.html
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/davidson%20/2015/12/23/middle-tennessee-storm-damage-power-outages/77839116/

2015-12-23 - Storms in the Philippines displace 1.7 million people, destroy 40,000 homes:
http://www.trust.org/item/20151223123219-v8tap/

2015-12-23 - 15 extreme weather events that rocked the planet in 2015:
http://ecowatch.com/2015/12/23/extreme-weather-2015/

2015-12-23 - Warmest December in 350 years of records heats up Britain:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hottest-december-records-began-350-7052646

Quote: "Forecasters have said this month has been the hottest since records began more than 350 years ago. But heavy rain and gale force winds are predicted over the coming days, spelling chaos for millions of people on their Christmas getaways."

2015-12-23 - Two survivors found 3 days after massive landslide wiped out numerous buildings in coastal Shenzen (China):
http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/12/23/13/09/two-survivors-found-70-hours-after-shenzhen-landslide
http://www.sott.net/article/309039-Two-survivors-found-alive-in-rubble-nearly-3-days-after-Chinese-landslide-over-70-people-still-missing

2015-12-23 - 2400 babies born with brain damage in Brazil, possibly from virus, emergency declared:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/brazil-declares-emergency-after-2400-babies-are-born-with-brain-damage-possibly-due-to-mosquito-borne-virus/ar-BBnR8pk

2015-12-23 - Victorian-era diseases like scurvy and Scarlet Fever on the rise in the United Kingdom:
http://news.yahoo.com/victorian-diseases-scurvy-scarlet-fever-231329888.html

2015-12-23 - Hundreds of giant comets discovered in solar system, may pose greater threat to Earth than asteroids:
http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/2758-giant-comets-could-pose-danger-to-life-on-earth
http://www.sott.net/article/309003-Giant-comets-may-threaten-Earth

2015-12-23 - Video shows fleet of UFOs darting in formation in night sky over Santiago (Chile):
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/intriguing-footage-shows-fleet-ufos-7061066
http://www.sott.net/article/309062-Intriguing-video-shows-fleet-of-UFOs-darting-in-formation-in-night-sky-over-Santiago-Chile

2015-12-23 - Study shows that angry bees are easily distracted by food:
http://www.rt.com/usa/326936-bees-science-food-beekeepers/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/12/23/angry-bees-are-easily-distracted-by-food-study-finds/

Quote: "According to a recent study out of the University of Toulouse and University of Queensland, angry honey bees are easily distracted by food."

2015-12-23 - Feds won't accept Missouri driver's licenses starting January 10:
http://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-feds-wont-accept-missouri-drivers-licenses-224604245.html

Quote: "The Associated Press, informs the state that its exemption from federal Real ID requirements will come to an end Jan. 10. That means Missouri driver's licenses cannot be accepted as ID at military bases and most other federal facilities. It also could eventually mean that Missouri driver's licenses won't be accepted as identification for commercial airplane flights."

2015-12-23 - NASA captures radar images of asteroid passing Earth on Christmas Eve:
http://gizmodo.com/nasa-catches-a-glimpse-of-the-christmas-eve-asteroid-1749588404
http://www.sott.net/article/309149-NASA-captures-radar-images-of-asteroid-passing-Earth-on-Christmas-Eve

2015-12-24 - Volcano Colima erupts again in Mexico:
http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4464001&Itemid=1
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/mexicos-colima-volcano-rattled-by-explosive-eruption/

2015-12-24 - Magnitude 3.0 earthquake strikes near The Geysers (California):
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earthquake-30-quake-strikes-near-the-geysers-calif-z8puvv-story.html

2015-12-24 - Strange underground sounds and ground movement scaring people in Acatzingo, Puebla (Mexico):
http://www.sott.net/article/309098-Eerie-underground-noises-recorded-in-Mexican-town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzQmhFtcZDI

2015-12-24 - US East Coast hit by warmest Christmas Eve ever recorded:
http://mashable.com/2015/12/24/record-warm-christmas-temp-tracker/
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/the-warmest-christmas-eve-the-east-coast-has-ever-seen-is-shattering-records/

2015-12-24 - Mutated plants and animals found near Fukushima (Japan):
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/fukushima-radiation.html

2015-12-24 - Floods force evacuation of over 70,000 people in Paraguay:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3372474/Paraguay-Floods-force-evacuation-70-000.html
http://www.sott.net/article/309132-Floods-force-evacuation-of-over-70000-in-Paraguay

2015-12-24 - Snoqualmie Pass buried by more than seven FEET of snow in Washington State:
http://www.sott.net/article/309131-Snoqualmie-Pass-Washington-buried-in-snow-85-inches-on-the-ground

2015-12-24 - Giant lenticular cloud forms during sunset in Yalta (Crimea):
http://strangesounds.org/2015/12/giant-lenticular-cloud-sunset-sky-yalta-pictures.html
http://www.sott.net/article/309180-Giant-lenticular-cloud-forms-in-Yalta-Crimea-during-sunset

2015-12-24 - New stealthy species of shark, the ninja lanternshark, discovered:
http://fox2now.com/2015/12/24/new-species-of-shark-discovered/
http://wtvr.com/2015/12/24/new-species-the-ninja-lanternshark-discovered/
http://q13fox.com/2015/12/24/new-shark-species-discovered-meet-the-all-black-ninja-lanternshark/

2015-12-24 - Air Force no longer doing 21-gun-salute at veteran funerals due to sequestration and budget cuts:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/24/air-force-will-no-longer-fire-three-volley-salutes-at-veteran-funerals.html

Quote: "'To me, without the 21-gun salute, it just does not make it complete a proper military burial,' veteran Wayne Wakeman told Honolulu’s KHON 2 News."

Note: I used to do the 21-gun salute at funerals for Army veterans as part of the Honor Guard in Arizona. I'd guess it cost around five grand per funeral (transport, lodging, meals, etc), so it wasn't exactly cheap to bus in the teams to do it, but it's sad that this is where the sequestration budget cuts hit...

2015-12-24 - Man trying to travel through time crashes car through two buildings in coastal Pensacola (Florida):
http://okcfox.com/news/offbeat/man-trying-to-time-travel-plows-car-into-florida-businesses-police-say

Quote: "Police said the driver told them he was trying to 'travel through time.'"

2015-12-25 - Volcano Kanlaon hit by three volcanic earthquakes in the Philippine Islands:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VA-20151226-51413-PHL

2015-12-25 - Magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes near Feyzabad (Afghanistan), felt in India and Pakistan:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=EQ-20151226-51410-AFG
http://www.rt.com/news/327111-quake-afghanistan-india-pakistan/
http://news.yahoo.com/strong-6-2-magnitude-quake-rocks-northeast-afghanistan-195345362.html
http://www.sott.net/article/309189-6-2-magnitude-earthquake-rattles-northern-Afghanistan-tremors-felt-in-Pakistan-India
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/26/6-3-magnitude-earthquake-hits-northern-afghanistan-and-pakistan/

2015-12-25 - Magnitude 5.9 earthquake shakes Maluku Province (Indonesia):
http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/5-9-magnitude-earthquake-jolts-indonesia_1838257.html
http://www.sott.net/article/309200-Indonesias-Maluku-province-jolted-by-5-9-magnitude-earthquake

2015-12-25 - Russia warming 2.5 times faster than the average:
http://news.yahoo.com/russia-warming-2-5-times-quicker-global-average-112218465.html

Quote: "Fires around Lake Baikal, including the nearby Irkutsk and Buryatia regions, tore through hundreds of square miles in the pristine area, with locals and campers forced to dig ditches as state media at one point offered the theory that fires were fuelled by 'self-igniting air' caused by ozone anomalies."

Note: Don't need any 'ozone anomalies' when there's lots of methane leaking from the permafrost and sometimes just plain exploding out of the ground, as has happened multiple times in Siberia. You'd think they'd be more aware of such things happening in their own country. Maybe they missed that giant cloud of hydrogen sulfide that hit Moscow too, mentioned in the 2014-11-10 update, or maybe they're unaware that hydrogen sulfide is also explosively flammable. Maybe they'll wake up before everyone in Russia is dead...or maybe they won't!

2015-12-25 - Record-breaking heat hits Naples (Florida):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20151226-51409-USA

2015-12-25 - Heavy flooding hits Alabama, state of emergency declared:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/26/us/alabama-declares-state-of-emergency-as-flooding-from-storms-continues.html

2015-12-25 - 'Winter vomiting disease' spreading in California:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/12/25/Winter-vomiting-disease-spreading-in-California/5381451059109/

Note: That's the story anyway...

2015-12-25 - Tuberculosis increasing at alarming rates in neighborhoods across London (Britain):
http://insightticker.com/2015/12/25/2788/tuberculosis-increasing-at-alarming-rates-in-neighborhoods-across-london/
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/tuberculosis-increasing-at-alarming-rates-in-neighborhoods-across-london/

2015-12-25 - Newly discovered fungus is killing trees critical to Hawaii's water supply:
http://phys.org/news/2015-12-fungus-tree-critical-hawaii-native.html
http://www.sott.net/article/309234-Newly-discovered-fungus-is-killing-trees-critical-to-Hawaiis-water-supply

2015-12-25 - Creepy alien-looking fungus spreading in Britain:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clathrus-archeri-octopus-stinkhorn_567c2fc7e4b014efe0d82509

2015-12-25 - Group generously hands out 1000 doobies to homeless people in Denver (Colorado):
http://www.rt.com/usa/327123-denver-homeless-christmas-marijuana/
http://nypost.com/2015/12/25/homeless-stoners-get-free-joints-for-christmas-in-denver/
http://www.sott.net/article/309209-Cannabis-not-homes-Denver-homeless-treated-with-free-holiday-joints

Note: And within two hours, twelve convenience stores got robbed for Pringles and cupcakes. No, not really!

2015-12-26 - Apocalyptic flooding devastates large parts of Britain:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=FL-20151226-51418-GBR
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=FL-20151226-51419-GBR
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-weather-bury-gas-explosion-7073476
http://news.sky.com/story/1612392/danger-to-life-flood-warnings-for-the-north
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3374506/Met-Office-issues-RED-killer-rain-warning.html
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/26/flooding-havoc-britain-yorkshire
http://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/bridge-erupts-into-flames-as-it-collapses-under-heavy-uk-downpour
http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/12/27/09/32/bridge-ripped-down-and-left-in-flames-as-uk-lashed-by-heavy-downpours
http://www.sott.net/article/309269-UK-flooding-Emergency-services-stretched-to-breaking-point-after-unprecedented-rainfall
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/26/floods-of-biblical-proportions-leave-uk-cities-towns-and-villages-under-water/

Quote: "Rare red flood warnings - the severest possible, signifying a 'danger to life' - have been issued for Lancashire and Yorkshire today."

2015-12-26 - Heavy rain and flooding hits St. Louis (Missouri), more rain expected:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=FF-20151227-51427-USA
http://www.kmov.com/story/30833296/emergency-crews-evacuating-stranded-residents-in-brentwood
http://www.kmov.com/story/30831369/flash-flooding-threat-this-weekend-as-waves-of-heavy-rain-expected-to-hit-st-louis

2015-12-26 - Flooding forces 150,000+ people from their homes in 4 countries in South America:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-35179103
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-latam-floods-idUSKBN0U90H020151226
http://www.sott.net/article/309205-Severe-flooding-in-Paraguay-Argentina-Brazil-and-Uruguay-displaces-150000-people
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/26/floods-force-nearly-140000-people-to-leave-their-homes-in-4-south-american-countries/

2015-12-26 - Major winter storm to blast Central US with blizzard conditions, severe weather, life-threatening flooding:
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/winter-storm-christmas-2015-blizzard-snow-ice-flooding-severe-south-us-texas/54422334
http://www.sott.net/article/309323-Major-winter-storm-to-blast-central-US-with-blizzard-conditions-severe-weather-life-threatening-flooding

2015-12-26 - Kamchatka (Russia) cut off from the world due to heavy snowfall:
http://iceagenow.info/17516-2/
http://www.sott.net/article/309275-Kamchatka-cut-off-from-outside-world-by-heavy-snowfall-Russia

Note: Lots of major destructive events involving large amounts of rainfall, hail and snow in recent times, and especially in the last year or two. It's getting worse and these events are escalating concurrently with the increasing amounts of methane spewing into the atmosphere, which is no coincidence. Methane reacts with ozone and hydroxyl radicals in the atmosphere and degrades into CO2 and water. So as methane enters the atmosphere, we're losing hydroxyl radicals and ozone in the atmosphere (both of which protect us from UV radiation) and at the same time, more water is created in the atmosphere, and we're seeing more incidents involving unusual amounts of precipitation. Sometimes the precipitation will be water, sometimes snow, sometimes hail, but whatever the form of the water falling from the sky, there's going to be more of it.

This is obviously already happening, and it's sure to get worse, at least until we run out of hydroxyl radicals and ozone in the atmosphere. When THAT happens, the Earth will be hit by extreme levels of UV radiation, skin cancer rates will skyrocket, and crops and trees and animals will die off even harder than they already are. So the massive high-precip events are, in a way, sort of a good sign, in the sense that such events indicate that our atmospheric UV protection is not yet entirely destroyed. But as it IS wiped out, you'll see the Sun looking more and more white, as opposed to the yellow that it once was - that's more 'blue' UV light getting through, making the Sun look whiter. If the Sun seems to sting your skin, that's because you're being fried by the rising levels of UV. This will damage DNA/RNA and cause more problems with mutations - albinos, four-armed two-headed people and animals, babies born missing parts of their brains, genetic chimeras, that sort of thing...

2015-12-26 - As oceans warm, ice melting away from below in the Antarctic:
http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2015/12/watch-ice-shelves-2.html

2015-12-26 - Boston and New York City were warmer on Christmas Eve than they were on the 4th of July:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/warmer-on-christmas-eve-than-4th-of.html

Note: That's freaky as hell!

2015-12-26 - Photo gallery - worst natural disasters of 2015:
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2015/12/photo-gallery-worst-natural-disasters.html

2015-12-26 - Volcano Colima continues erupting in Mexico:
http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/volcano-sends-ash-smoke-2-2-km-high/
http://www.sott.net/article/309268-Mexicos-Colima-volcano-erupts-spewing-smoke-and-ash-2-km-high

2015-12-26 - Deadly tornado rips through Garland (Texas), 5+ killed:
http://abc13.com/news/5-killed-in-deadly-tornado-in-dallas-ft-worth/1136750/
http://news.yahoo.com/christmas-storm-woes-continue-tornado-hits-alabama-074201621.html

2015-12-27 - Man, 44, ship's master, has heart attack on cargo ship 'Selandia' near the Magellan Strait, medevac'd off:
http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Selandia-9497335.html

Quote: "The master of the 'Selandia' suffered a heart attack on Dec 27, 2015, while the ship was approaching the Magellan Strait from the Pacific. The 44-year old Ukrainian was transferred to a Chilean Navy frigate in the western part of the Strait and delivered to the Punta Arenas hospital."

2015-12-27 - Volcano Kanlaon erupts, spews ash 3200 feet, in the Philippine Islands:
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/549208/news/regions/kanlaon-volcano-spews-3-200-ft-ash
http://www.sott.net/article/309300-Philippines-Kanlaon-volcano-spews-3200-feet-of-ash

2015-12-27 - Magnitude 5.2 earthquake strikes in the ocean near Siargao Island (Philippine Islands):
http://www.mb.com.ph/5-2-earthquake-rocks-siargao-island/
http://www.sott.net/article/309308-5-2-earthquake-shakes-Siargao-Island-Philippines

2015-12-27 - Magnitude 4.2 earthquake strikes near Barstow (California):
http://ktla.com/2015/12/27/prelimilary-4-2-magnitude-earthquake-in-mojave-dessert-area-is-felt-in-los-angeles/
http://www.sott.net/article/309334-4-2-magnitude-earthquake-hits-near-Barstow-California
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/28/mojave-desert-4-2-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-los-angeles/
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-4-2-magnitude-earthquake-struck-northwest-of-barstow-felt-all-the-way-in-orange-county-20151227-story.html

2015-12-27 - At least 4300 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater hit Indonesia in 2015:
http://en.tempo.co/read/news/2015/12/27/206730989/4300-Earthquakes-Hit-Indonesia-in-2015-Report
http://www.sott.net/article/309310-4300-earthquakes-strike-Indonesia-in-2015

2015-12-27 - Warm Arctic storm pushes temps to 72F above normal at the North Pole:
http://robertscribbler.com/2015/12/27/warm-arctic-storm-to-hurl-hurricane-force-winds-at-uk-and-iceland-push-temps-to-72-degrees-f-above-normal-at-north-pole/

2015-12-27 - Several tornadoes pound Texas, at least 8 killed:
http://www.rt.com/usa/327174-texas-tornado-dallas-storms/
http://www.sott.net/article/309298-Day-After-Tomorrow-scenario-in-full-swing-At-least-8-dead-as-wave-of-tornadoes-rolls-into-north-Texas

2015-12-27 - Heavy flooding kills 8 people in Missouri, governor declares state of emergency:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=ST-20151228-51441-USA
http://www.kmov.com/story/30836309/gov-nixon-declares-state-of-emergency

Quote: "Missouri's governor has declared a state of emergency because of widespread flooding that has led to at least eight fatalities. Gov. Jay Nixon's office said in a release Sunday that weekend flooding has led to eight deaths, dozens of water rescues and evacuations. More flooding is expected while river levels continue rising around the state."

2015-12-27 - Heavy flooding hits Illinois, car swept away, 5 killed, school bus and big rig swept away too:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=FF-20151227-51438-USA
http://fox2now.com/2015/12/28/school-bus-tractor-trailer-swept-into-pond-in-mascoutah/

2015-12-27 - Unprecedented record snowfall hits El Calafate (Argentina):
http://iceagenow.info/historic-snowfall-in-el-calafate/
http://www.sott.net/article/309380-Unprecedented-record-snowfall-in-El-Calafate-Argentina

2015-12-27 - Hail kills dozens of birds in Jonesboro (Arkansas):
http://5newsonline.com/2015/12/24/hail-storm-causes-dozens-of-birds-to-fall-from-sky/
http://www.sott.net/article/309370-Dozens-of-birds-killed-by-large-hailstones-in-Jonesboro-Arkansas

2015-12-27 - Monster winter storm 'Goliath' brings twisters, floods, snow and deaths:
http://www.rt.com/usa/327299-monster-winter-storm-twisters-floods/
http://www.sott.net/article/309385-Monster-winter-storm-Goliath-brings-twisters-floods-snow-and-deaths

2015-12-27 - Frightful weather promises to become even more extreme:
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/27/the-weather-outside-is-frightful-and-promises-to-become-even-more-extreme/

2015-12-27 - TEPCO has more problems with radioactive water at Fukushima:
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/more-problems-at-fukushima-daiichi.html

2015-12-27 - Colorful polar stratospheric clouds return to the skies in Sweden:
http://strangesounds.org/2015/12/polar-stratospheric-clouds-lappland.html
http://www.sott.net/article/309322-Colorful-polar-stratospheric-clouds-return-to-Swedish-skies

2015-12-28 - 50 doomiest images of 2015:
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2015/12/50-doomiest-images-of-2015.html

2015-12-28 - 19 terrifying images from the deadly storms ripping through the US:
http://news.yahoo.com/19-terrifying-images-deadly-storms-211033823.html

2015-12-28 - Magnitude 4.8 earthquake strikes in the ocean near Eureka (California):
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Magnitude-4-8-earthquake-offshore-california-eurek-6724922.php
http://www.sott.net/article/309391-4-8-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-offshore-of-Northern-California-near-Eureka

2015-12-28 - Heavy snowfall and blizzard conditions hit parts of Texas:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=SS-20151229-51462-USA

2015-12-28 - Winter storm dumps 7 inches of snow on El Paso (Texas):
http://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/2015/12/27/el-pasoans-enjoy-rare-snow-storm/77959190/
http://www.sott.net/article/309394-Rare-snow-storm-for-El-Paso-Texas-more-than-7-inches-of-snow-reported

2015-12-28 - Biggest snow storm in half a century hits north Mexico with 12 inches of snow and -18C temps:
http://news.yahoo.com/biggest-snow-storm-decades-hits-north-mexico-191315527.html
http://www.sott.net/article/309377-Biggest-snow-storm-in-half-a-century-hits-north-Mexico-12-inches-of-snow-minus-18-Celsius

2015-12-28 - Heavy flooding submerges parts of Northern Territory (Australia), crocodiles reported:
http://www.yahoo.com/travel/terror-in-australia-as-crocodiles-swept-into-town-172652113.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11566910
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/dec/28/woman-dies-floodwaters-force-hundreds-evacuate-across-northern-territory
http://www.sott.net/article/309356-Hundreds-evacuated-due-to-floods-in-the-Northern-Territory-Australia-reports-of-crocodiles

Quote: "The [area] is obviously populated by a large population of crocodiles, and already we’ve seen reports of crocodiles sighted within the community..."

2015-12-28 - Heatwave bakes South Australia:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20151229-51451-AUS

2015-12-28 - Italy clamps down on driving as freak weather creates killer pollution:
http://news.yahoo.com/rome-milan-clamp-down-cars-smog-smothers-italy-131416454.html

2015-12-28 - Unusual spinning ice circle surprises residents of Brainerd (Minnesota):
http://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/weather/3908868-spinning-ice-circle-unusual-weather-phenomenon-provides-draw
http://www.sott.net/article/309378-Unusual-spinning-ice-circle-surprises-residents-of-Brainerd-Minnesota

2015-12-28 - Giant squid found near the surface in Toyama Bay (Japan):
http://fox59.com/2015/12/29/creature-from-the-deep-surfaces-in-japanese-harbor/
http://strangesounds.org/2015/12/giant-squid-japan-marina-video.html
http://www.ktvq.com/clip/12101078/giant-deep-sea-squid-swims-in-bay
http://www.sott.net/article/309405-Giant-squid-filmed-in-marina-in-Japan

Quote: "This is the first time a giant squid was seen live at the Mizuhashi Fisherina, as the water depth is only about 2.5 to 3 meters."

2015-12-28 - Crazy winter weather brings rare red-rumped swallow from the Mediterranean to Norfolk (Britain):
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/629473/red-rumped-swallow-migration-weather
http://www.sott.net/article/309409-Crazy-winter-weather-brings-rare-red-rumped-swallow-from-the-Mediterranean-to-Norfolk-UK

2015-12-29 - 'Gas odor' (e.g. rotten egg odor) evacuates Kohl's in Raritan Township (New Jersey), nothing found:
http://www.nj.com/hunterdon/index.ssf/2015/12/gas_smell_prompts_evacuation_at_kohls_in_flemingto.html
http://www.ooyuz.com/geturl?aid=9736609

2015-12-29 - Woman, 28, goes missing while scuba diving near coastal Catalina Island (California):
http://www.presstelegram.com/general-news/20151229/scuba-diver-goes-missing-off-catalina-island

2015-12-29 - Two men, 52 and unknown, collapse while shoveling/blowing snow in Ottawa (Canada):
http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/news/52-year-old-man-suffers-heart-attack-while-shoveling-snow-1.2717064

2015-12-29 - Magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes near coastal Panguna (Papua New Guinea):
http://sputniknews.com/asia/20151229/1032433681/papua-quake.html
http://www.sott.net/article/309425-Papua-New-Guinea-shaken-by-5-6-magnitude-earthquake

2015-12-29 - Magnitude 4.9 earthquake strikes in northern California, 4.4 earthquake hits southern California 10 minutes later:
http://news.sky.com/story/1614238/earthquake-shakes-los-angeles-california
http://www.sott.net/article/309490-Magnitude-4-4-earthquake-shakes-Los-Angeles-California
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/12/29/Earthquakes-rattle-northern-southern-California-within-15-minutes-of-each-other/9511451442675/

Note: First quake was in the ocean near Eureka and the second quake was near Los Angeles...

2015-12-29 - Magnitude 4.3 earthquake strikes near Edmond (Oklahoma), 4400 homes go dark:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=EQ-20151229-51467-USA
http://news.yahoo.com/strong-earthquake-rattles-central-oklahoma-142109871.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1229/Strong-Oklahoma-earthquake-knocks-out-power-to-4-400-homes

2015-12-29 - Magnitude 4.3 earthquake strikes under the Strait of Georgia near Vancouver (Canada):
http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/12/vancouver-earthquake/
http://www.sott.net/article/309487-Magnitude-4-3-earthquake-under-the-Strait-of-Georgia-Canada

2015-12-29 - Magnitude 4.3 earthquake shakes the Kashmir Valley (Pakistan), school collapses:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=EQ-20151229-51464-PAK

2015-12-29 - The storm that will unfreeze the North Pole:
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/12/iceland-storm-melt-north-pole-climate-change/422166/
http://www.theage.com.au/environment/weather/bomb-cyclone-to-spike-arctic-temperatures-add-to-uks-flooding-woes--20151228-glw1u8.html
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/31/freak-storm-pushes-north-pole-50-degrees-above-normal-to-melting-point/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/12/30/freak-storm-has-pushed-north-pole-to-freezing-point-50-degrees-above-normal/

Quote: "But later this week, something extraordinary will happen: Air temperatures at the Earth’s most northernly region, in the middle of winter, will rise above freezing for only the second time on record."

Quote: "And so on Wednesday, the North Pole will likely see temperatures of about 35 degrees Fahrenheit, or 2 degrees Celsius. That’s 50 degrees hotter than average: It’s usually 20 degrees Fahrenheit below zero there at this time of year."

2015-12-29 - Record El Niño probably the most powerful in the last 100 years:
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2015/12/record-el-nino-and-climate-change-drive.html

2015-12-29 - Coast Guard closes part of the Mississippi River due to flooding, at St. Louis (Missouri), entire town evacuated too:
http://fox2now.com/2015/12/29/us-coast-guard-closes-portion-of-the-mississippi-river-near-st-louis/
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/12/29/Evacuation-of-entire-Missouri-town-as-Mississippi-River-levee-fails/2371451386905/
http://www.sott.net/article/309495-Missouri-in-state-of-emergency-as-three-major-rivers-are-above-flood-capacity
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/missouri-governor-warns-of-historic-and-dangerous-floods/
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=FL-20151230-51469-USA
http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/coast-guard-closes-mississippi-river-at-st-louis/article_bf12882c-c428-5418-b3c7-b6b0671f19f5.html

Quote: "Capt. Martin Malloy cited high water levels and fast currents as the river continues to approach near-record levels in St. Louis. The Mississippi River is a vital transportation hub for barges that carry agricultural products and other goods."

Quote: "The amount of rain we have received, in some places in excess of a foot, has caused river levels to not only rise rapidly, but to go to places they have never been before."

Note: Yep, that storm was crazy! Didn't realize it was foot-of-rain crazy though. Whew!

2015-12-29 - Governor declares emergency in seven counties in Illinois due to heavy flooding:
http://www.bnd.com/news/local/article52016925.html

2015-12-29 - Heavy storms and flooding hits Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), emergency declared in 17 towns:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=ST-20151230-51481-BRA

2015-12-29 - Fierce winter storm hits Chihuahua and Sonora (Mexico):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=SS-20151230-51486-MEX
http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/winter-hits-chihuahua-with-25cm-of-snow/
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/winter-hits-chihuahua-with-25cm-of-snow-climate-change-blamed-for-series-of-winter-storms/

2015-12-29 - Beachball-sized ice ball smashes through roof at home in Naples (Florida):
http://www.abc-7.com/story/30848944/basketball-sized-ice-ball-smashes-through-naples-roof
http://www.sott.net/article/309483-Megacryometeor-Beach-ball-sized-ice-ball-smashes-through-Florida-roof

2015-12-29 - Australia’s carbon emissions jump in 2015:
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2015/12/australias-carbon-emissions-jump-in.html

2015-12-29 - US banks have 247 trillion dollars of exposure to derivatives:
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/financial-armageddon-approaches-u-s-banks-have-247-trillion-dollars-of-exposure-to-derivatives

2015-12-29 - Lynn (Massachusetts) gets new high-tech fire boat:
http://www.itemlive.com/news/lynn-fire-department-floats-high-tech-boat/article_b245d3e2-add5-11e5-9323-478ef89fe866.html

2015-12-30 - Man has 'medical emergency' while sandbagging on Water Street in Cape Girardeau (Missouri):
http://www.semissourian.com/story/2263732.html

2015-12-30 - Volcano Fuego erupts, fountains lava, in Guatemala:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VE-20151231-51496-GTM
http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/fuego/news/55910/Fuego-volcano-Guatemala-increase-of-activity-strombolian-explosions-pyroclastic-flow.html
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2015/12/31/increase-in-activity-strombolian-explosions-pyroclastic-flows-reported-at-guatemalas-fuego-volcano/

2015-12-30 - Three volcanoes start rumbling simultaneously in Vanuatu:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=UGE-20151230-51476-VUT

Quote: "Disaster authorities in Vanuatu are closely monitoring unprecedented simultaneous increases in activity at three of the country's volcanoes. The Vanuatu Geohazards Department has put out level 2 alerts for both the northern and southern volcanoes of Ambrym and Tanna with local communities and tourists banned from visiting the rim of these craters. There is a lesser level 1 alert for a volcano on Ambae island. Geohazard officer Eslien Garaebiti says increased activity at all volcanoes has never been seen before and says the department is particularly worried about the Tanna and Ambrym craters."

2015-12-30 - Floods, earthquakes, wildfires and heat waves: the worst natural disasters of 2015:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/year-end-2015-natural-disasters-1.3346639

2015-12-30 - Heatwave hits the North Pole:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20151231-51504-NPO
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/george-monbiot-perhaps-1c-of-global.html
http://robertscribbler.com/2015/12/27/warm-arctic-storm-to-hurl-hurricane-force-winds-at-uk-and-iceland-push-temps-to-72-degrees-f-above-normal-at-north-pole/

2015-12-30 - Nightmarish flooding hits Tipperary (Ireland), woman goes wakeboarding on streets:
http://www.rt.com/news/327482-floods-irish-roads-wake/
http://www.sott.net/article/309523-Nightmare-floods-turn-Irish-roads-into-a-wakeboarding-paradise

Note: Bitchin' waves, totally gnarly!

2015-12-30 - Man killed in elevator on cruise ship, blood flows from elevator like in 'The Shining', near coastal Miami (Florida):
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/worker-bloody-elevator-death-ship-mirrors-shining-article-1.2481008
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/national/blood-seeps-out-cruise-ship-elevator/nptQG/
http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/videos/news/national/blood-cruise-ship/vDgxJc/
http://cbs12.com/news/top-stories/stories/florida-family-horrified-after-seeing-blood-seeping-out-cruise-ship-elevator-32542.shtml

Note: Redrum!

2015-12-30 - Couple of compilation videos showing some of the crazy horrible stuff happening on this planet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvw8Qh1Wu5A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbxEhc2epFo

2015-12-30 - City plans to pay everyone a basic income in the Netherlands:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/26/dutch-city-utrecht-basic-income-uk-greens

2015-12-31 - Man found semi-conscious and foaming at the mouth in Flagstaff (Arizona):
http://flagscanner.com/fsmedical-delirious-man-foaming-at-mouth-flagstaff/

2015-12-31 - Nevada hit by 17,500 earthquakes in 2015:
http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2015/12/31/wow-there-were-17500-nevada-earthquakes-2015/78138674/
http://www.sott.net/article/309587-17500-earthquakes-recorded-for-Nevada-in-2015

2015-12-31 - 2015-2016 El Nino event may be most devastating ever, worst yet to come:
http://robertscribbler.com/2015/12/30/nasa-worst-of-el-nino-still-to-come-with-climate-change-in-the-mix-2015-2016-event-may-equal-most-devastating-on-record/

2015-12-31 - Historic unseasonal flooding continues to devastate Missouri:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/historic-unseasonable-flood-begins-on-mississippi-river-928-mb-low-hi
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/missouri-ravaged-by-historic-flooding-as-disaster-after-disaster-continues-to-hit-america
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/rescue-crews-assist-with-evacuations-in-midwest-flooding/2015/12/30/ddee16a6-af5d-11e5-b281-43c0b56f61fa_story.html

Note: We don't call it Misery for nothin'!

2015-12-31 - Mississippi River flooding spreading southward into Tennessee:
https://news.yahoo.com/video/tennessee-residents-near-mississippi-river-004007228.html

2015-12-31 - Huge wave slams oil rig in the North Sea, 1 killed:
http://www.sott.net/article/309524-Storm-Frank-Worker-dies-after-huge-wave-slams-into-North-Sea-rig

2015-12-31 - Radioactive materials from St. Louis landfill contaminating surrounding neighborhoods:
http://www.rt.com/usa/327593-nuclear-waste-stlouis-runoff/
http://www.sott.net/article/309564-Radioactive-materials-from-St-Louis-landfill-contaminating-surrounding-neighborhoods

2015-12-31 - Ingredients of plague risk in Western US identified:
http://news.yahoo.com/ingredients-plague-risk-western-us-identified-131810608.html

2015-12-31 - Geomagnetic storm lights up the northern sky as 2015 comes to a close:
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2016/01/01/geomagnetic-storm-lights-up-northern-sky-as-year-ends/

2015-12-31 - Rotten egg odor alarms people in Lubbock (Texas), blamed on mercaptan:
http://lubbockonline.com/local-news/2015-12-30/oil-field-odorant-permeating-through-lubbock-prompts-calls-about-suspected-gas

Note: Even if it IS mercaptan, mercaptan is essentially the same as hydrogen sulfide: flammable, poisonous, neurotoxic. As per this CDC document: "Because no useful data on acute inhalation toxicity are available on which to base the IDLH for methyl mercaptan, the chosen IDLH is based on an analogy with hydrogen sulfide. ACGIH [1971] reported that some investigators show toxicities of the same magnitude for hydrogen sulfide and methyl mercaptan [Ljunggren and Norberg 1943]; others indicate that the toxicity of methyl mercaptan is somewhat less than that of hydrogen sulfide [DeRekowski 1893; Frankel 1921]." So yeah, they're being hit by poison gas, and that's certainly cause for concern if you're one of those wanna-stay-alive kind of people. Same thing with the rotten egg odor around that giant gas leak near Porter Ranch (California)...