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Huge waves hit Chile and Peru
Advertisement5 July 2013 Last updated at 19:41 ET Help Waves as high as 7m (22 ft) have hit parts of Chile and coastal areas are on alert as high winds and tidal currents sweep across parts of South America's coast.
Footage showed huge waves surging onto the streets of Antofagasta in Chile where at least one injury was reported following the dangerous weather.
In Peru, parts of the country's coastline were hit with waves as big as 5m (16 ft) and the weather caused flooded streets in the seaside city of Chimbote.
Reged Ahmad reports.
vid here..http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23208492
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3 July 2013 Last updated at 14:51 ET Help The first 10 years of the 21st Century were the world's hottest since records began and included unprecedented extremes, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
A report from the organisation says more national temperature records were reported broken between 2001 and 2010 than in previous decades.
David Shukman reports from Death Valley.
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Climate extremes are 'unprecedented'
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The Storm Dragons are ANGRY
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The weather is really having extreme changes, at least here in Portugal.
After one of the coldest Springs, we had some hot weather in June (not usual at that time) and now we are having temperatures that we usually only get in August, usually the hottest month.
Today, the meteorological station closest to where I live (some 5 km) had a minimum of 24.3º C at 7:00 and a maximum of 40.7º C at 17:00.
And I don't have air conditioning. :(
This year we were actually cooler until recently Last year we hit 100F in mid April and had 100 + mrom May 1st to end of August
This year the heat wave came early in July Temps pushing 117F and staying over 100 overnight. That is killing most of my food crop, though the flowers and trees are handling it. Its also killing me on water bill
We did have a break... thunderstorms started up dropped temps a bit and a few drops of rain... but lightning triggered a fire on Mt Charleston that is out of control still and threatening all those pretty homes up there. So far it is on the Pahrump side but haven't checked yet today
If indeed global warming is ready to trigger the next ice age as Vostok core samples indicate, I would expect severe weather mixups to increase
Ofcourse we can always blame the Cabal playing HAARPs :D
welllllllll personally i don't think there is anyone to blame....
we are just living thur a huge earth change
Freak hailstorms dump tons of ice on New Mexico and Alberta, Canada
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QuoteJuly 6, 2013 – NEW MEXICO - A storm dumped inches of hail on Santa Rosa Wednesday evening leaving a lot of ice and damage in its wake. The storm, which moved in from San Miguel County, lasted for about an hour. Thursday morning, Santa Rosa still looked like a winter wonderland from the air. Ice blanketed the streets, parks and rooftops on the Fourth of July, the morning after the storm that dumped 3-6 inches of nickel- to golf-ball-sized hail that accumulated to feet in depth in some places. "It's funny to see the people at Park Lake all in shorts and stuff and swimming trunks, and in the snow, it seems like," Horacio Lopez said. Santa Rosa's fire chief said while he appreciates the moisture during the long-running drought, the storm caused dangerous conditions on roadways. "Some people I talked to were stuck for five to six hours," Chief Gilbert Romero said. "It's just really bad, something I've never seen in my 50 years of life. I've never seen anything like this." Some of the original stained glass windows, dating back about 100 years, at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church were damaged by the hail. Resulting water damage also forced businesses to close including the Family Dollar as people continued to shovel hail off of roofs. "We've just spent the morning here trying to assess our damage," Mario Trujillo, the owner of the Sun & Sand Restaurant, said. "Just looking at town, it's just incredible. We've heard of carports falling." Roberta Blea didn't realize her carport had fallen on all three of her family's cars until after the storm passed. She said the falling hail was so loud, they couldn't hear the carport collapsing. "I looked out and it was just raining hail," Blea told KRQE News 13. "I had never seen that happen. I just never even expected this much destruction. It's devastating." Forecasters with the National Weather Service said these types of hail storms aren't uncommon, but that it's rare for this to happen before monsoon season starts. –KRQE
http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/environment/hail-storm-hammers-swamps-santa-rosa
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QuoteTABER, ALBERTA: "There's still hail sitting around now and it's like what, noon?" said Gaylene Whitley, surveying her lawn. "It's still sitting around. It came down in buckets." For Taber residents, waking up to snow on the lawn is normal in the spring. But waking to snowdrifts in July has the town speechless. Friday evening, large thunderstorms rolled into Taber, with hail covering streets, lawns and sidewalks. Ice pellets blocked storm sewers, flooding residential streets and sending some vehicles floating in the water. "In some spots in town I bet you there was two feet of water on the road. It was a lot of water and hail," said Taber resident Cody Cook. Taber RCMP say there were no reports of anyone injured, or any major damage to property during the storm. Residents are left with lawns full of mud and leaves, and of course, piles of snow. But five blocks away from these homes, there's no evidence of a storm at all. Residents in the North end of Taber seem to have been hit the hardest. One home owner said his roof is newly re-shingled, but that didn't stop the water from coming in. "There's water pouring in my parent's house. Through the roof, through the walls, through the light fixtures," said Cook. Residents say in some areas, water came up to car bumpers. Vehicles stalled trying to break through the hail filled streets, which are now filled with people from the South end of town catching a glimpse of the destruction five minutes away. All streets in Taber are now clear of water, as well as tree branches broken in the storm. –Global News
http://globalnews.ca/news/698469/taber-hail-storm-wreaks-havoc/
sorry to lazy to copy and paste pics this morning
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/08/toronto-storm-2013_n_3564199.html
Toronto Storm 2013 Knocks Out Power, Stops Subways In Canada's Largest City
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AP | Posted: 07/08/2013 9:53 pm EDT | Updated: 07/09/2013 1:20 am EDT
TORONTO (AP) — A severe thunderstorm caused flash flooding in Toronto during the Monday evening rush hour, cutting power to at least 300,000 in Canada's largest city, shutting down subways, and leaving about 1,000 passengers stranded for hours on a commuter train filled with gushing water.
Environment Canada said some parts of the city had been drenched with more than 3.9 inches (10 centimeters) of rain in the evening storm, easily beating the previous one-day rainfall record of 1.4 inches (3.6 centimeters) in 2008.
Scores of Toronto police and firefighters used boats to rescue commuters from a 10-car, double-decker train that stalled in floodwaters that reached up to the lower windows. Murky brown water spilled through the bottom floor of the carriages, sending passengers fleeing to the upper decks. Power was shut off and the windows were opened to provide ventilation.
"There's a full-on river on either side of us... We. Are. Stuck. Hard," passenger Jonah Cait wrote on Twitter.
A Metrolinx spokeswoman told the broadcast news network CP24 that about 1,000 passengers were aboard the train. Rescue workers were pulling weary passengers through the windows about 3 ½ hours after the train got stuck.
Another passenger told CP24 that she could see people clinging to trees after abandoning their cars on a flooded highway alongside the tracks.
All of Toronto's subway service was temporarily halted due to power and signal issues. Some stations were also flooded. Partial service later resumed but large parts of the system were still shut down.
The storm left the downtown core dotted with abandoned vehicles, some sitting in water up to their windows. One woman, in a T-shirt and shorts, dove head-first through the window of her marooned car before wading away in the thigh-deep currents.
Porter Airlines canceled all flights out of the downtown airport due to power outages in the terminal Monday evening. It was not clear how many flights were affected.
As many as 300,000 Toronto Hydro customers lost power. Hydro spokeswoman Tanya Bruckmueller said efforts to restore power to customers might be slowed as night fell.
Another utility, Enersource, said power was cut to about 80 percent of Mississauga, a suburb of 700,000 west of Toronto. By around 10 p.m., only about 50,000 were without power.
Toronto's flash flooding comes two weeks after extensive flooding in Calgary turned parts of the western Canadian city into a lake and forced up to 100,000 Albertans from their homes. Three bodies were recovered during the floods.
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In this photo provided by Michael Li, water rises in a GO Train stranded on flooded tracks in Toronto on Monday, July 8, 2013. A severe thunderstorm forced the shutdown of Toronto's subways, cut power to 300,000 in Canada's largest city and caused Porter Airlines to cancel all flights out of the downtown airport Monday evening. (AP Photo/Micheal Li via The Canadian Press)
Stranded passengers await rescue on a flooded GO Train in Toronto on Monday, July 8, 2013. A severe thunderstorm forced the shutdown of Toronto's subways, cut power to 300,000 in Canada's largest city and caused Porter Airlines to cancel all flights out of the downtown airport Monday evening. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)
A GO Train is stranded on flooded tracks in Toronto on Monday, July 8, 2013. A severe thunderstorm forced the shutdown of Toronto's subways, cut power to 300,000 in Canada's largest city and caused Porter Airlines to cancel all flights out of the downtown airport Monday evening. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Winston Neutel)
A GO Train is stranded on flooded tracks in Toronto on Monday, July 8, 2013. A severe thunderstorm forced the shutdown of Toronto's subways, cut power to 300,000 in Canada's largest city and caused Porter Airlines to cancel all flights out of the downtown airport Monday evening. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Winston Neutel)
A tow truck driver floats a car out of the Don Valley Parkway in Toronto on Monday, July 8 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)
A woman gets back into her flooded car on the Toronto Indy course on Lakeshore Boulevard in Toronto on Monday, July 8 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)
A woman gets back in her car in flood water on Lakeshore West during a storm in Toronto on Monday, July 8, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)
Stranded passengers are rescued from a flooded GO Train in Toronto on Monday, July 8, 2013. A severe thunderstorm forced the shutdown of Toronto's subways, cut power to 300,000 in Canada's largest city and caused Porter Airlines to cancel all flights out of the downtown airport Monday evening. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)
Stranded passengers are rescued from a flooded GO Train in Toronto on Monday, July 8, 2013. A severe thunderstorm forced the shutdown of Toronto's subways, cut power to 300,000 in Canada's largest city and caused Porter Airlines to cancel all flights out of the downtown airport Monday evening. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)
Stranded passengers are rescued from a flooded GO Train in Toronto on Monday, July 8, 2013. A severe thunderstorm forced the shutdown of Toronto's subways, cut power to 300,000 in Canada's largest city and caused Porter Airlines to cancel all flights out of the downtown airport Monday evening. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)
Stranded passengers are rescued from a flooded GO Train in Toronto on Monday, July 8, 2013. A severe thunderstorm forced the shutdown of Toronto's subways, cut power to 300,000 in Canada's largest city and caused Porter Airlines to cancel all flights out of the downtown airport Monday evening. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)
Toronto Apocalypse 2013
Canada is a huge country. I have never seen a time when from coast to coast there has been torrential downpours and flooding for such a long period of time. Of course it doesn't stop at the border and much of the US is being flooded also.
Weird or What? as William Shatner would say.
I don't think Haarp or other weather modification is to blame, it is nature at its finest.
Last year at this time it was so dry everyone was praying for rain. Well careful what you wish for!
on a personal note my trenches are keeping us fairly dry but more rain is expected this afternoon and with the ground totally water-logged ..gonna be some folks here needing help...
a lot of trees are leaning and landslides in this hilly local is scary..
earth changes as we watch
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/10/china-floods-landslide-buries-sichuan-province
China floods trigger landslide that buries 30 peopleHundreds trapped in road tunnel and earthquake memorial destroyed amid heavy rain and high winds in Sichuan province
Associated Press
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 10 July 2013 10.51 EDT
Flooding in western China, the worst in 50 years for some areas, has triggered a landslide that buried about 30 people, trapped hundreds in a road tunnel and destroyed a high-profile memorial to a devastating 2008 earthquake.
Meanwhile, to the north-east, at least 12 workers were killed when a violent rainstorm caused the collapse of a workshop they were building at a coal mine in Jinzhong. The accident on Tuesday night came amid heavy rain and high winds across a swath of northern China, including the capital, Beijing.
There was no immediate word on the chances of survival for the 30 or so people buried in Wednesday's landslide in the city of Dujiangyan in Sichuan province, but rescue workers with search dogs rushed to the area, the official Xinhua news agency said.
State-run China Central Television said hundreds of people were trapped in a road tunnel between Dujiangyan and Wenchuan – the epicentre of the earthquake five years ago that left 90,000 people dead or missing. Authorities were not able to make contact with the people, the report said.
Mudslides and flooding are common in China's mountainous areas, killing hundreds of people every year. Deforestation has led to soil erosion and made some parts of China prone to mudslides after strong rains.
In nearby Beichuan county, flooding destroyed buildings and wrecked exhibits at a memorial for the 2008 earthquake which left the Beichuan county seat unlivable. The town was abandoned, and 27 sq km(10 sq miles) of ruins were turned into a memorial and museum.
The flooding also caused the collapse of an almost 50-year-old bridge in a neighbouring county, sending six vehicles into the raging waters and leaving 12 people missing.
Since Sunday, flooding in Sichuan has affected 360,000 people, damaging or destroying 300 homes and forcing at least 6,100 emergency evacuations, state media reported.
We left Toronto because it was always raining during the summer...mostly on weekends. Then the 90-100 F with 80-90% humidity...
Well they are getting rain now LOTS of rain. Remember we were talking that the water level was dropping in the great lakes? Problem solved... in fact Lake Ontario is over flowing causing severe flooding never seen in Toronto
The subway tunnels are flooded... the Gotrain that runs along the shore that is the main line of business commuters was flooded out and boats were needed to get the people off the trains.. and then this..
Toronto braces for more rain with severe thunderstorms in forecastQuoteChristina Commisso, CTV Toronto
Published Wednesday, July 10, 2013 6:10AM EDT
Last Updated Wednesday, July 10, 2013 1:17PM EDT
Toronto is bracing for another bout of heavy rain and strong winds mere days after record-breaking rainfall flooded the city.
Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm watch for Toronto and much of southern Ontario late Wednesday morning, warning that large hail, damaging winds and more water could begin this afternoon and last into the evening.
Wind gusts of up to 90 km/h are possible, the agency said, along with hail that is 2 centimetres in diameter and heavy downpours up to 50 millimetres an hour.
The cleanup continues after flooding at Kipling Station, Wednesday, July 10, 2013.
Meanwhile, thousands of Torontonians continue to feel the effects of Monday's storm, which dumped a record-breaking 126 millimetres of rain onto the city and left large swaths of downtown flooded.
http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/toronto-braces-for-more-rain-with-severe-thunderstorms-in-forecast-1.1360820
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Toronto floods leave power system 'hanging by a thread'
Some 16,000 people still without powerhttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/07/09/toronto-rain-flooding-power-ttc.html?cmp=rss
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Sink holes
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Rainiest day in Toronto's history floods city
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http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/rainiest-day-torontos-history-floods-city.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEAUoq7ISv8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4tHA-0g3qk
Weather is not man made manipulated. It is by the masters of this universe from the occult realm. To many unconditional/conditional events are occurring that don't make sense. The global condition in its entirety shows man alone could not enforce such chaos as it moves unimpeded across the globe.
Time to realize there's something else at work here, something not very friendly with humans, something that has no emotional value for life here as we see it. It plays with human consciousness as it laughs at how thick human thinking is and what fun it is to play with its toys.
There's an occult predator operating here with us that has dominion over the rules created by mans theory of how this strange land seems to work but mostly makes no sense when casually explained, yet, is blamed on mankind's technological longevity over the environment.
Weather, plane crashes, train crashes, car crashes, boat sinking, waves, wind, lightning and it goes on and on with no matter whatever the safety measures in place, continues to ravage the known time and space.
sorry Gigas
i don't think there is anything occult about what is happening
the earth is evolving and we are in for the ride....
untill tossed off like fleas
:o
I am with Gigas...
SOMETHING is blocking us from projecting either via astral projection or remote viewing off Earth. I recall an experience that Undo told me about years ago that she had. I recall Ingo Swan telling us the same thing. I recall that remote viewer Dood sent out to the moon at Open Minds...
All three tell of feeling intense fear and being told to go back.
I think it is the D'Jinn. I will do a thread and lay out why. My theory ties in everything to this so it is taking me a while to put in writing in a meaningful presentation (and yeah been putting it off because its a huge task and I don't want to toss out random stuff that will just confuse
Z
i was speaking specifically and only about the weather not being occult
i think most of the weather is from the planet going thur changes
as far as being blocked..yeah i do agree on a personal level
i feel most dazes like we are in a big box
the tree and plant spirits have been gone..there is a lot of silence
there is a buzzing - like a busy signal
my thoughts on it at this particular point is that we are being blocked
so that we reach deep and change individually
i have a mental picture of the long armed guy laughing as he has his hand on the forehead of the smaller guy...not to do harm but to make him stop and think
but as usual that is my own opinionated wierd theory
so far as the one with a hand on their forehead.. i have just sat down...sigh
::)
so i will look forward to your theory
The reality we see is a projected curtain and I have the eye to see beyond it. I can tell you about it but your mind will reject any explanation over what you comfortably accept as true reality.
THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE GOING ON HERE. I feel it, sense it at work, see it from time to time. It has confronted me when least expected and shown me its power of authority.
This weather we are subjected to is nothing more than it, playing with its toys, the human and all the manufactured life forms that seem to come and go. This power, hidden from most everyone's senses.
Mankind is being manipulated and from what I can see, not all people, are people. Some are synthetics manufactured from the Ethereal realm of darkness. I've been there, in the darkness where nothing is as it is here. No up, down, left, right. No time or distance or observable locality to judge the voids parameters based on this realms 4 dimensional construct.
I'm not kidding and have stories I can tell. I carry a heavy burden knowing what is out there and at times I sit and seriously think how can I get out of this. Its a trap and I remember things from the before.
Zorgon, I will be in your thread if you have the time to break it open.
hey Gigas
start a thread by invite only..i'm interested in what you have to tell
i can even just read if that's what you need
we have to start talking to get anywhere....imo
Quote from: Gigas on July 10, 2013, 08:55:37 PM
Time to realize there's something else at work here, something not very friendly with humans, something that has no emotional value for life here as we see it.
That almost sounds like me. ;D
;D
hahahahaha :D
:D
ok ArMap.. gold for being a comedian...thanks for the chuckle ;D
Gigas. Please go ahead we are waiting..
Seeker
i am not posting these in a gloom and doom scenario..but as an observation of the earth changes taking pace at record speed...
it a dynamic time that we live in
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/deep-oceans-warming-alarming-rate-6C10606562?ocid=msnhp&pos=6
oceans warming at an alarming rate
Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News Facebook
7 hours ago
British Antarctic Survey
A new re-analysis of data from the ocean depths suggests dramatic warming of the deep sea is under way because of anthropogenic climate change, scientists say. Despite mixed signals from warming ocean surface waters, a new re-analysis of data from the depths suggests dramatic warming of the deep sea is under way because of anthropogenic climate change. The scientists report that the deep seas are taking in more heat than expected, which is taking some of the warming off the Earth's surface, but it will not do so forever.
"Some of the heat (from human-caused global warming) is going into melting sea ice and heating the surface, but the bulk is going into the oceans," said climate researcher Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a coauthor on a new research paper reporting on the deep ocean warming in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
How Global Warming Will Change Your Life
The study involved the bringing together of a diverse suite of data, ranging from satellite measurements of the surface waters to ship observations at all depths, instruments mounted on elephant seals, ARGO profilers (a large collection of small, drifting-robotic probes deployed worldwide), and data-gathering instruments moored in place. The data include temperature, salinity, depth, and altimetry of the ocean surface, going back decades.
Piecing together different kinds of data from different times and sometimes from sparse data sets was the key challenge, Trenberth explains, but that is the specialty of his coauthors at the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts in the U.K
"They have one of the most sophisticated data assimilation systems," Trenberth said. That has allowed for a new view of not only how the deep sea is heating up, but how winds and El Niño events play into it all.
Winds blowing on the oceans can drive water into the deep ocean as well as cause upwelling of deep waters, which can release massive amounts of heat. The 1998 El Niño year, for instance, was the hottest on record because the oceans were releasing a lot of heat from the ocean into the atmosphere, Trenberth explained to DNews.
Think the Planet Isn't Warming? Check the Ocean: Analysis
The new re-analysis of ocean data is not the last word on what's happening in the deep seas, but the best estimate of what is happening.
"It's more than speculation and suggestion," agrees climate scientist Gavin Schmidt of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, "and it's probably right to a reasonable degree. The fact of the matter is we'll never be able to get data from below 400 meters in the middle of the Pacific Ocean" because there is not enough money invested in ocean sensors to cover such places. "So we have to use physics to fill in the gaps."
The bottom line, says Trenberth, is that the heat of global warming is going to different places. "So global warming is continuing even though it's not always manifested as a strong surface temperature increase. It's just manifesting itself in different ways."
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http://www.nbcnews.com/science/deep-oceans-warming-alarming-rate-6C10606562?ocid=msnhp&pos=6#iceberg-bigger-chicago-breaks-antarctica-glacier-6C10593679
Iceberg bigger than Chicago breaks off Antarctica glacier
Denise Chow, LiveScience Facebook
July 10, 2013 at 5:04 PM ET
DLR
On the left-hand side of this photo the newly formed iceberg that measures 720 square kilometers is visible. A massive iceberg, larger than the city of Chicago, broke off Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier on Monday and is now floating freely in the Amundsen Sea, according to a team of German scientists.
The newborn iceberg measures about 278 square miles (720 square kilometers), and was seen by TerraSAR-X, an earth-observing satellite operated by the German Space Agency (DLR). Scientists with NASA's Operation IceBridge first discovered a giant crack in the Pine Island Glacier in October 2011, as they were flying over and surveying the sprawling ice sheet.
At that time, the fissure spanned about 15 miles (24 kilometers) in length and 164 feet (50 meters) in width, according to researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany. In May 2012, satellite images revealed a second rift had formed near the northern side of the first crack.
"As a result of these cracks, one giant iceberg broke away from the glacier tongue," Angelika Humbert, a glaciologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, said in a statement. [Photo Gallery: Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier Cracks]
Humbert and her colleagues studied high resolution radar images taken by the TerraSAR-X satellite to track the changes in the two cracks, and to observe the processes behind glacier movements.
Angelika Humbert, Alfred Wegener Institute
A topographic map of Antarctica; the Pine Island Glacier is marked in red. "Using the images we have been able to follow how the larger crack on the Pine Island Glacier extended initially to a length of 28 kilometers (17 miles)," Nina Wilkens, one of the team researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, said in a statement. "Shortly before the 'birth' of the iceberg, the gap then widened bit by bit so that it measured around 540 meters (1,770 feet) at its widest point."
As the Pine Island Glacier retreats and flows out to sea, it develops and drops icebergs as part of a natural and cyclical process, Humbert said. But, the way the ice breaks, or "calves," is still somewhat mysterious.
"Glaciers are constantly in motion," she said. "They have their very own flow dynamics. Their ice is exposed to permanent tensions and the calving of icebergs is still largely unresearched."
The Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, the part of the glacier that extends out into the water, last produced large icebergs in 2001 and 2007.
The glacier is the longest and fastest-changing on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. While Humbert and her colleagues did not draw direct connections between this week's calving event and climate change, other scientists, including marine geologists at the British Antarctic Survey, are investigating whether global warming is thinning Antarctica's ice sheets and speeding up the glacier's retreat.
Angelika Humbert, Alfred-Wegener-Institute
An aerial shot of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier. On Monday, a huge piece of the glacier's ice shelf (the portion that floats on the water) broke off to form a new iceberg. Yet, the flow of the Pine Island Glacier may be driven by other factors, Humbert said. The glacier flows to the Amundsen Sea at a rate of about 2.5 miles (4 km) per year. She says whether the flow speeds up or slows down is based more on changing wind directions in the Amundsen Sea, and less by rising air temperatures.
"The wind now brings warm sea water beneath the shelf ice," Humbert said. "Over time, this process means that the shelf ice melts from below, primarily at the so-called grounding line, the critical transition to the land ice."
Still, if the glacier's flow speeds up, it could have serious consequences, the researchers said. The Pine Island Glacier currently acts as a plug, holding back part of the immense West Antarctic Ice Sheet whose melting ice contributes to rising sea levels.
I understand there are 3 sources of energy.
1. The sun
2. Inside the Earth i.e. from the moons gravitational affects on the Earth especially below
the earth's theoretical crust.
and
3. Activity above the earths crust including what the human species pumps in direct heat energy
from their living habits, such as transport power generation and heating as well as the affects
of changing our atmosphere.
One of our main inputs to atmospheric temperature comes from the human species generating
so much extra "Energy" from inefficient technologies such as transport.
For example do you realise for every $ 100.00 worth of petrol we buy for our car $ 75.00 to $ 78.00
is just dumped in the form of heat into our atmosphere, and only $ 22.00 to $ 25.00 in every $ 100.00
is used to propel our cars ?
The average car engine is only between 22% and 25% thermally efficient.
So if your cars engine puts out say 150 hp (about 38,1900 BTU's / Hour) on full throttle
while about 1,145,700 BTU's / hour are being dumped into our atmosphere,
doing absolutely nothing at all, except play a part, in heating up our atmosphere.
Let alone taking into account other atmospheric pollution that may be taking place.
But the greatest effects are often overlooked, which involves the energy flow (Not Temperature)
from under the earths crust, cased by the tidal influences of the Sun and Moon's Gravity,
on the Earth's interior as well as other actions taking place within the earth's interior producing heat.
All of which drive the earths "Thermal cycles".
This also plays a part in thermal eddies within oceans and also affects weather including
tornadoes, lightning strikes etc.
So our temperature above the Earths crust is the result of Energy being generated
from within the Earth's Interior, energy trying to escape into space and energy being generated
in our atmosphere by the sun as well as what the human species is pumping directly
into the atmosphere, during every day survival habits.
QuoteTime to realize there's something else at work here, something not very friendly with humans, something that has no emotional value for life here as we see it. It plays with human consciousness as it laughs at how thick human thinking is and what fun it is to play with its toys.
There's an occult predator operating here with us that has dominion over the rules created by mans theory of how this strange land seems to work but mostly makes no sense when casually explained, yet, is blamed on mankind's technological longevity over the environment.
The reason many think this way is the result of
"Double Logic" present in the Human Genome.
(involves the whole species)
Once this
"Double Logic" is either bypassed or eradicated,
then we will see and understand in a completely different way.
whoa.. the ride has started..hope you are holding on
Siberia Heat: Did The Arctic Region Break A Heat Record?
Posted: 07/26/2013 3:36 pm EDT | Updated: 07/26/2013 3:40 pm EDT
Did the Arctic region break a heat record?
According to English-language outlet The Siberian Times, temperatures of 32 degrees Celsius, or 89.6 degrees Fahrenheit, were recorded in the Siberian city of Norilsk on July 21. The average temperature in July in the region is 13.6 C, or 56.48 F.
Weather historian Christopher C. Burt explains on the website Weather Underground that the entire Russian Arctic region has seen warm weather as of late. Burt adds that Norilsk has seen its warmest nights in recent days -- some 20.2 C, or 68.26 F -- and that wildfires have erupted in the region.
However Burt and The Siberian Times disagree as to whether the warm weather spell is a record. According to the Siberian Times, the recent spike broke the 31.9 C (89.42 F) record set three decades ago, while Burt believes the current record stands at 32.2 C (89.96 F).
The blog Weather In Siberia notes that the month of July has shown extremely fluctuating temperatures. While the website describes the record temperatures of recent days, it also says that July 1 this year was the coldest measured in many years.
Norilsk, where the extreme temperatures were measured, is the northernmost city in the world. The Siberian town houses 175,000 residents and is built on the permafrost.
The Weather Channel reports that temperatures of -60 F (-51 C) are no exception in winter in Siberia, making it one of the coldest inhabited places on earth.
From the Weather Channel:
On Feb. 6, 1933, an observer, there, measured a temperature of -89.8 degrees Fahrenheit! This is a full 10 degrees colder than the U.S. cold record of -79.8 degrees F at Prospect Creek, Alaska on Jan. 23, 1971. (Incidentally, the record coldest temperature measured on Earth was at the Russian South Pole research station of Vostok, Antarctica (-128.6 deg. F) on July 21, 1983.)
The heat is bad news for firefighters in the region. NASA explains that once the snow melts, the remote region is very susceptible to wildfires. According to Russia Beyond The Headlines, 900 specialists are currently fighting several fires that are already raging in the area. Dozens of Russians were killed by fires during a heatwave in the summer of 2010, when fire gripped over millions of hectares.
(h/t The Atlantic Wire)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/siberia-heat_n_3660212.html
holy rowboat, batman...
you need to go to the link to see the pic of then and now.. sorry it won't copy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/25/north-pole-melting-leaves_n_3652373.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
The Huffington Post | By Nick Visser | Posted: 07/25/13 EDT | Updated: 07/25/13 EDT
North Pole Melting Leaves Small Lake At The Top Of The World (VIDEO)
North Pole Before And After Melting..go to the link
The time-lapse video below comes from a webcam set up by the North Pole Environmental Observatory that has monitored the state of Arctic sea ice since the spring of 2000. Surprisingly, the pole has been melting since at least 2002, according to photos on the project's website.
July is usually the warmest month in the area, but temperatures were 1 to 3 degrees Celsius above average this year. The shallow lake you see at the pole is made of meltwater sitting on top of a layer of ice, according to the observatory.
Arctic sea ice has become a noticeable victim of climate change. The area of ice cover expands and contracts every year with the change in seasons, but last summer's minimum extent was the lowest on record and this year's maximum winter coverage was the sixth-lowest since satellite observations began in the 1970s.