Worsening Weather, Earthquakes, Vortices, Volcanoes, CMEs ... What's Up?

[Ellirium113]

Climate has always changed. If they want to stop it they best use the money to get off the planet because there is no amount of money you can throw at this to make it go away EVER. Only problem is...their new colonized planet will also need saving because this issue is not limited to this planet. Apparently the fly in the ointment here is the solar cycles. Sun is not a set temperature so tweaking the atmosphere to block sunlight will probably result in us dying off even faster than we normally planned to kill our own species off with brain dead knee jerk reactions. I for one, don't plan on throwing a single cent at the problem as it can not be adressed without a fundamental change to human behaviors and processes in place. At the end of the day the almighty dollar and corporate profits will out weigh any scientific data regardless of it's urgency.

[space otter]

Ellirium113

i totally agree with you... to deny that the climate is changing  is totally stupid imo
you just have to witness the weather for a month to understand that we are beyond denial
and the earth has reached a point of change that i don't feel can be stopped either, regardless of how we got here..we are here

and i feel
it would be much better if information about survival was being shared
rather than saying it's not happening or pointing fingers as to why

as far as blocking the sun..that's been going on a lot longer than most folks know about....
our skies here are rarely blue and the beauty that we could see in the night sky is also gone..

just think about it.... it's not that your old memories were brighter  because you were young..
they were brighter both night and day..before they (who ever THEY are) started dumping stuff into the atmosphere

sad    sigh

[The Seeker]

Everything goes in cycles, and so does the ecology of our blue marble; every planet in our solar system is warming up, thanks to our sun's current cycle of activity, yet there is naught any can do to affect it


according to the ices cores taken detailing the last 400,000 years we are overdue for another ice age; hopefully civilization as we know it will survive it when it does occur again...

Seeker

[space otter]

have money / have voice   this is so f***ed

this should probably go under fake news

Revealing the influence of money in politics
Yeah like we didn't already know that

Tax Return Shows Mercer Family Funded Climate Skeptics Last Year With More Than $4 Million
Rebekah Mercer and her father, Robert Mercer, have also supported Steve Bannon, Breitbart and Cambridge Analytica.
12/14/2018 02:02 pm ET

By Andrew Perez

A controversial family credited with helping Donald Trump win the White House spent $4.4 million in 2017 to finance climate change deniers, according to its foundation's latest tax return filed in November.

The Mercer Family Foundation, led by Rebekah Mercer and funded by her billionaire father, Robert Mercer, donated almost $4 million in 2016 to organizations that reject the scientific consensus regarding man-made climate change or oppose more regulations on carbon emissions, according to BuzzFeed News.

The new details about the Mercers' continued support for climate change skeptics come on the heels of a U.N. report that found that humans have only 12 years to significantly reduce carbon emissions or face a global catastrophe — with more extreme weather and rising sea levels likely to cause mass displacement of people.

The Mercers gave $800,000 last year to the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based think tank that argues that the science on climate change is uncertain. The family has contributed $6.7 million to the institute since 2008. Their foundation donated $170,000 last year to the CO2 Coalition, a nonprofit that touts the benefits of carbon emissions; it gave $150,000 to the coalition in 2016.

The Energy & Environment Legal Institute, a coal-funded nonprofit that uses lawsuits and public record requests to challenge environmental regulations and climate scientists, emerged as a new recipient of Mercer family largesse in 2017. The Mercers donated $200,000 to the institute, which had previously sued a handful of state attorneys general investigating whether ExxonMobil misled the public about the dangers of climate change.

The Mercer Family Foundation contributed to four other organizations that have promoted climate change skepticism, including the Media Research Center ($2 million), the Cato Institute ($300,000), the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research ($450,000), and the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine ($500,000).

The Mercers were among the biggest boosters of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. The family was closely aligned with Steve Bannon, the former White House strategist and Trump campaign CEO, and funded his conservative news outlet, Breitbart. The Mercers directed and funded a pro-Trump super PAC. They also owned a stake in Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked for the Trump campaign and abruptly shut down after it was revealed that the company had harvested private information from the profiles of tens of millions of Facebook users.

Late last year, Robert Mercer announced his resignation as co-CEO of the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, amid outrage over his family's association with Trump and their financial support for a former Breitbart writer with reported ties to white nationalists.

In January, more than 200 scientists and academics endorsed a letter demanding Rebekah Mercer's removal from the board of directors of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The family's foundation contributed $625,000 to the museum in 2017, and Mercer is still on its board.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tax-return-shows-mercer-family-fueled-climate-skeptics_us_5c12be38e4b0cce3ea29d15f

[thorfourwinds]

Control the Weather to Control the World: Nukes Not Needed

Flash floods submerged 90 percent of Iran, displaced 500,000 people

Posted by Teo Blašković
May 24, 2019

At the peak of the recent flood disaster in Iran, half a million people have been displaced and 90% of land submerged, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) reports. One of the worst affected provinces was Golestan, which received approximately 70% of its annual rainfall in 24 hours, something that had not been seen in over 300 years.

Lorestan and the oil-rich province of Khuzestan were among the worst-affected.
The impact spread to more than 2 000 towns and villages affecting over 10 million people in both rural and urban centers, relief efforts began.

Describing systematic failure, IDMC said one of the most criticized aspects of the handling of disaster so far has been the planned redirection of floodwaters towards populated areas, as well as the release of emergency discharge waters toward farms and crops to avoid a major overflow of reservoirs and dams.

While it is undeniable that some extent of the damage and losses could have been prevented, it is also true that the unusual and unexpected situation caught population and water management authorities by surprise, IDMC said.

A new wave of deadly storms started affecting the country two weeks ago, killing at least 24 people. 4 people were killed by flooding and another 20 after they were struck by lightning, a spokesman for Iran's emergency services said May 23.

[thorfourwinds]

8 Dead on Mount Everest After Traffic Jams Form During Window of Good Weather


Newly Released Video of Nebraska Flooding in Mind-numbing

[thorfourwinds]

In this Jan. 14, 2005 file photo crews using heavy machinery work to stop a leak of excess rainwater from the Prado Dam that forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes in Corona, Calif.
(AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

California's Prado Dam at Risk of Failure in Significant Rain Event, Corps of Engineers Says

The Weather Channel
17 May 2019


At a Glance

The dam was built in 1941.

It protects dozens of communities and 1.4 million people downstream.
Repairs to the spillway are expected to start in 2021.

California's Prado Dam, which protects some 1.4 million people, could be at risk for failure in a significant flood event, according to a new Army Corps of Engineers report.

The Corps raised the dam's risk level this week from "moderate urgency" to "high urgency" based on a recent assessment.

The Prado Dam is on the Santa Ana River in Corona, on the border of Riverside and Orange counties. A failure of the spillway could affect dozens of communities in Orange County, from Disneyland to Newport Beach, the Los Angeles Times reported.

"Our concern right now is about the concrete slab of the spillway and how well it will perform if water were to spill over the top of the dam," Lillian Doherty, the Army Corps' division chief, told the Times. "We will determine whether or not it is as reliable as it should be."

Engineers are working with a national team of experts to reduce the risks associated with the spillway, according to a press release from the Corps.

"The Corps' assessment of the dam doesn't mean that failure is taking place," the statement reads. "It means the agency has identified performance concerns that require attention to meet the Corps' rigorous dam safety standards."

The dam is usually dry except during winter storms, and has never experienced a storm large enough to cause water to breach the spillway, the Corps said. It was built in 1941.

It's already in the process of being modified as part of a larger effort in the Santa Ana River area that began in 2002. Modification of the spillway will be the last step, and that's expected to begin in 2021. The project has an $880 million price tag, according to the Times.

Major problems have already been identified in other aging California dams. The concrete spillway at the Oroville Dam failed during heaving rains in 2017, forcing the evacuation of 180,000 people. The spillway recently reopened, after $1.1 billion in repairs.

That same year, the Corps of Engineers found that the 60-year-old Whittier Narrows Dam, about 40 miles to the west of Prado Dam, was structurally unsafe and could put more than 1 million people at risk.

"A troubling theme is emerging as the Corps reviews its portfolio of large flood control systems that were built a long time ago and are now showing signs of severe stress," Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist, told the Times.

"Federal engineers are finding that these systems are not as resilient as they thought they were, and that the frequency of what were regarded as once-in-a-lifetime storms is increasing significantly."


The Weather Company's primary journalistic mission is to report on breaking weather news, the environment and the importance of science to our lives. This story does not necessarily represent the position of our parent company, IBM.

[space otter]

photos and video are copyrighted so go to the link to see them
also more info at the link


really cool about the sound...makes you wonder about the loud ones folks were hearing all over the world and reporting for years



https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/05/strange-waves-rippled-around-earth-may-know-why/

Since May 2018, a strange seismic swarm has been rumbling around Mayotte, which includes the island of Chissioua Mbouzi seen in the bottom of this picture. Research now shows that the epicenter of the earthquake swarm and a newly detected volcano both sit northeast of this island.
PHOTOGRAPH BY HEMIS / ALAMY
SCIENCE & INNOVATION
Strange waves rippled around Earth. Now we may know why.
An "exceptional phenomenon" near the tiny islands of Mayotte may help explain a low-frequency rumble that swept around the world last year.
7 MINUTE READ
BY MAYA WEI-HAAS
PUBLISHED MAY 21, 2019

ON MAY 10, 2018, the geologic beasts of the tiny island of Mayotte began to stir. Thousands of earthquakes rattled the French island, which is sandwiched between Africa and Madagascar. Most were minor shakes, but they included a magnitude 5.8 event that struck on May 15, the largest yet recorded in the region's history.

In the midst of this seismic swarm, a strange low-frequency rumble rippled around the world, ringing sensors nearly 11,000 miles away—and baffling scientists.

Now, researchers may have at last found the source of the unexpected activity: the birth of a submarine volcano some 31 miles off Mayotte's eastern shore. Sitting about two miles underwater, the baby volcano stretches nearly half a mile high and extends up to three miles across.

The observations came after French scientists launched a multi-pronged mission to get a better grip on the origin of the ongoing seismic swarm. Coordinated by France's National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the work includes surveys from the ship Marion Dufresne co-led by Nathalie Feuillet from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) and Stephan Jorry of the French research institute IFREMER. The latest venture also retrieved six underwater seismometers that have been listening for earthquakes since February.

VOLCANOES 101
Volcanoes are as dangerous as they are majestic. Over 50 eruptions rock our planet every year. This video helps you understand what causes volcanoes to form and erupt—and shows where they are most likely to be found.
The data are still preliminary, and the scientists are currently working to analyze their findings and publish the research in a peer-reviewed journal. In the meantime, the team has issued a joint press release announcing the new volcano and its probable link to the odd throng of earthquakes.


Hot Zone

"In light of this discovery, the government is fully mobilized to pursue and deepen our understanding of this exceptional phenomenon and take necessary measures to categorize and prevent any risks it represents," the agencies say in the release.

Stephen Hicks, a seismologist at Imperial College who previously analyzed Mayotte's strange seismic happenings, adds that the announcement offers some much needed clarity for the island's inhabitants, who have been thoroughly shaken after months of unexplained tremors.

The geologic mystery
Mayotte is part of the Comoro archipelago, a string of volcanic islands northwest of Madagascar. While volcanism isn't unheard of in the region, Mayotte has long remained silent, with its last eruption bursting free more than 4,000 years ago. But starting in May of last year, the geologic activity on Mayotte kicked into high gear. Since the swarm began, more than 1,800 earthquakes greater than magnitude 3.5 have rattled the tiny island. The land itself also seems to be on the move, drifting 0.6 inches east and sinking roughly 0.4 inches down each month since mid-July.


SCIENCE & INNOVATION
Strange waves rippled around Earth. Now we may know why.
In November, the curious low-frequency rumbles began their global spread, sticking around for more than 20 minutes. Too low of a frequency for humans to feel, only one person noticed the curious waves: An earthquake enthusiast who goes by the handle @matarikipax spotted the unusual zigzags on the U.S. Geological Survey's real-time seismogram displays and posted them on Twitter, drawing an international cohort of scientists to the mystery.

"It was clearly a both concerning and fascinating event that was happening," says marine seismologist Wayne Crawford of IPGP, who was part of the recent expedition. "It was something we'd never seen before."

Even back then, the experts' conclusion was that the quakes and strange seismic signal were likely related to the movement of molten rock. Perhaps the earthquake swarm was the result of magma squishing through the subsurface, and the low-frequency rumble was caused by waves resonating in a collapsing magma chamber.

The link to volcanic activity gained further support from a preprint study posted to the EarthArxiv server in February 2019. That research pinned the swarm on a massive magma chamber starting to drain, in what could be the largest off-shore submarine volcanic event yet documented.

Surveys from the ship Marion Dufresne are helping to explain what's happening off Mayotte's eastern shore. In this image, collected during a recent expedition, a dashed circle shows the origin of the latest... Read More
ILLUSTRATION BY INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS
But with limited monitoring of these earthquakes near their epicenters out at sea, and no direct evidence of an eruption, nothing more definitive could be said at the time.

Pregnant Earth
Then, on May 16, the French collaboration issued their press release, and Robin Lacassin of the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, one of the organizations involved in the research, posted a pair of images on Twitter. One picture shows the newborn volcano as seen via acoustic imaging, which acts somewhat like a dolphin using sonar to sense its surroundings.

"It's almost a pregnancy ultrasound ... only with larger error bars," said geophysicist Lucile Bruhat, who was not part of the research team, about the picture on Twitter.

It's almost a pregnancy ultrasound ... only with larger error bars.
LUCILE BRUHAT, ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE
In the image, a twisting plume rises 1.2 miles through the water column from the top of a conical edifice. Exactly what this plume is made of remains unknown, but the sound waves might be bouncing off glassy shards similar to the ash that billows out of erupting volcanoes on land, notes Helen Robinson, a Ph.D. candidate in applied volcanology at the University of Glasgow, via email. But even temperature and density differences of the water would show up in the images, Crawford adds, so the plume could just be a hot mineral-rich stream, like the roiling waters from hydrothermal vents.

While the volcano is definitely young, exactly how young remains up for debate. It was absent in seafloor maps of the region drawn up in 2015—and the team thinks that it didn't exist prior to the onset of earthquake activity last May, Crawford says. Its birth could be as recent as the summer of 2018, when GPS sensors tracked the island sinking and shifting east as, presumably, magma drained from a chamber below.

"What we know for a fact is that that thing didn't exist in 2015, and now it's here," he says.

The other image reveals a series of bumpy structures on the seafloor that seems to form a loose path to the new volcanic center from where the most recent earthquakes are rattling, between three and nine miles offshore Mayotte's Petite-Terre island. Even in the area where the new volcano is forming, abundant ridges and bumps reveal past eruptions that could have emerged many years ago, Crawford says.

"Maybe that volcanic center has migrated away from the island itself," Hicks speculates, but he notes that more data are needed to date these potential spots of volcanic activity and confirm this mechanism.

Crawford agrees that the features seem to be volcanic. And by using the new earthquake data to recalibrate the old, a curious pattern emerges, he says. The quake swarm seems to split into three activity centers along the ridge of bumpy structures: one under the new volcano, the most recent roughly six miles offshore, and a third one halfway in between. But how these regions are connected is unknown, Crawford says.

[thorfourwinds]

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MASS EVACUATIONS FIRES AND FLOODS #WEATHERWARFARE LIVE!! #ANALYSIS

Mike Morales
Streamed live 18 hours ago

This just doesn't happen in THIS part of the World - But It DID!!

MrMBB333
Published on Jun 1, 2019
https://www.mrmbb333.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=472&v=BDlTlzNBMDU

Tropical System/Crossing Yucatan/Swampicane Update. End of Q Cult

The Real BPEarthWatch
Published on May 31, 2019

The National Weather Service is Watching a Tropical System Crossing the Yucatan and into the Bay of Campeche
Hurricane Links @ https://www.bpearthwatch.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=XmvI5OqfHds

London Hit by Double Quakes, M3.3, France Rattled at Fault Lines!
MAJOR QUAKE COMING?

Tornado watch issued for all of central U.S.

CBS Evening News
Published on May 27, 2019

The central U.S. is stuck in a cycle of dangerous storms that won't stop anytime soon. Tornadoes struck again Monday in Iowa and Illinois, and more may fire up tonight. At least 15 people have been killed by tornadoes and flooding in the last week. Omar Villafranca reports.

Violent tornado' hits Missouri's capital

ABC News
Published on May 23, 2019

Authorities in Jefferson City described a scene of significant damage and "multiple" injuries, but no confirmed fatalities.

Storms move east as more than 50 twisters are reported in 8 states

ABC News
Published on May 28, 2019

An 81-year-old man was killed when a car crashed into his house after tornadoes struck several cities in Ohio, including Dayton.

50 tornados across 8 states in the last 24 hours...



Dayton official describes devastation of tornado strike

ABC News
Published on May 28, 2019

Dayton Assistant Fire Chief Nicholas Hosford tells "GMA" how the Ohio city is recovering after a severe tornado swept through.

Large Waldo Kansas Tornado Entire Life Cycle

5-28-19
Adam Lucio

What's behind the recent rash of violent weather?

PBS NewsHour
Published on May 29, 2019

Violent weather has tormented regions from the Rocky Mountains to the Mid-Atlantic in recent weeks. In Kansas Tuesday night, strong tornadoes tore houses apart, littered an airport runway with debris and hoisted a car onto a roof -- but widespread flooding may be the biggest and most prolonged threat. William Brangham talks to atmospheric scientist Victor Gensini about the brutal spring weather.

Kansas declares tornado emergency

ABC News
Published on May 29, 2019

An apparent tornado hit Lawrence, Kansas,  injuring 11 people, while Kansas City International Airport briefly shut down due to damage.

Record-breaking 12-day spate of tornadoes devastates central U.S.

CBS This Morning
Published on May 29, 2019

A record-breaking, devastating tornado pattern could threaten more Americans on Wednesday. For 12 straight days, at least eight tornadoes have been reported across the Central Plains and Midwest. That's the longest stretch of its kind in nearly 40 years. This dangerous weather is blamed for 15 deaths in the past two weeks. Jericka Duncan reports.

Weather Xtreme Video - Sunday, June 2nd, 2019

ABC 33/40 Weather
Published on Jun 2, 2019

The ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is a detailed weather discussion for Alabama and the Southeast U.S. which goes beyond the normal stuff you see on TV! From James Spann and the team of meteorologists at ABC 33/40.

[space otter]

it's upside down weather..yikes

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/alaska-is-hot-and-on-fire/ar-AADHjc6?li=BBnb7Kz
Alaska Is Hot and on Fire
excerpt
Europe isn't the only part of the world that's been roasting and burning of late. So is Alaska.

Record and near-record heat swept the Last Frontier over the weekend, with stations across the state's interior recording daily highs of close to 90 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday. On Sunday, temperatures rose to 92 degrees in Northway near the state's Yukon border, smashing the all-time heat record set in 1942. Temperatures in Anchorage peaked at a comparably balmy 82, which still marked the capital city's hottest day in three years.

The heat helped wildfires explode over the weekend, and their smoke is spreading far and wide. Saturday saw Anchorage's first-ever dense smoke advisory as the Swan Lake Fire ballooned in size on the Kenai peninsula to the south.





https://www.foxnews.com/world/freak-hailstorm-in-mexico-buries-cars-swamps-streets-in-feet-of-ice



WEATHERPublished 8 hours ago
Freak hailstorm in Mexico buries cars, swamps streets in up to 5 feet of ice

By Travis Fedschun | Fox News
One of Mexico's largest cities was transformed into a scene straight out of winter Sunday when a freak hailstorm dropped a deluge of ice that left streets impassable and cars buried.

excerpt
The hailstorm in Guadalajara, located north of Mexico City, came after several days during which temperatures approached 90 degrees.

Residents across the city of around five million woke up Sunday morning to discover mounds of ice up to five feet deep in places from the overnight storm, Agence France-Presse reported.

[The Seeker]

it's upside down weather..yikes

Yes it is, otter and it is part of the cycle we are in; read the book "The Coming Global Superstorm" co-authored by Art Bell (rip) it is what the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" was based upon; not fiction, but plausible scientific theory...

It's a long ways from me to Mexico, but I may have to head down that way some day...

[WhatTheHey]

   Soooooooooo!........Be good for goodness sake!........Don't blink or you'll be late.........That's late as in the late Arthur dent.  lol  Sounds like a good time to hitch a ride to another planet or galaxy!     My thumb is out and I'm waiting with an eye to the sky.   Now if I can only find that dang guide book of mine before someone flies in to give me a lift.!     lol

   I really enjoyed "A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" and now it looks like we could use just such a book.  LOL

[ArMaP]

It's a long ways from me to Mexico, but I may have to head down that way some day...

No escape from "upside down weather" there either...

Photos show freak summer hailstorm coating roads with 5 feet of ice in Guadalajara, Mexico

A freak hailstorm blanketed large parts of Guadalajara on Sunday, coating the southwestern Mexican city's roads with up to 5 feet of ice.

The city had been experiencing temperatures of about 31 degrees Celsius (88 degrees Fahrenheit) in the days before the unexpected storm.

Dozens of vehicles were swept away, and cars and trucks were submerged. There were also reports of damage to homes and businesses.

[The Seeker]

No escape from "upside down weather" there either...

Photos show freak summer hailstorm coating roads with 5 feet of ice in Guadalajara, Mexico

Oh Yeah I have been watching the videos of that hailstorm in guadalahara, ArMaP; the scenario I don't want to see is the Gulf Stream to stop flowing along with the north Atlantic current; if that happens (due to desalination of the oceans) then we are all in deep shit without a dinghy, much less a paddle...

[WhatTheHey]

       Here is something for the climate watchers.      Europe's latest heat wave has been linked to climate change. lol (Don't you just love it.) lol  This report is saying climate change made it five times more likely that Europe would experience a powerful heat wave like the one that baked the region in June, an international team of scientists reports.
 
   Also......................."Global warming driven by human activity made the heat wave at least five times more likely By Carolyn Gramling 1:26pm, July 2, 2019"

   And this................."The findings, released July 2 by the World Weather Attribution Network, tackle the tricky question of how the heat wave might have been linked to global warming (SN Online: 6/2/19). The extreme weather broke heat records in parts of Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, and set an all-time high for France of 45.9° Celsius (114.6° Fahrenheit)."

   The page...............https://www.sciencenews.org/article/europe-france-june-heat-wave-climate-change?tgt=nr

   Oh you guys are just gona love this stuff......     LOL