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Increasing resilience: A national imperative
Earth Magazine, 18th November 2012

Over the past several years, the concept of resilience has increasingly captured public attention. Even fitness clubs are advertising resilience to get you in the best shape of your life – able to handle anything that comes your way. The same resiliency that helps individuals – being mentally, physically and financially prepared, and having a disaster-recovery plan – applies to communities and even to nations.

In August, a committee of the National Resource Council (NRC) of the National Academies released a report in which the authors (myself included) looked at how communities can increase their resilience to natural disaster. The committee outlined a plan for becoming more resilient over the next two decades, but that work must begin today.

In the report, “Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative,” the NRC committee defined resilience as “the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events.” Resilience is thus broader than preparedness, as it implies an innate ability to absorb and adapt to an array of impacts, whether anticipated or surprising. [...]

Resiliency starts at the individual level, but the greatest impact is at the community level; to be resilient as a nation, we must be a nation of resilient communities. From a hazards perspective, a number of factors feed into resiliency.

Comment: I have only just found this website with a collection of interesting and relevant articles, but it seems the message coming from the scientific mainstream is that there is an urgent need for nations to be prepared for disasters... Who knew?

Being prepared to face disasters: Superstorm Sandy won't be the last
Phys.Org News, 30th November 2012
The financial costs of Superstorm Sandy now exceed $60 billion, with the estimate continuing to climb. Given that the U.S. population is growing, with new buildings and infrastructure added to the national inventory every year, the cost of natural and human-caused disasters will only increase if the country isn't better prepared.

Facing inevitable future disasters – but with far greater civic resilience – is the topic of an internet-accessible event held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., starting at 9 a.m. Friday, Nov. 30.

USC's Susan Cutter will address the audience at the event, which will include panel discussions with officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Ralph J. Cicerone, the president of the National Academy of Sciences, will give opening remarks and Miles O'Brien, science correspondent for PBS NewsHour, will moderate the panels.

Comment: In a way it has been a relief to discover major reports being presented to world governments that make it very clear that there is a new imperative because this planet has shifted gear and humans can expect more mega-disasters in the future. Despite the vast amount of foolishness being presented by many in the metaphysical community/cultic milieu, it does seem there were a few sources who provided some clarity... So, even though the Disaster Resilience Summary is the product of two years of work, and provides a roadmap of "how to move the nation from reactive to proactive approaches to disasters, with the ultimate goal of diminishing their burden on society", we don't get an explanation for what has changed... Thankfully, the Geocataclysm 2011 report makes it very clear, and the summary for natural factors in global climate change is a useful synopsis in terms of understanding the consequences of living on a planet that is experiencing energy driven evolutionary change. Thus we read:
12. The role of natural factors in global climate change:
- - The role of Earth’s volcanic activity in global climate change is significantly higher than suggested in IPCC reports.
- - Increased degassing of the mantle during the periods of intensification of Earth’s endogenous activity can be one of the main factors causing global temperature changes. This process occurs as a result of the following: growing number of volcanic eruptions; increased seismic activity and higher rate of gases entering the atmosphere through deep faults in the crust; deep gases penetrating into the world ocean and subsequently the atmosphere as a result of intensification of the spreading processes. All this ought to result in higher amount of greenhouse gases released from the mantle into the atmosphere.
- - An important role in climate change is attributed to global changes in the parameters of the geomagnetic field and magnetosphere; this refers in particular to the more than 500% increase in the North Magnetic Pole’s drift rate and reduction of the geomagnetic field intensity. Today, the impact of magnetospheric processes on Earth’s climate is considered a proven scientific fact.
- - Global climate change is also affected by solar activity, solar constant variations (flux of solar radiation) in particular, which is also a proven scientific fact.
- As a result of the studies conducted, a conclusion has been drawn about the beginning of the so-called global “energy spike” in our planet’s energy manifesting itself across all its strata: the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and magnetosphere. The starting point for the global “energy spike” is roughly 1998. The global “energy spike” is explicitly reflected in the soaring statistical indicators for the vast majority of natural disasters most dangerous to humanity: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, tornadoes, hurricanes, storms, floods and forest fires.
  
  PROCEEDINGS: Natural Cataclysms and Global Problems of the Modern Civilization, WORLD FORUM – INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS September 19-21, 2011 – Istanbul, Turkey
  Source: (43.7 MB .pdf) Link.
- Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative
  National Resource Council (NRC) of the National Academies, August 2012
2012: The end of the world or just another year of living in harm’s way?
Earth Magazine, 24th July 2012
We live on a knife-edge, separated from an ocean of super-heated rock by a wafer-thin and perpetually rupturing crust, swinging our way through a cosmic minefield of lethal debris around a nuclear furnace prone to tantrums. For doomsayers, the end of the Mayan long-count calendar, set against such a backdrop, is a gift. Though Mayan culture never spoke of a cataclysm, Dec. 21, 2012 – the purported last day of a 5,125-year cycle in the Mesoamerican calendar – has been added to an endless list of days when the world has been predicted to end.

But what are our real chances of being wiped out by a cataclysmic event of the geologic sort – the kind that has happened in the past and will inevitably occur again someday? Let’s take a look at four of the most probable global catastrophes that could change life on Earth forever: asteroid impacts, super-eruptions, solar storms and earthquakes. [...]

To Prepare or Not to Prepare?

Most world-changing events that punctuate the vast prehistory of our planet are lent exaggerated immediacy by prophets of doom. Scientists who study such events concede that these hazards can change lives when they occur. However, the highly infrequent nature and scale of total threat posed make preparation for all potential hazards an unrealistic, impractical and impossible venture. It is fortunate that truly global catastrophic events are rare.

That said, realistic fears surrounding local and regional threats posed by small to mid-sized asteroids and volcanic eruptions, and larger earthquakes and solar flares, can often be addressed, and in some instances, dismissed with sustained research. The Spaceguard Survey and the ShakeOut drills have shown that we may profit from scientific advancements through enhanced understanding and sense of well-being, as much as through preparation and the prevention of human or material loss.

Perhaps, if the December 21, 2012, infers a passing, it is not of a world but an age, as the time comes when we understand our home as not something to fear, but rather to appreciate and respect.

Comment: The article focuses on disaster prearedness and resilience and the conclusion implies that disaster preparation is not such a bad idea as we enter a New World Age...

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Earth cracking up under Indian Ocean
New Scientist, 26th September 2012

YOU may not have felt it, but the whole world shuddered on 11 April, as Earth's crust began the difficult process of breaking a tectonic plate. When two huge earthquakes ripped through the floor of the Indian Ocean, they triggered large aftershocks on faults the world over, and provided the best evidence yet that the vast Indo-Australian plate is being torn in two.

Geologists have spent five months puzzling over the twin quakes - of magnitude 8.6 and 8.2 - which took place off the coast of North Sumatra. Events that large normally occur at the boundary between tectonic plates, where one chunk of Earth's crust slides beneath another, but these were more than 100 kilometres from such a subduction zone. What's more, both involved rocks grinding past each other sideways with very little vertical movement - what geologists call strike-slip earthquakes. Yet strike-slip quakes this large had never been reported before.

Comment: This is another unprecedented event, that we can compare with other unprecedented events that are occuring all the time now.... Well, it seems that geoscientists have quietly been connecting the dots between space weather and changes in the interior of the Earth resulting in an increase in earthquakes and volcanic activity. Prof. Dr. Elchin Khalilov, Chairman of World Forum – International Congress GEOCATACLYSM-2011, states ...we are at the beginning of the so-called “global energy leap” on our planet and in the Solar system in general. Source: Link.

Source Paragraph: Changes in the geophysical parameters of the Earth, in particular, the five-fold acceleration of the drift of the North Magnetic pole, changes in the form and geometric parameters of the Earth, variations of its angular rotation velocity and axial inclination, displacement of the center of the masses and global irregular fluctuations of the oceans’ level indicate the beginning of the so-called “global energy leap” on our planet and in the Solar system in general. Therefore, scientists of different countries should combine their efforts in order to inform the world community, influential international organizations including the UN, UNESCO, European Commission, heads of state and parliaments of the true state of affairs as to the changes in natural environment and their possible technogeneous, economic and social consequences.

INTERVIEW OF PROFESSOR ELCHIN KHALILOV, CHAIRMAN OF THE WORLD FORUM ON NATURAL CATACLYSMS GEOCATACLYSMS-2011 TO THE IC GEOCHANGE INFORMATION SERVICE WORLD FORUM ON NATURAL CATACLYSMS HAS FINISHED ITS WORK Source: Link

From the introductory speech of Prof. Dr. Elchin Khalilov, Chairman of World Forum – International Congress GEOCATACLYSM-2011, he also states:

GLOBAL GEOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: THREATENING THE STABLE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION
Prof. Dr. Elchin Khalilov

The time has come when accumulated earth science data make it possible to take a deeper look into the nature’s global changes, and reconsider their extent and their role in the sustainable development of civilization. Many world scientists realize that not only do these changes affect the climate, but they have an impact on virtually the entire volume of the Earth, from its core to the atmosphere and magnetosphere.

Global Changes of the Environment, “GEOCHANGE”, mean natural, planet-wide changes in nature, influenced by endogenous, exogenous and cosmic factors occurring within the solar system and having negative implications for the sustainable development of humankind.

This summarizing scientific work by IC GCGE “GEOCHANGE” is our attempt to demonstrate the extent of these processes and how they influence the development of humankind. Those processes may destabilize the progress of civilization unless some preemptive and effective joint action is taken by the international community to ensure the maximum possible reduction in the number of casualties and economic damage caused by natural disasters.

PROCEEDINGS: Natural Cataclysms and Global Problems of the Modern Civilization, WORLD FORUM – INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS September 19-21, 2011 – Istanbul, Turkey
Source: (43.7 MB .pdf) Link.

The Honorary Chairman of the World Forum International Congress “GEOCATACLYSM-2011” states in his paper the following:

An important role in climate change is attributed to global changes in the parameters of the geomagnetic field and magnetosphere; this refers in particular to the more than 500% increase in the North Magnetic Pole’s drift rate and reduction of the geomagnetic field intensity. Today, the impact of magnetospheric processes on Earth’s climate is considered a proven scientific fact.

PROCEEDINGS: Natural Cataclysms and Global Problems of the Modern Civilization, WORLD FORUM – INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS September 19-21, 2011 – Istanbul, Turkey
Source: (43.7 MB .pdf) Link.

These geoscientists have realised that theories that seeks to blame an anthropogenic (manmade) cause are incorrect and are now hosting international conferences and making their scientific research available to those interested in the transformation of our planet. The 2011 was attended by scientists from 30 countries that heard 200 presentations with research papers included in the massive 600 page report, “NATURAL CATACLYSMS AND GLOBAL PROBLEMS OF THE MODERN CIVILIZATION”, 2011 Geocataclysm 2011. The conference Declaration seems to have a similar style to the conclusions provided in the Russian Planetophysical report (1997, 1998 in English), so we can surmise the honourary chairman Prof. Dr. Nikolay Laverov, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences had a big influence over the writing of the latest state-of-the-planet report. It seems that the message of massive planetary upheaval caused by space weather has been accepted by hundreds of geologists and geophysicists.

Here are some short excerpts from the Geocataclysm 2011, Declaration On Natural Cataclysms.

“Istanbul Declaration On Natural Cataclysms”

1. Participants of the World Forum – International Congress GEOCATACLYSM-2011 state that the continuing trend of global change in the geological and geophysical parameters of the Earth and near-earth space, acceleration of the growth rate of the number and energy of natural disasters, global changes observed throughout the Earth including its core, mantle, lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere represent a serious threat to the sustainable development of humanity. [...]

4. The experience of a number of developed countries proves that preparing the population for likely natural disasters and raising its educational level for taking effective steps before, during and after natural disasters significantly reduces the number of victims and improves the quality of emergency management. Meanwhile, the world’s population in many countries still lacks the skills, knowledge and experience to counter natural disasters. For the most part, this refers to the people of poor and densely populated countries.

5. The geological life of our planet have repeatedly witnessed periods of a significant increase in endogenous and exogenous activity and another such period, as shown by many natural indicators, has already begun.

WORLD FORUM – INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS “NATURAL CATACLYSMS AND GLOBAL PROBLEMS OF THE MODERN CIVILIZATION” - GEOCATACLYSM-2011 19-21 September 2011, Istanbul, Turkey
Source: Link.

I would like to thank aboriginee over at ATS for his diligence in searching for information that confirms that geoscientists are concerned about changes to Earth's interior and the relationship to changes in Earth's cosmic environment, see ATS thread link.

Background: INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS AND EXHIBITION “NATURAL CATACLYSMS AND GLOBAL PROBLEMS OF THE MODERN CIVILIZATION” GEOCATACLYSM - 2011
Environment.gen.tr, 2011

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Incredible North Atlantic storm spans Atlantic Ocean, coast to coast
Washington Post, 28th March 2013

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a storm this big before.

The storm shown here stretches west to east from Newfoundland to Portugal. Its southern tail (cold front) extends into the Caribbean and the north side of its comma head touches southern Greenland.

Not only is it big, but it’s also super intense – comparable to many category 3 hurricanes. The storm’s central pressure, as analyzed by the Ocean Prediction Center, is 953 mb. Estimated peak wave heights are around 25-30 feet. [...]

Note to Washingtonians: this is the same storm that blanketed the region with 1-4 inches of snow Monday. It’s grown into a monster from humble beginnings. The storm’s giant circulation has drawn down the cold and windy conditions we’ve had since it passed.

Comment: OK, I think this qualifies as another monster storm system being powered by additional energy in the atmosphere.

Weird Cloud ‘Coils’ Captured by Earth-Observing Satellite
Universe Today, 28th March 2013

These are some of the strangest looking clouds I’ve seen from the fleet of Earth-observing satellites. These coil-like or bow-wave-shaped clouds were created by the clouds passing over the Prince Edward Islands, in the south Indian Ocean. It was taken by the Terra satellite with the MODIS instrument (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) on March 26, 2013.

Comment: Since this satellite imagery is not being treated as top secret and we know for a fact that a lot of satellite imagery and data is secret..., I presume there is a natural cause. So, maybe this is a source of the nuisance new type of space weather [ion plumes] that NASA is now trying to mitigate, possibly causing some kind of interference pattern with the ubiquitous dusty plasma in our atmosphere and creating these bow-wave clouds. See below and archives for more information. Update: Gravity wave (also called atmospheric internal waves) are caused either when a uniform layer of air blows over a large obstacle, like a mountain or island or when rapidly rising, deep convection perturbs a stable layer from below. I have also claimed in the past that gravity waves are being caused by space weather, but it is still the same issue of waves being generated in atmospheric layers either from the bottom or the top of the atmosphere. NASA are prepared to admit these clouds are a sign of trouble for aircraft due to the likelihood of turbulence, see NASA Research to Help Aircraft Avoid Ocean Storms, Turbulence.

Strange Space Weather over Africa
NASA News, 13th November 2007 Flash Back!
"Something strange is happening in the atmosphere above Africa.... The Africa Space Weather Workshop kicked off Nov. 12th with nearly 100 scientists and students in attendance. The strange phenomenon that brings all these people together is the ion plume – "a newly discovered form of space weather," says University of Colorado atmospheric scientist and Workshop co-organizer Tim Fuller-Rowell."

Researchers liken the plumes to smoke billowing out of a factory smokestack–except instead of ordinary ash and dust, ion plumes are made of electrified gas floating so high above ground they come in contact with space itself. "The plumes appear during geomagnetic storms and they can interfere with satellite transmissions, airline navigation and radio communications," says Fuller-Rowell. Indeed, it is their effect on GPS signals that led to the discovery of plumes over North America just a few years ago.
The anomaly in the Earth's atmosphere - UFO or use of HAARP? Shooting from the ISS January 22, 2012
YouTube, 22nd January 2012 Flash Back!
Skeptics immediately say that this cirrus clouds, but it is not! Look at the correct location of the structure in the form of a cone or pyramid! At the very top of an object is clearly visible - the core! What do you think about this?

Comment: I am a skeptic and I say dusty plasma or more technically light scattered by dust bands in plasma.

Swarms of Locusts Tormenting Middle East, Madagascar
Weather Underground, 28th March 2013

A modern-day plague of locusts have been swarming the Middle East in March, and now, they're even turning up elsewhere.

Millions of the crop-destroying insects were first reported in Egypt, but quickly crossed over into neighboring Israel, where images of the biblical plagues resurfaced. They showed up by the millions, just before Passover, forcing a rapid response to exterminate the critters that are notorious for reproducing and growing their swarms at an alarming pace.

Now, the locusts are on the move, as swarms have been spotted in the Hebron area of the West Bank, reports the Ma'an News Agency. Officials are scrambling to come up with enough pesticide to kill the population of locusts that have arrived, looking to feast on everything in sight, but it will be an extensive process to rid the land of millions of pests.

Comment: Quite a few people are talking about biblical plagues and presumably certain extreme environmental factors are required that allows an imbalance against the natural order and permits these crop-destroying insects to dominate.

Five floating dead black swans join China’s animal apocalypse
DANWEI News, 27th March 2013

At the north-eastern corner of Anhui University’s old campus in Hefei, capital of Anhui province, there’s a scenic pond that’s inhabited by a bevy of black swans. The swans have been there for more than a decade already, and were – as the front page of local newspaper Star News (????) laments today – an object of fondness for locals.

Yet early this morning, five of these black and beautiful swans were found floating lifeless on the surface of the pond. The latest instance of floating dead animals in China – first pigs, then ducks, and now black swans – these mere five black swans became an object of heated discussion on the Internet right after the announcement was made.

How did they die? Was it a natural disaster or another man-made one? As Star News tells us today, upon hearing of the news yesterday it immediately sent a journalist to the scene to find out exactly what happened. What he found was just one more filthy pond filled with oily water and garbage.

Comment: I am sure the irony is not lost amongst the intelligentsia... Not just one black swan but five... Maybe, it should be treated as a warning sign...

Vietnam: Hailstones wreck havoc on northern provinces
Vietmaz, 28th March 2013

A hailstorm hit the northern mountainous provinces of Cao Bang, Ha Giang and Lao Cai on March 27, injuring dozens of people while damaging tens of thousands of houses.

Lao Cai was hardest hit with 33 people being injured and 5,700 houses damaged. More than 10,500 households in total and many schools and health clinics were affected. Fifteen of the injured were taken to hospital after being hit by massive hailstones that rained down for 15 minutes. The hailstorm hit Lao Cai at dawn on the day, where hailstones had an average diameter of 5-10cm.

Video captures China sinkhole tragedy
news.com.au, 28th March 2013

* Man walking on street swallowed by hole
* Horrifying moment caught on CCTV
* Why it happens: When sinkholes turn deadly
* Horse swallowed by sinkhole in Tasmania

A 25-year-old man in China has died after a sinkhole opened up and swallowed him.

Yang Jiabin was walking in Shenzhen near a construction site when he fell into an 8-metre wide, 16-metre deep sinkhole that killed him, after attempts to revive him failed.

Two closed-circuit videos captured his final moments, which then went viral in China on social media and through news websites like Sina.

Comment: Right at the beginning of this video, the hole appears and is perfectly round, there is no water, it is just some puffs of dust like the concrete and substruction has been vaporised in a ring and the centre has just fallen in... I am wondering whether this is the same hole and not a compilation because the rest of the video does not give the same impression (the report above says two different cameras). As I have stated, we are receiving MASER blasts or lasers blasts made up of microwaves that are forming in Earth's highly electrified atmosphere.... I am not sure if scientists are using the term "killer electrons" as a euphemism, but it is a fact, instant perfectly round deep holes are appearing all over the planet.

Sinkhole! Amazing footage of a land sink in China swallowing a passerby
YouTube, 27th March 2013
White Cliffs collapse: Tonnes of chalk crash from world famous landmark into the Channel near Dover
Daily Mail, 24th March 2013
Landslide forces 300 to evacuate
New Straits Times, 27th March 2013

Thirty homes threatened as swathe of coastline falls into sea after massive landslide on Washington island [PHOTOS]
Daily Mail, 27th March 2013

* One home destroyed and 33 other properties isolated or threatened
* Landslide broke across 500 yards on cliff side and 600 yards to the water
* Residents reported hearing a noise 'like thunder' at 4 a.m. Wednesday
* Officials do not know what caused the slide as there has not been rain

One house has been destroyed and 33 others are isolated or threatened after a 500-foot-wide landslide wiped out the ground along the coast of an island off Washington state.

Residents in Coupeville on Whidbey Island reported hearing a noise that sounded like rumbling thunder just after 4 a.m. on Wednesday as the land began to give way. As hundreds of feet of earth slid from the edge of the island's bluff, one house was knocked off its foundation and a road was destroyed, which left 16 homes isolated.

Comment: Updated: Hmmm..... I actually reported about the many sightings of mysterious orange lights last week at Whidbey and it seems this activity was about 9/10 days before this massive landslide, see Unexplained aircraft leave South Whidbey resident with questions. This scenario of orbs of light being seen before major seismic activity is reported over and over again, see a copy of a Fortean Times article where this is explained, Unidentified Atmospheric Phenomena: Seeing the light. I think electromagnetic precursor earthquake signals disturb the orbs/UAPs and forces them to leave before the main earthquake occurs. The best example I know of was a MASSIVE orb seen rising out of the Earth which was videod by American missionaries the night before the terrible 7.0 Haiti earthquake in January 2010, that caused huge amounts of damage, see the YouTube clip here.

Watch: Aerial footage of Whidbey Island landslide
CBS news, 27th March 2013
Almost 20 homes have been evacuated, following a major landslide on Whidbey Island, Washington. It is not clear exactly what caused the slide and there was no rain in the area overnight. Officials say the hillside is continuing to slide.
Earth opens up in massive landslide on Whidbey Island, off the coast of Washington [VIDEOS]
Extinction Protocol, 28th March 2013

Does Uptick in Mysterious “Booms” Foretell Mega-Quake?
Activist Post, 21st March 2013

Back in October, I wrote an article entitled “Numerous Reports of Mysterious Booms and Strange Lights Over South Carolina,” in which I described the sounds and vibrations heard and felt all across the Pee Dee region of South Carolina with some witnesses even describing strange lights in the sky at the time of the event.

These strange occurrences were eerily similar to those described by individuals all across the state of Michigan like Bob Powell of The Truth Is Viral, who was actually detained as a result of attempting to investigate the nature of these sounds and vibrations. Please see my article, “Investigation Continues Into Source of Strange Michigan Area ‘Explosions’ and Radiation Spikes” for a further description of what took place in Michigan. [...] What might be particularly concerning to those living on the Eastern seaboard is the fact that these exact kinds of sounds were heard either before, during, or after the two of the biggest geological events on the East Coast to have occurred in American history – The 1886 Charleston Earthquake and the 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquake.

Comment: This is a long article. Well, I just keep seeing more and more websites reporting about these strange booms in the United States... The historical link between a major earthquakes following these booms and the appearance of a big comet at the time of a major geological event is also very interesting, see The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-12. More background information and opinion can be found in the archives.

'Pond circles' form over frozen pond
Gannett News, 25th March 2013

Severe Weather Strikes Southern China
Netizens remark on possible divine portent
Epoch Times, 24th March 2013

Five provinces in southern China were assaulted by extreme weather, including a “super-tornado,” and egg-sized hailstones, with the onslaught predicted to continue until Sunday.

Since March 18, the provinces of Hunan, Guangdong, Fujian, Guizhou, and Jiangxi, have been suffering various disastrous weather events, according to state-run China News. [...]

Drawing on the traditional Chinese cultural belief that there is a connection between natural disasters and the virtue of the ruler, netizens took the opportunity of the inclement weather to criticize the Communist Party, and argue that divine retribution is being dealt out.

Comment: If the weather only reflected the goodness of our leaders we would be living in a perpetual nightmare.... Actually, thinking about it...

Loud Black Woman gives accurate description of hail storm!! KAPOOOYA!!
YouTube, 21st March 2013
This video clip went viral...

Nankai Trough quake predicted to cause more damage than 2011 disaster
Japan Daily, 19th March 2013

A Japanese government panel is estimating that a 9.0 magnitude earthquake in the Nankai Trough region will do damage worth $2.2 billion, a figure that is much higher than the $177 million from the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. Scientists are predicting that the earthquake is due “in the not-too-distant future”, based on historical rough calculations.

These figures do not include the possible nuclear fallout from an earthquake of that magnitude. The panel also predicts the number of evacuees to reach 9.5 million a week after it hits and that 40 out of the country’s 47 prefectures will suffer damage to their infrastructure. 27.1 million will suffer power outages, while 34.4 million will be without water.

Comment: This is just another seismic risk assessment...

Earth's interior cycles contributor to long-term sea-level and climate change, scientists conclude
Phys.Org, 18th March 2013

Ancient rises in sea levels and global warming are partially attributable to cyclical activity below the earth's surface, researchers from New York University and Ottawa's Carleton University have concluded in an analysis of geological studies. [...]

Rampino and Prokoph's analysis considers long-term fluctuations in global climate, diversity of marine organisms, and sea level changes, aiming to identify a unifying cause for these changes. While much scientific study has centered on phenomena above the earth's crust, less attention has historically been paid to changes deep inside our planet. [...]

More broadly, the researchers write, mantle plumes push up against the earth crust, shifting water to continents, thereby producing sea-level rise, and precipitating volcanic activity, which produces additional CO2, leading to a warmer climate.

"Mantle plumes appear to show regular cycles," Rampino explained. "So what's remarkable is there is a strong indication of a connection between changes on the earth's surface–such as volcanic activity and rising sea levels–and what's occurring deep inside the earth. This suggests a fascinating and powerful union between below-surface geological events and changes in our climate."

Comment: Among climate realists there is a tremendous amount of discussion on sea levels and the non existent global warming, but this research supports the claims of Robert Felix (Ice Age Now ) who has been pointing out that the increase in undersea volcanic activity is a major cause of climate change and specifically Ice Ages. What's more as I have stated, the established geoscience reveals that sesmic activity is directly linked to the Geomagnetic Index and geomagnetic activity... To cut a long story short, this scientific research is another nail in the coffin of global warming is caused by CO2, the dreamed of 'consensus' in climate science. Incidentally, the desperation to remove CO2 from the atmosphere is due to the Earth's atmosphere becoming highly electrified and at some point it will ignite with a permanent electrical discharge and the Earth will achieve the status of 'Paradise'... when that happens, I assure you, questions will be asked....

Dead pigs in China’s Shanghai river now exceed 13,000
Raw Story, 18th March 2013
"The number of dead pigs found in a river running through China’s commercial hub Shanghai has reached more than 13,000, state media said Monday, as mystery deepened over the hogs’ precise origin."

Mysterious 'booms' still unexplained
The Daily News, 16th March 2013

ALABAMA – It was about midnight on a night last week when Randy Smith took his dog outside and for the third time this year, heard the mysterious booms.
“Three times in a row I heard it,” Smith said. “It sounds as loud as a sonic boom. Maybe louder. As soon as it goes off, the dog starts growling and gets startled.”
Smith and his father, Laverne Smith, live at 748 Lewiston Rd. (Route 77) and have been hearing the booms for nearly two years now. They cannot pinpoint the source of the noise.

Comment: These continuous reports from the United States are just like background noise... obviously something is going on... See archives for previous scientific opinion, comments and suggestions.

Sinkhole opens up in Washington and jaded humor emerges
Reuters News, 12th March 2013
(Reuters) - Washington is used to being the brunt of jokes, particularly those centered around the action, or lack of it, on Capitol Hill. But on Tuesday, the focus moved to the Adams Morgan neighborhood, where some saw a symbol of Washington - a gaping sinkhole in the middle of a bustling sidewalk.

Unlike the fatal sinkhole that swallowed a man as he slept in his Seffner, Florida, home on February 28, or the one a golfer fell into on an Illinois fairway earlier this month, the Washington sinkhole is more on the order of a large pothole. Surrounded by yellow tape, it is about a yard (meter) square, as deep as 10 feetand sits a few miles from the White House, another frequent source of late-night television humor.

Comment: The hole is small, see DC Officials: Sinkhole May Be Affecting Water Pipe On Verge Of Collapsing [PHOTOS]

Residents Urged To Prep For ‘Two Weeks On Your Own’ On Quake Anny
CBS Los Angeles News, 11th March 2013

[...] “A lot of people don’t realize that we are earthquake prone in California, but we also could get a tsunami,” Los Angeles County Fire Asst. Chief David Stone said. “We just haven’t had one in a long time.”

Residents were urged to prepare for a number of disaster scenarios, including how to cope for being at least “two weeks on your own”.

“The message for a lot of us needs to be, ‘Be ready for anything’,” said Battalion Chief Larry Collins. “The message used to be 72 hours, but we’ve seen in disasters like [Hurricane] Katrina, even [Hurricane] Sandy recently, that, really, if it’s wiped out your infrastructure, and your electricity grid and your communications, it will be very likely be more than three days before you start getting food, water and other supplies coming in from outside.”

Comment: The suggestion is that people in certain areas need to take disaster preparedness very seriously and the message was timely, after a widespead shake, see Magnitude 4.7 earthquake is Monday morning's shake-up call. There are different versions of a new coastline for the United States floating around on various websites, this is from the US Navy and I don't know whether it is genuine, but it is supposed to be similar to the Edgar Cayce versions that have been floating around for a long time.... US Navy: Future US Coastline

Nearly 3,000 dead pigs found in Shanghai river
Shanghai authorities have appealed for calm after China’s latest environmental and health scandal flowed into the city in the form of a putrid tide of rotting pigs.
The Telegraph, 11th March 2013

More than 2,800 decomposing pigs have reportedly been pulled from the upper reaches of Shanghai’s Huangpu river – a source of drinking water for some of the mega-city’s 23 million inhabitants.

How so many pigs got there and why they died remains a mystery, although local media reports have suggested the animals may have been dumped in the river by an unscrupulous farmer from the neighbouring province of Zhejiang. On Monday, authorities announced they had detected traces of porcine circovirus, a disease that affects pigs but which is not believed to infect humans, in the river.

However, authorities insisted there was no risk drinking water supplies would be contaminated and said tests of the Huangpu's waters had found no trace of foot and mouth disease, blue-ear pig disease or swine fever. [...]

"We have to act quickly to remove them all for fear of causing water pollution," Xu Rong, the environmental chief in Shanghai's Songjiang district told the state-run Global Times newspaper. "So far, water quality has not been affected but we have to remove the pigs as quickly as possible and can't let their bodies rot in the water." [...]

The incident – dubbed "Hogwash" by one Shanghai-based micro-blogger – is the latest reminder of the toxic state of many Chinese rivers.

Comment: More: Thousands of dead pigs found floating in Shanghai river [Photos]. Common sense tells you that things are going to get very bad in China... There so many awful stories of Chinese corruption and desperation, that seems to devalue life it really makes you wonder whether there has to be some kind of cosmic intervention to deal with the environmental desecration. The Chinese government makes this worse by just wanting to cover up the extent of the problems.... The mentality is too sociopathic. Update: China pulls nearly 6,000 dead pigs from Shanghai river

Pigfestation Threatens to Spoil Party for China's New Leader
Business Week, 12th March 2013
Never mind the dead pigs, drink the water. That seems to be the message from the Shanghai government on Tuesday, after thousands of hog and piglet carcasses floated into town in the Huangpu River, a source of the city’s drinking water. The swine started floating to town late last week and their volume increased over the weekend. Now the Shanghai government says it has removed most of the carcasses from the river and says water from a section of the river is once again clean and safe to drink.

Giant mosquito invasion scares Florida
RT News, 11th March 2013

You might want to think twice about your beach vacation this year: giant mosquitoes are expected to invade Florida this summer. The insects are 20 times larger than most other mosquitoes and their bites feel like stab wounds.

They attack fish, wild animals and pets. Their larvae are so ferocious they can eat small fish and tadpoles. With bodies the size of a quarter, the giant insects can bite through clothing and are known to attack at all times of the day.

“It feels like you’re being stabbed,” one Florida resident told Fox Orlando, describing the bites of the gallinipper mosquitoes. And these massive mosquitoes are predicted to plague Florida this summer.

Comment: 20x bigger? The plagues are getting very biblical...

The end is nigh! Biblical-like plague of locusts attack the Middle East
The Express, 7th March 2013

NYSE prepares disaster backup plan, to operate without human traders
Reuters, 9th March 2013

(Reuters) - The New York Stock Exchange is readying plans to be able to operate without human traders in case another disaster, such as Superstorm Sandy, forces the shutdown of its historic trading floor in downtown Manhattan, The Wall Street Journal reported.

NYSE Euronext (NYX.N) is preparing to submit details of the plan to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to the report, which cited people involved in the preparations. If activated, the plan would represent the first time the 221-year-old exchange would rely entirely on computer systems, without the oversight of floor-based traders, the paper said. [...]

Superstorm Sandy forced the first weather-related multi-day shutdown of the U.S. stock market in more than 120 years when it struck the East Coast in October.

Comment: Superstorm Sandy caused a major embarrassment...

Why Are Giant Sinkholes Appearing All Over America? Is Something Happening To The Earth’s Crust?
The Intel Hub, 4th March 2013

Where are all of these giant sinkholes coming from? Of course there have always been sinkholes, but over the past few years it seems like both the severity and the number of giant sinkholes has been increasing dramatically.

So exactly why are so many giant sinkholes appearing all over America all of a sudden? Is something happening to the earth’s crust, or is there some other explanation?

The “experts” are blaming this epidemic of sinkholes on things like loose soil, acidic groundwater, new construction, leaky water pipes, coal mines, fracking, long periods of drought followed by rain, and depletion of underground aquifers, but do they really understand what is going on?

Comment: This articles is just pointing out the escalating occurrences of sinkholes in the United States and worldwide especially China, but provides no answers. On this blog, I have explained the cause of laser cut looking boreholes and my explanation is based on metaphysical messages and hard science, see archives. Geoscientists at The American Geophysical Union recently re-issued a report about the cause of sinkholes prompted by the 1st March 2013, tragedy in Tampa, Florida, see link below. Geoscientists generally believe this is an issue of overpopulation and rapidly fluctuating underground water levels. Sinkholes will form due to the natural variations of groundwater and multiple wet and dry cycles, which gradually dissolve water porous carbonate rocks like limestone, where the underground rock becomes riddled with caverns and thus resembles swiss-cheese. When the weight at the surface is too much for the underlying, cavity-filled bedrock, it collapses and forms a sinkhole.

Sinkholes: Florida grapples with the wonders of the not-so-deep
Earth Magazine, 1st March 2013

Florida man vanishes after being sucked into sinkhole under his bedroom
A massive rescue shifted to a recovery effort Friday after a giant hole swallows up the bed where a 36-year-old man slept.
Miami Herald, 3rd March 2013
Florida sinkholes have devoured cars, driveways and houses, driven up insurance rates and caused lakes to drain like a cracked bathtub. But no one can remember anything this bizarre and horrifying.

A Tampa-area man is presumed dead after a 20-foot-deep sinkhole opened under his bedroom while he slept, swallowing him and everything in the room. Officials have declared the area “seriously unstable” and predict that the sinkhole will continue to grow. It appeared late Thursday night under a one-story, four-bedroom home in Seffner.

Comment: This event has garnered a lot of attention...

NRL Scientists Produce Densest Artificial Ionospheric Plasma Clouds Using HAARP
U.S. Naval Research Lab News, 28th February 2013

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory research physicists and engineers from the Plasma Physics Division, working at the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) transmitter facility, Gakona, Alaska, successfully produced a sustained high density plasma cloud in Earth's upper atmosphere.

"Previous artificial plasma density clouds have lifetimes of only ten minutes or less," said Paul Bernhardt, Ph.D., NRL Space Use and Plasma Section. "This higher density plasma 'ball' was sustained over one hour by the HAARP transmissions and was extinguished only after termination of the HAARP radio beam."

Artificial Ionospheric Plasma Clouds Sequence of images of the glow plasma discharge produced with transmissions at the third electron gyro harmonic using the HAARP HF transmitter, Gakona, Alaska. The third harmonic artificial glow plasma clouds were obtained with HAARP using transmissions at 4.34 megahertz (MHz). The resonant frequency yielded green line (557.7 nanometer emission) with HF on November 12, 2012, between the times of 02:26:15 to 02:26:45 GMT.

These glow discharges in the upper atmosphere were generated as a part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sponsored Basic Research on Ionospheric Characteristics and Effects (BRIOCHE) campaign to explore ionospheric phenomena and its impact on communications and space weather.

Comment: HAARP experiments to help military scientists understand the impact of spaceweather on the ionosphere... They are supposed to be thrilled with creating long lasting glowing clouds but it seems the issue is that these are being created naturally by the environment and are interfering with satellite communications. I actually think this research is a far cry from HAARP conspiracy talk that suggests powerful 9.0 magnitude earthquakes can be magically invoked.

Extreme Weather Linked to Giant Waves in Atmosphere
Live Science, 25th February 2013

Extreme weather events have been on the rise in the last few decades, and man-made climate change may be causing them by interfering with global air-flow patterns, according to new research.

The Northern Hemisphere has taken a beating from extreme weather in recent years – the 2003 European heat wave, the 2010 Pakistan flood and the 2011 heat wave in the United States, for example. These events, in a general sense, are the result of the global movement of air.

Giant waves of air in the atmosphere normally even out the climate, by bringing warm air north from the tropics and cold air south from the Arctic. But a new study suggests these colossal waves have gotten stuck in place during extreme weather events.

Comment: It seems that there is less emphasis on global warming being caused by CO2 and a more realistic appraisal that extreme weather is being caused by a disturbed atmosphere and a wildly fluctuating jet stream. Presumably, in the near future more atmospheric scientists will admit the link with space weather influencing Earth's atmosphere and weather with the controlling factor being the Earth's geomagnetic index. See archives for other recent articles and more information.

'Gigantic Jet' Lightning Spotted Over China
Live Science News, 26th February 2013

A rare glimpse of a "gigantic jet" – a huge and mysterious burst of lightning that connects a thunderstorm with the upper atmosphere – was made over China in 2010 and was recently described by scientists.

The gigantic jet took place in eastern China on Aug. 12, 2010 – the farthest a ground-based one has ever been observed from the equator, according Previous jets were mainly seen in tropical or subtropical regions, but this one took place around 35 degrees latitude, about the same as the southern part of Tennessee in the United States. [...]

Comment: This is just one type of electrical discharge that makes up a collection that atmospheric scientists call Transient Luminous Events (TLEs). I wrote about this in my book Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism & Spiritual Evolution (2006), to demonstratte that this was proof that the energy levels on this planet had risen and the electromagnetic environment had become far more intense. Here we are being told that a gigantic jet was seen being at higher latitudes (outside of the tropical or subtropical regions) and this reminds me of how atmospheric scientists also don't understand what is pushing noctilucent clouds towards the equator.

Exploration Earthquakes’ booms big enough to be detected from orbit
Ars Technica News, 25th February 2013

[...] The European Space Agency’s GOCE satellite was not designed to be an earthquake eavesdropper. The satellite is basically a giant accelerometer capable of incredibly precise measurements of gravity, and it's normally used to study Earth processes like ocean circulation and melting ice sheets. But a group of researchers from France and the Netherlands decided to examine the satellite’s data for any signals related to the massive earthquake in Japan. They weren’t looking for changes of the Earth’s surface–they were looking for the direct effect of the earthquake’s infrasound boom reaching the satellite.

And that’s just what they found. The satellite’s accelerometer picked up the subtle effect of the acoustic wave traveling through it. What’s more, since the satellite’s orbit is still technically in the Earth’s atmosphere, it could detect the fluctuations in air density caused by the passing sound waves. The satellite's activity depend on maintaining it in an incredibly precise orbit by using jets to compensate for drag. The momentary increases in atmospheric density caused by the earthquake's sound waves increased the drag on the satellite, triggering the jets. Since this had never been done before, the researchers claim the mantle of “first seismometer in orbit around the Earth” for the GOCE satellite. Apart from helping researchers interpret GOCE’s data, this “proof of concept” provides a new way to study interesting atmospheric phenomena related to earthquakes, like the disturbances in the ionosphere that can interfere with GPS systems.

Forecasting 'Weather Bombs'
Discovery News, 25th February 2013

Meteorologists have hit on one possible way to detect one of the worst kinds of storms before they take shape. Explosive cyclones, so called "meteorological bombs," pop into existence in a day or two and can wreak havoc on land, as well as at sea. That makes them especially hard to forecast. [...]

In the new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, two Australian researchers stepped back from the storms and looked at the large-scale energy budgets, called "Lorenz energetics," of the atmosphere from 1980 to 2011 (32 years). The study focused specifically on the parts of the world most prone to explosive cyclones: the Northwest Pacific, the North Atlantic, the Southwest Pacific and the South Atlantic.

They found a strong energy signature that was "virtually identical for all four geographical regions," wrote the paper's authors, Mitchell Black and Alexandre Pezza of the University of Melbourne. Even more promising is the fact that the energy signature of these bombs can be seen 48 hours before the actual storm takes shape. That suggests the method might be applied to lengthen forecast times.

Over 650 snow records set in USA this week – another wonky surface station located
Almost 60% of the contiguous USA covered in snow.
WUWT, 23rd February 2013

Giant Hail Rains Down in Argentina
Discovery News, 25th February 2013

Hail the size of golf balls pummeled Argentina’s popular summer Mar del Plata beachside resort in Buenos Aires on Sunday, Feb. 24. In 10 minutes, the storm damaged an estimated 5,000 cars, homes, offices and schools, some of which remain closed Monday for repairs.

Comment: This is also being reported as the worst hail storm in Argentina for 30 years. See the 'Swimming Man' video going viral on the internet.

Man swimming on the roof of his car (Hail Protection)
YouTube, 25th February 2013
"Mar del Plata, Argentina. A man decided to go up to the roof of his car and swim to protect the car from the severe hail storm. Everyone's an idiot except him."

Comment: LOL! Just imagine if one extra large brick hail had hit him on the head and killed him... He would have well and truly deserved his Darwin award....

The Great Collapse: crust weakening, slipping, and collapsing across the planet
The Extinction Protocol, 23rd February 2013

Comment: The following extracts from the book Through the Curtain (1983) by Viola Petitt Neal Ph.D. & Shafica Karagulla, M.D., is a reminder that mystics have been pointing out the obvious consequences of cosmic energy driven evolutionary change for a long time. The evidence is now very clear that we are now living on a planet under reconstruction. As I keep saying, humans need to watch out!

November 16, 1963

Night Class

Recalled by Viola Petitt Neal

Cosmic Energies and Their Effect on the Planet Earth

The class had to do with changes and conditions from the point of view of physical changes in the planet earth.

He began by saying that there are many changes taking place today in the physical constitution of the planet. These changes are more basic than just surface earthquakes or local weather changes.

During the time of Atlantis when the continent sank and practically the whole face of the planet was changed, there were impacts of cosmic energies which caused the earth to make a jump in its orbit. This means that it was slightly farther away from the sun. This is somewhat like the jump of an electron in the orbit of the atom. There was also a shift of the poles and axis of motion.

The earth is not molten at its core as is sometimes said. At present the solar system has moved into great streams of Cosmic Energy in space. Some of these energies, striking through the surface of the earth, have the effect of melting substances and they do become molten, although ordinarily they may be in a solid state. It is as if these radiations from space kindle numerous fires under the surface of our earth and we have volcanic activity and also shifts at deep levels. It is not solid straight through. Therefore, when these fires are kindled by the penetration of cosmic radiations there is a flow and shift of masses which cause a vast number of small earth quakes all over the surface of the earth. These are increasing every day ands will continue to increase because deep inside the earth much shifting and change is taking place. Wherever there are major fault lines or cracks closer to the surface it is expected that large major shifts will take place.
[...]
These cosmic radiations of energy are of many different types. Some affect only certain minerals or solid substances and not others. At this time, the solar system is moving through a new area in space where great cosmic streams are and tides affect the sun and all the planets, first of all, on the physical level. This has happened before in the time of Atlantis approximately 25,000 years ago. These changes come in cycles of about 24,000 years. It is a cosmic spiral and cycle difficult for man to identify because he has not been able to span in his awareness such vast reaches of time. Much that is now considered to be authentic geology is not correct. However, it the best man can achieve by applying reasoning to what he is able to observe.

For more extracts from the book Through the Curtain, see: A Thousand Dollars Book Celebration

Earthquake Catastrophes and Fatalities Projected to Rise in Populous 21st Century
USGS News, 20th February 2013

MENLO PARK, Calif. – "Predicted population increases in this century can be expected to translate into more people dying from earthquakes. There will be more individual earthquakes with very large death tolls as well as more people dying during earthquakes than ever before, according to a newly published study led by U.S. Geological Survey engineering geologist Thomas L. Holzer."

Holzer and his USGS coauthor James Savage studied earthquakes with death tolls of more than 50,000, which they define as catastrophic, and reported global death tolls from roughly 1500 A.D. to the present. Comparing those events to estimates of world population, they found that the number of catastrophic earthquakes has increased as population has grown. After statistically correlating the number of catastrophic earthquakes in each century with world population, they were able to use new (2011) 21st-century population projections by the United Nations to project that approximately 21 catastrophic earthquakes will occur in the 21st century, a tripling of the seven that occurred in the 20th century. They also predict that total deaths in the century could more than double to approximately 3.5 million people if world population grows to 10.1 billion by 2100 from 6.1 billion in 2000.

"This prediction need not be a prophesy: the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP) in the U.S. can be a model for how science can inform engineering designs that are adopted into life-saving building codes in earthquake-prone regions," said USGS Associate Director for Natural Hazards David Applegate. "I also cannot stress enough the value of educated citizens – those who understand the natural hazards of this planet and are empowered to take action to reduce their risk."

Comment: I think this is official acknowledgement of what many have been claiming for quite some time BUT I don't think the projections based on population growth to 10.1 billion by 2100 is certain because of the sudden worldwide decrease in male sperm counts. BUT again, it is expected that there are going to be a lot of different natural disasters with the huge volumes of radiation from Fukushima and elsewhere polluting the planet, so the environment combined with our ignorance and stupidity is going to kill off a whole lot of people one way or the other.

Quake shakes central Italy
news.com.au, 17th February 2013

A 4.8-MAGNITUDE quake hit central Italy late Saturday, shaking apartment buildings in the centre of Rome and spooking citizens in the region of Abruzzo, struck by a killer quake in 2009.

The quake hit Frosinone, between the capital and the southern city of Naples, at a depth of 10.7 kilometres according to Italy's Geophysics Institute. No injuries or damage to buildings were reported.

Comment: Hmmm.... Italians in Rome are probably very nervous because there are too many prophecies that Rome is going to be partially destroyed and many of them are linked to the destruction of the Catholic Church.

Now that's sailing close to the wind: Ship misses deadly water spout by matter of moments
Daily Mail, 10th February 2013
* Water spouts are a serious marine hazard and pose a deadly threat to anything in their path
* They number around 15 a year in Italy, with around 160 around Europe

Osmanabad panics after hearing mysterious sound [India]
Zee News, 4th February 2013

Aurangabad: A mysterious sound from the skies reported in many tehsils of Osmanabad district baffled people as nobody in the administration could comment about its cause.

Tuljapur's tehsildar AR Patil confirmed that a blast-like sound was heard in the sky, but said that its cause is yet to be ascertained. The sound, followed by an echo, set off a panic, as people came out of their houses. The "sound" has not registered on seismographs as that of an earthquake, meteorology department sources said, quoting seismologists in the region.

Comment: So far, there have not been many reports of sky sounds. I was expecting more reports to start in mid January but most of the reports of strange booms have come from the United States and I suspect that this is because this region represents a weak spot on the globe for more energy transmissions from the cosmos. There is also a problem that loud booms and sky noises might be due to meteors, but it is difficult to assess what is happening as there is restricted access to official databases.

Thousands in the dark after powerful storm drops 2 feet of snow on Northeast
Fox News, 9th February 2013

A behemoth storm packing hurricane-force winds and blizzard conditions swept through the Northeast on Saturday, dumping more than 2 feet of snow on New England and knocking out power to 650,000 customers in the region.

More than 28 inches of snow had fallen on central Connecticut by early Saturday, and areas of southeastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire notched 2 feet or more of snow -- with more falling. Airlines scratched more than 5,300 flights through Saturday, and New York City's three major airports and Boston's Logan Airport closed.

Comment: Hurricane force winds and the extremely rare thundersnow that I think must be considered as a signature of extreme geomagnetic conditions... Now 4 dead...

Thunder, Lightning and... Snow
Scientists study winter storms involving thundersnow to pinpoint where heavy snowfalls may occur
Scientific American, 27th December 2010
[...] Thunder and lightning during a snowstorm is different from a run-of-the-mill snowstorm; it is extremely rare–fewer than 1 percent of observed snowstorms unleash thundersnow, according to a 1971 NSW study. But recorded observations of the phenomenon date back to 250 B.C., say ancient Chinese records translated in 1980 by atmospheric scientist Pao-Kuan Wang, now of the University of Wisconsin –Madison.

Today, researchers are interested in thundersnow for its predictive value. According to Patrick Market, an associate professor of atmospheric science at the University of Missouri, a 30-year study of snowfall found that when lightning is observed during a snowstorm, there is an 86 percent chance that at least 15 centimeters of snow will fall within 113 kilometers of the flash.
Nemo Delivers Thundersnow! [VIDEO]
Weather.com, 8th February 2013

NEW (Feb 8) Current Weather Commentary & forecast update statement -- Blizzards blast Britain, Europe & USA - Sun-Stratosphere-Weather associated events confirm WeatherAction
Weatheraction.com, 8th February 2013

Feb 8th
Sun – Stratosphere – Weather – Earthquake associated events confirm WeatherAction end Jan early Feb forecasts

* Earth-Facing Coronal Holes, Sudden warming of the Polar Lower stratosphere; 9 major earthquakes all confirm WeatherAction solar-geophysical forecasts
* Blizzards UK, USA and Europe confirm WeatherAction weather forecasts
* Timing of WeatherAction Top Extreme R5+ (weather) and QV5+ (quake+ Volcano) warning periods confirmed Detailed news / links below (some from previous blog posting)

And still the deluded Global warmists prattle on ‘It’s CO2!’
[...]
(1 Feb) PERFECT! Earth facing Coronal Holes (EFCH) pair http://bit.ly/XYg8ht (via SpaceWeather site http://bit.ly/WFCu7e ) confirming WeatherAction RTQ* forecast "Earth facing Coronal holes &/or Active regions likely near central longitude solar disc 31 Jan – 1Feb" (*RTQ = Red Weather, Thunder/Tornadoe and Quake (trial) risk, aka/in (Rest of) World Extreme Events forecast).

* NINE!! M6.0+ (two M6.5+) quakes in QV5+ (30Jan to 2Feb) Quake trial warning period (associated with R5+ 30Jan to 3Feb) http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php

Piers says "This SLA8C R5+ period and associated QV5+ are giving amazing results: The - all associated - and predicted: EFCH, Sudden Lower polar Stratosphere Warming, wild waves in the jet stream, major Arctic blasts (developing) in B+I/Europe and USA, serous difficulties in standard forecasting techniques and (a swarm of) major Earthquakes around the world have ALL been confirmed. This is tremendous vindication of the power of our Solar Lunar Action Technique".

He added: "The idea that changes in atmospheric CO2 levels from 0.03% to 0.031% have any effect on any of these associated events - predicted by Solar-based techniques - is delusional nonsense beyond belief."

Comment: The weather is just wild, but it seems Piers Corbyn is managing to forecast extreme weather and earthquakes too!

Snowiest winter in 100 years paralyzes Moscow traffic for 3,500 km (PHOTOS)
RT News, 6th February 2013
Winter Storm Nemo Could Cripple Northeast
Weather Underground, 7th February 2013
Winter Storm Nemo, heading for New England, has the potential to be one for the record books. The nation's snow-hardiest people should proceed with caution, forecasters say.
As much as 2 feet of snow could fall on a region that has seen mostly bare ground this winter, the National Weather Service said. That's exciting for resort operators who haven't had much snow this year.

"This has the potential to crack the top 10 snowstorms all-time in Boston, dating to 1892, according to the National Weather Service," said Jonathan Erdman, meteorologist with The Weather Channel.
Historic Nor'easter poised to slam Boston and the Northeast U.S.
Weather Underground, 7th February 2013
Ice Age Now
Latest headlines at Ice Age Now --- there have been lots of reports of excessive snow in recent weeks.

What Caused the Solomon Islands Earthquake & Tsunami?
Our Amazing Planet, 6th February 2013

The deadly earthquake and tsunami that hit the Solomon Islands today struck along a subduction zone, the same geologic setting responsible for the world's most powerful earthquakes.

In a subduction zone, two of Earth's tectonic plates meet and one slides beneath the other into the mantle, the deeper layer beneath the crust. The Solomon Islands sits above the collision between the Australia and Pacific plates. In the region of today's magnitude-8.0 earthquake, the Australia plates dives beneath the Pacific plate toward the east-northeast at a geologically speedy 3.7 inches (94 millimeters) per year, according to the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS).

The earthquake hit at a depth of 17.8 miles (28.7 kilometers) and was the second largest earthquake in the Solomon Islands region in almost 40 years, IRIS said in a statement. Several aftershocks followed, the largest measuring magnitude 6.6, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

Planet in Crisis
The Extinction Protocol, 8th February 2013
Planet in crisis: “We are entering an era of increased planetary instability, brought on by a significant rise in the geothermal gradient, and subsequent magmatic fluid expansion within the planet’s interior. It will be a time, in which, we will see catastrophic and exponential increases in the number of natural disasters – most notably: earthquakes, storms, and volcanic eruptions.

Yet, it is not the number of earthquakes that will strike the planet in the future that should most concern us. It will be the cluster eruption of mega-quakes, and their resonate aftermath, which will signal the planet has entered an intensified cataclysmic period of transition…these quakes will signal the secondary stage of Earth’s thermal acceleration, and should come to be viewed as signs of increasing disorder. Some of the quakes will strike as singular events; others will erupt in clusters, and some will strike some of the world’s most dangerous faults…this time will be marked by increased tectonic plate agitation, and an increase in the outbreak of the most powerful and destructive type of earthquakes, known as mega-thrust earthquakes.” –The Extinction Protocol, pp. 166,167,172 (2009)

Comment: There has been a lot of emphasis on earthquakes this week and this quote from the book titled, The Extinction Protocol is worthy of some consideration.

Earthquakes Hit Gas-Rich Groningen Province in Netherlands
Bloomberg, 8th February 2013

The Dutch province of Groningen, which sits on the Slochteren natural gas deposit, was hit by two earthquakes as pressure grows on Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Exxon Mobil Corp. to cut output amid forecasts for heavier temblors.

Two quakes measuring 3.2 and 2.7 on the Richter scale struck the area just before midnight and in the early morning today, the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, or KNMI, said in a statement on its website. The village of Zandeweer, 200 kilometers (124 miles) northeast of Amsterdam, was at the epicenter, according to the KNMI.

The Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij BV, or NAM, the Dutch gas-production venture of Shell and Exxon that operates the Slochteren field, said today in a statement that it will compensate all damage resulting from the quakes. The company has set aside 100 million euros ($134 million) for claims. []

The strength of earthquakes triggered by gas production in the region may rise to 5 on the Richter scale, according to a study released last month by the State Supervision of Mining at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. An Aug. 16 quake last year, measuring 3.4, damaged the property of about 2,500 people. The biggest earthquake ever in the Netherlands hit the southern province of Limburg in 1992, reaching 5.8 on the scale.

Comment: Thanks to E. Pierau for the tip and a link.

Tsunami Causes Deaths and Damages Homes on Solomon Islands
New York Times, 5th February 2013

AUCKLAND, New Zealand – A powerful 8.0 magnitude earthquake caused a tsunami that sent strong waves crashing into several South Pacific islands on Wednesday, with officials in the Solomon Islands saying that at least four people died.

The earthquake prompted tsunami warnings and watches from several island chains to Australia and later New Zealand, but many were later canceled. [...]

The earthquake was not only powerful but also shallow, which gave it significant potential to cause damage, said Barry Hirshorn, a geophysicist with the National Weather Service in Hawaii. Moreover, it was a thrust earthquake, he said, meaning that the sea floor moved up or down, not sideways, contributing to the potential for a dangerous tsunami.

Three Wind Turbines Knocked Out By Wind! [Scotland]
Subrosa, 6th February 2013

Potential for 'Superquakes' Underestimated, Recent Earthquakes Show
OurAmazingPlanet News, 4th February 2013

Faults are like batteries

When two tectonic plates collide, they build up strain where a fault sticks, or locks, together. Earthquakes release this strain, which is a form of energy.

For decades, scientists assumed faults acted like rubber bands, steadily building up strain and then releasing it all at once, Goldfinger said. The longer the time since the last earthquake, the larger the next earthquake would be, the model predicted. [...]

The problem was researchers failed to recognize that faults can store energy like a battery, Goldfinger said. And just like batteries, they can discharge energy in small amounts, or all at once, he explained. [...]

The battery model of earthquake energy storage and discharge makes it difficult for scientists to forecast future earthquakes, as there's no explanation yet for why faults would behave this way, Goldfinger said. Plus, it's hard to say how much energy a fault's battery stores. "We haven't yet figured out how to effectively put a voltmeter on a fault and say how charged it is," Goldfinger said.

Comment: More seismologists talking like electrical engineers... I think this is real progress. The problem is that these scientists are still envisaging Earth as a closed system whereas the Russians (and others since more evidence has been substantiated) have long understood that earthquakes can be triggered by external planetary alignments and Earth crossing the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) neutral sheet which is believed by scientists to be the triggering mechanism for the most devastating earthquakes. I think we have to see this as a marathon. It is possible to interview the front runners who are literally miles in the lead, but often the mainstream media likes to interview those in the pack that are busy trying to jostle their fellow runners out of the way... Fortunately, we have the internet and those who can think can now easily obtain the opinion of the front runners with theories that actually make sense in a universe that is fundamentally electromagnetic.

WHAT CAUSES EARTHQUAKE LIGHTS?
Miles Mathis, February 2013
The universe is filled with electromagnetic waves, and collections of matter like the Solar System are especially rich with them. The Sun recycles the charge field coming from the galactic core, and the Earth recycles the charge from the Sun. All are engines of the charge field, differing only in size and scope. The Earth pulls in charge at the poles and re-emits it everywhere else. So charge is moving up through the Earth all the time. It only requires variation in density to create variations in charge, which then create charge waves. It is these charge waves that drive all other motions in the Earth's crust, its waters, and its atmosphere.

But back to the earthquake lights. Given the lights, the most logical theory would be that the seismic waves create the lights directly. That is, the seismic waves do not stop at the level of the earth, they continue up into the atmosphere. [...] The earthquake light is then just the seismic wave showing itself in the atmosphere.

Comment: Miles Mathis is once again beating the drum and complaining about physicists with not enough interest in reality... To cut a long story short, he ends up by reminding us about animal behaviour as being a better early warning for earthquakes (days) rather than brand new systems that can only provide a few seconds of warning... So, it seems that saving human lives is low priority in comparison to preserving crappy theoretical physics that will all be meaningless once the superquakes start to hit the planet... We are being warned about the potentials... I believe the superquakes are coming and so do world controllers... See archives.
Study: plate tectonics modulates volcanic activity, which in turn modulates climate forcings
WUWT, 8th February 2013
From Rice University comes this study that tries to equate an analog circuit component onto a climate forcing component. It is an interesting approach. The idea that plate tectonics serves to modulate episodic volcanic activity also makes sense.

Comment: Earthquakes and volcanic activity are strongly linked. Simply, excessive seismic activity releases lots of CO2 and due to the high energy state that provided the energy in the first place (the exact scientific processes have already been worked out), we can expect a charged atmosphere to light up too with big electrical discharges...

China smog hits Japan
The suffocating smog that blanketed swathes of China is now hitting parts of Japan.
The Telegraph, 4th February 2013

Seismologist warns of megathrust earthquake threat for New Zealand
Hawkes Bay Today News, 4th February 2013

Less than 100km off the coast of Hawke's Bay is a deep-water trench that could be the site of a potential megathrust earthquake similar to the 2011 Japan earthquake, says seismologist Kevin Furlong. Despite the Hikurangi Trench's potential, he said very little was known about the underwater valley, where the Pacific plate was dragged underneath the Australian plate.

Comment: This appears to the identification of yet another region at risk of major geophysical upheaval. Courtesy: Extinction Protocol

Earth reeling from nine major earthquakes, striking in 5 days
The Extinction Protocol, 2nd February 2013

[...] Perhaps, it may not be readily apparent to most that our planet appears to now be inching towards the spectrum of some major cataclysmic event. This approaching black swan occurrence is characterized by the gradual escalation of geological activity of a violent seismic and volcanic nature. 44 volcanic eruptive events have already been recorded for the month of January; where there was only 77 chronicled for the entire year of 2012. The on-going volcanic activity in Kamchatka also provides compelling testament that massive changes are now taking place within the planet’s interior. No less than 4 volcanoes on the Far Eastern peninsula of Kamchatka are erupting simultaneous, though all the volcanoes lie in relative close proximity to each other (with a 110 km radius). [...]

Nearly all of the planet’s current 15 tectonic plates, and in some cases, sub-plates and volcanic arcs are heavily stressed by the recent violent mobility of tectonic plates shaken by earthquakes. I’ve never quite seen a pattern this fraught with potential hazards or as heavily laden with seismic tension. The planet is now experiencing a major geological crisis, and it’s showing some indication of worsening.

Comment: This is the reality of Earth's shift into a high energy state, as the influx of energy from space will be used for reconstruction. Humans need to watch out!

Dramatic increase in methane in the Arctic in January 2013
Arctic News, 1st February 2013

Above image shows dramatic increases of methane levels above the Arctic Ocean in the course of January 2013 in a large area north of Norway.

Comment: Methane is supposed to cause global warming too but the problem is global tempeartures have not responded for nearly 17 years and remain flat... However I am impressed with the alarmism in the comments.

Sam CaranaFebruary 3, 2013 at 11:29 PM

As said in above post, the big danger is that this methane will contribute to a huge rise of temperatures in the Arctic that will destabilize huge amounts of methane currently held in the seabed, in a vicious cycle that will escalate into runaway warming and result in wildfires, crop losses, destruction and extinction around the globe at unprecedented scale. A comprehensive and effective climate plan is needed now to avoid catastrophe.

As we all know now, nothing can be proved... it's all conjecture as our climate is far more complex and interrelated than climate scientists are capable of understanding without a radical departure from dogma...

Nine people killed as freak hailstorm rains massive boulders down on Indian villages
Daily Mail, 31st January 2013

* The hail storm covered the entire villages under the snow like blanket
* Destroyed crops, houses and live stock in seven villages
* The hailstones started falling from the sky on Tuesday night

Hailstones the size of boulders have rained down on villages in southern India. At least nine people were killed when the violent weather hit several villages in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The hailstorm which lasted for almost 20 minutes, destroyed crops, houses and live stock, causing devastating financial implications for residents. [...]

Dr K. Sitarama, director, Meteorological Centre Hyderabad, said: 'The hailstorm was caused by an intense thunderstorm. 'Such occurances are highly localised and restricted to a small area.' The storm in the south was extremely rare as the deadliest hailstorms, and perhaps the largest hailstones, in the world occur on the Deccan Plateau of northern India and in Bangladesh.

Comment: I have made parallels with the movie The Day After Tomorrow for years, but this is still shocking... I have written over and over again about the forces that are required to allow hailstones to be suspended in the atmosphere can only be attained by strong vertical electric fields and electromagnetic currents that will allow hail to grow to the size of tennis balls and bricks, but now a report of boulder-sized hail... Lets face it, the message of the ancients was lost and humanity has simply got some major problems in store just surviving on this planet.

Super volcano awakening in Italy?
The Voice of Russia, 30th January 2013
It looks like we may be in for an earth-shattering explosion. A dormant super volcano appears to be stirring under the Phlegraen Fields of Naples in Italy. Rising soil temperatures and surface deformation in the area have alarmed seismologists. In the distant past, volcanic super eruptions caused global climate change responsible for mass extinctions of plant and animal species.

Comment: This would be disasterous... scientists need to get moving for plans to cap volcanoes if that is still possible.

Fuji eruption could force 567,000 people to evacuate
Japan Times, 30th January 2013

SHIZUOKA – An eruption of Mount Fuji could force some 567,000 people to evacuate their homes, according to a new estimate.

The projection is part of an evacuation plan crafted by the Shizuoka Prefectural Government that also says more than 130,000 people, comprising some 50,000 households, would have to relocate if lava were to reach residential districts in the city of Fuji, which lies just south of the 3,776-meter mountain.

Depending on the number and locations of vents, evacuation from wider areas could be needed. The plan is based on a hazard map prepared by the central government based on Fuji’s last eruption, in 1707.

Comment: Another sign of the times....

Australia floods: Sunshine and Gold Coast covered in 'sea foam'
Tourists, residents and emergency services were left bemused by the huge swathes of foam which were whipped up by high winds and then thrown onto land in eastern Australia
UK Yahoo News, 28th January 2013

This was the bizarre scene on Australia's Sunshine Coast over the weekend, where extreme weather has blanketed coastal towns with several feet of 'sea foam'.

Tourists, residents and emergency services were left bemused by the huge swathes of foam which were whipped up by high winds and then thrown onto land in eastern Australia.

Videos have emerged of cars attempting to navigate through the thick 'snow-like' sea foam in Alexandra Headland and nearby Mooloolaba. The sea foam forms when powerful storms force water into the air before it is washed onto the beachfront. [...] Onlookers said the foam reached three metres high at its peak, with emergency services urging residents and tourists to cancel all non-essential travel.

Comment: Hmmm... I think we have to be realistic and realise that an extremely electrified atmosphere and strong geomagnetic environment are creating regular 'freak' atmospheric events. Obviously, waterspouts are caused by charged atmospheric vortexes that suck up water, but it seems these previously rare sea foam events are being caused by a similar electromagnetic force but on a bigger scale... According to Zooplanktologist John Dunn, he compares the frothing process to whisking egg whites... That is a lot of revolutions per second... When scientists model these forces and recreate them in the laboratory, a strong electric field and a beam of energy is required that is often seen to result in the transfer electrical charge to the surrounding atmosphere... The evidence suggest that this is exactly what is happening on our planet, but the process is becoming very intense... A process that I have called the planetary refresh. As I have documented on this blog, these vortexes of energy have been seen by satellites to be 90 miles wide and under water... see, Satellite captures enormous 90-mile-wide storm that's UNDERWATER

Car Emerges From Sea Foam, Nearly Hits Two Police Officers
AOL Autos, 28th January 2013

China's air pollution again at danger levels
Beijing residents advised to stay indoors as much as possible with severe pollution at levels 'beyond index' Guardian, 29th January 2013

Dangerously high pollution levels have shrouded Beijing in smog for the second time in about two weeks, forcing airlines to cancel flights because of poor visibility and prompting the city government to warn residents to stay indoors.

The outlines of buildings in the Chinese capital receded into a white mist as pedestrians donned face masks to guard against the thick, caustic air. The US embassy reported a level of PM2.5, one of the worst pollutants, at 526 micrograms per cubic metre, or "beyond index", and more than 20 times higher than World Health Organisation safety levels over a 24-hour period.

Comment: Look at the graphic provided What exactly is in Beijing's polluted air?, it suggests the whole population of China is being affected!

Sinkhole swallows whole building complex in China
A sinkhole swallows an entire building complex in China's southern Guangdong province.
The Telegraph, 29th January 2013
The group of buildings was totally swallowed by the hole which appeared near the construction site of a new underground train station in Guangzhou, one of China's biggest cities.

Comment: It's China.... I think a report from a geologist is needed before any comment on this...

MASSIVE COLD BLASTS ON WAY for Britain+Ireland, Europe and USA as Polar Strato-Warming develops on WeatherAction cue.
Weatheraction.com, 29th January 2013

29Jan 13.30utc MASSIVE COLD BLASTS ON WAY for Britain+Ireland, Europe and USA as Polar Strato-Warming develops on WeatherAction cue.

The SECOND Major Polar Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) in January (Jan/Feb) 2013 is now rapidly developing on WeatherAction cue to the day. Stratospheric temps (at above 70mb pressure level) are now at just above record levels for this date. Standard weather models now look like WeatherAction long range forecasts for the very cold Northerly blasts consequent on the SSW in Europe (inc Brit+Ire) and USA - in the parts predicted by WeatherAction
SSW graph link
USA V cold blast link
UK MetO link
Eu GFS (Wow!) link

Piers says "This spells pretty well simultaneos blizzards both sides of the Atlantic where and when we said to within a day from 30days (USA) and 45days (Br+Ire) ahead. It is a ground-breaking result. Doubtless various organisations will say they saw it coming when in reality they don't know which year these MAJOR SSWs will happen let alone which day."

28 Jan 10.15utc Piers Interview on BBC1 TV Sunday Politics Show - Warmists have no answer Standard Met bending reluctantly to WeatherAction cold blasts by weekend.

Comment: Piers has been updating daily. I believe the frequency of these SSWs is unusual and the upshot is that mainstream meteorologists are struggling.

Weatherwatch: Sudden stratospheric warming has reset usual winter pattern [UK]
The Guardian, 27th January 2013
Second Arctic Outbreak on the Way [US]
Accuweather Bews, 29th January 2013

41: Growing unrest seen at many of the world’s volcanoes
Extinction Protocol, 26th January 2013

The Extinction Protocol says:
January 26, 2013 at 8:27 pm: The list has always been the number of volcanoes erupting in a given year. Consequently, a record number of volcanoes are erupting, staying active, and will continue to do so. We are really facing something ‘unprecedented.’ The only way to monitor the progression of change is to chronicle exactly how many volcanic systems are dissipating thermal energy. I’m always adding volcanoes to the list, even though I don’t always create a corresponding post.

Comment: The observations and comments by the owner of this website are worthy of some serious consideration... I have been worrying about too many volcanoes erupting for a while now as the number of reports of escalate. Please see the archives for sensible solutions being proposed by scientists on how to stop our atmosphere being filled with volcanic aerosols that will affect the Earth's climate and cause food production problems. For reference, see Rising earthquakes: precursor of volcanic winters/ice age that we may AVERT - Other necessary preparations page 86, PROCEEDINGS: Natural Cataclysms and Global Problems of the Modern Civilization, WORLD FORUM – INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS September 19-21, 2011 – Istanbul, Turkey Source: (43.7 MB .pdf) Link.

2012 In Review – Volcanoes

Increased volcanic activity worldwide in late January 2013
The Watchers, 23rd January 2013
The Latest Volcano Discovery News

Storm Clouds Crawling With Bacteria
AccuWeather News, 24th January 2013

The storm clouds in Earth's atmosphere are filled with microbial life, according to a new study. The research, published today (Jan. 23) in the journal PLoS One, revealed that hailstones drawn from storm clouds harbor several species of bacteria that tend to reside on plants, as well as thousands of organic compounds normally found in soil. Some of the bacterial species can seed the tiny ice crystals that lead to rain, suggesting they play a role in causing rain.

"Those storm clouds are quite violent phenomena," said study co-author Tina Santl Temkiv, an environmental chemist at Aarhus University in Denmark. "They are sucking huge amounts of air from under the clouds, and that's how the bacteria probably got into the cloud."

Europe 'has failed to learn from environmental disasters'
Report says thousands of lives could have been saved and damage to ecosystems avoided if early warnings heeded
The Guardian, 23rd January 2013

Europe has failed to learn the lessons from many environmental and health disasters like Chernobyl, leaded petrol and DDT insecticides, and is now ignoring warnings about bee deaths, GM food and nanotechnology, according to an 800-page report by the European Environment Agency.

Thousands of lives could have been saved and extensive damage to ecosystems avoided if the "precautionary principle" had been applied on the basis of early warnings, say the authors of the 2013 Late Lessons from Early warnings report published on Wednesday.

They accuse industry of working to corrupt or undermine regulation by spinning and manipulating research and applying pressure on governments for financial benefit. "[It has] deliberately recruited reputable scientists, media experts and politicians to call on if their products were linked to possible hazards. Manufacturing doubt, disregarding scientific evidence of risks and claiming over-regulation appear to be a deliberate strategy for some industry groups and think tanks to undermine precautionary decision-making."

Comment: Surely, there are some intelligent people out there that realise that many of our world leaders and controllers are psychopaths? These people are not real humans and in their efforts for power and self-aggrandisement will do anything to achieve their aims, even if that means the near destruction of Earth and humanity. This is very easy to work out by studying the traits of malignant narcissists and psychopaths and then looking at the mess on this planet, this article only lays out the basic modus operandi of how they operate. After Fukushima, a few Japanese people were so stunned by the cold heartless mentality of their leaders that they accused them of not being human.... This week, a Japanese leader commented that old people needed to hurry up and die.... The definition of intraspecies predators by psychologists is accurate, but looking at history, what more evidence do people need that there are powerful groups working against the interests of the rest of humanity? If people what to cooperate then that is fine, but unless there is a major awakening and soon , it looks like universal consciousness is going to permit the near destruction of the human race because there are simply too many factors already in play.....

Wild weather: Extreme is the new normal
New Scientist, 18th January 2013

The wild weather that greeted the new year is a taste of things to come

ALL eyes have been on Australia in recent weeks as a blistering heatwave triggered huge wildfires. The result has been a slew of amazing stories, including a family escaping by jumping into the sea and meteorologists adding new colours to heat maps. But Australia's fires are just the most dramatic of a cluster of ongoing extreme weather events, including droughts in the US and Brazil and a lethal cold snap in Asia (see "Drought, fire, ice: world is gripped by extreme weather").

Lumping extreme weather events under a single umbrella can be misleading. Al Gore got into trouble when his film An Inconvenient Truth stitched together footage of numerous hurricanes and presented them as "evidence" of climate change. But in this case it seems there really is a bigger picture. Scientists have warned for years that extreme weather would become more common, and now it is. What's more, although single events can rarely be confidently attributed to climate change, clusters probably can. [...]

The spate of extreme weather, then, is a snapshot of the not-too-distant future. Soon, this will be the new normal. We call events like the Australian heatwave "extreme weather", but within the next few decades they will simply be "weather".

Comment: Earth's magnetosphere is down (well, like a sieve), so it is going to be chaos for reasons that have explained on this blog over and over again... But of course, this does not have anything to do with the other piece of extremely interesting news from New Scientist, Earth may be crashing through dark matter walls, it's just a coincidence right? I still have work to do getting up to speed on HOW scientists are being forced to correct for aether fluctuations so we know that this is not just speculation, but see the recent ESA spacetime mission announcement...

Freak hail storm: Reports of tennis ball-sized hailstones [MALTA]
Times of Malta, 17th January 2013
Insurance companies were faced with a flood of claims yesterday following Tuesday’s freak hail storm that hit the north and east of Malta. [...] These came in the wake of reports of tennis ball-sized hailstones lashing certain localities around midday on Tuesday. [...] There were widespread reports of the hailstones denting solar panels even though a spokesman for Solar Solutions in Naxxar said they had received no calls about damage to products they had sold as of 11am yesterday.
Freak ‘thundersnow’ wreaks havoc on city
The Star, 20th January 2013
A freak weather system slammed into the GTA overnight. The rare “thundersnow” system brought heavy wind, rain, snow and the occasional flash of lightning. Gusts of 90 km/h toppled trees and traffic lights and a wind warning issued by Environment Canada remained in effect for much of southern Ontario Sunday morning.

One dead, 900 hurt in heavy Japan snowfall
Terra Daily, 15th January 2013

Heavy snow that blanketed eastern Japan over the holiday weekend left one man dead and 900 others injured, as Tokyo commuters Tuesday took to the slippery streets.

A low-pressure system, dubbed a "bomb cyclone" by local press, dumped eight centimetres (three inches) of snow in nine hours, the heaviest snowfall in the region since January 2006, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. [...]

We have confirmed snow has fallen in tiny chunks. But there has been a limited amount of snow that has fallen on the tower."

Comment: Oh yes, some serious global warming... I am very curious about the fall of "tiny chunks of snow".... is this some new atmospheric phenomenon and are the chunks radioactive? As usual, there are huge number of snow reports, see the link below for more reports.

Earth Weather & Plasma Storms
Thunderbolts.info, 9th January 2013
It is commonly believed that weather is driven on Earth primarily by the Sun’s thermal influence on the atmosphere. As we rotate beneath our primary, gases and dust absorb solar radiation at varying rates and in varying degrees. When any particular region heats up, the air expands and loses density, creating a relative low pressure area. Cooler air, being denser, will naturally flow into the bottom of the warm, low pressure region, causing an upwardly rotating convection cell to form.

Most weather systems on Earth are thought to be based on that simple kinetic explanation: winds blow when the cooler, denser air flows into the warmer, buoyant air. [...]

As mentioned in previous Pictures of the Day, Earth is a small charged body moving in a large cell of plasma, so physical phenomena on or near the planet must take the electrical nature of plasma into account.[...]

The Electric Universe hypothesis agrees with conventional theory that wind is movement of air molecules, but that there are other explanations. What are those other agents of movement?

If conventional theory explains wind solely as the result of convection and gas kinetics, Electric Universe proponents insist that electric discharges must also be considered. Electromagnetic forces in plasma move and accelerate charged particles, so collisions between charged and neutral particles drag the neutral air molecules along with them. Close observation of laboratory arc discharges reveals that an electric “wind” surrounds and often precedes an electric arc.

The plasma discharge sweeps up the surrounding air along with the charge carriers, or ions. The wind appears as inflows and updrafts as well as outflows and downdrafts. It can lift dust particles and erode surfaces. By analogy, we must then question the accepted explanation of thunderstorms as being caused solely by convection of hot air and the climatological movement of winds by the Sun’s heat alone.

Tornadoes continue to be a mystery to consensus science, as well as Electric Universe advocates, although it seems that they are more like rotating electric discharges than anything else. The electric charges in a tornado are whirling at many meters per second, so they probably form an electromagnetic field called a “charge sheath vortex.”

Comment: I took the liberty of changing the headline and highlighting and re-arranging the text of this Thunderbolts.info blog entry which discusses the forces that scientists think drive the world's weather systems. Meteorologists are not trained to understand meteorological phenomena in terms of plasma physics. However due to Space Weather, some scientists amongst various academic institutions and space agencies worldwide are changing gear. "Empty" space is now known to be part of a visible universe that is 99.999% plasma. This means that it is impossible to accept that gravity rules the universe when the electromagnetic force between two electrons is 39 orders of magnitude stronger than the ultra weak force of gravity. Space Weather scientists have little or no interest in a gravity dominated universe, when there are major concerns about million ampere currents 'zapping' billion dollars satellites, knocking out radio communications around the globe, and destroying national power grids and their transformers on Earth. Basically, the electromagnetic force and plasma physics can no longer be ignored and that is why there is a paradigm shift taking place right now. Today, as scientists warn about extreme weather, we have to realise the real cause is highly unstable geomagnetic conditions on this planet. Despite the paucity of the science, what we already know of plasma physics provides the most realistic explanation for the erratic swings of the jet streams that strongly influence and determine the most extreme weather. See Earth’s Magnetic Field and Climate Variability, Link.

Air pollution in Beijing goes off the index
Yahoo News, 13th January 2013

BEIJING (AP) – People refused to venture outdoors and buildings disappeared into Beijing's murky skyline on Sunday as the air quality in China's notoriously polluted capital went off the index.

The Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center said on its website that the density of PM2.5 particulates had surpassed 700 micrograms per cubic meter in many parts of the city. The World Health Organization considers a safe daily level to be 25 micrograms per cubic meter. [...]

In the 24-hour period up to 10 a.m. Sunday, it said 18 of the hourly readings were "beyond index." The highest number was 755, which corresponded to a PM2.5 density of 886 micrograms per cubic meter. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's air quality index goes up to only 500, and the agency advises that anything greater than 300 would trigger a health warning of "emergency conditions," with the entire population likely affected.

Comment: So.... Will China be awarded a national Darwin Award in the near future due to the extreme levels of pollution that combine with new atmospheric conditions that are lethal for humans?

Unbelievable photos of how bad Beijing’s air has gotten
Washington Post, 15th January 2013
Chinese children are being forced to stay inside and there’s been a spike in hospital visits as Beijing has clouded over with some of the worst smog in history. And now, we have an aerial representation of Beijing’s respiratory problems, courtesy of NASA. Here’s what the air above China looked like on Jan. 3:

Mystery of the Mary Celeste: Seafaring Superstitions & St Elmo’s Fire
Mysterious Universe, 10th January 2013

Sailors’ Tales of the Supernatural

Adelaide’s The Register, on 2 February 1920, published Sailors’ Tales of the Supernatural. In this article, Clive Holland, described as a much-traveled author, recounted a story he had been told years earlier by an “old God-fearing Scottish sea captain” on a possible encounter with St Elmo’s fire while sailing the Atlantic.

Comment: I think it is very important that people are educated about the existence of mysterious light and energy phenomena that has been known in the past. This knowledge has been largely retained as folklore, see my listing, Mysterious Light Phenomena Known By Modern, Ancient and Traditional People. I think it is becoming obvious that there are going to be a lot more manifestations in the future as Space Weather intensifies and increasing bursts of energy from the Earth occur during the process that I have called 'The Planetary Refresh'.

New island size of 25 football pitches appears off German coast after sandbanks emerge from the North Sea
Daily Mail, 9th January 2013

AN ISLAND the size of 25 football pitches has appeared seemingly out of nowhere off the coast of Germany. The landmass, which is composed of sandbanks, gradually emerged from the violent waters of the North Sea over the past few years.

It lies 24 kilometres off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany's far north in a stretch of coastline known as the Wattenmeer, a marine national park. Nature lovers and yachstmen noticed the appearance of Bird Island - named after the seabirds who rest, nest or feed on the sand dunes that are up to almost five metres high. [...]

Winds blew seeds from across Europe, and 49 species of plants have been detected on it. Detlef Hansen, head of the national park, said: "This is, for us conservationists, anything but ordinary." Tidal actions unrelated to global warming or other earthly phenomena have created the island.

Comment: Hmmm.... This is just bizarre.... How can an island just appear from "the violent waters of the North Sea" as a ready-made bird-island in just a few years?

Extreme Heat, Cold, Snow Plaguing the Globe
Weather.com, 11th January 2013

Stunning images of Australian dust storm
Digital Journal, 11th January 2013

Extremes: Coldest temperatures in nearly 50 years leave 80 dead in Bangladesh, while Australia bakes in record highs
Extinction Protocol, 11th January 2013

BANGLADESH - A cold snap which saw temperatures drop on Thursday to their lowest point in Bangladesh’s post-independence history has killed around 80 people, officials said. The weather office said the lowest temperature was recorded at 3°C in the northern town of Syedpur and the Red Crescent said hospitals were packed with patients suffering respiratory illness. Shah Alam, deputy head of the weather office, said the last time the temperature had dropped below 3°C was in February 1968 when Bangladesh was still part of Pakistan. “The temperature is the lowest in Bangladesh’s history” he said. The Red Crescent Society said impoverished rural areas had been worst hit as many people could not afford warm clothing or heating. News 24

Australia suffers in record heat: The heat wave across Australia has spiked to unfathomable levels as the ominously-labeled “dome of heat” blankets the continent, sparking wildfires that have caused more than $60 million in damage and claimed more than 120 homes. The average temperature stretched above 39° Celsius (102° F) for six consecutive days, and local temperatures were so high that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology was inclined to add a new hue to their heat map – a deep purple shade – which indicates a temperature above 50° C (122° F). –Time

Comment: There is a lot of extreme weather headlines... but of course, the debate is still raging about the cause....

11 dead as Mideast battered by hail, snow, rain
Space Daily, 9th January 2013
"Abnormal storms which for four days have blasted the Middle East with rain, snow and hail have left at least 11 people dead and brought misery to Syrian refugees huddled in camps. Officials reported that two women were found dead in the West Bank on Wednesday after their car was swept away in floods, while a 30-year-old man froze to death in Taalabaya, in Lebanon's Bekaa province, after he fell asleep drunk in his car."
Dust cloud caps wild weather
The Herald, 8th January 2013

Single Super Quake Could Affect Both Northern, Southern California: Study Earthquake_sign
Cal EMA will consider amending response plans in light of the new findings, discovered while studying devastating quakes in Asia.
NBC Los Angeles, 11th January 2013

For the first time, scientists and emergency planners are examining whether a super quake could affect both Northern and Southern California, rendering the entire state helpless in the aftermath of the "Big One."

Seismologists have warned Southern California that a major quake on the lower San Andreas Fault, the so-called Big One is inevitable. But that the population centers of both Southern and Northern California could be affected simultaneously by one quake on the San Andreas Fault has only recently been recognized as a possibility. [...]

Whether the model developed by Lapusta and Noda could apply there would depend on local geological variables not yet completely understood, Hutton said.

Responsible for statewide emergency planning and disaster preparedness, California's Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA) is reviewing the new study, according to spokesman Greg Renick. The agency already has in place a plan for responding to a catastrophic quake in Southern California, and another plan for the San Francisco Bay Area.

Cal EMA anticipates that a catastrophic quake affecting a major population center, much less two, will require response assistance from outside California, and has established procedures in place.

Comment: Again, seismologists issuing another report concerning the risk of a possible major natural disaster and how it would occur... At the moment, despite the new emphasis on disaster resilience and disaster preparedness, the threat of a huge earthquake in California is based more on historical precedent... as it is stated here... "the so-called Big One is inevitable...."

They’re back: Unexplained ‘booming noises’ reported from South Carolina to California
Extinction Protocol, 9th January 2013

The loud explosion that jolted North Hollywood on Tuesday night remained a mystery the next morning, authorities said. An officer at the Los Angeles Police Department’s North Hollywood station said police searched the area for a half an hour Tuesday night but had no luck in determining what caused the sound. [...]

Massachusetts mystery: Salem and Marblehead police officers searched the area of Ocean Avenue early Saturday morning for evidence of what could have caused the large boom that prompted residents across the area to call 911. According to Sunday morning’s Salem police log, At 1:34 a.m., police received multiple calls regarding a “loud bang” on Ocean Avenue. They were unable to locate the source. [...]

South Carolina mystery: Residents of Red Bank in Lexington County appear to have gotten a loud awakening Thursday morning as multiple reports indicate a loud booming noise in the area. WIS News 10 viewers poured onto our Facebook page this morning to report the sound. “What was the horrific boom in the Redbank area,” asked Lisa Russell Fields. “People are saying it sounded like a plane crash or explosion. I also heard the ‘big boom’ this morning. [...]

Salt Lake City mystery: Hundreds of people from Weber County to Utah County, and some as far north as Rock Springs, Wyoming reported that they felt shaking or heard loud booms Tuesday night around 9 p.m. The FOX 13 Newsroom received several calls from concerned citizens about the phenomena shortly after 9 p.m., but the cause remains a mystery.

Comment: We have not had a a great deal of real insight or comment from the scientific community when you consider the seriousness of the sky falling... only joking... see previous comments...

Scientists Seek Foolproof Signal to Predict Earthquakes
Could magnetic waves be the trustworthy tool that saves lives?
National Geographic News, 4th January 2013

January 6, 2013 – CALIFORNIA – Twenty-three hundred years ago, hordes of mice, snakes, and insects fled the Greek city of Helike on the Gulf of Corinth (map). “After these creatures departed, an earthquake occurred in the night,” wrote the ancient Roman writer Claudius Aelianus. “The city subsided; an immense wave flooded and Helike disappeared.” Since then, generations of scientists and folklorists have used a dizzying array of methods to attempt to predict earthquakes. Animal behavior, changes in the weather and seismograms have all fallen short.

One theory is that when an earthquake looms, the rock “goes through a strange change,” producing intense electrical currents, says Tom Bleier, a satellite engineer with QuakeFinder, a project funded by his parent company, Stellar Solutions, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. “These currents are huge,” Bleier said at the AGU meeting. “They’re on the order of 100,000 amperes for a magnitude 6 earthquake and a million amperes for a magnitude 7. It’s almost like lightning, underground.” To measure those currents, Bleier’s team has spent millions of dollars putting out magnetometers along fault lines in California, Peru, Taiwan, and Greece. The instruments are sensitive enough to detect magnetic pulses from electrical discharges up to 10 miles (16 kilometers) away.

Comment: More research that reveals the electromagnetic trigger for major seismic events, i.e. earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. This article is an excellent synopsis and update to previous articles with some interesting revelations... It seems that as the seriousness of space weather induced atmospheric and geophysical phenomena becomes apparent, scientists are embracing electromagnetic theories that not so long ago were considered heretical... Please note: I have found seismologists who back in the 1970s knew that electromagnetic precursor signals before major eaerthquakes could be detected but like a lot of science it takes decades before these theories are accepted by the mainstream scientific world. Whatever, a planetary emergency is a good enough reason to force a paradigm shift amongst scientists.

Incredible “Double Helix DNA Cloud” Appears In the Moscow Sky
Who Forted?, 4th January 2013

Watchful Moscow residents with their eyes to the sky were given an interesting view on Christmas Eve, as a huge “celestial spiral” closely resembling a strand of DNA appeared over the city.

In a batch of photos posted to the photo sharing session of Russian website Netall.ru, one of the strangest cloud formations ever is detailed in a handful of images snapped around a 20 mile stretch of the city. As you can imagine, this has stirred up some interesting conversation as to what could be the cause of such an event. As of now, sky-savvy internet sleuths believe the strange clouds were caused by contrails, or thin artificial cloud formations caused by the water exhaust emitted from aircraft. You’ve more than likely seen them in the sky on a regular basis, but rarely in such a striking form.

Comment: I have been claiming since I wrote my book Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism & Spiritual Evolution published in September 2006, which was placed in the UK National Archives in November 2007, that Earth has become a high energy plasma environment. Electric Universe theorists have been stating for even longer that, Earth is not an isolated body in space. Instead, Earth is a charged body moving through an active plasma environment, surrounded by an external “leaky” magnetic field (magnetosphere) that is criss-crossed by a web of electric currents. Due to plasma behaving with the same characteristics at vastly different scales, everywhere we look in an Electromagnetic Universe, we see the helical spiral, which is a common signature of the flow of charged particles in a strong magnetic field. Here are some previous quotes:

"If you keep twisting a straight elastic string, at some moment it starts kinking in a wild way. Something similar occurs when one increases the electrical current flowing in a magnetized plasma doughnut: it takes on a wild helical shape, which spoils its performance. This phenomenon concerns scientists exploring fusion power, who use powerful magnetic fields to confine plasma during their experiments. [...] Moreover, the helical state appears to be the preferred one at high current and is spontaneously chosen, or self-organized, by the plasma."
Upping the power triggers an ordered helical plasma, Physorg.com, 2nd November 2009

"For plasmas immersed in strong magnetic fields, electric currents tend to flow along the magnetic field lines, which act like wires guiding the current. The field-aligned current creates its own magnetic field, and, when added to the original magnetic field, results in a twisted or helical magnetic field."
Twisting With Plasma On A Magnetic Field, Space Daily, December 13, 1999

Now, after all the high energy plasma manifestations being reported in our skies in recent years, combined with press releases from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) explaining about the sudden changes to the cosmic environment of Earth due to Space Weather, new even more obvious manifestations should be expected and become commonplace... Well, the issue is humanity does not have a recent memory of high energy electrical discharges in our skies but we now that our ancestors did... Thus, a flow of charged particles twisting in a powerful magnetic field that is strong enough to be revealed by cloud formation or a plane contrail.... please excuse the pun, this is shocking.... Please note my other claim that we are going to see a new major stairway to heaven on a permanent basis, a huge permanent electrical discharge that will mark the planetary status of Paradise... it is coming... it is coming soon...

Cosmic 'DNA': Double Helix Spotted in Space
Space.com, 15th March 2006
The Serpent in the Sky
thunderbolts.info, 23rd June 2008

Belgian Environmental Study Corroborates Existence and Effects of Weather Modification
Activist Post, 2nd January 2013

Even as the mainstream media and a television-obsessed American public refuse to admit the existence of chemtrails and government-sponsored weather modification programs, the evidence continues to mount with ever-increasing speed that not only do these programs exist, but they are also effective and widespread. In addition to the recent study published in Environmental Research Letters entitled, “Cost Analysis of Stratospheric Albedo Modification Delivery Systems,” where the costs of delivering tonnes of aerosols into the stratosphere were examined in terms of a variety of different means, a 2010 study undertaken on behalf of the Belfort Group, a Belgian “environmental watchdog” organization, also corroborates much of the information compiled by citizens and activists the world over regarding the existence of chemtrails and stratospheric weather modification programs. The study, entitled, “Contrail Science, Its Impact On Climate and Weather Manipulation Programs Conducted By The United States And Its Allies,” seeks to highlight “the specific problems associated with contrails emitted by aircraft, the manipulation for defense purposes of some of these trails by the United States government and the subsequent effect on quality of life.”

Comment: This article seems to provide a summary of this 71 page report. This is discussed over at ATS, Excellent Report on Geo-Engineering and Chemtrails .

More than 100 die of exposure in cold snap [Delhi, India]
The National, 3rd January 2013

LUCKNOW // More than 100 people have died of exposure as northern India deals with unusually low temperatures. At least 114 people have died from the cold in the state of Uttar Pradesh, a police spokesman, Surendra Srivastava, said yesterday. At least 23 of those died in the past 24 hours.

Mr Srivastava said many of the dead were poor people whose bodies were found on sidewalks or in parks. The weather department said temperatures in the state were between 4 and 10°C below normal. New Delhi suffered its coldest day in 44 years amid the cold snap across northern India, meteorologists said. The maximum temperature on Wednesday reached just 9.8°C, the lowest since the winter of 1969 - when records first began - with a low of 4.8°C.

Comment: There are many report of heavy snowfalls and plumeting temperatures across the globe. SOTT.net are reporting extraordinary lows in Mexixo, who reported: "You know that global warming is hitting hard, when New Mexico wakes up to -33C temperatures."Global Warming Strikes New Mexico! I checked the Wundermap graphics and found a spot at -34C.

Astrophysicist – We are shifting towards a Little Ice Age – Video
Ice Age Now, 30th December 2012
“By any measure, world temperature is declining,” says astrophysicist Piers Corbyn, who also discusses the facts and fictions surrounding climate change, and so-called melting of ice in the Arctic. (Excerpts from video) – “The warmists, and the BBC, like talking about the Arctic to back up their delusional climate-change theory,” says Corbyn, of www.weatheraction.com. “They do this rather than talk abut the real weather that people experience, because what people have experienced in Britain and Ireland, is the opposite.”
Report: ‘Forget global warming, Alaska is headed for an ice age’
WUWT, 2nd January 2013
The Daily Mail bluntly reports, What global warming? Alaska is headed for an ice age as scientists report state's steady temperature decline.
New Year’s day set snow cover record in U.S.
Terra Daily, 4th January 2013
The Dr. David Viner moment we’ve all been waiting for…a new snow record
WUWT, 4th January 2013

Comment: Well, we can only expect some serious mockery over at WUWT.... Climate realists will not let us forget the famous report in the UK Independent, Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past by Charles Onians who predicted, “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is...”
Ice Age Now
Latest headlines at Ice Age Now --- there have been lots of reports of excessive snow in recent weeks.

Nine people killed as freak hailstorm rains massive boulders down on Indian villages
Daily Mail, 31st January 2013

Fuji eruption could force 567,000 people to evacuate
Japan Times, 30th January 2013

Car Emerges From Sea Foam, Nearly Hits Two Police Officers
AOL Autos, 28th January 2013

Climate change blamed for Australia's extreme weather
New Scientist, 29th January 2013

The east coast of Australia has been drenched by floods and torrential rains, even as recent bush fires affecting much of the country continued to burn. Four people are known to have died as Australians get a further taste of extreme weather that is predicted to become more common as the planet warms.

The deluge came as a storm that started as tropical cyclone Oswald just north of Australia was dragged south over most of the east coast by a low-pressure system extending all the way to New South Wales, says Richard Wardle of the Bureau of Meteorology in Queensland. As it hit land, Oswald lost its cyclone status but remained a "vigorous" storm, Wardle says. [...]

"The frequency of more intense events is going to increase. Droughts, heatwaves and – in northern Australia – rainfall events and tropical cyclones are going to be more intense," says Jon Nott of James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, who researches extreme weather events. [...]

Nott points out that Australia might be experiencing a "double whammy" of climate change and natural variability, driving wetter conditions. One natural pattern, the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation, affects circulation in the Pacific, and reverses every 20 or 30 years. It flipped about five years ago for the first time since 1977, bringing warmer waters to Australia's east coast. "During those phases, Queensland sees more flooding, more rainfall, and more landfalling tropical cyclones," Nott says. Climate change will only compound the effects of such patterns, he says.

Comment: I just can't cover all the extreme weather headlines but I would like to do some analysis on the new fight between climate realists and other scientists frightened about run away climate change and extreme weather. I think that due to the new cosmic conditions and poor cosmic shielding we can expect EXTREME WEATHER, the reason being is that more energy is being fed into the atmosphere in an ad hoc manner but linked with other known factors, it seems the results can be generally predicted. In this regard, the fact that maverick astrophysicist Piers Corbyn has been forced to change his methods to more successfully predict the weather and take into account space weather is a good sign and it might be the reason that more mainstream academics are now also taking up the challenge. Simply, world controllers cannot be satisfied with the poor results obtained using traditional meteorological methodology that only predicts by looking at previous data and the resultant weather but not understanding exactly what processes actually causes our weather... So as much as I respect climate realists, I believe that we cannot just look at the future by citing the past, because there are new factors in play.

Expert predicts ‘Monsoon Britain’
WUWT, 27th January 2013
A study, by Professor Stuart Lane of Durham University back in 2008, appears to have been remarkably percipient. Written just after the extremely wet summer of 2007, the study suggests that, far from summers in the UK becoming drier as most climate models predict, they are likely to become wetter.

China's air pollution again at danger levels
Beijing residents advised to stay indoors as much as possible with severe pollution at levels 'beyond index' Guardian, 29th January 2013

MASSIVE COLD BLASTS ON WAY for Britain+Ireland, Europe and USA as Polar Strato-Warming develops on WeatherAction cue.
Weatheraction.com, 29th January 2013

Weatherwatch: Sudden stratospheric warming has reset usual winter pattern [UK]
The Guardian, 27th January 2013
Second Arctic Outbreak on the Way [US]
Accuweather Bews, 29th January 2013

41: Growing unrest seen at many of the world’s volcanoes
Extinction Protocol, 26th January 2013

2012 In Review – Volcanoes

Increased volcanic activity worldwide in late January 2013
The Watchers, 23rd January 2013
The Latest Volcano Discovery News

Storm Clouds Crawling With Bacteria
AccuWeather News, 24th January 2013

17 Jan +ongoing: BORIS BOOSTS PIERS, Telegraph 21Jan - & other LATEST UPDATE NEWS + COMMENT on The Great cold blasts & blizzards of Jan 2013 - WHAT TO DO? and WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?
Weatheraction.com, 24th January 2013

24 Jan (05.00utc) It looks increasingly like standard models are heading for another blunder this weekend Examination of successions of forecast maps for Sat 26th and Sun 27th from MetOffice, GFS and ECMWF models show them back-peddling on their much heralded major warm-up.

"We warned they were overstating this event", said Piers Corbyn of WeatherAction, "There is just not enough solar-wind input coming to make the change they expect and our lunar and geomagnetic factors are against. A look at http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?month=01&day=23&year=2013&view=view confirms the very low levels of activity we predicted for now from over 5 weeks ahead. Something will happen, indeed our forecast said so, but not much - and qualitively weaker, compared to their projections. This is yet another blunder in a series of major errors this winter in forecasting from only a f

"Of course standard meteorology has no comprehension of what we are talking about and as long as it remains wedded to the delusional nonsense of CO2 warmism and 'weather drives weather' tenets of computer forecasting they will never learn. Admission that solar activity is the decisive driver of weather especially extreme events and of climate change - a fact which our success demonstrates - spells the end of the CO2 warmist religion and the electricity price hikes, taxes and green handout gravy train that it brings.

"It also means that however many millions or billions, are spent on extra computer power for the juggernaut of standard warmist meteorology thay will never improve but only get wrong answers quicker and mislead the public more often. Politicians must now get to grips with reality, cast aside the CO2 warmist sect of BBC-MetO and the so called 'Climate-Science' empire in academia and instead support accountable evidence-based science and policies"

Comment: There is a lot of climate politics here, but I have great respect for Piers Corbyn. He says the SSW was caused by solar and lunar influences and this "catastrophic forecast scenario was first issued in detail in mid-December by WeatherAction long range forecasters." He is not always 100% right, but I am impressed that he predicted this historic event early... What we have to ask is: what exactly is Corbyn's new breakthrough prediction system that he has been forced to produce? We know for a fact that Piers Corbyn is running a business and he will not completely reveal his methodology but in his recent writings he does point out the role of notable openings in the magnetosphere that allow through solar particles, coronal holes, solar flares and proton bursts. Thus I can only speculate that he has managed to work out a new correction for the huge surges in energy that are hitting this planet.

10 Jan+ONGOING (Nb Feb45d is loaded) WeatherAction snow chaos public warning: Express p1 & FULL RELEASE --- Sudden Stratospheric Warmings world wide effect & BBC-MO opportunism
Weatheraction.com, 10th January 2013
Sudden stratospheric warmings forecast breakthrough

"There will be fluctuations in the severity of this weather but our confidence in this general forecast is increased by our new breakthrough in predicting major sudden warmings of the polar stratosphere, which in a contradictory way drive blasts of very cold air south.

"Although there is something of a 'stratospheric warming' developing now 10 Jan", said Piers, "we expect more intense 'sudden stratospheric warmings' and related cold blasts around quite well defined dates to come. We are 85% sure of this general picture and further details of the weather and stratosphere forecasts can be found via our website www.weatheraction.com ".

WeatherAction expect snow amounts to be as bad or worse than the record-breaking December 2010 - which they also predicted.

"Dr Richard Wild, snow-expert at Weathernet advises that previous significant snow blasts in the last 10 years before Dec 2010 in England and Wales were: begining Jan 2010, 8-9 Feb 2007, Feb 1996 and Jan 1993", said Piers. "These extreme events are entirely driven by solar activity and lunar factors and nothing to do with changes in CO2 which have no effect whatsoever on weather or climate", he added.

Stratospheric Phenomenon Is Bringing Frigid Cold to U.S |
Climate Central, 21st January 2013

An unusual event playing out high in the atmosphere above the Arctic Circle is setting the stage for what could be weeks upon weeks of frigid cold across wide swaths of the U.S., having already helped to bring cold and snowy weather to parts of Europe. [...]

This phenomenon, known as a “sudden stratospheric warming event” started on Jan. 6, but is something that is just beginning to have an effect on weather patterns across North America and Europe.

While the physics behind sudden stratospheric warming events are complicated, their implications are not: such events are often harbingers of colder weather in North America and Eurasia. The ongoing event favors colder and possibly stormier weather for as long as four to eight weeks after the event, meaning that after a mild start to the winter, the rest of this month and February could bring the coldest weather of the winter season to parts of the U.S., along with a heightened chance of snow. [...]

Sudden stratospheric warming events take place in about half of all Northern Hemisphere winters, and they have been occurring with increasing frequency during the past decade, possibly related to the loss of Arctic sea ice due to global warming. Arctic sea ice declined to its smallest extent on record in September 2012. [...]

“For reasons I don’t think we fully understand, the changes in the circulation that happen in the stratosphere [can] descend down all the way to the Earth’s surface,” said Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) in Massachusetts.

Comment: The Sudden Stratospheric Warming event caused a dramatic rise in temperatures over the North Pole of about 35 degrees centigrade. This is dramatic but bigger swings have been recorded in recent years, see archives. Well, Earth is not isolated in space and the planet is being continuously hammered by magnetic cosmic energies at the same time that Earth's magnetic field is in a very poor state (if it exists at all on the daylight side...). For those new to this website, please see my tutorial, Extreme Space Weather. Magnetars are the most extreme magnetic stars in the universe and produce severe blasts of magnetic energy from deep space that scientists jokingly refer to as "solar flares on steroids". It is not really funny when Earth's defenses are down and we have entered a region of space that is now at the receiving end of these extreme cosmic blasts that disrupt Earth's jet streams and cause extreme weather.

Sudden Stratospheric Warming Event Intensifying
Severe Weather Centre, 5th January 2013
A major stratospheric warming event is taking place across northeast asia and expanding northeastwards towards the north pole. [...]

The effects of the SSW event are causing an expansion in the stratosphere which suppresses and cools the troposphere. This event also weakens the polar jet stream which allows the cold air bottled up across the arctic to move southwards into mid latitudes.

Currently a positive arctic oscillation(strong polar jet stream) is in place but that should change soon as the stratosphere continues to warm and weaken the vortex. Their are three reasons why I believe that the stratospheric warming event will continue to intensify throughout the next week which will cause the sensible weather across north america to become very cold for the end of january and into february.

Comment: So was this SSW caused by a massive magnetar blast from deep space? I have tried to pin-point an event, but there is a lot going on in the cosmos.... See, The Astronomer's Telegram
Weather - Sudden stratospheric warming responsible for UK's icy blast
BBC News, 12th January 2013
How satellites help predict a Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW)
Eumetsat News, 17th January 2013
[...] The Met Office, and many other NMSs around the globe, receive data from a variety of polar orbiting satellites including EUMETSAT’s Metop, NOAA POES, Suomi NPP and other satellites from US, Europe, China, Japan and India. Using these observations and the past forecast data, they create the first step of an accurate forecast – the current state of the atmosphere. To make a numerical weather forecast, Met Office supercomputers start with these initial conditions and then work out billions of calculations per second to see how the atmosphere will behave over the next few days.

Comment: Hmmm.... I can only presume that some of the satellites are detecting the cosmic blasts directly that are causing this historic SSW....
Historic Sudden Stratospheric Warming Continues
The Weather Centre, 20th January 2013

The historic sudden stratospheric warming continues to raise eyebrows of forecasters everywhere, as the observed temperatures at the 70 millibar level are setting new records for stratospheric temperatures.

This sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) was predicted a while in advance by The Weather Centre, but the magnitude of this warming was severely underestimated. Records have been shattered across the board, especially at the 70 millibar level, as shown above. The red line of observed temperatures has passed above the thin gray line, which is the record stratospheric temperature for that day. It is safe to say this winter will go down as a historic one, as far as the stratosphere goes.

So we have a very much historic SSW happening. As I have explained, there is a 2-4 week lag between the warming event and cold weather reaching the surface. If we saw a record-breaking warming like this, one can only imagine the potential there is for severe cold to hit the United States. The reason I say potential is because the cold's path will be determined by the atmospheric pattern at the time, something that will take another several days to determine.

Comment: As long as meteorologists are ignorant about Space Weather and the associated huge delivery of magnetic energy, the electrical heating of Earth's polar cap and the relationship with the jet streams and what jet streams really represent, then they will continue to be baffled... Obviously, as we have been recently told, real scientists are being forced to study space weather in order to be able to predict Earth's weather.... Presumably, more aware humans, will want to understand that humans are also being strongly affected too...
Most of the energy transfer to the Earth from the solar wind is accomplished electrically, and nearly the entire voltage associated with this process appears in the polar cap region which extends typically less than 20° in latitude from the magnetic pole. The total voltage across the polar cap can be as large as 100,000 volts, rivaling that of thunderstorm electrification of the planet in magnitude. This polar cap electric field is the major source of largescale horizontal voltage differences in the atmosphere. Moreover, the dynamic polar region accounts for a large fraction of the variability inherent in our upper atmosphere, variability due to chaotic changes in the solar wind magnetic field that produces large-scale restructuring of the cavity enclosing the Earth’s magnetic field. This restructuring visibly manifests itself most clearly in the production of ionized plasmas and the associated distribution of aurora high over the north and south polar regions. In turn, the Earth’s lower atmosphere (that part responsible for weather phenomena) undergoes variations in composition and dynamics influenced by these coupling effects through a complex and as yet not fully understood feedback system. Source: Earth’s Magnetic Field and Climate Variability Original Source: http://www.arcus.org/logistics/svalbard/Svalbard.pdf
A Jet Stream Runs Through It
Keith C. Heidorn, PhD, THE WEATHER DOCTOR, November 1, 2005

One dead, 900 hurt in heavy Japan snowfall
Terra Daily, 15th January 2013

SURPRISE SURPRISE... GLOBAL WARMING HAS STALLED, ADMITS MET OFFICE
The Express News, 9th January 2013

THE great global warming debate was blown wide open again yesterday when the Met Office predicted cooler than expected temperatures for the next five years.

The Met Office, one of the top cheerleaders for the man-made climate change camp, said global temperatures are likely to be lower than it forecast in December 2011. It blamed this on the “natural variability of the climate system”, notably changes in ocean surface temperatures. [...]

Climate sceptics hailed this as proof that global warming has stopped. David Whitehouse, of Lord Lawson’s Global Warming Policy Foundation, said: “If the latest Met Office prediction is correct, it will prove to be a lesson in humility.

“It will show that the previous predictions given so confidently as advice to the UK Government and so unquestioningly accepted by the media were wrong and that the so-called sceptics who were derided for questioning them were on the right track.”

Comment: Some informed comments here...

Earth Weather & Plasma Storms
Thunderbolts.info, 9th January 2013

It is commonly believed that weather is driven on Earth primarily by the Sun’s thermal influence on the atmosphere. As we rotate beneath our primary, gases and dust absorb solar radiation at varying rates and in varying degrees. When any particular region heats up, the air expands and loses density, creating a relative low pressure area. Cooler air, being denser, will naturally flow into the bottom of the warm, low pressure region, causing an upwardly rotating convection cell to form.

Most weather systems on Earth are thought to be based on that simple kinetic explanation: winds blow when the cooler, denser air flows into the warmer, buoyant air. [...]

As mentioned in previous Pictures of the Day, Earth is a small charged body moving in a large cell of plasma, so physical phenomena on or near the planet must take the electrical nature of plasma into account.[...]

The Electric Universe hypothesis agrees with conventional theory that wind is movement of air molecules, but that there are other explanations. What are those other agents of movement?

If conventional theory explains wind solely as the result of convection and gas kinetics, Electric Universe proponents insist that electric discharges must also be considered. Electromagnetic forces in plasma move and accelerate charged particles, so collisions between charged and neutral particles drag the neutral air molecules along with them. Close observation of laboratory arc discharges reveals that an electric “wind” surrounds and often precedes an electric arc.

The plasma discharge sweeps up the surrounding air along with the charge carriers, or ions. The wind appears as inflows and updrafts as well as outflows and downdrafts. It can lift dust particles and erode surfaces. By analogy, we must then question the accepted explanation of thunderstorms as being caused solely by convection of hot air and the climatological movement of winds by the Sun’s heat alone.

Tornadoes continue to be a mystery to consensus science, as well as Electric Universe advocates, although it seems that they are more like rotating electric discharges than anything else. The electric charges in a tornado are whirling at many meters per second, so they probably form an electromagnetic field called a “charge sheath vortex.”

Comment: I took the liberty of changing the headline and highlighting and re-arranging the text of this Thunderbolts.info blog entry which discusses the forces that scientists think drive the world's weather systems. Meteorologists are not trained to understand meteorological phenomena in terms of plasma physics. However due to Space Weather, some scientists amongst various academic institutions and space agencies worldwide are changing gear. "Empty" space is now known to be part of a visible universe that is 99.999% plasma. This means that it is impossible to accept that gravity rules the universe when the electromagnetic force between two electrons is 39 orders of magnitude stronger than the ultra weak force of gravity. Space Weather scientists have little or no interest in a gravity dominated universe, when there are major concerns about million ampere currents 'zapping' billion dollars satellites, knocking out radio communications around the globe, and destroying national power grids and their transformers on Earth. Basically, the electromagnetic force and plasma physics can no longer be ignored and that is why there is a paradigm shift taking place right now. Today, as scientists warn about extreme weather, we have to realise the real cause is highly unstable geomagnetic conditions on this planet. Despite the paucity of the science, what we already know of plasma physics provides the most realistic explanation for the erratic swings of the jet streams that strongly influence and determine the most extreme weather. See Earth’s Magnetic Field and Climate Variability, Link.

Air pollution in Beijing goes off the index
Yahoo News, 13th January 2013

Mystery of the Mary Celeste: Seafaring Superstitions & St Elmo’s Fire
Mysterious Universe, 10th January 2013

New island size of 25 football pitches appears off German coast after sandbanks emerge from the North Sea
Daily Mail, 9th January 2013

Effects of climate change will be felt more deeply in decades ahead, draft report says
Washington Post, 11th January 2013
Of course this has nothing to do with CO2 and a lot more to do with "space-terrestrial interactions [52,53]; be it Earth-Sun, Earth-Solar System, and/or Earth-Interstellar."

Extreme Heat, Cold, Snow Plaguing the Globe
Weather.com, 11th January 2013

Stunning images of Australian dust storm
Digital Journal, 11th January 2013

Extremes: Coldest temperatures in nearly 50 years leave 80 dead in Bangladesh, while Australia bakes in record highs
Extinction Protocol, 11th January 2013

BANGLADESH - A cold snap which saw temperatures drop on Thursday to their lowest point in Bangladesh’s post-independence history has killed around 80 people, officials said. The weather office said the lowest temperature was recorded at 3�C in the northern town of Syedpur and the Red Crescent said hospitals were packed with patients suffering respiratory illness. Shah Alam, deputy head of the weather office, said the last time the temperature had dropped below -3°C was in February 1968 when Bangladesh was still part of Pakistan. “The temperature is the lowest in Bangladesh’s history” he said. The Red Crescent Society said impoverished rural areas had been worst hit as many people could not afford warm clothing or heating. News 24

Australia suffers in record heat: The heat wave across Australia has spiked to unfathomable levels as the ominously-labeled “dome of heat” blankets the continent, sparking wildfires that have caused more than $60 million in damage and claimed more than 120 homes. The average temperature stretched above 39° Celsius (102° F) for six consecutive days, and local temperatures were so high that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology was inclined to add a new hue to their heat map – a deep purple shade – which indicates a temperature above 50° C (122° F). –Time

Comment: There is a lot of extreme weather headlines... but of course, the debate is still raging about the cause....

11 dead as Mideast battered by hail, snow, rain
Space Daily, 9th January 2013
"Abnormal storms which for four days have blasted the Middle East with rain, snow and hail have left at least 11 people dead and brought misery to Syrian refugees huddled in camps. Officials reported that two women were found dead in the West Bank on Wednesday after their car was swept away in floods, while a 30-year-old man froze to death in Taalabaya, in Lebanon's Bekaa province, after he fell asleep drunk in his car."
Dust cloud caps wild weather
The Herald, 8th January 2013

They’re back: Unexplained ‘booming noises’ reported from South Carolina to California
Extinction Protocol, 9th January 2013

Scientists Seek Foolproof Signal to Predict Earthquakes
Could magnetic waves be the trustworthy tool that saves lives?
National Geographic News, 4th January 2013

Incredible “Double Helix DNA Cloud” Appears In the Moscow Sky
Who Forted?, 4th January 2013

Watchful Moscow residents with their eyes to the sky were given an interesting view on Christmas Eve, as a huge “celestial spiral” closely resembling a strand of DNA appeared over the city.

"If you keep twisting a straight elastic string, at some moment it starts kinking in a wild way. Something similar occurs when one increases the electrical current flowing in a magnetized plasma doughnut: it takes on a wild helical shape, which spoils its performance. This phenomenon concerns scientists exploring fusion power, who use powerful magnetic fields to confine plasma during their experiments. [...] Moreover, the helical state appears to be the preferred one at high current and is spontaneously chosen, or self-organized, by the plasma."
Upping the power triggers an ordered helical plasma, Physorg.com, 2nd November 2009

"For plasmas immersed in strong magnetic fields, electric currents tend to flow along the magnetic field lines, which act like wires guiding the current. The field-aligned current creates its own magnetic field, and, when added to the original magnetic field, results in a twisted or helical magnetic field."
Twisting With Plasma On A Magnetic Field, Space Daily, December 13, 1999

Cosmic 'DNA': Double Helix Spotted in Space
Space.com, 15th March 2006
The Serpent in the Sky
thunderbolts.info, 23rd June 2008

Belgian Environmental Study Corroborates Existence and Effects of Weather Modification
Activist Post, 2nd January 2013

Birds fall from sky in Seymour
Dozens of starlings litter roadway and fields
The Mountain Press, 31st December 2012

SEYMOUR – Residents and those passing by near Dogwood Hills subdivision on Boyd Creek Highway Sunday afternoon were met with an unusual scene. Dozens of dead birds littered the highway and surrounding fields after falling from the sky.

Sgt. Robert Stoffle of the Sevier County Sheriff's Department said a call about the birds came in around 1:15 p.m. He said a witness reported seeing the birds in flight before turning back around to see them on the ground.

"It covered one lane of traffic," Stoffle said of the bodies of the birds. Estimates of the number of birds varied from between 30 and 60 up to 300. They appeared to be starlings.

While the vast majority of the birds were dead by the time The Mountain Press photographer arrived, several were still alive, convulsing and flopping their wings on the ground.

Comment: Over at SOTT.net this was given the headline Double Deja Vu on December 31st? Up to 300 starlings litter roadway and fields in Seymour, Tennessee . I think we are back for a repeat of last year with dead birds littering roads and gardens and lots of reports of sky noises.... The interstellar wind blowing through our solar system at this time of year is exactly the same but Earth's unstable magnetic shielding and solar activity might be a little different and therefore could produce a different result so we will have to see what happens...

VIDEO: Massive Power Outages Near Annapolis
About 68,000 BGE customers in the county lost power Thursday night after blue and green lights filled the Anne Arundel skyline.
Edgewater-Davidsonville News, 20th December 2012

UPDATE (10 a.m. Friday)–More than 68,000 homes and businesses throughout Anne Arundel County lost power Thursday night after unexplained blue and green lights filled the skyline just before 9 p.m.

"We lost two of the main lines that feed into Annapolis and the surrounding areas," said Baltimore Gas and Electric's (BGE) spokesperson Rachael Lighty.

While there were still more than 1,600 BGE customers out of power in Anne Arundel County at about 6:30 a.m. Friday, nearly 67,000 customers had their power restored, according to BGE's online outage map.

By 10 a.m., the outage map showed only 359 customers without power and 68,340 with power restored. "We do believe that we have located and isolated the issue," Lighty said early on Friday morning but couldn't say exactly what the issue was, only that crews would continue to work well into Friday.

Comment: Another incidence of the sky glowing different colours, first seen and described as "War of the World Lights" at Forth Worth, Dallas in May 2011. For more details and video links, see archives Best of the Blog Space Weather, Electronics & Electromagnetic Chaos. Please note: as I have explained in the past, transformers do not emit photons at different wavelengths to light up the sky in different colours... This appears to be a new geophysical phenomenon but only if it can't be categorised as a new type of quakelight.

Strange Lights Over Annapolis Maryland Dec. 20, 2012
YouTube, 21st December 2012
"Strange lights reported over the skies in Annapolis Maryland on December 20 2012. I know there was power outages there and around 2am where i live in Pennsylvania, also military base near by but please leave your thoughts on what you think this is. The witness said that the lights are moving across the sky."

Extreme Rainfall Event in Western Australia
Weather Underground, 17th December 2012

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology just released (December 17th) a special statement concerning recent extraordinary rainfalls that occurred in the southwestern portion of Western Australia on December 10-13 (last week). All-time 24-hour precipitation records were broken at several locations when more than 8” (200 mm) of rain fell in less than 24 hours. [...]

The area most impacted was the Bunbury to Collie region located about 80 miles south of Perth. Collie measured 157.2 mm (6.19”) on December 13th(126 mm/4.96” of which fell in just 12 hours). The town not only smashed its previous December daily rainfall record of 42 mm/1.65” (set on December 24, 1987) but also broke its greatest 24-hour rainfall for any month in a 106-year long period of record. The amount also broke its December monthly record of 80.6 mm (3.17”) set in 1913. [...]

This portion of Australia has a pleasant Mediterranean climate similar to the California south coast. Perth is Australia’s 4th largest city with a population of 1.8 million and is often cited as one of the world’s best places to live. It has an annual average rainfall of about 850 mm (33.5”) but December is normally one of its driest months with an average of just 13 mm (0.5”). So one can see how extraordinary this event is for the time of year. Ironically, the 2nd greatest rainstorm to occur in the region over the past 100 years happened almost exactly one year ago on December 11, 2011.

Comment: I will echo the comments here that two extreme events within ~1 year might be coincidence, or some evidence of the new norm of "extreme weather", but at this rate we will find out soon enough....

Extreme Weather

Comment:

Introducing The New WUWT “Extreme Weather” Reference Page
WUWT, 8th December 2012

270km/h winds as Cyclone Evan smashes Fiji
News.comn.au, 18th December 2012
Next stop New Zealand...

Earthquakes, The Fuse That Ignites Volcanoes, Have Increased Worldwide
Guardian Express, 16th December 2012

Over the last couple of years researchers have gradually shifted from the decades old belief that asteroids killed the dinosaurs. As a former college history professor, I can confirm that almost all text books claim dinosaurs were killed 65-million-years ago by an asteroid slamming into the earth.

Today, research suggests that tens of thousands of years of lava flow from the Deccan Traps, a volcanic region near Mumbai may have spewed poisonous levels of sulphur and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and caused the mass extinction through the resulting global warming and ocean acidification.

The findings are the latest volley in an ongoing debate over whether an asteroid or volcanism killed off the dinosaurs in the mass die-off known as the K-T extinction, the ‘Live Science’ reported. [...]

The idea that volcanic eruption may have terminated life on earth for the dinosaur, simply wakes you up when you consider the true danger an eruption poses to civilization. It’s even more daunting when you grasp the fact that earthquakes are essentially the fuse that sets them off.

In recent weeks, worldwide earthquake data indicates an increase in the magnitude and a significant increase in the frequency (magnitude > 5.5) of earthquakes. Current graphs clearly show an alarming worldwide trend of increasing earthquake strength and frequency. These results are in agreement with the USGS statistics page, which shows an increase in the frequency of stronger earthquakes (M > 5.0).

These trends also show that the depth of earthquakes has diminished, they occur closer to the Earth’s surface. Shallow earthquakes occur along fault lines and are due to the accumulation of stress. Earthquake waves can also propagate far enough to trigger other earthquakes; this may explain the noted increase in earthquakes.

Comment: Due to the rising seismic activity some scientists realise that we need to be more proactive and cap volcanoes before they spew their contents into the atmosphere and make living on this planet even more difficult, see archives for some recent reports... I would have liked some names or a title of a research paper so I could track down some statistics about this "alarming worldwide trend of increasing earthquake strength and frequency"... as this is quite an interesting statement that needs some independent examination because there are some seismologists trying to downplay the amount of seismic activity and other geoscientists who are alarmed... Electric Universe proponents might argue a little about the definition of an earthquake being a fuse.... because according to recent experiments, earthquakes are caused by underground lightning see archives and more below:

Plan for quake 'warning system'
BBC News, 5th June 2008 Flashback!
Nasa scientists have said they could be on the verge of a breakthrough in their efforts to forecast earthquakes. Researchers say they have found a close link between electrical disturbances on the edge of our atmosphere and impending quakes on the ground below.

Just such a signal was spotted in the days leading up to the recent devastating event in China. They have teamed up with experts in the UK to investigate a possible space-based early warning system.

Many in the scientific community remain deeply sceptical about whether such signals are indeed indicators of an approaching earthquake. But Minoru Freund, a physicist and director for advanced aerospace materials and devices at Nasa's Ames Research Center in California, told BBC News: "I do believe that we will be able to establish a clear correlation between certain earthquakes and certain pre-earthquake signals, in an unbiased way." [..]

Minoru and his father Friedemann Freund, also from Nasa Ames Research Center, developed the scientific theory behind these earthquake precursors. It boils down to the idea that when rocks are compressed - as when tectonic plates shift - they act like batteries, producing electric currents. "We now pretty much understand the solid-state physics of these rocks," Minoru added.

According to their theory, the charge carrier is a "positive hole", known as a phole, which can travel large distances in laboratory experiments. When they travel to the surface of the Earth, the surface becomes positively charged. And this charge can be strong enough to affect the ionosphere, causing the disturbances documented by satellites.

When these pholes "recombine" at the surface of the Earth, they enter an excited state. They subsequently "de-excite" and emit mid-infrared light particles, or photons. This may explain the IR observations.

Comment: The photon emission at distinct wavelengths might be a good explanation for the disco light displays (war of the world lights) that have started appearing around the world... So these would be photons that belong in the visible part of the light spectrum... presumably, there must be a relationship with quakelights... I have already found an alternative theory, but I will have to dig around for some more mainstream work...

Great Nepalese quake of 1255 points to Himalayan risk
Space Daily, 16th December 2012
A mega-quake in 1255 that wrecked the Nepalese capital, wiped out a third of the population of Kathmandu Valley and killed the country's monarch, King Abhaya Malla, was of a kind that may return to the Himalayas, seismologists reported on Sunday.

Comment: This is the latest risk assessment report in a region of known mega-earthquakes.... This is curious... "The study says it takes probably takes centuries for the strain to accumulate before another bust occurs, if the evidence of the surface turnover is a guide." This ambiguity implies that seismologists don't know exactly where the energy comes from to cause the strain in the first place and there is an element of guess work, but we do know that there has been lots of new energy being absorbed by the planet in recent decades....

Tourists Flee, Residents Prepare As 'Monster' Cyclone Bears Down On Fiji
Business Insider, 16th December 2012

FIJI - Fijian authorities scrambled to evacuate tourists and residents in low-lying areas Sunday as a monster cyclone threatened the Pacific nation with “catastrophic damage” after causing devastation in Samoa. At least four people were killed when Cyclone Evan slammed into Samoa and the toll was expected to rise with a search launched for eight men missing on three fishing boats. Only one survivor has been found, said the New Zealand Rescue Co-ordination Centre, which is overseeing the search. After crossing Samoa, Evan intensified as it ploughed through the Pacific and forecasters said destructive winds could reach nearly 300 kilometers per hour (186 miles per hour) by the time it hits Fiji early Monday. Government officials fear it could be as devastating as Cyclone Kina, which killed 23 people and left thousands homeless in 1993.

Comment: The another killer storm arrives.... Gleaned from recent reports and articles, our climate and atmospheric scientists are now starting to mutter that these massive hurricanes and cyclones are part of a 'new norm' as they admit there is now much more energy in the atmosphere.... On this blog, I have been explaining where this extra energy is coming from and it's not CO2 trapping heat because that is impossible and defies basic physics.... what greenhouse do you know that is less than 400 parts per million but traps heat? Please remember, climate scientists talk impossible physics but they have now hit a brick wall in their climate model fantasy as global temperatures are starting to dip and the embarrassment is palpable....

Fiji under curfew as cyclone arrives
stuff.co.nz, 16th December 2012
Category 3 Cyclone Evan leaves Samoa, heads for Fiji
WunderBlog, 14th December 2012
Category 3 Tropical Cyclone Evan is finally done pounding Samoa and American Samoa, after spending two days meandering over the islands. Evan made landfall on the north shore of Samoa near the capital of Apia on Thursday as a Category 1 cyclone with 90 mph winds, and intensified into a Category 3 storm with 115 mph winds after the eye wandered back offshore late Thursday. Media reports indicate that Evan has killed two and brought heavy damage to Samoa. "Power is off for the whole country... Tanugamanono power plant is completely destroyed and we might not have power for at least two weeks," the Disaster Management Office (DMO) said in a statement.

Comment: I realise that many don't see why scientists are starting to panic about extreme weather events but it seems we are now seeing a paradigm shift amongst climate and atmospheric scientists... Instead of all the outdated explanation of "warm waters" that provide the energy for hurricanes that don't make sense because hurricanes can form in cold water too, (see archives) we are now getting major admissions that what’s going on in the atmosphere is what’s most important... Even when I wrote my book back in 2006 NASA was investigating the link between what was going on in the ionosphere and hurricanes and the “Distribution of electric currents connecting the magnetosphere to the ionosphere”... Due to the changes in Earth's magnetic field and the changes in the size and position of the jet streams we are getting even more weather chaos...
NOAA: Tropical Cyclone Evan Water Vapour Loop
Reflections on a surreal superstorm and the 2012 hurricane season
WunderBlog, 6th December 2012
Mel Shapiro is one of the world's leading experts on cyclones. Bob Henson of NCAR/UCAR, in an article about the hybrid superstorm, writes, "I asked Shapiro how often he’s seen a storm like Sandy. He replied, 'Never.'" [...] Sea surface temperatures (SSTS) were running well above average all along Sandy’s path from the Caribbean to the north, and exceptionally so in the Gulf stream offshore of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast coasts, an area representing a critical time in Sandy’s track. How warm the water is at the surface and below can be overrated as a factor in tropical cyclone intensity, as what’s going on in the atmosphere is what’s most important, but everything else being equal, water which is much warmer than average is more favorable to increasing or maintaining strength than water which is much cooler than average. The question with Sandy is whether it made a difference and if so to what extent, and to what extent this regional anomaly was related to the overall global trend of warming ocean water.

Comment: This is only a short extract but details needed for historic reference....

Black snow befalls Siberian city twice in a week
Moscow News, 14th December 2012
Black snow covered the ground in the Siberian city of Omsk on Thursday night, making local residents worry for the second time this week. On Wednesday, grayish fall-out was seen in another district of the second largest city of Russia’s Asian territories, RIA Novosti reported. But though suspects for this gloomy snowfall – one of Russia’s largest black carbon manufacturing plant and a local power station – are being checked, the reasons for the most recent tinted precipitation in the Oktyabrsky district are yet to be found. “Calls about the strange snow keep on coming, indeed, from the district’s residents,” a spokesperson for the local branch of the Federal environmental watchdog, Rosprirodnadzor, told RIA Novosti on Friday.

Comment: I have blogged about funny coloured snow before and we are given a short round-up here...

Apia slammed as cyclone hits Samoa
Stuff.co.nz, 13th December 2012
The small but powerful Cyclone Evan has battered the country, inflicting a severe ocean surge on the capital Apia. The city has been largely evacuated due to massive damage. [...] Earlier this evening DMO reported that a feared ocean surge was hitting the northern coast of Samoa, including Apia. "The storm surge is hitting us now, it is really high, 12 to 15 feet (3.6 to 4.5 metres)," a DMO official said on a failing phone line.

Samoa has issued a disaster declaration after assessing initial damage caused by Tropical Cyclone Evan
Tropical Storm in MultiCountries on Wednesday, 12 December, 2012 at 18:06 (06:06 PM) UTC. RSOE - Emergency and Disaster Information Service, 13th December 2012

Statue of Liberty indefinitely closed by Sandy damage on island
LA Times, 11th December 2012

Among Superstorm Sandy victims still struggling to recover: Liberty Island. The Statue of Liberty remains indefinitely closed to the public due to damage on the island, joining another shuttered national icon, the Washington Monument, which has been closed due to damage from an Aug. 23, 2011, earthquake. The statue, the pedestal and base came through the storm, which made landfall Oct. 29 in southern New Jersey, without significant damage.

But the docks that bring visitors to the island were seriously damaged, and more than half of the bricks in the walkway that circles the island in New York Harbor were dislodged and tossed about as water came probably within 10 to 15 feet of the statue’s base, said National Park Service spokesman Mike Litterst. Security screening and concessionaire facilities also were damaged.

Comment: Does this make it official that New York was completely mashed up by Superstorm Sandy? As some have noted, this was reported by the Los Angeles Times and not the New York Times... Maybe, this is a psychological blow that some in New York would rather ignore...

A Huge Natural Gas Line Explosion Just Lit Up West Virginia [PHOTOS]
Business Insider, 11th December 2012

aReports are coming in of a big explosion in Sissonville, West Virginia (scroll down for photos and video).

Via local news outlet WSAZ: The northbound lanes of Interstate 77 are closed in the Sissonville area, from Tuppers Creek to Pocatalico due to what's being called a major gas line explosion.

Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper tells WSAZ.com crews were called to what was described as a major gas line explosion in Sissonville. WSAZ says that right now, no injuries or fatalities have been reported. A "Shelter in Place" has been issued for buildings in the area, though. The AP reports that according to state police, several structures are on fire.

Comment: These HUGE explosions in the US are now happening weekly... Well, I have pointed out the problem of spaceweather corroding pipelines... but, stormy geomagnetic conditions might also be causing faster ignition... See EM Chaos archives for previous comments and references....

Sissonville, West Virginia Explosion (Photos)

New Zealand: Report finds several flaws in February 2011 killer quake building
'I just want justice'
stuff.co.nz, 10th December 2012

A royal commission of inquiry into the CTV building, which collapsed during the February 2011 earthquake killing 115 people, has identified serious deficiencies in its design and construction and found it should not have been issued a building permit. [...]

The building did not meet construction standards, was designed by an engineer out of his depth and was overseen by a boss who should have known better, the royal commission found. The report recommends changes in building practices to avoid a repeat of the disaster. [...]

Maurice Gardiner, whose sister, Donna Manning, was killed, said the report could not bring family members back. "It doesn't give you any answers to why it was green-stickered or why it was even built. It just says it shouldn't be." Gardiner said he received the report last week, and it had made for emotional reading. [...]

"Personally, as a builder, it does make me saddened to think the design, every part of that particular building, it was set to fail in this earthquake. That's the thing that was disappointing. It just wasn't done properly." Gardiner said his family simply wanted lessons learnt from the tragedy.

"The whole world is watching what is happening in Christchurch," he said. "As long as they learn from it and buildings are built stronger ... all of New Zealand is going to be a stronger place as a result. A lot of young builders and architects are going to be so well educated in seismic buildings, it can only be better." Read more reaction to the report's release here.

FINDINGS FOLLOW EVIDENCE FROM 80 WITNESSES

The findings come after an eight-week hearing, with testimony from more than 80 witnesses. The commissioners found building designer David Harding was working ''beyond his competence'' and identified fundamental errors in his plans. They criticised the hands-off approach of Harding's boss, Alan Reay. Harding did not know he was ill-equipped for the job, the report said, and Reay was mistaken in placing such responsibility in him.

''[Harding's] self-assessment of his competence and the confidence he had that he could design the building competently was unfounded,'' it said. ''This ... raises issues about Dr Reay's decision to hand over the design of the CTV building over to Mr Harding without having any intention of reviewing his work.'' Harding had no experience designing multi-storey buildings, and had Reay reviewed his work he may have picked up the design problems. [...]

The commissioners identified four major reasons for the building's collapse:

- Poorly designed joints between the building's beams and columns. The reinforcing that held to two together was weak and not up 1986 building standards.
- Inadequate steel reinforcing in the concrete columns.
- Weak ties between the floors and north wall - the strongest part of the building.
- Smooth surfaces of the precast concrete beams where they met the columns weakened the join. That they were not roughened was a ''critical omission''.

The building permit, issued by the Christchurch City Council in September 1986, should not have been granted, the report said.

Comment: I looked around for different versions of this story and finally settled on this one but I still decided to change the headline... I was upset to discover that a building collapse was caused by poor building design when I know that normally engineers take great efforts to maintain high standards.... New Zealand is not Haiti (poor standards) or Aquila, Italy with lots of historic old buildings... I am actually quite shocked and yes, the world's engineers will be paying attention .... I wonder whether the engineer David Harding, was a product of being over priviledged and arrogant and hired because he was the son of a friend of a friend.... Please note the following below:

“Building codes and retrofit standards need to be widely adopted and strictly enforced. If those features are in place, post-disaster recovery may be greatly accelerated by upgraded infrastructure hardened against natural disasters and with sufficient redundancy to help reduce the impact of single point failures and to address regional infrastructure interdependencies.”

Increasing resilience: A national imperative
Earth Magazine, 18th November 2012

I hope this message is taken seriously and enforced by people who actually care about the common good...

“Especially Alarming”: Giant quake of magnitude 8 or greater could soon strike Japan – Gov’t calls for ‘continued vigilance’
Energy News, 8th December 2012

Title: Fears Grow that Japan Could be Hit by Another Powerful Earthquake
Source: Arirang News
Date: December 08, 2012

Fears Grow that Japan Could be Hit by Another Powerful Earthquake
Concerns are rising that Japan could be hit by another massive earthquake after a magnitude-7.3 quake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan on Friday. [...]

Japan’s Asahi Shimbun reports that aftershocks could continue and warned residents in the northeastern region to exercise caution.
Japan’s Defense Science and Technology Institute says the latest tremor is especially alarming, adding an earthquake with a magnitude of eight or over could soon strike the country.

Why Is the Media Ignoring the Mass Sinkholes Popping Up Around the Country?
Natural News, 3rd December 2012

Have you heard of the massive sinkholes popping up around the nation? Flammable craters spanning acres wide and leaking radiation, monster sinkholes described as ‘apocalyptic’ have forced residents out of homes, expelled radiation into the environment, and are now ushering in concerns about serious Earth changes in the near future. If you’ve heard of these sinkholes, chances are it has been from the alternative media.

It’s a hot issue on forums, some social networking sectors, and certain alternative talk radio programs. Sure, it has come up in some mainstream reports here and there, but there are virtually no in-depth pieces tying everything together. And they often fail to mention the scale of these sinkholes, behemoth anomalies that can swallow up 100 foot trees, houses, with the latest Ohio sinkhole devouring 4 football fields of land. Events that are sending residents scrambling.

Comment: I think this is about real sinkholes not the laser cut holes that have been of great interest to me... This is interesting: "Bloomberg reports that fracking is a likely cause for a dramatic rise (sixfold) in earthquake activity from 2000 to 2011. Not to mention contamination of the water and food supply." So....someone thinks we should blame the rise in earthquakes solely on fracking?

Are Preppers responsible for the unprepared?
World Net Weekly, 7th December 2012

Last week on the website Emergency Management, there appeared a blog post written by an emergency manager named Valerie Lucus-McEwen in which she made a grave error in judgment. She called doomsday preppers “socially selfish.”

She based this startling conclusion on the National Geographic’s “The Doomsday Prepper” series and concluded that because the people featured in this show were spending their OWN time and their OWN money to stockpile their OWN resources in order to prepare their OWN families for whatever disastrous scenario they foresaw, they are selfish. Specifically, as another emergency manager phrased it, this is “a level of indulgence that is selfish and counter-productive to providing for the common good.”

“You might wonder,” wrote Ms. Lucus-McEwen, “why someone like me, who has been in the business of encouraging disaster preparedness for a very long time, is so critical of people who are doing just that. It’s because they are being socially selfish – preparing themselves and the hell with everyone else. Instead of spending time and energy making changes that would benefit the larger community, in their very narrow focus of loyalty they are more concerned about themselves. … Our job is to prepare individuals and communities and jurisdictions and regions and – ultimately – the globe for disasters, knowing we won’t always succeed.”

Little did Ms. Lucus-McEwen realize she was opening an enormous can of worms. The blog post got blitzed with comments, universally condemning her for her conclusions and asking why it was the job of ordinary preppers to “provide for the common good” at their own expense. [...]

The people featured in the Doomsday Prepper show – many of whom, granted, were featured because they were extreme – aren’t emergency managers. It’s not their job to prepare an entire community (much less the globe) to meet a disaster. So they’re doing the next best thing: making sure their families and friends won’t require government assistance in the event of an emergency. (Incidentally, Ms. Lucus-McEwen admits that she herself wouldn’t make it more than a week or two without outside assistance.)

Comment: Societies across the globe are generally ignorant about astronomical cycles and times of rapid evolutionary change where we can expect there to be major disasters for reasons that have been outlined on this blog. As I have been also pointing out on this blog and in my writings, the knowledge of astronomical cycles and major cataclysm has been preserved through religion, mythology, literature, monuments and artefacts. Religious leaders in the West who have traditionally retained this message on this planet have failed BIG-TIME to warn the masses and world controllers and governments are mostly only interested in self-preservation. New Age 'leaders' don't count because they don't recognise the essence of what religion was originally about and generally only promote a toxic blend of narcissism and consumerism. Regardless, there are a few individuals who have noted the rising tide of natural disasters and because they value their own lives have been preparing to cope in the event of any disaster natural or manmade. Some are even prepared to deal with the unprepared hordes who will be desperate to pillage for their own survival when resources become scarce. Yet, here we are told some moronic government official is calling those who choose to be ready “socially selfish.” This viewpoint can only be described as twisted, when even NASA management has been telling its own employees to be prepared in the event of a major disaster. This article is very well written and needs to be read in its entirety, but it reminds me of the New Testament parable in the Bible of the foolish and wise virgins... The wise are stocked up with oil for their lamps when the master arrives. As I have explained many times, the correct intrepretation well understood by the astronomer-priest class, is the need to be ready for the Christ or crystalline energy as it pours onto this planet... There is absolutely no argument about this as the signs of the times are obvious for those who are awake... Today, "the sounds of the apocalypse" refer to the sky noises where energy in the atmosphere is being transduced into sound. In the Kolbrin texts, it is described as "the noise of trumpeting and shrilling... heard in the Heavens". (I expect the next major wave of reports in January 2013 but reports have already started.) The ancient scriptures preserve the knowledge of seas and rivers turning blood red, which is now happening. This is a well known quote: "There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven." (Luke 21:11 ESV) There are plenty of "signs" in the heavens in terms of fireballs, meteors, asteroids and comets, etc etc. and plenty of other rare and bizarre atmospheric events and 'signs'. Those who are prepared to deal with anything should be congratulated... Personally, I would like to thank many different groups and websites in the blogosphere for keeping watch and seeking to inform.

Flooding fears as Bopha returns to Philippines
ABC.net News, 9th December 2012

Killer storm Bopha is set to make landfall in the Philippines for a second time, just days after it slammed into the south of the country and left almost 1,400 dead or missing. Bopha, now downgraded from a typhoon to a tropical storm, changed course after heading into the South China Sea and is heading towards the main Philippines island of Luzon.

Despite being weaker, with 55 kilometre per hour winds, the storm brought heavy rain and concerns of landslides and flash flooding with its return. "It will bring rain, not so much wind," civil defence chief Benito Ramos told AFP. "We anticipate flash floods and landslides. We expect low-lying areas to be flooded again."

US Navy: Bopha Storm Track
RSOE - Emergency and Disaster Information Service, 9th December 2012
Tropical Storm in Philippines on Monday, 03 December, 2012 at 17:17 (05:17 PM) UTC.
Tropical Storm in Philippines on Monday, 03 December, 2012 at 17:17 (05:17 PM) UTC.
RSOE - Emergency and Disaster Information Service, 10th December 2012

Tornado 2 km wide in Indonesia
RSOE - Emergency and Disaster Information Service, 8th December 2012

More than a dozen people have been injured and hundreds of houses left damaged after a tornado swept through the Yogyakarta district of Sleman on Friday. The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesman said on Saturday that the tornado - which had a radius of two kilometers at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour - lasted for 10 minutes and hit 10 villages in Sleman, with the Bromonila village in the subdistrict of Purwomartani reporting the most damages.

"Two people were seriously injured and have to undergo treatment now, and 12 others were lightly wounded," BNPB spokesman Sutopo Purwo said in a statement published at bnpb.go.id. Sutopo said 519 houses in total were damaged and dozens of cattle sheds and hundreds of trees also reportedly collapsed. The district head of Sleman has declared the area an emergency situation until Dec. 11.

"The Sleman office of the BPNB has established an emergency station and a makeshift kitchen in Bromonila village," said Sutopo, adding that people displaced from their houses had been evacuated to safe places. The tornado also disrupted some flights to and from the Adisucipto International Airport in Yogyakarta. A Merpati Airlines plane from Bandung was forced to reroute to Surabaya and a Garuda Indonesia flight from Jakarta was forced to turn back.

Comment: This is extreme...

New study finds mega-tsunamis pose potential threat to Hawaiian Islands
Our Amazing Planet, 7th December 2012

December 7, 2012 – HAWAII - It’s almost unimaginable: a tsunami more than 1,000 feet (300 meters) high bearing down on the island of Hawaii. But scientists have new evidence of these monster waves, called mega-tsunamis, doing just that. The findings were presented here yesterday (Dec. 5) at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Unlike tsunamis from earthquakes, the Hawaiian tsunamis strike when the island chain’s massive volcanoes collapse in humongous landslides. This happens about every 100,000 years, and is linked to climate change, said Gary McMurtry, a professor at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.

Sitting about 30 feet (10 m) away from today’s Ka Le (South Point) seashore are boulders the size of cars. Some 250,000 years ago, a tsunami tossed the enormous rocks 820 feet (250 m) up the island’s slopes, said Fernando Marques, a professor at the University of Lisbon in Portugal. (The boulders are closer to the shore now because the main island of Hawaii is one of the world’s largest volcanoes, and its massive weight sends it sinking into the Earth at a rate of about 1 millimeter a year.) McMurtry’s team found two younger and slightly smaller tsunami deposits at South Point on the main island of Hawaii, one 50,000 years old and one 13,000 years old. He suggests the tsunami source is the two Ka Le submarine landslides, from the flanks of the nearby Mauna Loa volcano.

Comment: The identification of another potential mega disaster that we are told is linked to climate change. Please note: on this blog, I prefer to point out the known science that periods of major seismic shifts are caused by cosmic factors, i.e. an influx of energy from deep space combined with a declining magnetic field... The energy to cause mega-earthquakes and tsunamis has to come from somewhere and this scenario happens repeatedly on this planet...

Japan earthquake: tsunami alert lifted
Japan has been hit by a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake, but a tsunami alert issued for the country has now been lifted.
The Telegraph, 7th December 2012

A tsunami measuring slightly over 3 feet high hit the Ayukawa district of Ishinomaki at 6.02 pm local time, although there were no immediate reports of injuries. More tsunami warnings were in force for the rest of Miyagi Prefecture, as well as Aomori, Fukushima and Iwate prefectures.

Warnings had been issued on television and radio channels immediately after the magniude 7.3 quake struck at 5.18 pm and residents of coastal regions and low-lying areas had been ordered to evacuate to higher ground.

The quake was the most severe since much of north-east Japan was devastated by the magnitude-9 earthquake on March 11, 2012, and inevitably caused concern among local residents.

Comment: The concern is that because this earthquake was so large at 7.3, it could be the pre-cursor to the big one. Basically, it is only recently that Japanese seismologists have been warning about a magnitude 10 earthquake being a possibility... As a reminder it was only about 48hrs after an earthquake at 7.2 hit on March 9, 2011 that there was the massive 9.0 Tohoko earthquake and subsequent tsunami that caused massive devastation.

Freak tornado kills 3 in Auckland, New Zealand
The News, 6th December 2012

AUCKLAND – A freak tornado hit Auckland Thursday killing three people and causing “utter devastation” as wild weather ripped apart homes and caused flash flooding in New Zealand’s largest city. [...] About 150 homes were badly damaged, many rendered uninhabitable, forcing residents into temporary accommodation at a nearby air force base. Resident Suzanne McFadden said the storm roared through in “five minutes of utter devastation.”

Texas: Mystery tremors puzzle experts
Not confirmed earthquakes
Corsicana Daily Sun, 5th December 2012

Corsicana – Reports of earthquake-like tremors starting Tuesday afternoon and continuing until early Wednesday can’t be confirmed as true earthquakes, but experts can’t say what it is, either. [...]

After the second round of reports, Meyers posted it on Facebook and suddenly there were more reports, but coming from all over, including Streetman, Purdon, Pursley and Dawson. Some of the reports came from as far away as Freestone and Limestone counties. The line runs about 50 to 60 miles long, and the tremors didn’t act like any other thing except perhaps earthquake booms, which are shallow sometimes undetectable tremors similar to what’s been happening locally.

Today’s rush to judgment by MSM on new NHC proposed hurricane categorization
WUWT, 5th December 2012

Following the criticism of the National Hurricane Center’s handling of Hurricane Sandy and the non-issuance of hurricane warnings north of North Carolina, it has been decided that the NHC will now have more flexibility in their policy regarding the issuance of advisories. Beginning in 2013, the NHC will have the flexibility to issue multiple advisories on post-tropical cyclones for landfalling systems or close bypassers.

According to the NHC, this required a revision of the Hurricane Warning definition. [...]

I think some new categorization is a good idea, because some storms are big on winds, some are big on rain, some are big on storm surge, and some are big on all three. Getting a handle on these to truly rate storm effects would be better. In this case, Sandy happened to just hit a place that isn’t used to hurricanes on a regular basis, and it wasn’t strong enough to rate hurricane strength, so hurricane warnings were not issued. The fact that it was NYC put a microscope on it. If hit Florida, it would have been just another storm.

Comment: Anthony Watts is a meteorologist by profession and even though I don't agree with everything, his synopsis here is quite good.... Simply, there are powerful and violent storms coming that cannot be called hurricanes because they are powered by energy in the atmosphere not "warm waters"... This means that authorities expect a lot of loss of life and property to come as most people are programmed to only motivate themselves when they hear about a hurricane and will pooh pooh anything they think is just a storm. The disaster in New York/Eastern seaboard was devasting in one sense because people were told 'it's just a storm'.... and hence had no idea what was coming and from video footage, I think there was more going on than what we have been told... Thus, it seems these new proposals by meteorologists at NOAA imply that some education or re-programming of the masses is now mandatory...

‘Black swan’ cyclone could hit northern Australia
Cosmos Magazine, 5th December 2012

SAN FRANCISCO: There is a small but real chance, scientists say, that super cyclones with freak 10-metre storm surges could hit cities such as Darwin, Australia, Tampa, Florida and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Such a storm is an example of what Ning Lin, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Princeton University in New Jersey, USA, calls a "black swan" cyclone. Something similar, she says, could hit the Persian Gulf, inundating unprepared cities like Dubai – which has never seen a cyclone – with similarly enormous storm surges.

"A black swan is a surprise with huge impact," she said yesterday at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California. "For this study, we defined [it] as an event which cannot reasonably be anticipated based on historical records alone." [...] "When we talk about black swans, we're talking about the extremes of the extreme," she said. "So even though the total number might decrease, the extremes might increase."

Comment: We are certainly now getting lots of reality checks coming from atmospheric scientists as the earth's weather systems decend into chaos... But, it is very poor form to use the concept of a black swan for disasters we can anticipate because a black swan should should be used to describe an event that absolutely no one could anticipate.... Well, I wondered what a so-called respected metaphysical source was talking about when they talked about "the arrival of the winds" and the need to re-design houses.... Of course, as far as I know, the warnings did not stir much interest because the narcissism amongst the metaphysical community does not allow for much in the way of a decent appraisal of the facts...

How 'black swans' and 'perfect storms' become lame excuses for bad risk management
PhysOrg.com, 15th November 2012
This is just a reminder that some are already declaring that the excuse of 'black swans' is very lame... From my perspective, the build up of charge on this planet over the last two decades or so due to a dramatic escalation of space weather had inevitable consequences... So, the warnings for many people now seem to be coming out of the blue, but our space agencies and space industry have been well aware for quite some time about the changes in the near Earth cosmic environment...

Philippines: Typhoon Bopha leaves over 270 dead
The death toll from Typhoon Bopha has risen to over 270, with hundreds more reported missing as rescue teams battle blocked roads and driving rain to reach cut-off areas.
Telegraph, 5th December 2012

156 people alone have been killed in the worst-affected province of Compostela Valley, after Bopha slammed into the eastern coast of Mindanao island in the southern Philippines on Tuesday.

Bringing winds gusting up to 130mph and torrential rain, it is the most powerful storm to hit the Philippines this year. At least 66 villagers and soldiers died after flash floods overwhelmed emergency shelters and a military camp in New Bataan town. "They thought they were already secure in a safe area, but they didn't know the torrents of water would go their way," Compostela Valley provincial governor Arturo Uy told local media. [...]

Locals described winds so powerful that entire villages and towns were destroyed. "I was told the force of the wind could even lift an army truck loaded with troops from the ground," said Rommil Mitra, a police chief in Davao Oriental Province. The provincial governor of Davao Oriental said rescuers trying to reach the most isolated parts of the province were "running an obstacle course", with collapsed bridges and felled trees hindering their efforts. An unknown number of people in other coastal areas of Mindanao have also died in the storm, one of the 20-odd typhoons that hit the Philippines annually.

Comment: Hmmm... The US military are building superdomes around the Texas coastline that can sustain winds in excess of 250 mph... But of course, most refuse to engage brain and think about why they would do this...

Category 5 Super Typhoon Bopha bearing down on the Philippines
Weather Underground, 3rd December 2012
Extremely dangerous Typhoon Bopha is bearing down on the Philippine island of Mindanao as a Category 5 storm with 160 mph winds. Bopha completed an eyewall replacement cycle on Sunday and has been steadily intensifying today, and will make landfall on Mindanao in the early morning on Tuesday local time. Mindanao rarely gets hit by typhoons, since the island is too close to the Equator, and the infrastructure of Mindanao is not prepared to handle heavy typhoon rains as well as the more typhoon-prone northern islands. Bopha is potentially a catastrophic storm for Mindanao. [...]

Bopha: the 2nd most southerly typhoon on record Bopha became a tropical depression unusually close to the Equator, at 3.6°N latitude. Tropical cyclones rarely form so close to the Equator, because they cannot leverage the Earth's rotation to get themselves spinning. According to hurricane expert Dr. Paul Roundy of SUNY Albany, Bopha got its spin from a large-scale atmospheric wave called a mixed Rossby gravity wave. Because of the lack of atmospheric spin so close to the Equator, it took Bopha over four days to intensify into a typhoon, and it stayed a relatively small storm

Comment: I have been neglecting a lot of major weather events because there is simply a lot going on but now I am on the look out for storms being powered by the atmosphere and it looks like Typhoon Bopha is another example of an 'unusual' storm causing another major disaster.

Malabar beach glows blue following red algae invasion
news.com.au, 4th December 2012

AUSTRALIA – After the eastern beaches coastline resembled the Red Sea last Tuesday, the “night lantern” visited Sydney’s Malabar beach that evening. These photos have not been digitally enhanced – in fact, photographer Dr David Psaila said the water was an even more spectacular color blue than that shown in these images, the Southern Courier reports. “The organism responsible, Noctiluca Scintillans known as “night lantern” is very aptly named, as it will luminescent a bright blue when it is disturbed by waves,” he said.

The Chifley scientist said the red algae that crept along the east coast last week contained a chemical called luciferin which was a common protein found in bioluminescent animals. “It’s a chemical reaction that causes light,” he said. “It is often found in deep sea creatures and is the exact same chemical that causes fire flies to glow.”Dr Psaila said although he had seen this effect before but never to this degree. “The reason why there are probably not seeing it at other beaches is that those beaches would have a lot more lights around so it’s really hard to see whereas at Malabar – you see the waves rolling in and they are all blue,” he said.

Comment: Don't you find it strange that the chemical in the red algae is called luciferin... Yes, Lucifer in! Please, I don't want any emails from paranoid and ignorant Christians either... At the moment, I am thinking the red/blue is a signature of a magnetic polarity switch but I don't know what is causing the switching process... Well, on this blog, I have highlighted the fact that biologists don't fully understand bioluminscence but the fact that red tide/blue bioluminescent rivers and seas are becoming more prevalent indicates that somehow, marine organisms are registering magnetic changes... At the moment, I still need to look out for an explanation for how the world's largest rivers can also turn blood red overnight...

Himalayas and Pacific Northwest could experience major earthquakes, geophysicists say
Phys.Org News, 4th December 2012

(Phys.org)–Research by Stanford scientists focuses on geologic features and activity in the Himalayas and Pacific Northwest that could mean those areas are primed for major earthquakes.

Stanford geophysicists are well represented at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union this week in San Francisco. Included among the many presentations will be several studies that relate to predicting – and preparing for – major earthquakes in the Himalaya Mountains and the Pacific Northwest. [...]

Although Caldwell emphasized that his research focuses on imaging the fault, not on predicting earthquakes, he noted that the MHT has historically been responsible for a magnitude 8 to 9 earthquake every several hundred years.

Comment: This is yet another report of seismologists identifying the regional risk of very large earthquakes.

China and U.S. military practice earthquake drill
English People Daily, 3rd December 2012

Military officers of China and the United States have held a joint indoor war game to practice humanitarian rescue and disaster relief in case of an earthquake and consequent nuclear leaks. The two-day exercise, which ended on Friday, was staged in Chengdu, capital city of southwest China’s Sichuan Province.

A total of 32 people from the two countries attended the drills on humanitarian rescue, based on the scenario of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in an unspecific Southeast Asian country, causing huge damages, injuries and leaks of chemical and radioactive materials, according to a statement by the Chinese delegation.

The participants included officials from the China Earthquake Administration and the U.S. government as well as members for functions of intelligence, combat, communication, engineering, anti-chemical and anti-radiation, logistics, medical treatment, journalism, research and rescue as well as legal affairs. The delegations discussed issues of decision-making, organization, command, action and coordination in the rescue mission.

Comment: Hmmm... It really is getting obvious that major world governments think that the planet is going to start rocking and rolling.... Well, it's interesting that some countries think the solution to major earthquakes is to practice dealing with the aftermath, but the Russians decided over 20 years ago to build massive pyramids around Moscow to mitigate the impact of the most destructive earthquakes by balancing the flow of aetheric/scalar energies... As it is now public knowledge that seismic activity is expected to dramatically increase, it will be interesting to see if the Russians start to boast about their foresight and understanding of esoteric science.

Third storm in five days wreaks havoc on U.S. West Coast
Mercury News, 3rd December 2012

CALIFORNIA - Blasting out of the Pacific, the third and most powerful “Pineapple Express” storm of the week swept over the Bay Area Sunday morning, dumping heavy rain on a region already soaked to the roots and reeling from power outages and flooding. “It’s a mess,” said CHP Officer James Evans. “We’ve got flooding everywhere.”

The triple whammy toppled trees and power lines, snarled traffic, caused accidents on slippery roadways and cut electrical power to about 297,000 customers in the region, including BART riders who were stranded on subway cars during a harrowing, one-hour outage early Sunday morning. Measured by rainfall and wind, this was one of the most powerful storm events since October 2009, said Jan Null, a meteorologist with the Golden Gate Weather Services.

Erratic swings of jet stream leaves southern U.S. baking in record December heat
Daily Texan, 3rd December 2012

TEXAS – High temperatures in the Austin area have already broken records during December, after November also brought record high temperatures and, for the first time in decades, no rain in Austin for the entire month. Austin saw no measurable rainfall in November, according to reports compiled on the Austin-Bergstrom Airport Area by the National Weather Service Southern Region Headquarters. According to the report, this is the first year Austin has had only trace amounts of rainfall in the month of November since 1970, more than four decades ago. Record highs were set on Nov. 1 at 88 degrees and Nov. 3 at 87 degrees. High temperatures reached into the 80s on 15 days in November, and lows never reached freezing.

Comment: The weather aberrations in the US continue...

Mysterious algae that turned Sydney's beaches blood red glows BLUE at night
Daily Mail, 30th November 2012
* Rare algae bloom turned the sea water bright red at beaches around Sydney, Australia, this week
* Pictures reveal the spectacular night time scene created by the tiny plants, which glow fluorescent blue in the darkness

Rare algae that turned the waters at Sydney's beaches an unsettling shade of red has been found to have an altogether more picturesque effect by night - when it glows fluorescent blue.

Several popular beaches around the Australian city - including iconic surfers' mecca Bondi - were closed this week due to health fears when the enormous algae bloom left swathes of the seawater blood red.

These pictures, taken just before daybreak at Stanwell Park beach, reveal the spectacular effect created by the algae, dubbed sea sparkle, when darkness falls.

Comment: Blue bioluminescent waters always reminds me of the film Avatar and my hope that this planet will be transformed into a true paradise... I don't know how long it would take and how many humans will be around to experience the next level of human evolution... but I don't think our modern technological societies will survive in their current form whilst the planet is experiencing the chaos inherent in evolutionary change.

Megastorms Could Drown Massive Portions of California
Huge flows of vapor in the atmosphere, dubbed "atmospheric rivers," have unleashed massive floods every 200 years, and climate change could bring more of them
Scientific America, 30th November 2012

Editor's note (11/30/12): The article will appear in the January 2013 issue of Scientific American. We are making it freely available now because of the flooding underway in California.

In Brief: Geologic evidence shows that truly massive floods, caused by rainfall alone, have occurred in California about every 200 years. The most recent was in 1861, and it bankrupted the state. Such floods were most likely caused by atmospheric rivers: narrow bands of water vapor about a mile above the ocean that extend for thousands of miles. Much smaller forms of these rivers regularly hit California, as well as the western coasts of other countries.

Scientists who created a simulated megastorm, called ARkStorm, that was patterned after the 1861 flood but was less severe, found that such a torrent could force more than a million people to evacuate and cause $400 billion in losses if it happened in California today.

Forecasters are getting better at predicting the arrival of atmospheric rivers, which will improve warnings about flooding from the common storms and about the potential for catastrophe from a megastorm.

Comment: Hmmm.... How very biblical.... So what force exactly is confining an average of about 95 percent of all vapor transport outside of the tropics, in just 5 - 10 narrow bands, moving massive amounts of water vapour towards the poles, when just one of these bands can carry more water than the Amazon? Well, the gap between two different weather systems is actually a cell wall, in plasma physics this is known as a "double-layer". The 'wall' maintains most of the voltage difference between the two different weather systems and so is a zone of strong electric fields and is the reason why such huge volumes of water can be sucked up... Note the article describes these types of storms as 'jets' -- zones of high winds... Surely, it is obvious that forces greater than gravity MUST be operating to be able to carry such huge amounts of water across the globe? Now, on a planet where there is interference from strong electric currents coming in from space (NASA's magnetic flux tubes in operation), these double layers will vary in their intensity and presumably, biblical references retain the memory of very large atmospheric rivers breaking and causing massive floods... Well, the more electrified the planet's atmosphere becomes, the more water will be sucked up and the stronger the floods will be if they break over land... Simply, if climate change means cosmic climate change, then in the future there are going to be more major floods, it is inevitable...

Finland snowstorm causes blackouts
Ice Age Now, 30th November 2012

“Snowstorms in Finland, massive blackouts,” says reader. “But not a word in the Dutch MSM.”

Tens of thousands of households were without electricity on Friday as a result of a storm that dumped heavy snow across southern Finland and sent winds gusting up to 27 metres per second, felling trees and downing power lines.

The affected areas are in Uusimaa, Häme, Pirkanmaa, Finland Proper, Kymenlaakso and South Savo. Fortum said that some of its customers in Porkkala, Kirkkonummi, Nummi-Pusula, Parainen and Salo were cut off, and that around 250 fitters were out working to restore supplies.

Comment: Finland struggles with too much snow? Ice Age Now has lots of snow related stories...

Massive solar flare could have caused eighth century radiation burst
Nature Blogs, 28th November 2012

A mysterious spike in atmospheric carbon-14 levels 12 centuries ago might be a sign the Sun is capable of producing solar storms dozens of times worse than anything we’ve ever seen, a team of physicists calculates in a paper published this week in Nature.

Carbon-14 (14C) is created when high-energy radiation strikes the Earth’s upper atmosphere, converting nitrogen-14 into 14C, which eventually makes its way into plants via photosynthesis.

Earlier this year, a team of Japanese physicists discovered a spike in 14C in tree rings of Japanese cedars dating from the 774 –75 growing season. But they were unable to explain where that 14C might have come from because all possible explanations appeared unlikely.

But Adrian Melott, a physicist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, who is the lead author of the new study, says that the Japanese team made a miscalculation in ruling out one of these possibilities – a giant solar storm. [...]

If the 774 –75 event was indeed a flare, it’s a disturbing find. Such a flare would be about 60 times more powerful than the 1989 solar storm that knocked out power to much of Quebec for nine hours on a cold winter night. Multiply that by 60 and add two decades of increased technological vulnerability, and the effects might be disastrous. “A lot of people could die,” Melott says. “You could have power out for months or longer – no refrigerated food, no food being transported to all the people who live in big cities.”

Comment: Hmmm.... More evidence that something major happened around that time that caused major disruption for life on Earth, it might explain the problem with the calendars too...

River of storms headed for Northern California
The Sacremento Bee, 28th November 2012

It's shaping up as California's equivalent of a hurricane: A series of warm, wet storms arriving today that will be unlike anything the state has seen in years.

By Sunday, weather experts say Sacramento could see 4 to 8 inches of rain, and the mountains of the Northern Sierra Nevada and Shasta regions could be deluged with 12 to 18 inches of rainfall.

If this comes to pass, Sacramento could receive more rain in a few days than it gets in an average January, typically the wettest month of the year.

The culprit is a weather phenomenon called an "atmospheric river," which channels tropical moisture all the way across the Pacific Ocean like a fire hose. Sometimes called a "pineapple express," these storms are viewed by weather experts as California's equivalent of a hurricane. [...]

Atmospheric rivers form very differently from hurricanes, but the rainfall intensity can cause damage on the same scale.

"There is potential for one of the longer-lived atmospheric river events that we've seen in the last 10 years or so," said Marty Ralph, an expert on the phenomenon at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo.

"These are the types of events that are responsible for the biggest flood damages on the West Coast," he said. "To me, that's the analogue to the hurricane problem."

Comment: More at Weather.com California Flood Threat From "Atmospheric River"

Northern California’s coming super soaker event via the ~~‘Pineapple Express’~~Atmospheric River
WUWT, 28th November 2012
There’s lots of buzz here in Northern California about a series of upcoming storms starting today and through the weekend that are expected to bring gusty winds and significant rain. So much rain in fact, that there is likely to be flooding. Some reports have my area of NorCal getting as much as 20? of rain (~75% of the normal seasonal total). I think that is over-forecasted, but it certainly is a possibility.

I remember one similar event in the El Niño years of the 1990?s, a “March Miracle” that dropped ~17? of rain in a 24 hour period in the mountains just east of me at a DWR weather station called “Four Trees” above the Feather River Canyon. It was such an anomaly that former California State Climatologist Jim Goodridge and I set out to see if maybe the rain gauge had a urinal attached or some other such issue. It turned out that the station was fine.

Comment: I changed the headline... An atmospheric river is a lot more meaningful, see more below: Anthony Watts is a meteorologist by profession.
What Is An Atmospheric River?
Gizmodo News, 29th November 2012
A gigantic storm is set to hit the US west coast later today, bringing with it over 30cm of rain. It’s what meteorologists call an Atmospheric River – but what is that, exactly?

An atmospheric river is a meteorological phenomenon…

You guessed it! It’s not a river at all. It’s a weather event, a serious one, that happens all the time over oceans – but can be catastrophic when hitting land.

…when weather fronts blow in different directions…

Weather systems don’t neatly blend into one another. You probably know that when high and low pressure weather systems meet they can combine to form a storm front – but that’s not the whole story. When two weather systems are dominated by winds that are moving away from each other, what meteorologists would call divergent surface air flow, they leave an empty space between them, which is just waiting to be filled.

…moisture can become concentrated in long, thin corridors…

When a gap between those two diverging weather fronts appears, it provides a speedy route for water to ascend into the atmosphere. Think of it as a low pressure void that can’t help but suck up whatever is beneath it – and if it happens to over the sea, it will naturally suck up huge quantities of water vapour.

…which carry unbelievable amounts of water…

And when we say huge, we mean huge. Atmospheric rivers can grow and grow and grow… until they’re hundreds of kilometres wide and thousands of kilometres long. In fact, they can often carry more water than the Amazon. Yes, the world’s biggest river. Which is why, despite the fact that you may never have heard of an atmospheric river, they actually account for 90 per cent of the world’s north-south water vapour transport.

… and can shed their payload in dramatic style.

Which means that, occasionally, they wreak havoc. Usually these things are confined to the air above oceans; there are often up to 10 floating around the planet at any given moment.

Comment: This reminds me of old atmospheric experiments done by the US military that caused rain for 40 days and nights, see HAARP: From the perspective of a true Eco Warrior.... So, we do know that electromagnetic interference can cause problems, but before anyone can suggest human interference and "weather on steroids", to explain extreme weather, we have to take into account meteorologists who have high success rates of predicting extremes (like Piers Corbyn at weatheraction.com), because they take into account solar magnetism and activity which some believe ultimately controls weather patterns on Earth...

US East Coast Faces Variety of Tsunami Threats
Our Amazing Planet, 15th November 2012

Although the risk is small, tsunamis are possible on the East Coast of the United States from a variety of sources, according to new research.

And as Hurricane Sandy showed, the region is completely unprepared for a major influx of water, said U.S. Geological Survey researcher Uri ten Brink.

The most likely source for an East Coast tsunami would be an underwater avalanche along the continental slope, according to research presented by ten Brink and others earlier this month at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Charlotte, N.C. Ten Brink also outlined several other possible sources of tsunamis, including earthquakes and even collapsing volcanoes.

Comment: I think it's part of the job description for geoscientists to warn about the possibility of geocatacyclsm on this planet... However, it is generally agreed that there is an energy imbalance on this planet and we can expect some major events caused by geophysical instability as Earth continues to charge up electrically. Hence, geoscientists who are encouraging people to be more prepared for emergencies have the right approach. See the Geocataclysm 2011 report (.pdf) Link.

Inside Britain's Armageddon houses: Meet the 'preppers' who are stockpiling food and weapons because they fear the world will end
Daily Mail, 29th November 2012

* Britons are stockpiling arms, food, and even condoms
* Some have secret hideaways away from towns and cities for when the apocalypse strikes
* They all appear in a documentary on people preparing for disaster
* Mayan calendar has predicted the apocalypse on December 21, 2012

The Mayan calendar predicts that the end of the world is less than a month away - but there are some Britons who are taking the doomsday prophecy more seriously than most.

Meet the UK's 'preppers'- people who are preparing for Armageddon behind closed doors. Between them they fear a new dark age, natural disasters, a solar flare, and a world without law and order. They spend their entire lives and thousands of pounds preparing for disaster. [...]

They all feature in PREPPERS UK:SURVIVING ARMAGEDDON which is exclusive to the National Geographic Channel on Thursday 29th November at 11pm or Friday 30th November at 8pm.

The show is part of the British version of a series about people preparing for the apocalypse. The date that some believe will bring the end of the world is fast approaching.

Comment: This is a surprisingly long article.... BUT, it is clear these people do not fear the end of the world, just the end of modern societies that are not prepared for drastic changes...

More WUWT.TV video segments – Joe D’Aleo on Hurricane Sandy and extreme weather
WUWT, 28th November 2012

I continue with uploading videos from the 24 houre WUWT.TV Gore-a-thon on November 14-15th seen live here on WUWT. This post contains two segments, one that was seen during the live session on Hurricane Sandy, and one that was a backup that never made it to air on extreme weather and climate connections. Both are from Joe D’Aleo, an AMS Certified Consulting Meteorologist, co-founder of the Weather Channel, and currently a lead forecaster for WeatherBELL. Joe offers decades of forecasting experience in these presentations.

Comment: These presentations are for those who are new to why so many climatologists, scientists and meteorologists are challenging the hype that our world is facing global warming. Here, there is also some discussion on the evolution of climate scaremongering.

WUWT-TV Joe D'Aleo on Extreme Weather
YouTube, 28th November 2012

Sea turns Red at Bondi Beach Australia
Sydney Morning Herald, 28th November 2012

Bondi Beach could be closed for up to 36 hours while tests are conducted on the algal bloom that stained the water a red colour this morning.

A spokeswoman for Sydney Water said a maintenance team, including a water quality expert, arrived at Bondi at 11am to carry out extensive tests on site, plus take samples to be tested in laboratories. ''We think it is looking very likely that it is a blue-green algal bloom,'' she said.

Comment: I changed the headline... There are more details in a subsequent report added below. Well, marine biologists state that these red tides are becoming more frequent across the globe. I believe they should be considered as a 'sign of the times' i.e. associated with ancient warnings of imminent Earth changes and should be considered as evidence of excessive electromagnetic interactions with Earth's atmosphere.... See below for an important excerpt.

Bondi clear but algal blooms linger
News.com.au, 27th November 2012
A bloom was first spotted at Bondi at 6.30am (AEDT) on Tuesday, with subsequent outbreaks popping up at Clovelly Beach and Gordons Bay later in the day. On the NSW central coast, blooms were spotted off Wamberal, Copacabana, Terrigal, Avoca and North Avoca beaches at around 9.30am but dispersed shortly after, a Gosford City Council spokesperson said.

No beaches were closed on the central coast. While Gordons Bay and Clovelly, which resembled tomato juice on Tuesday afternoon, remain closed, Bondi Beach has reopened.
RED TIDE & SHELLFISH POISONING
The University of the Western Cape, November 2012

WHAT TRIGGERS A RED TIDE?

Red tides usually occur along the Cape west or south coasts in late summer and autumn. The prevailing southerly winds at this time of year cause cold, nutrient-rich water to rise up from the deeper regions of the ocean to the surface, a process known as upwelling. Swept along with this upwelled water are dinoflagellate cysts, the resting stages of the organism, which lie dormant in the sediments on the sea floor. The high nutrient concentrations in the upwelled water, together with ideal conditions of temperature, salinity and light, trigger the germination of the cysts, so that the dinoflagellates begin to grow and divide. The rapid increase in dinoflagellate numbers, sometimes to millions of cells per litre of water, is what is known as a "bloom" of phytoplankton. Concentration of the bloom by wind and currents, as well as the dinoflagellates' ability to swim to the surface, together lead to the formation of a red tide.

Red tides are therefore not a result of sudden population explosions of phytoplankton attributable to increased division and growth rates, but result from confinement or concentration of phytoplankton following normal population increases to such an extent that they discolour the water.

If conditions in the surface waters become unfavourable for the dinoflagellates, for example if the nutrients are depleted or the bloom is dispersed by wind and currents, the dinoflagellates will again form dormant cysts and sink to the sea floor. [...]

RED TIDE AND THE ROLE OF THE SEA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE

In recent years there has been a growing awareness worldwide of the problems associated with red tides, largely due to the expansion of the shellfish industry and the increased risk to human health. In addition, scientists have concluded that red tides are occurring with increasing intensity and frequency over a wider global distribution, and that this may be a result of human activities. Nutrient enrichment through various forms of pollution, and subtle changes ascribed to the greenhouse effect, are thought to have influenced the intensity and frequency of red tides. Also, the transport of dormant cycts in the ballast tanks of ships is thought to have contributed to the spreading distribution of red tide outbreaks. It has therefore been recommended that an international research effort be undertaken to evaluate the global expansion of algal blooms and man's involvement in it.

Comment: Please note the photo of a small patch of red tide surrounded by normal sea water and we are told that some force is sucking up "cold, nutrient-rich water to rise up from the deeper regions of the ocean to the surface"... I can't see how "prevailing southerly winds" can produce such localised upwellings but it is a fact that electromagnetic vortexes can exist in air and water (tornadoes, fire tornadoes, ice tornadoes, dust devils, water spouts etc...) and sometimes they are so strong they can create huge amounts of sea foam... see archives... I think this is yet another electromagnetic phenomenon that is on the increase due to strong interactions between the atmosphere and the oceans and rivers, see previous reports in the last few months. Update: There are also the beams of "killer electrons", maser beams and beams of light from space and the radiation belts that are sometimes only visible to digital cameras, that I have been documenting over the last four years or so...

What's Causing Salem's Mystery 'Explosions'?
We've been flooded with emails ever since we published a police log post about several recent reports of unexplained 'explosion noises' in Salem.
Salem, 26th November 2012

Ever since we published a police log post entitled "Explosions Heard on Bridge Street" last week, we've received more than a dozen emails from Salem residents who are interested in finding out what's causing the unusual late-night noises.

At 12:22 a.m., on Monday, Nov. 19, local police officers responded to multiple reports of loud explosions in the area of Bridge Street. A search of the area, however, didn't reveal the source of the alleged sounds, according to the following morning's police log.

Some local residents even emailed in other information, including other dates when they swear they heard similar unexplained booming sounds echoing across the city. One even suggested that there could be some correlation between that earthquake in Maine in October and the booming noises heard just beforehand in Salem. (A minor 2.1 earthquake was recorded in Belfast, Maine, on Friday night.)

Comment: There are many reports of loud noises and booms over the United States and the increasing reports are signs of severe atmospheric/geophysical instability is probably the reason why NASA decided to warn its employees in June 2011 to be prepared for disasters...

Asahi: Expert says Japan should be prepared for possibility of M10 quake – “Days of tsunamis” – Only 1 magnitude below asteroid strike (VIDEO)
Energy News, 23rd November 2012

(Subscription Only) Title: Researcher: Japan should prepare for worst-case magnitude-10 earthquake
Source: Asahi
Author: SHIGEKO SEGAWA
Date: November 23, 2012

Japan should be prepared for the possibility of a magnitude-10 earthquake, although the chances of a temblor that size are slim, a seismologist said.
[...]
If a temblor of such a scale should strike, the underground rupture would continue for 20 minutes to an hour, meaning tsunami could hit coasts before the shaking subsides.
If a 3,000-kilometer stretch from the Japan Trench to the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench along the Pacific Ring of Fire has a slip of 60 meters, that would constitute a magnitude-10 earthquake, [professor Toru Matsuzawa of Tohoku University] said.

The energy of a magnitude-11 quake, 30 times more powerful than a magnitude-10 temblor, would be equivalent to that of the asteroid impact that is believed to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 65.5 million years ago. Such a quake would cause a shift extending more than 20,000 kilometers. Matsuzawa concluded that consideration would not be needed for such an earthquake.

Title: Expert says maximum M10 earthquake possible
Source: NHK WORLD English
Date: Nov. 22, 2012

A magnitude-10 quake would be 32 times more powerful than the 9.0 earthquake that hit northeastern Japan in March last year. [...]
A magnitude-10 quake would occur, for example, if an 8,800-kilometer fault along a northern Pacific Rim trench shifts 20 meters.
Matsuzawa says such an earthquake would result in tremors lasting 20 minutes to one hour, and trigger days of tsunamis.
Matsuzawa stresses he’s not saying a magnitude-10 quake would definitely occur. But he notes that Japan was hit by a magnitude-9 earthquake when it had been expecting a maximum magnitude-8, so people should be aware of what could happen.

Comment: I had to think about this for a few days because of the seriousness of a geoscientist even daring to make this kind of claim.... Yes, there was the powerful Tohoku earthquake in March 2011 that generated the 9.0 major earthquake and tsunami, but a geoscientist is suggesting the possibility of something 32 times stronger... Well, this is amongst a background of geoscientists across the world warning people to prepare for disasters... NASA has been warning its own employees to prepare for disasters (June 2011, see archives) and physicist Michio Kaku has had the priviledge of warning via the mass media that we are facing "a new kind of future" echoing geoscientists who believe that recent natural disasters were not an aberration, but "the beginnings of a new kind of future in which mega-disasters are going to be more frequent." World experts know that things have become very serious on this planet, the energy has been building up for the last two decades or so due to massive deliveries of charged magnetic energy by space weather, the warnings now were inevitable...

Huge explosion hits Massachusetts club – “Building just vanished” – BREAKING: ‘Higher than normal’ gas levels still under streets in area; More leaks a concern (BLAST VIDEO)
Energy News, 24th November 2012

Title: 18 injured after gas explosion tears through Massachusetts strip club
Source: CNN
Date: Nov 23, 2012
h/t Anonymous tip

Eighteen people were injured early Friday evening when a gas-fueled explosion ripped through a strip club in the western Massachusetts city of Springfield, the city’s mayor said.
Those in the club and nearby buildings had evacuated by the time the blast occurred at 5:25 p.m., Mayor Dominic Sarno said.
Nine of those injured were Springfield firefighters, four were gas company employees, two were police officers, two were civilians, and one was a municipal water and sewer department employee, the mayor said. [...]

Comment: Energy News have put together a few reports but the information in the comments about methane is excellent...

Anticlockwise rotation of sea-surface height near Norway’s west coast
The Watchers, 21st November 2012

An unusual anticlockwise rotation of sea-surface height patterns has been observed near Norway’s west coast. A topographic depression about 3500 m deep in the Norwegian Sea, the Lofoten Basin is a region of high mesoscale activity and plays an important role in sustaining global ocean circulation. The Lofoten Basin is known to be the major heat reservoir for the Nordic Seas (Greenland, Norwegian and Iceland Seas), where large interactions between the ocean and atmosphere occur. It is the area where salty and warm Atlantic Water transit on its way to the Arctic Ocean and loses its heat to the atmosphere. Mixing with surrounding water it becomes dense and sink, forming ‘deep water’ in adjacent regions.

Comment: This is based on a press release from the European Space Agency (ESA). I will look out for more commentary from an expert...

Moe ranked as one of Australia's earthquake danger zones
Herald Sun, 20th November 2012

MOE has been ranked as one of Australia's earthquake danger zones, according to a new national hazard map, released yesterday. [...]

Seismologists from Geoscience Australia developed the Earth Hazard Map of Australia by analysing the location of past earthquakes. [...]

Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson explained the map estimated the likelihood of a particular area experiencing strong ground-shaking from earthquakes. He said it was this, rather than the magnitude of an earthquake, that endangered people, buildings and infrastructure.

The new risk map could be used by emergency services and influence Australian building standards to bolster earthquake-prone areas against damage. "Although these maps do not enable us to predict earthquakes, they will allow engineers and planners to design and locate buildings and infrastructure so as to better protect our communities," Mr Ferguson said.

Comment: Since there are other similar reports, maybe geoscientists around the wold have been recently asked to assess the risk of earthquakes and other associated geophysical hazards to produce "national hazard maps". This would make sense as the number of earthquakes of magnitude 6.0 and upwards seem to have gone up dramatically... Quite frankly, I am puzzled by claims that seismologists cannot predict earthquakes when I have found claims from the mid 1970s from respected scientists who stated that they had found a methodology that gave them a good chance of predicting when an earthquake was on the way, even though it is not precise, I think earthquake alerts should be made standard so that people can at least know they should be prepared. It seems a similar method was used to predict the highly destructive earthquake in Haiti two years in advance but authorities still did nothing to warn.... Maybe the Italians have a point in locking up seismologists so they get the idea that earthquakes endangering humans needs to be taken a bit more seriously...

Haiti Earthquake Disaster Little Surprise to Some Seismologists
Scientific American, 13th January 2010
"Yeats was not the only one to raise concern about a large earthquake in Haiti. Geologic groups have been monitoring the area for decades, and a University of Texas team has been keeping a close eye on the Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden Fault. Two years ago at the 2008 Caribbean Geological Conference, the Austin-based group asserted that there was enough stress built up to cause a magnitude 7.2 earthquake, Nature News reported (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group)."
Haiti Could Be in New Earthquake Cycle, Scientists Say
Our Amazing Planet, 26th January 2012
"People shouldn't be surprised if, in the decades to come, there are more very damaging earthquakes in the region," Bakun told OurAmazingPlanet, "and they should plan and build accordingly."
I have copied a Geocataclysm 2011 graph for monthly numbers of M>6.5 earthquakes between 1976 and 2010 forecasted until 2015 by highlighting sinusoidal trend (by E.N.Khalilov, 2010, according to USGS data) here
Geocataclysm 2011 (pdf) with more graphics.

Keep driving! Jeep speeds past seafront as huge waterspout heads inland
Daily Mail, 18th November 2012

It may have looked like something out of a disaster movie - but the Jeep driver passing through was probably under no illusions to the very real threat posed by this gigantic waterspout. The amazing natural phenomenon, which is created when tornadoes form above the sea, was spotted earlier today along the shoreline near Batemans Bay, which is 140 miles (225km) south of Sydney.

Comment: It's interesting how often the media are comparing real events on this planet to those portrayed in disaster movies... That's because disaster movies depict extremes but on a daily basis, we are seeing examples of atmospheric/geophysical extremes on this planet... Not surprisingly, world authorities are encouraging/warning people to be prepared for disasters.

Tornado causes pandemonium in Algarve city, Portugal
The Portugal News, 16th November 2012
Unprecedented chaos tore through the Lagoa Sol urbanization (Lagoa, Algarve) on Friday, 16 November, when a massive tornado literally ripped up the neighbourhood at around 1.30pm. [...] Residents in Silves told The Portugal News "it looks like a bomb has hit it."

Comment: Yes, the geomagnetic conditions on this planet are now very unstable due to changes in the cosmic environment and space weather and the result is a very disturbed atmosphere that is generating more and more extreme forms to try and maintain equilibrium. Thus tornadoes in places that have never seen them before are becoming more common.

Superstorm hits Australia's east coast with 4000 lightning strikes in one hour in Brisbane
News.com.au, 18th November 2012

A DAMAGING storm has turned "day into night" in Brisbane, as lightning and winds brought down powerlines and left more than 6000 homes and businesses without electricity.

Meanwhile, another severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for other parts of the state. The Queensland State Emergency Service was busy cleaning up the Brisbane CBD this afternoon after wild weather ripped through the city around 11am today. [...]

A weather alert was posted by the Bureau of Meteorology just minutes before rain smacked the east coast, leaving thousands of people without power. Weatherzone reported more than 4000 lightning strikes within 80km of Brisbane in the space of one hour.

Comment: What is interesting is that this was called a superstorm but so was Sandy.... Clearly meteorologists need to develop some new terminology as we are running out of superlatives.... I think this should only be classified as an extreme thunderstorm... The lightning in the photo used for an image icon is quite bizarre... almost like an thundercloud that normally exists higher up in the atmosphere that has appeared quite low and was busy discharging its contents...

How 'black swans' and 'perfect storms' become lame excuses for bad risk management
PhysOrg.com, 15th November 2012

The terms "black swan" and "perfect storm" have become part of public vocabulary for describing disasters ranging from the 2008 meltdown in the financial sector to the terrorist attacks of September 11. But according to Elisabeth Paté-Cornell, a Stanford professor of management science and engineering, people in government and industry are using these terms too liberally in the aftermath of a disaster as an excuse for poor planning.

Her research, published in the November issue of the journal Risk Analysis, suggests that other fields could borrow risk analysis strategies from engineering to make better management decisions, even in the case of once-in-a-blue-moon events where statistics are scant, unreliable or non-existent.

Paté-Cornell argues that a true "black swan" – an event that is impossible to imagine because we've known nothing like it in the past – is extremely rare. The AIDS virus is one of very few examples. But usually, there are important clues and warning signs of emerging hazards (e.g., a new flu virus) that can be monitored to guide quick risk management responses.

Similarly, she argues that the risk of a "perfect storm," in which multiple forces join to create a disaster greater than the sum of its parts, can be assessed in a systematic way before the event because even though their conjunctions are rare, the events that compose them – and all their dependences – have been observed in the past.

Comment: It seems that some are starting to worry about relying on sections of society that are still sound asleep... So, I think the professor is politely stating that society has to face up to some reality about the changes taking place on this planet... What is really interesting is that at the same time, representatives from the World Bank are also starting to bleat about disaster preparedness... So, even the ardent materialists are waking up to the harsh realities of living on a high energy planet.... they are obviously worried about the rug being pulled from under their feet too...

Why Aren't We Ready for Natural Disasters?
Huffington Post, 31st August 2010

Asia's mega-cities more vulnerable to disasters
Space Daily, 15th November 2012

Asia's cities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters as they struggle with poor planning, population explosions and climate change, the Asian Development Bank warned on Tuesday.

Floods, earthquakes and other disasters claim tens of thousands of lives a year and cost billions of dollars in the region's cities and urban areas, but not nearly enough is being done to improve their defences, the bank said.

"The region has borne the brunt of the physical and economic damage of the sharp rise in natural disasters (globally) since the 1980s," the ADB said in a statement accompanying the release of a new study.

"Its people are four times more likely to be affected by natural disasters than in Africa, and 25 times more likely than in Europe or North America," it added. It found that the impact of storms on cities and urban areas has worsened due to chaotic urban planning and environmental degradation, as well as poorly-managed urbanisation and deforestation. [...] "However, there is growing international recognition that the incidence and impact of natural disasters are increasing for a variety of reasons: persistent poverty, population growth, and climate change. "Policymakers need to recognise that investments in disaster risk management are an essential means to sustain growth."

Comment: Vinod Thomas is Senior vice-president, Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank, see the link below. It seems that authorities are now waking up to the fallacy of moving so many jobs to Asian factories where pollution levels are at catastrophic levels (National Darwin Award contenders) and where poor planning and none existent operations for disaster management, have made mega-disasters inevitable on a high energy planet. However, I will say that besides new warnings relating to space weather and geocataclysm, there was an awakening after the Fukushima earthquake/tsunami disaster when spare parts for Japanese cars/products became hard to obtain and then further nasty surprises when goods eventually arrived that were radioactive.... Well, it seems that some are now seriously waking up to some harsh realities of massive evolutionary change. There is a good reminder on this same web page of the costs of mega-disasters, see New York governor seeks $30 bn in aid after Sandy.

Why Aren't We Ready for Natural Disasters?
Huffington Post, 31st August 2010

Dangerous Changes On Earth - New Huge Land Cracks This Time In Spain
Message To Eagle, 15th November 2012

MessageToEagle.com - New dangerous cracks in ground appeared on our planet.

This time, they have been reported in Spain.

The Department of Emergency situations urgently requested the Geological Survey of Murcia to assess the cause of the "huge cracks in ground", which appeared after the recent heavy rains in the industrial park area "El Saladar", Totana, situated in the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula.

Forensic Experts Examine Explosion Site
WBIW News, 15th November 2012

(INDIANAPOLIS) - Citizens Energy Group said its workers have finished testing the gas meter for the home that exploded on Indianapolis’ south side Saturday. Ebone Monet, of RTV6 reports, the utility turned over those findings to the Indianapolis Fire Department, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police and Indianapolis Homeland Security.

Dr. John Goodpaster investigates explosions for a living, as the director of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Forensic and Investigative Sciences Program. At the request of RTV6, he reviewed the aftermath of the deadly south side explosion that engulfed homes in flames late Saturday night, killing two people and creating a ripple of destruction.

"When you look at this damage, it literally does look like a bomb went off. It's catastrophic," said Goodpaster. "In terms of making a parallel, it's equivalent to literally having a bomb dropped on you, so like a military ammunition dropped from an airplane would cause similar damage to this." With workers not finding problems with underground gas pipes, the National Transportation Safety Board has pulled out of the investigation.

Citizen Energy leaders say their workers haven't found the cause either, with no evidence of a leak in the gas lines running to the homes. Still, Indianapolis Homeland Security is convinced natural gas is behind the blast, and investigators are focusing on home appliances.

"It's my opinion it looks like methane gas was the explosive and in that case you actually can't identify that after the fact," Goodpaster said. "You just have look at the scene itself, the type of damage that was caused." Goodpaster said it would take an appliance leaking gas for several days to create enough buildup to cause an explosion of this magnitude, but once it did, even something as simple as static could set it off.

Comment: Hmmm.... I presume 'static' refers to a spark or a flow of charge and that can be generated by a rapid geomagnetic fluctuation with charge flowing through the air and ground... In the current chaotic geomagnetic environment, a build up of methane (primary constituent of natural gas) in an empty house is an explosive combination.... Well, I have been ignoring the escape of methane gas into the atmosphere even though methane is 20 times more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide (CO2) over a 100-year period and increasing amounts of methane in the atmosphere is probable more of an issue but as I keep mentioning the reasons for removing CO2 is purely esoteric.... Anyway, a methane explosion explains why the DHS were telling people to say nothing... there might also be an issue related to local fracking...

Noon earthquake rattles Madison County residents
Epicenter of 4.3 quake reported near Whitesburg
Richmond Register, 10th November 2012
RICHMOND – Residents in Madison County and throughout eastern and central Kentucky got a lunchtime scare when an earthquake rattled through the area. [...] The 4.3-magnitude earthquake happened at 12:08 p.m. Saturday, according to the U.S. Geological Service. The epicenter was about 8 miles west of Whitesburg. “I not only felt the whole house shake but also heard a ‘roar’ of some sort ... my dishes were rattling, light fixtures were shaking, and floors and walls were vibrating,” reported Dawn Agee Truett, of Berea, on the Register’s Facebook page shortly after the quake. “... Definitely a very strange feeling!”

Explosion affects 80 homes, damages estimated at $3.6M
Fox59 News, 11th November 2012

Emergency officials announced Sunday that an explosion on the city's southeast side affected 80 homes, causing an estimated $3.6 million in damage.[...] Of the 80 homes affected, 31 suffered major damage. Five of those homes will require demolition and 26 have been temporarily deemed uninhabitable.

Officials have sorted homes into three categories: 1) homes that folks can occupy, 2) homes that are structurally questionable and 3) homes unsafe for anyone to enter. Engineers have inspected all 126 homes in the affected neighborhood. Firefighters have escorted some homeowners to get items out of some homes.

"There have been explosions here in Indianapolis that were similar. I can say from my personal experience that this is probably the biggest I have ever seen," said Kenneth Bacon, Deputy Chief of Operations for the Indianapolis Fire Department. It's still not clear what led to the blast.

Comment: Well, there you have it..... Homeland Security want people to believe it was a gas leak but nobody else in an official capacity is prepared to say anything without a proper investigation and it maybe that a gas explosion was triggered by something else... See also Deadly Indiana blast puzzles officials and residents. BUT the damage shows two houses were incinerated... not even household appliances were left charred.... the emergency radio indicated people needed help as they could not breath and fireman had to wear gas masks so something was taking oxygen out of the air.... From what I have read, there is a lof of discussion concerning methane but no conclusions... The metallic debris is thought to have been house insulation, but if everything elsewas incinerated, why was the house insulation not? I think there are a lot of people looking for answers on this one....

'We are living like animals': Sandy victims hit out after being forced to spend 12 days without power
Daily Mail, 10th November 2012

* An estimated 300 residents in Hicksville, Long Island, took to the street on Saturday, protesting the Long Island Power Authority for ongoing power outages
* There are still over a quarter million New York customers without power
* Early on Saturday more than 500 people lined up in Far Rockaway with empty fuel cans
* President Barack Obama is set to visit hard-hit areas of New York City on Thursday

The trail of devastation left by Hurricane Sandy has been long and trying for those still overcoming setbacks.

An estimated 300 residents in Hicksville, Long Island, took to the street on Saturday protesting the Long Island Power Authority at its headquarters for ongoing power outages 12 days after the storm hit the area -- the second protest against the energy provider this weekend.

There are still over a quarter million New York customers without power. As of Friday more than 170,000 of those customers were on Long Island, many of them staying in temporary shelters.

Comment: Well, Superstorm Sandy has brought home the message being given by those of us who understood the repercussions of widescale blackouts due to a major natural event... Instead of hundreds of transformers being destroyed by a massive category 5 geomagnetic storm (due to the arrival of a big solar coronal mass ejection) affecting many millions of people, we had a "surprise" new type of superstorm driven by energy from the jet stream and two weeks later people are "living like animals"... The difference is the scale and duration as the numbers without power are currently a maximum of a million[?] people across the Eastern seaboard of the United States.

Sandy refugees say life in tent city feels like prison
Reuters News, 9th November 2012
(Reuters) - It is hard to sleep at night inside the tent city at Oceanport, New Jersey. A few hundred Superstorm Sandy refugees have been living here since Wednesday - a muddy camp that is a sprawling anomaly amidst Mercedes Benz dealerships and country clubs in this town near the state's devastated coastal region.
Horrors of FEMA disaster relief
Exclusive: Chuck Norris applauds private efforts to help Hurricane Sandy victims
World Net Weekly, 18th November 2012

Right now, homeless Americans are literally freezing, wrapped in blankets and trash bags as they struggle to survive in FEMA tent cities such as New Jersey’s “Camp Freedom,” which reportedly “resembles a prison camp.”

“Sitting there last night you could see your breath,” displaced resident Brian Sotelo told the Asbury Park Press. “At (Pine Belt) the Red Cross made an announcement that they were sending us to permanent structures up here that had just been redone, that had washing machines and hot showers and steady electric, and they sent us to tent city. We got (expletived).”

2 dead after explosion levels 2 homes, damages 18 others on Indianapolis' Southside
Indystar News, 11th November 2012

3:30 a.m. update: IFD confirms a second person has died

IFD is reporting a second fatality in the explosion on Fieldfare Way. And 18 homes are confirmed damaged around where the explosion occurred shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday. It forced the evacuation of an area of several blocks, and families won't be allowed back in because the cause remains unknown pending further investigation.

"Every investigator in town is here sorting through the rubble tonight," Indianapolis Fire Department spokeswoman Bonnie Hensley. "We don't know if there are more victims." Some witnesses have said they thought it was a plane crash. Others have said fireworks, or a gas explosion is possible.

Gas has been cut off to the area. Nearby businesses have donated food and water to the evacuation shelter at Mary Bryan Elementary School where at least 200 people had been to in the hours after the incident. The American Red Cross is caring for people as well.

Comment: Another mysterious sonic boom/explosion causing a massive blast... The media and blogosphere chatter suggest a gas explosion/meteor/plane crash. Yet the facts do not add up as usual... It was reported that the blast was felt at least 15-16 miles away, houses were shaking before the explosion, one woman saw metal debris falling from the sky, houses levelled, people dead, "mass casualty incident", too dangerous for the coroner to examine bodies in situ, unconscious people, police initially tell locals that a plane had crashed but this is later denied, the Department of Homeland Security quickly got involved, newscasters stated how tornado-like the destruction looks, people who are being evacuated to the elementary school are not allowed to be interviewed by the news by some higher authority..... And why not? Quite frankly, this incident follows the same pattern of other anomalous reports over the last three years or so... In summary, if this was just a normal gas explosion, then why were the Department of Homeland Security quickly called in? It could have been a meteor/dead satellite falling from the skies or even a clump of plasma coming in from space. If this was another large meteor exploding low down in the atmosphere then the blast might have ignited a small gas line and explains the damage but we still need some independent weather radar or meteorite observational data... Regardless, this is very similar event to the San Bruno CA disaster, see archives.

Massive Explosion, Fire In Indianapolis
Firefighters battle flames at several homes on Indy's southside. One fatality has been reported.
Buzz Feed, 11th November 2012
Authorities told Indianapolis' RTV6 that a natural gas explosion may have caused a fire that broke out just after 11 p.m. local time. WISH-TV reporters on the scene said dozens of homes were damaged and at least two completely destroyed in Indianapolis' Richmond Hill neighborhood.

An Indianapolis Fire Department spokeswoman told BuzzFeed multiple people were transported to area hospitals, but could not confirm the count or whether there had been any fatalities. WISH has reported one fatality. About 100 to 150 people were evacuated to the Mary Bryan Elementary School,
One killed, homes flattened in south Indianapolis explosion
MSNBC, 11th November 2012
"It was just the loudest thing I ever heard, inside my house," said Julie Hamm, who lives in the area. She said two or three minutes later, cotton-like metal debris was falling from the sky. Another homeowner told Eyewitness News his house shook and "teeter-tottered" on its foundation. The entire neighborhood has been evacuated and power has been turned off to the homes in the subdivision
Photo gallery: Big explosion on S. Side of Indianapolis (Night-time burning)
Chicago Tribune, 11th November 2012
Explosion destroys homes in Indianapolis
Homeland Security NTARC News | 11/10/2012
A thunderous, late-night explosion destroyed at least two homes in Indianapolis and set surrounding homes ablaze, causing injuries, authorities said Sunday. The cause of the explosion and fires wasn’t immediately clear, but Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard dismissed reports of a possible plane crash as he arrived at the scene. Fire officials said separately that investigators would be checking whether natural gas was possibly involved but they had no further details on what was behind the blast that sent tall flames skyward.
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House Shaking Comment
Video: Chopper 8 flies over aftermath of deadly explosion
Wish TV, 11th November 2012

Satellite radar could predict deadliest eruptions
Scientists test it to detect swelling magma near summit of vocanoes
MSNBC News, 9th November 2012

The world's deadliest and largest volcanic eruptions happen in Indonesia. Future eruptions in this jungle-filled region could be better predicted by using satellite radar to detect swelling magma near the summit of those volcanoes, a new study suggests.

To search for evidence of imminent eruptions, scientists monitored surface changes at 79 volcanoes with technology called Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR). The data were gathered between 2006 and 2009 by the Japanese Space Exploration Agency's ALOS satellite. [...]

"I'm hopeful in the future we could use InSAR are a forecast tool," Chaussard said. "With this type of survey, we are able to see the big picture. You can detect the behavior of volcanoes with time, even if you are in jungle conditions, where you don't have ground monitoring."

Comment: Hmmm.... This science links in nicely with scientists who want to stop volcanic winters with fire-resistant cap or grid held by zeppelins some hundred meters above extra active volcanoes, in order to prevent volcanic ash reaching the troposphere and thus spread all over the planet with predictable catastrophic consequences... See Rising earthquakes: precursor of volcanic winters/ice age that we may AVERT - Other necessary preparations page 86, PROCEEDINGS: Natural Cataclysms and Global Problems of the Modern Civilization, WORLD FORUM – INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS September 19-21, 2011 – Istanbul, Turkey
Source: (43.7 MB .pdf) Link. Use the radar to pinpoint volcanoes that are going to blow and then quickly cap them... Sounds like some practical solutions to preventing worldwide famine and hunger to me... Humanity is not completely helpless, we just have to set new priorities to ensure our survival on this planet...

Officials Want Military to Take Over Power Restoration on Long Island
NBC New York News, 9th November 2012

Some officials are calling for the U.S. military to take over the managerial structure of the Long Island Power Authority until power is restored on Long Island, where more than a quarter million homes and businesses are still in the dark after Sandy and a snowstorm.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and U.S. Rep. Peter King will ask the federal government for help, a spokesman for King tells NBC 4 New York. [...]

A week and a half after Sandy slammed the coast and inflicted tens of billions of dollars in damage, hundreds of thousands of customers in New York and New Jersey are still waiting for the electricity to come back on, and lots of cold and tired people are losing patience.

Comment: Wow.... Well, if this is what people want... see the other options currently being discussed...

Hurricane Sandy update: Local residents banned from barrier island up to 8 months
New Jersey News, 2nd November 2012
TOMS RIVER – Residents are being forcibly evacuated tonight from seven Ocean County communities because of extensive repairs needed after the devastation Hurricane Sandy left behind, Seaside Height Police Chief Thomas Boyd said. Authorities told residents they may not be able to return home for months. "It's looking bad. It's a catastrophe," Boyd said.

The towns affected are Seaside Heights, Seaside Park, island sections of Berkeley Township, South Seaside Park, Lavallette, Ortley Beach and Mantoloking. The decision followed an afternoon meeting among the chiefs of police in the affected communities and other county authorities. [...]

Busloads of people were being escorted out, with several residents interviewed saying police and fire officials knocked on their doors, telling them they had five minutes to pack a bag before they had to leave.

Comment: I have been shocked to discover that people trying to survive in what remainded of their homes and neighbourhoods were told to leave and only given 5 minutes to collect stuff in plastic bags.... this evokes some alarming comparisons....
Virus Breaks Out at NYC School Being Used as Storm Shelter
NBC NY News, 6th November 2012
A Brooklyn high school being used as a shelter for Sandy victims has to be shut down and sanitized after about a dozen storm refugees came down with a stomach virus.
New York officials reportedly consider closed prison for displaced Sandy victims
My Fox DC News, 9th November 2012

Officials in New York are reportedly eyeing a recently-closed prison as temporary housing for people displaced by superstorm Sandy and this week's nor'easter. The New York Post reports that state officials are considering the Arthur Kill Correctional Facility on Staten Island to feed and house as many as 900 victims with nowhere else to turn.

Dozens Killed in Guatemala Earthquake
New York Times, 7th November 2012

MEXICO CITY – A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Guatemala on Wednesday, killing at least 48 people, injuring about 150 and leaving 23 unaccounted for, government officials said. They warned that the official toll was preliminary and could rise.

“This is the largest earthquake we have had since the one in 1976,” President Otto Pérez Molina said at a news conference, recalling the temblor that killed about 23,000 people.

The earthquake on Wednesday, centered off the Pacific Coast of Guatemala, struck at 10:35 a.m., leveling houses and damaging government buildings, schools and roads.

Comment: Well, I have been ignoring the rising number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions but there seems to be a new uptick taking place.... From my point of view, the issue is that too many geoscientists are directly linking the rising numbers of geophysical with climate change and manmade warming, very few are looking at the overall Earth system and seeing that geophysical, meterological, hydrological and climatalogical events are being driven by changes in the cosmic environment. [Geophysical events are earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions.] Thus scientists who have been monitoring all the changes taking place in the planets in our solar system combined with the dilapidated state of Earth's magnetosphere, know that electromagnetic forces must be taken into account to explain the build up of energy/charge on this planet. Despite the lack of interest in solar system changes, the impact of magnetospheric processes on Earth’s climate is considered a proven scientific fact. So, it may not be that the overall number of earthquakes has increased but the statistics show that the energy of earthquakes has significantly increased and with bigger population densities the impacts are far worse... There is a lot of geophysical reports and articles but the most popular ones want to blame climate change and global warming, but anyone who knows anything about the subject knows there has been no global warming for 16 years.... So, it is incredible thast scientists are still trying to flog this dead horse at the same time suggesting we block out the sun which is the most powerful driver of energy in our solar system whilst supporting all life on this planet... I have copied a Geocataclysm 2011 graph for monthly numbers of M> 6.5 earthquakes between 1976 and 2010 forecasted until 2015 by highlighting sinusoidal trend (by E.N.Khalilov, 2010, according to USGS data) here Original Geocataclysm 2011 pdf source: Link with more graphics. At the moment, I am presuming that the energy leap in 1998 as clearly shown in some of the Geocataclysm 2011 graphics was due to magnetar SGR 1806-20 blasting the planet in May and August 1998. That is even more of a problem for geoscientists i.e. major cosmic events also affect the energy levels on Earth (anyone who wants to argue with me needs to first search the archives or my workbooks for examples of some big cosmic blasts that dramatically changed normal weather patterns...). Anyway, re-insurers Swiss Munich Re released a short report in 2011 looking at catastrophic events around the world that clearly reveal an upward trend. Here is the graphics (pdf) for the press release link.

Climate change may trigger earthquakes and volcanoes
New Scientist, 23rd September 2009
FAR from being the benign figure of mythology, Mother Earth is short-tempered and volatile. So sensitive in fact, that even slight changes in weather and climate can rip the planet's crust apart, unleashing the furious might of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and landslides.

That's the conclusion of the researchers who got together last week in London at the conference on Climate Forcing of Geological and Geomorphological Hazards. It suggests climate change could tip the planet's delicate balance and unleash a host of geological disasters. What's more, even our attempts to stall global warming could trigger a catastrophic event (see "Bury the carbon").
Seismic activity linked to global warming
Climate Debate Daily, 1st October 2012
Finally, human civilization is starting to get global warming events that it can FEEL. Earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes. Something real, something hard, fast, and impossible to ignore. Increasing evidence and statistical analysis links increased seismic activity to global warming. This alarming notion was first discussed in 1998 and is now more widely mentioned in university studies and recent publications - from the Journal of Geodynamics to National Geographic, to blogs reporting opinions of scientists (below).
Climate change may stir geological mayhem
New Scientist, 15 February 2012 2012
In Waking the Giant: How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes, geologist Bill McGuire warns we may be waking primordial monsters IN 2006, London geologist Bill McGuire argued in New Scientist that global warming would trigger epidemics of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis. Now he's written the book. The story is even scarier writ large.

Comment: I think the science that suggests a redistribution of the Earth’s mass due to melting ice disturbing the relative equilibrium of its crust, releasing monumental forces in the form of increasing earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic activity is totally valid. BUT, in an electromagnetic universe geoscientists also know that earthquake precursors include increases in the electrical conductivity of the ground and chemical composition of ground water [as well as the traditional sesmological indicators like the velocity of local earth waves]. So, space weather causing a rapid fluctuation of geomagnetic/electromagnetic forces are a very important consideration. Changes in the cosmic environment also includes planetary conjunctions as well as the moon and various planets, comets, asteroids, meteoroids etc.... It's not just gravitational effects as many scientists over the last 60 years or so have been pointing out, see archives for more information.

2012 Hurricane Season Filled with Oddities
Weather.com, 5th November 2012

Nineteen Named Storms

With a total of 19 named storms, the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season has been very active. This is only the seventh hurricane season in the last 162 years that we've had 19 or more named storms.

In addition to being active, we've seen many oddities along the way. This includes our latest example, Hurricane Sandy. Let's step through these oddities beginning with the 2012 "preseason" storms.

Two Storms Before Season Starts It's unusual to get one named storm before the official June 1 start of the hurricane season. In 2012, we saw two storms form in May. Only two other years have seen two named storms before the "official start" of the Atlantic season (1908 and 1887).

First Hurricane in an Unusual Spot Where would you expect the season's first Atlantic hurricane? Caribbean? Gulf of Mexico? Eastern Atlantic? All good guesses...but all incorrect in 2012. Hurricane Chris became 2012's first Atlantic hurricane on June 21 in the open waters of the North Atlantic at a latitude of 41 degrees north, farther north than New York City! Only a single 1893 hurricane was farther north as a hurricane in June than Chris. Only twice before in history (1959 and 1887) has the third named storm of the season formed earlier than Chris. Not to mention the average date by which we've seen the first Atlantic hurricane is August 10.

Fourth Atlantic Storm....in June! Debby was christened as a tropical storm on June 23. Tropical storms in the Gulf of Mexico aren't unusual for June. So what's the big deal? Well...it was the record earliest date for the Atlantic season's fourth named storm, besting the previous record held by 2005's Dennis (July 5). On average, the fourth named Atlantic storm occurs by August 23, so this took place two full months ahead of that pace!

July Goes Quiet After seeing four named storms by the end of June, things went quiet in July. We did not see a single tropical depression or named storm during the entire month in the Atlantic basin. August Ties a Record Right as the calendar flipped to August, the Atlantic came back to life with the formation of Tropical Depression Five on the first day of the month. The depression became Tropical Storm Ernesto the very next day. Ernesto was the first of eight named storms in August 2012. This tied August 2004 for the most named storms to form in the month of August.

Comment: There is a lot of information here.... but we are provided with evidence that we are seeing new atmospheric conditions affecting the production, properties and location of hurricanes...

The Jet Stream Is Shifting – The Trouble with Haarpianity
The Intel Hub, 3rd November 2012

The Jet Stream is moving – and it’s NOT HAARP. No, it’s a much more powerful electrical source: The SUN

The worshipers of the “HAARP can do anything and everything anywhere and everywhere” church of magic realism don’t do much comparative research in their field. If they did, they’d find that the electrical nature of the universe, and solar system – and Sun – easily and readily (and better) explain what’s going on with the weather…

“Like most sciences, meteorology still considers the Earth to be an isolated body in space. It is not. It is a charged body moving through an active plasma environment, surrounded by a web of electric currents commonly called the magnetosphere. [...]

What controls the weather? It’s the SOLAR CYCLE? It’s the SUN. The largest SOURCE OF POWER ANYWHERE IN LIGHT YEARS. Let’s get on with gardening and living then. And please, stop the” HAARP lizard-people are destroying my salad” MYTHOS. That, (in my not so humble opinion) is a distraction from living, from focusing on what you CAN affect, what you can change…

Hey! It’s the Electric Universe! You’re soaking in it! Wake up and smell the IONS. We don’t need to invent a supercharged electric machine somewhere in Alaska to do what the SUPERCHARGED ELECTRIC MACHINE in space Already Does.

Comment: Finally, we are getting somewhere... HAARP conspiracy is for those who are scientifically illiterate, but the numbers have grown to such an extent, that it is time to deal with the mass stupidity.... This is not my job, so I am pleased to see that others have taken up the cudgel.

What is REALLY going on in New York?
Ice Age Now, 3rd November 2012
Airports running out of jet fuel…
“A lot worse than it’s being portrayed in the media” … “Finding bodies left and right”…
‘They forgot about us’…
Fights for fuel getting nasty – Drivers Waiting 6 Hours For Gasoline…
Tempers Rise in Wake of Storm…
Residents yell at Sen Chuck Schumer: ‘We’re gonna freeze! We’re Gonna Die!’ – Video
Craigslist: $15 a gallon…
Potential Nor’Easter looming for East Coast
Citizens throwing things at utility workers…
Red Cross Offering Cookies & Hot Chocolate, Not Blankets Or Clothes – Residents Furious…
Staten Islanders Plead: ‘We need food, clothing’…
‘Staten Islanders angry! You’re going to run a marathon … while we’re knee-deep in water?…
VIDEO: Stranded New Yorkers Defecating in Apartment Buildings…
In order to pump the gas, you need electricity…
NJ town enacts 70s style gas rationing…

Comment: I picked this up at the website Ice Age Now, the headlines are a useful summary... I would also like to add a reminder that back in mid June 2011, NASA specifically warned it's employees to be prepared for disasters. Here are a few headlines from websites that took this warning seriously NASA releases Emergency Preparedness Video & NASA Head Issues Agency-Wide Preparedness Alert: “I Became Aware of Some Things…”, but I think the NASA video that was put onto YouTube was removed due to copyright infringement...So, I believe that the conditions on this planet are now so volatile due to the high energy levels, that it has become extremely obvious that we can expect dramatic geophysical events. Hence, some members of the scientific community held a Geocataclysm conference in September 2011 and issued a very large report warning about the consequences of high energy levels on this planet. Quite frankly, you do not need to be a geoscientist to notice that geophysical activity in the form of rising numbers of large earthquakes and reports of volcanic rumblings and eruptions (including undersea volcanoes) are increasingly appearing in the news media. What is of interest to me is that a geophysical upheaval is the OBVIOUS consequence of space weather once we understand some basics.

Stock certificates feared damaged by Sandy
CNN Buzz Money, 2nd November 2012
The vault contains certificates registered to Cede & Co., a subsidiary of DTCC, as well as "custody certificates" in sealed envelopes that belong to clients.

The DTCC provides "custody and asset servicing" for more than 3.6 million securities worth an estimated $36.5 trillion, according to its website.

"At this point, it is premature to make an accurate assessment as to the full impact of the water damage nor would it be helpful to project on what specific actions need to be taken with respect to our vault," said DTCC Chief Executive Michael Bodson in a statement. "We are aggressively working on this situation to minimize disruption to our clients and will provide additional updates as more information becomes available."
Sandy's CT Scan, and Other Vital Images
Science Friday, 2nd November 2012
Owen Kelley, a research scientist at NASA Goddard, works with data from the TRMM satellite to image the insides of storms. TRMM looked into the eye of Sandy the day before it made landfall and saw something surprising. Satellites also took snapshots of Sandy. J. Marshall Shepherd, president-elect of the American Meteorological Society and the director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program at the University of Georgia, explains some of Sandy's unusual features.
Queens residents arm themselves in the post-storm blackout from looters
Residents feel isolated and some use guns, baseball bats, booby traps – even a bow and arrow – to defend themselves. NY Daily News, 2nd November 2012

When night falls in the Rockaways, the hoods come out. Ever since Sandy strafed the Queens peninsula and tore up the boardwalk, it’s become an often lawless place where cops are even scarcer than electrical power and food. Locals say they are arming themselves with guns, baseball bats, booby traps – even a bow and arrow – to defend against looters.

Thugs have been masquerading as Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) workers, knocking on doors in the dead of night. But locals say the real workers have been nowhere in sight, causing at least one elected official – who fears a descent into anarchy if help doesn’t arrive soon – to call for the city to investigate the utility.
Mayor Greeted By Upset Residents In Rockaway Beach [VIDEO]
NY 1 News, 3rd November 2012
The caption here is incorrect. The blogosphere are labelling this as the 'When are we going to get some f---king help' video...
Minor earthquake shakes New Jersey
A 2.0 magnitude tremor, centered in Ringwood, N.J., struck Monday morning
NY Daily News, 5th November 2012
Here's What The East Coast Blackouts Looked Like From Space
Business Insider, 5th November 2012

Jet pilots fear 'chemtrail' attacks
news.com.au, 2nd November 2012

AIRLINE pilots fear their jumbos could be shot down by conspiracy theorists who believe they are being poisoned by commercial aircraft.

The conspiracy theorists are part of a global "chemtrail" movement that claims jets are spraying toxic chemicals over heavily-populated towns and cities around the world.

"Threats to shoot down aircraft or harming pilots are becoming more prevalent, overt and alarming," says Mike Glynn, a current airline captain and former vice-president of the Australian and International Pilots Association.

Comment: I think this is the craziest story about "conspiracy theorists" that I have read for a long time.... How the hell can anyone shoot down a jumbo jet? It's not as if just anyone can go buy a big rocket launcher at the local supermarket... If this article is about scaring people who are complaining about chemtrails, then I think it has had the opposite affect as people are now just ridiculing the media/world controllers as being totally pathetic... Who exactly has "room temperature IQs"? What I want to know is when will the "conspiracy theorists" understand that all the attempts at geoengineering is because world controllers think we have a major problem with space weather....

Is "weather on steroids" the new normal?
CBS News, 2nd November 2012

(CBS News) Superstorm Sandy is restarting an old debate over climate change, and its effect on the weather. Professor Michio Kaku, of the City University of New York, is a world-renowned theoretical physicist and a climate change expert. Kaku's book "Physics of the Future" was a New York Times best-seller. [...]

The term "global warming," according to Kaku, is a misnomer. "It's not really a uniform warming of the Earth," he said. "It's global swings. In other words, the weather on steroids. So think of 100-year forest fires, 100-year droughts, 100-year floods, 100-year hurricanes. That could be a new way of life in the future because there's more energy circulating in the atmosphere."

As for Sandy in particular, Kaku said the storm was caused by the collision of large air masses that created something we haven't seen before. He said, "We had a normal hurricane that collided with the jet stream -- which normally goes maybe to Kansas -- it went all the way down to Florida. And so the irregularity of cold air from the Arctic and warm air from the Caribbean area -- hotter than normal -- the collision of those two morphed into an animal we've never seen before. This hybrid storm, which then became the hurricane from hell."

"We could be seeing a new way of life," Kaku said. [...]

Kaku said he has changed his mind in respect to climate change. He said, "I used to be a skeptic. I used to say, 'Come on. The Earth is so big. We are so small.' But then you look at the indicators. The fact that all the glaciers are receding. We have wacky weather. We have 100-year storms that are now the new-norm. We have to realize the trends are all in one direction. There's not trend in the other direction. All trends are in the direction of the heating of the Earth, the energizing of the atmosphere, which provides the energy of the hurricanes."

Comment: Oh yes...... there is more energy in the atmosphere due to space weather forcing a huge energy leap in the cosmic environment of Earth, but "hurricanes from hell" is pure poetic licence.... As I have been explaining over thousands of blog comments in the last 6 years or so, we are entering a new era and space weather will change how we do business on this planet. The scientific community have provided the hard facts but simply, the increased energy in the atmosphere means Earth has become a high energy plasma environment.

Lack of Hurricane Warnings May Help Homeowners
Climate Central, 2nd November 2012

Silver linings post Hurricane Sandy have been hard to find. But the decision by the National Weather Service not to issue hurricane warnings north of North Carolina, and to instead declare Hurricane Sandy a “post-tropical cyclone” mere hours before landfall near Atlantic City on Oct. 29, may have significant ramifications for homeowners and insurance companies. In four hard-hit states – Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York – the storm classification may save homeowners from having to pay costly hurricane insurance deductibles. [...]

With Hurricane Sandy, the Weather Service faced a rare challenge – how do you warn people in a heavily populated area of a storm that would have all the impacts of a hurricane, yet was going to lack the structure of a true hurricane when it made landfall?

The main difference between a hurricane and a “post-tropical cyclone” has to do with the energy source from which the storm is drawing. Hurricanes draw their power from warm ocean waters, whereas post-tropical cyclones are energized by sharp temperature differences between air masses.

Comment: Please note: it is official that the National Weather Service refused to call Sandy a hurricane when it hit land because the power was coming from the atmosphere and not "warm waters". What is the jet stream? This is a question intelligent people should be asking.... More evolved thinkers, realise that climate change is directly related to changes in the cosmos but climate eventally translates into weather and quite frankly, with a magnetosphere like a sieve, the solar wind breaking through will cause "weird weather". Wal Thornhill writes:

The electrical energy that courses through the solar system and powers the Sun is a subtle form of energy that all of the planets intercept to some degree. Planets orbit within this discharge and intercept some of the electrical energy. Planets are minor “electrodes” within a stellar discharge envelope. The electrical energy is delivered to stars and planets in the manner of a simple Faraday motor.

The electromotive power is deposited mostly in the upper atmosphere at mid to low latitudes and gives rise to fast upper atmosphere winds and even “super rotation.” That is, the wind races around the planet faster than the planet turns. It is a phenomenon observed on Venus and Titan and remains unexplained by atmospheric physics, which relies on solar heating. It is the cause of the extraordinary winds on the gas giant planets in the outer solar system, where solar heating is weak. It has implications for the jet streams and weather patterns on Earth as well. [...] It is apparent that electrical energy from space doesn’t merely light up auroras. It has a profound influence on upper atmosphere winds and storms.

Global Warming in a Climate of Ignorance
Holoscience, 15th February 2007

The following helps to put Sandy into some kind of perspective for those who want to think about what this superstorm means for humanity and the start of a new age.

In other words, Sandy wasn’t so tough.
WUWT, 2nd November 2012
A suggestion the Great Gale of 1821 was worse than Hurricane Sandy, and Alarmists are wrong to suggest otherwise. [...]

In other words, Sandy wasn’t so tough. In some ways, Sandy was a Wuss, and an imperfect storm, compared to 1821, which had wind gusts toppling chimneys in Philadelphia, entire houses in New York City, and flattening forests up through New England.

In conclusion, things could get a lot worse for New York City, even if storms are not a bit “unprecedented.” Things could be worse even if they are ordinary!!!!!

Comment: This is more analysis because we need to learn lessons and quickly because our world is changing. This is NOT 1821. The population of the world is much higher and cities are now highly populated. Our modern technological infrastructure is much more complicated. Think, electrical power lines and transformers, pipelines for oil, gas, water and sewage, phone lines/internet connections, mobile phone networks, rail/road transportation networks, airports, delivery services for food, water, gas/petrol, commodities etc etc. It does not matter if Sandy was not the worst storm on record, because it impacted a large area of people and caused devastation and now hardship for survivers unaccustomed to going back to basics.... A real issue is the over reliance on electrical power that is now vulnerable in an extreme geomagnetic environment....
HURRICANE SANDY 3 TREES FALL AND FIRE!!
YouTube, 29th October 2012
OMG I can't believe I was filming! D:
Filmed on Long Island NY. Yes this is the original, I filmed this.
Media Contact: johnmateer13@yahoo.com

Comment: The commentary is inane but the footage demonstrates that this was NOT a 'normal' storm. The trees are only slightly swaying and then bizzarely, the trees either snap in the middle or become uprooted... I think the give away is the start of the fire, I would suggest it was an electrical fire... Meteorologists plainly stated that people needed to ignore "official" terminology see, Extraordinary storm, extremely serious threat and I believe that the issue here was that the jet stream touched ground and brought with it a huge electrical or Birkeland current. From that footage, the 'winds' could only be called a breeze but the reaction of the trees is simply strange... The irony is the talk of 'Apocalypse' by people who have no idea what the hell they are talking about.... Now, humans are having those same highly charged 'winds' blowing through their bodies and energy fields... The deliveries of cosmic energy are now getting very personal... It looks like John Mateer, the person who took the footage, made it onto ABC's 'Katie'.

At New York Aquarium, Staff Considers Evacuating Fish
ABC News, 2nd November 2012
This is a real story, it is not a joke...

Battered by storm, Staten Islanders feel forgotten
Boston.com, 3rd November 2012

NEW YORK (AP) – Gazing at her bungalow, swept from its foundation and tossed across the street, Janice Clarkin wondered if help would ever come to this battered island off the coast of Manhattan. [...]

Staten Island was devastated beyond recognition by superstorm Sandy and suffered the highest death toll of all of New York City’s boroughs, including two young brothers who were swept from their mother’s arms by the swirling sea and drowned. Yet days after the waters receded, residents feel ignored and forgotten. [...]

Most of the deaths were clustered in beachfront neighborhoods exposed to the Atlantic Ocean along the island’s southeastern shore, an area of cinderblock bungalows and condominiums. Many of these homes were built decades ago – originally as summer cottages – and were not constructed to withstand the power of a major storm.

Comment: If these were only built as summer houses then there should have been a mandatory evacuation, it beggars belief that people would stay when meteorologists were predicting a high storm surge... Quite frankly, people need to savvy up...

Strange Domes to Line the Texas Coast in Preparation for Something to Come
FEMA Funding Impenetrable Dome Structures Around Houston
The Intel Hub, October 15, 2012
HOUSTON – Disaster-proof domes that can sustain winds in excess of 250 mph will cost taxpayers more than $50 a foot. FEMA has now offered to pick up the tab of at least $50 million dollars, to install disaster shelters in and around Houston that, according to the manufacturer, (ABC Domes based out of Sealy – Division of Golden Sands General Contracting out of Miami) are “almost impenetrable”.

The company has been building these type of shelters for decades. The government has also offered to cover 75% of the cost on structures over 20,00 square feet in size. A facility of this size would cost around $1 million.

What is interesting is how recent reports vary in nature. Some say that the domes are to protect citizens from hurricanes while others say that FEMA equipment will be held in the domes. If it is true that FEMA will store equipment in the domes, why now?

Comment: I found this report and I was angry and elated at the same time.... I was angry/elated that the military/FEMA are demonstrating pragmatism and commonsense as they realise that these dome structures are essential in a world where extreme weather is going to become the norm. Yet, I note the sheer ignorance of the author who can't engage brain and work out that the domes are being built to safeguard military/FEMA equipment. Moreover, I am more angry that generally people are oblivious to what is happening to our world and continue to build matchstick properties in areas vulnerable to tornadoes, hurricanes and floods. Not enough communities realise that it might be a good idea to provide communal super domes that can be used as emergency shelters.... For the record I will repeat the link to a website promoting dome buildings that has been on this blog since May 2007.
Monolithic Domes and Disaster Resistance
Monolithic Dome Institute, May 2007
Previous Comment: Disaster resistance homes and buildings. We are talking tornados, hurricanes, wildfire, earthquake liquefaction, lightning, even flooding if built right. We cannot fight Earth & climate changes, we just have to think differently and apply new solutions. Dome houses are cheaper to build and cheaper to maintain, I think the bigger domes can be designed to be very stylish. We have to do business differently on this planet, it's the only way we will survive.

SHOCK: 72 Hours After Grid-Down: Starvation, Supply Shortages, Food Lines, No Clean Water, No Gas, Transportation Standstill *Independent Reports, Pics and Video*
Investment Watch, 2nd November 2012

A recent study noted that the majority of people have enough food in their pantries to feed their household for about three days and that seemingly stable societies are really just nine meals from anarchy. With most of us dependent on just-in-time transportation systems to always be available, few ever consider the worst case scenario.

For tens of thousands of east coast residents that worst case scenario is now playing out in real-time. No longer are images of starving people waiting for government handouts restricted to just the third-world. In the midst of crisis, once civilized societies will very rapidly descend into chaos when essential infrastructure systems collapse.

Though the National Guard was deployed before the storm even hit, there is simply no way for the government to coordinate a response requiring millions of servings of food, water and medical supplies Many east coast residents who failed to evacuate or prepare reserve supplies ahead of the storm are being forced to fend for themselves.

Frustration and anger have taken hold, as residents have no means of acquiring food or gas and thousands of trucks across the region remain stuck in limbo. Limited electricity has made it possible for some to share their experiences: [...] A simple 72 hour survival kit and some basic hurricane preparedness would have prevented days of heartache for residents of stricken areas.

The vast majority of those waiting in mile-long long food lines, rummaging through the trash, and criticizing their government officials for a slow and insufficient response have no one to blame but themselves. This may be harsh – but it’s true.

Comment: After reading comments in the blogosphere, I am sorry to say that the pragmatists are stating the obvious and the survivalists are now laughing.... There was plenty of warning and time to prepare... Few can bleat in theUnited States about not knowing about how bad things can get after Hurricane Andrew, Ivan, Irene, Katrina etc etc. Poor people living on the breadline and the old and sick may not have had any options...

A demonstration of how modern societies can quickly unravel following a major disaster
Gasoline Runs Short, Adding Woes to Storm Recovery
New York Times, 1st November 2012
UNION, N.J. – Widespread gas shortages stirred fears among residents and disrupted some rescue and emergency services on Thursday as the New York region struggled to return to a semblance of normalcy after being ravaged by Hurricane Sandy. [...] Four days after Hurricane Sandy, the effort to secure enough gas for the region moved to the forefront of recovery work. The problems affected even New York City, where the Taxi Commission warned that the suddenly indispensable fleet of yellow cabs would thin significantly Friday because of the fuel shortage. [...]

Though Thursday marked a return to routine for many who ride the subway to work or celebrated the resumption of power, the scenes of long lines, fistfights at gas stations and siphoning at parking lots highlighted the difficult, uneven slog to recovery.

I changed the headline inspired by the one at Extinction Protocol. Well, the New York Times is also reporting fights breaking out over gasoline.... This is going to get very ugly soon in parts, as people become overwhelmed by a complex modern infrastructure supported by modern technology that has broken down and cannot be completely fixed quickly.... Furthermore, read the reports, there must be many people trapped in skyscrappers with no food and water.... When the hospital generators failed, critically sick people were moved down 17 flights of stairs supported by medical students with flashlights and people coming off the streets to help (see photos)... Basically, unless people help each other then many more people are going to die... Please note: Planetary upheaval has been expected by indigenous groups who have retained the memories of previous "End Times" i.e. end of an age or end/start of a long astronomical cycle. Specifically, Native Americans have been warning for a long time and bluntly telling people to get out of the cities, it was obvious to them that cities are not the best place when a disaster strikes.
Running on empty: Fury as storm-hit gas stations are forced to CLOSE - while others charge desperate drivers SIX dollars a gallon [PHOTOS]
Daily Mail, 1st November 2012
FIFTY DEAD...and it's NOT over: Obama's grim warning as he prepares to visit scenes of hurricane 'major disaster' tomorrow
Daily Mail, 31st October 2012
These pictures are very grim...
Hurricane Sandy Satellite Photos: Before And After
Zero Hedge, 1st November 2012
Military helps pump water and restore power
More than 200 power generators set up in NY, NJ
KSBW News, 1st November 2012

For Years, Warnings That It Could Happen Here
New York Times, 30th October 2012

The warnings came, again and again. For nearly a decade, scientists have told city and state officials that New York faces certain peril: rising sea levels, more frequent flooding and extreme weather patterns. The alarm bells grew louder after Tropical Storm Irene last year, when the city shut down its subway system and water rushed into the Rockaways and Lower Manhattan.

On Tuesday, as New Yorkers woke up to submerged neighborhoods and water-soaked electrical equipment, officials took their first tentative steps toward considering major infrastructure changes that could protect the city’s fragile shores and eight million residents from repeated disastrous damage. [...]

With an almost eerie foreshadowing, the dangers laid out by scientists as they tried to press public officials for change in recent years describes what happened this week: Subway tunnels filled with water, just as they warned. Tens of thousands of people in Manhattan lost power. The city shut down.

Comment: I suppose this article touches a nerve with me as I have called myself A Modern Day Noah in the past as space weather is in effect a cosmic deluge. I think my mission is about educating people who are interested in a new interpretation of our reality based on the integration of science, metaphysics and ancient knowledge. The proviso here is that my definition of metaphysics is about understanding our reality but I consider some cosmological and astronomical theory as pure metaphysics. As a member of the Society of Seekers or Cultic Milieu which is a very large spectrum of people with very diverse views, my research, qualifications and philosophical traits means it is impossible for me to be impressed with current low academic standards that permeate the milieu. New teachings and beliefs are mostly propagated by numerous frauds in the milieu who need cult bait to attract and ferment their followers. So today, as I have managed to gain a high level perspective of what is taking place on this planet, realise that the arguments about climate change are the results of think tanks that were mandated to steer public opinion for the benefit of the select few, I realise that my task is a difficult one and I can only educate people who have already done quite a lot of work already. Simply, there are some who are too ignorant and arrogant and I hope and believe my modus operandi forces most of this type to go elsewhere. For those who are capable, the stance that we are facing extreme weather events that are associated with climate change but it has nothing much to do with humans is for evolving people who can handle complexity in a complex universe. Space Weather and cosmoclimatology reveals that Earth is not a closed energetic system and that universal processes "refresh" and/or "upgrade" this planet on regular basis at long astronomical intervals. Currently, we have entered a new phase of "renewal" and the result is high energy cosmic, atmospheric and geophysical changes and impacts that looks destructive to humans in the short-term. With the destruction caused by the Superstorm Sandy, maybe a few more people will be focused on raising their consciousness to embrace complexity and not react with a knee-jerk and start crusading for measures that they cannot properly understand. Measures to geoengineer our planet could put more humans at risk as scientists simply cannot determine consequences for the complex eco and biosystems that supports life on Earth. Our meteorologists sometimes fail to predict the weather on a day by day basis, but this can only get worse as the parameters that determine weather are influenced by varying influxes of energy from space as Earth drops her cosmic shields to allow in a flood of cosmic energy. It is apparent that top tier scientists have been aware for decades that Earth was facing a new dispensation. No doubt, ancient texts from previous high civilisations on this planet are known and understood by the elite and world controllers. So, the think tanks would have had enough information to start the effort of manipulating the masses but it has not worked because we are also experiencing a spiritual transformation and that means a widespread change of consciousness amongst the masses. Even though it seems that society as a whole has failed to fully comprehend The Big Picture and translate this into practicalities, I would argue genuine Seekers with a high level of awareness have also failed to make themselves heard amongst the cacophony of phonism in the cultic milieu. Therefore, I expect to see lots of bewilderment amongst our societies when catastrophes mount, as we have not adequately prepared for evolutionary change despite warnings from scientists and campaigners who took the likelihood of a very unstable planetary environment seriously.

Monster storm Sandy leaves New York, eastern U.S. crippled
Reuters, 30th October 2012

(Reuters) - Millions of people were left reeling in the aftermath of monster storm Sandy on Tuesday as New York City and a wide swathe of the eastern United States struggled with epic flooding and massive power outages.

Sandy, which crashed ashore with hurricane-force winds in New Jersey overnight as the biggest storm to hit the country in generations, swamped parts of New York's subway system and Manhattan's Wall Street district, closing financial markets for a second day.

Sandy rips houses from foundations on Jersey Shore
USA Today, 30th October 2012
FORKED RIVER, N.J. -- Hundreds -- perhaps thousands -- of homes were either underwater or destroyed along the Jersey Shore Tuesday in what a somber Gov. Chris Christie called "unthinkable" devastation from Hurricane Sandy. Towns and communities along the stretch of beach made famous by the reality show Jersey Shore were still reeling from the storm that roared in from the Atlantic Monday night.
Live Updates: Obama has declared a 'Major Disaster' in New York City
Business Insider, 30th October 2012
Hurricane Sandy map and satellite images
BBC News, 30th October 2012
Sandy versus Katrina, and Irene: Monster Hurricanes by the Numbers
Scientific American, 29th October 2012
Pic: Boat Cleared For Takeoff At JFK
Business Insider, 30th October 2012
PICKET: Looting begins in NYC
The Washington Times, 30th October 2012

New York Subway System May Take Weeks to Recover From Storm
Bloomberg, 30th October 2012

New York’s subway system may take weeks to be restored to full service as officials assess the toll from floods, hurricane-force winds and electrical damage that crippled the most populous U.S. city’s transportation hub.

“I can say unequivocally that the MTA last night faced a disaster as devastating as it has ever faced in its history,” Metropolitan Transit Authority Chairman Joe Lhota said at a news conference today.

Sandy, the Atlantic superstorm, exceeded officials’ worst- case scenario, Lhota said. It wreaked havoc on the entire transportation system in New York and New Jersey, including subways, buses, roads and commuter railroads.

Hurricane Irene & Superstorm Sandy WUWT Posts concerning sub-way flood damage
WUWT, 29th October 2012
“If they keep the water out of the NY underground, it will be all over inside of 48 hours. But, if salt water gets into the subways and high rise basements, it won’t be over in 48 days.” – Rasey 8/29/2011 at 6:24 pm

“There are only so many spare parts, spare transformers, and spare man-hours on hand. System failures have very non-linear dynamics.” Stephen Rasey 10/29/2012 at 7:24 pm

Comment: I presume that these comments are from an engineer... but quite frankly, too many in senior positions of power don't understand the importance of avoiding a complete system/infrastructure failure...
Twitter: flooded subway pic Source: Peter Shankman

Manhattan goes dark + + 6 MILLION without power + + 16 dead as Superstorm Sandy throws a 13 foot wall of water at US coast
Daily Mail, 30th October 2012

Submerged: Instagram user 'Jesse and Greg' posted this incredible picture of
East Village flooding in Manhattan, New York

* Storm damage projected at £12bn // Sandy kills at least 16 people in US and Canada - including five deaths in New York
* At least 6.2m power customers across US East have lost power // New York City could be without power for a week
* NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg: 'We knew this was going to be very dangerous. This is a once-in-a-long-time storm'
* Bloomberg says city's 911 dispatchers are receiving 20,000 calls per hour and area without power is south of 34th St
* Mass transit system, schools, stock exchange and Broadway shut, as water overflows NYC's historic waterfront
* Record 13ft storm surge threatening lower Manhattan and howling winds left crane hanging from high-rise building
*NYU Hospital loses backup power and evacuates patients // 19 workers trapped in Consolidated Edison power station

New York City looks like the set of a disaster movie this morning after a night of being battered by Superstorm Sandy.

It hit the mainland at 6.30pm local time last night having laid waste to large parts of the coast during the day. The US city shut its mass transit system, schools, the stock exchange and Broadway, and ordered hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers to leave home to get out of the way as Sandy zeroed in.

A 13ft wall of water caused by the storm surge and high tides resulted in severe flooding to subways and road tunnels. Torrents of water poured into building works at Ground Zero, cars were swept down streets and power was cut across lower Manhattan in a bid to minimise damage to infrastructure.

Superstorm Sandy knocked out power to at least 6.2million people across the US East, and large sections of Manhattan were plunged into darkness by the storm, with 250,000 customers without power as water pressed into the island from three sides, flooding rail yards, subway tracks, tunnels and roads.

New York City's 911 dispatchers were receiving 20,000 calls per hour. An extraordinary 24 hours saw what was originally classed as a hurricane close in and converge with a cold-weather system that turned it into a superstorm - a monstrous hybrid consisting not only of rain and high wind, but also snow.

Comment: Yes, others have suggested that New York could end up looking like the epic scene of New York under water in the movie The Day After Tomorrow and I am sure in the weeks to come there will be lots of discussion about what is happening on our planet... There are lots of epic photos here.... This is a good summary...

Storm Barrels Ashore, Leaving Path of Destruction
New York Times, 30th October 2012
Massive flooding, power outages in the New York area
ABC Local News, 30th October 2012
Mid-Atlantic: Millions Without Power
Weather.com, 29th October 2012
Photos: Sandy's Wrath
Weather.com, 29th October 2012
'Alert' Declared At New Jersey Nuclear Power Plant – Still In 'Safe' Condition
Business Insider, 29th October 2012
MTA: In 108 Years, The NYC Subway System Has Never Faced A Disaster As Devastating As This
Business Insider, 29th October 2012
Stock Exchanges Testing New Plan To Get The Markets Open Again This Week
Business Insider, 29th October 2012
This is bad; flooding, fires, blackouts, explosions, hospital back up failure, hospital running out of oxygen, bank robberies, nuclear power plant 'alerts', concern about backup generators... I think this is looking like an epic disaster...

Satellite images of Hurricane Sandy approaching the east coast of the United States
Spaceweather.com, 30th October 2012
SUPERSTORM SANDY: Anyone who doubts the value of space exploration should watch this video of hurricane Sandy approaching the east coast of the United States on Oct. 26-28. Without weather satellites and space-age sensors, residents in the storm's path wouldn't know what was coming until the storm surge arrived.

NASA's fleet of Earth-observing satellites is doing more, however, than just tracking the storm. It is collecting valuable scientific data on Sandy's inner workings:

Comment: Hmmm, in reality, things are not so rosy with NASA's satellite fleet and the UK Daily Mail points out, The U.S. faces satellite-data gap that will leave forecasters blind to the movements of devastating storms like Hurricane Sandy.

Indian Space Research Organization helped track Hurricane Sandy
Times of India, 2nd November 2012
MUMBAI: Indian Space Research Organization (Isro)'s Oscat radio scatterometer on board its 960kg Oceansat-2 remote sensing satellite had tracked ocean surface winds of Hurricane Sandy that wrought havoc in eastern US on Monday, a Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory announcement has said."

I think this is very interesting but at the moment I have no reason to believe there was a need to data share due to the unavailability of the GOES East weather satellite that went offline in late September and may even now be a "zombiesat".

2012 Frankenstorm Sandy vs 1954 Hurricane Hazel
Brad Johnson’s ‘Frankenstorm’ malfeasance masquerading as idiocy
WUWT, 29th October 2012

[...] One storm in particular stands out as a parallel to Hurricane Sandy, and that’s Hurricane Hazel in 1954. [...]

Hazel was first spotted east of the Windward Islands on October 5. It moved through the islands later that day as a hurricane, then it moved westward over the southern Caribbean Sea through October 8. A slow turn to the north-northeast occurred from October 9-12, with Hazel crossing western Haiti as a hurricane on the 12th. The hurricane turned northward and crossed the southeastern Bahamas on the 13th, followed by a northwestward turn on the 14th. Hazel turned north and accelerated on October 15, making landfall as a Category 4 hurricane near the North Carolina-South Carolina border. Subsequent rapid motion over the next 12 hours took the storm from the coast across the eastern United States into southeastern Canada as it became extratropical.

Comment: I have changed the headline here. I am not interested in the climate politics because meteorologists say that Frankenstorm Sandy is NOT a hurricane as it is being controlled and powered by energy coming from the upper atmosphere, but the comparison with previous hurricanes and particularly Hurricane Hazel is very important to note. Sandy is making landfall during the full moon of October – the highest lunar tide of the year and the reason why there is so much panic coming from meteorologists... Under some similar storm conditions, Hazel caused lots and lots of damage....

NOAA: "This Is The Worst-Case Scenario"
CBS News, 29th October 2012
Officials say, “We’ve never seen anything like it.”
SANDY SET TO SWEEP US NORTHEAST | RT AMERICA ON AIR
RT News, 29th October 2012
Safety Director: ATLANTIC CITY UNDER WATER
Business Insider, 29th October 2012
Gundersen: 26 nuclear plants in area where Hurricane Sandy likely to hit – If power lost, only plan is to let spent fuel pools heat up… no generators to pump in water (AUDIO)
Energy News, 28th October 2012
Nuclear power does not work on a high energy planet with frequent major planetary catastrophes and Earth changing events...
FrankenStorm is Exaggerated - Piers Corbyn
YouTube, 29th October 2012
Piers is not often wrong, but as Atlantic City is now under water, I doubt many there would agree with his analysis...

Hurricane Sandy STRENGTHENING as it closes in on NYC; Mass transit shut down, millions evacuated
New York Post, 29th October 2012

Hurricane Sandy is strengthening - and it's closing in on New York City. According to the National Hurricane Center's 5 a.m. advisory, the storm's maximum sustained winds have reached 85 miles per hour.

The eye of the storm was located about 385 miles away from New York City at 5 a.m., with Sandy's rain and winds looming. The worst of the storm - including a "life-threatening" seawater surge of anywhere from 6 to 11 feet - is expected in the region after 4 p.m.

Sandy is currently heading north and should turn inland toward the northwest today. Millions of New Yorkers grappled with mandatory evacuations everywhere from Battery Park City to Coney Island to the Rockaways, a total mass-transit shutdown, and widespread school and service closures.

Comment: Just in case you don't know, this storm is being fed directly by jet stream energy in the atmosphere that is being picked up as it travels north and due to space weather and changes in the cosmic environment of Earth, there is a lot of excess atmospheric energy to create this monster 'frankenstorm'.... Btw there is a CME arriving shortly to add to the high energetic atmospheric levels around this planet...

“Frankenstorm” Sandy set to break low pressure record in continental U.S.
Examiner, 27th October 2012
"If forecast models verify, Frankenstorm Sandy will establish a new record low pressure value for an extra-tropical cyclone in the continental U.S., 949 millibars."
Sandy Could Be a Toxic Shitstorm in Gowanus [Updated]
NewYork Magazine, 28th October 2012
Weather or Climate: What Caused Hurricane Sandy?
Live Science, 29th October 2012
In the immediate term, three factors have come together to make Sandy what it is: A huge storm with winds gusting up to 90 mph (145 kph) set to make landfall somewhere on the East Coast Monday night. First, hurricane season is still on, meaning the tropics are still actively generating storms. That's Sandy's origin. [...]

But a storm like Sandy would normally be losing steam by now as it moved into colder, less energetic waters, said David Robinson, a Rutgers University professor and New Jersey's state climatologist. In this case, however, a trough of low pressure dipping down from the Arctic is feeding the hurricane, actually strengthening its intensity as it moves northward. (Higher tides because of a full moon may also increase flooding from the storm.) [...]

Those conditions are the same as 1991's "Perfect Storm," a tempest that occurred when a nor'easter fed by Arctic air absorbed Hurricane Grace. But that storm never made landfall. The third weather factor feeding Sandy, a high-pressure system, is pushing the hurricane onshore, making this "about the worst case imaginable," Robinson said.

That block of high pressure in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean is shunting Sandy toward land like a peg in a pinball machine.

"You've got three factors here that have come together in just the right pattern to create a storm of this type," Robinson told LiveScience. "That's why it's very rare."
VIDEO: NASA animation shows Hurricane Sandy from 22,300 miles above Earth
ITV News, 29th October 2012
Hurricane Sandy is Category III
RSOE - Emergency and Disaster Information Service, 29th October 2012
Satellite photo side-by-side comparison of Hurricanes Irene and #Sandy.
Wow. Really puts things in perspective pic.twitter.com/dCJ6fv9z
Twitter, 29th October 2012

Lake Geneva 'may face tsunami risk'
A million people living on the shores of Lake Geneva could be at risk from devastating tsunamis, scientists have warned.
Telegraph, 28th October 2012

In the sixth century a tsunami triggered by a rockfall on the lake destroyed several villages, sent a 26ft wave crashing over Geneva's city walls, and caused many casualties.

Experts investigating the event said a similar disaster could easily happen again, and Geneva with its 200,000 inhabitants was especially vulnerable.

They argued that the threat of lake tsunamis is underestimated and should be taken more seriously.

Comment: I think that world controllers are preparing for some epic Earth changing events due to the giant leap of energy on this planet caused by space weather and the co-operation of Earth dropping her cosmic shields... Hence, Swiss authorities are looking inward and seeing what geophysical events are most likely to cause some upheaval in their own backyard... Meanwhile, there are continuous major storms, cyclones, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and floods etc on this planet but geoscientists tell us that the trend is UP and expected to dramatically increase... So, as I have been pointing out to a disinterested world, governments have been well aware that we are facing "a new kind of future", see details below. As you must appreciate this is NOT about a 2012 one-day end of the world scenario... World governments have already worked out that our planet is facing evolutionary change and humans must work out how to live on a planet that is under reconstruction.

Flashback!

Governments must prepare for more mega-disasters - UK
News.com.au, 28th March 2011
A BRITISH government report says major disasters like the Japanese earthquake and tsunami or Pakistan's floods are likely to become more frequent and global governments must prepare for an uncertain future.

The author Paddy Ashdown, a House of Lords member and ex-United Nations high representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina, said rich nations must help poorer countries to build up their defences against disasters. The report was issued today by the international development ministry.

Ashdown said a lack of prior support for Haiti and Pakistan had worsened the impact of recent events there. He said scientists believe that recent natural disasters were not an aberration, but "the beginnings of a new kind of future in which mega-disasters are going to be more frequent."

Comment: We are witnessing evolutionary change being driven by cosmic energies but world governments have been keen to blame it on global warming, then climate change, then global climate disruption etc despite the insignificant rise in global temperatures that have already peaked. So how do they know there are going to be more disasters in the future? Unless world authorities are using a crystal ball then we must conclude that they have statistics that prove our planet is already on an upward trend of geophysical upheaval creating more humanitarian disasters, despite all the previous denials. Next, this implies we have to face up to the reality that this is being caused by our planet being influenced by cosmic forces providing a new influx of energy and that means the vast majority of our scientific knowledge has to be re-examined in the light of the fact that Earth is not a closed energetic system.
Humanitarian Emergency Response Review
Department for International Development, 28th March 2011
"In July 2010 Lord Ashdown began leading a taskforce of experts to review how the UK government should respond to humanitarian disasters and emergencies. Lord Ashdown presented the results of this independent review - known as the Humanitarian Emergency Response Review (HERR) - to Andrew Mitchell, who commissioned the report, at a launch event on 28 March 2011.
The report (.pdf) can be downloaded here.

Weather anomaly causes carbon monoxide scare at Pittsburgh homes
Fire chief: Readings outside buildings as high or higher than inside
WTAE News, 26th October 2012

PITTSBURGH –When it gets cold outside, fire companies start getting calls about carbon monoxide -- but not typically on days like Thursday that are so mild they end up breaking temperature records. However, beginning at 2:30 a.m. on Thursday, Pittsburgh fire crews started getting calls for active carbon monoxide alarms.

“It was actually kind of ironic that the inside detectors were alerting us to the fact that there was a problem outside,” said deputy fire chief Frank Large. The activity continued several times throughout the day.

“The companies went out and used their gas detectors and determined in some cases there were significant cases of carbon monoxide in the air,” Large said. “They were finding, however, that the readings outside the buildings were as high or higher than what they were finding inside of the buildings.”

Local fire crews learned of a temperature inversion outside, a weather anomaly that capped the atmosphere and trapped carbon monoxide in pockets over the East End, Homewood, Point Breeze, Stanton Heights and Lawrenceville.

“We had readings as high as 20 to 25 parts per million, which can be a problem over a period of time if you’re exposed to those levels,” Large said.

Comment: I am just taking note...

Extraordinary storm, extremely serious threat
Weather, 28th October 2012

- History is being written as an extreme weather event continues to unfold, one which will occupy a place in the annals of weather history as one of the most extraordinary to have affected the United States. - REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE OFFICIAL DESIGNATION IS NOW OR AT/AFTER LANDFALL -- HURRICANE (INCLUDING IF "ONLY" A CATEGORY ONE), TROPICAL STORM, POST-TROPICAL, EXTRATROPICAL, WHATEVER -- OR WHAT TYPE OF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER -- PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM NEED TO HEED THE THREAT IT POSES WITH UTMOST URGENCY.

Hurricane Sandy set to make history as it aims at U.S. coast
Reuters, 22nd October 2012

Saffir/Simpson Hurricane Scale
Louisiana Homeland Security Preparedness, October 2012
This hurricane scale indicates that the expected storm surge warranted people to treat Superstorm Sandy as a potential category 3/4 hurricane.

Sandy could wreak havoc across 800 miles of U.S.
CBS News, 28th October 2012

As Hurricane Sandy turns into expected rare 'Frankenstorm,' experts explain the science
Newsday, 28th October 2012

Engineer: 10 MILLION COULD LOSE POWER DUE TO SANDY
Business Insider, 28th October 2012

An engineer at The Johns Hopkins University predicts that 10 million people from northern Virginia through New Jersey and into southeastern Pennsylvania will be without power in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

Seth Guikema (pronounced Guy-keh-ma) and his team have developed a computer model built on outage data from 11 hurricanes to estimate the fraction of customers who will lose power, based on expected gust wind speed, expected duration of strong winds greater than 20 meters per second, and population density.

They ran their model using the official National Hurricane Center track and intensity forecast from 18UTC (3 p.m. EDT) on Saturday, and emphasize that the number of power outages could change as the storm progresses and forecasts become more definitive. It is possible that 10 million people is a conservative estimate, Guikema said

Comment: 10 million people is a conservative estimate.... that is incredible...

Hurricane Sandy - Maps & Graphics
Wunderground.com, 28th October 2012

Canada quake triggers Hawaii tsunami scare
CNN News, 28th October 2012

CNN) -- A tsunami warning for Hawaii, triggered by a powerful earthquake in Canada, proved nothing more than a pre-Halloween scare for thousands of people this weekend. [...]

Even Hawaiians accustomed to tsunami warnings spared no effort in bracing for the worst. Honolulu resident Victoria Shioi filled her bathtub with water, set her refrigerator to the coldest setting and gathered candles in case of water or power outages. "Also backed up my computer and put the external (hard drive) in the waterproof safe," Shioi said.

Earthquakes - Global Incident Map
globalincidentmap.com, 28th October 2012
See the shaking! - Seismogram viewer [Canada]
Natural Resources Canada, October 2012

Unusual geological event in USA on Friday, 26 October, 2012 at 03:19 (03:19 AM) UTC.
RSOE - Emergency and Disaster Information Service, 28th October 2012

Earthquake swarms and a region-wide rotten egg smell recently reminded Southern California residents they live next to an active volcano field, tiny though it may be. At the time, scientists said the phenomena did not reflect changes in the magma chamber below the Salton Sea. But now, researchers may need to revise estimates of the potential hazard posed by the Salton Buttes - five volcanoes at the lake's southern tip. The buttes last erupted between 940 and 0 B.C., not 30,000 years ago, as previously thought, a new study detailed online Oct. 15 in the journal Geology reports. The new age - which makes these some of California's youngest volcanoes - pushes the volcanic quintuplets into active status. The California Volcano Observatory, launched in February by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), already lists the area as a high threat for future blasts. "The USGS is starting to monitor all potentially active volcanoes in California, which includes the Salton Buttes," said study author Axel Schmitt, a geochronologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Comment: This is very interesting... the planet is now really starting to rock and roll with earthquakes and volcanic activity...

Changes in Earth’s gravity in relation to magnetic field measured
WUWT, 23rd October 2012

Rapid changes in the Earth’s core: The magnetic field and gravity from a satellite perspective

The main field of the Earth’s magnetic field is generated by flows of liquid iron in the outer core. The Earth’s magnetic field protects us from cosmic radiation particles. Therefore, understanding the processes in the outer core is important to understand the terrestrial shield. Key to this are measurements of the geomagnetic field itself

Comment: Again, we see that space weather and the need to understand what is happening to Earth's cosmic magnetic shielding is of primary importance here. "The main field of the Earth’s magnetic field is generated by flows of liquid iron in the outer core." is an old outdated idea... I wrote in my book Tuning the Diamonds ,

Historically, it was once thought that a solid layer within the Earth, made of iron or another magnetic material, formed a permanent magnet. This hypothesis was discredited because firstly, it could not explain how the magnetic field drifted and secondly, magnetic minerals only retain a permanent magnetism below their Curie temperature (e.g. 580°C for magnetite). Most of the Earth’s interior is hotter than all known Curie temperatures, and cooler crustal rocks just don’t contain enough magnetic content to account for the magnetic field. The Geodynamo is the best known theory today, which postulates that the main part of the Earth’s magnetic field is generated by a dynamo that operates in the Earth’s fluid outer core, see figure 2.20. However, the details of how that dynamo works are still not totally understood. Paleomagnetic measurements of rocks indicate that the Earth has maintained a magnetic field for at least 3.5 billion years, so the dynamo theory has to explain how the magnetic field can be self-sustaining. Theory suggests that as iron is a conductor of electricity, electric currents flowing in molten iron would generate the requisite magnetic field (basic physics of electromagnetism). The molten outer core, more than six times the volume of the moon, convects as a means of releasing heat. This convective motion displaces flowing electric currents, thereby generating magnetic fields. Yet, geodynamo theory tends to gloss over the fact that the Earth’s magnetic field is actually a composite, generated by electric currents that are deep within the Earth and high above the surface. The question arises: if the magnetic field generated by the Earth is so significant, then how do we explain the wild fluctuations in the direction of the magnetic field that occur in geomagnetic storms? Magnetic storms cause changes of 1%, to the total field strength of 50,000 gamma, the total geomagnetic field of Earth’s core (GMF), whereas typical diurnal changes are only 0.1% of the GMF. But, in one geomagnetic storm, the direction of magnetic North (measured at the Lerwick geomagnetic observatory in Scotland), changed by 5.1 degrees in only 25 minutes [85].

and also;

Some researchers suggest that the Earth has a plasma core and plasma physicist Anthony Peratt, states Earth’s core is a magnetohydrodynamic magma (magnetized plasma). Interestingly, in the authoritative book, Introduction to dusty plasma physics (2002), published by the Institute of Physics, the authors write: “It is well established that all plasma systems, especially dusty plasma systems, always contain some region of inhomogeneity capable of causing drift motions and associated waves in a magnetized dusty plasma.” [77]

The evidence is that Earth's magnetic field is being constantly influenced by the Sun's magnetic field as these scientists have found evidence of a 11 year cycle, but due to the unpredictable nature of space weather it is becoming more evident that there is a link between Earth's magnetic field and gravity. The extremely fast changes (so-called magnetic jerks) that were observed in 2007 at the Earth’s surface (they have been observed in the past) suggests the importance of the influence of the sun's magnetic field on Earth's magnetic field.... The next conclusion is that the force of gravity is not properly understood.... I like the quote: there is no such thing as mass only charge... I have repeatedly stated that the planet is charging up like a battery and now we have some proof space weather is even slightly changing Earth's gravity field and it's not just about shifting land masses due to melting ice... I also believe fluctating gravity will affect atomic clocks on Earth being used to counteract problems with GPS and satellite navigation etc.... There are lots of interesting comments at WUWT as usual.

Earthquake predictions and a triumph of scientific illiteracy in an Italian court
Christian Science Monitor, 22nd October 2012

An Italian court sentenced scientists to jail time for not having a functioning crystal ball in predicting the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila. The arguments of science and reason did not sway a court verdict that called for earthquakes to be accurately predicted. [...]

Alan Leshner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science put it this way in an open letter to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in June 2010, urging the trial be headed off:

Years of research, much of it conducted by distinguished seismologists in your own country, have demonstrated that there is no accepted scientific method for earthquake protection that can be reliably used to warn citizens of an impending disaster. To expect more of science at this time is unreasonable. It is manifestly unfair for scientists to be criminally charged for failing to act on information that the international scientific community would consider inadequate as a basis for issuing a warning.

Of course, smaller earthquakes – tremors – do often precede major ones, and can be useful indicators that major trouble is heading down the pike. Or not. Sometimes you can have a series of tremors and no major quake. Or a major quake that doesn't appear to be preceded by any unusual activity at all. What do geologists do when asked what a series of tremors means? Use their best judgment.

That's what the Italian scientists were convicted of today: exercising judgment in a murky area, getting it wrong, and being severely punished for it. If the verdict is upheld, that sends a message to scientists that they'd better keep their mouths shut when asked for their opinion in Italy.

Comment: This article is basically a rant... I also don't agree with the conclusion that scientists will keep their mouths shut when asked for their opinion in Italy. Rather, scientists worldwide will be SHOCKED and some might realise that public opinion is changing rather quickly as people start to feel they have no control as Earth changing events get more catastrophic. Some, might even start to treat their field of science with a little bit more respect and realise that all the fudging of data and pointless science and job creation will not help if the public turn against scientists especially geoscientists if there are simply too many frightening events which I think is now inevitable. Whatever, we are living in totally unprecedented times and scientists have an uphill battle because we are facing a major energetic shift with unknown consequences...My response is to dedicate my life to help more non scientists understand that we are facing a planetary emergency caused by space weather and energy driven evolutionary change... At the moment, not enough understand just how serious things are...

Italian court convicts 7 for no quake warning
Yahoo News, 22nd October 2012

L'AQUILA, Italy (AP) – An Italian court convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter on Monday for failing to adequately warn citizens before an earthquake struck central Italy in 2009, killing more than 300 people.

The court in L'Aquila also sentenced the defendants to six years in prison. Each one is a member of the national Great Risks Commission.

In Italy, convictions aren't definitive until after at least one level of appeals, so it is unlikely any of the defendants would face jail immediately.

Scientists worldwide had decried the trial as ridiculous, contending that science has no reliable way of predicting earthquakes.

Comment: I am stunned... I have already stated a few times that I could not believe that these scientists were going to trial and now they have been convicted. Eight years ago I understood the implications of messages that have been given out in the metaphysical community for decades but I also realised that there was very little effort to integrate science and netaphysics. Hence, I have been working hard with not much support and some severe hinderance from people who can only be described as dumb.... Look at the latest news in the mainstream media! We even have space weather alerts being issued on a regular basis... Newsroom America are now producing a Space Weather Outlook, using data contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services and other observatories, universities, and institutions. Very nice... Can you imagine with the high energy levels on this planet, the next big solar flare and coronal mass ejection, magnetar blast or gamma ray burst and major earth changing events are virtually guaranteed... That is why we have scientists hosting large conferences on global catastrophes because it is now inevitable... So, are the completely ignorant going to start blaming the few of us trying to make a difference? Read the archives, there was someone trying to warn the locals in L'Aquila and they were arrested by a policeman for scaremongering.... Society has a real problem caused by a lack of interest in reality....

Italian earthquake: expert's warnings were dismissed as scaremongering
The Telegraph, 6th April 2009
"An Italian scientist, Giampaolo Giuliani, predicted the earthquake which has killed at least 90 people in the Abruzzo region but he was reported to the police for scaremongering, it has emerged. Mr Giuliani told locals to evacuate their houses and posted a video on YouTube in which he said a build-up of radon gas around the seismically active area suggested a major earthquake was imminent. Several tremors had been felt in the medieval city of L'Aquila, around 60 miles east of Rome, from mid-January onwards, and vans with loudspeakers had driven around the city spreading the warning. But instead of heeding Mr Giuliani's warnings, the local authorities reported him to police for "spreading alarm" and he was told to remove his findings from the internet. [...] Even after the devastating earthquake, the head of Italy's National Geophysics Institute, Enzo Boschi, dismissed Mr Giuliani's predictions. "Every time there is an earthquake there are people who claim to have predicted it," he said. "As far as I know nobody predicted this earthquake with precision. It is not possible to predict earthquakes."
Rare great earthquake triggers large aftershocks all over the globe
Earth Sky, 26th September 2012
A Magnitude-8.6 earthquake on April, 11, 2012 set in motion an unprecedented increase in global seismic activity, study shows.
There are some good graphics here.

What on earth WAS this? Man photographs Hole Punch Cloud moments before ten dead birds appear in garden [UK]
Daily Mail, 19th October 2012

* Photograph shows a disc shaped outline in the clouds
* Neighbour believes UFOs are linked to bird deaths

A UFO-like object floating in the clouds was caught on camera on the same day ten dead birds were found in a nearby garden. Calum Sherwood, 23, was shocked to see the outline of what appeared to be a UFO while riding on a bus in Salterbeck, south of Workington, Cumbria, on Monday.

Sharon Larkin, UFO enthusiast and Mr Sherwood’s friend who lives nearby, found ten dead birds in her garden that day. Ms Larkin claims that ‘dead birds are associated with sightings of UFOs’, but the object closely resembles a rare cloud formation. [...]

What’s really strange is that the day Calum took this picture I discovered about ten dead birds in my garden, the back and the front. ‘They were sparrows and blackbirds. It could just be a co-incidence but the discovery of dead birds is associated with sightings of UFOs.’

Comment: Unfortunately, we have the ususal ignorant talk of UFOs related to any unknown atmospheric phenomenon so I changed the headline... Well, it looks like another killer electron or maser beam blast of energy arriving from space.... See archives for more examples of hole punch clouds and my previous explanations. Incredibly, the report also claims that some birds were knocked out by the blast too and this is the first example of these two mysteries being linked together that I have come across .

Intraplate quakes signal tectonic breakup
April temblors part of massive ongoing energy release near Indonesia
Science News, 20th October 2012

Two giant earthquakes in the eastern Indian Ocean have shown geologists that breaking up is easy to do – for tectonic plates, that is.

The pair of quakes hit on April 11, startling seismologists with their size (magnitudes 8.6 and 8.2) and location (hundreds of kilometers from the active zone that spawned the deadly 2004 magnitude 9.1 earthquake and tsunami). Now, three studies reveal that the April quakes were an indication that one great slab of Earth’s crust is slowly fracturing into two. The work, reported online September 26 in Nature, confirms that seismic risk remains high in the area. [...]

The first April 11 quake unzipped four perpendicular faults one after another in less than two minutes, the scientists found. Each fault ruptured with the equivalent energy of at least a magnitude 8.0 quake in that event. Two hours later, the magnitude 8.2 aftershock struck just south of the main rupture. “This was a gee-whiz event for us,” says team member Thorne Lay, a seismologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

But the story wasn’t over once the two quakes were done. They continued to resonate around the globe, triggering big aftershocks as far away as Mexico, a third study finds.

Comment: One earthquake "unzips" four perpendicular faults one after another in less than two minutes and geologists still want to talk about geological events taking millions of years... If an energetic system is given a lot of [electrical] energy, changes can take place in a relatively short period of time, like minutes, hours, days and weeks.... The formation of a new ocean basin in Africa (see archives) is another event that geologists claimed would take millions of years, but it actually only took a few weeks... Scientists who can actually think know there is now a huge energy imbalance on this planet and sudden releases of energy can result in huge Earth changing events and that is why a few sane ones are campaigning for governments to prepare more adequately for catastrophe. This is not scaremongering, this is about educated people realising the risk the citizens of this planet are now facing.

An extremely brief reversal of the geomagnetic field, climate variability and a super volcano
Science Codex, 16th October 2012

An extremely brief reversal of the geomagnetic field, climate variability and a super volcano 41,000 years ago, a complete and rapid reversal of the geomagnetic field occured. Magnetic studies of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences on sediment cores from the Black Sea show that during this period, during the last ice age, a compass at the Black Sea would have pointed to the south instead of north. Moreover, data obtained by the research team formed around GFZ researchers Dr. Norbert Nowaczyk and Prof. Helge Arz, together with additional data from other studies in the North Atlantic, the South Pacific and Hawaii, prove that this polarity reversal was a global event. Their results are published in the latest issue of the scientific journal "Earth and Planetary Science Letters".

What is remarkable is the speed of the reversal: "The field geometry of reversed polarity, with field lines pointing into the opposite direction when compared to today's configuration, lasted for only about 440 years, and it was associated with a field strength that was only one quarter of today's field," explains Norbert Nowaczyk. "The actual polarity changes lasted only 250 years. In terms of geological time scales, that is very fast." During this period, the field was even weaker, with only 5% of today's field strength. As a consequence, the Earth nearly completely lost its protection shield against hard cosmic rays, leading to a significantly increased radiation exposure.

Comment: The Earth's magnetic field is quickly declining and so unstable that scientists are being forced to investigate what is happening. There is the Swarm Earth Explorer Mission and the NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) Mission to investigate the Earth's radiation belts, in the magnetosphere but these are not the first magnetic field missions. This is on top of announcements that the solar wind is in decline, that reduces the protection around our solar system and cosmic rays are up and expected to go even higher. Earth's magnetic field is in a poor state (holes and rifts), it behaves erratically when hit by space weather and solar storms as it sometimes disappears on the daylight side... Thus, we seriously need to consider that conditions on Earth are quickly changing but increased radiation exposure is an issue in our modern technological world, as well in an issue for the human energy field and body.

Bill Read's Blog: Rare Tropical Cyclone in Indian Ocean
click2houston.com, 15th October 2012
HOUSTON - Tropical Cyclone Anais is estimated to have a maximum wind of 115 mph as of early this morning, which is equivalent to a category 3 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean. The southwestern Indian Ocean is prone to tropical cyclones but what makes Anais so rare is that it is occurring in October, which is early springtime in the southern Hemisphere.

Wellington 'hum' becomes nationwide obsession [NZ]
3 News, 11th October 2012

Fears of runaway pollution crisis in China as THIRD river mysteriously turns white
Daily Mail, 11th October 2012
"Furious villagers in eastern China are demanding the closure of a new stone quarry after it turned their river completely white. Residents in Aodi, Zhejiang province, say the river is now so heavily polluted that they can't use it for drinking water for their livestock, nor are they able to water their crops."

Comment: China again.... I think this is the third major case of river 'pollution' in as many months....

Mysterious tremors raise questions
Daily Comet, 4th October 2012

Nobody quite knows what caused the ground in some parts of Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes to shake, but it certainly has people talking. [...]

Paul Caruso, a geophysicist with the Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Center, said there are not many seismic monitors in south Louisiana because there is rarely any such activity in the area. He noted there would have to be several such monitors within 50 miles of such a weak quake’s epicenter to detect it.

Rafael Abreu, another geophysicist with the center, said the earth’s crust is riddled with fault lines, and people often report hearing such a such a loud noise when they are near the epicenter of a quake.

Comment: There is an interesting comparison here with the major Bayou Corne sinkhole collapse.. Well, with all this geophysical activity in the United States, it really makes you wonder what next when world organisations are warning about the need to prepare for more catastrophes.

The $1 billion mission to reach the Earth's mantle
CNN News, 2nd October 2012

(CNN) -- Humans have reached the moon and are planning to return samples from Mars, but when it comes to exploring the land deep beneath our feet, we have only scratched the surface of our planet.

This may be about to change with a $1 billion mission to drill 6 km (3.7 miles) beneath the seafloor to reach the Earth's mantle -- a 3000 km-thick layer of slowly deforming rock between the crust and the core which makes up the majority of our planet -- and bring back the first ever fresh samples. [...]

"[The mantle] is the engine that drives how our planet works and why we have earthquakes and volcanoes and continents. We have the textbook cartoons but detailed knowledge is lacking," he says.

Comment: It looks like fiction is becoming fact.... The sci-fi movie 'The Core' is a must see if you want to see the correlation between what geoscientists believe will happen as Earth's magnetic field weakens and what is happening today. My blog archives provide the facts ad infinitum... However, in the movie, drilling into the Earth's core in order to set off nuclear bombs and thus restart Earth's magnetic field was only fiction...

Earth is undergoing true polar wander, scientists say
Earth Sky, 1st October 2012

Scientists developed a computer model to identify four possible instances of true polar wander in the past. And, they say, true polar wander is happening now.

Scientists based in Germany and Norway today published new results about a geophysical theory known as true polar wander. That is a drifting of Earth’s solid exterior – an actual change in latitude for some land masses – relative to our planet’s rotation axis. These scientists used hotspots in Earth’s mantle as part of a computer model, which they say is accurate for the past 120 million years, to identify four possible instances of true polar wander in the past. And, they say, true polar wander is happening now. These scientists published their results in the Journal for Geophysical Research today (October 1, 2012).

Comment: Geoscientists have calculated an average movement of Earth’s solid outer layers at a slowly rotating rate of 0.2 degrees every million years. The question of real significance is whether there has been any change in this creep.... There are quite a few ongoing major data collection exercises to make me wonder.. NASA is currently using the new GOCE satellite to map the Earth's gravity as the concern is that melting ice could cause gravity shift, see archives.

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