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Natural disasters uprooted more than 32 million people in 2012

32,4 million people were forced to flee their homes last year due to natural disasters such as floods, storms and earthquakes, according to a report released by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre on May 13, 2013. According to the report, 98% of those uprooted were displaced by climate- and weather-related events. Climate change is believed to play an increasingly significant role in global disasters. 2012 Special Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that, “disasters associated with climate extremes influence population mobility and relocation, affecting host and origin communities.”

This map shows internal displacement worldwide in 2012 by state and number of displaced people. CLICK ON IMAGE FOR LARGER VIEW (Credit: NRC/IDMC)

Floods in India and Nigeria were responsible for 41 % of displacement worldwide last year. Monsoon floods in India uprooted about 6.9 million people, while in Nigeria some 6.1 million were newly displaced. While Asia and Africa were hardest affected, some 1.3 million people were displaced in wealthy nations, especially the United States. Last year, the U.S. was among the 10 countries that experienced the most new displacement. Following Hurricane Sandy, most of those displaced were able to find refuge in adequate temporary shelter while displaced from their own homes.

The largest regional increase in the number of internally displaced people in 2012 was in the Middle East and North Africa, where 2.5 million people were forced to flee their homes. There were almost 6 million affected in the region at the end of 2012, a rise of 40 % on the 2011. Asia showed the second highest increase in new displacement after the Middle East and North Africa, with 1.4 million people forced to flee their homes during 2012.

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Updated: Sat, 11 May 2013 22:42:04 GMT | By CBC News, cbc.ca

Wall of ice destroys Manitoba homes, cottages



Wall of ice destroys Manitoba homes, cottages

 

Area officials told CBC News the wind pushed built-up ice off Dauphin Lake on Friday evening and caused it to pile up in the community, located on the lake’s southern shore.

The piles of ice, which were more than nine metres tall in some cases, destroyed at least six homes and cottages, according to the Rural Municipality of Ochre River.

Another 14 homes suffered extensive damage, with some structures knocked off their foundations.

Clayton Watts, Ochre River’s deputy reeve, said it’s a miracle no one was hurt.

He told CBC News one minute people were watching hockey in their living rooms, the next they heard something that sounded like a freight train near their homes.

“It happened so quick,” said Watts. “And you can’t predict it — not like water that slowly comes up.”

Watts said there are several cabins that were completely flattened by the wall of ice that came at them.

“The ice is over top of them, they’ve been crushed, there’s nothing left,” he said.

“There are other cabins that have been knocked right off their footings,” he continued. “There’s ice right over top of some of the cabins, coming over the roof on the other side.”

 

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Updated: Sun, 12 May 2013 20:48:20 GMT | By CBC News, cbc.ca

Ice wall damage leaves Manitoba community devastated



Ice wall damage leaves Manitoba community devastated

A massive cleanup effort is underway in Ochre Beach after a wave of lake ice swept up by strong winds destroyed or seriously damaged 27 homes in the community on Friday night.

Winds gusting at 80 km/h pushed ice off Dauphin Lake and caused it to pile up along the lake’s southern shore where the community is located.

A local state of emergency was declared in the Rural Municipality of Ochre Beach after the piles of ice, which in some cases were more than nine metres high, destroyed 13 homes and cottages and severely damaged 14 others.

Several homes were completely crushed, others knocked right off their foundations.

Many devastated homeowners are still in disbelief about what happened.

Myles Haverluck was outside barbecuing when he noticed something was wrong. He said he could hear a big roar as he saw the wave of ice coming.

“By the time we went around the front the cabin, next door was moving 10 feet off its foundation,” he told CBC News.

“Then we heard these cracks, and we went inside the house and the ice had come through the windows of the kitchen and living room” Haverluck continued.

Andrew Barnet was also working outside when the wind storm came towards the lakeshore homes.

“Looked out and the ice started coming out over the house and the ice started shifting,” Barnet told CBC News.

 

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Mysterious energy discovered in thunderclouds

Lightning

American scientists believe invisible ‘dark lightning’ packs a potent punch of radiation. Source: Supplied

CENTRAL Floridians are no strangers to violent thunderstorms, living in the lightning capital of the country.

 

Scientists at the Florida Institute of Technology on the Space Coast are traveling the world explaining the mysterious bursts of energy in the atmosphere during lightning storms that emit little visible light.

According to scientist Joseph Dwyer and his colleagues, space telescopes – looking for high-energy bursts from solar flares, black holes and exploding stars – detected strange, bright bursts but had no idea where they originated.

The phenomenon occurs high in the atmosphere at nearly the same altitude as commercial airline flights. The radiation dark lightning produces is about 100 times more potent than an X-ray.

“What’s kind of cool is that what we’re talking about sounds like science fiction – but this stuff is really happening inside thunderstorms,” said Dwyer, who spoke with the Orlando Sentinel from Vienna, where he presented his research at a meeting of the European Geosciences Union. “It’s happening right over our heads.”

Normal lightning occurs when clouds pregnant with positive and negative charges build up and create an electric field. When those charges separate, they discharge huge amounts of energy suddenly and cause a hot, bright, incandescent spark.

It’s like rubbing your feet on a rug and touching a metal doorknob. Zap!

 

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A stretch of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast has been blanketed in the foam, swept ashore by the a tropical cyclone in the area.

 3:52PM GMT 28 Jan 2013
The Telegraph

The bizarre scene on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast was witnessed over the weekend after the north east of the country was hit by a cyclone.

Curious onlookers could only marvel at the shifting landscape of billowing bubbles with some wading in and posing for photographs.

In places, the wall of foam reaches three metres (9 feet) in height and covered entire roads, forcing police to direct traffic in the potentially dangerous situation.

 

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Published on Jan 21, 2013

1) The climate change is real, and there is more to it than CO2 and ‘global warming’ – it is all extremes.
2) The entire solar system appears to be changing simultaneously.
3) The magnetic changes on earth began hundreds of years ago, and need to be tracked more effectively.
4) Weather modification appears to be implemented, and IMHO it is a zero-sum game.

Fact vs Opinion: The ‘Weather Modification’ segment contains many statements of my personal opinion on the negative aspects of the various applications. I have nothing but my humble opinion on those matters; humans survived this event before, and we can do it again now.

HAARP comments are meant to help focus our efforts to properly identify these various machines of modification. While auroral modulation has it’s benefits, my negative comments about weather modification applies to HAARP as well.

Music: Instrumentals by HOT100, version of ‘Ambition’ by Wale, Meek Mill & Rick Ross

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/08jan_sunclimate/

Cosmic Ray Links: http://calderup.wordpress.com/category/3c-falsification-tests/ ; http://scitech.au.dk/en/current-affairs/news/show/artikel/scientists-at-aarhu… ; http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/05/17/new-study-links-cosmic-rays-to-aerosols… ; http://www.leif.org/EOS/Cloud%20Cover%20and%20Cosmic%20Rays.pdf ; http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/11/2697/2011/acpd-11-2697-2011.pdf ; http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090801095810.htm

Solar Minimum:
http://www.ips.gov.au/Solar/1/6
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/01apr_deepsolarmini…
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/30sep_blankyear/
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/solar-minima.html

Planetary Changes:
http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/4581/modern-marsquakes
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/01/17/cassini-spacecraf…
http://www.agu.org/news/press/pr_archives/2012/2012-19.shtml
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/19may_saturnstorm/
http://www.science20.com/news_articles/now_broadcasting_radio_jupiter-93369
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/20may_loststripe/
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/02mar_redjr/
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-062804.html
http://www.universetoday.com/93494/is-venus-rotation-slowing-down/
http://dvice.com/archives/2012/09/video-jupiter-t.php
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/15oct_ibex/

CO2 Data: http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html ; http://earthsky.org/earth/noaa-releases-the-2012-arctic-report-card ; http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-StLFXcpY8T0/TptEmTYnseI/AAAAAAAAAfg/yRYUhLyOT_0/s16… ; http://www.southwestclimatechange.org/files/cc/figures/icecore_records.jpg ; http://co2now.org

Climate History: http://worldview3.50webs.com/6globalwarming.html ; http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00411.1?af=R
Climate Data: http://www.climate.gov/#dataServices
Collapsing Atmosphere: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/16/nasa.upper.atmosphere.shrinking/index.html

Magnetic Field Failing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3359555.stm ; http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/16dec_giantbreach/ ; http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/magnetic-field-1.html ; http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/09/0909_040909_earthmagfield.html ; http://geomag.org/info/declination.html ; http://wdc.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/igrf/anime/index.html

Magnetic Pole Flip: http://news.discovery.com/earth/earth-magnetic-field-north-110304.html ; http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/29dec_magneticfield/ ; http://news.discovery.com/earth/earth-atmosphere-shrinking.html

ENA: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/15oct_ibex/ ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ENAs_Impact_Titan_Atmpsphere.jpg ; http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2009/10/15/15oct_ibex_resources/39…

Weather Modification Links: http://coto2.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/atmospheric-geoengineering.jpg ; http://justmeint.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/solar-radiation-management.jpg ; http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/oct/01/china-cloud-seeding-pa… ; http://dvice.com/archives/2011/01/did-scientists.php ; http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/index.html ; http://wwwppd.nrl.navy.mil/whatsnew/haarp/ ; http://www.hangthebankers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/HAARP1.jpg ; http://www.colinandrews.net/OtherCircles.html ; http://2012indyinfo.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/dallas-radar-ring-april-19-20… ; http://sincedutch.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/des-moines-haarp-flash-radar-ri…

Earth Watch Report

 

WATER WORLD

Study: Hawaiian island slowly dissolving

by Staff Writers
Provo, Utah (UPI)


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Sometime in the distant future the mountainous tropical island will be reduced to a flat, low-lying island similar to Midway, scientists at Brigham Young University reported Friday.

While external erosion is the primary force that wears down mountains, that’s not the case on Oahu, they said.

“We tried to figure out how fast the island is going away and what the influence of climate is on that rate,” BYU geologist Steve Nelson said. “More material is dissolving from those islands than what is being carried off through erosion.”

That was the result from comparing groundwater against stream water to see which removed more of the total quantity of mineral material mass that disappeared from the island each year, the researchers said.

“All of the Hawaiian Islands are made of just one kind of rock,” Nelson said, referring to the volcanic composition of the islands. “The weathering rates are variable, too, because rainfall is so variable, so it’s a great natural laboratory.”

While Oahu is at present still growing, after about 1.5 million years the force of groundwater will eventually triumph and the island will begin its descent to a low-lying topography, the researchers said.

 

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Connecting the global cooling dots

Alan Caruba
factsnotfantasy.blogspot.co.uk
ice age

Winter doesn’t officially begin until December 21, but winter has a mind of its own as does all of nature. While the United Nations charlatans gathered in Doha, Qatar to try to save its global warming hoax by first calling it “climate change” and then by fashioning a funding mechanism to transfer the wealth of developed countries to those who are not, winter has arrived “early” around the world.

That might just have something to do with the cooling cycle that has been active for the past sixteen years, “inconveniently” blowing a big hole in the global warming lies we’ve been hearing and reading since the late 1980s.

From IceAgeNow.info, a site by Robert W. Felix, the author of a book about ice ages (the Earth has been through quite a few in its 4.5 billion years), here are some recent news stories:

On December 1, “Heavy snowfall severs Russia” told of “Hundreds of drivers (who) were caught by surprise in a 40km traffic jam after an unexpected snowfall and heavy winds.”

On November 30, “Finland snowstorm causes blackouts” reported that “Tens of thousands of households were without electricity on Friday as the result of a storm that dumped heavy snow across southern Finland and sent winds gusting up to 27 meters per second, felling trees and downing power lines.” That same day, across the former land bridge between Russia and North America, “Fairbanks – Coldest back-to-back November on record” was a news item that reported “The mercury hit 30 below for the first time this winter at Fairbanks International Airport.”

On November 29, the news was about a “Severe snow storm hits northern Japan” during which it was “blasted by an intense snow storm causing widespread havoc to residents of Hokkaido and Northern Honshu.”

On November 28, “Snowfall paralyzes life in China” was the headline of a report that “China has experienced the biggest snowfall in 52 years. Snow caused power outages in 57 villages, brought down thousands of trees and killed numerous domestic animals. Temperatures fell by as much as 14 degrees below zero in some areas.”

You don’t have to be a meteorologist to connect the dots. It is getting colder in the northern hemisphere of the world. To those who would dismiss this, saying that Russia has always been famous for its winters, that is the equivalent of whistling passed the graveyard.

In England, a November 29 report in The Telegraph, reported that “Councils are gearing up for what could be Britain’s coldest winter in 100 years, as sub-zero temperatures and snow follow days of downpours that have devastated large parts of the country.” The Met Office, England’s equivalent of the U.S. Weather Bureau, warned that “The forthcoming cold snap, caused by clear skies and northerly winds, could herald the start of a freezing winter.”

This was not unforeseen, however. In late January 2012, the British daily, The Mail, reported that “The supposed “consensus” on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planning has not warmed for the past 15 years. The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th century.” England and much of the northern Europe and North America was gripped by a mini ice age that lasted from 1300 to 1850.

It is no secret to climate scientists that the sun is in what they call a “grand minimum” by way of describing relatively few magnetic storms, also known assun spots. Few storms means less solar radiation and, since the sun is the primary source of heat for the Earth that means things get colder here. This is worth keeping in mind when the Secretary General of the United Nations or any other lying politician or alleged scientist tells you otherwise.

In a new book worth reading, “The Whole Story of Climate” by E. Kirsten Peters, the author brings a wealth of knowledge to the subject from the standpoint of a geologist. As to the claim that carbon dioxide emissions are the “cause” of a warming that is not happening, she points out that “The fact is, if human beings had remained hunter-gatherers throughout our entire history, never producing a single molecule of greenhouse gases through agriculture or industry, climate today would still be changing. It would be lurching toward higher temperatures, crashing toward vastly colder temperatures, or at least swinging toward something different from what has been. That’s just the nature of Earth’s climate.”

Preceding the introduction and rise of humans was an age known as the Pleistocene Epoch about 1.8 million years ago. It “was not a time of only monotonous cold. In fact, it alternated between long periods of cold – lasting roughly 100,000 years – and short periods of considerably warming times – lasting about 10,000 years.”

We humans are the result of the Holocene Epoch, a much more temperate, warmer period that followed the Pleistocene and, writes Peters, “From the Earth’s point of view, the Holocene is no different at all from other brief, warm intervals in the Pleistocene.”We are now about 11,500 years into this warmer cycle and, if the current cooling cycle continues and gets colder, we are knocking on the door of the next ice age.

Nor is this a problem only for the northern hemisphere. Southern hemisphere polar sea ice expanded in September 2012 to its greatest extent since satellites began measuring the Antarctic ice cap in 1979.

That’s what Robert W. Felix has been warning about in his book, “Not by Fire, But by Ice”, published initially in 2005. He’s not alone. Habibullo Abdusamatov of the Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences predicts that there will be a sharp drop in the temperature of the Earth starting in 2014. He’s predicting it will last about 200 years.

We are well past when the next ice age – mini or not – should have begun and, if all the global warming charlatans are right, we can actually THANK heightened levels of carbon dioxide for delaying it! However, the truth is that higher or lower levels of carbon dioxide show up centuries after any shift in the Earth’s temperature.

Just as the recent weather reports indicate, lower temperatures, greater snowfall, and other miseries of a colder Earth are in the future of the billions who live in the northern hemisphere. Bundle up.

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Red rain in Sri Lanka

Ridma Dissanayake

Rare showers of red rain fell for over 15 minutes in Sewanagala, Monaragala and Manampitiya,Polonnaruwa yesterday morning hours of yesterday and day before yesterday. According to Meteorology Department sources red rain fell heavily in these areas and the reason has not been found yet.

Red rain in Sewanagala and Manampitiya left red frost on the ground. This is the first time red rain was witnessed in Sri Lanka. The Health Ministry Secretary informed Medical Research Institute (MRI) Director Dr Anil Samaranayake to conduct a study to ascertain the reasons for red rain by taking water samples from Monaragala and Polonnaruwa.

Increase in the acidity of the air and sand storms are the usual reasons for red rain. However, there are no sand storms in Sri Lanka. India had red rain last year and Indian scientists discovered a variety of micro organisms as a reason for the rains. Since the micro organisms had no DNA, they guessed it had to be a strange phenomenon.

The MRI is carrying out research to find the exact reason for red rain in Sri Lanka.

Goodness, gracious, great balls of lightning

WEATHER REPORT

by Staff Writers
Canberra, Australia (SPX)


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Sightings of balls of lightning have been made for centuries around the world – usually the size of a grapefruit and lasting up to twenty seconds – but no explanation of how it occurs has been universally accepted by science. Even more mysterious are sightings of balls of lightning forming on glass and appearing in homes and in airplanes.

CSIRO scientist John Lowke has been studying ball lightning since the sixties. He’s never seen it, but has spoken to eye witnesses and in a new scientific paper, he gives the first mathematical solution explaining the birth of ball lightning – and how it can pass through glass.

Previous theories have cited microwave radiation from thunderclouds, oxidizing aerosols, nuclear energy, dark matter, antimatter, and even black holes as possible causes. John disputes these theories.

He proposes ball lightning is caused when leftover ions (electric energy), which are very dense, are swept to the ground following a lightning strike. As for how they pass through glass, he says this is a result of a stream of ions accumulating on the outside of a glass window and the resulting electric field on the other side excites air molecules to form a ball discharge.

According to John ball lightning is rare, but it has been witnessed in Australia many times. People just don’t realize what it is when they see it.

 

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You can listen to the whole interview here..radiorbit dot com/archives.htm
Dr. LaViolette can be found here…
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Dr. LaViolette is credited with the discovery of the planetary-stellar mass-luminosity relation which demonstrates that the Sun, planets, stars, and supernova explosions are powered by spontaneous energy creation through photon blueshifting. With this relation, he successfully predicted the mass-luminosity ratio of the first brown dwarf to be discovered. In addition, Paul LaViolette has developed a new theory of gravity that replaces the deeply flawed theory of general relativity. Predicted from subquantum kinetics, it accounts for the electrogravitic coupling phenomenon discovered by Townsend Brown and may explain the advanced aerospace propulsion technology utilized in the B-2 bomber. He is the first to discover that certain ancient creation myths and esoteric lores metaphorically encode an advanced science of cosmogenesis. His contributions to the field of Egyptology and mythology may be compared to the breaking of the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphic code.

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