Signs Of Change The Past Week Or So, April 2013 (Part 2)

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Published on Apr 16, 2013

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Why should we be concerned about the next cold climate era?

Space and Science Research Corporation

Mon, 21 Jan 2013

This new era called a ‘solar hibernation’ or ‘grand minimum’ is caused by a repeating 206 year cycle of the Sun. These hibernations are accompanied by historic reductions in the energy output of the Sun. SSRC research shows the next solar hibernation will bring a long period of cold just as it has done before every time this cycle ‘turns over’ from its global warming phase to its global cooling phase. In addition, SSRC research backed by that of other researchers has shown a high degree of correlation between solar hibernations and the world’s largest earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.Mr. Casey, President of the SSRC was the first authority to notify the White House and other government agencies of this coming solar hibernation in early 2007. Numerous other scientists discovered the same cycles of the Sun. Their findings have been ignored or buried in science journals and thus essentially unknown to the public.During the first six months of 2011, NASA, The US Air Force, and the National Solar Observatory all confirmed the coming solar grand minimum. The next solar hibernation and according to the SSRC and many other scientists, the next climate change to decades of record cold has begun.

This cold era is expected to last for approximately 22 to 33 years with the coldest temperatures to be seen during the 2020′s and 2030′s either side of the bottom year of the cycle in 2031, and have temperatures on the order of that observed during the Dalton Minimum (1793-1830). We have already seen the early signs of the new climate with record cold winters globally for some of the past four years. During the winter of 2011-2012, while the central and eastern USA experienced a relatively warm winter, Europe and Asia had a difficult winter. We have entered a period of record temperature setting both hot and cold. This trend of highly variable extremes of both hot and cold within a general trend of globally declining temperatures is fully characteristic of the transition between climate changes.

That does not mean we can wait to prepare. Now that the hibernation has begun, it is possible for these unusual variations in temperatures to strike with little warning. We should not be surprised to see occasional severe crop damage and recurring food shortages in many nations at any time. Comparisons to the Dalton Minimum show that there is a high probability of social, economic and political turmoil worldwide as a result of massive crop losses from the coming cold weather. The SSRC believes this damage to the world’s agricultural systems will be sufficient to create conditions that could lead to the world’s worst subsistence crisis in recorded history. This same food crisis occurred during the last hibernation, though with significantly fewer people to feed. Historian John D. Post called that time”…the last great subsistence crisis.”

Additionally, SSRC research and that of other respected researchers shows that geophysical upheavals like the largest earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are likely to occur during these solar events. As before with the Mt. Tambora eruption in 1815 that took place during the last solar hibernation, large volcanic eruptions may greatly add to the cooling of the Earth on top of that created by the reduction in the Sun’s output. Further, the largest recorded earthquakes in US history took place in the middle of the last hibernation, the New Madrid quakes of 1811-1812. The SSRC Research Report 1-2010, (See The RC Theory page) similar to that of other researchers, established a strong link between solar hibernations and these largest geophysical disturbances. Given the likelihood of major quakes and volcanic eruptions here in the US, the SSRC immediately notified US authorities and major news outlets after release of the report.

The SSRC predicts the first possible time frame for an instance of large scale crop damage is during the record drop in global temperatures predicted by the SSRC to take place between June 2010 and November-December 2012. (See press release 2-2010). Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions of historical scale can happen at any time now that the next solar hibernation has begun.

This is the nature of the threats that the SSRC sees during the new climate era that has just begun. The obvious message here is that we need to prepare as best we can. The SSRC will do all it can to spread the word about this new climate period and its ill-effects. We will continue to pursue the SSRC Mission of urging the government and our fellow citizens to prepare for this new climate era.

http://www.sott.net/article/256803-Why-should-we-be-concerned-about-the-next-cold-climate-era

 

Meteorologists confounded, as snow disappears from Chicago skies

As a child in the mid 60′s while living in Hinsdale, a Chicago suburb, the first snow almost always came before Thanksgiving. Especially since 65% of the US had snow on the ground at one point last month! This is very strange weather…

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Whether you like it or not, we will officially break another record for no snow today, according to the National Weather Service. “It’s pretty incredible,” said NWS meteorologist Gino Izzi. “It’s the middle of January and there’s no snow on the ground. Dallas, Texas has had more snow than us.” Izzi said the last time we have gone this far into the season without a 1-inch calendar day of snowfall was Jan. 17, 1899.

If we get no snow today – and there is none in the forecast through the weekend – it’s a record. Additionally, it’s been 326 days and counting since we’ve had a 1-inch snow cover on the ground. That record was officially broken nine days ago, according to Izzi. “If you think about it, we’re just a little over a month away from basically going an entire year without snow in Chicago,” Izzi said. Izzi attributes the lack of snow, in part, to luck. “Some of it has just been luck but there have been some pretty good storms that have missed us,” he said.

While snowfall is not in the stars for the area, very cold temperatures are. “We’re watching a little system Sunday night that will bring a really, really intense cold snap – the coldest we’ve been in nearly two years,” Izzi said. Highs will “struggle” to reach the teens by Monday into Tuesday. “We could have lows not very far from zero,” Izzi said. The Illinois Tollway will launch its Zero Weather Road Patrols this weekend to assist drivers stranded in their cars during times of extreme cold. – Chicago Tribune

http://www.sott.net/article/256631-Meteorologists-confounded-as-snow-disappears-from-Chicago-skies

Global Infrastructure ill prepared for Extreme Climate change: 10,000 passengers turn violent from delayed flights and 1000 ships stuck in sea ice in China

Oh my…extreme climate change is beginning to reveal just how unprepared the global infrastructure is for the coming planetary upheaval that’s associated with shifting and cleansing the Earths energetic operating system. Not only did things get ugly in China with 10,000 furious airline passengers in Kunming, Yunnan Province, around a thousand ships are stranded in potentially dangerous sea ice….

Keep in mind the Chinese are conditioned to react calmly and not put up a fuss, it appears they’ve had enough. Can you imagine the same scenario in America?

Stranded by fog, passengers turn violent

Global Times | 2013-1-6 9:00:29 By Li Cong

 

Stranded passengers vent their anger at a check-in counter of China Eastern Airlines at the Changshui International Airport in Kunming, Yunnan Province Friday, after a dense fog grounded 440 flights on Thursday. Photo: CFP

Some 10,000 furious airline passengers in Kunming, Yunnan Province, where flights were delayed Thursday by heavy fog, smashed check-in counters, fought with ground crew and vented their anger on the airport’s broadcast system.

Flights resumed Friday but the backlog continued into Saturday at the Changshui International Airport in Kunming, after 440 flights had been grounded by weather on Thursday.

Passengers scolded the airlines for failing to provide timely flight information. They were also upset with the airport for not providing enough hot water and heat.

According to the China National Radio (CNR), passengers waited hours without being told the status of their flights and some airline websites crashed due to a huge increase in the number of requests for information.

Li Mingxia told the Global Times her Thursday flight from Kunming to Beijing was canceled and her rescheduled flight on Friday was delayed six hours. Most infuriating, she said, was the lack of information.

“I arrived there about 1 pm Friday, shortly before the scheduled departure time, and there was no information about the flight. My flight took off after 7 pm but the information screen continued to show the flight was on schedule,” said Li.

Some ground crew and passengers got into altercations and local police were called in to restore order.

A journalist from the Kunming-based newspaper Yunnan Daily, who declined to be named, confirmed to the Global Times that the airport, which went into operation just six months ago, was short of ground crew and not equipped with enough support facilities.

“There is no large hotel close to the airport so stranded passengers are sent back downtown, 30 kilometers away. When passengers complained about the low temperature inside the airport, they were told that the heating system was not fully operational.”

CNR’s report said some passengers began to lose control on Thursday night.

“These passengers’ actions were radical, and violated laws,” Zhang Qihuai, a researcher from the Institute of Air and Space Law under the China University of Political Science and Law, told the Global Times.

“The main cause of their extreme behavior was the flawed service provided by the airport,” he added.

“The extreme weather reveals defects in the management of the civil aviation system,” said Zhang, adding that though protected by law, passengers’ rights as customers cannot be fully realized when their flights are delayed, as there is no specific regulation detailing compensation.

The airport’s official Sina Weibo said in a post late Thursday that heavy fog was to blame for the huge number of delayed and canceled flights.
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/753920.shtml

1000 ships stuck in sea ice in China

By Robert On January 5, 2013 

Temperatures in China plunge to their lowest in almost three decades.

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Bitter cold has stranded about 1,000 vessels in a layer of thick sea ice on Laizhou Bay in China’s Shandong province, reports the China Daily newspaper.

The ice expanded to 291 square km this week and is continuing to grow, said Zheng Dong, chief meteorologist at the Yantai Marine Environment Monitoring Center under the State Oceanic Administration.

According to aquafarmers, the ice may lead to heavy losses as farmers are unable to penetrate the ice to provide adequate ventilation for sea cucumbers and other aquatic organisms.

Coastal police have warned the ice may damage vessels passing through deeper sea areas near the Bohai and Yellow seas, in the northern East China Sea.

Since late November the country has endured an average of minus 3.8 degrees Celsius, 1.3 degrees colder than the previous average, and the chilliest in 28 years, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday, citing the China Meteorological Administration.

Meanwhile, heavy snowfall forced the closure of some sections of the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway, the China Daily said.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/international/2013/January /international_January147.xml&section=international

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/05/china-weather-idUSL4N0AA0D820130105

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Pinks Preview, Dec. 28, 2012…Snow, snow and more snow!

Published on Dec 28, 2012

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Numerous Japanese cities reach record lows as freezing temperature persist

Adam Westlake
The Japan Daily Press
Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:10 CST

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As Japan continues to deal with a persisting cold front, Christmas Day brought record low temperatures to as many as 44 locations, mostly in the northern region and on the island of Hokkaido. The Japan Meteorological Agency warned that cold temperatures would last throughout the week, with more heavy snowfall in the north and areas that face the Sea of Japan.

Tuesday saw temperatures setting a record low for the month of December, with Hokkaido’s city of Furano reaching minus 28.4 degrees, the coldest ever recorded since monitoring began. Record lows were also made in Tokyo, at 6 degrees, and the prefectures of Tottori and Saitama with minus 8 degrees. Homes and offices in Japan very rarely have central heating systems, and windows are poorly insulated, making it sometimes difficult to keep warm in the winter. People instead rely on kerosene-powered space heaters, creating a high demand for oil. In areas where snowfall makes it difficult to drive, gasoline stations drive trucks around with tanks of fuel and long hoses, making deliveries so people don’t even have to leave their homes.

The city of Monbetsu, also in Hokkaido, reported a meteorological phenomenon known as ice fog occurring on Tuesday. The meteorological agency says this takes place when the water vapors from the ocean rise and meet cold air on land to form thick, low-hanging clouds of very cold fog.

http://www.sott.net/article/255153-Numerous-Japanese-cities-reach-record-lows-as-freezing-temperature-persist

 

 

Man slips to his death from muddy path as ‘Monsoon May’ rain continues to soak Britain

• Tourist, 52, slipped in wet conditions in front of wife and two children
• Snow in Scotland as Met issues early weather warnings for next week
• Flood warnings continue with more persistent and heavy rain expected

By Mail On Sunday Reporter

PUBLISHED: 20:29 EST, 5 May 2012 | UPDATED: 17:29 EST, 6 May 2012

A holidaymaker plunged 50 metres to his death in a horrific cliff fall in front of his wife and two children.

The 52-year-old man was walking on a cliff path in West Cornwall when he is thought to have slipped on ground left muddy by recent heavy rain.

A sea and air rescue was launched after his family raised the alarm but he was declared dead after his body was recovered from rocks at the base of the cliff.

Tragedy: The 52-year-old holiday maker fell 160ft, whilst walking with his wife. and two children on a clifftop path near Mullion in West Cornwall

The tragedy comes as Britain faces a Bank Holiday washout with yet more severe conditions and wet weather expected later in the week.

The Met office issued early weather warnings for next week with persistent heavy rain expected to spread across the country during Wednesday evening and the early hours of Thursday.

The lowest temperature recorded overnight on Friday was in south-west Scotland, where it plummeted to -6C (21.2F).

Yesterday, Scotland experienced snow, while the skies over southern England were grey with patchy rain. Further north, sunny intervals were interspersed with showers.

Snow in May: A car travels through appalling weather along the Inverness-Ullapool Road in Scotland

Forecast: The dismal weather follows weeks of heavy rain which has caused flooding in many areas.

Temperatures in north-east England peaked at about 6C (42.8F), while in Cornwall, the mercury struggled to climb above 11C (51.8F).

‘It’s been pretty cold,’ said forecaster Nick Prebble of MeteoGroup yesterday.

‘We’ve seen flurries of snow over the Grampians and north-west Highlands, and there’s been sleet there, too. There have also been a few light sleet showers in northern England.’

More snow flurries are forecast today over high ground in Scotland.

The unsettled weather is due to continue tomorrow, with a band of heavy rain edging north-east across most parts of the country.

‘It’s looking like most places will see a wet and breezy day,’ Mr Prebble.

The tragedy in Cornwall happened early on Friday morning as the visitor from Basingstoke, Hampshire, was walking at the Cornish beauty spot.

A police spokesman said: ‘A 52 year old male from the Basingstoke area was airlifted from the bottom of cliffs at Mullion around 7.45pm on Friday 4 May.

Snow in spring: The lowest temperature recorded overnight on Friday was in Scotland, where it plummeted to -6C

A hillwalker strolls though the snow-covered heather at Braemore near Inverness today

‘The male was pronounced deceased at hospital. It is believed that the male had been walking with his wife and two young children along the cliff path prior to being found.

Police are treating the man’s death as accidental. The coroner has been informed.

Falmouth Coastguards have warned other visitors to be very careful on muddy paths near unprotected cliffs.

A spokesman said: ‘People who walk along paths should be aware that we have had a lot of wet weather and the ground may be slippery.’

The dismal weather follows weeks of heavy rain which has caused flooding in many areas.

Downpour: A woman walks in the rain past colourful Azalea flowers in Exbury Gardens in the New Forest

Purple haze: A stunning bloom of British bluebells at Enys Garden in Cornwall

Four flood warnings remain in place and the Environment Agency said that while water levels were receding, officials were continuing to monitor the situation.

Yesterday, roads remained fairly clear, with many people opting to stay at home.

The Highways Agency said: ‘The roads haven’t been overly congested, performing well despite the weather.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140240/First-floods–snows-May–just-time-Bank-Holiday.html#ixzz1uGcBtQeH

Europe tries to shield homeless from deep freeze

MSNBC
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:45 CST

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Russia and Ukraine took extra precautions on Friday to protect homeless people during a brutal cold snap, ordering new facilities and medical care after scores of people have frozen to death on the streets of Europe.

As the death toll from the past week rose to at least 175 on Friday, Russian Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered the creation of facilities nationwide to feed and provide medical assistance to the homeless.

The week-long freeze – Eastern Europe’s worst in decades – is causing power outages, frozen water pipes and widespread closure of schools, nurseries, airports and bus routes.

Other parts of Europe experienced frigid temperatures unseen in years. A roundup:

Ukraine

In the hardest-hit country, health officials have told hospitals to stop discharging the hundreds of homeless patients after they are treated for hypothermia and frostbite. The goal is to prevent them from dying once they are released into temperatures as low as minus 32 Celsius (minus 26 Fahrenheit).

Authorities also have set up nearly 3,000 heating and food shelters.

Thirty-eight more fatalities were reported from frostbite and hypothermia in Ukraine on Friday, raising the nation’s death toll to 101. Emergency officials have said many of the victims were homeless.

Bosnia

Bosnia reported its first deaths. Five people died Friday in Sarajevo, most of them while shoveling snow, Dr. Tigran Elezovic said, and one person died in the southern city of Mostar, where ambulances could not reach the victim because of snow.

Rome

Thick snowflakes fell on Rome on Friday, forcing the closure of the Colosseum over fears tourists would slip on the icy ruins, and leaving buses struggling to climb the city’s slushy hills.

The snowfall prompted authorities to stop visitors from entering the Colosseum, the adjacent Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill, the former home of Rome’s ancient emperors.

Authorities appealed to Italians to stay off highways, as the cold snap was predicted to continue well into the next week.

Northern Italy also has been gripped by snow and ice that is disrupting train travel.

Netherlands

Police in the eastern city of Wageningen reported that a homeless man found dead Thursday in a shed died of hypothermia, making him the first confirmed Dutch victim of the cold.

Traffic around the Netherlands was thrown into chaos Friday by snow. Trains ran with long delays and several flights in and out of Schiphol were delayed or canceled.

Poland

The Interior Ministry recorded eight more deaths on Friday and said two other people died of asphyxiation from carbon monoxide-spewing charcoal heaters.

Croatia and Montenegro

In Croatia, some highways were closed and waters of the Adriatic Sea froze in some areas. Buses that travel from Zagreb, the capital, toward the coast have been canceled. In Montenegro, the airport in the capital, Podgorica, was closed due to heavy snow.

This article includes reporting from Reuters and The Associated Press.

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/241076-Europe-tries-to-shield-homeless-from-deep-freeze

NibiruMagick 2012′s Climate Change Update: Gulf Dead Zone Much Larger Than thought, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station CA. (2 February 2012)

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The leak occurred in equipment that was installed in the plant in the fall of 2010. The leak occurred in one of thousands of tubes that carry radioactive water from the Unit 3 reactor.
However, the company has found damage to other tubes, Dricks said.
“The damage that they have found to many other tubes is unusual, and they are attempting to identify the reason,”
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US: Researchers Discover Gulf Dead Zone Much Larger Than Previously Thought
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Powerful energy release emanating from the Earth’s core recorded?
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Tropical Cyclone Iggy weakens before making landfall
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Report: ‘Empty’ Reactor No. 4 was actually filled with nuclear fuel — Only a matter of time before melt-out
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Newly Discovered Icelandic Current Could Lead To Climate Cooling

Mark Dunphy
Irish Weather Online
Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:13 CDT

© WHOI
The research vessel Knorr navigates the Iceland Sea while taking measurements of the Jet.

An international team of researchers has confirmed the presence of a deep-reaching ocean circulation system off Iceland that could have “important ramifications” for ocean circulation’s impact on climate in the Northern Hemisphere.

The current, called the North Icelandic Jet (NIJ), contributes to a key component of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), also known as the “great ocean conveyor belt,” which is critically important for regulating Earth’s climate.

Climate specialists have been concerned that the conveyor belt is slowing down due to a rise in global temperatures. They suggest that increasing amounts of fresh water from melting ice and other warming-related phenomena are making their way into the northern North Atlantic, where it could freeze, which would prevent the water from sinking and decrease the need for the loop to deliver as much warm water as it does now. Eventually, this could lead to a colder climate in the northern hemisphere.

The team, which includes physical oceanographers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), announced their findings in a paper published in the August 21 online issue of the journal Nature Geoscience.

As part of the planet’s reciprocal relationship between ocean circulation and climate, the “great ocean conveyor belt” transports warm surface water to high latitudes where the water warms the air, then cools, sinks, and returns towards the equator as a deep flow. Crucial to this warm-to-cold oceanographic choreography is the Denmark Strait Overflow Water (DSOW), the largest of the deep, overflow plumes that feed the lower limb of the conveyor belt and return the dense water south through gaps in the Greenland-Scotland Ridge.

For years it has been thought that the primary source of the Denmark Overflow is a current adjacent to Greenland known as the East Greenland Current. However, this view was recently called into question by two oceanographers from Iceland who discovered a deep current flowing southward along the continental slope of Iceland. They named the current the North Icelandic Jet and hypothesized that it formed a significant part of the overflow water.

Now, the team of researchers – including the two Icelanders who discovered it – has confirmed that the Icelandic Jet is not only a major contributor to the DSOW but “is the primary source of the densest overflow water.”

© WHOI
The North Icelandic Jet in cross-section, adjacent to the continental slope of Iceland.

“These results implicate water mass transformation and exchange near Iceland as central contributors to the deep limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, and raise new questions about how global ocean circulation will respond to future climate change,” said Eric Itsweire, program director in the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research.

“In our paper we present the first comprehensive measurements of the NIJ,” said Robert S. Pickart of WHOI, one of the authors of the study. “Our data demonstrate that the NIJ indeed carries overflow water into Denmark Strait and is distinct from the East Greenland Current. We show that the NIJ constitutes approximately half of the total overflow transport and nearly all of the densest component.

The researchers used a numerical model to hypothesize where and how the NIJ is formed. “We’ve identified a new paradigm,” he said. “We’re hypothesizing a new, overturning loop” of warm water to cold.

While a subsequent cooling of scenario is far from certain, it is critical that researchers understand the overturning process, he said, to be able to make accurate predictions about the future of climate and circulation interaction. “If a large fraction of the overflow water comes from the NIJ, then we need to re-think how quickly the warm-to-cold conversion of the AMOC occurs, as well as how this process might be altered under a warming climate,” Pickart said.

Pickart and a team of scientists from the U.S., Iceland, Norway, and the Netherlands are scheduled to embark on Monday on a cruise aboard the WHOI-operated R/V Knorr to collect new information on the overturning in the Iceland Sea.

“During our upcoming cruise on the Knorr we will, for the first time, deploy an array of year-long moorings across the entire Denmark Strait to quantify the NIJ and distinguish it from the East Greenland Current,” Pickart said. “Then we will collect shipboard measurements in the Iceland Sea to the north of the mooring line to determine more precisely where and how the NIJ originates.”

© WHOI
Buoyant spheres will hold moorings upright in the Jet during the upcoming expedition.