A sign that things are about to change drastically?
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angelburst29
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A once beautiful lagoon near Santiago, Chile has completely dried up for the first time in 2,000 years.
Jan. 11, 2019 - Chile's Aculeo Lagoon dries up for the first time in 2,000 years (Video)
Chile's Aculeo Lagoon dries up for the first time in 2,000 years
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Jan. 11, 2019 - Chile's Aculeo Lagoon dries up for the first time in 2,000 years (Video)
Chile's Aculeo Lagoon dries up for the first time in 2,000 years
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Chile's Aculeo Lagoon dries up for the first time in 2,000 years | Pictures | Reuters
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Seems they already knew about this in '88 and even have a name for it. They also know it's cyclical, as it has occurred at least seven times.
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The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is an important part of the Earth’s climate system. What if something disrupted it?
July 12, 2018 - Scientists may have solved a huge riddle that led to more than 1,000 years of cold on Earth. It doesn’t bode well
Scientists may have solved a huge riddle that led to more than 1,000 years of cold on Earth. It doesn’t bode well for the future. - The Boston Globe
Thirteen thousand years ago, an ice age was ending, the Earth was warming, the oceans were rising. Then something strange happened — the Northern Hemisphere suddenly became much colder, and stayed that way for more than a thousand years.
For some time, scientists have been debating how this major climatic event — called the ‘‘Younger Dryas’’ — happened. The question has grown more urgent: Its answer may involve the kind of fast-moving climate event that could occur again.
This week, a scientific team made a new claim to having found that answer. On the basis of measurements taken off the northern coasts of Alaska and Canada in the Beaufort Sea, the scientists say they detected the signature of a huge glacial flood event that occurred around the same time.
This flood, they posit, would have flowed from the Arctic into the Atlantic Ocean and shut down the crucial circulation known as the ‘‘Atlantic meridional overturning circulation’’ (or AMOC) — plunging Europe and much of North America back into cold conditions.
‘‘Even though we were in an overall warming period, this freshwater, exported from the Arctic, slowed down the vigor, efficiency of the meridional overturning, and potentially caused the cooling observed strongly in Europe,’’ said Neal Driscoll, one of the study’s authors and a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The work, published in Nature Geoscience, was led by Lloyd Keigwin of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution along with researchers at that institution, Scripps and Oregon State University.
The result remains contested, though, with other researchers still arguing for different theories of what caused the Younger Dryas - including a very differently routed flood event that would have entered the ocean thousands of miles away.
Nonetheless, the story is relevant because today, we’re watching another —or rather, a further — deglaciation, as humans cause a warming of the planet. There is also evidence that the Atlantic circulation is weakening again, although scientists certainly do not think a total shutoff is imminent, and are still debating the causes of what is being observed.
Either way, the new research underscores that as the Earth warms and its ice melts, major changes can happen in the oceans. And could happen again.
The researchers behind the current study, working on board the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy, analyzed sediments of deep ocean mud, which contain the shells of long-dead marine organisms called foraminifera. In those shells, the scientists detected a long-sought-after anomaly recorded in the language of oxygen atoms.
The shells contained a disproportionate volume of oxygen−16, a lighter form (or isotope) of the element that is found in high levels in glaciers. That is because oxygen−16, containing two fewer neutrons and therefore lighter than oxygen−18, evaporates more easily from the ocean but does not rain out again as readily. As a result, it often falls as snow at high latitudes and is stored in large bodies of ice.
‘‘This is the smoking gun for fingerprinting glacial lake outbursts,’’ Driscoll said. And that means the findings may also represent the trigger for the Younger Dryas.
The thinking is that as the ice age ended and the enormous Laurentide ice sheet atop North America began to retreat, the resulting meltwater fed a bevy of large lakes atop the depressed surface of the continent. That included the massive glacial Lake Agassiz, which stretched from the Great Lakes northwestward across much of Canada.
Prior research had shown that for a while, much of the resulting freshwater drained down the Mississippi River and into the Gulf of Mexico. But at some point, as the ice sheet continued to shrink, the flow of water appears to have been suddenly rerouted to the north or to the east, where it could do more potential damage to the ocean circulation in the Atlantic.
There has long been scientific debate about where all the meltwater actually entered the ocean, though, with some contending that it would have occurred through the St. Lawrence River, which flows past today’s Montreal and Quebec City and thus out into the Atlantic.
The new research holds that, instead, the floodwater exited through the Mackenzie River, which stretches across today’s Northwest Territories, emptying straight into the Arctic Ocean.
It would certainly have been an enormous flow of fresh water. ‘‘I would say somewhere between the Mississippi and the Amazon,’’ Keigwin said.
That could have interfered with the Atlantic circulation, which is crucial because it carries warm water northward, and so heats higher latitudes. Eventually, the waters of the circulation become very cold as they travel northward, but because they are also quite salty, they sink because of their high density and travel back south again.
Freshening is therefore the Achilles’ heel of the circulation. And the new study argues that although the glacial water would have entered the seas very far away near the present Alaska-Canada border, it would have then circulated around the Arctic, eventually traveling south past Greenland and entering the key regions that are crucial to the overturning circulation, which tend to be off Greenland’s southern coasts.
Not everyone is convinced, though - including some researchers who have previously published results suggesting that the outburst flood or flow was instead to the east, through the St. Lawrence River.
‘‘They have produced a nice signal of the release of freshwater into the Arctic Ocean, but the conclusions are based on an uncertain chronology which, when trying to tie together events so closely, requires some independent confirmation,’’ Peter Clark, an Oregon State University geoscientist who has published evidence supporting the St. Lawrence River theory, said in an email.
Anders Carlson, Clark’s co-author and colleague at Oregon State University, sent a geological study finding that, as he put it in an email, ‘‘the Lake Agassiz waters were clearly routed eastward at the start of the Younger Dryas.’’
‘‘This does not preclude Younger Dryas-age floods . . . to the Arctic Ocean,’’ Carlson wrote, ‘‘but it does show that such floods are of local origin and not related to the drainage of Lake Agassiz.’’
Both groups, though, think the flow of fresh water from the gigantic lake and from other melting events toward the Atlantic interfered with the ocean’s circulation — they’re just disagreeing about how it got there.
The question thus becomes whether it is possible to even more dramatically interfere with the circulation again — and what could cause that.
‘‘I don’t think there’s any lakes on land that are big enough to do this,’’ Keigwin said. ‘‘It has to come from ice, because that’s the biggest reservoir of freshwater. And Greenland is the ice mass that you would be most suspicious of, because it’s right there poised to do enough damage.’’
And yet, Greenland is no Lake Agassiz. ‘‘Greenland doesn’t have large land lakes to store the water,’’ Driscoll said. Rather, it releases steady streams of water in the form of glacial runoff, which often goes straight into the ocean — and it releases huge icebergs that slowly melt.
So nobody is necessarily expecting a sudden outburst flood as Greenland melts. Still, Driscoll and Keigwin both think that Greenland’s steady losses over time, especially if they increase in pace, can build up.
Climate scientists will be quick to point out that even if the Atlantic circulation slows or shuts down, ceasing to transport as much heat and leading to some Northern Hemisphere cooling, the overall global warming trend will still be ongoing and may overpower it. We won’t directly repeat the Younger Dryas, but we can learn from it.
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angelburst29
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SYDNEY, Australia: “Hundreds of thousands” of fish have died in drought-stricken Australia in the last few days and more mass deaths are likely to occur, the authorities warned Tuesday.
January 29, 2019 - Sea of white: ‘Hundreds of thousands’ of fish dead in Australia
Sea of white: ‘Hundreds of thousands’ of fish dead in Australia
Scores of dead fish floating on the Darling river in Menindee. (AFP/Robert Greogory)
Locals around the Darling River were confronted with a sea of white, as dead fish carpeted the waters near the southeastern Outback town of Menindee.
Just weeks after up to a million were killed — with scientists pointing to low water and oxygen levels as well as possibly toxic algae — another mass death occurred in the key agricultural region.
Inspectors from the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries have visited the site and said they found that “hundreds of thousands of fish have died.”
“Further fish deaths in the Darling River are anticipated as a significant number of fish have been observed under stress,” the department said in a statement.
Some 700 kilos (1,543 pounds) of dead fish were removed from the river Monday, with similar amounts expected to be collected Tuesday, it added.
January 29, 2019 - Sea of white: ‘Hundreds of thousands’ of fish dead in Australia
Sea of white: ‘Hundreds of thousands’ of fish dead in Australia
Scores of dead fish floating on the Darling river in Menindee. (AFP/Robert Greogory)
Locals around the Darling River were confronted with a sea of white, as dead fish carpeted the waters near the southeastern Outback town of Menindee.
Just weeks after up to a million were killed — with scientists pointing to low water and oxygen levels as well as possibly toxic algae — another mass death occurred in the key agricultural region.
Inspectors from the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries have visited the site and said they found that “hundreds of thousands of fish have died.”
“Further fish deaths in the Darling River are anticipated as a significant number of fish have been observed under stress,” the department said in a statement.
Some 700 kilos (1,543 pounds) of dead fish were removed from the river Monday, with similar amounts expected to be collected Tuesday, it added.
angelburst29
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A massive “ice tsunami” created a surreal scene on the shores of Lake Erie in both Ontario, Canada and near Buffalo, New York over the weekend.
Feb. 26, 2019 - Watch As Lake Erie Sends A Massive 40-Foot 'Ice Tsunami' Crashing Ashore (Video)
Watch As Lake Erie Sends A Massive 40-Foot 'Ice Tsunami' Crashing Ashore
High winds pushed ice through the Niagara River and into the lake, and eventually forced it ashore, creating what’s more formally known as an “ice shove” in Fort Erie, Canada and Hamburg, N.Y.
Storm chaser David Piano told CNN the ice wall was 40 feet high in spots and “starting to bulldoze trees and street lamps.”
Similar scenes were reported elsewhere along Lake Erie, including at Hoover Beach in Hamburg, just outside of Buffalo. WGRZ, the local NBC station, said the ice shove hit 30 feet high in parts of Hoover Beach:
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“This is the first time in my entire life I’ve seen it come this high and this close to the house,” longtime resident Jack Schultz told the Buffalo News. “It came up in sheets. It just layered it up to the wall. Then, when the (ice) boom broke, it took all the pressure out of here.”
National Geographic said ice shoves ― also called ice pushes and ivu ― are created by high winds and “are most likely to occur in the early spring, when ice just starts to weaken and break up.”
Feb. 26, 2019 - 'Ice tsunami' hits New York prompting evacuations
'Ice tsunami' hits New York prompting evacuations
As parts of the UK hit record high temperatures for February, an “ice tsunami” has been ravaging the US.
The phenomenon, officially called an ice shove or ice surge, occurs when ocean currents, strong winds or temperature differences push ice blocks from the water onto the shore – in this case winds of 119kph.
Towering 30ft walls of ice were spotted on the shores of Lake Erie and banks of the Niagara River in New York State near the Canadian border on Monday 25 February.
Video footage shows undulating chunks of ice surging over the lake’s edge, eerily propelled by an invisible force.
Police warned people to drive carefully, while a voluntary evacuation was encouraged for residents of Hoover Beach, a neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Lake Erie.
“We’ve had storms in the past but nothing like this,” Hoover Beach local Dave Schultz told WGRZ, adding that in 50 years he’s never seen the ice pushed up against the walls and spilling onto residents’ patios like it is at the moment.
Local emergency services crews went door to door to check on all residents affected by the evacuation.
Buffalo’s National Weather Service issued a wind advisory warning on Monday night, warning of strong gusts that could bring down trees and power lines and result in numerous power outages.
https://twitter.com/wildwildweather
Locals shared footage and pictures of the ice tsunami on social media, with David Piano tweeting: ”This ice tsunami is one of the craziest things I’ve ever witnessed. Starting to bulldoze trees and street lamps.”
Peter Thanasse wrote: “It’s pretty bad here in Niagara/FtErie area. My roof is bare in spots now (already called insurance) and wind along Lake Erie shoreline has created an ice tsunami”.
Feb. 26, 2019 - Watch As Lake Erie Sends A Massive 40-Foot 'Ice Tsunami' Crashing Ashore (Video)
Watch As Lake Erie Sends A Massive 40-Foot 'Ice Tsunami' Crashing Ashore
High winds pushed ice through the Niagara River and into the lake, and eventually forced it ashore, creating what’s more formally known as an “ice shove” in Fort Erie, Canada and Hamburg, N.Y.
Storm chaser David Piano told CNN the ice wall was 40 feet high in spots and “starting to bulldoze trees and street lamps.”
Similar scenes were reported elsewhere along Lake Erie, including at Hoover Beach in Hamburg, just outside of Buffalo. WGRZ, the local NBC station, said the ice shove hit 30 feet high in parts of Hoover Beach:
http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/cc/en-us/
“This is the first time in my entire life I’ve seen it come this high and this close to the house,” longtime resident Jack Schultz told the Buffalo News. “It came up in sheets. It just layered it up to the wall. Then, when the (ice) boom broke, it took all the pressure out of here.”
National Geographic said ice shoves ― also called ice pushes and ivu ― are created by high winds and “are most likely to occur in the early spring, when ice just starts to weaken and break up.”
Feb. 26, 2019 - 'Ice tsunami' hits New York prompting evacuations
'Ice tsunami' hits New York prompting evacuations
As parts of the UK hit record high temperatures for February, an “ice tsunami” has been ravaging the US.
The phenomenon, officially called an ice shove or ice surge, occurs when ocean currents, strong winds or temperature differences push ice blocks from the water onto the shore – in this case winds of 119kph.
Towering 30ft walls of ice were spotted on the shores of Lake Erie and banks of the Niagara River in New York State near the Canadian border on Monday 25 February.
Video footage shows undulating chunks of ice surging over the lake’s edge, eerily propelled by an invisible force.
Police warned people to drive carefully, while a voluntary evacuation was encouraged for residents of Hoover Beach, a neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Lake Erie.
“We’ve had storms in the past but nothing like this,” Hoover Beach local Dave Schultz told WGRZ, adding that in 50 years he’s never seen the ice pushed up against the walls and spilling onto residents’ patios like it is at the moment.
Local emergency services crews went door to door to check on all residents affected by the evacuation.
Buffalo’s National Weather Service issued a wind advisory warning on Monday night, warning of strong gusts that could bring down trees and power lines and result in numerous power outages.
https://twitter.com/wildwildweather
Locals shared footage and pictures of the ice tsunami on social media, with David Piano tweeting: ”This ice tsunami is one of the craziest things I’ve ever witnessed. Starting to bulldoze trees and street lamps.”
Peter Thanasse wrote: “It’s pretty bad here in Niagara/FtErie area. My roof is bare in spots now (already called insurance) and wind along Lake Erie shoreline has created an ice tsunami”.
The OKC Bombing: What Happened And Why It Still Matters
Today James Corbett and Chris Emery of Free Mind Films join Ricky Varandas on The Ripple Effect podcast to discuss the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and why it still matters.
Two weeks ago french military were present in this area (for a week), with some light detachments practicing local maneuvers.
Light duty street patrol 4x4 with machine gun turrets.
Noticed also local utility vehicles clustered near here, on 2 different occasions, (networking...?).
Over the summer Orange Internet provider moved through this area upgrading the hard wire delivery with glass fiber optic, while also replacing many wood poles with synthetic resin composite plastics.
Also they, did some rapid repaving of hard use roads via private contractors. The reason given, for next years Tour de France. Ah OK?
Like the sessions say, weather disguised as 4Dsts war in the heavens.
October 20, 2019 Starts @11:30
Session 2 May 2015
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Light duty street patrol 4x4 with machine gun turrets.
Noticed also local utility vehicles clustered near here, on 2 different occasions, (networking...?).
Over the summer Orange Internet provider moved through this area upgrading the hard wire delivery with glass fiber optic, while also replacing many wood poles with synthetic resin composite plastics.
Also they, did some rapid repaving of hard use roads via private contractors. The reason given, for next years Tour de France. Ah OK?
Like the sessions say, weather disguised as 4Dsts war in the heavens.
October 20, 2019 Starts @11:30
Session 2 May 2015
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I'm not sure what this has to do with anything - except for the fact that Orange is upgrading to fiber everywhere there are copper wires, which is to say all over France, over the next few years.
Last summer, we got a huge DSL upgrade. Around August 2020, we're scheduled to get fiber. There have been trucks doing work like this all over our region for awhile now.
Interestingly enough, we are NOT scheduled to get 5G anytime soon (thank god).
I agree just stating some trivia and watching. They were in the rain today putting in another plastic pole.
Sell, sell, sell. Fact is old people here are TV bound. It means nothing to them, Unless, the local phone bee's put the hard sell (whammy), a on them.
We saw a huge surge of internet traffic during the Tour De France. Traffic here came to halt. To many mobile devices in use at peek times.
Lots of law enforcement within the crowds. Just a huge difference, to the very first time,
This time though, there were lots of heavy weapons. Obediently, it would now the new normal.
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EU is tanking. The cuts can seen and by watching the local traffic, business's and networking.
By all accounts I get the feeling will be something celestial and or natural event on steroids I just get that, feeling.
Sell, sell, sell. Fact is old people here are TV bound. It means nothing to them, Unless, the local phone bee's put the hard sell (whammy), a on them.
We saw a huge surge of internet traffic during the Tour De France. Traffic here came to halt. To many mobile devices in use at peek times.
Lots of law enforcement within the crowds. Just a huge difference, to the very first time,
This time though, there were lots of heavy weapons. Obediently, it would now the new normal.
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EU is tanking. The cuts can seen and by watching the local traffic, business's and networking.
By all accounts I get the feeling will be something celestial and or natural event on steroids I just get that, feeling.
Fiber is good
Fat is better
duyunne
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I was also forced into abandoning our local copper infrastructure in favour of fibre this year at my residence.
I tried to dispute the change, as my dual DSL was tip top, citing my inability to have a phone in time of power outage.
The rep admitted that there is no policies to protect my right to a copper phone line and recommended I use a UPS for their VoIP replacement if I had concerns for power.
They outright offered to cancel my phone if I didn’t want to keep it as result of this mandatory change.
I found that telling of the situation, as typically they would go above and beyond and keep using the copper infrastructure if they can maintain a subscription. I believe they intend on dismantling this legacy infrastructure.
Sure fibre is better for bandwidth but the copper infrastructure allowed communication without a power grid. Sometimes (actually mosttimes in our clown world dystopia) newer isn’t better.
I tried to dispute the change, as my dual DSL was tip top, citing my inability to have a phone in time of power outage.
The rep admitted that there is no policies to protect my right to a copper phone line and recommended I use a UPS for their VoIP replacement if I had concerns for power.
They outright offered to cancel my phone if I didn’t want to keep it as result of this mandatory change.
I found that telling of the situation, as typically they would go above and beyond and keep using the copper infrastructure if they can maintain a subscription. I believe they intend on dismantling this legacy infrastructure.
Sure fibre is better for bandwidth but the copper infrastructure allowed communication without a power grid. Sometimes (actually mosttimes in our clown world dystopia) newer isn’t better.
Same here in Australia. Really telling of control agenda.
