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Diamonds and precious metals found in the eastern United States might have rained down during the last Ice Age after a comet shattered over Canada and set North America ablaze, all leading to a mass die-off of animals and humans. New chemical analyses of diamond, gold and silver found in Ohio and Indiana reveal the minerals were transported there from Canada several thousand years ago. The question is, how? "There are no gold mines or silver mines in Ohio that anyone knows of, but there are plenty of them in Canada," said retired geophysicist Allen West, who was involved in...

Record Report Statement as of 4:30 am CDT on July 4, 2008 ... Record cold high temperature in Springfield on July 3... The high temperature in Springfield yesterday was only 69 degrees. This is the coldest high temperature on record for July 3. The old record of 70 degrees was set in 1892. The normal high temperature for the date is 86 degrees.

This will be official at 11am EDT. Was recently named TD2. Furthest east a storm has formed so early, replaces... Bertha of 1996.

The U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research today released a scientific assessment that provides the first comprehensive analysis of observed and projected changes in weather and climate extremes in North America and U.S. territories. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change previously evaluated extreme weather and climate events on a global basis in this same context. However, there has not been a specific assessment across North America prior to this report. Among the major findings reported in this assessment are that droughts, heavy downpours, excessive heat, and intense hurricanes are likely to become more commonplace...

Over the past few days, a plethora of articles have been published saying that Arctic ice is melting at a faster rate than last year, which was a recent historical record, and the North Pole will soon be ice free. The graphic below and link to this thread show the opposite: Compare (Arctic) Daily Sea IceAssociated web page:The Cryosphere Today As for the North Pole being ice free, there are openings in the sea ice that don't mean the entire surrounding area is free of ice:The Top of the World: Is the North Pole Turning to Water?

PARIS (AFP) — Recent massive volcanoes have risen from the ocean floor deep under the Arctic ice cap, spewing plumes of fragmented magma into the sea, scientists who filmed the aftermath reported Wednesday...

The Weather Channel, at the noted link, has established a contest for high school students where they can submit the great things they are doing to fight AGW. This is the first time I've seen any Watermelons make the huge mistake of enabling AGW skeptics to comment on their destructive activities and show what a crock AGW is. It would be real fun to overload their server with bogus entries showing what fools Watermelons are. FREEP ON!!!

Extreme weather has virtually wiped out Door County’s cherry crop for this year, which not only means slim pickings in orchards that attract thousands of tourists each summer, but also a loss of an estimated 350 to 400 seasonal jobs for workers who harvest and process the iconic scarlet fruit. At a time when epic rains and flooding have wiped out berries and vegetables in other parts of the state, Door County’s loss may seem surprising because it is attributed to an opposite extreme: a three-month drought last summer, followed by a January that brought rain and wild temperature fluctuations....

The recent devastating flooding in our heartland raised 1 question in my mind........

Cedar Rapids, IA (AHN) - Despite the lower level of Iowa's floodwaters, Midwestern state residents could not yet rest from sandbagging operations. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have advised communities near the Mississippi River in Iowa and Missouri to continue making sandbags and placing it along the river to prevent future inundation of several areas. According to the National Weather Service forecast, more rains are on the way and it would cause the Mississippi River to rise to a point that water will spill over 26 or 27 levees between Davenport in Iowa and St. Louis in Missouri, said...

Hey "School-Bus" Nagin, Has anyone told you the water is coming! No, it's not a hurricane. It's weird, all that flood water from your neighbors to the north just happens to run south, right down the middle of your city! You're been warned! ...for what good that will do.

SPOKANE, Wash- The Spokane area saw record low temperatures and even a little bit of snow Tuesday morning, and all just 11 days before the official start of summer. Much of the Inland Northwest remained under a snow warning from the National Weather Service Tuesday morning. KHQ received calls from people in Reardan, Moscow, Pullman, Loon Lake, Airway Heights, Deary, Spokane's South Hill, and Deer Park who all say they saw snow Tuesday morning. According to the National Weather service, Spokane's low temperature dipped all the way down to 36 degrees. A trace of snow was also recorded at the...

Drudge has this up on a story of the Iowa twister.

Friday A.M. Weather Front http://weather.unisys.com/radar/rad_mw.html

Live streaming videos of what may be a busy night in Kansas and Missouri

A look at some of the deadliest natural disasters around the world in the past 40 years: — May 12, 2008: Earthquake (magnitude 7.9) hits Sichuan province in central China. More than 69,000 people are killed and over 17,000 remain missing. — May 2-3, 2008: Cyclone Nargis strikes Myanmar, killing at least 78,000 and leaving 56,000 others missing. — October 2005: Northern Pakistan earthquake (magnitude 7.6) kills about 78,000 people. — August 2005: U.S. Gulf Coast Hurricane Katrina kills at least 1,600 people in Louisiana and Mississippi. — December 2004: Indian Ocean tsunami (triggered by magnitude 9.0 earthquake) kills 230,000...

LAKE DELTON, WI - A 245-acre lake in this resort town overflowed Monday, virtually emptying the lake basin and washing away lakefront homes along with a chunk of the local tourism industry.Lake Delton, a key part of the Wisconsin Dells tourism area, overflowed about 10 a.m. on Monday morning after two days of rain and was dry by Monday afternoon, said Thomas Diehl, a Lake Delton village trustee. Water in the manmade lake rose until it was too much for a highway enbankment that was holding it back. The highway washed away as water drained into the nearby Wisconsin River....

GAYS MILLS, WI -- Another wave of severe thunderstorms pounded the southern half of Wisconsin Sunday, creating flash floods, forcing evacuations and dredging up nightmares of flooding not even a year past. Reports of flooding came in across a 150-mile swath of the state, from the Milwaukee suburbs of Oak Creek and Cudahy to parts of Crawford, Dane and Vernon counties. The National Guard from Fort McCoy also was called in to help Vernon County emergency personnel evacuate about 50 people from a trailer park in Ontario that was flooded, said Jane Larsen, a spokeswoman for Wisconsin Emergency Management. Residents...

Best show on TV starts tonight...The Ice Road Truckers are back for a new challenge: Killer storms, monster loads, and this year, they're on the Arctic Ocean!!!

Black day of 1780 caused by distant wildfires, MU experts sayCOLUMBIA, Mo. – At noon, it was black as night. It was May 19, 1780 and some people in New England thought judgment day was at hand. Accounts of that day, which became known as 'New England's Dark Day,' include mentions of midday meals by candlelight, night birds coming out to sing, flowers folding their petals,and strange behavior from animals. The mystery of this day has been solved by researchers at the University of Missouri who say evidence from tree rings reveals massive wildfires as the likely cause, one of...

Check out this amazing video of an Air Force funeral detail at Arlington National Cemetery. As a furious thunderstorm rolls in with blinding rain and enough wind to rip their hats off their heads, they don't move a muscle, and continue their watch over the departed. Simply amazing, and very moving.

An Inconvenient Truth The Opera Jackie and Dunlap on the Inconvenient Truth Opera commissioned by La Strada Click the pic to watch the video! "Over in Italy they've commisioned a new opera based on the movie 'An Inconvenient Truth'." Yeah, leave it to the Italians to combine the two worst things in the world: opera and Al Gore."

BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM ARTHUR SPECIAL ADVISORY NUMBER 1 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL012008 100 PM EDT SAT MAY 31 2008 ...TROPICAL STORM ARTHUR...FIRST STORM OF THE 2008 ATLANTIC SEASON...QUICKLY FORMS NEAR THE COAST OF BELIZE...ALREADY MOVING INLAND... AT 1 PM EDT...1700 UTC...THE GOVERNMENT OF BELIZE HAS ISSUED A TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR THE COAST OF BELIZE....AND THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO HAS ISSUED A TROPICAL STORM WARNING FROM CABO CATOCHE SOUTHWARD TO THE BORDER WITH BELIZE. A TROPICAL STORM WARNING MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITHIN THE WARNING AREA..IN THIS CASE...WITHIN THE NEXT 6 TO 12 HOURS....

BULLETIN TROPICAL DEPRESSION ONE-E ADVISORY NUMBER 1 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL EP012008 800 PM PDT WED MAY 28 2008 ...TROPICAL DEPRESSION FORMS NEAR COSTA RICA...EXPECTED TO BRING HEAVY RAINS TO PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AMERICA... AT 8 PM PDT...0300 UTC...THE GOVERNMENT OF COSTA RICA HAS ISSUED A TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR THE PACIFIC COAST OF COSTA RICA. A TROPICAL STORM WARNING MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITHIN THE WARNING AREA WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO SPREAD ACROSS THE PACIFIC COAST OF NICARAGUA DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. FOR STORM...

Details sketchy but massive tornadoes have it towns in IA this are reports from scanners and spotters..no link yet also north suburbs of Min-ST paul MN has taken tornado hits with lots of damage MN MIN| Washington County (Hugo)| Search & Rescue| | US-61 IAO 159th St|U/D: MSP on Fenway St w/2 kids full code, many other reports of entrapment, 5 city blocks wiped out| ILL113| 17:26 MIN| Washington County (Hugo)| Search & Rescue| | 170th St @ Manning Trail|Multiple houses struck by tornado, searches in progress, FD O/S| ILL113| 17:10 QUOTE MIN| Washington County (Hugo)| Search & Rescue| |...

100 kids saved by quick thinking day care workers By Sean Tobin FOX 31 reporter WINDSOR (MyFOXColorado.com) - It was a moment Richard Dykstra will never forget. When a tornado destroyed the windmill day care building.Teachers and kids were inside at the time the tornado approached. "One of them is my grandson," said Dykstra. As the tornado bore down, a bank across the street huddled the kids into the bank's vault for safety. "We brought them from the day care over to the bank, and there wasn't one kid who had a scratch on them," said bank manager Harry Souvall.It's...

Looks like they've spotted something on the TVN stream, near Garden City, KS - http://www.tornadovideos.net/index.cfm/do/s.LiveTracker

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for West Central Weld County and East Centrla Larimer County until 1 p.m. today. A tornado already has touched down in Gilcrest and Milliken, and there are reports that the storm has caused heavy damage near Promontory in west Greeley. The Weather Serivce tracked a large tornado three miles southwest of the New Windsor reservoir, eight miles east of Fort Collins. The National Weather Service reports that the safest place to be is in the basement. Get under a work bench or other piece of sturdy furniture. If there is no...

May 19, 2008 -- Global warming isn't to blame for the recent jump in hurricanes in the Atlantic, concludes a study by a prominent federal scientist whose position has shifted on the subject. Not only that, warmer temperatures will actually reduce the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic and those making landfall, research meteorologist Tom Knutson reported in a study released Sunday. In the past, Knutson has raised concerns about the effects of climate change on storms. His new paper has the potential to heat up a simmering debate among meteorologists about current and future effects of global warming in...

NOAA: U.S. Has Cool April, Global Temperature Ranked 13th Warmest on RecordThis past month was the coolest April in 11 years for the lower 48 United States, and fell into the lowest twenty-five percent of all Aprils based on records going back to 1895, according to an analysis by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The average April temperature, 51°F, during April was one degree below the 20th century mean, and was the 29th coolest, or 86th warmest, based on preliminary data. The combined average global land and ocean surface temperatures for April ranked 13th warmest since worldwide...

Global warming isn't to blame for the recent jump in hurricanes in the Atlantic, concludes a study by a prominent federal scientist whose position has shifted on the subject. Not only that, warmer temperatures will actually reduce the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic and those making landfall, meteorologist Tom Knutson reported in a study released Sunday. In the past, Knutson has raised concerns about the effects of climate change on storms. His new paper has the potential to heat up the debate among meteorologists about current and future effects of global warming in the Atlantic. Ever since Hurricane Katrina...

NEOSHO, Mo. -- Missouri's two U.S. senators toured tornado-damaged areas of Newton County on Friday. A reporter asked about the possibility of federal aid to help people install tornado shelters or buy weather alert radios for their homes. "At some point, you've got to take some responsibility. The federal federal government, unless you're in need, is not going to buy your lunch for you; it's not going to buy your TV set, and a weather radio is probably something a provident, responsible family should do," said Sen. Kit Bond. "The important thing is to make sure they have the accurate...

Recently received this picture from my brother who is in the oil "bidness". Not something you want to see at night when the lightening flashes.

Big snow equals big lines, but avy hazards linger. It ain’t over ‘til it’s over. That’s what diehard skiers are saying this year, milking every last drop of pleasure from a a winter that just won’t seem to end... some of the best skiing of the season ... where winter-like snow lingers in the steepest notches and chutes. The relatively dense spring snow settles more quickly than mid-winter powder, and this is prime-time for the hike-to terrain. “It was sweet,” Local backcountry skiers are talking about big lines on big peaks, with solid top-to-bottom coverage on favorites like Buffalo Mountain...

Obesity contributes to global warming: study Michael Kahn, Reuters Published: Thursday, May 15, 2008 GENEVA (Reuters) - Obesity contributes to global warming, too. Obese and overweight people require more fuel to transport them and the food they eat, and the problem will worsen as the population literally swells in size, a team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine says. This adds to food shortages and higher energy prices, the school's researchers Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts wrote in the journal Lancet on Friday. "We are all becoming heavier and it is a global responsibility," Edwards said in...

On May 2, Chile's Chaiten Volcano released a gigantic cloud of emissions composed of ash, steam, smoke, and various oddball gases whose estimated amount equals to one trillion cow farts, a UN-sponsored climate change study revealed. "In just one day, this volcano set the Kyoto Protocol back 15 years, obliterating the otherwise outstanding success of our multi-billion dollar efforts to curb the release of cow farts into the atmosphere," complained Chairman of Intergovernmental Panel on Cow Farts (IPCF) Rajendra K. Pachauri at an emergency conference at Grand Plaza Hotel in New York yesterday. "Therefore, we demand that this eruption be...

The Weather Channel did not need Doppler Radar to track this storm. It needed a lawyer. For almost two years, co-anchors Bob Stokes and Hillary Andrews seemed to make a good team on air and enjoyed good ratings. But behind the scenes, Stokes was sexually harassing Andrews and sabotaging her work on the air, her ongoing lawsuit against Stokes contends. According to Andrews' lawsuit, Stokes, 50, once a popular meteorologist at the cable network, was a serial sexual harasser. Stokes had already harassed a former co-anchor and then became sexually obsessed with Andrews when she began working at the cable...

How one of the worst press releases found its way to newspaper and website headlines. And made Apple bad along the way. We all should do as much as we can to protect our environment. It shouldn't be like "This is 'in' this week", but real commitment. After all, we don't want to [have] left a piece of rock to our children instead of clear sky, blue sea and fresh air. That said, every report that points to any wrongdoing and pollution should be welcomed, but it seems that some companies care more about their PR than nature. While looking...

Copying the self-serving campaigns run by SVTC and Greenpeace, the group Climate Counts has made Apple, Inc. the core of its latest press releases. The group says Apple “is not yet taking meaningful action on climate change,” and is a “choice to avoid for the climate-conscious consumer,” but then points out that its “action” metrics are all based on ineffectual political posturing. And the reason for the tough critique: Apple elected not to join the Climate Counts consortium last year and throw money at the group’s ineffectual efforts to “facilitate engagement.” A Low Score on the BS Meter. In its...

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 1226 AM EDT FRI MAY 9 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ARLINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA CITY OF ALEXANDRIA IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA * UNTIL 415 AM EDT * AT 1218 AM EDT...RADAR IMAGERY INDICATE A LARGE AREA OF RAIN COVERING THE WASHINGTON METRO AREA. RECENT OBSERVATIONS ACROSS THE REGION SHOW THAT INCH AND HALF OF RAIN ARE LIKELY IN JUST A MATTER OF AN HOUR OR TWO. THESE...

Attention Global Warming Alarmists! You better sit down. I have bad news. It's so bad in fact, that this isn’t going to be easy for me. Now, I don’t know how to say it, so I’m just going to say it. It looks like we are not in a prolonged period of Global Warming. No, according to NASA and 3000 temperature measuring ocean buoys, global temperatures are cooling, not warming. I know...I know... this is horrible news, and I’m sorry to be the one to break it to you. The flooded cities, the dead polar bears, the shrinking glaciers, the...

Lawrence Solomon talked about his book The Deniers: The World-Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud

Just finished, watching a Discovery Channel special on the tornado which demolished Greensburg KS in 2007. Pretty much leveled the entire town, right down to the house slabs. The entire last half of the "documentary", turned into yet another leftist moron screed on going "green". What was never mentioned, in the propaganda-laced entire last half of the one-hour show, was whether the new buildings in Greensburg KS, would actually withstand the same wind forces - which destroyed the town to begin with. It wasn't an issue. What appeared to be the issue, was the word "Green", in the name of...

I am NOT a scientist, BUT… I’ve performed my own global warming study based solely on common sense! I’ve found after many hours of research that man CANNOT be responsible for any change in the earth’s weather. If you someone who thinks that man is capable of controlling the earth's weather, show my carefully crafted study and tell them to explain how it can be done. Here are my facts: The 3,000 scientific robots that measure the temperature of the oceans haven't recorded ANY change in temperature over the last 4 to 5 years!! No Temperature ChangeThere is an estimated...

Excerpt - Here is the video of several tornadoes that touched down today in Pawnee/Osage County, OK, shot by the TVN stream #1 team of Matt Chatelain, Daniel Betten, Matt Van Every, and Curtis McDonald. We made it to the storm in time for the last tornado, which was completely illuminated by several power flashes in succession. However, we missed the first few high-contrast tornadoes that TVN stream 1 intercepted. AMAZING supercell! When we punched the core there was barely anything left of the hail shaft, but the tornado was still violent and a strong stovepipe. Now we're headed to...

The National Weather Service has issued a Freeze Warning from midnight Tuesday night until 8 a.m. Wednesday.

The spring storm that blanketed Anchorage with heavy snow Friday is creating trouble all around town. Friday evening, the National Weather Service upgraded the situation from an advisory to a heavy snow warning. People should travel only in an emergency, the weather service said. The deadline for removing studded tires was April 30 -- Wednesday. But state Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan issued an emergency order Friday extending the deadline two weeks for those affected. The new deadline for those in the storm area is May 15. Around 10 inches of snow fell during the day and another 8 to...

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Long before we are extinguished by global food shortages or raised sea levels, I predict, we are fated to die of boredom, struck down in our prime by the devastating virus 0157eco-smugness. Doctors will be powerless to stop as the bug invades our minds, causing nervous paralysis leading to eventual seizure. We are doomed, for sure, to terminal ennui brought on by environmental righteousness. This is the terrible paradox of the environmental movement. The paradox that, if society proceeds down the true path of eco-purity, we may well save the planet; but will simultaneously discover that life is too dull...

Before global warming, the latest snow ever recorded in the Seattle Tacoma area was on April 17th, 1972. Forecasters are predicting a high likelihood of some snow accumulation this Saturday and Sunday. If it keeps up all this warming business, pretty soon it will be snowing in July!