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jk88888, December 22, 2006 at 5:47:00 AM AEDT
White Buffalo Calf Killed by Lightning 11/2006 Lightning strike kills white buffalo (Published Monday, November 27, 2006 12:13:08 PM CST) By Gina Duwe Gazette Staff Lightning on Sunday night struck and killed two buffalo cows and three buffalo calves, including a white buffalo-Miracle's Second Chance-on the Heider farm south of Janesville, Dave Heider said this morning. Heider discovered the five dead buffalo when he went to check on the animals this morning before going to work. The white calf's mother was walking around and grunting, so Heider followed her up the hill where he found the five dead buffalo with burn marks laying near a tree. He thinks it was one lightning strike that hit all five and the nearby tree. The farm became a destination for thousands of visitors after Miracle, a female white buffalo, was born there on Aug. 20, 1994. In 1995, visitors to the Heider farm increased tourism to Rock County by 22 percent. White buffalo are extremely rare and are said to fulfill a Native American legend foretelling peace. Miracle died in 2004 and is now stuffed in the Heider gift shop. A male white buffalo was born on the farm Aug. 25 this year. "How many times in a lifetime does lighting strike?" Heider said to The Janesville Gazette after the second birth. Sunday's storm answered his question, again. Earlier this year, lightning struck a couple of his Scottish Highlander cows, Heider said, but it had never happened to any of his buffalo. He said they figured they'd better "call it in and get it on the news wire" so people wanting to visit the white buffalo wouldn't be surprised. "I suppose it's going to be a great loss to a lot of people," he said. Since the August birth, "a lot of people" have called about visiting the farm, including people from Canada, he said. Sunday night's thunderstorm brought 0.24 inches of rain to the area. "It's just coincidence, I guess, that lightning struck twice," he said. "He (Miracle's Second Chance) was born in a storm and died in a storm." (Note: I've been looking for links which are Native American interpretations of this event--none so far. 12/21/06 jk link me 2012, October 30, 2006 at 12:30:00 AM AEDT Debunking the Face on Mars
(It's an American Indian)
link me 2012, August 26, 2006 at 4:07:00 PM AEST Strange Holes in Russia
link me 2012, April 24, 2006 at 8:35:00 PM AEST Lights, UFOs and Earthquakes
link me 2012, March 26, 2006 at 12:42:00 PM AEDT Geomagnetic poleshifts not random?
link me 2012, February 16, 2006 at 8:02:00 PM AEDT The Earth is Bulging!
But what is causing it? Follow the link for some non-catastrophic possibilities...
link me jmillman, November 10, 2005 at 12:06:00 PM AEDT PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH! CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a mysterious mass they've dubbed a "chaos cloud" that dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth! Discovered April 6 by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the swirling, 10 million-mile- wide cosmic dust cloud has been likened to an "acid nebula" and is hurtling toward us at close to the speed of light -- making its estimated time of arrival 9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 2014. "The good news is that this finding confirms several cutting- edge ideas in theoretical physics," announced Dr. Albert Sherwinski, a Cambridge based astrophysicist with close ties to NASA. "The bad news is that the total annihilation of our solar system is imminent." Experts believe the chaos cloud is composed of particles spawned near the event horizon of a black hole (a form of what's called Hawking Radiation) that have been distorted by mangled information spewed from the hole. "A super-massive black hole lies about 28,000 light-years from Earth at the center of our galaxy," explained Dr. Sherwinski. "Last year the eminent physicist Stephen Hawking revised his theory of black holes -- which previously held that nothing could escape the hole's powerful gravitational field. He demonstrated that information about objects that have been sucked in can be emitted in mangled form. "It now appears that mangled information can distort matter. "Just imagine our galaxy the Milky Way as a beautiful, handwritten letter. "Now imagine pouring a glass of water on the paper and watching the words dissolve as the stain spreads. That's what the chaos cloud does to every star or planet it encounters." To avoid widespread panic, NASA has declined to make the alarming discovery public. But Dr. Sherwinski's contacts at the agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory leaked to him striking images of the newly discovered chaos cloud obliterating a large asteroid. "It's like watching a helpless hog being dissolved in a vat of acid," one NASA scientist told Dr. Sherwinski. Ordinarily, Hawkings Radiation is harmless. "It's produced when an electron- positron pair are at the event horizon of a black hole," Dr. Sherwinski explained. "The intense curvature of space-time of the hole can cause the positron to fall in, while the electron escapes." But when "infected" by mangled information from the black hole, the particles become a chaos cloud, which in turn mangles everything it touches. "If it continues unchecked, the chaos cloud will eventually reduce our galaxy to the state of absolute chaos that existed before the birth of the universe," the astrophysicist warned. Some scientists say mankind's best hope would be to build a "space ark" and hightail it to the Andromeda Galaxy, 2.1 million light-years away. "We wouldn't be able to save the entire human population, but perhaps the best and the brightest," observed British rocket scientist Dr. David Hall, when asked about the feasibility of such a project. But even if such a craft could be built in time, evacuating Earth might prove fruitless if theories about the origin of the chaos cloud are correct. "A black hole at the center of Andromeda is about 15 times the size of the one in our own galaxy," Dr. Sherwinski noted. "It might be like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire." Speaking under the condition of anonymity, a senior White House official said the president's top science advisors are taking the findings in stride. "This is a lot like global warming, where the jury is still out on whether it's real or not," said the official. "The existence of this so called chaos cloud is only a theory. Americans shouldn't panic until all the facts are in." Link to original Story tv.yahoo.com ITS ALL A HOAX link me 2012, May 25, 2005 at 5:03:00 PM AEST Russian Lake Disappears!
link me 2012, April 3, 2005 at 1:40:00 PM AEST Uranus is responsible for tsunami According to a few "experts" who were interviewed by Germany's Bild newspaper (5 million readers), the close proximity of Uranus is having a tiny gravitational effect on Earth. Tiny, but enough to cause the recent seaquakes.
link me 2012, December 30, 2004 at 1:52:00 PM AEDT Quake May Have Made Earth Wobble
Which means that, in terms of this scientist's theory, a series of greater quakes could make quite an impact on the spin of our planet...
link me jk88888, November 10, 2004 at 2:56:00 AM AEDT Study predicts Arctic ice melt by 2100 Wednesday 03 November 2004 A new scientific study says the Arctic ice cover will disappear in summer by the end of this century unless carbon dioxide emissions are significantly reduced. The study, to be released next week, says the Arctic ice melt will cause sea levels to rise and could lead to the extinction of some species such as polar bears. "The melt has begun," said Jennifer Morgan, director of the Climate Change Campaign for the environmental organisation WWF, which published excerpts of the upcoming Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) report. Commissioned by the Arctic Council and compiled by more than 250 scientists, the report concludes that climate change is happening in the Arctic and that it will get worse unless emissions of carbon dioxide are cut. Grim predictions The report presents several potential scenarios which would occur if the Arctic ice were to disappear in summertime by the end of the 21st century. It said sea levels could rise by one metre, noting that there are currently 17 million people living less than one metre above sea level in Bangladesh. It said places such as Florida and Louisiana in the United States and the Asian cities of Bangkok, Calcutta, Dhaka and Manila were also at risk. However, on the positive side, rising sea levels could create a northern passage for shipping between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and would open up new areas for fishing, mining and oil and gas exploration. The melting of the Greenland ice sheet, which is expected to take hundreds of years, could ultimately lead to a seven-metre rise in sea levels, the report said. Threatened bears "Polar bears could become extinct by the end of this century. They are unlikely to survive if there is an almost complete loss of summer sea ice cover," the WWF said. Polar bears feed mainly on seals living under the ice, which the large mammals break to catch their prey. The ACIA report is to be published in its entirety on 8 November. The WWF welcomed the report, but stressed the hypocrisy of the eight members of the Arctic Council - the United States, Canada, Russia, Japan, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Norway -which sponsored it, noting that they emit more than 30% of global carbon dioxide emissions. States argue as Arctic thaw quickens Global warming is set to accelerate in the Arctic and bring drastic change for people and wildlife in coming decades. But the alarming findings of new study have divided countries in the region about how to slow down the thaw. "(The) Arctic climate is warming rapidly now and much larger changes are projected," according to the conclusions of the international study, compiled by 600 experts and due for release at a conference in Iceland in November. Rising temperatures will disrupt life for people, bringing more storms and destabilising everything from homes to oil pipelines. Melting glaciers could raise global sea levels and spoil habitats for creatures like polar bears, it says. Greenhouse gases The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the world partly because sea water and dark ground, once exposed, trap far more heat than ice and snow which reflect the sun's rays. The report's draft summary says the rise in temperatures is being stoked by human emissions of greenhouse gases, mainly from burning fossil fuels in cars, factories and power plants. Arctic temperatures could surge by 4-7 Celsius or roughly double the rate predicted by UN studies for the planet as a whole by 2100, it says. But nations in the Arctic region - the United States, Russia, Canada and Nordic countries - are sharply divided about how to act on the scientists' conclusions, with Washington opposed to any major initiatives, diplomatic sources say. US reluctance Nordic countries see the study as alarming evidence that the world should act to cap emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide from fossil fuels. But US President George Bush is an opponent of caps and pulled out of the UN's stalled Kyoto protocol in 2001, the main global plan for limiting emissions. He said Kyoto would be too costly and wrongly excluded developing nations. Ministers from Arctic nations are to meet in Iceland in November, after the report is issued, to agree recommendations. Global effect Among conclusions, the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) says the warming in the Arctic will "have worldwide implications". Run-off from melting glaciers and the Greenland icecap could raise global sea levels and disrupt ocean circulation, it says. And biodiversity elsewhere could be affected because some migratory species breed in the Arctic. The report also says "Arctic vegetation zones are projected to shift, bringing wide-ranging impacts" and that "animal species' diversity, ranges and distributions will change, some dramatically.” And indigenous peoples would face major economic and cultural impacts, it says. Ultraviolet radiation - known to cause skin cancer and immune system disorders in humans - would also rise sharply. link me jk88888, November 1, 2004 at 1:13:00 AM AEDT Why control information? (current author's comment) Was it Augustine that said "knowledge is the enemy of faith"...my point being that when information is controlled it allows a possibly mistaken belief to persist. In this case it would be that industrialization (as it is currently practiced) can be in harmony with ecology. Global warming evidence suggests that current practice must be modified radically. Costly to implement and cheaper to resist. (current author's comment) NASA Scientist: Bush Stifles Global Warming Evidence By Chuck Schoffner Associated Press posted: 27 October 2004 12:53 pm ET IOWA CITY, Iowa - The Bush administration is trying to stifle scientific evidence of the dangers of global warming in an effort to keep the public uninformed, a NASA scientist said Tuesday night. "In my more than three decades in government, I have never seen anything approaching the degree to which information flow from scientists to the public has been screened and controlled as it is now," James E. Hansen told a University of Iowa audience. Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and has twice briefed a task force headed by Vice President Dick Cheney on global warming. Hansen said the administration wants to hear only scientific results that "fit predetermined, inflexible positions." Evidence that would raise concerns about the dangers of climate change is often dismissed as not being of sufficient interest to the public. "This, I believe, is a recipe for environmental disaster." Hansen said the scientific community generally agrees that temperatures on Earth are rising because of the greenhouse effect — emissions of carbon dioxide and other materials into the atmosphere that trap heat. These rising temperatures, scientists believe, could cause sea levels to rise and trigger severe environmental consequences, he said. Hansen said such warnings are consistently suppressed, while studies that cast doubt on such interpretations receive favorable treatment from the administration. He also said reports that outline potential dangers of global warming are edited to make the problem appear less serious. "This process is in direct opposition to the most fundamental precepts of science," he said. White House science adviser John H. Marburger III has denied charges that the administration refuses to accept the reality of climate change, noting that President Bush pointed out in a 2001 speech that greenhouse gases have increased substantially in the past 200 years. Last December, the administration said it was planning a five-year program to research global warming and climate change. Hansen said he was speaking as a private citizen, not as a government employee, and paid his own way for the Iowa appearance. He described himself as moderately conservative, but said he will vote for John Kerry in the presidential election. "He certainly is not in denial of the existence of climate change problems," Hansen said. link me 2012, August 2, 2004 at 8:19:00 PM AEST What's happening to the birds? Linda Moulton Howe has gathered some recent bird news on a page. The most recent is:
link me 2012, July 20, 2004 at 8:11:00 PM AEST Will compasses point south? This from the NY Times:
link me 2012, July 13, 2004 at 7:29:00 AM AEST Where are the pelicans?
Probably nothing to do with the end of the world, but when it is near, I expect the wildlife to get restless...
link me RobertBast, February 18, 2004 at 7:20:00 AM AEDT A simple pole shift cycle Right now the magnetic pole is moving towards the physical pole. It "sounds" right - the two poles belong together and wish to be together. But they are doomed to be apart! There was a poleshift... The magnetic pole found itself out of alignment. It has spent the last 10,000 years slowly moving back into position. When it gets there, the equilibrium somehow causes another poleshift... link me 2012, December 4, 2003 at 11:07:00 PM AEDT Crack in the Sky Earth's magnetic shield is not all it's cracked up to be. Once thought of as continuous barrier, NASA have just announced that it has holes every now and then, holes that let in space weather like a draft underneath the back door... "Immense cracks in our planet's magnetic field can remain open for hours, allowing the solar wind to gush through and power stormy space weather." The cracks can remain open for as long as 9 hours, and can be as big as California.
link me RobertBast, November 6, 2003 at 9:16:00 PM AEDT Some Aurora photos 
Just a reminder that despite the potential damage, the recent solar activity makes for some good photos. Follow the link below to see a whole sequence of pics from around the globe (click on the small triangle below each pic)
link me RobertBast, July 6, 2003 at 5:32:00 PM AEST Cosmic Rays cause climate change? "The latest research by the University of Ottawa geologist suggests that the driving force behind climate change during the past 545 million years has been "galactic cosmic ray flux" -- the fluctuating intensity of thermal energy from the sun and stars -- rather than carbon dioxide levels in the Earth's atmosphere."
link me RobertBast, May 11, 2003 at 2:48:00 PM AEST Fossil Fly found in Antarctica No date is offered for the fossil, although the article suggests it was from between 3 million and 17 million years ago. While the fossil is evidence for a once warmer South Pole, the reason for the warmth is unknown: "We have to look at the models more closely: Obviously it wasn't greenhouse gases warming Antarctica 15 million years ago," he said. "Some other variables, other than human variables, caused [it]." Maybe someone could whisper "pole shift" in their ear.
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