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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #405 on: December 28, 2015, 10:14:36 pm »
Agelbert said in regard to the cause of more frequent and severe El Niño events,

The CAUSE is HEAT in the oceans. The way that heat got there is through CO2 pollution, PERIOD.

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CO2 is a contributing factor, but Geotectonics probably contributes more to total ocean heat content.



You just made a rather amazing claim. You just claimed that geotectonics is more responsible for heating the hydrosphere (and consequently through more frequent and strong El Niño events, the atmosphere) than CO2 pollution.

That is what you just said.

But CO2 meters aren't designed the way they are because the CO2 effect on atmospheric heat trapping is a "minor contribution".

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The most common CO2 sensors are known by the engineering term Non-Dispersive InfraRed, or NDIR.  An NDIR CO2 sensor shines infrared light through a gas sample in a sample chamber. Sensitive photo-detectors measure the intensity of the infrared light after it passes through the gas sample.  CO2 molecules are opaque to 4.26 micron infrared light while the rest of the air molecules are not. So the intensity of the infrared light is diminished proportionally to the number of CO2 molecules that are present.  Measuring the resultant light intensity measures the number of CO2 molecules present.

http://www.bapihvac.com/application-note/effects-of-temperature-and-barometric-pressure-on-co2-sensors-application-note/

Also, beyond the fact that NASA and most climate scientists, as well as myself, would ascribe no more than 1 or 2% (if that) to Geotectonics as a contributing factor in overheating the hydrosphere which, in turn, overheats the atmosphere by an increase in frequency and strength of el Niño events, those who, because of the lowered cost of fossil fuels, have NOW increased (not decreased as had occurred from 2008 to early 2015) their buying of heating oil furnaces    will welcome your allegations.

I am certain that Roamer, Mking and every fossil fuel loving "fine fellow" that reads your upcoming article will applaud your theory. I am certain that your repeated attempts to use mega-energy transfer calculations from the scientifically observed increased earthquake and volcanic activity to justify your claim will make them jump for joy. 

The American petroleum industry would have awarded you a doctorate in climate science and paid you over a million dollars a year to push your theory if they thought they could get away with it. Ethics is not their thing; protecting their dirty energy product with propaganda is. But propaganda, beyond endless repetition for effect, needs some indisputably accurate basis (that is then distorted for effect) to successfully deceiving people.

For some reason, they never did try the "Geotectonics did it" meme. That means they didn't think they could convince people that fossil fuels were innocent of the global pollution charge. THAT is why they DENIED that global warming was going on for the last thirty years. The moment they accepted that global warming is REAL, they KNEW they could not escape being assigned responsibility for a MASSIVE amount of the pollution. They KNEW that CO2 is the overwhelmingly massive contributing factor. So, among other various and sundry propaganda techniques (EXCLUDING GEOTECTONICS) they just pretended a new ice age was coming! 



Between 1979 and 1983, the American Petroleum Institute (API), the industry’s most powerful lobby group, ran a task force for fossil fuel companies to “monitor and share climate research,” according to internal documents obtained by Inside Climate News.


According to the reporting:
 
Like Exxon, the companies also expressed a willingness to understand the links between their product, greater CO2 concentrations and the climate, the papers reveal. Some corporations ran their own research units as well, although they were smaller and less ambitious than Exxon’s and focused on climate modeling, said James J. Nelson, the former director of the task force.

“It was a fact-finding task force,” Nelson said in an interview. “We wanted to look at emerging science, the implications of it and where improvements could be made, if possible, to reduce emissions.”

The ‘CO2 and Climate Task Force,’ which changed in 1980 its name to the ‘Climate and Energy Task Force,’ included researchers from Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, Amoco, Phillips, Texaco, Shell, Sunoco, and Sohio, among others.

One memo by an Exxon task force representative pointed to 1979 “background paper on CO2,” which “predicted when the first clear effects of climate change might be felt,” noting that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was rising steadily.

And at a February 1980 meeting in New York, the task force invited Professor John A. Laurmann of Stanford University to brief members about climate science.

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“In his conclusions section, Laurmann estimated that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere would double in 2038, which he said would likely lead to a 2.5 degrees Celsius rise in global average temperatures with ‘major economic consequences,’” Banerjee reports. He then told the task force that models showed a 5 degrees Celsius rise by 2067, with ‘globally catastrophic effects,’” Banerjee reports.


“Yet,” Banerjee notes, “by the 1990s, it was clear that API had opted for a markedly different approach to the threat of climate change.”


The lobby group teamed up with Exxon and others to form the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), which successfully lobbied the U.S. to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol. 

“They took the environmental unit and put it into the political department, which was primarily lobbyists,” he said. “They weren’t focused on doing research or on improving the oil industry’s impact on pollution. They were less interested in pushing the envelope of science and more interested in how to make it more advantageous politically or economically for the oil industry. That’s not meant as a criticism. It’s just a fact of life.”

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/more_than_exxon_big_oil_companies_for_years_shared_20151222

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You love to argue. You will now claim CO2 dissolved in the oceans may increase acidity but not temperature. That is not true. Even dissolved in sodium chloride, the CO2 molecule continues to be opaque to certain bands of IR.

I am not going to start a long argument with you on the chemistry of sea water, the HIGH temperatures common to the top levels of the water column (NOT the low levels near hydrothermal vents and other geological heat sources! - they are statistically insignificant heat sources) which are CAUSED by Solar UV photon conversion to IR which, (GUESS WHERE IS TRAPPED?) is captured by water molecules AND CO2 molecules.

The MORE CO2 molecules in proportion to H2O molecules are IN THAT WATER, the hotter it gets. That is because H2O is NOT as opaque to IR as CO2 is.  So if you have LESS CO2, you have cooler oceans and less frequent and less strong El Niño events. Earthqauqes and their massive amount of energy DO NOT translate into IR (i.e. HEAT energy).

Now if you want to dance around all those facts, go for it. You will have lots of fossil fuelers that applaud you. And you will be a contributing factor in delaying the realization among those that read your work, that fossil fuels are toxic to human civilization. You will be doing a disservice to humanity and to the truth.

I urge you to reconsider. More people will be harmed by your back door defense of dirty energy.

Have a nice day. 
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #406 on: December 30, 2015, 04:44:26 pm »
What SHELL and fossil fuel friends will tell you about LNG versus the TRUTH.

The happy talk Fossil Fuel Crooks and Liars LNG PROPAGANDA:

Agelbert NOTE: Observe how these duplicitous Machiavelians make the claim that "Natural gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel", as if fossil fuels are IT as an energy source or can possible EVER be considered "clean". Clean fossil fuels is a oxymoron. But we aren't supposed to know that. We are supposed to believe we are all gonna die without or "savior", fossil fuels.   

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LNG is a safe, environmentally-friendly fuel   

Natural gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel and is being used throughout the world to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.  Compared to coal, natural gas produces far fewer carbon dioxide emissions and sulfur emissions.  LNG is simply natural gas in a liquid state.  As a fuel, LNG produces relatively  ;) low emissions when burned to heat and cool homes, generate electricity, and power vehicles.

http://www.lngfacts.org/about-lng/environment/ 



The FACTS about LNG compared with NON-FRACKED natural gas.

NOTE: FRACKED natural gas might be called "domestic" natural gas by frackers, but unlike natural gas from methane harvesting (e. g. pig farms, cow power or soil decomposition sources), Fracked gas is massively energy intensive and polluting. To label Fracked gas a "natural" is disingenuous, but a clever fiction used to deliberately confuse the issue.

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LNG can be up to 40% more polluting than domestic natural gas, and has been compared to the burning of coal. The increase is caused by the excessive energy needs that LNG requires during its lifecycle. The process is dirty and requires the cooling of natural gas to negative 259 degrees Fahrenheit, loading it into tanker ships, transporting it thousands of miles (often using ships burning bunker fuel), and then re-heating it to turn LNG back into gas.

These polluting steps are in addition to the basic pollution to find, tap, pipe, and burn natural gas supplies. Some argue that the gas used to generate LNG would otherwise be flared off. This is a red-herring issue. In fact, flaring is increasing despite growing LNG exports. Finally, it is important to note that while natural gas is perceived as “clean” and green, it is not. Though it burns cleaner than coal or oil, natural gas is a fossil fuel and has its own significant greenhouse gas footprint, and indeed natural gas is, by far, NJ’s largest carbon dioxide source behind gasoline. (Section IX)

http://www.cleanoceanaction.org/fileadmin/editor_group1/Issues/LNG/Final_Clean_Ocean_Action_LNG_Report_-_Aug.__09_Exec_Sum_Update.pdf

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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #407 on: December 30, 2015, 11:06:56 pm »
Freak storm in North Atlantic to lash UK, may push temperatures over 50 degrees above normal at North Pole

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/12/28/freak-storm-in-north-atlantic-may-push-temperatures-70-degrees-above-normal-at-north-pole

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Uh huh... It's always a "freak" for the Washington Post when the temperatures PREDICICTED to be much higher by climate scientists for over 20 years now at the NORTH POLE begin happening more and more often.

One of these days, these mainstream idiots will stop using terms like "unexpected" and "freak" for the climate catastrophe we are beginning to experience thanks to CO2 pollution from fossil fuels. 


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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #408 on: December 31, 2015, 04:14:10 pm »
To be filed under "Suicidally Stupid Greed":  

The Race Is On to Exploit a Melting Antarctica

Posted on Dec 30, 2015

SNIPPET:

After more than a century of protection from exploitation by military and commercial interests, a number of countries are positioning themselves to seize greater influence in Antarctica on the day its protective treaties expire.

Simon Romero reports at The New York Times:

“The newer players are stepping into what they view as a treasure house of resources,” said Anne-Marie Brady, a scholar at New Zealand’s University of Canterbury who specializes in Antarctic politics.

Some of the ventures focus on the Antarctic resources that are already up for grabs, like abundant sea life. China and South Korea, both of which operate state-of-the-art bases here, are ramping up their fishing of krill, the shrimplike crustaceans found in abundance in the Southern Ocean, while Russia recently thwarted efforts to create one of the world’s largest ocean sanctuaries here.

Some scientists are examining the potential for harvesting icebergs from Antarctica, which is estimated to have the biggest reserves of fresh water on the planet. Nations are also pressing ahead with space research and satellite projects to expand their global navigation abilities.

Building on a Soviet-era foothold, Russia is expanding its monitoring stations for Glonass, its version of the Global Positioning System. At least three Russian stations are already operating in Antarctica, part of its effort to challenge the dominance of the American GPS, and new stations are planned for sites like the Russian base, in the shadow of the Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity. […]

Antarctica’s mineral, oil and gas wealth are a longer-term prize. The treaty banning mining here, shielding coveted reserves of iron ore, coal and chromium, is expected to come up for review by 2048 and could be challenged before then. Researchers recently found kimberlite deposits hinting at the existence of diamonds. And while assessments vary widely, geologists estimate that Antarctica holds at least 36 billion barrels of oil and natural gas.

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/the_race_is_on_to_exploit_a_melting_antarctica_20151230



Freakish weather from the North Pole to South America

Freak storm in North Atlantic to lash UK, may push temperatures over 50 degrees above normal at North Pole



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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #409 on: December 31, 2015, 07:36:22 pm »
With these type of debates you have to do what has been stated in previous threads and that is apply common sense. Whilst it can be tempting to blindly believe the words of a highly qualified person with expertise in a particular field it does pay to maintain a degree of scepticism. A degree of scepticism does not necessarily mean you disbelieve a person's dialogue it is simply the fact you are not afraid to ask questions and make enquiries as to why a theory or idea is true. Too often people fail to do that and that is the stumbling block. This is the general principle I follow and I even extend this line of thinking to non-experts, after all quite often the most qualified people in any set field will have a degree of bias or blindness due to either the industry they work in or the environment and people they are exposed to. Also quite often a person who is not overly invested in a particular field can see certain aspects insiders cannot. Blindness through familiarity is a real phenomenon. In the end it seems it is best to judge each person's statement by its individual merits rather than make generalised reactions. It is highly unlikely any single individual will be right in everything so it is best to take the best of each person and ignore the areas you disagree with. In time one will form their own individualised opinion that is not overly dependent on any one person's ideology.

As for more general things like peak oil, the fact it has not led to enormous collapse does not disprove the theory. At the end of the day, peak oil at its most basic level is simply a moment of time when global oil production reaches its maximum and that maximum rate is never attained again. Seeing as oil is a finite resource this means this point is inevitable and to argue otherwise is to make the argument that oil is infinite or is actually a renewable resource which are both implausible ideas. Now the implications in terms of economy and the industrialised economy is a matter of conjecture but this is beyond the scope of peak oil itself; those debates whilst interesting and exciting to take part on are merely a natural extension to the peak oil idea but are not descriptions of peak oil itself. I think many people fall foul of that bear trap and need to be mindful of that distinction (even if the implications are more interesting than the moment itself).

For other problems such as climate change this debate is muddled by the simple fact that climate has natural variations and over the time the baselines of any given region do change. The key point I do see in climate change of today being different to the past is that the rate of change appears to be much faster than previous periods of time. I do feel the points I raised are largely true and can be demonstrated empirically. The room for argument in my eyes is despite these changes or even the rate of change one could still make the controversial argument these changes are not primarily driven through human activity. This point however would be largely moot because the bottom line appears to be that climate is changing rapidly and more important it is changing at a rate that makes it hard for animals and even humans to adjust to.

From my viewpoint though phenomenons such as peak oil or climate change are just two sides of the same coin and they both come about by a fundamental systemic problem in our economic system. Ultimately our economic system converts resources and energy to produce goods and services. In this transformation process some waste products are produced which is what is more commonly known as the pollution. Now as the rate of conversion or throughput increases GDP increases which is really just a measure of the total level of consumption in the economy. The big problem here is this level of consumption cannot go up indefinitely; at some point it must decline and I would even argue collapse.

Now I hear the argument that increased efficiency may prevent this outcome becoming inevitable but my rebuttal to that argument is that whilst growth of GDP does not follow a one-to-one relationship with increased resource growth or pollution there will always be a positive correlation (at least in the longer term) because you cannot achieve 100% efficiency in transforming goods/services as that is not possible from a thermodynamic level. At some point the impacts of growth will exceed the impacts of efficiency. It is because of this that the questions shifts from if to when and it is the when which is proving most elusive to pinpoint. At the end of the day complex system are inherently unpredictable so whilst it maybe possible to predict underlying major trends it is exceedingly difficult to locate specific inflexion points and to what degree such points will take in terms of magnitude and length those declines will take. Anyone who can say with 100% conviction what the specifics will be is either ignorant or a liar however I do believe it is possible to make generalised observations and even outline the most probable outcomes that are likely to come.
NO ONE is talking about 100% conviction here, pal. The Precautionary Principal is being violated 24/7 by those defending an unsustainable status quo.
Monsta and Roamer are the ones INSIDE the pot.


For you to claim the correlation with increased weather disasters and CO2 concentration increase is not sufficiently "validated" to justify a radical transition to 100% Renewable energy is just more "Doubt is our Product" propaganda. You never tire of using it.   
Monsta666 (he's got the right handle, that's for sure!) and Roamer's favorite rhetorical tool for appearing to be "prudently skeptical". 

RE and AG, have either of you studied climate enough to understand if these anomalies are exceptional?  I bet not.  I bet it's far more likely you two are complicity participating in enforcing the indoctrination of extremism.  Doomerism is yet another great way to subdue and control the masses.  There is no other realistic option but to ride through industrialism and to innovate and adapt to the problems at hand.  I've beat down all the popular post fossil options and they would if enacted at present lead to famines, misry and wars.  We need time stability and am engaged populace to bring about a resilient solar transition over the next decades.   Advocating an unrealistic immediate dismantling of fossil powered industrialism is a dead end politically that only leads to an angry ignorant clueless disengaged group of folks. This is what the elite want.  And ironically enough then you'll get the doom you want but not for the reasons you think.

Well Monsta and Roamer, experts, CREDENTIALED experts, have been predicting that all these climate calamities would increase in frequency and ferocity for about two decades now. The CO2 pollution temperature increase CAUSATION of the CORRELATION is indisputable. But the fossil fuelers just keep catapulting the "doubt is or product" propaganda in full denial of the empirical evidence.

Each scientifically based prediction has been met with doubletalk, fallacious debating techniques and disingenuous skepticism by the paid deniers and/or the willfully ignorant wishful thinkers.

When the fossil fuelers have not descended into outright derision and accused the scientists who made the predictions of being "chicken little" hyperbolic alarmism, they have gone on and on about the "real world" of ERoEI.

They, like Charles Hall, consistently deny that the truth about their gamed ERoEI is that it has NOTHING to do with energy and everything to do with replacing the word "energy" in that "formula" with the word "money". I have, on several occasions, tried to explain to you and others here how the MONEY invested is SUBSIDIZED (i.e STOLEN from we-the-people through government coercion and monopolistic strangulation of clean energy techonlogies) so that the RETURN is profitable for the ass holes that Frack for gas or drill for oil or build nuclear power plants. You, just like Charles Hall and Gail Tverberg, refuse to go there.        

I repeat, the denial by fossil fuelers like Roamer and Mking of clearly established correlation of increasing climate disasters with increasing average temperature caused by CO2 pollution constitutes the "doubt is our product" propaganda technique handed off from tobacco to fossil fuel ass holes over thirty years ago.

I myself have pointed at recent scientific studies predicting how hostile the climate will get in general and the oceans in particular for human civilization.

This is my article (at the link below). I recommend you read it. It is of particular importance to you because the UK will be one of the first industrialized countries to be severely hampered by this turbulent ocean activity.

Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity: Three Part Article

Here is some news from TODAY
that supports the scientific consensus in that article. I expect roamer will claim it is "just weather" or some "freak" incident. My article and the recent study by Hansen et al says otherwise. 

The above is the Ocean Ranger, not the Sea Drilling Rig COSL Innovator. I post it to give an idea what these giant waves, THAT WILL INCREASE IN SIZE AND FREQUENCY BEACAUSE of CO2 POLLUTION, are like. 

One Dead, Two Injured After Wave Hits North Sea Drilling Rig COSL Innovator

December 30, 2015 by Mike Schuler

One person has died and two other were injured on Wednesday after a large wave hit a semi-submersible drilling rig operating in the North Sea.

Statoil confirmed the incident in a email on Wednesday, reporting that the incident occurred at about 5 p.m. Wednesday, December 30th aboard the COSL Innovator. The company said it was informed by police that one person has died as a result of the “breaking wave”.

Earlier this company said the three people had been injured.

The rig is currently under contract to Statoil on the Troll field in the North Sea, west of Bergen.

The company said that the rig had been taken off the well due to heavy weather when the incident occurred. The wave has also caused damage to the rig’s accommodation module.

All three workers were flown to land to seek medical treatment on land. Statoil said that the rig is also being evacuated down to a safety crew.

At least one Sea King helicopter from the Norwegian Joint Rescue Coordination Centre and one of Statoil’s own SAR helicopters participated in the response.

“The rig is now heading to shore under its own power, while evacuation takes place,” Statoil said an update.

Statoil did not provide any information concerning the condition of the two others.

The heavy weather is associated with powerful winter storm “Frank”, a hurricane force low that developed rapidly over the North Atlantic this week and battered parts of the UK on Tuesday night and Wednesday, bringing with it heavy winds and rain and causing major damage.

COSL Innovator is owned by COSL Drilling Europe AS, a subsidiary of China Oilfield Services Limited.

https://gcaptain.com/2015/12/30/three-injured-aboard-north-sea-oil-rig-during-storm-frank/



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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #410 on: December 31, 2015, 08:24:12 pm »
A "Rogue" Wave just wished Happy New Year to the Fossil Fuel Industry. 
The above is the Ocean Ranger, not the Sea Drilling Rig COSL Innovator. I post it to give an idea what these giant waves, THAT WILL INCREASE IN SIZE AND FREQUENCY BEACAUSE of CO2 POLLUTION , are like. 

One Dead, Two Injured After Wave Hits North Sea Drilling Rig COSL Innovator

December 30, 2015 by Mike Schuler

One person has died and two other were injured on Wednesday after a large wave hit a semi-submersible drilling rig operating in the North Sea.

Statoil confirmed the incident in a email on Wednesday, reporting that the incident occurred at about 5 p.m. Wednesday, December 30th aboard the COSL Innovator. The company said it was informed by police that one person has died as a result of the “breaking wave”.

Earlier this company said the three people had been injured.

The rig is currently under contract to Statoil on the Troll field in the North Sea, west of Bergen.

The company said that the rig had been taken off the well due to heavy weather when the incident occurred. The wave has also caused damage to the rig’s accommodation module.

All three workers were flown to land to seek medical treatment on land. Statoil said that the rig is also being evacuated down to a safety crew.

At least one Sea King helicopter from the Norwegian Joint Rescue Coordination Centre and one of Statoil’s own SAR helicopters participated in the response.

“The rig is now heading to shore under its own power, while evacuation takes place,” Statoil said an update.

Statoil did not provide any information concerning the condition of the two others.

The heavy weather is associated with powerful winter storm “Frank”, a hurricane force low that developed rapidly over the North Atlantic this week and battered parts of the UK on Tuesday night and Wednesday, bringing with it heavy winds and rain and causing major damage.

COSL Innovator is owned by COSL Drilling Europe AS, a subsidiary of China Oilfield Services Limited.

https://gcaptain.com/2015/12/30/three-injured-aboard-north-sea-oil-rig-during-storm-frank/

Agelbert NOTE: I expect fossil fuel industry propagandists will claim it is "just weather" or some "freak" incident. The recent study by Hansen et al says otherwise. In regard to giant waves and increased CO2 concentration causing them to increase in frequency and size, this article (at the link below) will furnish you with the scientific studies and background on the threat to global shipping. I recommend you read it. It is of particular importance to those who live in England because the UK will be one of the first industrialized countries to be severely hampered by this turbulent ocean activity. But all of us will be deleteriously affected by the turbulent ocean activity,


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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
« Reply #411 on: December 31, 2015, 09:30:12 pm »
Isn't it Freaky how often we get Freak events these days?  I am getting Freaked Out by the Freakiness!  ::)

Stay out of Airplanes.

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https://www.rt.com/news/327503-turbulence-injures-twenty-air-canada/

Freak turbulence injures over 20 on Shanghai-Toronto flight, plane diverted to Calgary

Published time: 30 Dec, 2015 23:42
Edited time: 31 Dec, 2015 04:20


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Twenty-five people received turbulence-related injuries on an Air Canada flight AC88 on its way to Toronto from Shanghai. The plane was diverted to Calgary, Alberta to treat those affected. Some had to be taken to hospital, with at least 6 reportedly in serious condition.

EMS confirmed that 25 people had been injured, with 21 transported to hospital, including three children. None of the injuries were life threatening, an EMS official told the media.

Air Canada has confirmed that the plane successfully landed in Calgary after encountering turbulence en route.

Fifteen transport units were dispatched to Calgary airport, and additional help was recruited from outside the city, the EMS official added.

There were 332 passages and 19 crew members on board the flight. According to Air Canada, “some will require hospitalization for assessment.”

    VIDEO: passenger number 8 of 20 wheeled out on stretcher. Flight w/ injuries gets diverted to #yyc after turbulence pic.twitter.com/g0kinisHdX
    — Stefan Oliver Keyes (@Stefan_Keyes) December 30, 2015

Calgary fire department spokeswoman Carol Henke stated that she was aware of around 20 people who received turbulence-related neck and back injuries. It is not yet known how severe the injuries are.

Numerous passengers were seen wheeled out of the aircraft by emergency crews on gurneys. At least six people were evacuated on stretchers, some wearing neck braces, according to CBC Calgary correspondent Meghan Grant. Two other passengers were taken out via wheel chairs.

    Up to 8 patients now. EMS is offering to hide their faces if they want privacy. Many have neck braces on. #ac88pic.twitter.com/EUeCPKLFH3
    — Meghan Grant (@CBCMeg) December 30, 2015

Several passengers told CBC that they felt a sudden “massive drop.” The seatbelt sign was on at the time.

    Passenger describes flight as scary with lots of crying #YYC#AC88pic.twitter.com/MQJD3fUJlu
    — Katie Burley (@kafburley) December 31, 2015

Flight AC88 departed from Shanghai, China and was scheduled to land in Toronto at 6:45 pm EST.

    #AC088 Update: Press release issued 18:13: https://t.co/VSPec6exiN Updates to be posted on https://t.co/j6Q9rc8xaW when new info available
    — Air Canada (@AirCanada) December 30, 2015

A passenger from the flight described the ordeal as a “flight from hell.”“It was frightening,” Connie Gelber told Calgary Herald. “Honestly we didn’t know if we were going to live or die.”

Gelber described a girl being thrown out of her seat into the aisle during turbulence.

    Terrifying photos of the aftermath inside the plane provided by passenger Helen Zhang #AC88pic.twitter.com/ZGKR2dUWmq
    — Meghan Grant (@CBCMeg) December 31, 2015

Another passenger said that some people “just flew.”“It was crazy,” Liu Pinzhou said.

Many described lots of screaming once turbulence hit. “I heard lots of people screaming, like what you would hear on a roller coaster,” Bing Feng told CBC News. “When you are in the situation, of course (you fear the worst). You saw all the oxygen masks drop.”

    Turbulence so bad, there's visible damages to the ceiling of flight #AC88. Photo Credit: Xinyi Li Pho pic.twitter.com/ZTaLebq5gL
    — Malik Chabou (@malikchabou) December 31, 2015

Some praised how the crew handled the situation. “It was a little scary but all the crew were professional, handled themselves well, people had minor injuries a little bit shaken up,” Gord Murray said. “It could have been much worse.”

GREAT FIND, RE!    It fits. Notice how the media keeps trying to call these incedents "freak".    It's going to harder and harder for them to do that. The atmosphere is getting more turbulent along with the oceans. That too has been predicted for several decades. But the deniers will continue to hairsplit everything into "isolated incidents". they will play deaf dumb and stupid while claiming to be "prudently skeptical".

They will accuse those who want a rapid transition to clean energy as matter of survival for our civilization of being "alarmists" that don't "understand the real world".  They will, using the tried and true Karl Rove technique of accusing the adversary of what he was doing, claim those linking climate disasters with CO2 concentration increases are "biased".

But the climate will get increasingly worse and the death rate will continue to rise while these ****s pretend the fossil fuel industry doesn't owe BIG TIME for all the damages they have inflicted on human society. And they will scream about the "good" for humanity that all those subsidies for fossil fuels bring to us.

 So it goes.     
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« Reply #412 on: January 01, 2016, 12:54:36 am »

Extreme Weather Kills North Sea Oil Rig Worker
Three other oil fields evacuated  after barge set adrift by storms   

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The Statfjord A platform, left, and the loading buoy, right, in the North Sea. The death of an oil industry worker in the North Sea late Wednesday, after a giant wave swamped a drilling rig, was the first fatality on the Norwegian continental shelf since 2009. 

By Kjetil Malkenes Hovland in Oslo and Selina Williams in London
 
Updated Dec. 31, 2015 7:56 a.m. ET
 
Extreme weather in the already forbidding North Sea killed one energy-industry worker when a giant wave swamped a drilling rig, while a barge set adrift by storms triggered evacuations in three other North Sea fields.

Norway’s  Statoil AS A said a wave hit a drilling rig in one of its offshore fields late Wednesday, killing one contractor and injuring two others. While the Norwegian North Sea is always treacherous in the winter, fatal accidents are rare largely because of strict regulations and safety practices implemented over the decades that oil companies have been operating in the area.

The death was the first fatality on the Norwegian continental shelf since 2009, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority. The agency said it would investigate the accident. Norway’s Joint Rescue Emergency Center said the weather was unusual, even for the time of year.

A senior forecaster at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute said a band of low pressure over Iceland and Norway had caused very strong winds, leading to wave heights of up to 130 feet in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. “The winds are severe, and the waves are very high,” she said, adding, however, that “we’ve seen worse.”

The rig, called the COSL Innovator and operated by  China Oilfield Services Ltd. , or COSL, was hit by a “wave surge” that had built up and slammed into it, damaging the facility’s accommodations module, which sits about 52 to 55 feet above sea level, said  Jorgen Andersen, chief executive of COSL Drilling Europe.

The wave blew out windows in the accommodation module. Mr. Andersen said the two other crew members’ injuries were relatively minor and that the rig was under control. All but the most essential crew members have been evacuated and the rig will be taken to an onshore base to assess the damage, he said.

The rig was undertaking work for Statoil at the giant Troll field in the North Sea, west of Norway’s second city Bergen. The field is the cornerstone of Norwegian natural gas production, and contains about 40% of the country’s total gas reserves.

BP, which had earlier shut down production at its Valhall oil field further south in the North Sea as a precautionary measure after a nearby barge broke its tow Wednesday night, said the barge had now passed Valhall and was drifting in a northeast direction. “This means that personnel now can be moved back to Valhall to start normalizing operations and start up production,” the U.K. oil major said.

By late morning in Norway, the country’s rescue center reported the barge had drifted past installations that operators had feared it might hit. “There won’t be any collision,” a spokesman for the center said.

The barge, which is owned by Eide Marine Group, was under tow from the Mediterranean to Norway when its towing line broke in heavy wind, said Kjarten Mehammer, a manager at the company.

“We’re working with three other vessels to secure the barge,” he said, adding that a fourth vessel was set to join efforts shortly.

Earlier,  ConocoPhillips  said it had evacuated 145 workers and shut down production from the Eldfisk field, just north of BP’s Valhall field, as a precaution against the barge drifting into that field. The company said it had also shut down the nearby, unmanned Embla field, due to the risk of collision.

—Kevin Baxter in London and David Gauthier-Villars in Stockholm contributed to this article.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/extreme-weather-kills-north-sea-oil-rig-worker-1451566465


Agelbert NOTE: A height of 55 feet above sea level requires a wave height of at least 110 feet to swamp it because the trough of a wave (the part below sea level) is one half the full wave height.

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« Reply #413 on: January 01, 2016, 02:54:02 pm »
A prediction by yours truly:    2016 will go down in the history of the 21st century as the year the mega-flooding, both on land and at the coasts, became routine .



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« Reply #414 on: January 01, 2016, 03:16:29 pm »
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[/ How much have temperatures risen already? As illustrated by above image, NASA data show that during the three-month period from September through November 2015, it was ~1°C warmer than it was in 1951-1980 (i.e the baseline).
  2015 Warmest Year on Record 
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2015/12/2015-warmest-year-on-record.html

AND THE FOSSIL FUELERS SAY...



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« Reply #415 on: January 01, 2016, 03:57:51 pm »

The Mechanism leading to Collapse of Civilization and Runaway Global Warming

What is the mechanism behind accelerated warming of the Arctic Ocean, huge abrupt methane eruptions from the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean and skyrocketing temperatures?  ???



1. Potential for Methane Release in Arctic


2. Ocean Heat
As the image below shows, the July data for sea surface temperature anomalies on the Northern Hemisphere contain a trendline pointing at a rise of 2°C (3.6°F) before the year 2030. In other words, if this trend continues, the sea surface will be 2°C (3.6°F) warmer in less than 15 years time from now.

3. Feedbacks: Changing Winds and Currents, Cryosphere Changes and Methane

4. Collapse of Civilization

5. Runaway Global Warming

Full and detailed explanation of items 1 through 5 at link:


http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/the-mechanism.html

AND THE FOSSIL FUELERS SAY...

 
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« Reply #416 on: January 01, 2016, 07:45:23 pm »

Floods Choking Everything From Oil to Wheat in U.S. Midwest

December 31, 2015 by Bloomberg


By Barbara Powell and Tim Loh

(Bloomberg) — The worst flooding across the U.S. Midwest in four years is disrupting everything from oil to agriculture, forcing pipelines, terminals and grain elevators to close and killing off thousands of pigs.

Fifty miles (80 kilometers) of the Illinois River have been closed, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, as well as 81 miles of the Mississippi River in two segments.

The flooding is the worst since May 2011, when rising water on the Mississippi and its tributaries deluged cities, slowed barge traffic and threatened refinery and chemical operations. The current situation increases stockpiles of crude oil and may extend this year’s price slide.

Hog producers in southern Illinois are calling other farmers, hoping to find extra barn space to relocate their pigs, said Jennifer Tirey, executive director of the Illinois Pork Producers Association. Processors are sending additional trucks out to retrieve market-ready pigs, she said. In one case, an overflowing creek took out electricity and made roads impassable, causing 2,000 pigs to drown.   

‘So Much Rain’

“There was no way to get the pigs out,” Tirey said. “Honestly, it was just an act of God. That creek had so much rain.”

So far, the biggest oil shutdown involves Enbridge Inc.’s Ozark pipeline, which was booked to carry about 200,000 barrels a day this month to Wood River, Illinois, from Cushing, Oklahoma. The outage of the section under the Mississippi River may further add to stockpiles at Cushing that reached a record high last week.

“The closure of the Ozark pipeline will just add to the stocks at Cushing,” said Amrita Sen, chief oil economist at Energy Aspects Ltd. in London.

Spectra Energy Corp. shut the 145,000 barrel-a-day Platte oil pipeline between Guernsey, Wyoming, and Wood River as a precaution because of the river’s condition, the company said in an e-mailed statement.

St. Louis received 5.91 inches of rain (15 centimeters) from Dec. 26 to Dec. 28, according to AccuWeather data. By Wednesday, Ameren Missouri was ferrying employees to and from its Sioux Energy Center north of St. Louis. The coal-fired power plant is still operational and workers will continue to travel by boat until the floodwaters recede, the company said in a statement.

Closed Terminals  ;D

Kinder Morgan Inc. shut its Cahokia terminal in Sauget, Illinois, and its Cora terminal in Rockwood, Illinois, company spokesman Richard Wheatley said by e-mail. Cahokia handles chemicals, coal, cement and metals while Cora handles coal and petcoke, according to the company’s website. Kinder Morgan declared a force majeure, which protects it from liability for contracts that go unfulfilled for reasons beyond its control.

Exxon Mobil Corp. is shutting a fuel terminal on the Mississippi River at Memphis “in anticipation of severe weather,”
spokesman Todd Spitler said in an e-mail Wednesday.

Barge operators shipping grain took advantage of early forecasts for the heavy rain and flooding to transport loads before Christmas to ports in New Orleans, where there’s “adequate inventory,” said Wes Traina, logistics manager for Zen-Noh Grain Corp. in Convent, Louisiana. Still, high water may continue to slow shipping and loading throughout January, he added.

‘Fast Currents’

“The biggest concern from the high waters and fast currents will be from barges hitting a bridge and breaking apart,” Traina said by phone. “It’s inevitable that accidents will occur.”

The southern Illinois co-op Gateway FS Inc. has closed three of its grain elevators. Employees are working extended hours to accommodate the large number of farmers hauling in grain from on-farm bins that could be compromised by flooding, said general manager Carl Tebbe.

“We’re just hopeful the water doesn’t quite get as high as what they’re saying,” Tebbe said. “Everyone has done a lot of work.”

Delek U.S. Holdings Inc., which has a products terminal in Memphis, declined to comment, according to spokesman Matt Barkett. Steve Lee, a spokesman for Valero Energy Corp., which has a 180,000 barrel-a-day refinery in Memphis that reduced operations during the 2011 floods, said he was unable to respond immediately about plans to deal with the current flooding threat.

The floodwaters may eventually reach Louisiana, which has 10 refineries in the Baton Rouge-New Orleans area with an combined capacity of about 2.5 million barrels, or 13 percent of the nation’s capacity, said Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates in Houston. 

“They could see the effects there in several weeks,”  Lipow said. “Sometimes, a refinery isn’t flooded, but the ability to move product out or move crude in is impacted and you can’t leave workers in a flood situation."  

–With assistance from Brian K. Sullivan, Sheela Tobben, Mark Shenk, Lydia Mulvany and Jeff Wilson.

©2015 Bloomberg News

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Agelbert NOTE: And what do the fossil fuelers say to the above? Why, they have to raise GASOLINE prices, of course! Refiners can't be allowed to lose money! It's a threat to National Security! High gasoline prices are for your own good! Fossil Fuel Industry profits are good for the country! Never mind WHY we are getting this weather. That's, uh, well, see below:

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« Reply #417 on: January 02, 2016, 10:18:44 pm »
10 Extreme Weather Events in 2015 That Sound the Alarm on Climate Chaos

Sarah Lazare, Common Dreams | January 2, 2016 11:46 am


  The hottest year in recorded history is coming to a close with a wave of extreme weather and ecosystem shifts, from unprecedented flooding in the UK to dangerous deluges in South America.

Looking back at 2015, it is clear that such extremes are not the exception, but have been the rule for the past 365 days and beyond. Such weather is linked to this year’s exceptionally strong El Niño, which is tied to human-made global warming.


A NASA rainfall analysis from Dec. 23 to Dec. 27 showed highest rainfall totals of almost 938 mm (36.8 inches) were measured by IMERG in the state of Alabama. Photo credit: NASA/JAXA/SSAI, Hal Pierce

A NASA rainfall analysis from Dec. 23 to Dec. 27 showed highest rainfall totals of almost 938 mm (36.8 inches) were measured by IMERG in the state of Alabama. Photo credit: NASA/JAXA/SSAI, Hal Pierce

Communities on the frontlines of climate change have long warned that resultant floods, droughts and mega-storms are already bringing death, displacement, and food insecurity to people across the globe, particularly those who are poor, Indigenous or living in the global south.

Here are 10 freakish weather extremes in 2015 that  in 2016 and beyond—and underscore the urgency of strong and effective adaptation, mitigation, and emissions reductions policies.


1. An Arctic heat wave
at the end of December caused temperatures in the North Pole to spike 60 degrees Fahrenheit above the norm for the season, soaring past the freezing point and making the region hotter than cities across the U.S. and Europe.

2. This winter’s El Niño
event touched off severe floods in late December across South America, including in Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina, displacing more than 150,000 people.

3. Heavy rains last week caused the Mississippi River and its tributaries to overflow, touching off historic flooding in the U.S. Midwest. Climate scientists say that one of the most remarkable things about the deluge is the timing. “Never before has water this high been observed in winter along the levee system of the river,” meteorologist Jeff Masters explained.

4. South Africa faces its worst drought
in a generation, amid soaring temperatures and paltry rainfalls believed to be worsened by El Niño. While the long-term impacts are not immediately known, at least 29 million people in southern African nations face food insecurity, according to UN estimates.

5. Due to a prolonged and ongoing drought in Ethiopia, more than 10 million people are in need of emergency food aid.

6. In November, more then 1.1 million people were impacted—and 40,000 displaced—after a powerful and rare cyclone dumped a year’s worth of rain on Yemen
. Humanitarian groups warned that the impact on residents was worsened by Saudi Arabia’s seven-month bombing campaign that continued through the storm.

7. More than 1.2 million people in the Philippines were impacted—and dozens killed—by a mega-typhoon, known as Lando, which hit in October.
“Our survival is non-negotiable,” 20,000 people declared at a mass march in Tacloban in November, calling attention to the ongoing harm from the separate Super Typhoon Yolanda (also known as Haiyan), which hit the Philippines in 2013.

8. A dramatic heat wave across the Middle East this summer caused temperatures in Iran to soar so high it felt like 160 degrees Fahrenheit. Even accounting for regional standards, temperatures spiked, from Egypt to Syria. Thousands took to the streets across Iraq protesting dangerous power cuts, clean water shortages, and poor living conditions that were worsening the effects.

9. Pakistan this summer suffered its deadliest heat wave ever recorded, with at least 2,000 lives lost. And in neighboring India, a heat wave this summer killed at least 2,500 people. “Let us not fool ourselves that there is no connection between the unusual number of deaths from the ongoing heat wave and the certainty of another failed monsoon,” India’s earth sciences minister Harsh Vardhan said in June. “It’s not just an unusually hot summer, it is climate change,” he said.

10. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concluded earlier this month that climate change is already driving profound shifts in the Arctic ecosystem.
For example, loss of sea ice, and climbing temperatures in the Barents Sea, off the coast of Norway and Russia, are causing “a poleward shift in fish communities,” according to the agency. These changes are impacting wildlife, as well as Indigenous communities that rely on them for their survival.

But perhaps most alarming are developments that cannot be seen. NOAA revealed in May that, for the first time in recorded history, global levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere averaged more than 400 parts per million (ppm) for an entire month—in March 2015. Scientists have warned that, in order to achieve safe levels, CO2 must be brought down to a maximum of 350ppm.

As Erika Spanger-Siegfried of the Union of Concerned Scientists recently noted, all of these extremes are occurring in the context of climate change.

“The specifics of what’s happening where El Niño, Arctic dynamics, and underlying warming meet are, in a word, complex, and scientists are actively discussing how things might play out,” explained Spanger-Siegfried. “But the collective bottom line recognizes that global warming plays a role.”

Meanwhile, in a statement released this week, the humanitarian organization Oxfam International estimated that “the El Niño weather system could leave tens of millions of people facing hunger, water shortages, and disease next year if early action isn’t taken to prepare vulnerable people from its effects.”

http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/02/extreme-weather-climate-chaos/

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« Reply #418 on: January 04, 2016, 07:19:00 pm »
A scary article for Diner weather watchers, to lengthy to post here. Lots of charts and such. Weather getting crazier and crazier it seems.  :o

Freak storm in North Atlantic to lash UK, may push temperatures over 50 degrees above normal at North Pole


 The vigorous low pressure system that helped spawn devastating tornadoes in the Dallas area on Saturday is forecast to explode into a monstrous storm over Iceland by Wednesday.

Big Icelandic storms are common in winter, but this one may rank among the strongest and will draw northward an incredible surge of warmth pushing temperatures at the North Pole over 50 degrees above normal.  This is mind-boggling.

And the storm will batter the United Kingdom, reeling from recent flooding, with another round of rain and wind.

Computer model simulations show the storm, sweeping across the north central Atlantic today, rapidly intensifying along a jet stream
ripping above the ocean at 230 mph.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/12/28/freak-storm-in-north-atlantic-may-push-temperatures-70-degrees-above-normal-at-north-pole/   

Yep. Wind speeds like that make GIGANTIC waves. That means all those fossil fuel extracting rigs in the ocean are going to eventually have to be evacuated. Those rigs will NOT survive the increasingly turbulent oceans (especially in the North Sea).

Those wind speeds and consequent wave activity, as I wrote about in this article, Climate Change, Blue Water Cargo Shipping and Predicted Ocean Wave Activity, is evidence the fossil fuelers are starting to GET THEIRS in the oceans. 

What goes around is coming around for those crooked fossil fuel industry bastards. GOOD!


Expect the fossil fuelers here to whine about my "lack of compassion" for those on the oil rigs when I AM THE ONE ADVOCATING NOW for the rigs to be evacuated and dismantled and THEY are the ones who keep sending idiots to risk their lives for profit over planet on those rigs. The greedy BASTARDS don't care how many people die for that God Damned fossil fuel profit over planet!

Over fifty people were injured by the giant wave that struck a rig last week. But you need a microscope to find that in the news beyond the one or two fatalities the wave caused.   





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« Reply #419 on: January 04, 2016, 07:46:18 pm »
North Sea accommodation vessel adrift with 33 on board
Nicolas Torres  January 4, 2016
Safe Bristolia accommodation vessel

The Safe Bristolia accommodation vessel is adrift in the North Sea with crew members on board after severe weather severed its towline.

According to Energy Voice, the Prosafe operated vessel was severed from its towline on Sunday about 75 miles east of Montrose as it was being moved from offshore Scotland to Gdansk, Poland.

Thirty-three personnel are still aboard the Safe Bristolia and no injuries have been reported.

A Prosafe spokesperson told Energy Voice that the company has secured a second anchor handling vessel and it will most likely attempt to reattach the platform to the tow vessel on Tuesday.

“We are monitoring the situation continuously, and can, if necessary, drop one or more anchors to stop further drifting,” the spokesperson said.

The drifting platform is not posing a risk to other vessels, Energy Voice added.

Norway-based Prosafe owns and operates 12 semi-submersible accommodation vessels and has three new builds under construction.

Severe weather in the North Sea has been impacting oil and gas operations since last week.


One person died and another two were injured on Wednesday when a breaking wave crashed into the Statoil operated COSL Innovator platform.

The wave also damaged the vessel’s accommodation module and prompted Statoil to evacuate the rig down to its safety crew.

That same day, precautionary evacuations were ordered after severe weather tore a barge from its moorings and sent it drifting towards platforms at the BP operated Vallhall field and the ConocoPhillips operated Eldfisk and Embla fields.

The barge did not collide with the platforms and normal operations at the Eldfisk and Embla fields resumed on Sunday.

BP told Retuers on Thursday that it was restarting activity at the Vallhall field, a process that takes about 24 hours to complete.

http://petroglobalnews.com/2016/01/north-sea-accommodation-vessel-adrift-with-33-on-board/


The Safe Bristolia During A Small Storm In 2014


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