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“global systemic collapse”: Climate Change, 01-08 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 01 to 08 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.

Some scientists blame extreme temperature changes for the decline of the wooly bumblebee

Ocean currents getting faster, due to faster winds

Thawing permafrost will speed warming

Multiple Overlapping catastrophes“have the potential to impact and amplify one another in ways that might cascade to create global systemic collapse”
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ARGENTINA: Hottest day ever?

AUSTRALIA:  Charcoal and beef usually means BBQ, but something from 3-hundred BC might reduce methane produced by feeding cattle; Biochar

Despite regulations supposedly limiting industry pollution, it’s revealed the government actually approved increased industrial emissions!

BRAZIL: Discovered; the lumber industry is so aggressive it’s now cutting down trees during the rainy season!

CANADA: Quake strikes Atlantic coast

FRANCE: Cities are filling with trash

GREECE: 4.7 quake

INDIA:  5.1 quake

ISRAEL:  Earthquake near Haifa

ITALY:  Old solar panels meant to be recycled were instead shipped to parts of the Middle East and Africa

KOSOVO: European Union spends U.S.$83-million for filters to fight air pollution coming from electricity factory

SERBIA:  Considered Europe’s most polluted country

SOUTH AFRICA: Shrubs can stop climate change?

UNITED KINGDOM: British taxpayers funding African fossil fuel projects worth U.S.$750-million

UNITED STATES:

 So much for environment saving wind turbines, it’s estimated that this year alone at least 8-thousand wind turbine blades will be thrown into municipal trash dumps!   What’s more, the blades are supposed to last 20 years but most are thrown away after only ten!  They can’t be recycled!

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Kentucky; 
The final ‘shell’ emplacement had been delayed by unusually high water levels, but now that water levels have dropped the U.S.$1.22-billion Kentucky Lock Addition Project can continue.  Ten ‘shells’ were needed to build the new lock addition in dry conditions.  Reports say that since December 2019 the level of the Tennessee River was over-topping the nine shells already in place, each shell is 31-feet/9-meters high.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spending at least U.S.$16-million to repair a breach in the Buffalo North Breakwater, which was caused by the Halloween Night Storm last year.
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Altus Air Force Base is experimenting with a new cheaper way to clean-up its ground water, called a ‘bio-wall’ (‘bioreactors’ filled with locally sourced micro-organisms): “The purpose of the bio wall is to degrade the manmade contaminates currently found in the groundwater and break them down into naturally found elements. The bio walls act like a big water filter that is 30 feet underground. As the water flows through the wall, we are purifying it from the potentially harmful chemicals that were put in the ground a long time ago.”-Mary Bitney, Altus AFB Remedial Project Manager
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Puerto Rico; 5.0 earthquake 
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Tennessee;  2.7 quake
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Virginia;  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a U.S.$23.7-million contract to Florida based contractor to rebuild the eroded beach at NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, including construction of breakwaters using 1.3-million cubic yards of sand.
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Climate Change, 26-31 January 2020: OCEANS SINK AS THE LANDS FLOOD

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Oceans sink as the Lands flood: Climate Change, 26-31 January 2020

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Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 26 to 31 of the Gregorian month of January 2020.

Melting glaciers could unleash ancient viruses
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Having fewer children touted as the answer

Some insects and some animals are breeding like mad, some are good some are bad

Good crop insects are dying at rapid pace

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The Ocean Floor is Sinking

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Powerful Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake Strikes Near Jamaica and Cuba; Buildings Shake in Miami

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5.4 magnitude quake strikes Mediterranean Sea

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Fossilized Footprints Show Neanderthals Climbing An Active Volcano

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NATO members Canada, France, Italy, Lithuania and the United States are testing energy saving tech at this year’s Smart Energy Training and Assessment Camp.  It includes LED lighting, energy metering, atmospheric water generation, and various sizes of portable solar arrays.

ALBANIA: 4.3 quake, 31JAN2020

AUSTRALIA: Canberra declares state of emergency

BRAZIL:  Exploding canals, imploding malls

More than 30-thousand homeless due to flooding

indigenous group takes on “invader” mining company
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ICELAND: Alert level raised for expanding volcano

INDONESIA: More flooding, more deaths

ITALY: Vehicle ban goes into effect on Sunday

ROMANIA: 5.2-magnitude earthquake

SENEGAL: Has already lost one town to ocean rise

SWITZERLAND:  Warming rivers means less fish to eat?

TURKEY:  4.0 quake, 31JAN2020

UNITED KINGDOM:  Flood victims say new flood plan will make things worse

UNITED STATES: Wine making will end if a new climate adaptable grape cannot be found 

Trees Aren’t the Simple Climate Solution They Seem to Be

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‘Stop using the worst-case scenario … as the most likely outcome,’ experts say
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Illinois;  FEMA grants city additional U.S.$2.3-million to buyout flood prone residential properties (for some reason this news article refers to the grants as an ‘award’, as if the city won a contest)
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North Carolina; 2.3 quake
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Oregon; Utility company pays for climate change education in Portland grade schools (it should be noted that the same utility company announced in November 2019 that it will shutdown its remaining five customer service centers in Spring)
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Puerto Rico; 

Puerto Rico Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Caycee Watson, 30JAN2020.

Puerto Rico Air National Guard personnel with the 156th Medical Group, inspect toilets and hand washing facilities at  an earthquake response ‘base camp’ in Guayanilla, 30JAN2020.
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West Virginia; FEMA grants one county U.S.$131-million to rebuild flooded schools (for some reason this news article refers to the grant as an ‘award’, as if the county won a contest)
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CLIMATE CHANGE, 12-18 JANUARY 2020: OPERATION SUDDEN RESPONSE

Going Viral, 30-31 January 2020: “I’M THE ONLY ONE LEFT”

Idaho

13 year drought finally finished? Pocatello, Idaho, hit with massive downpour!!!

24 August 2013 (19:27 UTC-07 Tango 23 August 2013)/17 Shawwal 1434/02 Shahrivar 1391/18 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

Officially, Idaho has been in a drought since 2000.  Has it finally ended for Bannock County?

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There were many other streets flooded, including residential streets that had water up to the axles of the pick up trucks parked on the side of the road, and all the front yards were flooded.  There were parts of Yellowstone Avenue that looked like someone took a sledge hammer to it, lots-o-new pot holes.  My camera battery died, and it didn’t help that some jerk in a big SUV almost drowned me as I was taking pics!

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S-70 Firehawk caught in rain storm, Pocatello Airport 2012

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After weeks of hot dry weather, and lots of wildfires, eastern Idaho gets hit with random thunder/rain storms!

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EAST IDAHO WILDFIRES 2012: MAINTENANCE DAY FOR SKYCRANE FIRE FIGHTER @ POCATELLO AIRPORT

International

Roke now a Typhoon, heading towards Honshu

Tropical storm Roke stalled long enough over the warm water near Okinawa, to build into a Typhoon.  Japan’s Meteorological Agency says Roke will track northeast over the seas south of the island of Kyushu, before heading for Honshu, then Hokkaido.

Already parts of Kyushu have been hit with massive rain. Since Thursday about 1,000 millimeters (39 inches) have fallen on the southern island.

Typhoon Roke was moving at 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) per hour as of Monday noon, packing winds of up to 144 kilometers (89.4 miles) per hour.  It’s expected to pick up speed.