EE : Big storm from a big ship This young Estonian dude (he is still in his 20s) gets put on watch in the middle of this storm, so he decides to film it and set it to a drum and bass track raaaraaa
I think he is on the North Sea between UK and NL.
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Arctic sea ice melting Surprised no one on here has commented on these news reports.. you don't need to be an eco-warrior to realise what this means. The Norweigians who noticed this aren't all tree huggers, they have lots of cars and gadgets like anyone else, but they are first in line to be affected and realise this and are taking action.
Its like defrosting a giant fridge freezer in a communal house (like student house at the end of term). All the water has to go somewhere, and if you do not take note of what is going on, the kitchen floor will soon be awash.. :yakk:
Sea ice | Environment | The Guardian
Arctic sea ice melt 'may bring harsh winter to Europe' | Environment | guardian.co.uk
UK : East / NL/BE/DE : 60th anniversary of North Sea flooding next Jan In 1953 a North Sea surge flooded large parts of Northern Europe. Back then there were no modern flood defences, only a few folk had telephones or radio communication, and the devastation was immense. Even today with our modern communications tech and advances meteorology this is something all folk in coastal areas here must still be aware of. (The weather often goes round in a circle here, which seems to be often centred around England!)
It will forever be remembered as the night of terror when a North Sea surge flooded the Orwell estuary, sending water smashing through the river walls and a torrent sweeping across Trimley Marshes and through where the port now stands into the resortâs low-lying West End.
It created a scene of devastation with Langer Road left more than 6ft deep in water. Of the 41 who died, 13 were children, and the toll included whole families.
There had been no warning of the floods about to hit â there were no emergency warning systems, or the pinpoint accuracy of the weather warnings or the modern communications we enjoy today.
One minute people were enjoying the evening together, the next their homes were flooded.
Felixstowe: Resort to honour 41 killed in floods - News - Ipswich Star
[h=3]Warnings[/h] At the time of the flood, none of the local radio stations broadcast at night, and many of the smaller weather stations operated only during the day, as a result of which the warnings of the KNMI did not penetrate the flood-threatened area in time. People did not receive warning and were consequently unable to prepare for the impending flood. Telephone and telegraph networks were disrupted, and within hours amateur radio operators went into the affected areas with their equipment to form a voluntary emergency radio network. These well-organized radio amateurs worked tirelessly, providing radio communications for ten days and nights, and were the only people maintaining contact with the outside world. In addition, the disaster struck on a Saturday night, and many offices in the disaster area were unstaffed.
EN : North Sea flood of 1953 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NL : Watersnood van 1953 - Wikipedia
UK : SE : Fire Brigade, EA and SSE pump out substation outside Reading… luckily they got the bulk of the water out and the rain has subsided - or it would have put a large chunk of Reading and South Oxfordshire off supply....
Fire crews say they have prevented flood water damaging an electrical substation near Reading, in Berkshire.
Power cuts in Reading and south Oxfordshire may have been averted.
Some 40,000 properties in the area were in danger of losing power.
BBC News - Flood warnings remain as wet weather continues
UK : East : What they found at the park litterpick recently The local access to nature group was tidying up alderman park and found all this..
Only 4 syringes though? just shows the economic depression is kicking in hard, the junkies must be reusing them :yakk: surprised that there were no knives, although I guess the youtdem aren't discarding them after stabbing their enemies as they must get reused too...
Update on Saturday's litterpick - our volunteers collected: 25 glass bottles; 93 drinks cans; 5 sacks of general rubbish, including 2 footballs; a car wheel & tyre; a large piece of carpet; 4 syringes. A fantastic haul in one hour's work - well done!!
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EU/UK : SE : Warm North Atlantic Ocean causing UK’s wet summers, study shows The Reading Uni boffins have global respect for their skills in meterology - but when the patterns change over this will be a tripple whammy to Southern Europe which will get less Northern European tourists, still random weather what destroys their crops, but it won't stop refugees from countries wracked by both war and environmental conditions..
The UK's dismal recent summers can be blamed on a substantial warming of the North Atlantic Ocean in the late 1990s, according to new scientific research. The shift has resulted in rain-soaked weather systems being driven into northern Europe, increasing summer rainfall by about a third.
The pattern is likely to revert to drier summers and may do so suddenly, according to Prof Rowan Sutton, at the University of Reading, who led the work. "I can't guarantee it but it is likely," he said. "However we are not sure of the timing, which is what every one wants to know â but we are working on this now." Sutton added that when the switch occurs, it could happen as rapidly as over two to three years.
Warm North Atlantic Ocean causing UK's wet summers, study shows | Environment | The Guardian
UK : SE : 23 tonnes (23 000 kilos) of trash left on Brighton Beach This does not include trash correctly placed in bins and really is a sad indictment on the kind of people who flock there. Of course there is as much coast round here where I live and as many London incomers also visiting but you never hear of the same level of contamination :yakk:
BBC News - Brighton beach left with 23 tonnes of rubbish
"Free" energy theory This is NOT an idea for a perpetual motion machine, or a breach of the laws of thermodynamics.
Current view on using an electric motor driving the power shaft of a generator/alternator is that, due to losses, the motor will never be able to supply the needs of the alternator.
Interesting fact; depends on whether or not the materials and size of the altternator are the same as the motor.
So, say you are using copper windings for the motor. Say it takes 200W to spin up 6KG load to 2,000 RPM (conventional bench grinder).
You take off the grinding wheels and fit a large (2 maybe) pulley wheels. The pulleys drive a band which is on a small pulley wheel on the shaft of a car alternator.
The windings on the car alternator (say 16,000 RPM, 80A at 12V) are not made of copper, but a much better conductor/density material such as silver or aluminium.
Assuming the system is allowed time to spin up the alternator via the motor (200 W invertor and a car battery) would the increased generation efficiency of the better conduction/mass ratio of the aluminium give a 30% "free" energy output?
It's not a perpetual motion machine because eventually the split rings of the alternator will give out.
Not my idea by the way. Guy called Duckman reckons he has a working model.
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How would you like the world to be? In my dream world, I imagine people of different cultures/faiths all living together peacefully and the earth's land, crop, etc all shared equally between all the people. No "third world" or "first world" countries, just one equal earth. All sounds quite corny, but I'd love that. Also there'd be no zoos (santuaries, maybe) and animals would roam free, just like people do.
CASTOR 2011 (actions against high level nuclear waste )
I am going to this;
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[TD]Resistance starts on November, 24
Demonstration in Dannenberg, Germany, at 12.30 p.m. on Saturday, November 26, followed by resistance activities. X-day likely to be on the first Sunday in Advent
On November 24, a transport of high level radioactive waste, so called 'Castor' containers, will be shipped from La Hague in France to Gorleben in Germany. Massive resistance is expected to stop this dangerous shipment, and to push the authorities and industry to immediately phase-out nuclear power.
We want to invite you to join us in the 'Wendland' region, the destination of the Castor transport. We are going to prepare a framework for international guests of the Castor resistance to come in contact with other English speakers and to help you to understand what is going on there. We will have a common meeting point where you can sleep, get food and information about actions and possibilities to join the protests.
The anti-nuclear protests against the Castor transports are unique. You will get to know a supportive atmosphere as the residents of the county are mainly supporting the protesters, while thousands of anti- nuclear activists will travel to the region to blockade the shipment.
Some 20,000 police will 'protect' the transport, which means they want to prevent actions blockading the radioactive shipment. However, in the past most actions succeeded delaying the transport. Actions will take place from France to Germany along the hundreds of kilometers of tracks the train has to take to the city Dannenberg in the Wendland region. There the containers will be loaded onto trucks to make the last 20 kilometers to the interim repository in Gorleben on the roads.
Blockades are proposed to take place on the tracks before Lueneburg on public tracks used also by other trains, on the 'Castor tracks' between Lueneburg and Dannenberg only used for the nuclear industry during these days, and on the roads to Gorleben. A number of organizations, alliances and groups already announced public actions in the Wendland region. The variety of activities is broad. You will find sit-in blockades, lock-on actions, climbing activists, barricades, creative farmers blocking streets with their tractors and much more.
We are offering to explore and join this colourful and creative resistance with each other, figuring out together what actions fit you, or just to visit actions to make experiences and get inspired for your own activities back home.
There will be some German activists who want to accompany and support the international guests. We will try to organize additional means to make it easier to get to interesting places, and there will probably be chances to speak about your anti-nuclear expertise or the fights you have in your region. For the local resistance it is also positive if we can show that the international community is supporting the anti-nuclear resistance and that it is not only a German struggle. It would also be a sign to the international public that anti-nuclear movements are supporting each other in Gorleben, and that we will do it in other places, too.
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BHP Billiton Teach-In, London, Wed 19 Oct 2011 BHP Billiton Teach-In
WHAT: A public event with special guests to talk about BHP Billitonâs operations around the world
WHERE: Room 1, Upper Corridor, Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London SW1A 0AA
WHEN: Wednesday 19 October 2011, 19:00-21:00
WHO: The Featured Guest is Julio Cesar Gomez, President of the Federation of Communities Displaced by Mining in La Guajira, Colombia
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Confront BHP Billiton flyer
Plus, on Thursday 20 October, there will be a public demonstration outside the Annual General Meeting of BHP Billiton, in protest at BHPBâs operations around the world.
CONFRONT BHP BILLITON
WHAT: The Annual General Meeting of BHP Billiton
WHERE: Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1P 3EE
WHEN: Thursday 20 October 2011, 10:00 am
Who is BHP Billiton?
BHPB is the worldâs largest diversified resources company and produces coal, oil, gas and uranium. It made record profits of $23.6 billion over the past year and is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Why Protest Against BHPB?
BHPB makes a massive contribution to worsening climate change and is creating deadly radioactive pollution for hundreds of thousands of years to come. Meanwhile, its operations contribute to and benefit from the involuntary relocation of communities and the destruction of rural communitiesâ livelihoods.
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» Confront BHP Billiton - Google Maps
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€ BHP Biliton AGM protest and info evening
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» More Info - http://bhpbillitonwatch.net
What the Green Movement Got Wrong "Environmentalists who are challenging the movement they helped to create express their belief that humanity must embrace the science and technology it once opposed. Advocating radical solutions to climate change such as GM crops and nuclear energy, they argue that the traditional green lobby has failed in its aims and is ultimately harming its own environmental cause."
Channel 4 9pm tonight. Looks like it could be interesting, there's some live debate afterwards.
JP : Bear attacks surge, blamed on climate change/habitat destruction At least four people were killed and 80 wounded in bear attacks between April and September in the island-nation, much of which is covered in mountain forests, topping last year's total of 64 attacks, said broadcaster NHK.
Bear attacks surge in Japan, climate change blamed - Yahoo! News UK
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Bears in a street!
This lad is looking at a sign in the forest warning him of the danger from bears.
MY : Snakes in a bag! (and a turtle) This slippery wildlife smuggler got busted before he managed to get on the plane..
SEPANG: A man, believed to be international wildlife trader Anson Wong, has been detained at the KL International Airport following the seizure of more than 90 snakes from various species.
It is learnt that the man was in transit from Penang to Jakarta on Thursday when he was detained by Malaysia Airlines staff, who had been alerted after a piece of luggage was reported broken. The snakes were found inside the bag.
According to a government official, 95 of the snakes are believed to be boa constrictors, two are suspected to be rhinoceros vipers and one is believed to be a matamata turtle.
Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar confirmed that a man named Anson Wong was picked up at 8.50pm on Aug 26, by airport security for allegedly trying to smuggle snakes. He has been remanded until Tuesday.
âWe have handed the person over to Perhilitan (Wildlife and Natio*nal Parks Department) for further investigations,â he said.
It had been reported by The Star in February that Wong had been linked to a Dec 15 seizure in the United States of various types of animals from an exotic animal outlet.
Two of the traderâs companies were found to have been supplying animals to the outlet.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) had claimed that CBS Wildlife and Sungai Rusa Wildlife, both owned by Wong, were supplying various types of animals and wildlife to US Global Exotics (USGE).
Wong pleaded guilty to trafficking in wildlife in the US and was sentenced to 71 monthsâ jail in 2000.
International wildlife smuggler held at KLIA
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