New York City is one of the world's 10 cities most vulnerable to climate change. As sea levels rise, many things that make New York a great place to live will start to disappear. In this video, Nexus Media explores five iconic New York sights and activities that we'll lose as climate change continues to affect the environment.
Pre-Announcement Media Coverage
We are seeing so many remarkable pre-announcement pieces showing up, this is a place to post and discuss them. This one for example, is making discoveries sound 'ho hum' which a few months/years ago were heralded as amazing breakthroughs. Today for example:
"Nearly Every Star Hosts at Least One Alien Planet"
http://news.yahoo.com/nearly-every-star-hosts-least-one-alien-plane...
When a month or so ago they were making a BIG deal about finding one planet in the sweet zone which could possibly support life, son they they say 25% of them could support life! Including mention of red dwarfs, etc. The Zeta predicted evidence continues to build up!
Here is another blog that relates, describing a wobble:
NASA Scientists "Discover" a Wobbly Planet!?
https://poleshift.ning.com/forum/topics/nasa-scientists-discover-a-...
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Comment by casey a on May 24, 2015 at 9:42am
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San Andreas trailer
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Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on May 23, 2015 at 7:41am
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The big omission is "when" Miami will be thrust under the waves.
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/dutch-sea-level-rise-expert-miami...
DUTCH SEA LEVEL RISE EXPERT: MIAMI WILL BE "THE NEW ATLANTIS," A CITY IN THE SEA
THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2015
A few months after Hurricane Sandy bared down on New York, killing over 150 people and wreaking $65 billion in damage, federal leaders cried for help to make the Northeast more flood-proof. Dutch expert Henk Ovink answered. Ovink had helped make his homeland, where 55 percent of the country is extremely flood-prone, a world pioneer in preparing for sea level rise. With Ovink at the helm, the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force put together a groundbreaking plan to make the region more sea-level rise resistant and started a contest to sponsor innovative design plans.
Which is all to say that there aren't many people alive who know more about helping threatened cities cope with sea level rise.
So there's good cause to be worried when the Dutch expert says there’s no place in worse shape today than Miami. He’s begun calling the city “the new Atlantis,” after the legendary and beautiful island subcontinent that was submerged by the sea in one night.
“If we look around the world and take into account sea level rise and the increase of water related disasters, among the places in the world that have the most assets and investments at risk, Miami is leading that list,” Ovink tellsNew Times. “Miami will no longer be a land city, but a city in the sea.”
In recent years, scientists have repeatedly warned that South Florida’s coastal communities and barrier islands could be completely underwater in 100 years. Earlier this year, National Geographic published research on the projected cost of an extreme weather event in 2050. With so many buildings, roads and other infrastructure so close to sea level, Miami was number one on the list, with a projected loss of $278 billion dollars, followed by Guangzhou, China ($268 billion), and New York-Newark ($209 billion).
A first step is for leaders to recognize and talk about climate change.
“It’s scary that the state of Florida briefed staff not to talk about climate change,” Ovink says. “When you think about future risks and how to deal with them, that is not right approach. You have to address those issues and come up with a strategy. It's an opportunity.”
The problem, Ovink says, is that dozens of individual cities, like Miami Beach, are pursuing their own balkanized strategies rather than making a unified effort to find creative solutions.
Government, businesses, NGOs and residents should plan together, Ovink says, and do more than just stop-gap efforts. In the very short term, ideas might include raising buildings, preventing ocean water from flooding freshwater aquifers, and installing pumps to stop city flooding. But long term efforts need to be more comprehensive.
Last year, a New York Times Magazine article about Ovink and Dutch water management efforts showed just how behind the U.S. is in its thinking around water. Beyond just keeping water out, Rotterdam, in Southern Netherlands, is “building floating houses and office buildings and digging craters in downtown plazas that will be basketball courts most of the year but will fill up with runoff during high-water periods, taking the strain off the surrounding streets.”
In another region, a “wide trench” is being cut through the city where the river bottlenecks and an island is being built. Higher areas of the island may contain housing, but low-lying sections will be developed into parks and beaches. During flood periods, the lower sections of the island will simply be engulfed by water.
“In the Netherlands, we’re in a great place,” Ovink says, because “we have institutional, programmatic funding until 2050 and a collaborative, innovative approach.”
Ovink says Scott should propose a process now to deal with uncertainties and safeguard the state. The strategy should involve policy reform, investment and innovative projects that actually change the risk Florida is now facing. Inaction only means our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are going to suffer more, he says.
“And perhaps [the governor] could announce it himself,” he says, “to make sure he’s taking it seriously.”
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hey ryan & starr.
There were similar antics around the Oct. 20 date. It might be part of the coverup crowd's dirty tricks
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@Ryan. I've deleted it as I found a utube video of Charles Bolden which merely suggests that people have a family preparedness plan which NASA refers to as Eagle Horizon which also happens to include some facts about WH Continuation of Government.. Here is that video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_RmiXXCojw
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Comment by Ryan X on May 12, 2015 at 12:03am
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Rare direct image of a super-Jupiter exoplanet A giant planet 11 times the mass of Jupiter has been directly photographed, the closest such planet to Earth we've seen with our own eyes.
The big, wide universe has a lot of stars. The exact figure is unknown, although estimates put the number somewhere in the region of 70 sextillion. Some of those stars, just like our own sun, have their own planetary satellites. Yet, according to the NASA Exoplanet Archive, astronomers have only confirmed the existence of 1,832 planets outside of the solar system.
And most of these confirmed planets we haven't even seen. They are too far away, and don't emit any light of their own, making them very difficult to spot. Their existence is proven by the behaviour of the star's light. A disappearing, reappearing star might mean, for instance, that a planet is passing between it and our telescopes, eclipsing it briefly.
So a directly imaged planet is a rare and wonderful thing.
Say hello, then, to VHS 1256b, a giant planet just 40 light-years from Earth, the closest for which a direct image and spectrum have been obtained to date. A team of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and the Centre for Astrobiology collaborated on the project.
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Comment by J Ph on May 11, 2015 at 4:59pm
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http://news.yahoo.com/sea-rise-threatens-florida-coast-no-statewide...
St. Augustine's centuries-old Spanish fortress and other national landmarks sit feet from the encroaching Atlantic, whose waters already flood the city's narrow, brick-paved streets about 10 times a year — a problem worsening as sea levels rise. The city has long relied on tourism, but visitors to the fortress and Ponce de Leon's mythical Fountain of Youth might someday have to wear waders at high tide.
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Comment by Howard on May 10, 2015 at 7:52pm
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Newly Discovered Roswell Alien Photos Unveiled (May 5)
A collection of old Kodachrome slides dating back to the 1940s found in an attic in Arizona reportedly contain new images of what UFO specialists believe is proof that the human race has been visited by alien beings.
The alleged photo evidence was unveiled by Adam Dew. The Kodachrome slides were supposedly found by his friend's sister roughly 17 years ago when she was cleaning out a property for real estate somewhere in Sedona, Arizona.
The box contained wo images of the Roswell “alien” along with photos of Bing Crosby, Clark Gable, and Dwight Eisenhower from before his term as president. The fact that the images were lying with other undeniably authentic photos suggests they are authentic.
Dew, who has a background in video production and journalism, investigated and worked on the slides as they were not in focus when he received them. He then dated the slides back to the late 1940s.
When Dew showed the images to Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist did not say the images were fake, just suggested the evidence is inconclusive (per the above Kodachrome Trailer video). Dew defended his findings by saying that the first popular images of aliens did not become widespread until the 1960s, but he dated the image back to the 1940s.
Dew also came in contact with a man who claims that he had personally seen the alleged alien bodies when the Roswell incident happened. The man wished to remain anonymous. When shown the Kodachrome slides, he said that the alleged alien body is very similar to what he saw years ago.
Jaime Maussan, a prominent Mexican UFO researcher, notes that the images are of something “undeniably” non-human.
Maussan points out that the photos, which show a typical extraterrestrial body-type by today’s standards, were taken before an archetype of an alien existed. Maussan notes that the image was taken prior to any sketches of the Roswell aliens being released.
On May 5, the images were unveiled at an event in Mexico where around 10,000 people attended. What is intriguing is that the people who wanted to see the alleged alien photos paid $350. Dew's slides did manage to impress people even Edgar Mitchell, who was an American astronaut that landed on the moon. Mitchell said that the images felt very authentic.
The researchers say they spent five years studying the images to determine their authenticity before deciding to release them.
However, not everyone is in agreement. Many feel the photos are “authentic,” just not authentically extraterrestrial. It was pointed out that the images strongly resemble those of child mummies.
Sources
http://www.inquisitr.com/2074020/images-that-one-ufo-specialist-say...
http://www.biztekmojo.com/00604/roswell-alleged-alien-photos-are-fa...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3072510/Is-evidence-...
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Comment by Derrick Johnson on May 9, 2015 at 6:08am
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Researchers discover mysterious new planet hundreds of light years away
A huge “puffed up” planet “too big for its star” some 500 light years from Earth has been discovered by Australian researchers — with the help of a backyard astronomer.
The planet’s size in relation to the star it orbits challenges theories about how planets are formed, researchers from the Australian National University said.
“We have found a small star with a giant planet the size of Jupiter orbiting very closely,” said George Zhou from the Research School of Astrophysics and Astronomy.
“It must have formed further out and migrated in, but our theories can’t explain how this happened.”
Astronomers believe that planets are created from a “disc” of dust and gas around stars, Zhou said.
“We think that planets are the leftovers of star formations,” he said.
But he said the star — HATS-6 — was almost too small for it to have any leftovers and the discovery of a planet — named HATS-6b — raised questions about how large a disk could form around a star relative to its size.
“HATS-6 is one of the lowest mass stars known to host a close-in gas giant planet,” the team of researchers said in a study published in “The Astronomical Journal.”
HATS-6b orbits its star every 3.3 days, researchers said.
Astronomers first got an indication of the planet’s existence when they noticed that light from HATS-6 dimmed, — suggesting that a planet was passing between the star and Earth.
To confirm the transit signal, they went to of the world’s biggest telescopes — Chile’s Magellan Telescope — and a backyard astronomer in the northern city of Perth, T.G Tan.
Zhou said that the amateur astronomer had been really helpful. “He was able to catch the transit of the planet from Perth, after it had set over our horizon,” Zhou said.
He said the university — part of the HATSouth Exoplanet Survey — used telescopes to monitor hundreds of thousands of stars. With about a thousand planetary candidates they needed to enlist amateurs to monitor their transits.
“Amateurs have been getting ever more sophisticated,” Zhou said, with Tan a “near professional.”
‘He was able to help us actually confirm that this transit signal was not a blip. That was a massive contribution from him.”
Continuous observation
The HatSouth project is an international collaboration between the Australian National University, Princeton University, the Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie and the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
“We have a series of small telescopes spread around the world — in Namibia, New South Wales and Chile — we’re able to gather continuous observations of objects in the night sky. That’s how we’re discovering these planets.”
Zhou said the planet’s atmosphere would make an interesting study.
“The planet has a similar mass to Saturn, but its radius is similar to Jupiter, so it’s quite a puffed up planet. Because its host star is so cool it’s not heating the planet up so much, it’s very different from the planets we have observed so far,” he said.
“By having an atmosphere that’s puffed up it actually allows us to look through the atmosphere,” Zhou told CNN.
When starlight passed through the top atmosphere, astronomers would be able to look for absorption signals that revealed details of its composition, he said.
“Every element has its barcode — or spectrum. We want to break the light of HATS-6b into its rainbow of color, within that, there’s a barcode for absorption.”
Source: http://myfox8.com/2015/05/08/researchers-discover-new-planet/
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3057897/The-Big-One-...
Is California next? US Geological Survey warns risk of magnitude 8 or larger 'Big One' earthquake has increased dramatically
- Risk in the next 30 years has increased from about 4.7% to 7.0%
- However, study says risk of smaller quakes has actually gone down
- Comes as 7.8-magnitude quake hits Kathmandu killing 4,000 people
A new report from the U.S. Geological Survey has warned the risk of 'the big one' hitting California has increased dramatically.
Researchers analysed the latest data from the state's complex system of active geological faults, as well as new methods for translating these data into earthquake likelihoods.
The estimate for the likelihood that California will experience a magnitude 8 or larger earthquake in the next 30 years has increased from about 4.7% to about 7.0%, they say.
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In the new study, the estimate for the likelihood that California will experience a magnitude 8 or larger earthquake in the next 30 years has increased from about 4.7% for UCERF2 to about 7.0% for UCERF3.
'We are fortunate that seismic activity in California has been relatively low over the past century,' said Tom Jordan, Director of the Southern California Earthquake Center and a co-author of the study.
'But we know that tectonic forces are continually tightening the springs of the San Andreas fault system, making big quakes inevitable.
'The UCERF3 model provides our leaders and the public with improved information about what to expect, so that we can better prepare.'
The Third Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast, or UCERF3, improves upon previous models by incorporating the latest data on the state's complex system of active geological faults, as well as new methods for translating these data into earthquake likelihoods.
The study confirms many previous findings, sheds new light on how the future earthquakes will likely be distributed across the state and estimates how big those earthquakes might be.
Compared to the previous assessment issued in 2008, UCERF2, the estimated rate of earthquakes around magnitude 6.7, the size of the destructive 1994 Northridge earthquake, has gone down by about 30 percent.
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