Blogging the End of the World™
10 January 2014 (SSCS) – At 2:50pm AEDT on January 10th, Captain Peter Hammarstedt of the Sea Shepherd Ship The Bob Barker reported that his ship had just crossed into Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) 200 miles off Macquarie Island, but the pursuing Japanese whale harpoon ship, Yushin Maru No. 3, has stopped one mile […]
By RANDY LEE LOFTIS8 January 2014 (Dallas Morning News) – Two worlds collide this weekend when the Dallas Safari Club auctions a permit to kill an endangered black rhinoceros in Namibia. In one world, a legal trophy hunt helps fund an African nation’s well-regarded conservation programs. That view says losing one aged male would not […]
By David Stanway; Editing by Richard Pullin8 January 2014 BEIJING (Reuters) – China approved the construction of more than 100 million tonnes of new coal production capacity in 2013 – six times more than a year earlier and equal to 10 percent of U.S. annual usage – flying in the face of plans to […]
[UPDATE: Japan whaling ship stopped at Australia Exclusive Economic Zone – ‘Today the Australian government enacted the will of their people by forbidding entrance of these despicable poachers into the Whale Sanctuary’] 9 January 2014 (SSCS) – The Yushin Maru No. 3, one of three harpoon ships of the Japanese whaling fleet, is currently approaching […]
By Brian Clark Howard8 January 2014 (National Geographic News) – The most severe cold snap in the U.S. in 20 years (see pictures) has some people questioning whether the Earth’s climate is in fact warming. The conservative website Breitbart.com has called the cold snap evidence of a global warming “hoax,” while Donald Trump recently tweeted: […]
[“We were all sitting around having lunch, and it flew into the tree next to the back deck, and it took its last breath and screamed and fell on the deck in front of everybody.” Desdemona remembers when thousands of birds fell from the sky in Australia during the record heatwave of 2009.] By Josh […]
By Reissa Su 7 January 2014 (IBT) – Western Australia continues to experience rising temperatures due to a record-breaking heat wave that began in the later weeks of December before creeping towards South Australia. Queensland and New South Wales were not spared from the sweltering heat with temperatures peaking across Queensland on Jan. 3. According […]
By MICHAEL WINES5 January 2014 LAKE MEAD, Nevada (The New York Times) – The sinuous Colorado River and its slew of man-made reservoirs from the Rockies to southern Arizona are being sapped by 14 years of drought nearly unrivaled in 1,250 years. The once broad and blue river has in many places dwindled to a […]
By Holli Riebeek8 January 2014 (NASA) – A deadly heatwave left its signature on the land in Argentina. This image is a compilation of land surface temperatures observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite between December 19 -26, 2013, compared to average temperatures for the same period in 2000-2012. Nearly […]
6 January 2014 (Surfer Today) – The “Black Swell” is hitting UK, Ireland, and Portugal. Huge waves have been spotted, as the storm passes through the Azores Islands and heads to Continental Europe. The black fetch is wide, fast and furious. The swell charts don’t lie. The eye of the storm is larger than the […]
