July 8, 2020
By Michelle Merchante
Florida’s Department of Health on Wednesday (click here) confirmed 9,989 additional cases of COVID-19, the fourth highest single-day total recorded since the pandemic began in March. The state now has 223,783 confirmed cases.
Florida’s highest single-day total was recorded Saturday with 11,458 cases.
There were also 48 new deaths announced, raising the statewide death toll to 3,889.
CONFIRMED COVID-19 CASES IN FLORIDA
- Miami-Dade County reported 2,916 additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 11 new deaths. The county now has 53,974 confirmed cases and 1,068 deaths, the highest in the state.
- Broward County reported 1,186 additional confirmed cases of the disease and one new death. The county now has 23,781 known cases and 419 deaths....
Sunday, July 12, 2020
This tragedy has been recorded for past decades. EVERYONE WAS TOLD SO.
By Alejandra Borunda
An extended heat wave (click here) that has been baking the Russian Arctic for months drove the temperature in Verkhoyansk, Russia—north of the Arctic Circle—to 100.4°F on June 20, the official first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. This record high temperature is a signal of a rapidly and continually warming planet, and a preview of how Arctic warming will continue in an increasingly hot future, scientists say.
“For a long time, we’ve been saying we’re going to get more extremes like strong heat waves,” says Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute. “It’s a little like the projections are coming true, and sooner than we might have thought.”
Saturday’s record wasn’t just a quick spike before a return to more normal summer temperatures for the Russian Arctic: The heat wave behind it is projected to continue for at least another week. It was the hottest temperature ever recorded in the town, where records have been kept since 1885....
"Disappearing Ice Makes for Hungrier Bears"(click here)
There is absolutely NO REASON to sideline Dr. Fauci.
By Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey and Laurie McGinley
I think they have aged through this mess of a national disaster.
For months, (click here) Anthony S. Fauci has played a lead role in America’s coronavirus pandemic, as a diminutive, Brooklyn-accented narrator who has assessed the risk and issued increasingly blunt warnings as the nation’s response has gone badly awry.
But as the Trump administration has strayed from the advice of many of its scientists and public health experts, the White House has moved to sideline Fauci, scuttled some of his planned TV appearances and largely kept him out of the Oval Office for more than a month even as coronavirus infections surge in large swaths of the country.
In recent days, the 79-year-old scientist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has found himself directly in the president’s crosshairs. During a Fox News interview Thursday with Sean Hannity, Trump said Fauci “is a nice man, but he’s made a lot of mistakes.” And when Greta Van Susteren asked him last week about Fauci’s assessment that the country was not in a good place, Trump said flatly: “I disagree with him.”...
A few years ago the Brits reported there was advancing sea ice/ ice pack and that was good news for the climate crisis.
The report from the Brits is on the blog. I knew as soon as I read it they were wrong.
Scientists are no different than any other human being on Earth. They are always hoping Earth has an undiscovered secret that proves the climate is going to be okay and the scientists were simply worry warts all along. I think that was at work in the report by the UK scientists.
In Antarctica, continental ice, a growth of sea ice is not a healthy development because it only proves there is more water runoff from the continent and freezing in the circumpolar ocean circulation. There is more runoff because of melting, not freezing.
By Brian Kahn
...A prime of example of said chaos (click here) was the freakishly low sea ice extent in Antarctica in 2016 and 2017. Ice extent crashed hard everywhere, but particularly in the Weddell Sea near the Antarctic Peninsula. Among the oddities of the austral spring and summer those years was a Netherlands-sized hole in the ice known as a polynya.
Now, new findings published in Geophysical Research Letters show the likely cause of the abnormal conditions were intense, warm winds, which also helped usher in powerful storms that wiped out icepack. The results could help researchers refine their understanding of what the future holds, as temperatures rise and further destroy ice and the ecosystems it supports.
Antarctic sea ice is the oddball of polar ice. The Arctic’s ice has shown a steep decline as the planet has warmed, owing to its location in a largely enclosed ocean. In comparison, the Antarctic’s sea ice extends out from a continent and is much more dynamic. In the years before the huge 2016 crash to a record low, it was at a record high.
From 2015 to 2016, Antarctic sea ice extent dropped a staggering 463,322 square miles (1.2 million square kilometers)—an area twice the size of France. The new research used satellites as well as data collected from autonomous ocean-faring floats to figure out what happened to drive the drop. The findings show the first blow to the ice came in September, when the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Weddell Sea whipped through the region. Relatively warm, gusty winds lashed icepack and broke it up to kickstart melt season....
"Dr. Fauci is only focused on the medical emergency."
Basically, Trump was focused on Wall Street and not the medical emergency. There was no comprehensive policy and Vice President Pence failed to do anything except tell the agencies to get it down without specifics as to what they were to get out. Trump farmed out the federal response to agencies and state governors. It is debatable the states were even talking to the federal agencies because the states were even bidding against FEMA to get supplies.
The federal agency was grossly incompetent because there was no leadership. The supplies order didn't match the need. Ordering supplies for a medical emergency is fine AFTER the initial distribution of national stockpiles fill the need for PPE. The SUPPLY CHAIN WAS BROKEN IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE LONG PAST THE INITIAL SHORTFALL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY.
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room (click here)
March 23, 2020
6:11 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much. And I see we have fewer people because of the virus problem, and we appreciate you being here. And this is getting to be more and more social distancing, and that’s fine. That’s the way it should be, and it’s too bad. We extend our best wishes to the person affected. And we feel sure that he or she will be better very soon.
And thank you for being here. America continues to mobilize every segment of our society to turn the tide in the battle against the virus. I want Americans to know that we will get through this challenge. The hardship will end; it will end soon. Normal life will return. And our economy will rebound very, very strongly. But, right now, in the midst of this great national trial, Americans must remain united in purpose and focused on victory.
To every single American, please know that the sacrifice you’re making at this time is saving lives — many, many lives. It’s very important that we totally protect our Asian American community in the United States and all around the world. They’re amazing people, and the spreading of the virus is not their fault in any way, shape, or form. They’re working closely with us to get rid of it. We will prevail together. It’s very important.
From the beginning, we have been working closely with our nation’s best scientists and medical professionals, and we will continue to do so until we have defeated the virus. Our public health experts, who are terrific, are studying the variation in the disease across the country, and we will be using data to recommend new protocols to allow local economies to cautiously resume their activity at the appropriate time.
We also have a large team working on what the next steps will be once the medical community gives a region the okay — meaning the okay to get going, to get back; let’s go to work.
Our country wasn’t built to be shut down. This is not a country that was built for this. It was not built to be shut down.
My administration continues to work with Democrats and Republicans to reach an agreement on an urgent relief bill for the millions of American workers and small businesses and large businesses that were badly affected by the medical difficulty that we’ve had.
If you had a viable business in January, we are committed to ensuring the same is true in the coming weeks. In fact, we want to make it even better than it was before, and we’re doing things to help in that regard.
America will again, and soon, be open for business — very soon — a lot sooner than three or four months that somebody was suggesting. A lot sooner. We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. We’re not going to let the cure be worse than the problem.
At the end of the 15-day period, we’ll make a decision as to which way we want to go, where we want to go, the timing. And essentially, we’re referring to the timing of the opening — essentially, the opening of our country, because we have it pretty well shut down in order to get rid of this invisible enemy.
Two weeks ago, we moved at record speed to pass paid sick leave and paid family medical leave and approve $8 billion, including money for the development of treatments and vaccines. And we’re doing tremendous work in both — on both fronts. The vaccines are coming along very quickly.
Now Congress must demonstrate the same bipartisanship again and join together to pass the Senate bill as written, and avoid playing any more partisan games. They have to get together and just stop with the partisan politics. And I think that’s happening. I got a call a little while ago; I guess they’re getting closer. It should go quickly and must go quickly. It’s not really a choice. They don’t have a choice. They have to make a deal. This should not be a time for political agendas but rather one for focusing solely and squarely on the needs of the American people.
We are going to save American workers, and we’re going to save them quickly. And we’re going to save our great American companies, both small and large. This was a medical problem. We are not going to let it turn into a long-lasting financial problem. It started out as a purely medical problem, and it’s not going to go beyond that. We’re just not going to allow that to happen.
Our country was at its strongest financial point. We’ve never had an economy like we had just a few weeks ago, and then it got hit with something that nobody could have ever thought possible. And we are fixing it. We’re fixing it quickly. And I want to just thank the American people for what they’ve been through and what they’re doing.
Our country will be stronger than ever before, and we fully anticipate that. And it won’t be that long.
Let me provide you with an update on critical supplies: FEMA is distributing
8 million N95 respirator masks and
13.3 million surgical masks across the country right now, focusing on the areas with the greatest need.
We have shipped
73 pallets of personal protective equipment to New York City and
36 pallets to the State of Washington.
I don't know how many items are on a pallet. I think that is deceptive. March 29 was shortly after the remarks by the president. The numbers don't add up.
(click here)
As of April 21, Project Airbridge has completed 70 flights (each flight has the capacity of one over the road truck load) with an additional 46 scheduled. Two flights landed in Chicago yesterday, with four flights scheduled to land today: two in Chicago, one at JFK (NY) and one at LAX.
Through Project Airbridge, the following supplies have been delivered from overseas manufacturers to the U.S. and into private sector supply chains from March 29 to April 19:
The federal agency was grossly incompetent because there was no leadership. The supplies order didn't match the need. Ordering supplies for a medical emergency is fine AFTER the initial distribution of national stockpiles fill the need for PPE. The SUPPLY CHAIN WAS BROKEN IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE LONG PAST THE INITIAL SHORTFALL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY.
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room (click here)
March 23, 2020
6:11 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much. And I see we have fewer people because of the virus problem, and we appreciate you being here. And this is getting to be more and more social distancing, and that’s fine. That’s the way it should be, and it’s too bad. We extend our best wishes to the person affected. And we feel sure that he or she will be better very soon.
And thank you for being here. America continues to mobilize every segment of our society to turn the tide in the battle against the virus. I want Americans to know that we will get through this challenge. The hardship will end; it will end soon. Normal life will return. And our economy will rebound very, very strongly. But, right now, in the midst of this great national trial, Americans must remain united in purpose and focused on victory.
To every single American, please know that the sacrifice you’re making at this time is saving lives — many, many lives. It’s very important that we totally protect our Asian American community in the United States and all around the world. They’re amazing people, and the spreading of the virus is not their fault in any way, shape, or form. They’re working closely with us to get rid of it. We will prevail together. It’s very important.
From the beginning, we have been working closely with our nation’s best scientists and medical professionals, and we will continue to do so until we have defeated the virus. Our public health experts, who are terrific, are studying the variation in the disease across the country, and we will be using data to recommend new protocols to allow local economies to cautiously resume their activity at the appropriate time.
We also have a large team working on what the next steps will be once the medical community gives a region the okay — meaning the okay to get going, to get back; let’s go to work.
Our country wasn’t built to be shut down. This is not a country that was built for this. It was not built to be shut down.
My administration continues to work with Democrats and Republicans to reach an agreement on an urgent relief bill for the millions of American workers and small businesses and large businesses that were badly affected by the medical difficulty that we’ve had.
If you had a viable business in January, we are committed to ensuring the same is true in the coming weeks. In fact, we want to make it even better than it was before, and we’re doing things to help in that regard.
America will again, and soon, be open for business — very soon — a lot sooner than three or four months that somebody was suggesting. A lot sooner. We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. We’re not going to let the cure be worse than the problem.
At the end of the 15-day period, we’ll make a decision as to which way we want to go, where we want to go, the timing. And essentially, we’re referring to the timing of the opening — essentially, the opening of our country, because we have it pretty well shut down in order to get rid of this invisible enemy.
Two weeks ago, we moved at record speed to pass paid sick leave and paid family medical leave and approve $8 billion, including money for the development of treatments and vaccines. And we’re doing tremendous work in both — on both fronts. The vaccines are coming along very quickly.
Now Congress must demonstrate the same bipartisanship again and join together to pass the Senate bill as written, and avoid playing any more partisan games. They have to get together and just stop with the partisan politics. And I think that’s happening. I got a call a little while ago; I guess they’re getting closer. It should go quickly and must go quickly. It’s not really a choice. They don’t have a choice. They have to make a deal. This should not be a time for political agendas but rather one for focusing solely and squarely on the needs of the American people.
We are going to save American workers, and we’re going to save them quickly. And we’re going to save our great American companies, both small and large. This was a medical problem. We are not going to let it turn into a long-lasting financial problem. It started out as a purely medical problem, and it’s not going to go beyond that. We’re just not going to allow that to happen.
Our country was at its strongest financial point. We’ve never had an economy like we had just a few weeks ago, and then it got hit with something that nobody could have ever thought possible. And we are fixing it. We’re fixing it quickly. And I want to just thank the American people for what they’ve been through and what they’re doing.
Our country will be stronger than ever before, and we fully anticipate that. And it won’t be that long.
Let me provide you with an update on critical supplies: FEMA is distributing
8 million N95 respirator masks and
13.3 million surgical masks across the country right now, focusing on the areas with the greatest need.
We have shipped
73 pallets of personal protective equipment to New York City and
36 pallets to the State of Washington.
I don't know how many items are on a pallet. I think that is deceptive. March 29 was shortly after the remarks by the president. The numbers don't add up.
(click here)
As of April 21, Project Airbridge has completed 70 flights (each flight has the capacity of one over the road truck load) with an additional 46 scheduled. Two flights landed in Chicago yesterday, with four flights scheduled to land today: two in Chicago, one at JFK (NY) and one at LAX.
Through Project Airbridge, the following supplies have been delivered from overseas manufacturers to the U.S. and into private sector supply chains from March 29 to April 19:
- More than 760,000 N95 masks. The most important aspect of PPE, masks are even close to 8 million N95. There was also a high degree of incompetent procurement because they were only interested in numbers and not quality.
June 12, 2020 by Yeganeh Torbati and Derek Willis
...In scrambling (click here) to buy protective equipment for the coronavirus pandemic, federal agencies purchased up to $11 million worth of Chinese-made masks, often with little attention to manufacturing details or rapidly evolving regulatory guidance about safety or quality, a ProPublica review shows.
Some agencies cannot say who made their masks at a time when thousands of foreign-made respirators appeared on the market, some falsely claiming approval or certification by the Food and Drug Administration. Some agencies bought the masks, known as KN95s, from companies that share a U.S. representative with another firm recently accused of fraud by the Justice Department.
The contracts reflect the intense pressure federal agencies were under to procure protective equipment as the pandemic surfaced and rapidly spread in the U.S. Now, some experts worry that the products could remain in circulation long past the crisis and be used by unsuspecting federal employees who believe they have legitimate respirator masks....
- More than 608 million gloves.
- More than 52 million surgical masks.
- More than 7.4 million surgical gowns.
- Nearly 2.1 million thermometers.
- More than 562,000 face shields.
To date, FEMA has obligated $5.7 billion in support of COVID-19 efforts. In the last 24 hours, that figure includes:
- $30 million to California.
- $2 million to Colorado.
- $6.5 million to Louisiana....
The climate crisis is caused from anthropogenic hot air from Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
By Henry Fountain
The sea ice that surrounds Antarctica, (click here) like that in the Arctic, is seasonal: it increases in extent during the winter and largely melts in the summer. The exception has been the Weddell Sea, east of the Antarctic Peninsula, which retains much of its ice from year to year because of cold winds from the south and a circular current, or gyre, that keeps the ice from drifting into warmer waters that would cause it to melt more.
That makes the Weddell an important area for species of penguins and seals and other creatures that prefer colder, icier conditions.
But from 2016 to 2017, the Weddell had a sharp drop in sea ice coverage during the Southern Hemisphere summer compared with the previous summer. The loss was nearly 350,000 square miles, or about one-third of the recent average summer coverage. What’s more, that loss of sea ice has persisted, with only slight increases in coverage each summer since then....
...First, they report in a recent study in Geophysical Research Letters, unusually strong westerly winds in September 2016 — the start of spring in Antarctica — pushed a lot of sea ice out of the Weddell. And that December, the start of summer, record strong storms brought in warm air from the northeast.
“That caused a very early melting of sea ice,” said John Turner, a British Antarctic Survey meteorologist and lead author of the study....
There are many parallels in the early days of SARS and SARS-CoV-2.
The pattern of discovery of SARS and a global alert is even longer than with SARS-CoV-2. The blame does not belong to the WHO, it belongs to the executive branch of the USA and the president's poor actions in reducing the spread and containing the virus.
2002 (click here)
November 16: The first case of atypical pneumonia is reported in the Guangdong province in southern China.
2003
March 12: The World Health Organization (WHO) issues a global alert for a severe form of pneumonia of unknown origin in persons from China, Vietnam, and Hong Kong....
...April 4: The number of suspected U.S. SARS cases was 115; reported from 29 states. There were no deaths among these suspect cases of SARS in the United States....
April 4, 2003
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264(b)), it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Based upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the “Secretary”), in consultation with the Surgeon General, and for the purpose of specifying certain communicable diseases for regulations providing for the apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases, the following communicable diseases are hereby specified pursuant to section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act:
(a) Cholera; Diphtheria; infectious Tuberculosis; Plague; Smallpox; Yellow Fever; and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (Lassa, Marburg, Ebola, Crimean-Congo, South American, and others not yet isolated or named).
(b) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which is a disease associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, is transmitted from person to person predominantly by the aerosolized or droplet route, and, if spread in the population, would have severe public health consequences.
Sec. 2. The Secretary, in the Secretary’s discretion, shall determine whether a particular condition constitutes a communicable disease of the type specified in section 1 of this order.
Sec. 3. The functions of the President under sections 362 and 364(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 265 and 267(a)) are assigned to the Secretary.
Sec. 4. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit enforceable at law or equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or any other person.
Sec. 5. Executive Order 12452 of December 22, 1983, is hereby revoked.
George W. Bush
The White House,
April 4, 2003.
2002 (click here)
November 16: The first case of atypical pneumonia is reported in the Guangdong province in southern China.
2003
March 12: The World Health Organization (WHO) issues a global alert for a severe form of pneumonia of unknown origin in persons from China, Vietnam, and Hong Kong....
...April 4: The number of suspected U.S. SARS cases was 115; reported from 29 states. There were no deaths among these suspect cases of SARS in the United States....
...May 6: In the United States, no new probable cases were reported in the last 24 hours, and there was no evidence of ongoing transmission beyond the initial case reports in travelers for more than 20 days. The containment in the United States has been successful.
May 20: CDC lifted the travel alert on Toronto because more than 30 days (or three SARS incubation periods) had elapsed since the date of onset of symptoms for the last reported case....
The response from the CDC and President Bush was immediate, urgent and focused on containment to end the virus transmission. Never once did President Bush deny this was a serious virus with deadly outcomes.
For Immediate Release (click here)April 4, 2003
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264(b)), it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Based upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the “Secretary”), in consultation with the Surgeon General, and for the purpose of specifying certain communicable diseases for regulations providing for the apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases, the following communicable diseases are hereby specified pursuant to section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act:
(a) Cholera; Diphtheria; infectious Tuberculosis; Plague; Smallpox; Yellow Fever; and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (Lassa, Marburg, Ebola, Crimean-Congo, South American, and others not yet isolated or named).
(b) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which is a disease associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, is transmitted from person to person predominantly by the aerosolized or droplet route, and, if spread in the population, would have severe public health consequences.
Sec. 2. The Secretary, in the Secretary’s discretion, shall determine whether a particular condition constitutes a communicable disease of the type specified in section 1 of this order.
Sec. 3. The functions of the President under sections 362 and 364(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 265 and 267(a)) are assigned to the Secretary.
Sec. 4. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit enforceable at law or equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or any other person.
Sec. 5. Executive Order 12452 of December 22, 1983, is hereby revoked.
George W. Bush
The White House,
April 4, 2003.
Kindly remember air moves in "waves" not very different from water. It is the warmer air that is melting Antarctica.
July 1, 2020
By Craig Stevens and Christina Hulbe
...There are indeed hidden ocean cavities around Antarctica, and our latest research explores how the ocean circulates underneath the continent's ice shelves - large floating extensions of the ice on land that rise and fall with the tides.
These ice shelves buttress the continent's massive land-based ice cap and play an important role in the assessment of future sea level rise. Our work sheds new light on how ocean currents contribute to melting in Antarctica, which is one of the largest uncertainties in climate model predictions.
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest floating slab of ice on Earth, at 480,000 square kilometers. The ocean cavity it conceals extends 700km south from Antarctica's coast and remains largely unexplored.
We know ice shelves mainly melt from below, washed by a warming ocean. But we have very little data available about how the water mixes underneath the ice. This is often overlooked in climate models, but our new measurements will help redress this.
The only other expedition to the ocean cavity underneath the central Ross Ice Shelf goes back to the 1970s and came back with intriguing results. Despite the limited technology of the time, it showed the ocean cavity was not a static bathtub. Instead, it found fine layering of water masses, with subtly different temperatures and salinities between the layers....
I believe the science of 1983 was just as sound and if not more so compared to the facts of today. The formation of a methodology, even though different, does not mean it has a higher error or less important facts. In all honesty, the science of today is a validation of the past.
20 March 1983
By Theodore D. Foster
A series of temperature and salinity profiles (click here) was made in the ocean under the Ross Ice Shelf at 82°22.5′S, 168°37.5′W where the ice was 420 and the underlying seawater 240 m thick. The water structure consisted of a fairly well‐mixed, low salinity layer at the in situ freezing point of the ice‐water interface about 30 m thick, a transition layer characterized by intrusions about 85 m thick, a strongly stratified layer with increasing temperature and salinity about 50 m thick, another transition layer characterized by intrusions about 45 m thick, and an isohaline bottom layer with a nearly abiabatic temperature gradient about 30 m thick. The temperature fluctuations in the two transition layers can be attributed mainly to intrusive activity even though internal wave activity was highest in these regions. In the central stable layer, internal waves probably contribute to the temperature fluctuations equally with intrusions. The internal wave ‘dropped’ displacement spectrum seems to be very similar to those found in the open ocean. Some profiles showed intrusions in the top transition layer colder than the top boundary layer, and some showed intrusions in the bottom transition layer warmer than the bottom boundary layer, indicating that horizontal shear must be present. Internal waves of near inertial frequency excited by the semidiurnal tides combined with shear‐induced instabilities seem to be the likely causes of the observed fine structure.
By Craig Stevens and Christina Hulbe
...There are indeed hidden ocean cavities around Antarctica, and our latest research explores how the ocean circulates underneath the continent's ice shelves - large floating extensions of the ice on land that rise and fall with the tides.
These ice shelves buttress the continent's massive land-based ice cap and play an important role in the assessment of future sea level rise. Our work sheds new light on how ocean currents contribute to melting in Antarctica, which is one of the largest uncertainties in climate model predictions.
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest floating slab of ice on Earth, at 480,000 square kilometers. The ocean cavity it conceals extends 700km south from Antarctica's coast and remains largely unexplored.
We know ice shelves mainly melt from below, washed by a warming ocean. But we have very little data available about how the water mixes underneath the ice. This is often overlooked in climate models, but our new measurements will help redress this.
The only other expedition to the ocean cavity underneath the central Ross Ice Shelf goes back to the 1970s and came back with intriguing results. Despite the limited technology of the time, it showed the ocean cavity was not a static bathtub. Instead, it found fine layering of water masses, with subtly different temperatures and salinities between the layers....
I believe the science of 1983 was just as sound and if not more so compared to the facts of today. The formation of a methodology, even though different, does not mean it has a higher error or less important facts. In all honesty, the science of today is a validation of the past.
20 March 1983
By Theodore D. Foster
A series of temperature and salinity profiles (click here) was made in the ocean under the Ross Ice Shelf at 82°22.5′S, 168°37.5′W where the ice was 420 and the underlying seawater 240 m thick. The water structure consisted of a fairly well‐mixed, low salinity layer at the in situ freezing point of the ice‐water interface about 30 m thick, a transition layer characterized by intrusions about 85 m thick, a strongly stratified layer with increasing temperature and salinity about 50 m thick, another transition layer characterized by intrusions about 45 m thick, and an isohaline bottom layer with a nearly abiabatic temperature gradient about 30 m thick. The temperature fluctuations in the two transition layers can be attributed mainly to intrusive activity even though internal wave activity was highest in these regions. In the central stable layer, internal waves probably contribute to the temperature fluctuations equally with intrusions. The internal wave ‘dropped’ displacement spectrum seems to be very similar to those found in the open ocean. Some profiles showed intrusions in the top transition layer colder than the top boundary layer, and some showed intrusions in the bottom transition layer warmer than the bottom boundary layer, indicating that horizontal shear must be present. Internal waves of near inertial frequency excited by the semidiurnal tides combined with shear‐induced instabilities seem to be the likely causes of the observed fine structure.
Antarctica is a continent. The Arctic Ocean obviously is an ice ocean.
A landmass with ice has consistent temperatures because of the ice sitting on it, would not necessarily melt from underneath. If any melting would occur it would be the air temperatures reaching high enough to melt ice. The air circulating over Antarctica creating the "melt pools" is above freezing.
The massive Antarctica ice formations are no longer the resistance to even chronic and rapid manmade climate change.
29 June 2020
By Sharon E. Stammerjohn & Ted A. Scambos
Over the last half of the twentieth century, (click here) surface temperature over the South Pole was steady if not slightly cooling, suggesting the high Antarctic interior might be immune to warming. Research now shows a dramatic switch; in the past 30 years, the South Pole has been warming at over three times the global rate....
The South Pacific has reached temperatures high enough and the air above it warm enough that Antarctica can no longer transfer temperatures to prevent the ice over the land from melting. The ice shelves of Antarctica are over water, and in the climate crisis warm water and that is why we have over time witnessed the "Larson shelves" disintegration because of the warm waters surrounding them and underneath them.
This reporting instance is about the melting of ice over the continent of Antarctica, not the ice shelves. It is a huge difference.
June 29, 2020
By Helen Regan
...“I haven’t seen (click here) melt ponds develop this quickly in Antarctica,” said Pelto. “You see these kinds of melt events in Alaska and Greenland, but not usually in Antarctica.” He also used satellite images to detect widespread surface melting nearby on Boydell Glacier....
The South Pole (click here) has been warming at more than three times the global average over the past 30 years, a new study has found. That could have huge implications for the melting of Antarctic ice sheets, marine life in the region and the rising of global sea levels.
The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change on Monday, sheds new light on the most remote region on Earth. While scientists have known for years that the outer regions of Antarctica is warming, they previously thought the South Pole, being located deep in its interior, was isolated from rising global temperatures...
The massive Antarctica ice formations are no longer the resistance to even chronic and rapid manmade climate change.
29 June 2020
By Sharon E. Stammerjohn & Ted A. Scambos
Over the last half of the twentieth century, (click here) surface temperature over the South Pole was steady if not slightly cooling, suggesting the high Antarctic interior might be immune to warming. Research now shows a dramatic switch; in the past 30 years, the South Pole has been warming at over three times the global rate....
The South Pacific has reached temperatures high enough and the air above it warm enough that Antarctica can no longer transfer temperatures to prevent the ice over the land from melting. The ice shelves of Antarctica are over water, and in the climate crisis warm water and that is why we have over time witnessed the "Larson shelves" disintegration because of the warm waters surrounding them and underneath them.
This reporting instance is about the melting of ice over the continent of Antarctica, not the ice shelves. It is a huge difference.
June 29, 2020By Helen Regan
...“I haven’t seen (click here) melt ponds develop this quickly in Antarctica,” said Pelto. “You see these kinds of melt events in Alaska and Greenland, but not usually in Antarctica.” He also used satellite images to detect widespread surface melting nearby on Boydell Glacier....
The South Pole (click here) has been warming at more than three times the global average over the past 30 years, a new study has found. That could have huge implications for the melting of Antarctic ice sheets, marine life in the region and the rising of global sea levels.
The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change on Monday, sheds new light on the most remote region on Earth. While scientists have known for years that the outer regions of Antarctica is warming, they previously thought the South Pole, being located deep in its interior, was isolated from rising global temperatures...
He hasn't changed his mind. He got caught.
By Mary Kay Linge
President Trump is covering up.
The president, (click here) who has resisted calls to wear a face covering in public throughout the coronavirus epidemic, appeared for the first time with one before the White House press corps. It was navy blue bearing the presidential seal in gold.
The occasion was a visit to Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where he met with wounded troops and medical staff on Saturday.....
The group itself appears to not have an official website, but, this much is known. Their genre helped protect them from being labeled as evil or radical. If I said their music was correct it would insult them, but, it is correct.
Genre: Alternative/Indie
Albums: Kill A Generation, Sounds of Failure, Sounds of Hope, MORE
Record labels: Dr. Strange Records, Geykido Comet Records
SoCal punk band formed in 1999. (click here for Facebook site - thank you)
Demo - 1999 Split 7” w/ NY
2000 “Kill a Generation” - 2003
“Sounds of Failure, Sounds of Hope” - 2007
I find their songs and expression of those songs the fears of many American generations. They are haunting. They had the guts to put it to lyrics and music.
Genre: Alternative/Indie
Albums: Kill A Generation, Sounds of Failure, Sounds of Hope, MORE
Record labels: Dr. Strange Records, Geykido Comet Records
SoCal punk band formed in 1999. (click here for Facebook site - thank you)
Demo - 1999 Split 7” w/ NY
2000 “Kill a Generation” - 2003
“Sounds of Failure, Sounds of Hope” - 2007
I find their songs and expression of those songs the fears of many American generations. They are haunting. They had the guts to put it to lyrics and music.
Germ Warfare by the Voids (click here for group information sort of - thank you)
Turned on the t.v, each channel just the same
Germ warfare, warfare, the topic of today
Why must they say this? no i don't want to hear
Of this possibility, of this kind of fear
Why can't we just live, no violence, no more fights
I just want to live here, no i don't want to die!
Germ warfare, germ warfare
That's all they keep saying
Germ warfare, germ warfare
Nobody can survive
Germ warfare, germ warfare
That's all they keep saying
Germ warfare, germ warfare
No i don't want to die!
Some say it'll never happen
But it's closer than we think
A disease that spreads just as easy as we breathe
No masks can save us, no you can't run and hide
From this kind of warfare, from this kind of fright
Germ warfare, germ warfare
That's all they keep saying
Germ warfare, germ warfare
Nobody can survive
Germ warfare, germ warfare
That's all they keep saying
Germ warfare, germ warfare
No i don't want to die!
Turned on the t.v, each channel just the same
Germ warfare, warfare, the topic of today
Why must they say this? no i don't want to hear
Of this possibility, of this kind of fear
Why can't we just live, no violence, no more fights
I just want to live here, no i don't want to die!
Germ warfare, germ warfare
That's all they keep saying
Germ warfare, germ warfare
Nobody can survive
Germ warfare, germ warfare
That's all they keep saying
Germ warfare, germ warfare
No i don't want to die!
Some say it'll never happen
But it's closer than we think
A disease that spreads just as easy as we breathe
No masks can save us, no you can't run and hide
From this kind of warfare, from this kind of fright
Germ warfare, germ warfare
That's all they keep saying
Germ warfare, germ warfare
Nobody can survive
Germ warfare, germ warfare
That's all they keep saying
Germ warfare, germ warfare
No i don't want to die!
Saturday, July 11, 2020
Now, in case no one else is putting the pieces of this puzzle together, allow me.
Why is it the Republicans won’t pass a bill to criminalize lynching?
Got it?
No?
When Republicans won’t pass a bill to criminalize lynching it is a dog whistle to all the White Supremacists/Nationalists/Alt Right. “Vote Republican because we got your back.” The only people I know that won’t pass a bill to criminalize lynching in the USA are racists.
So while Republicans stand the line supporting racist values, Russia’s intelligence agencies are producing videos that dramatize lynching.
Why is it the Republicans won’t pass a bill to criminalize lynching?
Got it?
No?
When Republicans won’t pass a bill to criminalize lynching it is a dog whistle to all the White Supremacists/Nationalists/Alt Right. “Vote Republican because we got your back.” The only people I know that won’t pass a bill to criminalize lynching in the USA are racists.
So while Republicans stand the line supporting racist values, Russia’s intelligence agencies are producing videos that dramatize lynching.
COVID-19 is disabling the USA economy because of the irreverence of Americans to it's dangers.
The Governors believing leaving their states open to protect the economy could not be more wrong. The governors must shut them down. No exception so that people migrate around from one open state to another. Shut down as New Zealand did until there were no new cases. Then and only then did New Zealand open their society again. When one case showed up, there was a return to strict standards, and the day after when there were none the country opened permanently.
July 11, 2020
By Jamie L. LaReau
General Motors will lay off its third shift of workers (click here) at the assembly plant where it builds its midsize pickups and full-size vans as cases of coronavirus surge in the surrounding community.
The automaker said starting July 20 it will reduce its Wentzville Assembly plant, which is near St. Louis, Missouri, to two shifts.
"We believe in the short term a two-shift operation plan will allow us to operate as efficiently as possible and accommodate team members who are not reporting to work due to concerns about COVID-19 in the local community," GM spokesman David Barnas told the Free Press on Saturday.
But the layoffs will delay GM's efforts to restock supplies of the usually hot-selling Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon pickups, Barnas said. Second-quarter sales saw a big decline in the slowing economy.
There are 1,250 workers per shift at Wentzville, he said. GM is still working on the details regarding the exact number of workers for temporary layoffs, he said. Also, there is no time frame set yet on the length of the layoff.
"We are working on a staffing plan that will allow us to return to three shifts as soon as possible," Barnas said....
July 11, 2020
By Jamie L. LaReau
General Motors will lay off its third shift of workers (click here) at the assembly plant where it builds its midsize pickups and full-size vans as cases of coronavirus surge in the surrounding community.
The automaker said starting July 20 it will reduce its Wentzville Assembly plant, which is near St. Louis, Missouri, to two shifts.
"We believe in the short term a two-shift operation plan will allow us to operate as efficiently as possible and accommodate team members who are not reporting to work due to concerns about COVID-19 in the local community," GM spokesman David Barnas told the Free Press on Saturday.
But the layoffs will delay GM's efforts to restock supplies of the usually hot-selling Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon pickups, Barnas said. Second-quarter sales saw a big decline in the slowing economy.
There are 1,250 workers per shift at Wentzville, he said. GM is still working on the details regarding the exact number of workers for temporary layoffs, he said. Also, there is no time frame set yet on the length of the layoff.
"We are working on a staffing plan that will allow us to return to three shifts as soon as possible," Barnas said....
The propaganda videos I watched were fairly simple in their theme. The white people, including women, were full of hate and the black person involved was fearful of them.
White - hate - no real reason for the hate expect white supremacy - power
Black - fear - an understanding he was going to die. I didn't see any black women involved in a lynch dialogue.
It doesn't take a genius to see they are propaganda if put in that context. I am convinced more than ever they were produced by Russia. The context was that a person making the video was doing so without being discovered until the plot is known. A third party happens upon the lynching effort which makes the video a moral statement about the conduct of the others.
There is just no incidence like that in the USA. But, the videos were made as if it were. If taken seriously, it could really inspire a movement on both sides that results in gun-toting violence.
The tone of the videos would have been removed by Facebook even under their old policy. I think Facebook should prohibit political ads.
I encountered a Trump supporter about a week ago while running errands and I stated, please six feet, social distancing. He replied, "Oh, yeah, the flu that is going around. I suppose the population needed weeding." No, lie. There are fellow Americans that believe there is a benefit to the deaths from COVID-19. It was hard to write that. I'd rather forget it, but, it isn't prudent to forget it.
White - hate - no real reason for the hate expect white supremacy - power
Black - fear - an understanding he was going to die. I didn't see any black women involved in a lynch dialogue.
It doesn't take a genius to see they are propaganda if put in that context. I am convinced more than ever they were produced by Russia. The context was that a person making the video was doing so without being discovered until the plot is known. A third party happens upon the lynching effort which makes the video a moral statement about the conduct of the others.
There is just no incidence like that in the USA. But, the videos were made as if it were. If taken seriously, it could really inspire a movement on both sides that results in gun-toting violence.
The tone of the videos would have been removed by Facebook even under their old policy. I think Facebook should prohibit political ads.
I encountered a Trump supporter about a week ago while running errands and I stated, please six feet, social distancing. He replied, "Oh, yeah, the flu that is going around. I suppose the population needed weeding." No, lie. There are fellow Americans that believe there is a benefit to the deaths from COVID-19. It was hard to write that. I'd rather forget it, but, it isn't prudent to forget it.
Hurricane Fay did flood streets, basements and first level of homes in southern NJ.
The measures taken by New Jersey after Sandy seems to have had an effect with Fay making landfall.
July 10, 2020
Rain lashed the New Jersey shore Friday (click here) as the fast-moving Tropical Storm Fay churned north on a path expected to soak the New York City region.
The storm system was expected to bring 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 centimeters) of rain, with the possibility of flash flooding in parts of the mid-Atlantic and southern New England, The U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its 11 a.m. advisory....
Rain lashed the New Jersey shore Friday (click here) as the fast-moving Tropical Storm Fay churned north on a path expected to soak the New York City region.
The storm system was expected to bring 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 centimeters) of rain, with the possibility of flash flooding in parts of the mid-Atlantic and southern New England, The U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its 11 a.m. advisory....
There are a fair amount of "lynching videos" on social media and not on Facebook.
There is even one whereby a small group of people have a black man on the ground and pinned against a tree with the intention of lynching him. I don't believe that was real, but, the videos do exist. As I clicked on one after another it took the viewer into an intense emotional space where I felt the system wasn't working and black people were at risk by other Americans that wanted the end of the black race in the USA.
That many lynching videos would have brought about an awareness within the USA and law enforcement. I think it is the GRU. It is difficult to tell whether the scenes were with American or Russian actors.
Here is a little more fear-mongering.
July 10, 2020
By Racheal Rettner
A Chinese embassy (click here) has issued a warning about a deadly "unknown pneumonia" circulating in Kazakhstan, but authorities outside of China say these cases are still likely COVID-19.
On Thursday (July 9), officials with the embassy in Kazakhstan issued an alert to residents that the unidentified pneumonia had killed more than 1,700 people in Kazakhstan, including Chinese citizens, according to CNN. "The death rate of this disease is much higher than the novel coronavirus," the alert said, according to Newsweek....
The Kazakhstani (click here) Ministry of Health has confirmed 51,059 cases of COVID-19 in the country as of July 8, 2020.
I will say this, that a Chinese scientist was found to be carrying biological samples which were not allowed in the USA in the airport in Detroit, Michigan. It occurred early on in the discovery of the virus in the USA. I haven't seen any other reporting of that identity of the biological materials, but, if they were illegal that says enough.
July 10, 2020
By Jessie Yeung, Philip Want and Martin Goillandeau
...In a statement on Friday, (click here) the Kazakhstan health ministry acknowledged the presence of "viral pneumonias of unspecified etiology," but denied that the outbreak was new or unknown.
"In response to these reports, the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan officially declares that this information does not correspond to reality," the statement read.
It added the "unspecified" pneumonia classification followed World Health Organization guidelines "for the registration of pneumonia when the coronavirus infection is diagnosed clinically or epidemiologically but is not confirmed by laboratory testing."...
It isn't as though the Kazakhstan government has no clue.
July 6, 2020
By Catherine Putz
On July 5 (click here) Kazakhstan went back into a country-wide lockdown as COVID-19 cases spiked. The country’s first lockdown lasted from March 16 to May 11. The second lockdown, which is planned to last at least two weeks, appears to be the first such reimposition of a nationwide lockdown in the world.
As of July 6, Kazakhstan had recorded 48,574 cases of the novel coronavirus since the first cases were registered in mid-March. While the coronavirus2020.kz dashboard, where official statistics are posted, only states 188 deaths, on Sunday Kazakh Minister of Health Alexei Tsoi told reporters that the number of deaths had reached 232. Kazakh authorities said they would update death statistics once a week....
In the past decade, Kazakhstan has been leaning firmly into a westernized economy. The USA has never had an 8.5% poverty rate.
Kazakhstan's economy (click here) grew at a higher-than-expected rate of 4.5% in 2019, driven by solid growth in domestic demand. Inflation rose gradually due to higher increases in food prices. The poverty rate fell to 8.5%.
Kazakhstan people are improving their quality of life. The exchange rate is 413.55 tenge to one USA dollar.
17 June 2019
"The monthly average nominal wage (click here) of Kazakhstani employees made 168,500 tenge ($407.45 US) in Q1 2019, i.e. 95.7% against the last quarter and 110.5% against Q1 2018. The real wage index was 94.2% against the 1st quarter and 105.2% against Q1 2018.
In Atyrau region, the average wage is 322,700 tenge per an employee. Real wage index is 108.6% against the same period in 2018.
Mangistau region stands second with 287,900 tenge. However, the real wage index is 97.1% (-2.9%).
The average wage of the citizens of Nur-Sultan made 233,500 tenge. Real wage index is 98.9%, Ranking.kz informs..
In May 2019, the average monthly wage comprised 173,500 tenge without consideration of small enterprises, Statistics Committee of the National Economy Ministrys.
The politics aren't in line with democracy, exactly. They can't seem to kick the bad habits of communism. The people do not choose their own leaders. There is still a circle of influence among the "ruling class."
10 June 2010
Widespread irregularities (click here) and arrest of peaceful protesters showed scant respect for democratic standards, said the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
Sunday's election was called after long-time leader Nursultan Nazarbayev stepped down in March.
His hand-picked successor Kassym-Jomart Tokayev easily won the poll....
That many lynching videos would have brought about an awareness within the USA and law enforcement. I think it is the GRU. It is difficult to tell whether the scenes were with American or Russian actors.
Here is a little more fear-mongering.
By Racheal Rettner
A Chinese embassy (click here) has issued a warning about a deadly "unknown pneumonia" circulating in Kazakhstan, but authorities outside of China say these cases are still likely COVID-19.
On Thursday (July 9), officials with the embassy in Kazakhstan issued an alert to residents that the unidentified pneumonia had killed more than 1,700 people in Kazakhstan, including Chinese citizens, according to CNN. "The death rate of this disease is much higher than the novel coronavirus," the alert said, according to Newsweek....
The Kazakhstani (click here) Ministry of Health has confirmed 51,059 cases of COVID-19 in the country as of July 8, 2020.
I will say this, that a Chinese scientist was found to be carrying biological samples which were not allowed in the USA in the airport in Detroit, Michigan. It occurred early on in the discovery of the virus in the USA. I haven't seen any other reporting of that identity of the biological materials, but, if they were illegal that says enough.
July 10, 2020
By Jessie Yeung, Philip Want and Martin Goillandeau
...In a statement on Friday, (click here) the Kazakhstan health ministry acknowledged the presence of "viral pneumonias of unspecified etiology," but denied that the outbreak was new or unknown.
"In response to these reports, the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan officially declares that this information does not correspond to reality," the statement read.
It added the "unspecified" pneumonia classification followed World Health Organization guidelines "for the registration of pneumonia when the coronavirus infection is diagnosed clinically or epidemiologically but is not confirmed by laboratory testing."...
It isn't as though the Kazakhstan government has no clue.
July 6, 2020
By Catherine Putz
On July 5 (click here) Kazakhstan went back into a country-wide lockdown as COVID-19 cases spiked. The country’s first lockdown lasted from March 16 to May 11. The second lockdown, which is planned to last at least two weeks, appears to be the first such reimposition of a nationwide lockdown in the world.
As of July 6, Kazakhstan had recorded 48,574 cases of the novel coronavirus since the first cases were registered in mid-March. While the coronavirus2020.kz dashboard, where official statistics are posted, only states 188 deaths, on Sunday Kazakh Minister of Health Alexei Tsoi told reporters that the number of deaths had reached 232. Kazakh authorities said they would update death statistics once a week....
Kazakhstan's economy (click here) grew at a higher-than-expected rate of 4.5% in 2019, driven by solid growth in domestic demand. Inflation rose gradually due to higher increases in food prices. The poverty rate fell to 8.5%.
Kazakhstan people are improving their quality of life. The exchange rate is 413.55 tenge to one USA dollar.
17 June 2019
"The monthly average nominal wage (click here) of Kazakhstani employees made 168,500 tenge ($407.45 US) in Q1 2019, i.e. 95.7% against the last quarter and 110.5% against Q1 2018. The real wage index was 94.2% against the 1st quarter and 105.2% against Q1 2018.
In Atyrau region, the average wage is 322,700 tenge per an employee. Real wage index is 108.6% against the same period in 2018.
Mangistau region stands second with 287,900 tenge. However, the real wage index is 97.1% (-2.9%).
The average wage of the citizens of Nur-Sultan made 233,500 tenge. Real wage index is 98.9%, Ranking.kz informs..
In May 2019, the average monthly wage comprised 173,500 tenge without consideration of small enterprises, Statistics Committee of the National Economy Ministrys.
The politics aren't in line with democracy, exactly. They can't seem to kick the bad habits of communism. The people do not choose their own leaders. There is still a circle of influence among the "ruling class."
10 June 2010
Widespread irregularities (click here) and arrest of peaceful protesters showed scant respect for democratic standards, said the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
Sunday's election was called after long-time leader Nursultan Nazarbayev stepped down in March.
His hand-picked successor Kassym-Jomart Tokayev easily won the poll....
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