December 7, 2007
0830z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of north and west hemisphere of Earth. Hard to believe I am looking at Earth. The storm over the Atlantic, offshore eastern USA looks like "Juptier's Great Red Spot. (click here)"
The vortexes near Hawaii have been there before, but, in far smaller size and less numbers. Anyone that follows this blog will recall about six months ago the appearance of two chronic vortexes on the same latitude, one near Hawaii and one east of Florida. They are still there only much larger with high velocity. Hello? This is typical of the dynamics of Earth exposed to Human Induced Global Warming. Any anomaly starts as nearly invisible, then over time manifests into monsters in the troposphere. These vortices are no different and completely typical of the patterns since October 4, 2002.
Hawaii Waves Yesterday
High waves as weather nears
Beaches see swells up to 12 feet Wednesday; rain expected by Friday.
Southland surfers waxed ecstatic over big waves Wednesday, while oceanfront residents protected by a 19-foot sand berm said predictions of coastal flooding amounted to hype.
Lifeguard Capt. Joe Bailey estimated the biggest waves in Seal Beach were "12-footers" around midnight but were just 6-10 feet by midmorning.
"It's going to go down all day long now," he said, estimating that 300 surfers and bodyboarders turned out for the big surf.
Surfer Evan Goldstein said the waves were dangerous but fun.
"Exhilaration and an adrenaline rush, it would be a 10," he told NBC4. "Chance of dying would probably be about a 5, which would be about as high as I've ever seen."
In Redondo Beach, Jude Luhrsen's friends say he vanished for six whole seconds before emerging from the wave rolling toward the shoreline.
Luhrsen wasn't really counting. The swell he caught around noon Wednesday near the Redondo breakwater was big enough and hollow enough to make even a veteran surfer nervous.
"I'd be lying if I said I wasn't scared," said Luhrsen, 46, of Torrance.
"The whole beach was making noise during his wave," his friend Paul Valor said. "The whole beach hooted ... He got a real wave. He was in the tube for a six-second ride."
Waves like that weren't made for novices. The powerful swell headed from the northwest finally hit the South Bay's west-facing beaches early Wednesday, churning up waves estimated at 8- to 20-feet
http://www2.presstelegram.com/ci_7646689
Hawaii surf reaches 40 feet on North Shore
By Eloise Aguiar
WAIMEA — Although wave faces reached as high as 40 feet yesterday, very little trouble was reported on the North Shore and west-facing beaches of O'ahu.
Officials said a low tide and preventive action by lifeguards made the difference.
The National Weather Service issued a high-surf warning yesterday afternoon and it will be in effect until at least noon today. The warning is for the north- and west-facing shores of Kaua'i and O'ahu and also for north-facing shores of Ni'ihau, Maui and Moloka'i.
There was also a high-surf advisory for north-facing shores of the Big Island until noon today.
Waves were expected to peak last night at 20 to 30 feet along north shores and 15 to 20 feet along west shores, before diminishing today.
The weather service also issued a high-wind watch, beginning this afternoon and through tomorrow. Winds from the southwest will be 30 mph, with gusts of up to 50 mph.
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071204/NEWS12/712040347/1001/NEWS12
American bummer in Bali
The Bush crew is a total drag on the climate conference in Indonesia. But on our shores, a political wave of resistance to global warming is rising.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
Dec. 7, 2007 On the first day of the United Nations climate change conference in Bali, which continues through Dec. 14, the United States had already garnered a dubious achievement award. In a crowded exhibition hall, the green coalition group Climate Action Network staged a mock ceremony and named the United States "fossil of the day." The award, greeted with laughter and loud booing, was designed to shame the White House delegation for undermining the goals of the climate talks.
The conference in Bali will set the stage for a new international treaty to follow the Kyoto Protocol, when that global warming accord expires in 2012. But before coming to Bali, the delegation from the Bush administration had made it clear that the United States will not support mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions, and it has stuck to that stance. That position has isolated the U.S., given that Australia, the other major industrialized nation that had refused to sign the Kyoto agreement, has now decided to ratify it. "The U.S. has really been the central focus here because everybody knows the reason there hasn't been more global progress is because the U.S. hasn't acted," said Peter Goldmark, director of the climate and air program for Environmental Defense, via telephone from Bali.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/12/07/bali_climate_conference/
