The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is insecure:

The deaths of the walruses noted in the articles below, are not exactly what I would 'coin' as 'natural.' There is something lost in the Russian translation of 'climate change.' The 'truth' is intact in the Russian reporting as the information by the World Wildlife Federation is accurately stated.
These deaths are the equivalent emergency to Russia as the Polar Bears are to the USA and Canada. I remind, Russia recognizes Kyoto already !

What is going on with walruses in the Chukchi Sea? (click here)
1. Long swimming trough rough ice free sea is severe trail causing death of young and old or sick animals. Local hunters often observe absolutely exhausted animals coming ashore.
2. On coastal haulouts walruses are extremely crowded. In contrast to haulouts on ice coastal ones are often featured by “layering” when some walruses occupy slopes above others (see fig. bellow). This situation extremely increases mortality of animals during panics.
In addition to the above factors outstanding concentration of considerable part of the population leads to overpressure on its feeding base. In contrast to current situation, in the past walruses having ice platforms utilized randomly almost the whole shelf zone of the Chukchi Sea....







WWF says walrus deaths in Russian Far East due to natural causes (click here)
14:55
18/ 08/ 2008
VLADIVOSTOK, August 18 (RIA Novosti) - The World Wildlife Fund said on Monday that over 800 walruses found dead 10 days ago by border officials in Russia's Far Eastern region of Chukotka probably died of natural causes.
The carcasses were found on the coast of the Chukotka Peninsula near the Chegitun River on August 8. Officials had said they believed that the walruses were slaughtered by poachers for their valuable tusks in late July.
However, experts with the WWF's Polar Bear Patrol project said: "It is extremely difficult to hunt so many walruses on ice and it would be strange to bring the bodies to the shore."
"It is clear that border guards found remains of walruses that died last autumn," the WWF said on its Web site. "Most probably the animals died during long swimming through rough ice-free sea, from drifting ice to the mainland coast," or due to over-crowding in coastal haulouts, the statement said....

These are battle cruisers?
Below are the USS Polar Seas and Polar Star. Only one is seaworthy.







The Bush White House is lying about the security of the USA. We do NOT have the military clout this Executive Branch boasts about. Bush is promising a lot more than he could ever deliver. There won't be any security in the Arctic Ocean for 'American Oil Interests.'
Attempts to test American 'protections' for Arctic Ocean exploitation was even backed by the British last year when their submarine sprung a leak forcing the vessel to the surface.
The Arctic is different terrain even with an ice free surface. The conventional means of warfare isn't 'fitted' for Arctic environments.


U.S. losing ability to patrol Arctic's icy waters (click here)
12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, August 17, 2008
...The need for new Arctic icebreak¬ers almost surely will be included in the service’s report (click here). The Healy, commissioned in 2000, is one of three Arctic icebreakers, only two of which are in operational status.
The Polar Star and Polar Sea, the other two icebreakers com¬missioned in the 1970s, need mil¬lions of dollars in maintenance and repairs.
The Polar Sea’s life expectancy was extended to 2014 thanks to a major overhaul in 2006, but the Polar Star has been laid up for at least two years and requires 12 to 18 months’ lead time, as well as an estimated $60 million for a “significant overhaul,” before re¬turning to full operational status....

Lat/Lon :: 58.8° N 137.0° W

Local Time :: 8:31 AM AKDT

Elevation :: 0 ft / 0 m

Temperature :: 52 °F / 11 °C

Conditions :: Overcast

Humidity :: 94%

Dew Point :: 50 °F / 10 °C

Wind :: Calm

Pressure :: 29.66 in / 1004 hPa (Falling)

Visibility :: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers

UV :: 0 out of 16

Clouds:
Few 2000 ft / 609 m
Overcast 4000 ft / 1219 m
(Above Ground Level)

The deaths were in other countries. Why bother about them? Who cares. Why make the storm more political than it has to be?

August 18, 2008
1130z
UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Satellite

In the view of eastern seaboard of North America this is an interesting contrast of images.
It takes a great deal of water vapor to support any major storm. The way Fay has obtained water vapor is from having a large periphery to its' dynamics as it moved 'near' and 'over' land masses. (continued below)








August 18, 2008
2330z
UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Satellite.
The media of the USA has been 'absorbed' with narcisstic concerns regarding a storm that is huge in diameter.
This is a view of "Fay" from 12 hours ago. It has been interesting, to say the least, watching this develop.

Fay has caused deaths.

Published: August 16. 2008 1:40AM
Tropical Storm Fay forms over Dominican Republic (click here)
MIAMI -- Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center say Tropical Storm Fay has formed over the Dominican Republic.The center of the storm is located about 35 miles east of Santo Domingo, and has maximum sustained winds of about 40 mph with higher gusts and is moving west at about 14 mph.The Dominican government has issued a tropical storm warning for the country's north coast and parts of the south coast.


HAITI AGAIN !

Deaths in Haiti again due to tropical storms? When will the USA be a better neighbor and actually protect these island nations?

50 die in Haiti after swollen river sweeps away bus (click here)
Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:11am BST
" PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Around 50 people died in Haiti on Sunday when a bus tried to cross a river swollen with rain from Tropical Storm Fay and was swept away, witnesses said. Two dozen survivors were pulled alive out of the...";


...Fay has left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean (click here), claiming at least 11 lives in the Dominican Republic and Haiti and pummelling Cuba. While it has been moving at a relatively slow 50mph, it is forecast to intensify to hurricane force by the time it arrives in the Florida Keys, 90 miles north of Cuba....

In the 2330z view of Fay the 'borders' to the storm extend from Calove'bora, Panama to east of Florida at approximately 27 north latitude & 75 west longitude in the Atlantic Ocean. That provided necessary water vapor and the heat was provided by the land masses. The extent the water vapor accumulated to support this storm, it accelerated, while at the same time being diminished by the interference with land, but, it was a mutualism that would allow a degree of cooling to a water starved, yet hot Earth troposphere.
The 'mutualism' got more than interesting as the central pressure fell to 1003 and sustained only to rise to 1006 (click here) as the water vapor to the northern periphery supplied enough energy for the storm to literally 'skip' over Cuba, its biggest land mass jump of its existance.
As the storm moved north, with less land interference, it consolidated its periphery and strengthened while moving from a central pressure of 1006 to 1001 within an hour.
As this storm moved north it became 'water starved' and diminished in strength, but, not in voracity.
These storms actually do more damage than traditional storms of their nature and before the dynamics of 'water starvation' occurred. They have higher and chronic 'energy/heat' levels that are ALWAYS seeking more water vapor than storms of the past.
In the past, with an abundance of water vapor, a Cat 1 was at its maximal potential. That is not occurring with these storms. Many of these storms are not reaching their potential do to the lack of 'available' water vapor at the surface of Earth where they occur.
This may very well be 'an Atlantic' phenomena where the CO2 is far higher in density than anywhere else on the planet and the heat levels are continuing to increase because of the USA carbon dioxide pollution. When examining the Pacific storms they are still reaching high levels of Cat 4 this year. So much for China and India being culprits in this madness.
Traditional 'expectations' of storms in 'Cat 1 thru 5' accumulated their potential, sometimes to a maximum allowed by Earth dynamics at a Cat 5, and simply ran their course. That is NOT the case in Earth dynamics as it exists today. These storms always have more 'potential than kinetic' energy and why they do more damage than ever expected.
In other words, Katrina was a Cat 3 at landfall, but, did damage far greater than normally obtained by any Cat 3 in history. There are reasons for that.
These storms, although revealing a central pressure and wind velocity that place them in TS status or Cat 1 ranking, have 'intense' dynamics that expand their periphery to 'chronically' bring higher vorticity to their central pressures.
Let's face it, with a heating troposphere the predictions were that we would be seeing Cat 6 storms. That hasn't happened and won't happen simply because the water vapor to support those dynamics DOESN'T EXIST at Earth's surface.
The prediction of higher and more dangerous storms will NEVER occur on Earth because as the surface heats the water vapor moves up in altitude, therefore, depriving Earth's surface from the necessary 'water vapor/heat content' of its troposphere to sustain such increasing dynamics to hurricanes.
INSTEAD, the troposphere is manifesting 'tornadoes' in higher number and in far more unlikely places than ever anticipated.
BOY, did they have it "W"rong. Good thing I was here, huh?
These storms are far more 'Democratic' in nature than anyone would attribute them to be.
Democratic you say?
How so?
They have far more 'Potential' than ever allowed to have credit for !!!
A sense of humor is always necessary when dealing with morons. You would think that people capable of landing humans on the moon could get Earth's physics right, won't you? Figuring 'trajectory' don't come close to 'contexting' Earth's troposphere. I guess it 'takes a woman.'
I ever tell you the story about the time when...??????

Damaging hail and strong winds were anticipated...

August 16, 2008

Newfane, Vermont

Photographer states :: August hail storm

...and across the pond...

Will awful August be the wettest for nearly a century? (click here)

By Paul Sims

Last updated at 10:47 AM on 18th August 2008

Been caught in a summer downpour lately?
Then the following will probably come as no surprise.
According to forecasters, Britain is on course for the wettest August since 1912.
Some parts of the country are expected to see more than double the average rainfall for the month....

Michael Phelps scores eight.

"It's time to be the best ever," a friend texted our new hero before he became just that. (click here)

Ever hear of The Redlands Dam? Probably not. Its in ARIZONA.

The 'infrastructure' of the USA is failing is a very big way !

The failure of the Redlands Dam caused flooding in Supai, a village on a canyon floor where about 400 members of the Havasupai tribe live.

(When the reservation was created in 1882, the federal government confined us to the 518 acres at the bottom of the canyon and we lost almost 90% of our aboriginal land.) click here

Hundreds Rescued In Ariz. After Dam Bursts (click here)

National Park Service Airlifts Campers And Residents Near Grand Canyon To Safety
PHOENIX, Aug. 17, 2008

...Even before the rain-swollen dam burst, heavy rainfall since Friday totaling as much as 8 inches caused flooding and problems in the area. Sixteen people in a boating party were stranded on a ledge at the confluence of Havasu Creek and the Colorado River on Saturday night after flood waters carried their rafts away, Oltrogge said....

Russia is not going anywhere. They can't. There has been disruption of internal government structures.

Bush is crying at his failed foreign polices and the idiocy of it all and now Rice is pleading 'Put it back the way it was. Put it back now.' This is the most politically driven administration in the history of the USA. Bush/Cheney/Rice literally want the anarchy of Baghdad to reign in Georgia.

NO !!!

Bush treats this as if it was a military exercise. It was war. Hello? Bush foreign policy caused war in Georgia. Bush was warned over and over in the past several years by Russia that this was inevitable if he continued on the path he pursued. The Bush foreign policy is an abject failure and continues to ratchet up the tensions.

Last update - 11:02 18/08/2008
VIDEO

Georgians try to put their lives back in order, despite Russia presence
By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent
GORI, Georgia - Despite Russia's pledge to begin withdrawing its troops from Georgia on Monday, no pullback preparations were visible as of Sunday afternoon. Russian armored forces did leave the village of Igoeti, some 35 kilometers from the capital Tbilisi, but instead of withdrawing, they dug into camouflaged positions with good views of the country's main road. Convoys of supplies and engineering equipment continued to flow toward these positions.

The Russians also maintained their presence in the city of Gori, though they allowed Georgia's civil authorities to begin organizing food and medical services. The Georgian police were still not allowed to operate in the city. But, five days after taking over, the Russians did finally allow an organized entry of reporters into Gori....

The Martyr had no bomb, but, the strength of 'desire for freedom and justice' to vanquish the criminal.

Pakistani President Musharraf resigns
Press Information Department
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf addresses an Independence Day ceremony in Islamabad last week.

Facing impeachment, the former general insists he is innocent but asks supporters to accept his decision.
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times

Staff Writer

August 18, 2008
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- President Pervez Musharraf, facing impeachment, resigned today, insisting on his innocence but saying he did not want to subject the country to a draining political battle....

It was all about the Evangelical "Me." There were dearly no issues of importance discussed. Not only that, but, the interviews were illegal.

The entire role of the "Evangelical Preacher" is out of control.





The Evangelicals are having a 'good time' at my expense.

The Evangelicals are having a 'good time' at the expense of my country.

If Evangelicals can't/won't live by the same rules as everyone else then they need to be 'saved from themselves.'

The Evangelicals are having a 'good time' at the expense of my Constitution.

Saturday Evening there was a performance by Rick Warren that supposedly brought down the house when he hosted interviews with the candidates. It was nothing, but, politics as usual straight from the Rove Play Book.

I thought Barak was more than a good sport to go along with it, but, Mr. Warren was way outside the definition of appropriate in consenting to such politicking and there is a very healthy reason for it.

Up to now?

Mr. Warren and those like him have gotten 'a pass' on playing politics as a religous non-profit. All that might stop if they can't secure the White House with still another 'win for the almighty gipper.'

Mr. Warren should have his non-profit status pulled by the federal government as he stepped way over the light in hosting a political forum where candidates were exploited for their 'faithfulness' to Evangelicals.

The opening salvos were enough to demand repentance. I quote:

"We do believe in the separation of church and state, we do not believe in the separation of faith and politics."

How hipocritical is that?

Can anyone have church without faith? No.

Can any state exist without politics? No. Even the worst of dictatorships still conduct politics.

Rick Warren, no different than any other religious organization in the USA is playing politics for the purpose of INFLUENCING the electorate outcome in November. Rick Warren's candidate is NOT Barack Obama or John McCain. Rick Warren's candidate is God.

End of Discussion.