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Zoo's new elephants due by Christmas
THREE young Asian elephants bound for a breeding program in the Melbourne Zoo are expected to arrive before Christmas.
The three marked for Melbourne and five for Sydney were the centre of legal action and protests that delayed their departure from Thailand for two years.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/zoos-new-elephants-due-by-christmas/2006/10/07/1159641577425.html
Saigon Zoo in shambles without solution
The Saigon Zoo in Ho Chi Minh City appears to be falling apart as the number of visitors continues to dwindle. Authorities have no renewal plans and instead want to build a new park.
The animal’s poorly maintained living environments make the zoo a generally gloomy place to visit.
Many of the cages’ foundations have deteriorated but no one has bothered to remedy them. Moss grows densely in the animals’ homes.
Insufficient safety conditions have also discouraged visitors as a seven-year-old girl reportedly fell into the crocodile lake last year.
The zoo turnout this month was thin as management failed to provide exciting activities and left visitors to watch dull and inactive animals, caged and sulky in a stagnant environment.
http://www.thanhniennews.com/society/?catid=3&newsid=20903
Allen's Swamp monkey, baby die at city zoo
By JENNI LAIDMAN
BLADE SCIENCE WRITER
An 11-year-old Allen's Swamp monkey and her newborn infant died this week at the Toledo Zoo, possibly from a severe bacterial infection.
When keepers arrived at work Monday morning, they found Maxine dead in her cage with an apparently healthy infant male born during the night. Although the baby monkey was eating well and acting normally, it went into shock Tuesday morning and died shortly afterward, said Dr. Chris Hanley, the zoo's associate veterinarian.
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061005/NEWS38/610050354/0/NEWS33
Something to Squeal About at Mesker Park Zoo
Oct 12, 2006 08:40 AM EDT
Web Producer: Jill Middleton
Two new Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs have arrived at Evansville's Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden.
The 12-week-old pigs are both females and are on exhibit near the Gibbon exhibit, across from the entrance of the Children's Enchanted Forest.
http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=5507535&nav=3w6o
Zoo adds elephants as part of swap
Jacksonville Business Journal - October 6, 2006\
The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens has added two female African elephants from a Kansas zoo as part of a transfer of breeding animals.
A pair of 24-year-old elephants recently arrived at the zoo from Lee Richardzon Zoo in Garden City, Kan. The animals had been at the Kansas zoo since 1986.
http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2006/10/02/daily36.html?jst=b_ln_hl
10/09/06
Our Man Lou could be back in Bronx Zoo
Lou Piniella could be coming to a baseball club near you.
The Chicago Cubs.
The Washington Nationals.
The New York Yankees.
Where, oh, where will Our Man Lou land?
Even more important, where should he land?
Reports out of New York on Sunday had Piniella coming back to the Bronx to work for George Steinbrenner for the fourth time. One of the Boss' favorites, Lou won two World Series rings with the Yankees in 1977 and '78 as a player and then directed the club as manager on two occasions in the late 1980s.
Beginning with the 1990 season, when Piniella took the Cincinnati Reds to the World Series title in his first season, Lou has returned to Yankee Stadium as the beloved enemy, mostly with the Seattle Mariners, where he won 840 games, including a record 116 in 2001.
http://www.sun-herald.com/Newsarchive2/100906/sp3.htm?date=100906&story=sp3.htm
Lincoln Park Zoo Won't Rename Polar Bear Exhibit
Exhibit Bears Name Of Man Who Allegedly Rigged Hospital Construction Contracts
(STNG) CHICAGO Lincoln Park Zoo’s polar bear exhibit features a couple of very powerful, 800-pound creatures -- and the name of a man who allegedly won illegal kickbacks by muscling hospitals into using his pals for construction projects.
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/local_story_282081440.html
Zoo plans expansion
Chris Ammann/Examiner)The elephants at the Maryland Zoo will have company this spring when the zoo will acquire three more elephants.
BALTIMORE (Map, News) - Three new African elephants will make their way from Philadelphia to Baltimore next year.
Petal, 50, Kallie, 24, and Bette, 23, are currently residing at the Philadelphia Zoo and are expected to be transported by truck to the Maryland Zoo in late spring 2007. Petal, Kallie and Bette will join Dolly and Anna, the zoo’s current resident elephants.
http://www.examiner.com/a-335370~Zoo_plans_expansion.html
Calling all creatures of the night to Auckland Zoo
Tuesday, 10 October 2006, 5:32 pmPress Release: Auckland City Council
AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL MEDIA RELEASE
10 October 2006
Calling all creatures of the night to Auckland Zoo
Nickelodeon Boo at the Zoo is back by popular demand this year on Saturday, 28 October. So grab your witch’s broom and fly into Auckland Zoo for the best place to trick or treat this Halloween. Expect an unforgettable night of adventure, as the zoo becomes a hive of spooky activity, with music, monsters, stilt walkers, fire dancers, fairies, face painters and so much more. Every grown-up and child will receive a goodie bag full of treats, and be in with a chance to win a trip for four (including flights) to Dreamworld Australia.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0610/S00089.htm
Order on breeding of animals in zoos
Legal Correspondent
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) and all big and small zoos not to undertake breeding of animals beyond the number specified by the CZA in a directive in 1995.
A Bench, comprising Chief Justice Y.K. Sabharwal and Justice C.K. Thakker, gave the direction on a petition filed by the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals.
The petitioner, bringing to the court's notice overcrowding of animals in zoos, said that at present there were 159 recognised zoos, comprising 19 large, 12 medium, 27 small and 101 mini ones. As on March 31, 2004, the total animal population in these zoos was 28,607 and as on March 31, 2005 the figure went up to 41,235.
http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/10/stories/2006101015511500.htm
Stop breeding animals in zoos: SC
NEW DELHI: Alarmed over overcrowding of zoos, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the authorities to stop breeding of animals till they comply with the required infrastructure.
"We direct that no zoo will permit any further breeding of animals in their respective custody," a Bench comprising of Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal and Justice C K Thakker said.
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1057652
Orphaned Bear Cubs Now On Display At Zoo
POSTED: 3:07 pm EDT October 10, 2006
UPDATED: 8:49 am EDT October 11, 2006
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A pair of Florida black bear cubs are now on display at the Palm Beach Zoo.
Zoo officials said the two cubs, which were orphaned, will live at the facility in West Palm Beach for about a year.
http://www.nbc6.net/news/10045166/detail.html
Smithsonian celebrates grand opening of National Zoo's Asia Trail
The Associated PressPublished: October 17, 2006
WASHINGTON The Smithsonian Institution's National Zoo opened its new Asia Trial and giant panda habitat Tuesday, the first phase of a complete makeover of the zoo's exhibits.
Seven Asian species now call the $53 million (€42.32 million) renovated space home.
Besides the zoo's three popular giant pandas, the exhibit includes a larger, more prominent space for sloth bears, fishing cats, red pandas, clouded leopards, a Japanese giant salamander and Asian small-clawed otters.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/17/america/NA_GEN_US_National_Zoo_Pandas.php
The Zoo's New Digs
To me, the National Zoo has always had a funky '70s vibe. For as long as I can remember, the pathways have been dotted by the same brown, rain-splattered signs with chunky lettering and the groovy Smithsonian sun logo. With the possible exception of everyone's favorite panda, not much seems to change around there.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/goingoutgurus/2006/10/the_zoos_new_digs.html
Sangai's birth brings cheer to Patna zoo
Source: The Sangai Express
Patna, October 11: Patna Zoo authorities are all smiles these days after a deer belonging to the endangered Sangai species delivered a fawn on Tuesday.The latest birth has taken the total number of Sangais at the zoo to four.Locally known as Sangai in Manipuri, the brow-antlered deer is rare and also known as Thamin deer and the Dancing deer.It is widely believed that the Sangai is found in natural habitat at the Keibul Lamjao National Park in Loktak Lake in Manipur.
http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=14..121006.oct06
New county budget retains funding for zoo, museum
By Paul Sloth
Thursday, October 12, 2006 2:14 AM CDT
Racine County - At a time when communities struggle to draft budgets under tighter state restrictions, Racine County officials made the process look a little easier - at least easier than in previous years.County Executive Bill McReynolds presented his 2007 budget to the County Board Tuesday and it looked like he was able to cut spending, drop the tax levy and keep funding quality-of-life programs - ones that hovered near the chopping block in years past - all without major cuts.County Board Supervisor Ken Hall liked a number of things in the budget McReynolds presented Tuesday night. Funding for quality-of-life items like the Racine Zoo, the Racine Heritage Museum and the Racine Water Patrol remained.
http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2006/10/12/local/iq_4254809.txt
Top wildlife job given to ex-zoo chief
AN ecologist who held a high-profile role at Edinburgh Zoo has been appointed president of the Scottish Wildlife Trust.
Professor Roger Wheater has been a member of the trust for more than 33 years.
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1538392006
Prevailing haze a threat to wildlife in Kalimantan: Singapore Zoo
By Julia Ng, Channel NewsAsia Posted: 17 October 2006 1733 hrs
SINGAPORE : The prevailing haze is exacting a huge cost not only to human health, but also to nature. The Singapore Zoo, which supports conservation projects in Indonesia, raised concerns on Tuesday that the haze is threatening the wildlife in Kalimantan. So far, animals in Singapore have been spared from haze-related respiratory problems.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/235987/1/.html
Group seeks $11 million for zoo
03:53 PM EDT on Tuesday, October 17, 2006
By Karen A. DavisJournal Staff Writer
A giraffe at the 134-year-old Roger Williams Park Zoo, the third oldest zoo in the nation.
The Providence Journal / Gretchen Ertl
Question 6: $11 million for zoo improvements
PROVIDENCE — Question 6 on the statewide general election ballot is a bid by the Rhode Island Zoological Society to help raise money for renovation and modernization of Roger Williams Park Zoo.
The ballot will ask voters to approve an $11-million allocation to help with a five-year, $35-million plan to revitalize the zoo.
The Rhode Island Zoological Society announced last month that it was seeking support for the plan.
In addition to money from the $11-million bond issue, zoo officials hope to finance the project with $4 million already secured from a 2004 bond issue and $20 million in private donations.
http://www.projo.com/news/content/Question6_10-17-06_7N2D1NE.3f8b927.html
Living Large as Zoo Unveils Asia Trail
Move to Boost Park Expands Space for Pandas, Sloth Bears
By Annie Gowen
Washington Post Staff WriterThursday, October 12, 2006; Page A01
The National Zoo unveiled its new Asia Trail exhibit yesterday, the first phase of a planned overhaul that rejuvenates a prominent slice of the park and nearly doubles the space for the popular giant pandas to frolic.
Officials called the trail -- which also features sloth bears, clouded leopards, red pandas and other creatures -- the start of a "complete transformation" of the animal park. The $53 million project is the most significant upgrade in nearly 40 years, officials said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/11/AR2006101101068.html
Belize Zoo Director to Dicuss Wildlife Conservation on Oct. 18
Released: 10/11/2006
Sharon Matola, director of the Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Center and an internationally renowned conservation biologist, will discuss her current animal and habitat preservation efforts on Wednesday, Oct. 18, at SUNY Cortland. Matola's talk, titled "Feathers and Fungi: The Importance of Saving Tropical Nature," begins at 7 p.m. in Bowers Hall, Room 109. The lecture is free and open to the public. A native of Baltimore, Md., Matola grew up having little direct experience with nature but an early interest in animals. After serving in the U.S. Air Force and performing as a lion tamer in a Mexican circus, she came to Belize, the former British Honduras in Central America, in 1982. She took a temporary job as a film assistant to documentary filmmaker Richard Foster, who needed someone to manage the small collection of wild animals he used for his wildlife films.
http://www.cortland.edu/news/article.asp?ID=222
Brunch with Crunch: The Houston Zoo
We can only surmise that the Keebler Elf is having a coronary at the very thought of crickets or, worse, cockroaches on a lovely, buttery cracker. How about "Three Bee Salad" or "Pest-o"? Have we piqued your curiousity, or put you off of your next meal? The Houston Zoo is hosting "From Soup to Gnats: The Essentials of Bug Cookery" on Saturday, October 14, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. featuring insect chef and author David George Gordon. The brunch will be traditional and bug-less, however, Chef Gordon will be whipping up bug delicacies for the not so weak at heart - or anyone getting prepared for an appearance on "Fear Factor".
http://houstonist.com/2006/10/11/brunch_with_cru.php
Boy lost in Beijing zoo, found in Shanghai's
(China Daily)Updated: 2006-10-12 08:29
A 4-year-old boy mysteriously appeared in Shanghai Zoo on October 5, one day after he was reported lost in Beijing Zoo.
Xiaohang, who has impaired hearing and minimal language ability, got lost in Beijing Zoo on October 4. The worried parents alerted police immediately and posted notices on the Internet seeking help. Soon a netizen replied that he had seen a little boy in Shanghai Zoo looking identical to Xiaohang. On the following day, the parents flew to Shanghai and found the boy in a local police office.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-10/12/content_706390.htm
Baby gorilla born at Little Rock Zoo
LITTLE ROCK Today, the Little Rock Zoo celebrated the birth of a baby western gorilla, the first ever gorilla to be born at the zoo.
Officials say the baby, which was born at 12:40 p-m to gorillas Sekani (suh-KAHN'-ee) and Fossey, is reported to be in good health.
Zoo general curator Mark Shaw says now is a critical time for survival of the baby. Zoo officials will watch the baby and its mother closely, to make sure both are safe, healthy and bonding.
The gender of the baby gorilla is not yet known.
Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=5523169
36-day-old Panda at Zoo Atlanta opens eyes for first time
ATLANTA Zoo Atlanta's baby Panda has opened its eyes for the first time.
Zoo officials made the discovery today during a physical examination of the 36-day-old unnamed female cub.
Zoo veterinarian Doctor Maria Crane says the cub probably can see now. As she puts it, "We noticed she's paying more attention to her environment."
Crane says it's hard to know how much Lun Lun's cub is actually seeing.
The cub's name will be chosen in two months. It has grown a little more than 16 inches in length since her previous checkup last week. She also gained just under a pound of weight -- from two-point-nine pounds to three-point-eight pounds.
Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
http://www.wtvm.com/Global/story.asp?S=5530805&nav=8fap
Surge of stray babies arrive at zoo nursery
A COMBINATION of the spring breeding season and recent wild weather, including violent windstorms, has led to a surge in the number of native newborns being delivered to Taronga Zoo.
Ringtail possums, masked lapwing chicks and even a mouse-sized bandicoot are among the baby animals left injured or orphaned across Sydney.
The public has been taking the little wild animals to the zoo, where they are treated before being transferred to the 24-hour care of a veterinary nurse.
Sydney's native wildlife can often battle to survive in busy urban areas, with cats and cars their greatest enemies, veterinary nurse Annabelle Sehlmeier said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/surge-of-stray-babies-arrive-at-zoo-nursery/2006/10/14/1160246374882.html
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Friday, August 24, 2007
Fears grow that fuel spill will harm whales
A barge tipped its load of logging equipment into the Robson Bight area on Monday. Orcas frequent the waters there, and environmentalists fear they may be harmed.Photograph by : CH News
Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
Published: Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Killer whales swimming through spilled diesel fuel in the Robson Bight ecological reserve are at risk of health problems ranging from lung lesions to death, says a Department of Fisheries and Oceans research scientist.
Peter Ross, a toxicology specialist at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidney, said his main concern is that killer whales will inhale fumes from the fuel, which spilled into the sensitive area Monday when a barge carrying logging equipment flipped.
About six pieces of equipment, including a fuel truck which contained 10,000 litres of diesel fuel, are now sitting in about 350 metres of water, just outside the area where threatened northern resident killer whales feed, forage and rub themselves on the pebbly beaches....
Killer whales swimming through spilled diesel fuel in the Robson Bight ecological reserve are at risk of health problems ranging from lung lesions to death, says a Department of Fisheries and Oceans research scientist.
Peter Ross, a toxicology specialist at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidney, said his main concern is that killer whales will inhale fumes from the fuel, which spilled into the sensitive area Monday when a barge carrying logging equipment flipped.
About six pieces of equipment, including a fuel truck which contained 10,000 litres of diesel fuel, are now sitting in about 350 metres of water, just outside the area where threatened northern resident killer whales feed, forage and rub themselves on the pebbly beaches....
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Zoos
Art of the Storm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/interactives/lestweforget/index.html?hpid=artslot
Hoosiers cautioned to wash hands after contact with animals
Comet staff report
The summer months offer Hoosiers a great opportunity to be outdoors and interact with domestic and farm animals at zoos, fairs, farms, and other animal exhibits. State health officials are reminding people of the importance of washing their hands thoroughly after petting or feeding animals, or being in animal areas.
"People should know that animals may carry germs that can make them sick, and they should never eat, drink, or put things in their mouths in animal areas," said State Health Commissioner Judy Monroe, M.D. "Older adults, pregnant women, and young children should be especially careful around animals."
http://www.carrollcountycomet.com/news/2007/0822/local_News/013.html
Rare birth of panda baby at Vienna zoo
23 August 2007
VIENNA - A baby panda was born today at Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo, the first in Europe to be conceived naturally while in captivity, the zoo said.
Most pandas conceived in captivity are the product of artificial insemination but Schoenbrunn Zoo’s director Dagmar Schratter said today that her team had wanted "to let nature run its course."
The cub, which measures about 10 centimetres and weighs just 100 grams, is the product of the zoo’s two giant pandas in residence, Yang Yang and Long Hui.
The couple, now aged seven, came to Vienna in 2003 as a loan from China and became an item a year later.
"The two lived in perfect harmony," conceiving their first cub on April 27, Schratter told a press conference.
http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=546639
Zoos have become philosophical battlegrounds
Thursday, August 23, 2007
By Linda Wilson Fuoco,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Two Alaskan Dall sheep climbed mountains made of huge rocks. Five zebras grazed in a very large pasture while a sixth stood guard, keeping his eye on the people watching from behind a high, sturdy metal fence. Two hyenas in a separate enclosure trotted up to the fence to greet their keepers.
In another part of this animal enclave, baby goats, piglets, miniature donkeys and an amazingly friendly African spur thigh tortoise greeted visitors, competing for attention. We had no food, and the petting zoo animals were very happy to be petted and to have their ears scratched.
In all there were 134 animals spread across a 3,000-acre resort in Fayette County. Some of the animals -- including native species such as black bears -- were in wildlife habitats and the educational Wildlife Academy. The petting zoo had mostly farm animals and the tortoise, which enjoys people and loves to follow them around.
http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200708230737540.461325
Great Canadian zoos
Article By: Jennifer Gruden
Zoos aren't just for kids! Here are some of Canada's finest.
Zoos aren't just kid stuff! Going to accredited zoos and aquariums in North America has a measurable impact on the conservation attitudes and understanding of adult visitors, according to a three-year research project released in September by the American Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
Key results of the study found that:
• Visits to accredited zoos and aquariums prompt individuals to reconsider their role in environmental problems and conservation action, and to see themselves as part of the solution.
• Visitors believe zoos and aquariums play an important role in conservation education and animal care.
• Visitors experience a stronger connection to nature as a result of their visit.
• Visitors bring with them a higher-than-expected knowledge about basic ecological
concepts. Zoos and aquariums support and reinforce the values and attitudes of the visitor.
Twelve institutions and 1,400 visitors participated in the studies over a three-year period.
http://www.50plus.com/display.cfm?libraryID=112&cabinetID=369&documentID=14480
Featured Amazon Item: Museums, Zoos, and Botanical Gardens of Wisconsin
Museums, Zoos, and Botanical Gardens of Wisconsin: A Comprehensive Guidebook to Cultural, Artistic, Historic, and Natural History Collections in the Badger State
Museums, Zoos, and Botanical Gardens of Wisconsin: A Comprehensive Guidebook to Cultural, Artistic, Historic, and Natural History Collections in the Badger State
http://blog.thebubbler.com/2007/08/23/featured-amazon-item-museums-zoos-and-botanical-gardens-of-wisconsin/
Why the delay in addressing zoo issues?
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
What is the future of South Bend's Potawatomi Zoo? Per the Aug. 2 and Aug. 3 Tribune articles it appears as if the zoo does not and is not prepared to meet the Association of Zoos and Aquariums accreditation standards. Not meeting these standards will lead to demise of the zoo. Terry DeRosa, the director, says meeting minimum standards will require $1.3 million. Jones and Jones Architects says $3 million to $10 million is necessary to exceed the minimum standards, thereby, providing for the future of our zoo.A master plan developed seven years ago apparently did not address these standards.
http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070822/News01/708220422/1063/Opinion
No need to change horse meat in midstream
We're all for the humane treatment of animals of any kind, but it's hard to get too worked up over the latest activist overreaction to whether carnivores at zoos should be fed horse meat.
The Seattle Times reported last week that after Texas shut down two horse-slaughter plants in January, the last plant in the country is fighting off closure in Illinois courts. Now Congress is entering the picture with consideration of a federal horse-slaughter ban.
It's an issue of great concern to Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo and Tacoma's Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, both of which have long fed horse meat to their meat-eating animals and birds of prey. They think it's as close as they can come to the lean meat their captives dine on in the wild.
http://www.yakima-herald.com/page/dis/289639162662894
The Bear Necessities: Helping Picky Pandas
Posted by Mark Strassmann
Mark Strassmann is a CBS News correspondent based in Atlanta.
Sure, they’re the cutest things on the planet. Next to my kids, of course. But my kids are better eaters. I’m talking about pandas. They’re considered an endangered animal. Fewer than 1800 of them live in the wild in southwestern China. While every zoo in America would like to have a pair in its menagerie, only four of them actually do. (Zoos in Atlanta, San Diego, Washington, D.C. and Memphis) And these zoos each pay the Chinese government around a million dollars a year for the privilege of borrowing pandas to put on exhibit. But come mealtime, the pandas make these zoos pay, too. They are among the pickiest eaters anywhere. Keeping them fed can become maddening for zookeepers.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/08/22/couricandco/entry3194540.shtml
Zoos have become philosophical battlegrounds
Thursday, August 23, 2007
By Linda Wilson Fuoco, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Two Alaskan Dall sheep climbed mountains made of huge rocks. Five zebras grazed in a very large pasture while a sixth stood guard, keeping his eye on the people watching from behind a high, sturdy metal fence. Two hyenas in a separate enclosure trotted up to the fence to greet their keepers.
In another part of this animal enclave, baby goats, piglets, miniature donkeys and an amazingly friendly African spur thigh tortoise greeted visitors, competing for attention. We had no food, and the petting zoo animals were very happy to be petted and to have their ears scratched.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07235/811353-62.stm
IDA eNews: 8/22/07
IDA ACTION ALERTS
1. IDA Urges Closure of Elephant Exhibit Following Tanzy's Death "Take Action" to help send surviving elephant to a sanctuary, not another zoo Animal advocates are mourning the recent passing of yet another elephant who died from the effects of long-term confinement to a tiny zoo enclosure. Tanzy, a 49-year-old African elephant who lived for almost two decades at the Abilene Zoo in Texas, is the latest victim of the zoo industry's calculated denial and deception, and will undoubtedly not be its last. That is why IDA has sent an urgent plea to Abilene's Mayor urging him to send Tanzy's surviving enclosure-mate Tanya to a sanctuary instead of another zoo, and to permanently close the zoo's elephant exhibit so that no more pachyderms have to die before their time. Tanzy spent nearly 20 years of her life in Abilene Zoo's woefully inadequate elephant exhibit, which provides an outdoor yard of less than a half-acre in size and indoor concrete-floored pens measuring just 24'x15'. By contrast, wild elephants walk 10 or more miles a day over varied terrain, which is necessary for maintaining foot and joint health. In the last years of her life, Tanzy was maintained on a steady diet of painkillers for degenerative arthritis.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/22/18442480.php
Zoo to keep its accreditation
By Diane Toroian Keaggy
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
08/23/2007
The St. Louis Zoo will keep its accreditation from the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, despite findings by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that it violated the Animal Welfare Act. The AZA inspects and accredits the nation's top 200 zoos and is scheduled to review the St. Louis Zoo in 2008."As part of our accreditation process, we look carefully at USDA investigative reports," said AZA spokesman Steve Feldman. "Our standards are more comprehensive than USDA requirements, and we would look at anything in their reports that has a bearing on our standards."Earlier this month, the USDA fined the St. Louis Zoo $7,500 for the 2005 deaths of two polar bears: Churchill, who had bits of plastic bags and cloth in his digestive tract, and Penny, who died after her uterus ruptured with two dead fetuses inside. The Zoo disagreed with the findings but paid the fine to avoid further legal fees if it had appealed.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/illinoisnews/story/467BC3AEE111FAF9862573400018407C?OpenDocument
Taronga Zoo gives orphan babies a chance
By Saffron Howden
August 24, 2007 12:00am
NADIA Wattle has been through a lot since she was born just 143 days ago.
The orphaned Nadia was brought to Taronga Zoo 2½ weeks ago to be mothered by keepers until she could survive on her own.
A few days later she was joined by Leena, a fellow orphaned brushtail possum.
By day the pair, snuggled in knitted pouches, are fed a diet of milk, native flowers and leaves.
In the evening their respective surrogate mothers - zoo keeper Natasha Ford and veterinary nurse Amy Twentyman - take them home to continue their care.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22296783-5007132,00.html
Rare birth of panda baby at Vienna zoo
23 August 2007
VIENNA - A baby panda was born today at Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo, the first in Europe to be conceived naturally while in captivity, the zoo said.
Most pandas conceived in captivity are the product of artificial insemination but Schoenbrunn Zoo’s director Dagmar Schratter said today that her team had wanted "to let nature run its course."
The cub, which measures about 10 centimetres and weighs just 100 grams, is the product of the zoo’s two giant pandas in residence, Yang Yang and Long Hui.
http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=546639
Great Canadian zoos
Article By: Jennifer Gruden
Zoos aren't just for kids! Here are some of Canada's finest.
Zoos aren't just kid stuff! Going to accredited zoos and aquariums in North America has a measurable impact on the conservation attitudes and understanding of adult visitors, according to a three-year research project released in September by the American Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
Key results of the study found that:
• Visits to accredited zoos and aquariums prompt individuals to reconsider their role in environmental problems and conservation action, and to see themselves as part of the solution.
• Visitors believe zoos and aquariums play an important role in conservation education and animal care.
• Visitors experience a stronger connection to nature as a result of their visit.
• Visitors bring with them a higher-than-expected knowledge about basic ecological
concepts. Zoos and aquariums support and reinforce the values and attitudes of the visitor.
Twelve institutions and 1,400 visitors participated in the studies over a three-year period.
http://www.50plus.com/display.cfm?libraryID=112&cabinetID=369&documentID=14480
Terrified, sick and starved in the zoo - the final days of a rare, pregnant rhino...
She was the young rhino who loathed life in a zoo, trembling whenever she was forced to face the world from behind a fence. But there was nowhere for a 2-tonne animal to hide at Taronga Zoo in Sydney and in June Kua, a rare greater one-horned rhino, died at the age of 4, an ulcerated and emaciated mess. In rhino terms, she was barely out of her childhood.
The zoo claimed that Kua, imported from San Diego Zoo, died from a gastrointestinal illness. And there the matter might have stayed had not the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper used Australia’s freedom of information laws to force the zoo and the RSPCA to make public the results of an autopsy. The details have scandalised Australians and prompted renewed debate about the ethics of keeping large animals in zoos.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2317162.ece
Large demand fuels distance learning program at zoo
Published 8/23/2007
A ninth-grader in Ryan Schaffer's class wanted to know whether the screech owl he was holding wouldSchaffer, the distance learning coordinator at Lee Richardson Zoo, was confident it wouldn't.
"The only time an animal will bite you is if you hurt it or look like its food," he said Wednesday from the Finnup Center for Conservation Education at the zoo.
He then continued with his lesson about animals that can fly, as the class, sitting about 1,300 miles away at Pathways Educational Program in Moultrie, Ga., followed along.
bite him.
http://www.gctelegram.com/News/139708
continued...
Art of the Storm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/interactives/lestweforget/index.html?hpid=artslot
Hoosiers cautioned to wash hands after contact with animals
Comet staff report
The summer months offer Hoosiers a great opportunity to be outdoors and interact with domestic and farm animals at zoos, fairs, farms, and other animal exhibits. State health officials are reminding people of the importance of washing their hands thoroughly after petting or feeding animals, or being in animal areas.
"People should know that animals may carry germs that can make them sick, and they should never eat, drink, or put things in their mouths in animal areas," said State Health Commissioner Judy Monroe, M.D. "Older adults, pregnant women, and young children should be especially careful around animals."
http://www.carrollcountycomet.com/news/2007/0822/local_News/013.html
Rare birth of panda baby at Vienna zoo
23 August 2007
VIENNA - A baby panda was born today at Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo, the first in Europe to be conceived naturally while in captivity, the zoo said.
Most pandas conceived in captivity are the product of artificial insemination but Schoenbrunn Zoo’s director Dagmar Schratter said today that her team had wanted "to let nature run its course."
The cub, which measures about 10 centimetres and weighs just 100 grams, is the product of the zoo’s two giant pandas in residence, Yang Yang and Long Hui.
The couple, now aged seven, came to Vienna in 2003 as a loan from China and became an item a year later.
"The two lived in perfect harmony," conceiving their first cub on April 27, Schratter told a press conference.
http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=546639
Zoos have become philosophical battlegrounds
Thursday, August 23, 2007
By Linda Wilson Fuoco,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Two Alaskan Dall sheep climbed mountains made of huge rocks. Five zebras grazed in a very large pasture while a sixth stood guard, keeping his eye on the people watching from behind a high, sturdy metal fence. Two hyenas in a separate enclosure trotted up to the fence to greet their keepers.
In another part of this animal enclave, baby goats, piglets, miniature donkeys and an amazingly friendly African spur thigh tortoise greeted visitors, competing for attention. We had no food, and the petting zoo animals were very happy to be petted and to have their ears scratched.
In all there were 134 animals spread across a 3,000-acre resort in Fayette County. Some of the animals -- including native species such as black bears -- were in wildlife habitats and the educational Wildlife Academy. The petting zoo had mostly farm animals and the tortoise, which enjoys people and loves to follow them around.
http://www.envirolink.org/external.html?itemid=200708230737540.461325
Great Canadian zoos
Article By: Jennifer Gruden
Zoos aren't just for kids! Here are some of Canada's finest.
Zoos aren't just kid stuff! Going to accredited zoos and aquariums in North America has a measurable impact on the conservation attitudes and understanding of adult visitors, according to a three-year research project released in September by the American Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
Key results of the study found that:
• Visits to accredited zoos and aquariums prompt individuals to reconsider their role in environmental problems and conservation action, and to see themselves as part of the solution.
• Visitors believe zoos and aquariums play an important role in conservation education and animal care.
• Visitors experience a stronger connection to nature as a result of their visit.
• Visitors bring with them a higher-than-expected knowledge about basic ecological
concepts. Zoos and aquariums support and reinforce the values and attitudes of the visitor.
Twelve institutions and 1,400 visitors participated in the studies over a three-year period.
http://www.50plus.com/display.cfm?libraryID=112&cabinetID=369&documentID=14480
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http://blog.thebubbler.com/2007/08/23/featured-amazon-item-museums-zoos-and-botanical-gardens-of-wisconsin/
Why the delay in addressing zoo issues?
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
What is the future of South Bend's Potawatomi Zoo? Per the Aug. 2 and Aug. 3 Tribune articles it appears as if the zoo does not and is not prepared to meet the Association of Zoos and Aquariums accreditation standards. Not meeting these standards will lead to demise of the zoo. Terry DeRosa, the director, says meeting minimum standards will require $1.3 million. Jones and Jones Architects says $3 million to $10 million is necessary to exceed the minimum standards, thereby, providing for the future of our zoo.A master plan developed seven years ago apparently did not address these standards.
http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070822/News01/708220422/1063/Opinion
No need to change horse meat in midstream
We're all for the humane treatment of animals of any kind, but it's hard to get too worked up over the latest activist overreaction to whether carnivores at zoos should be fed horse meat.
The Seattle Times reported last week that after Texas shut down two horse-slaughter plants in January, the last plant in the country is fighting off closure in Illinois courts. Now Congress is entering the picture with consideration of a federal horse-slaughter ban.
It's an issue of great concern to Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo and Tacoma's Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, both of which have long fed horse meat to their meat-eating animals and birds of prey. They think it's as close as they can come to the lean meat their captives dine on in the wild.
http://www.yakima-herald.com/page/dis/289639162662894
The Bear Necessities: Helping Picky Pandas
Posted by Mark Strassmann
Mark Strassmann is a CBS News correspondent based in Atlanta.
Sure, they’re the cutest things on the planet. Next to my kids, of course. But my kids are better eaters. I’m talking about pandas. They’re considered an endangered animal. Fewer than 1800 of them live in the wild in southwestern China. While every zoo in America would like to have a pair in its menagerie, only four of them actually do. (Zoos in Atlanta, San Diego, Washington, D.C. and Memphis) And these zoos each pay the Chinese government around a million dollars a year for the privilege of borrowing pandas to put on exhibit. But come mealtime, the pandas make these zoos pay, too. They are among the pickiest eaters anywhere. Keeping them fed can become maddening for zookeepers.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/08/22/couricandco/entry3194540.shtml
Zoos have become philosophical battlegrounds
Thursday, August 23, 2007
By Linda Wilson Fuoco, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Two Alaskan Dall sheep climbed mountains made of huge rocks. Five zebras grazed in a very large pasture while a sixth stood guard, keeping his eye on the people watching from behind a high, sturdy metal fence. Two hyenas in a separate enclosure trotted up to the fence to greet their keepers.
In another part of this animal enclave, baby goats, piglets, miniature donkeys and an amazingly friendly African spur thigh tortoise greeted visitors, competing for attention. We had no food, and the petting zoo animals were very happy to be petted and to have their ears scratched.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07235/811353-62.stm
IDA eNews: 8/22/07
IDA ACTION ALERTS
1. IDA Urges Closure of Elephant Exhibit Following Tanzy's Death "Take Action" to help send surviving elephant to a sanctuary, not another zoo Animal advocates are mourning the recent passing of yet another elephant who died from the effects of long-term confinement to a tiny zoo enclosure. Tanzy, a 49-year-old African elephant who lived for almost two decades at the Abilene Zoo in Texas, is the latest victim of the zoo industry's calculated denial and deception, and will undoubtedly not be its last. That is why IDA has sent an urgent plea to Abilene's Mayor urging him to send Tanzy's surviving enclosure-mate Tanya to a sanctuary instead of another zoo, and to permanently close the zoo's elephant exhibit so that no more pachyderms have to die before their time. Tanzy spent nearly 20 years of her life in Abilene Zoo's woefully inadequate elephant exhibit, which provides an outdoor yard of less than a half-acre in size and indoor concrete-floored pens measuring just 24'x15'. By contrast, wild elephants walk 10 or more miles a day over varied terrain, which is necessary for maintaining foot and joint health. In the last years of her life, Tanzy was maintained on a steady diet of painkillers for degenerative arthritis.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/22/18442480.php
Zoo to keep its accreditation
By Diane Toroian Keaggy
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
08/23/2007
The St. Louis Zoo will keep its accreditation from the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, despite findings by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that it violated the Animal Welfare Act. The AZA inspects and accredits the nation's top 200 zoos and is scheduled to review the St. Louis Zoo in 2008."As part of our accreditation process, we look carefully at USDA investigative reports," said AZA spokesman Steve Feldman. "Our standards are more comprehensive than USDA requirements, and we would look at anything in their reports that has a bearing on our standards."Earlier this month, the USDA fined the St. Louis Zoo $7,500 for the 2005 deaths of two polar bears: Churchill, who had bits of plastic bags and cloth in his digestive tract, and Penny, who died after her uterus ruptured with two dead fetuses inside. The Zoo disagreed with the findings but paid the fine to avoid further legal fees if it had appealed.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/illinoisnews/story/467BC3AEE111FAF9862573400018407C?OpenDocument
Taronga Zoo gives orphan babies a chance
By Saffron Howden
August 24, 2007 12:00am
NADIA Wattle has been through a lot since she was born just 143 days ago.
The orphaned Nadia was brought to Taronga Zoo 2½ weeks ago to be mothered by keepers until she could survive on her own.
A few days later she was joined by Leena, a fellow orphaned brushtail possum.
By day the pair, snuggled in knitted pouches, are fed a diet of milk, native flowers and leaves.
In the evening their respective surrogate mothers - zoo keeper Natasha Ford and veterinary nurse Amy Twentyman - take them home to continue their care.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22296783-5007132,00.html
Rare birth of panda baby at Vienna zoo
23 August 2007
VIENNA - A baby panda was born today at Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo, the first in Europe to be conceived naturally while in captivity, the zoo said.
Most pandas conceived in captivity are the product of artificial insemination but Schoenbrunn Zoo’s director Dagmar Schratter said today that her team had wanted "to let nature run its course."
The cub, which measures about 10 centimetres and weighs just 100 grams, is the product of the zoo’s two giant pandas in residence, Yang Yang and Long Hui.
http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=546639
Great Canadian zoos
Article By: Jennifer Gruden
Zoos aren't just for kids! Here are some of Canada's finest.
Zoos aren't just kid stuff! Going to accredited zoos and aquariums in North America has a measurable impact on the conservation attitudes and understanding of adult visitors, according to a three-year research project released in September by the American Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
Key results of the study found that:
• Visits to accredited zoos and aquariums prompt individuals to reconsider their role in environmental problems and conservation action, and to see themselves as part of the solution.
• Visitors believe zoos and aquariums play an important role in conservation education and animal care.
• Visitors experience a stronger connection to nature as a result of their visit.
• Visitors bring with them a higher-than-expected knowledge about basic ecological
concepts. Zoos and aquariums support and reinforce the values and attitudes of the visitor.
Twelve institutions and 1,400 visitors participated in the studies over a three-year period.
http://www.50plus.com/display.cfm?libraryID=112&cabinetID=369&documentID=14480
Terrified, sick and starved in the zoo - the final days of a rare, pregnant rhino...
She was the young rhino who loathed life in a zoo, trembling whenever she was forced to face the world from behind a fence. But there was nowhere for a 2-tonne animal to hide at Taronga Zoo in Sydney and in June Kua, a rare greater one-horned rhino, died at the age of 4, an ulcerated and emaciated mess. In rhino terms, she was barely out of her childhood.
The zoo claimed that Kua, imported from San Diego Zoo, died from a gastrointestinal illness. And there the matter might have stayed had not the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper used Australia’s freedom of information laws to force the zoo and the RSPCA to make public the results of an autopsy. The details have scandalised Australians and prompted renewed debate about the ethics of keeping large animals in zoos.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2317162.ece
Large demand fuels distance learning program at zoo
Published 8/23/2007
A ninth-grader in Ryan Schaffer's class wanted to know whether the screech owl he was holding wouldSchaffer, the distance learning coordinator at Lee Richardson Zoo, was confident it wouldn't.
"The only time an animal will bite you is if you hurt it or look like its food," he said Wednesday from the Finnup Center for Conservation Education at the zoo.
He then continued with his lesson about animals that can fly, as the class, sitting about 1,300 miles away at Pathways Educational Program in Moultrie, Ga., followed along.
bite him.
http://www.gctelegram.com/News/139708
continued...
There are issues at Wikipedia that in my opinion can seriously undermine their credibility
The Public relies on Wikipedia to deliver reasonably reliable content to their definitions and information. What is being attempted by Ted Frank (a.k.a. THF) is disinformation. The "SiCKO" site in Wikipedia isn't that dynamic an issue that access to it has to be continuous and volatile.
Everyone knows any of Michael Moore's films evoke controversy. They challenge the 'status quo' and in the case of "SiCKO" the 'status quo' has become a fine line between life and death of human beings vs. corporate profits. When someone, anyone; like Ted Frank tries to alter the 'reality' that is perfectly obvious in "SiCKO" they are committing human rights violations.
The understanding of health care in the USA is so rattled by Michael's documentary, it has nearly every household looking for guarantees to their healthcare issues while the Neocon Conservatives, such as Ted Frank, are seeking every way possible to undermine the 'authenticity' of the film. It cannot be undermined. The film is not about Michael Moore. It is about people that make dramatic testimony to 'the truth' regarding their treatment by the American 'privatized' health care system which in all to many cases leads to death. THAT is serious business.
FOR ANYONE CONTEMPLATING TAMPERING WITH THE TRUTH OF "SiCKO;" THEY NEED TO REALIZE THEY ARE OPENING THEMSELVES TO SCRUTINY OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES.
Michael Moore has archived in redundancy 'the truth' of his films. There are no mistakes in his film. The MISTAKE people like Ted Frank make, that criticize a DOCUMENTARY, is they so frequently tamper with the truth, they can no longer discern it when they see it.
Wikipedia has to realize the content of 'SiCKO' has finite changes to be entered. The film is 'fixed' and Mr. Moore can provide redundant proof to that end. The Wikipedia site for "SiCKO" should be closed and sealed as the authenticity to any of the facts has already been validated and there is NO discussion to Michael's documentary.
I value Wikipedia, but, unless there comes an understanding that some entries at some point in time when all the facts are known, become closed to changes then how is there any legacy guaranteed to any site Wikipedia provides in truthfulness. There needs to be a more scientific process that provides a standard to an entry to close it's editing content; ie: "I was born on The Fourth of July." That should be editable? No. Either I was born on the 4th of July or I wasn't. By the way, I wasn't.
There isn't anything more to say about "SiCKO." Close the site to edits and that is verifiable by the Moore archives.
The reason the 'heat-transfer' from the Western Pacific into Antarctica is occuring is due to the drought in Australia.
August 23, 2007
1707 gmt
Australian Satellite
Two major storms, one Cat 3 and one Cat 5. There was still humidity over Australia.
There were five major storms of either Cat 4 or Cat 5 with plenty of humidity. This was the year when it snowed during Australia's summer, with a major heat crisis over Antarctica simultaneously.
There were more storms this season, with one Cat 3, one Cat 4 and one Cat 5. The frequency increased with humidity becoming more sparse and the Aussie drought becoming more of a reality.
Now fast forward to 2007 with drought profoundly affecting Australia and what kind of hurricanes does Australia experience?
Nine storms but only two significant storms with ONLY a Cat one rating. The humidity in the troposphere is unavailable to give Australia relief from the heat and as a consequence there are heat transfers into Antarctica.
Antarctica is receiving heat in the face of significant storms in the Atlantic and Pacific.
August 23, 2007
1525 gmt
African-Europe Satellite
This continent is still hot over it's equatorial region, I wouldn't discount another hurricane in the Atlantic before too much longer.
August 23, 2007
1533 gmt
Pacific Global Satellite
August 23, 2007
1707 gmt
West Pacific Satellite
August 23, 2007
1324 gmt
South Pole Satellite
Noted vortex arriving from the West Pacific with heat transfer. Also noted, decreased vortexes arriving from Atlantic and Eastern Pacific due to 'heat transfer hurricanes (click here) and here.
However, the West Pacific has seen one Cat 4 Typhoon, two Cat 4 Super Typhoons and one Cat 5 Typhoon with a storm surge greater than feet, but continues to disaffect the southern hemisphere as Sol's radiation starts to reach below the equator.
However, the West Pacific has seen one Cat 4 Typhoon, two Cat 4 Super Typhoons and one Cat 5 Typhoon with a storm surge greater than feet, but continues to disaffect the southern hemisphere as Sol's radiation starts to reach below the equator.
August 23, 2007
12:00 PM
Antarctica Wind Satellite (24 hour loop - click here)
The winds are interesting from a 'temporal' point of view. In the 24 hour loop, beginning with August 22, 2007 there are primarily calm winds, however, as the loop progresses into August 23, 2007 the surface winds pick up speed with some nearing 40 mph/18 m/s. The transending turbulence from upper disturbance/higher elevations of vortices; happens over time as opposed to varying wind changes with offshore wind differences.
August 22, 2007
0600 gmt
Antarctica Jet Stream satellite (click for animation)
Although this view of the Jet Stream is relatively calm, in animation there are many high elevation vortices that have paid Antarctica a visit. In all the reporting stations other than Vostok the pressure is falling. In other words low pressure systems prevail in those areas with weather conditions of percipitation of one form of ice/snow. I didn't note any rain. The visibility at these reporting stations are low compared to Vostok which reports a visibility of 12 miles. The conditions at Vostok are more than likely clear, without any percipitation. Therefore the vortexes arriving as heat transfer on to Antarctica are at altitudes lower than Vostok. Hence, Vostok continues to enjoy the coldest conditions on Earth.
It's getting warm again in Antarctica. The satellite is only missing 12 A and 3P from it's 24 hour loop
August 23, 2007
12:00 PM
Antarctica Temperature Satellite
The Coldest Areas in Antarctica:
Vostok, Antarctica
6:00 PM VOST
Elevation :: 11220 ft / 3420 m
Temperature :: -93 F / -69 C
Humidity :: 55%
Dew Point :: -97 F / -71 C
Wind :: 5mph / 7 km/h from the West Southwest
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: only listed as (Rising)
Visibility :: 12.0 miles / 20.0 kilometers
Amundsen-Scott
12:00 AM NZST
Elevation :: 9285 ft / 2930 m
Temperature :: -77 F / -60 C
Conditions :: Snow
Wind :: 13 mph / 20 km/h from the East
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: listed only as (Falling)
Visibility :: 7.0 miles / 11.0 kilometers
Clean Air
Time 11:50 PM NZST
Temperature :: -76 F / -60 C
Conditions :: Ice Crystals
Humidity :: not reported
Pressure :: 28.55 in / 967 hPa
Winds :: 13 mph / 20 km/h / 5.7 m/s from the East
Mawson 68.65S 61.12E, Antarctica
Elevation :: 6014 ft / 1833 m
Temperature :: -35 F / -37 C
Wind :: Reported as Calm
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: none reported
Davis Reporting Station 76.05S, 65.02E
Time :: 11:00 PM DAVT
Elevation :: 7687 ft / 2343 m
Temperature :: -50 F / -45 C
Winds :: Reported as Calm
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: Not reported
August 22, 2007
9:00 PM
Antarctica Temperature Map
The warmest areas in Antarctica:
Base Jubany, Antarctica
3:00 PM GMT
Elevation :: 13 feet / 4 meters
Temperature :: 32 F / 0 C
Conditions :: Light Snow
Humidity :: 91%
Dew Point :: 30 F / -1C
Wind :: Calm
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: 28.85 inches / 977 hPa (Falling)
Visibility :: 2.0 miles / 4.0 kilometers
UV :: 0 out of 16 (tough to have a UV rating is the sun is just peeking over the horizon)
Clouds :: Overcast 197 ft / 60 meters
(Above ground level)
Great Wall, Antarctica
Time :: 12:00 PM GMT
Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 meters
Temperature :: 31 F / 0 C
Dew Point :: 30 F / -1 C
Wind :: 7 mph / 11 km/h from the Northwest
Wind Gust :: -
Pressuer :: 28.87 in / 977 hPa (Falling)
Visibility :: 4.0 miles / 6.0 kilometers
UV :: 0 out of 16
...continued...
There is some daylight in Antarctica
To demonstrate what a completely incompetent administration Bush runs, due to his complete disinterest in science, this is the USA NOAA site which is down for the winter.
Last recorded 'live' transmission was April 12, 2007 @ 15:05:07. Something the 'webcam' at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station calls "Real Time." (click on).
Every other country is involved with inventory of Antarctica under the stresses of Human Induced Global Warming and the USA can't even get their webcams up and running right. Amazing.
I guess in order to have a viable science program; which 'dictates' the USA 'do something' about their incredibly bad habits of dumping CO2 into the troposphere in hopes of melting the North Polar Cap for oil exploitation; one has to FIRST and FOREMOST believe in science. The USA has not only been gutted of it's dignity and treasury; it's be completely demoralized of it's braintrust.
August 23, 2007
10:16 PM
Mawson Station, Australia, Antarctica
August 23, 2007
16:21:28
Aboard the RRS Ernest Shackleton Research Ship (click here)
August 24, 2007
04:12
Scott Base (click here)
August 23, 2007
15:59 gmt
Neumayer online (click here)
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
George Walker Bush's three nevers. Never talk about the corporate profits from Iraq....
NLF base camp after U.S. attack
With all the killing the USA military has done to date in Iraq, you mean to tell me there will be more after we leave on a scale to daught what occurred in Bush's illegal war? Who's kidding who? Even the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot couldn't kill as many people as the Vietnam War did.
UN urges Cambodia to reconsider judge's transfer from genocide tribunal (click here)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: The U.N. urged Cambodia to reconsider its decision to transfer a judge from the Khmer Rouge tribunal, saying the move could disrupt efforts to convene the long-awaited genocide trials, a spokesman said Wednesday.
You Bun Leng, one of two investigating judges at the U.N.-backed tribunal, was recently appointed by the Cambodian government to head the country's Appeals Court.
After numerous delays, he and Marcel Lemonde, the U.N.-appointed judge, only recently began investigations of former Khmer Rouge leaders accused of crimes against humanity, genocide and other atrocities that caused the deaths of some 1.7 million people in the late 1970s.
The world body has urged Cambodia "to consider keeping Judge You Bun Leng in his current function as co-investigative judge" of the tribunal, said Peter Foster, a U.N.-appointed tribunal spokesman, in a statement Wednesday.
He said the U.N. officially delivered a note of concern to the Cambodian permanent representative in New York last Thursday, and was now awaiting a response....
It also resulted in atrocities. "As much as the military command might deny its significance, the widespread local support for the full-time main forces of the NLF and NVA was the central disadvantage faced by American soldiers." Villagers would supply the NLF with soldiers, food and assistance in the planting of land mines. What many U.S. soldiers feared most were
land mines and then ambushes. Soldiers would become demoralized by weeks of mundane patrolling and then they would be hit unexpectedly by the explosion of land mines or an ambush....
...Never speak to the civilan deaths of Iraq...and Never allow any discussion of lowering military budgets to end the war in Iraq.
Iraq's civilian dead get no hearing in the United States
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
Thursday, December 02, 2004
Evidence is mounting that America's war in Iraq has killed tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, and perhaps well over 100,000. Yet this carnage is systematically ignored in the United States, where the media and government portray a war in which there are no civilian deaths, because there are no Iraqi civilians, only insurgents....
The major causes of death before the invasion were myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular accidents, and other chronic disorders whereas after the invasion violence was the primary cause of death. Violent deaths were widespread, reported in 15 of 33 clusters, and were mainly attributed to coalition forces. Most individuals reportedly killed by coalition forces were women and children. The risk of death from violence in the period after the invasion was 58 times higher (95% CI 8·1–419) than in the period before the war. (click here)
Findings (click here)
Three misattributed clusters were excluded from the final analysis; data from 1849 households that contained 12801 individuals in 47 clusters was gathered. 1474 births and 629 deaths were reported during the observation period. Pre-invasion mortality rates were 5·5 per 1000 people per year (95% CI 4·3–7·1), compared with 13·3 per 1000 people per year (10·9–16·1) in the 40 months post-invasion. We estimate that as of July, 2006, there have been 654965 (392979–942636) excess Iraqi deaths as a consequence of the war, which corresponds to 2·5% of the population in the study area. Of post-invasion deaths, 601027 (426369–793663) were due to violence, the most common cause being gunfire.
VIETNAM as reported after the USA left (click here):
Vietnamese casualties are far less specific, and they weredeliberately falsified prior to 1995, leading to some of theconfusion. According to the Agence France Presse (French Press Agency)as reported on, "...the true civilian casualties of the Vietnam War were 2,000,000 in the north,and 2,000,000 in the south. Military casualties were 1.1 million killed and 600,000 wounded in 21 years of war. These figures were deliberately falsified during the war by the North VietnameseCommunists to avoid demoralizing the population."So approximately 5.1 million total Vietnamese casualites.And a grand total of approximately 5.4 million.
The lessons of Iraq are still obscure to most people as they are overshadowed by the events of September 11, 2001, which had nothing to do with Iraq.
Vietnam was engaged by Lyndon Johnson after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. President Kennedy had reached a moral impass on Vietnam. He witnessed the distress of citizens setting themselves on fire to protest the continued presence of American advisors numbering about 5000 which propagated the 'idea' of war to defeat Ho in the North. President Kennedy was on the verge of reversing the trend started under SEATO by Roosevelt, withdrawing military advisors while leaving in place medical and humanitarian aid. President Kennedy put human life and dignity before treaties too dangerous to be honored. SEATO has since been disbanded.
The lessons of Vietnam are obvious. It should have never been engaged and Kennedy was right. The potential of a USA miltiary force to do enormous damage was to be prudently considered.
The lessons of Iraq are nearly the same, except, this time our Constitution was openly assaulted and continues to be by the current administration to create a 'dictator' of the Presidency.
THAT is different about Iraq than Vietnam.
The lessons of opposition of the Vietnam War by the American populous were not to be tolerated by the Bush Oval Office and he methodically set out to destroy the USA Constitution including Habeas Corpus and Civil Rights of privacy; instead replacing all rights with 'self-righteous' governmental tithing to God to justify the oppression of the people of the USA.
The lessons of Iraq are more about 'the sheep' created of the American people than of the atrocities of war, which are egregious and CURRENTLY genocidal.
12 hour UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Satellite (click here)
August 22, 2007
1030z
UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Satellite
These are nearly simutaneous satellites of the same event in the Gulf of Mexico. It is easily discerned the 'support' system for Dean extends to the equator and into the tropical Atlantic and Pacific. These storms have characteristics of traditional hurricanes be receive 'energy' infusions from much larger systems.
August 22, 2007
1015z
Water Vapor Satellite of the Gulf of Mexico
I don't have a loop for this, but, the Gulf storm known as Dean which reaches into the Pacific now estimated to be a Cat 1 with 70 (slight over 80 mph) knot winds. It still has incredible loft to it's 'eye' and why these storms are so very different is because they are not autonomous in the heat and humidity that supports them. These storms are more a hybrid from the traditional hurricanes, so they can pack more punch especially it would seem in their storm surges.
While other news reveals a downed USA Helicopter where all 14 are feared dead and ONLY 500 leaks at the Botched Bechtel Big Dig in Boston. Hey, be grateful, it could have been 501. Imagine that 15 dead in Iraq and less than that from a Cat 5 hurricane. Something is "W"rong with this picture. Could it be the difference in leadership? I think so.
Associated Press - August 22, 2007 7:03 AM ET
BAGHDAD (AP) - All 14 U.S. soldiers aboard a helicopter have died in a crash in northern Iraq. A mechanical problem is suspected. Meanwhile, officials say a suicide truck bomber targeted a police facility in northern Iraq, killing at least 19 people and wounding 26....
BAGHDAD (AP) - All 14 U.S. soldiers aboard a helicopter have died in a crash in northern Iraq. A mechanical problem is suspected. Meanwhile, officials say a suicide truck bomber targeted a police facility in northern Iraq, killing at least 19 people and wounding 26....
Monday, August 20, 2007
There is still plenty of air pressure north of "Dean" to keep it on course. However, I will say this...
...crossing land will diminish it's punch as it enters the Gulf of Mexico and the Yucatan will receive a beating for the time it passes over the peninsula. The question is what will happen once "Dean" reenters water. With warmer waters it might accelerate again and then open water will allow it to expand it's diameter again. I want to say the system as it exists now will hold and "Dean" will cross over Central Mexico which will be devastating for those people. But, in all honesty, the air masse keeping "Dean" on it's current path is moving inland and with "Dean" reentering the Gulf; I think there is a margin of error I don't feel comfortable with to say for sure it won't move more north. It might.
There were deaths in the USA due to flooding in Minnesota and a lot of suffering in the middle of the nation due to "Erin." The NY Times has it on it's e-front page:
Floods soaked much of the midsection of the country from Texas to Minnesota today, causing at least 13 deaths as swirling waters washed out roads, triggered mudslides and forced evacuations of low-lying areas.
It is hard to accept this tragedy of a country that could have prevented this while it argues over oil right under melting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. This isn't the USA I grew up in, it's foreign to me. There is no reason for these tragedies and Americans should be outraged in the year 2007 this is our reality.
My concern is the unpredictable nature of these systems and the 'split second' a difference in course could make. I would be taking all possibilities seriously.
This storm is serious and absolutely deadly. The storm surge will be significant and the winds are killers. Mexico and Central American will need help when this is over. Please take this seriously. The deaths to impoverished countries can be so terrible. They need to move inland and upland. Higher elevations are better than low and inland better than near shore. This storm is bigger than anyone can survive.
DO NOT RISK YOUR LIVES.
DO NOT RISK YOUR LIVES.
DO NOT RISK YOUR LIVES.
This is a national shame. This fire in Montana was huge and no efforts were exerted to prevent it or bring it under control.
These are not 'naturally' occurring clouds the astronauts took while in orbit. They are wildfires out of control on terra firma in Idaho and Montana. The USA can't do anything about those fires? With the right leadership and enough personnel it is amazing what can be done including research and prevention. The USA doesn't make those investments anymore because tax cuts dominate the political priorities of the nation. Shame on anyone that sacrifices the stewardship of Earth over personal wealth.
Anyone want a good paying job working for the National Forestry Service to save our nation's trees? Then make a difference for Earth next time you vote !
On August 13, 2007, while docked to the International Space Station (ISS), the crew members of Shuttle Mission STS-118 and ISS Expedition 15 reported seeing the smoke plumes from wide-spread fires across Idaho and Montana. The crew photographed and downlinked images of isolated plumes (top image) and regional views of the smoke (bottom image) from different perspectives. Strong westerly winds were driving the smoke eastward....
The Gulf vortex acted as a road block to Hurricane "Dean" (click here for 12 hour loop)
August 20, 2007
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Tropical Atlantic Satellite
The high pressure behind "Dean" has gone to higher latitudes but still remains in the Atlantic with questionable dissipation. There is another low pressure east of the Antilles, but the 'heat concentration' that occurred resulting in "Dean" looks fairly well resolved for now. That's what hurricanes do; they remove heat from the troposphere and drive it into the oceans. It makes our Earth a place where life occurs.
There is still a lot of weather turbulence at the Canadian-American border. Let's hope the percipitation from "Dean" doesn't come north into the middle of North America making the current flooding worse.
August 20, 2007
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UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite GOES East
The rain bands accompanying this storm reach to a large diameter. The Gulf vortex more easily viewed in the 12 hour loop acted to push "Dean" south into a rotation in the Carribean Sea. It is prudent to maintain a watch over the direction of "Dean" as the Gulf vortex moves inland. The volume of rain accompanying this storm and the land falling storm surge (the word surge was mine in this context before it was ever Bush's) should be a continued concern for all the Gulf area. With luck, the path of the hurricane won't change and New Orleans will be spared any deluge of water in any way it might come. The attention by the media of this storm has been welcome and more than prudent.
When wondering where all the water comes from and why it doesn't go away, consider this:
Arctic sea ice melted at an unprecedented rate during the summer of 2007. Much of the melting occurred in the East Siberian Sea. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured part of that region on June 15 and July 27, 2007. These images show a portion of the coast of eastern Siberia and the New Siberian Islands, roughly 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) northwest of Alaska. Despite some cloud cover, the images show pronounced sea ice retreat over a period of 42 days.
There goes the North Pole (click here)
Sunday, August 19, 2007 8:10 PM MDT
Colorado Daily Staff ReportUniversity of Colorado at Boulder researchers are now forecasting a 92 percent chance that the 2007 September minimum extent of sea ice across the Arctic region will set an all-time record low.The researchers, who forecast in April a 33 percent chance the September minimum of sea ice would set a new record, dramatically revised their prediction following a rapid disintegration of sea ice during July, said Research Associate Sheldon Drobot of CU-Boulder's Colorado Center for Astrodynamics.“During the first week in July, the Arctic sea ice started to disappear at rates we had never seen before,” said Drobot, who leads CCAR's Arctic Regional Ice Forecasting System group in CU-Boulder's aerospace engineering sciences department....
Sunday, August 19, 2007 8:10 PM MDT
Colorado Daily Staff ReportUniversity of Colorado at Boulder researchers are now forecasting a 92 percent chance that the 2007 September minimum extent of sea ice across the Arctic region will set an all-time record low.The researchers, who forecast in April a 33 percent chance the September minimum of sea ice would set a new record, dramatically revised their prediction following a rapid disintegration of sea ice during July, said Research Associate Sheldon Drobot of CU-Boulder's Colorado Center for Astrodynamics.“During the first week in July, the Arctic sea ice started to disappear at rates we had never seen before,” said Drobot, who leads CCAR's Arctic Regional Ice Forecasting System group in CU-Boulder's aerospace engineering sciences department....
England under water: scientists confirm global warming link to increased rain (click here)
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor
Published: 23 July 2007
It's official: the heavier rainfall in Britain is being caused by climate change, a major new scientific study will reveal this week, as the country reels from summer downpours of unprecedented ferocity.
More intense rainstorms across parts of the northern hemisphere are being generated by man-made global warming, the study has established for the first time an effect which has long been predicted but never before proved.
The study's findings will be all the more dramatic for being disclosed as Britain struggles to recover from the phenomenal drenching of the past few days, during which more than a month's worth of rain fell in a few hours in some places, and floods forced thousands from their homes.
The "major rainfall event" of last Friday fully predicted as such by the Met Office has given the country a quite exceptional battering, with the Thames still rising. In Gloucester water levels had reached 34 feet, just 12 inches below flood defences the same level as during the flood of 1947 although a police spokesman said last night that the River Severn had stopped rising.
Last night vast areas of the country around Gloucestershire and Worcestershire were still inundated, large numbers of people in temporary accommodation, transport links were widely disrupted, and yet more householders were standing by to be flooded in their turn, in one of the biggest civil emergencies Britain has seen.
About 150,000 residents in Gloucestershire were left without drinking water when the Mythe Water Treatment Works in Tewkesbury became inoperable after flooding. Another 200,000 people are at risk of losing their supplies. The water shortages may last until Wednesday and 600 water tanks were being drafted to the area.
Panic buying of bottled water was reported, with supermarkets selling out of stocks, and there were contamination problems in south London, where 80,000 households and businesses in the Sutton area were advised to boil their water after rain got into a tank. Yet another potential danger was from car thieves; West Mercia police warned drivers who had abandoned their cars in the floodwater to collect them quickly to prevent theft.
The Great Flood of July is all the more remarkable for following right on from the Great Flood of June, which caused similar havoc in northern towns such as Doncaster and Hull, after a similar series of astonishingly torrential downpours on 24 June.
Meteorologists agree that the miserably wet British summer of 2007 has generally been caused by a southward shift towards Britain of the jetstream, the high-level airflow that brings depressions eastwards across the Atlantic. This is fairly normal. But debate is going on about whether climate change may be responsible for the intensity of the two freak rainfall episodes, which have caused flooding the like of which has never been seen in many places.
This is because the computer models used to predict the future course of global warming all show heavier rainfall, and indeed, "extreme rainfall events", as one of its principal consequences.
The new study, carried out jointly by several national climate research institutes using their supercomputer climate models, including the Hadley Centre of the UK Met Office, does not prove that any one event, including the rain of the past few days in Britain, is climate-change related.
But it certainly supports the idea, by showing that in recent decades rainfall has increased over several areas of the world, including the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere, and linking this directly, for the first time, to global warming caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases.
The study is being published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, and its details are under embargo and cannot be reported until then. But its main findings have caused a stir, and are being freely discussed by climate scientists in the Met Office, the Hadley Centre and the Department for Environment For Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
One source familiar with the study's conclusions said: "What this does is establish for the first time that there is a distinct 'human fingerprint' in the changes in precipitation patterns the increases in rainfall observed in the northern hemisphere mid-latitudes, which includes Britain.
"That means, it is not just the climate's natural variability which has caused the increases, but there is a detectable human cause climate change, caused by our greenhouse gas emissions. The 'human fingerprint' has been detected before in temperature rises, but never before in rainfall. So this is very significant.
"Some people would argue that you can't take a single event and pin that on climate change, but what happened in Britain last Friday fits quite easily with these conclusions. It does seem to have a certain resonance with what they're finding in this research."
The Hadley Centre lead scientist involved with the study was Dr Peter Stott, who specialises in finding "human fingerprints" sometimes referred to as anthropogenic signals on the changing climate.
Last September Dr Stott, who was not available for comment yesterday, published research showing that the climate of central England had warmed by a full degree Celsius in the past 40 years, and that this could be directly linked to human causes the first time that man-made climate change had been identified at such a local level.
The human fingerprint is detected by making computer simulations of the recent past climate, with and without emissions of greenhouse gases and then comparing the results with what has actually been observed in the real world.
In Dr Stott's research, and in the study to be published on Wednesday, the observed rises in temperature and rainfall could be clearly accounted for by the scenario in which emissions were prominent.
The conclusions of the new rainfall study are regarded as all the more robust as they are the joint work of several major national climate research bodies, led by Environment Canada, with each using its own supercomputer climate model.
Global warming is likely to lead to higher rainfall because a warming atmosphere contains more water vapour and more energy. Since climate prediction began 20 years ago, heavier rainfall over Britain has been a consistent theme.
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor
Published: 23 July 2007
It's official: the heavier rainfall in Britain is being caused by climate change, a major new scientific study will reveal this week, as the country reels from summer downpours of unprecedented ferocity.
More intense rainstorms across parts of the northern hemisphere are being generated by man-made global warming, the study has established for the first time an effect which has long been predicted but never before proved.
The study's findings will be all the more dramatic for being disclosed as Britain struggles to recover from the phenomenal drenching of the past few days, during which more than a month's worth of rain fell in a few hours in some places, and floods forced thousands from their homes.
The "major rainfall event" of last Friday fully predicted as such by the Met Office has given the country a quite exceptional battering, with the Thames still rising. In Gloucester water levels had reached 34 feet, just 12 inches below flood defences the same level as during the flood of 1947 although a police spokesman said last night that the River Severn had stopped rising.
Last night vast areas of the country around Gloucestershire and Worcestershire were still inundated, large numbers of people in temporary accommodation, transport links were widely disrupted, and yet more householders were standing by to be flooded in their turn, in one of the biggest civil emergencies Britain has seen.
About 150,000 residents in Gloucestershire were left without drinking water when the Mythe Water Treatment Works in Tewkesbury became inoperable after flooding. Another 200,000 people are at risk of losing their supplies. The water shortages may last until Wednesday and 600 water tanks were being drafted to the area.
Panic buying of bottled water was reported, with supermarkets selling out of stocks, and there were contamination problems in south London, where 80,000 households and businesses in the Sutton area were advised to boil their water after rain got into a tank. Yet another potential danger was from car thieves; West Mercia police warned drivers who had abandoned their cars in the floodwater to collect them quickly to prevent theft.
The Great Flood of July is all the more remarkable for following right on from the Great Flood of June, which caused similar havoc in northern towns such as Doncaster and Hull, after a similar series of astonishingly torrential downpours on 24 June.
Meteorologists agree that the miserably wet British summer of 2007 has generally been caused by a southward shift towards Britain of the jetstream, the high-level airflow that brings depressions eastwards across the Atlantic. This is fairly normal. But debate is going on about whether climate change may be responsible for the intensity of the two freak rainfall episodes, which have caused flooding the like of which has never been seen in many places.
This is because the computer models used to predict the future course of global warming all show heavier rainfall, and indeed, "extreme rainfall events", as one of its principal consequences.
The new study, carried out jointly by several national climate research institutes using their supercomputer climate models, including the Hadley Centre of the UK Met Office, does not prove that any one event, including the rain of the past few days in Britain, is climate-change related.
But it certainly supports the idea, by showing that in recent decades rainfall has increased over several areas of the world, including the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere, and linking this directly, for the first time, to global warming caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases.
The study is being published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, and its details are under embargo and cannot be reported until then. But its main findings have caused a stir, and are being freely discussed by climate scientists in the Met Office, the Hadley Centre and the Department for Environment For Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
One source familiar with the study's conclusions said: "What this does is establish for the first time that there is a distinct 'human fingerprint' in the changes in precipitation patterns the increases in rainfall observed in the northern hemisphere mid-latitudes, which includes Britain.
"That means, it is not just the climate's natural variability which has caused the increases, but there is a detectable human cause climate change, caused by our greenhouse gas emissions. The 'human fingerprint' has been detected before in temperature rises, but never before in rainfall. So this is very significant.
"Some people would argue that you can't take a single event and pin that on climate change, but what happened in Britain last Friday fits quite easily with these conclusions. It does seem to have a certain resonance with what they're finding in this research."
The Hadley Centre lead scientist involved with the study was Dr Peter Stott, who specialises in finding "human fingerprints" sometimes referred to as anthropogenic signals on the changing climate.
Last September Dr Stott, who was not available for comment yesterday, published research showing that the climate of central England had warmed by a full degree Celsius in the past 40 years, and that this could be directly linked to human causes the first time that man-made climate change had been identified at such a local level.
The human fingerprint is detected by making computer simulations of the recent past climate, with and without emissions of greenhouse gases and then comparing the results with what has actually been observed in the real world.
In Dr Stott's research, and in the study to be published on Wednesday, the observed rises in temperature and rainfall could be clearly accounted for by the scenario in which emissions were prominent.
The conclusions of the new rainfall study are regarded as all the more robust as they are the joint work of several major national climate research bodies, led by Environment Canada, with each using its own supercomputer climate model.
Global warming is likely to lead to higher rainfall because a warming atmosphere contains more water vapour and more energy. Since climate prediction began 20 years ago, heavier rainfall over Britain has been a consistent theme.
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m
Temperatures :: 54 °F / 12 °C
Conditions :: Overcast
Humidity :: 77%
Dew Point :: 46 °F / 8 °C
Wind :: Calm
Pressure :: 29.85 in / 1011 hPa (Falling)
Visibility :: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds:
Mostly Cloudy 3600 ft / 1097 m Overcast 4400 ft / 1341 m
(Above Ground Level)
Temperatures :: 54 °F / 12 °C
Conditions :: Overcast
Humidity :: 77%
Dew Point :: 46 °F / 8 °C
Wind :: Calm
Pressure :: 29.85 in / 1011 hPa (Falling)
Visibility :: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds:
Mostly Cloudy 3600 ft / 1097 m Overcast 4400 ft / 1341 m
(Above Ground Level)
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