Why current climate is anomaly, and ice age climate is normal Earth's climate

The Watchers, 7/15/13, Adonai

The Ice Age isn't coming, because it is already here. According to author and researcher Rolf Witzsche the Ice Age Climate is the normal climate for the Earth and it has been for more than 85% of the last million years. Because glaciation has been the normal state of the climate, the glacial epoch has been named Pleistocene Epoch. Our present, nicely warm period is the anomaly in this epic icy landscape. The entire development of what we call civilization has occurred in this climate anomaly. It's a kind of holiday away from the cold that we've named appropriately, the Holocene Epoch, says Witzche.

We know this, he says, from measuring the contents of the historic layers of ice that have accumulated over long periods on Greenland and Antarctica. The interglacial holiday epochs have occurred at fairly regular intervals.

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Volcanic activity worldwide 16 Jul 2013: Kizimen

volcanodiscovery-July 17, 2013

Kizimen (Kamchatka): On 15 July, ash plumes were observed drifting 20 nautical miles NW from Batu Tara.

On 15 - 16 July, small incandescent rock avalanches were noted from Kizimen. Lava Dome growth was at low levels.

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3MIN News July 17, 2013: Seismic Uptick, State of Flux, Spaceweather

Suspicious Observers, 7, 17,13

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Long-Lost Pyramids Confirmed in Egypt, Could this Finding Dwarf the Pyramids of Giza?

Intellihub, 7/17/13, April Holloway

The pyramid-like structures were first spotted last year by Angela Micol, who noticed the huge mounds against a flat desert plain on Google Earth. However, despite gaining widespread media attention at the time, her claims were highly criticised and she was met with huge resistance from so-called experts who refused to accept that such an incredible discovery could be made by a layperson sitting at a computer in Northern California.

“They would be the greatest pyramids known to mankind,” said Medhat Kamal El-Kady, former ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, and his wife Haidy Farouk Abdel-Hamid, a lawyer, former counselor at the Egyptian presidency. “We would not exaggerate if we said the finding can overshadow the Pyramids of Giza.”

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Millions of shrimp-like critters die and wash ashore in northern California

The Watchers, 7/15/13

Millions of shrimp-like critters called krill have died and washed ashore in northern California, US, last month. Though this krill loss is not expected to impact marine life local communities are asked to watch and report if they notice new stranding.

Scientists are still researching what exactly caused this massive die-off but it is known that it is geographically largest krill die-off on record.

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Delta Aquarid meteor shower peaks late July 2013

The Watchers, 7/17/13

The Delta Aquarid meteor shower begins annually roughly from July 12 and is active up to August 23. The shower can be seen all over the planet, however it is best observed from the Southern Hemisphere and southern latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.

The debris from the comet 96P/Machholz, which orbits the Sun every five years, is suspected to be the cause of the Delta Aquarids. Comet 96P/Machholz was found in 1986 by Donald Machholz and its nucleus is 6.4 km wide.

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Volcanoes 'SCREAM' before erupting, say scientists

Mail Online,By Sarah Griffiths- 16 July 2013

Some volcanoes 'scream' at ever-higher pitches before they erupt, scientists claim

New research has discovered that volcanoes can sometimes 'scream' at ever-higher pitches just before they erupt.

Scientists at the University of Washington analysed an eruption sequence at Alaska's Redoubt Volcano and found what they describe as audible 'screams' that followed seismic activity as the changed from steady pulses to rapid tremors.

The researchers also believe that this research and the rise in the frequency of earthquakes and the tremors they cause in the ground could be used to predict future volcanic eruptions.

The study said that it is not unusual for swarms of small earthquakes to precede a volcanic eruption.

They can reach a point of such rapid succession that they create a signal called a 'harmonic tremor' that is inaudible to humans as it is such a low frequency.

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Typhoon Soulik leaves nearly 300 dead or missing in China

scmp.com - July 16, 2013

A villager walks past a house destroyed by Typhoon Soulik in Liandun village, Meizhou city, south China's Guangdong province, on Sunday. Photo: AP

At least 295 people have been confirmed dead or missing after rainstorms and Typhoon Soulik hit China, causing floods, landslides and buildings to collapse, the government said on Monday.

Torrential rains have battered the southwestern province of Sichuan since July 7 and have led to 68 deaths, with another 179 people missing, the ministry of civil affairs said in a statement.

Another 41 deaths and two missing were reported from other parts of the country due to heavy downpours and mountain torrents, according to the ministry.