The mixture of Sun and the Ball of Advanced Thoughts is in my room. Apr. 2010
This link will show you how
the Earth Planetary Game is played!
'My Male Alter' at
work (and I am not joking. I have a ginger cat as well, see below !)
Fire-Whirls, Fire Tornadoes and Lightning Rods are the actions of Blue Jets and Sprites !
Red Sprite and Blue Jet
Double Rainbow, Tornadoes and Fire Whirls are caused by Red Sprites and Blue Jets!
2010 Tornado in Australia (caused by Blue Jet) !
DEVASTATING FIRES IN RUSSIA- August 2010
Huge areas of Russian forests have been
hit by prolonged viciously devastating fires. For weeks Moscow has been
engulfed in extreme levels of smoke and resulting smog that has been
causing unbearable conditions for people. What has been especially
difficult is that these fires were not just on the surface but went
some depth into the ground. It has been reported that it required
a ton of water per square metre of ground to extinguish! There is even
a risk that fires in the Bryansk region, which already has nuclear
contamination from the Chernobyl disaster, could release harmful
radioactivity into the atmosphere.
Some articles and pictures from internet below describe the extent of these devastating fires:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/06/russia-fires-moscow
Smoke from Russian fires blankets Moscow
Russian wildfires continue
As the death toll hits 50, the worst wildfires in Russia in 40 years show no signs of being contained
Landmarks reduced to outlines in thick pollution and visibility down to 50 metres in some areas
Tom Parfitt in Moscow Friday 6 August 2010 15.36 BST
A thick acrid smog enveloped Moscow today as scores of fires blazed and peat bogs smouldered outside the city.
Emergency officials said they were beginning to tame the fires which
have spread across western and central Russia, but the capital woke to
its worst bout of pollution yet after smog that dispersed yesterday
returned with a vengeance.
Famous landmarks like the Ostankino television tower and St Basil's
cathedral were reduced to outlines and the sun was a pale yellow orb.
Visibility was down to 50 metres in some areas as coils of pungent
smoke threaded into apartment buildings, offices and metro stations.
Dozens of flights were cancelled at Domodedovo and Vnukovo airports in
the south of the city.
Doctors advised Muscovites to stay home as the Department of Nature
Protection and Environmental Management warned that carbon monoxide in
the air was at five times acceptable levels.
Many of those who did venture out wore masks or clutched handkerchiefs
to their faces. "It's unbearable, God knows what it's doing to our
health," said Yulia Novikova, 25, who was hurrying home with groceries
in Frunzenskaya district near the Moscow river. "I was just reading
about the Great Smog of London in 1952. This looks a lot worse."
Vladimir Stepanov of the National Crisis Management Centre said fires
were abating in the Urals and in the Volga region, but the situation
remained tense around Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. "Firefighters and
rescuers did not let the fires approach populated areas," he said. "Not
a single person has died over the past 24 hours."
The wildfires have so far claimed 50 lives and left more than 3,000
people homeless, prompting criticism of the official response to the
crisis.
Earlier this week the prime minister, Vladimir Putin, promised he would
personally monitor the reconstruction of destroyed homes via video
images beamed to his home. State television showed the cameras being
installed at building sites today.
Government officials said they could not have anticipated the heatwave
that provoked the fires, the hottest in 140 years. The temperature in
Moscow was above 36C all week. But critics have blamed complacent
officials for ignoring warnings of blazes near villages.
United Russia, the pro-Kremlin party which dominates parliament, has
boasted of sending volunteers to help extinguish the fires. But that
claim was thrown into doubt yesterday when the party was accused of
doctoring a photograph placed on its website.
A sharp-eyed blogger noticed that the picture showing volunteers
apparently wrestling with a piece of timber in a smoky wood had been
created in 2008 and altered in Photoshop last Saturday. The smoke, he
claimed, had been added for effect.
United Russia immediately removed the picture but did not respond to requests for comment.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE6741EQ._CH_.2400
Russia fires pose nuclear threat, death toll hits 50
Thu Aug 5, 2010 12:59pm EDT
Death toll rises to 50 from forest fires
Emergencies Ministry warns of nuclear threat
By Amie Ferris-Rotman
MOSCOW, Aug 5 (Reuters) - The Russian government warned on Thursday
that the country's deadliest wildfires in nearly four decades posed a
nuclear threat if they are not contained, as the death toll rose to 50
and the blazes continued to spread.
The worst heatwave in more than a century is set to intensify on
Friday, with record temperatures of 40 celsius (104 fahrenheit)
expected and to continue into the next week, weather forecasters said.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced a ban on exports of grain and
grain products from Aug. 15 until December, and his spokesman said it
would apply also to contracts already signed.
Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu said heat from fires in the Bryansk
region, which already has nuclear contamination from the Chernobyl
disaster more than 20 years ago, could release harmful radioactive
particles into the atmosphere.
"In the event of a fire there, radionuclides could rise (into the air)
together with combustion particles, resulting in a new pollution zone,"
he said on state television, without going into detail.
Shoigu added two fires had already broken out in the Bryansk region,
some 400 km (250 miles) southwest of Moscow, but they were quickly
contained.
Forest and peat bog fires have burned hundreds of homes, leaving
thousands homeless in the hottest summer since records began 130 years
ago, prompting leaders to declare a state of emergency in seven of the
worst-hit regions.
The territory covered by wild fires increased to 756 sq miles on
Thursday from 730 sq miles a day ago, according to the Emergencies
Ministry website.
Health Minister Tatyana Golikova told a government meeting that 44
people across the country had died in the fires themselves, while six
had died in hospitals, taking the death toll to 50, two more than the
day before.
Temperatures in Moscow topped 36C but a change of wind direction
provided some respite in the capital by blowing away oppressive and
toxic smoke that had blanketed the city.
Health officials said on Thursday that Moscow's air had become relatively clean again, Interfax reported.
The temperature may beat last week's 38C absolute record on Friday,
topping 40C, and remain at 35-38C throughout next week, the deputy
director of Rosgidromet meteorological service, Gennady Eliseev, told
Itar-Tass news agency.
The extreme heat may only abate after Aug. 23, he said.
The military prosecutor for the Moscow region gave orders to protect
military sites in the Moscow region after there were widespread reports
that a communications centre belonging to the country's General Staff
was burned down in the Moscow region.
The Ministry of Defence denied the reports. However, it also denied
last week that fire had ravaged a naval base. President Dmitry Medvedev
sacked several senior navy officers on Wednesday after it was revealed
that the blaze had indeed occurred.
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/russian-fires-approach-nuclear-plants/
Russian Fires Approach Nuclear Plants
By Duncan Geere, Wired.co.uk
August 10, 2010
Russia is, at the time of writing, being consumed by wildfires caused
by the worst heat wave the country has endured in a millennia. A state
of emergency has been declared in 35 regions of the country —
seven for the fires themselves, and another 28 for crop failures caused
by the drought and heat wave.
UK media has largely ignored the disaster, but the web is alive with
eye-witness accounts, photographs, videos and maps of how the flames
are spreading. Most of the information is coming through blogging
siteLive Journal, which has a large Russian population.
Following the July heat wave in the country, peat fires — which
can smoulder for years underground — ignited forest fires in the
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, the Voronezh Oblast, and across central and
western Russia. A few days later, an area of 500,000 hectares was
ablaze, with Moscow shrouded in a dense, thick smoke.
Since then, the area of the fires has been brought under control, with
now only about 200,000 hectares ablaze, but there are much bigger
problems looming. The fires have approached the Red Forest, an area
that suffered the worst of Chernobyl’s fallout in 1986, with the
soil still heavily contaminated by cesium-137 and strontium-90.
Similarly, the Mayak nuclear fuel reprocessing facility in Chelyabinsk
Oblast is also threatened by the flames, as is a nuclear research
center in Sarov, which was formerly known as the secret town
Arzamas-16. If any of the structures succumb, then radionuclides could
be spread widely afield, generating new zones of radioactive pollution
and displacing the population of those areas.
Severe health risk
The effects of the smoke on public health could also be severe. In
central Moscow, pollutants have reached 6.6 times the normal level for
carbon monoxide, and 2.8 times that of suspended particulate matter.
Deaths in the city have doubled, hitting about 700 people per day, and
at least 53 people (and possibly hundreds) have been killed directly by
the fires in other parts of the country.
To see the current status of the fires, you can view a Google Earth
layer (which obviously requires Google Earth to be installed) or
there’s also a web version, but that’s in Russian. On
LiveJournal, user i-cherski has been blogging extensively about the
disaster, and there are a few impressive photos of the damage on
Boston.com's Big Picture. One YouTube user videoed himself driving
through the inferno, which makes for some grim viewing.
However, there could be a silver lining to the disaster. In an abrupt
U-turn on previous policies, Russian officials have begun linking the
heat wave with climate change. President Dmitry Medvedev said in a
speech published on the Kremlin's website: “Unfortunately, what
is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global
climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather
conditions in the past. This means that we need to change the way we
work, change the methods that we used in the past.”
That contrasts dramatically with the president’s previous
rhetoric on the matter, which included a statement that “we will
not let anyone cut our development potential,” vowing not to cut
carbon emissions. If this U-turn is permanent, and not just an attempt
to keep the blame for the disaster away from the government’s
peat bog-draining policies and cuts in rural fire services, then
perhaps global climate change legislation may finally be able to make
some progress.
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Floods
wreak havoc across SE Qld (South-East Queensland, Australia)
November 20, 2008 - 9:46AM
Source: ABC
http://www.bigpond.com/news/national/content/20081120/2424600.asp
Queensland
Premier Anna Bligh has activated the State Disaster Management Group as
the state's south-east faces its second major storm incident in a week.
The weather bureau says the heaviest rain of up to 250 millimetres was
at Ipswich, west of Brisbane, and 150 millimetres in parts of Brisbane
itself. In Brisbane and Ipswich, major highways and suburban roads are
cut, with water on the Centenary Highway and the Warrego Highway in
several places. Police are advising people not to drive anywhere unless
it is essential. The torrential rain fell for seven hours from about
10pm AEST, causing major flooding at Ipswich where a number of homes
have been inundated. Weather bureau senior forecaster Geoff Doueal says
some of the heaviest falls have occurred over Brisbane's three major
dams. Electricity supply is cut to more than 2,600 homes and
businesses. Parts of Brisbane, the bay islands, the Fassifern and
Lockyer valleys, Logan, Ispwich, Gympie and the Sunshine Coast
hinterland are without power. A woman who was missing at Downey Park at
Newmarket has been found. Ms Bligh says the State Emergency Service
(SES) was activated at 2:30am AEST and received more than 1,200 calls
for help. She says the damage is spread throughout the south-east. "The
worst affected areas to date are in the Ipswich, Bundamba, Gatton,
Lockyer area," she said. "We've also seen very heavy rainfall in
Toowoomba and early reports of some damage at the Gold Coast. "We could
expect to see, at worst, damage in the next few hours as some of the
creeks maybe break their banks." She says people need to be aware that
river levels are still rising and further flooding is possible. "But as
people clock up the damage this morning I think we'll get a much
clearer picture of how widespread this is," she said. "We will now be
activating the State Disaster Management Group. "This is now spread
across a number of local government areas in the south-east. "Our
emergency resources will no doubt be stretched but we'll be getting out
there to help people all day today." Ms Bligh says anyone who has
experienced severe flooding or damage overnight and needs assistance
should call the SES on 132 500. Emergency crews had to rescue a number
of stranded drivers in Brisbane as the flood waters rose rapidly
overnight. Ms Bligh says several major and suburban roads are cut as
well. "We expect to see Oxley Creek flood mid-morning as a result of
rain in the catchment overnight," she said.
"There is a lot of water damage out there, the Inner-City Bypass was
closed overnight and is still closed. "The Centenary Highway has
floodwater on it. "Anybody who doesn't need to be out and about in
their car today should avoid being out, particularly in those western
corridor and Ipswich areas."
Trains.
The
Ipswich line is closed between Rosewood and Dinmore. There will be no
trains in this section in the morning peak hour, and possibly the
afternoon peak hour (to be advised). There is damage to signalling and
track washed out in several places. There is also water over the line
between Ipswich and Toowoomba. Translink says that rail buses (in place
of trains) are operating this morning. Buses will operate between
Ipswich and Rosewood. Buses will also operate between Ferny Grove
Station and Keperra due to track damage. All buses services are
expected to keep running, although routes will be affected by closed
roads. Motorists are advised to not attempt to drive through flood
waters as the depth may be deceptive and conditions may be dangerous.
The Moggill ferry is also out of service. Phenomenal rain. Mr Doueal
says there has been a phenomenal rain rate in some parts of the
south-east.
"Gatton had 164 millimetres, then at Glenawe they got 171, the highest
one is at Tallegalla that had 243 millimetres - just south of that
Rosewood had 208 millimetres," he said. "The heavy rain really occurred
in a period of about two to three hours." Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale
says the township has been inundated. "It really dumped on us nearly up
to 250 millimetres rain overnight - it really has affected the city,"
he said. "We've got crews out there and cars have been washed off the
roads. "It's going to affect people coming to Brisbane - Bundamba Creek
peaked and flooded in two areas at Bundamba there and we have had
people evacuated from houses at Marburg, Rosewood and Minden. "The sort
of water that came down overnight caught us all by surprise." The SES
has been using boats to patrol the roads around Newmarket, in
Brisbane's north-west. Peter Healy from the Western group says people
need to stay away from the floodwaters. "For those people who want to
go in and have a look - go on the website - that's the safest way to do
it," he said. "Leave the roads open for the emergency services. "We're
having a difficult enough time getting to these places, let alone
having sightseers on the road. "The other message is when there's a lot
of floodwater and flowing water around parks and drains, please stay
out of brown running water, it's terribly dangerous stuff." Landslide
threatment. Meanwhile, a landslide which threatened a dozen homes at
the Gap on Brisbane's northside has held steady overnight. Soil and
rocks slipped behind homes at Kimruska Place late yesterday and the
Brisbane City Council, engineers and geologists worked to prevent
further slippage. Police Inspector David Richards says last night's
heavy rainfall made it too dangerous to continue sandbagging and
emergency services had to pull back. "There was landslide incident at
The Gap, but SES attended and covered the landslide with plastic and it
has held firm overnight," he said. "There is no worries about that area
- heavy rain did occur throughout the night and that led to localised
flash flooding and a number of residents evacuated from a number of
houses in the Ashgrove area and roads were closed too." Paddington
street hit. Emergency crews are helping residents of an inner Brisbane
Street which was ripped apart in last night's storm. The stunned
residents of Beck Street emerged from their battered houses this
morning to find scenes of widespread destruction. Nearly every house in
the hilly Paddington street has been damaged. Iron that has peeled from
rooftops hangs in trees, powerlines lay limp across the road and cars
have been smashed by falling debris. Margot Wallace's family have lived
in Beck street since the 1920s and for her it has been a double shock.
"Mainly because we've come from The Gap that's just suffered exactly
the same," she said. Another resident says he feared for his life and
that the howling wind was 'like a bomb going off'. Emergency crews are
helping with the clean-up.
November
18, 2008 - 11:33AM
