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Operation Sudden Response: Climate Change, 19-25 January 2020

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Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 19 to 25 of the Gregorian month of January 2020.

“People are tired of hearing about climate problems. We need solutions, especially farmers whose families, livestock and livelihoods depend on them.”-Oluyede Ajayi, Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation

Africa Climate Change Fund approves seven projects worth U.S.$4.7-million
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The plot to profit from a bee-killing pesticide

 

France And Germany Miss EU Climate Plan Deadline

climate change fears are reviving Europe’s sleeper trains
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Locusts, the latest curse of East Africa weather extremes
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 HFC emissions are ‘rapidly’ rising and China and India could be to blame
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Be wary before donating to fire, earthquake funds

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AUSTRALIA: Bushfires, ash rain, dust storms and flash floods: two weeks of apocalypse

BRAZIL:   Brazil Listed Among Climate Change Culprits

CANADA:  Taxpayers funding CAD$20-million climate change think tank

CHINA:  China Suspends Tours Abroad as Xi Jinping Warns of ‘Grave Situation’ from new virus

  the world’s largest greenhouse gas emission emitter

economic woes threaten to derail China’s climate actions

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ETHIOPIA: Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt are moving towards resolving disputes in order to build the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

FRANCE: New killer virus from China arrives

GERMANY:  Youth lawsuit challenges newest climate law

 15 personnel heading to operations with U.S. Africa Command (USAfriCom) went through humanitarian aid training at Kelley Barracks/Helenen-Kaserne: “We provide training to units like AfriCom to prepare them for when they might be called to provide humanitarian assistance to help the allies and partners that are within their area of operations as opposed to other military operations which are their main mission.”-Jenny Caruso, Humanitarian Assistance Response Training manager

GREENLAND:  For more proof climate change is a constant, scientists now say the demise of Viking colonies, in the Gregorian 15th Century, was the result of depleted resources and volatile prices, exacerbated by climate change.

Climate change resulting in skyrocketing cod fish:  “The Cod is coming back to Greenland strong.”-Bo Lings, fishing boat owner

HAITI: Scientists warn the next quake will be worse than the 2010 quake

ISRAEL:  UBQ Materials is an Israeli company which has developed a process to convert unsorted household waste into a plastic substitute, Germany’s Diamler agrees to test the household waste plastic in new cars. 

IVORY COAST:  How climate change has altered cocoa farming

SPAIN: Storm Gloria claims 12 lives in Spain, four missing

 Sea foam floods streets during deadly storm

TAJIKASTAN: 5.5 quake, 23JAN2020

TURKEY:  NEW earthquake hits already quake-devastated E. Turkish province

At Least 4 Killed, Buildings Collapse in Strong Earthquake

UGANDA:  Reforestation project considered a success, as forest employees live off revenues from Carbon Credits

UNITED KINGDOM:  Tremor shakes homes on Teesside

Taunton’s £6m flood defense plan approved

‘Hypocrisy’: 90% of UK-Africa summit’s energy deals were in fossil fuels
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UNITED STATES:  Is climate change making it easier to get syrup from the rare Pacific Northwest Big Leaf Maple?  Production is on the rise.

As Climate Risks Worsen, U.S. Government Flood Buyouts Fail 

Residents of Minnesota urged to get flood insurance after warning of massive flood from National Weather Service

Pennsylvania lumber mill shutdown due to three years in a row of flood damage

  It was revealed that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held a training session on how to deal with a “hypothetical scenario” with Youghiogheny River Lake, in Pennsylvania.

More flooding predicted for Iowa 

Puerto Rico’s Air National Guard’s (PRANG) 156th Mission Support Group are the ‘gateway’ for all U.S. military support entering the territory for quake relief.  The above pic shows PRANG  personnel explaining the Joint Reception, Staging, Onward Movement and Integration process at Muñiz Air National Guard Base.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) conducted ‘door-to-door’ wellness checks in Yauco, Puerto Rico, 19JAN2020.

More than 1-thousand-3-hundred military personnel supporting quake relief in Puerto Rico

Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, 19JAN2020.

Volunteer veterinarians from the Clinica Veterenaria tend to earthquake survivors’ pets, Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, 19JAN2020.

 Rescued pets from earthquake-ravaged Puerto Rico end up at East Coast shelters

Puerto Rico Is Welcoming Tourists As Island Recovers From Earthquake Damage

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3.8 magnitude earthquake felt in southern Kentucky

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In Mississippi, loud booms hear, authorities say it’s not an earthquake

Mississippi Fights With Army Corps of Engineers Over Flood Control
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Third earthquake hits near same area of Tennessee this week

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2.7 quake in Pecos County, Texas, 24JAN2020

3.0 earthquake shakes west Texas, 23JAN2020 
Exercise ‘Sudden Response’, involving military units located at Killeen, Austin and Fort Hood, Texas.  The exercise preps military responders for equipment deployment, life-saving operations and web-based command and control.
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CLIMATE CHANGE, 12-18 JANUARY 2020: “ON SCALE WE’VE NOT SEEN BEFORE”

International, Technology

U.S. taxpayers to rescue “donated” C-130

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24 January 2020 / 21:35 UTC-07 Tango 06 (05 Bahman 1398/29 Jumada l-Ula 1441/01 Ding-Chou 4718)

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

“The U.S. commitment to this partnership is stronger than ever, and I look forward to building upon it in the days ahead.”-Michael Raynor, U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, during the June 2018 C-130E hand-over, he obviously didn’t realize the Ethiopians couldn’t handle the U.S. taxpayer funded ‘gift’

Poorly thought-out hand-over of donated C-130E, June 2018.

A year-and-a-half ago the U.S. government “donated” a C-130 Hercules to the struggling Ethiopian air force, and without much forethought, it turns out, as it was discovered that the Ethiopian military personnel lacked the knowledge to maintain or operate the transport.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

In January 2020, U.S. military officials realized the Ethiopians needed help with their U.S. taxpayer funded gift, so the U.S. Air Force’s 818th Mobility Support Advisory Squadron (MSAS) went in.

U.S. Air Force maintenance personnel check-out the landing gear on the donated C-130E. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

Explainer video, 23JAN2020:

So far the old C-130E has completed taxi runs, hopefully will be flying soon.

Between 1998 and 2014, Ethiopia got two C-130Bs, and a C-130E.  The above pic is of tail #1562 seen wasting away.  The other B model and the E model are listed as active, which is hard to believe since Ethiopia had so much trouble maintaining the C-130E donated in June 2018.

In the cockpit, USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

In the cargo bay, USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

The intent of the donation of the C-130E was to help Ethiopia conduct ‘peacekeeping’ missions in Africa.

Taxpayer rip-offs: U.S. TAXPAYERS DELIVER MD-530F CAYUSE WARRIOR TO KENYA

BARE METAL: C-130 PAINT PREP, OR THE EMPEROR GETS SOME NEW CLOTHES

Technology

NATO Vehicle I-D: Challenger vs Leclerc

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NATO’s 2020 anti-Russia training was held in the eastern European country of Latvia (right on Russia’s border).

NATO promo-video, NATO’s Adazi Training Base, Latvia, 23JAN2020:

LECLERC, NATO-France:

French Leclercs invade NATO-Germany, 29MAY2018. U.S. Army photo by Kevin S. Abel.

U.S. Army (USA) video by Kevin S. Abel, May 2018, France ‘invades’ Germany for Strong Europe Tank Challenge:

The Leclerc does not have a bore evacuator (fume extractor) on its NATO compatible 120mm F1 smoothbore main-gun.  It uses interior overpressure, or a compressed air system, for gun-tube fume extraction.

USA photo by Specialist Craig Carter, 05JUN2018.

USA video by Matthias Fruth, Leclercs blasting away during NATO’s Strong Europe Tank Challenge at the 7th U.S. Army Training Command’s Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, June 2018:

Simulated CBRN attack. USA photo by Specialist Craig Carter, 05JUN2018.

Push-me-pull-you action, towing away a ‘broke-dick’ Leclerc. USA photo by Specialist Craig Carter, 05JUN2018.

Leclerc’s butt. USA photo by Lacey Justinger, 04JUN2018.

Leclerc has a single exhaust that looks like a giant water-pipe elbow pointing skyward. The ‘things’ on the back-end of the tank are racks for external fuel drums, à la Soviet style.

CHALLENGER:  No, not my (snow)drifting Challenger!

NATO-United Kingdom:

USA photo by Gertrud Zach, 07JUN2018.

This is the Challenger I’m talking about, the United Kingdom’s Challenger-2.  The Challenger has a ‘coffee-can’ bore evacuator on its non-NATO compatible 120mm L30A1 rifled-bore main-gun.

USA photo by Gertrud Zach, 07JUN2018.

It also has fuel drum racks on its butt.  The exhaust ports are square looking boxes towards the rear on each side of the vehicle.

Pistol shoot. USA photo by Gertrud Zach, 06JUN2018.

Video, shooting a pistol from the turret of a Challenger-2, Strong Europe Tank Challenge,  Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, June 2018:

USA photo by Gertrud Zach, 07JUN2018.

Somebody lit a fire under this Challenger-2’s ass!  I suspect that it is one of the smoke grenades used to simulate a CBRN attack.

USA silent video, by Elliott Banks, of Royal Red Coats uploading their unique three-part-ammo:

USA video of Challenger-2 blasting away (this time Elliott recorded the audio), 06JUN2018:

VEHICLE I-D: MODEL T & WHITE MOTOR WARRIORS

JOIN THE U.S. MILITARY GET A CLASSIC CAR?

 ZOMBIE TANK T-55, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE! (and they keep coming back from the dead)

International, Technology

U.S. taxpayers deliver MD-530F Cayuse Warrior to Kenya

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24 January 2020 (01:55 UTC-07 Tango 06) 04 Bahman 1398/28 Jumada l-Ula 1441/30 Yi-Chou 4717

Handover Ceremony at Embakasi Barracks, Kenya, 23JAN2020.

It’s a few months late (first promised delivery was for mid-2019, then pushed back to the end of 2019) but the first six of 12 taxpayer funded MD-530F Cayuse Warrior helicopters are now in Kenya.

The helicopters will be used against ‘extremists’ in Somalia.  MD Helicopters was issued a five years  U.S.$1.4-billion IDIQ contract from U.S. Army Contracting Command-Redstone Arsenal-Multinational Aviation Special Project Office.

IDIQ means Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity, it is a U.S. government phrase referring to contracts that require unknown quantities over a specified time period.

Multinational Aviation Special Project Office states on its website that it “provides aircraft procurement and support activities for customers around the world and services a fleet that includes a wide variety of rotary and fixed wing aircraft such as the Mi-17s, MD-500Es, MD-530Fs, MD-600Ns, AH-1Fs, AH-6i’s, IA-407s, Bell 412s, S-333s, Bell 206s, UH-1s, Huey IIs and AW-139s.”  In other words, taxpayers are paying for other countries’ helicopters.

MD Helicopters claims the upgraded MD-530 has the Rolls-Royce 250-C30 650shp turbine engine, advanced all-digital glass cockpit, ballistically tolerant crash-worthy fuel system, Harris RF-7850A tactical radio, Rockwell Collins HF-9000D, FN Herstal Weapons Management System, DillonAero Mission Configurable Armament System (MCAS), DillonAero Fixed-Forward Sighting System, 62mm ballistic armor protection, FN Herstal .50 caliber HMP 400 Machine Gun Pods, and M260 7-shot rocket pods.

VEHICLE I-D video: MD-530F CAYUSE WARRIOR, AFGHANISTAN

AFGHANISTAN GETS MORE U.S. TAXPAYER FUNDED HELICOPTERS & GUNS!

Kit Bashing, Technology

Vehicle I-D: Cold War and beyond, C-2A to C-2A(R) Greyhound, now ‘On Final’! Can you get a kit of it?

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Nice, Italy, 1970. Photo via U.S. Navy’s VR-24.

The Grumman C-2A Greyhound has been around for a long time, joining the U.S. Navy in 1966 (production started in 1965).

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, October 1990. USN photo by Don S. Montgomery.

Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, February 2005. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Justin Blake.

It was developed from the E-2 Hawkeye early warning aircraft, and eventually replaced the older C-1 Trader.

C-1A Trader, Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, August 1983. USN photo by Journalist Senior Chief Petty Officer Kirby Harrison.

C-2 Greyhound somewhere over the Indian Ocean, Summer of 1980. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate First Class David Maclean.

Somewhere over the Mediterranean Sea, Summer 1988. USN photo by Commander Leenhouts.

C-2A over Naval Air Station Norfolk, September 1989. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Third Class Stephen L. Batiz.

Seven little Greyhounds over Naval Base San Diego, California, August 1990. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Second Class Patrick Muscutt.

News media board a C-2A Greyhound, during Operation Desert Shield, August 1990. USN photo by Journalist Petty Officer Second Class Bartlett.

Hurghada, Egypt, a Greyhound being loaded with supplies for an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, post Operation Desert Storm. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Second Class Savage, May/April 1991.

Official USN website history of the C-2A Greyhound: C-2A Greyhound Logistics Aircraft

Operation Enduring Freedom logo painted on the underside of the tail-end of a C-2A. Naval Air Station Norfolk, July 2002. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate First Class Shawn P. Eklund.

Naval Air Station Norfolk, July 2002. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate First Class Shawn P. Eklund.

Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Jacqueline Diaz, 18MAR2009.

It has gone through many upgrades, the current Greyhounds are known as C-2A(R) and are identifiable by their NP2000 propellers.

U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. USN photo by Petty Officer Third Class Joshua Nistas, 15JAN2010.

USN video,  Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch Systems (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) testing aboard USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78), 17JAN2020:

Another Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch Systems (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) testing aboard USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) video:

Video, Rawhindes of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 40 conduct their first flight operations from aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), April 2019:

Carrier Onboard Delivery, aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) November 2017:

More Rawhides video from February 2017,  operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69):

Video, Horsemen of Detachment IV of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 40, takes off and lands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) October 2016 (warning, includes slow-mo-video, do not adjust your set):

Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, video of Greyhound prepping for trip to USS George Washington (CVN-73), September 2014:

Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, 11DEC2013. USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Stacy Atkins Ricks.

On Final: The U.S. Navy has tried several times to replace the Greyhound, but potential replacements failed to measure up, or never materialized. In 2015, the USN stated that it intended to replace the Greyhound with the much more expensive, less load carrying ability, tilt-rotary wing CMV-22B Osprey, possibly starting in 2024.

Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, 19MAR2020. USN photo by Steve Wolff/Paul Lagasse.

On 19MAR2020, C-2A Greyhound Bureau Number (not ‘build number’ as many people/authors incorrectly call it) 162142 took its final flight.

Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, 19MAR2020. USN photo by Erik Hildebrandt/Paul Lagasse.

BuNu 162142 had flown with VX-20 for just short of 30 years.

Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, 19MAR2020. USN photo by Erik Hildebrandt/Brittany Dickerson.

BuNu 162142 retired to the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum.

USN photo by Christopher D Nette, 18AUG2020.

On 17AUG2020, the last C-2A(R) to undergo planned maintenance interval three (PMI-3) arrived on Fleet Readiness Center Southwest (FRCSW), North Island Naval Air Station, California. PMI-3 for the Greyhound costs just under $4-million: “Other C-2s will induct for the much smaller PMI-1 and 2 events and most likely will also have in-service repairs. Field events for PMI-1 and 2 are scheduled out to Fiscal Year 2022.”-Jorge Gutierrez-Lopez, FRCSW Props IPT program scheduler

28NOV2020, somewhere over the Arabian Sea. USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Keenan Daniels.

28NOV2020, somewhere over the Arabian Sea. USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Keenan Daniels.

In 1:72 scale; I-D Models made a vacform kit in the mid-1970s.  Falcon began issuing a Triple conversion set in the 1990s that included a C-2A fuselage for the Fujimi or Hasegawa E-2 Hawkey.  Resin kit maker RVHP Models currently has an outrageously expensive full-kit (you can buy a couple of the 1:48 Kinetic kits for one RVHP kit).

Trumpeter offers a detailed 1:350 scale kit for your aircraft carrier.

Fox One Design Studio offers 1:144 scale versions.

In 1:48 scale the rare resin Collect Aire kit comes with four blade prop, while Kinetic’s more affordable plastic kits come with either four or eight blade props.

VEHICLE I-D: USN GOSHAWK T-45

Technology

Vehicle I-D: USN Goshawk T-45

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U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Connor Loessin, 20JAN2020.

The U.S. Navy (USN) is currently testing its new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG), and the venerable T-45 Goshawk is one of the guinea pigs.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Zack Guth, 18JAN2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Connor Loessin, 20JAN2020.

USN video, Goshawk touch-n-go (wait for it) aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), 18JAN2020:

 

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jesus O. Aguiar, 18JAN2020.

The T-45 is now an old plane, its origins go back to the 1970s British empire Hawk trainer.  The USN asked for a navalized version and began using it in 1991, calling it the T-45 Goshawk.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Zachary Melvin, 18JAN2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Zachary Melvin, 18JAN2020.

USN video, fueling the Goshawk, take-off & landing aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), 18JAN2020:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jesus O. Aguiar, 18JAN2020.

Interestingly, model kit builders were able to get a Goshawk before the USN officially started using it.  In 1989, Italeri (eh-taal-ery) began selling 1:72 scale kits of the T-45A Goshawk.  In 1990, Testors reboxed the Italeri kit.  Italeri reissued the kit in 2019.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Ryan Carter, 17JAN2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Ruben Reed, 17JAN2020.

Another fueling video:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Ryan Carter, 17JAN2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Ryan Carter, 17JAN2020

VEHICLE I-D: MODEL T & WHITE MOTOR WARRIORS

NEW F-16 WRAITH! NIGHT FIGHTER WW-2 STYLE!

F-8 DFBW, OR ANOTHER REASON WHY TODAY’S TECHIE GENERATION OWES THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!

NEW TAIL FEATHERS FOR OREGON EAGLE, B-17 BOMBER STYLE! PLUS, MINI-EAGLE.

International

“The fire breathing dragon of clouds.”: Pacific Ring of Fire, 12-18 January 2020

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Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 12 to 18 of Gregorian January 2020.

According to the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program, the overwhelming majority of volcanic eruptions taking place the third week of January are on the Pacific Ring of Fire.

ARGENTINA: 5.0 quake near border with Chile

AUSTRALIA: ‘Experts’ say murderous Mega Fire was preventable!

Fires followed by floods

Australia and Japan sign hydrogen agreement

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CHILE:   “It is clear to many of us that the Coquimbo region has an unusual, increasing seismicity that may be preparing the area for a very large earthquake near the end of the present century.” 

ECUADOR: Galapagos volcano eruption spews lava 

FIJI: 5.2 mag quake recorded in Ono-i-Lau region

INDONESIA:  Krakatau volcano explosive activity continues

JAPAN: Slow-motion interplate slip detected in the Nankai Trough

 Japan military planes arrive in Australia to help fight bushfires

Court halts nuclear reactor restart citing volcano, earthquake risks

Wildlife Is Still Reeling from the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami

MEXICO:  Yet another quake hits the Oaxaca area

NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand Volcano Eruption Death Toll Rises to 20

What will the next decade of quakes look like?

Early morning 4.2 magnitude earthquake felt by many in lower North Island
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PHILIPPINES:  Taal;

Gray pineapples: Volcano devastates farms

Imagine this is what SuperVolcano Yellowstone will do to most of the entire North American continent!

RUSSIA:  5.5 quake hits near Kamchatka

THAILAND: Japanese scientists observe ‘plasma bubbles’ in upper atmosphere

UNITED STATES:

Pic by Cassandra Eichner of a Pyrocumulonimbus Cloud (PyroCB) taken over the Pacific Northwest on 08AUG2019, during the FIREX-AQ field campaign from the cockpit of the NASA DC-8 aircraft. 

Between July and September 2019 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, NASA, and other federal agencies, conducted studies of pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCbs) clouds.  The PyroCbs (pyro means fire) are formed by intense wildfires, NASA calls them “the fire-breathing dragon of clouds.”  

PyroCbs were first identified in the late 1990s, while scientists were trying to find out what was causing clouds in the upper atmosphere when the ‘natural’ weather conditions weren’t correct for such formations and there was no volcanic activity.  Since then studies show such dragon clouds can pump as much particulates into the upper atmosphere as a volcano: “They act as giant chimneys, transporting smoke from the ground to high altitudes. Intense PyroCbs can inject smoke into the lower stratosphere, where it can persist for weeks or months.”-Dave Peterson, Naval Research Laboratory, one of the first meteorologists to notice the PryoCbs phenomenon in the late 1990s

The data collected from the 2019 FIREX-AQ missions is now being studied to see how cloud water droplets and ice particles change in the presence of smoke.

Alaska;  3.7 quake 15JAN2020

  School district considers rejecting millions in FEMA earthquake funding due to required insurance!

California; Tech company spent U.S.$30-million to see if ‘earthquake lights’ could warn of temblors. It didn’t work

Magnitude 3.3 earthquake jolts Gilroy, Aromas area

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Warnings of future flooding in burn areas of Santa Barbara County

Hawaii; Flooding Event Greatest Since Hurricane Lane

Oregon;  Can Scappoose Industrial Airpark survive a major disaster?

Sneaky ‘Sneaker’ Waves?

Utah;  4.0 quake in Beaver County

Washington; PacifiCorp to lower Yale Reservoir because earthen dam is “likely to liquefy in the event of an earthquake” 

Despite threat from Cascadia Event, Seattle has big plans for a new city extension, right along the coast line!

VANUATA:  What is Early Action Rainfall Watch?

Disposable diapers were banned at the end of 2019 (to “save the world”), now there’s a push to re-educate people how to use old fashioned washable diapers!

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, 06-11 JANUARY 2020: MEGA-FIRE!

CLIMATE CHANGE, 12-18 JANUARY 2020: “ON SCALE WE’VE NOT SEEN BEFORE”

International

“on scale we’ve not seen before”: Climate Change, 12-18 January 2020

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Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the third week of the Gregorian month of January 2020.

Weather shows evidence of climate change every single day since 2012

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Proof evolution is working; study reveals human body temp is adjusting downward, in possible anticipation of a warmer planet?

Spy Satellite Uncovers Staggering Mount Everest Ice Loss

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UN warns hunger crisis in southern African continent “on scale we’ve not seen before”

European Union’s one trillion Euro climate finance plan

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A perfect storm for Asia’s food prices: swine fever, climate 

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Asia’s Great Rivers: Climate crisis, pollution put billions of people at risk of losing food source

As many climate freaks freak-out about losing food sources, scientists discover the warmer temps are actually causing more plants to grow at higher altitudes

Ecotourism: How Marketers Can Ethically Promote Travel Amid The Climate Crisis

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AUSTRALIA:  Why Australia’s fires are linked to floods in Africa

 Aussies to become climate change refugees?

BRAZIL: Brazil rebuilds burned-out base in Antarctica

Revealed; it was actually China that rebuilt the base

CHINA: Second death reported from mystery virus

COLOMBIA: Farmers blame ‘global warming’ for unusually low temps, which are killing off their crops

EGYPT:  More rain expected, but less will end up in Nile River

Tourism industry the biggest climate change fear-monger?

GERMANY: Taxpayers forced to pay coal mines to shutdown, tens of thousands of jobs will be lost

Long convoys of farm vehicles blocked roads in the states of Bavaria, Baden Württemberg and Bremen, as well as the city of Berlin. Farmers are angry at ever increasing environmental regulations.

GREENLAND:  The real reason why President Trump, and even China, want to buy the giant island; climate change is making it easier to get at the resources, like rare earth metals, such as neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium and terbium, as well as the usual stuff. 

HAITI:  Revealed; comments by U.S. ‘christian’ evangelical leaders resulted in Haitian Voodoo (Vodou) practitioners being denied medical help, and were even attacked, after the earthquake of 2010.

ITALY:  Video; U.S. Army personnel thanked for helping clean-up sinking Venice:

ISRAEL: Why have at least 350 people from U.S., European Union, Japan, Australia, and the African continent, converged on Israel for a massive earthquake drill?

MEXICO:  NGO works to ensure food security and seed diversity

NIGERIA: Climate change could be prime motivator for violent extremism

PHILIPPINES: Was the Taal volcano eruption large enough to influence the climate?

UNITED KINGDOM:  Hackney Council criticize Thames Water over repeated floods

UNITED STATES: As climate change freaks freak out about losing food sources, Idahoans are complaining about an explosion of non-native/invasive wild turkeys!

As many climate change freaks freak out about losing food sources, the new Marine Recreational Information Program surprisingly discovered that ocean fish stocks are actually much larger than first thought.

California City Bans Coal, Blocking Key Export Route to Asia

Teens’ Climate Change Suit Against U.S. Blocked by Judges

 Group rescues dogs from Puerto Rico

 NASA’s ARIA Team Helps in Puerto Rico Quake Response

5.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Puerto Rico, 15JAN2020
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NEW YORK DEPLOYS ITS MILITIA TO SAVE PUERTO RICO!

ARMY RESERVE DEPLOYS FOR PUERTO RICO QUAKE RECOVERY

Earthquake hits South Carolina, fourth in past two months

Earthquake hits New York

New York insurance sellers review changes to flood insurance policies

New flood risk model reviewed by academia will negatively affect home prices and insurance

The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control creates new flood map for New Castle County, negatively affecting property owners, takes effect next week

Mississippi River threatens three cities with flooding

Pear River also threatens people in Mississippi

Idiot property developers in Missouri want to build in known flood zone

Nebraska’s governor promises to extend flood relief

Iowa’s governor begs for U.S.$20-million for flood relief

Texas releases U.S.$1.4-billion to start-up the newly created Flood Infrastructure Fund

On 12JAN202, the USAF at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, evacuated personnel on at least five C-130 aircraft due to an impending storm.  The operation is known as a Weather Evacuation (WX Evac).

‘This is very strange’: Rare early emergence of influenza B virus puts children at higher risk
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CLIMATE CHANGE, 06-11 JANUARY 2020: MONEY IS BEING MADE!

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, 06-11 JANUARY 2020: MEGA-FIRE!:

U.S.

“better off not being a citizen”: Immigrant Invasion, 12-18 January 2020

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Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations affecting the United States taxpayers, third week of Gregorian January 2020.

Mexican authorities closed a border entry point after thousands of Central American migrants tried to push their way across a bridge.

Guatemalan police accompanied by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swept up the majority of a group of about 3-hundred migrants Thursday, loaded them on buses and took them back to the Honduran border.

Pro-illegal immigrants groups in the U.S. are going to Mexico to provide captured illegals with free legal help

Ripped-Off U.S. citizens Sue Mexican Monex for stealing Millions

ALASKA: Cops capture immigrant drug dealer

ARIZONA:  Woman goes to prison for impersonating immigration attorney and ICE agent

124 illegals were flown from Tucson to Guadalajara, Mexico, as part of the Interior Repatriation Initiative (IRI).  The first such IRI deportation for 2020.

10 years after SB1070 what happened to Arizona’s illegals?

CALIFORNIA:  “The day will come in California where you may be better off not being a citizen or having legal status to be here as well as not having a job.”-Manteca/Ripon Bulletin

 Governor plans even larger expansion of taxpayer funded healthcare for illegals, could cost more than U.S.$3.4-billion per year!

San Diego bakery shuts down after ICE audit 

City of Adelanto, already home to a GEO run massive fortress-like immigrant prison called Adelanto Dentention Facility West, will see ICE processing center expanded

Next door to Adelanto is Victorville, with its massive fortress-like federal prison called FCI Victorville Medium 1 

COLORADO: Denver officials won’t hand over information sought by ICE

 ICE subpoenas Denver law enforcement

CONNECTICUT: City of Middletown considered to have mostly illegals as residents?

FLORIDA:  Venezuelan attorney and businessman added to ICE Most Wanted List

illegal immigrant gets prison time for forcing 12 years old boy into slavery on a Florida farm

E-Verify Divides Florida Republican Leaders

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GEORGIA: Taxpayer funded public schools pushing illegal families to take part in federal Census (it’s all about getting as much federal money as possible)

HAWAII: Organization pushing illegals from Philippines to take part in federal Census (turns out Filipinos are considered a ‘majority ethnic’ group in Hawaii)

IDAHO:  Group says human trafficking is alive and well in The Gem State

Proposed bill to sell drivers’ licenses to illegals is ‘shelved’, for now

ILLINOIS:  Chicago cops to double as ‘customs agents’

Why is the state Pumping Millions in state taxes Into the Federal Census?

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IOWA:  ‘Dreamers’ Protest Against Joe Biden

LOUISIANA: Hunger Striker Nearing Death in ICE Custody

MARYLAND: Adult illegal immigrant arrested for sex with child

MASSACHUSETTS: Automatic voter registration may lead to unintended consequences

MICHIGAN: man who challenged deportation can stay, seek citizenship

MINNESOTA:   Representative Ilhan Omar under federal investigation?

‘Teacher of the Year’ kneels during anthem

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NEW JERSEY: Hoboken to  become the 1st city in the state to mandate Reunification of Migrant Families

NEW MEXICO: Cops release transgender illegal immigrant with chronic illness, ICE arrests the immigrant several weeks later 

NEW YORK:  ICE issues detainer for illegal immigrant accused of murdering 92-year-old woman

Law college refuses aid for DACA students

NORTH CAROLINA:  Whole Foods continues buying food from farm known to use slave labor!

OHIO:  Franklin County Sheriff’s Office accused of releasing 29 illegals

  ICE agents have visited courthouse looking for illegals

ICE shames county for releasing convicted sex offender, dozens of other criminal aliens

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PENNSYLVANIA: Migrant worker population increases exponentially!

It’s been revealed that a man accused of killing a woman is an illegal immigrant who has been deported in the past

TEXAS:  Federal politicians sneak chronically sick girl into U.S. for medical care

Border Wall work south of Weslaco, 13JAN2020.

UTAH:  Immigration judges in Utah made a record number of asylum decisions, mostly denials

VERMONT: Migrant Justice settles with DMV to halt information sharing with ICE

VIRGINIA: “We wouldn’t have a tobacco industry if it wasn’t for migrant labor.”-Bob Harris, Pittsylvania County farmer

WASHINGTON: Immigrants Afraid To Show Up In Court

Seattle fires cop who was openly anti-illegal immigrant

WISCONSIN: Border Patrol releases illegal immigrant for asylum hearing 

IMMIGRANT INVASION U.S.A., 06-11 JANUARY 2020: SLAVE HOUSES?

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Puerto Rico Militia creates tent cities for thousands of survivors!

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Puerto Rico has deployed more than 650 of its own National Guard personnel, in response to the ongoing earthquakes, building tent cities that can house thousands of survivors.

Tent cities have been established in the municipalities of Yauco, Ponce, Peñuelas, Guanica and Guayanilla.  Each can provide shelter for up to 1-thousand-5-hundred people, with showers, toilets and laundry facilities.

FAILED STATE: OHIO JOINS NEW YORK IN DEPLOYING MILITIA TO PUERTO RICO