Drought and wildfires have lead to the decision by the US Department of Agriculture to declare the entire state of Texas a natural disaster. KCBD in Lubbock reports that in all, 213 counties in Texas have lost at least 30 percent of their crops or pasture. The disaster declaration will allow farmers and ranchers to [...]
Jun 30 2011 | Posted in
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TOKYO (Kyodo) — Trace amounts of radioactive substances were found in urine samples of all of 10 surveyed children from Fukushima Prefecture in May, where a crippled nuclear power plant is located, a local citizens group and a French nongovernmental organization said Thursday. David Boilley, president of the Acro radioactivity measuring body, said at a [...]
Jun 30 2011 | Posted in
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Another attempt of heat will try to come in for Friday through Sunday but it will be leaving as fast as it comes in. As we draw closer, the NAM and GFS are already trying to find ways to back off of the intensity a touch. As stated numerous times on here, summer this [...]
Jun 30 2011 | Posted in
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The tropical season is just about a month old and we have Tropical Storm Arlene that is centered in the Southwestern Gulf of Mexico and will come ashore by mid day Thursday across the central Mexican coast. The Mexican Government has recently issued a Hurricane Warning for the Eastern Mexican Coast from Barra de Naulta [...]
Jun 29 2011 | Posted in
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IWAKI, Fukushima — Hot spring water is pouring out of a quake-hit residential area here apparently as a result of shifts in the Earth’s crust triggered by the March 11 earthquake. Fifty-year-old Chie Azuma, who owns an apartment complex in the Uchigotakasaka district of Iwaki, noticed the sound of water flowing nearby after an aftershock [...]
Jun 27 2011 | Posted in
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More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it was learned Sunday. Both are about 30 to 40 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, which has been releasing radioactive material into [...]
Jun 26 2011 | Posted in
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MCS Train to Continue With Thunderstorms Sunday-Tuesday As addressed all Spring and Summer long the Ohio Valley was going to be in the battle zone between hot and dry conditions to the southwest and cool and wet weather across the north. That pattern has not changed and a change does not seem to becoming any [...]
Jun 25 2011 | Posted in
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For the last couple of months I have felt that it is a duty to steer serious readers and serious people in the right direction of what is really going on in the climate across the globe. As stated, this is not a writing to demand that a person switches sides or follows blindly what [...]
Jun 25 2011 | Posted in
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The most common form of diabetes can be reversed by nothing more than a severe low-calorie diet, a study has found Type 2 diabetes which affects millions of people worldwide, is caused by high levels of glucose in the blood and is linked to overeating and obesity. Researchers say the “remarkable” discovery proves that a [...]
Jun 24 2011 | Posted in
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“Home Farming Movement” There’s a term that if you haven’t heard it yet, you will become very familiar with in the near future, that term is “home farming movement”. The powers that be are now pushing for a home farming movement because we are now at a point at which America can no longer feed [...]
Jun 24 2011 | Posted in
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