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Alaska: Bogoslof Volcano Erupts Ash Possibly As High As 13.7 Km (45 000 Feet)

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– Bogoslof erupts ash possibly as high as 13.7 km (45 000 feet), Alaska

A powerful eruption took place at Alaska’s Bogoslof volcano on May 28, 2017. It was the second powerful eruption after more than months of relative calm. Aviation Color Code was raised to Red.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) reported a powerful explosive eruption started at Bogoslof volcano at 22:16 UTC on May 28 and lasted about 50 minutes. “Satellite images and pilot reports indicate that the cloud reached at least 10.7 km (35 000 feet), and possibly as high as 13.7 km (45 000 feet) above sea level.”

“An observer on Unalaska Island reported seeing a large white-gray mushroom cloud form over Bogoslof, with ash fall out to the west. Winds in the area are currently to the northwest,” AVO added.

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H/t reader squodgy:

“A couple more like this and the trigger is pulled for the downturn.

Already Iceland is repotting clusters of seismic unrest at three volcanoes, and Southern Chile has more.”

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EPA To Alaskans In Sub-Zero Temps: Stop Burning Wood To Keep Warm

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– EPA To Alaskans In Sub-Zero Temps: Stop Burning Wood To Keep Warm:

In Alaska’s interior, where it can reach -50 degrees Fahrenheit in winter, the EPA wants people to stop burning wood. But it’s just about their only feasible way to stay warm.

In Jack London’s famous short story, “To Build A Fire,” a man freezes to death because he underestimates the cold in America’s far north and cannot build a proper fire. The unnamed man—a chechaquo, what Alaska natives call newcomers—is accompanied by a wolf-dog that knows the danger of the cold and is wholly indifferent to the fate of the man. “This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold 107 degrees below freezing point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge.”

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New Mega Oil Discovery In Alaska Could Reverse 3 Decades Of Decline

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I know that they’ve found an oil field in Alaska (many years ago) that would provide the U.S. easily with enough oil for the next 200 years!!!

– New Mega Oil Discovery In Alaska Could Reverse 3 Decades Of Decline:

A small company just announced that it has made a “world-class” oil discovery in Alaska, which could be the largest find in the state in years.

Caelus Energy LLC, a small company backed by private equity, says that it has discovered oil on Alaska’s northern coast. The field could hold as much as 6 billion barrels of oil, with about 1.8 to 2.4 billion barrels considered to be recoverable. If that is the case, the discovery would instantly raise Alaska’s statewide recoverable oil reserve base by about 80 percent.

But producing the oil will not be easy. Drilling must take place in the winter. To drill the field, the tentative plan would be to build manmade islands to drill through. Oil produced in the shallow water of Smith Bay will need to be moved somehow. Caelus will have to build an $800 million pipeline that travels 125 miles, connecting to an existing pipeline system in Prudhoe Bay.

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8 Inches of August Snow for Alaska, Record Cold Europe , Snowpack Remains Scotland & UK (Video)

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23.08.2016
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Unusual to say the least with all the news articles saying its the warmest year ever and now 8 Inches of August Snow for Alaska, Record Cold Europe, Snow pack Remains Scotland & UK up to 20 meters/60 feet deep.

Twente coldest ever recorded in August 0C http://www.nltimes.nl/2016/08/11/over…
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Record Cold Trondheim Norway https://iceagenow.info/record-cold-no…

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Arctic Warm Record Repeating 200 Year Cycle, Rapid Cooling Follows in Winter 2016-2017 (Video)

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Jul 18, 2016

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“Record Warm” temperatures in Alaska are not records after all, it has been warmer by 1C in the last few years, also it was warmer in 1815 followed by a drastic drop in temperatures. We are repeating a cycle, forests are being found under glaciers that are now retreating. NASA changes temperature record in Nuuk, Greenland and Iceland to remove 1940’s warm spike.

Record Heat Alaska http://mashable.com/2016/07/14/deadho…
https://weather.com/news/climate/news…
Warmer Alaska Before https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2…
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/…
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~aka…

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2016 Inseason Alaska Commercial Salmon Summary

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H/t reader squodgy:

“At last!

I’ve been searching for three years to establish if “something going on in the Pacific” is really affecting the Salmon catches in Alaska.

Now, at last the Alasks Department of Fish & Game report clearly shows a dramatic drop in catches and expected catches as well as a 10% drop in average sizes.

Of course, fudging the problem by changing zone sizes, blaming ocean temperature and increased meltwater have the required effect of making the elephant in the room invisible again.

Just maybe, these excuses have a common source……FUKUSHIMA.”

– 2016 Inseason Alaska Commercial Salmon Summary

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Alaska, Finland, China, Russia, New York State JUNE SNOW – Video

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– Alaska, Finland, China, Russia, New York State JUNE SNOW – Video:

Crop Losses Follow

Rare Snowstorms abound across the planet. Mid-June and every continent received snow across both hemispheres. Record snows in Argentina/Chile, New York state, Russia, China, Finland

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Snow in Alaska

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– Snow in Alaska:

Winter – WINTER – storm watch. On June 9.

Not sure how unusual this is, but it sure doesn’t look like global warming.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK… JUN 9 2016

NORTHEASTERN BROOKS RANGE- INCLUDING… ANAKTUVUK PASS… ATIGUN PASS… GALBRAITH LAKE… SAGWON…FRANKLIN BLUFFS

…WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING…

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Alaska Man Sentenced To 60 Days In Jail For Growing $1.5 Million Of Marijuana

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Alaska Man Sentenced to 60 days in Jail for Growing $1.5 Million in Pot

– Alaska Man Sentenced to 60 days in Jail for Growing $1.5 Million in Pot:

Homer, Alaska — Joseph Gabryszak, 32, of Homer, Alaska was arrested earlier this year after he was found to be in possession of $1.5 million worth of marijuana.

The trouble began for Gabryszak on February 12, 2016, when Alaska’s State Drug Enforcement Unit raided a 4,500 square-foot building leased to Gabryszak and found 1,000 plants that allegedly contained around 6,000 ounces of marijuana, according to a local report by Homer News.

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Alaska: Thousands Of Birds Found Dead Along Shoreline (CNN – Video)

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– Thousands of birds found dead along Alaskan shoreline:

As he walked on a beach in the western Prince William Sound town of Whittier, seabird biologist David Irons was startled when he saw hundreds of white lumps on the black rock beach.

They were dead seabirds, in what he would discover were likely record numbers, a sign the ecosystem was being troubled by abnormally warm ocean water.

The dead birds, common murres that had starved, were lined up and left where the tide had dropped them on the shore.

“We have never found close to 8,000 birds on a 1-mile long beach before,” Irons said of his early January discovery. “It is an order of magnitude larger than any records that I am aware of.”

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See also:

– Fukushima? 10,000 Dead Squid Wash Up On Chile Beach

HAARP Caught In Action? Large Pulse Of Radio Frequency Detected Coming From ALASKA (12/12/2015)

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H/t reader squodgy:

“Let’s see what this little blast brings….

Click on the GIF & wait till the big curl completes & see the transmission.”

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– 12/12/2015 – Large pulse of Radio Frequency detected coming from ALASKA — HAARP caught in action?

A large pulse of RF (radio frequency)  has been unintentionally detected coming out of Alaska by the MIMIC microwave background imagery satellite composite feed.

http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mimic-tpw/epac/anim/20151210T000000anim72.gif

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Screenshots: Thanks to Barbara M. for catching this!

20:00:00 UTC:

HAARP caught in action

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“Mind-blowing” die off of seabirds underway from California to Alaska — Experts: “This is unprecedented… Worst I’ve ever seen… Why they’re dying, I’m still baffled” — “Every bird we’re seeing is starving to death… Basically withering away” — “Catastrophic molting” due to unknown cause (VIDEO)

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– “Mind-blowing” die off of seabirds underway from California to Alaska — Experts: “This is unprecedented… Worst I’ve ever seen… Why they’re dying, I’m still baffled” — “Every bird we’re seeing is starving to death… Basically withering away” — “Catastrophic molting” due to unknown cause (VIDEO):

San Francisco Chronicle, Oct 15, 2015 (emphasis added): [T]housands of common murres… have been found dead… “all signs point to starvation from a lack of forage fish,” [Marine ecologist Kirsten Lindquist] said, adding that the same problem has been documented along the Oregon, Washington and Alaska coastlines… many endemic marine birds and mammals are suffering.

International Bird Rescue, Sep 22, 2015: An unprecedented number of exhausted, hungry seabirds continue to flood International Bird Rescue’s San Francisco Bay Center… The sight of so many starving seabirds has raised red flags among seabird scientists…

Read more“Mind-blowing” die off of seabirds underway from California to Alaska — Experts: “This is unprecedented… Worst I’ve ever seen… Why they’re dying, I’m still baffled” — “Every bird we’re seeing is starving to death… Basically withering away” — “Catastrophic molting” due to unknown cause (VIDEO)

Record Snowfall in Alaska

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– Record Snowfall in Alaska:

Major early snowstorm hit Northern Alaska

26 Sep 15 – Fairbanks had 6.7? yesterday (Fri.).  That obliterated the previous daily snowfall record of 0.8?.  Just north of Fairbanks, 9? was recorded.  Here’s more snowfall totals. Temps far below average A record low was set at Kodiak AK at 29 and small hail fell at Annette. The high temp. of 34 in Fairbanks was 15 deg. cooler than the average high of 49 for 9/25.  Here’s snow in Coldfoot AK.   Another wintry scene from Fairbanks. Alaska’s a big state and all but one of the first order climate stationshereis reporting colder than average temps. so far this Sept:   Nome -2.6, Anchorage -2.0, Bethel -2.0, Fairbanks -1.9, Barrow -1.9, King Salmon -1.9, Kotzebue -1.7, McGrath -1.6, Annette -1.2, Yakutat -1.1, Kodiak +0.2. Look at how snow is accumulating in Alaska, the Yukon Territory and Russia.

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Here’s a pic. from Healy AK.

Animals delirious, disoriented up and down West Coast — Displaying ‘unprecedented’ behaviors — Experts “know something isn’t right” — Gov’t: “Waters offshore so lacking in things like anchovies, sardines and squid” (PHOTOS & VIDEO)

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– Animals delirious, disoriented up and down West Coast — Displaying ‘unprecedented’ behaviors — Experts “know something isn’t right” — Gov’t: “Waters offshore so lacking in things like anchovies, sardines and squid” (PHOTOS & VIDEO) (ENENews, Sep 4, 2015):

KION, Aug 13, 2015 (emphasis added): “I noticed them out here. And I looked over here and seen all kinds of dead little fish over there,” said fisherman Tucker Bergerson. Bergerson fishes in the Monterey Bay every day. He like others who make a living out in the open waters, know something isn’t right in the bay.

KION, Aug 13, 2015: [Kamyar Shareghi, tour guide:] “There have been fish dying, there have been a bunch of birds dead in the water as well. Some of the marine mammals like the sea lions, seals and the otters, they’ll have seizures and they will be delirious like dementia.”

Read moreAnimals delirious, disoriented up and down West Coast — Displaying ‘unprecedented’ behaviors — Experts “know something isn’t right” — Gov’t: “Waters offshore so lacking in things like anchovies, sardines and squid” (PHOTOS & VIDEO)

Official: ‘Thousands of Millions’ Of Fish Wash Up Dead In Alaska

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– Official: “Thousands of Millions” of fish wash up dead in Alaska — Piles of them… I have never seen anything like it… First time we’ve ever heard of this (VIDEO) (ENENews, Aug 19, 2015):

Alaska Dispatch News, Aug 13, 2015 (emphasis added): Warm water killing fish in Mat-Su and Anchorage… killing salmon in the Matanuska and Susitna valleys… Arctic char… have also gone belly up… “It will have some impact but in the long term for species that return multiple age classes, I wouldn’t characterize it as a disaster,” said Mike Bethe, Mat-Su area manager for the Habitat Division of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game… dead salmon have been found near the [Knik River’s] weir… Dead fish have been turning up in other Mat-Su streams…

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