Why did @Microsoft, @MicrosoftHelps @MSFTnews trash my @Outlook? Because they could! Thanks! See here (from MEC).
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The observations and comments below are solely those of Dr. Elaine J. Hanford. The sole exception is my quote at the bottom.
Geoscience Bulletin Board – 22 January 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
New USGS National Seismic Hazard Model (NHSM) – updates old seismic zonation map
2 decades of satellite altimetry data for lakes in China – some rising, some falling, some staying the same
- https://phys.org/news/2024-01-satellite-altimetry-reveals-significant-chinese.html
- Paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20964471.2023.2295632
Warnings of “very dangerous” avalanches in Colorado
- https://phys.org/news/2024-01-dangerous-avalanche-issued-colorado-mountains.html
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/avalanches-rock-colorado/ar-AA1mZU8V
De-extinctioners insisting “we will have the Wooly Mammoth alive again” within approximately 3 years
Junk on the Moon does not create a new geological period – it is just another example of human contamination that should not be “preserved” as “space heritage”
Retrospective on the Northridge Earthquake of January 1994
- https://www.dailybreeze.com/2024/01/14/the-northridge-quake-mapping-the-destruction/
- https://www.sfcv.org/articles/preview/how-cal-state-northridge-remembering-1994-earthquake
- https://sanfernandosun.com/2024/01/10/csun-prof-1994-earthquake-recovery-influenced-quick-repair-of-recent-10-freeway-fire/
- https://www.sgvtribune.com/2024/01/14/northridge-quake-it-changed-the-way-scientists-government-prep-for-big-one/
Yellowstone Research Dilling 1967-1968 – erupting boreholes
Searching for large orange plagioclase crystals in Ginkgo lava flow within Columbia River Basalt Group
Retrospective on 25 years of Penn State College of Earth & Mineral Sciences field camps
Listen to sonification of kimberlite eruptions
- https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/listen-to-diamonds-erupting-from-deep-within-earth-in-striking-animation
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-023-00512-y.epdf
Supercontinents throughout Earth history
Using Typhoon survey system and CG software to target mineral deposits in Saudi Arabia
Each rock tells story of impact of forces on creation and transformation of Earth: coquina, Klerksdorp spheres, blueschist, unakite, garnet peridotite…
Tasmania offers unexplored mineral potential for gold mining
Geologic importance of minerals – identification & classification
Obsidian – black glass
Magma chambers of Kilauea
Warning issued for landslides across southern & western Oregon
Marking 50 years at Devil’s Millhopper Geological State Park in Florida
Small swarm of small earthquakes in Oklahoma – byproduct of wastewater injection well operations
Claw marks from crocodile-like animal preserved in fossilized trackway in Cape Breton in Nova Scotia
3 uranium mines now in production along the Arizona-Utah border – not without controversy
Lava barriers partially protected Grindavik, Iceland, from volcanic eruption – protecting Svartsengi geothermal plant – so far, so good
Latest guestimate on how much ice has been “lost” from Greenland
New coastal hazard assessment for Port Phillip Bay in Victoria, Australia
- https://phys.org/news/2024-01-sea-affect-coastal-cities-towns.html
- CHA: https://www.marineandcoasts.vic.gov.au/coastal-programs/port-phillip-bay-coastal-hazard-assessment
Fossils of large carnivorous worms from 518 myo found in Early Cambrian Sirius Passet locality in Northern Greenland
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240103154234.htm
- Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi6678
Dazzling diversity and complexity among oldest eukaryote fossils from Northern Territory of Australia
2019 collapse of iron ore mine tailings dam in southeastern Brazil
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/brumadinho-dam-collapse-the-danger-emerged-after-the-decommissioning-study-reveals/ar-AA1n4gha
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01086-9
Crew on submarine vehicle found fault scarp of 2011 Tohoku-oki megaquake in Japan Trench
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1031238
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01118-4
“Elma” the Woolly Mammoth trekked 600 miles across North America during her lifetime – she died at Swan Point coincident with the seasonal hunting camp around 14,000 years ago
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-reveal-woolly-mammoth-s-600-mile-journey-across-north-america/ar-AA1n8CtP
- Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk0818
Norway reverses policy voting to allow controversial practice of exploration for sea-bed mining – commercial -scale mining would require another parliamentary vote
Debating why horses that evolved in North America about 14 myo went extinct about 10,000 years ago – roamed with camels that went extinct about the same time – impact of humans?
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-vanished-equines-unraveling-the-mystery-of-north-america-s-extinct-horses-10-000-years-ago/ar-AA1n9r3V
- https://news.unm.edu/news/research-looks-at-origins-of-presence-of-horses-in-north-america
Trying to create a “crisis” since Greenland Ice Sheet is melting at the margins over the very short-term (<30 years) – need to understand zones of accumulation and ablation
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/greenland-ice-sheet-melting-faster-than-scientists-previously-estimated/
- Surface Conditions: http://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/
- Ice loss: https://arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/report-card-2022/greenland-ice-sheet/
- Mass balance: https://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/changing-greenland-ice-sheet/greenland-ice-sheet-mass-balance/
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Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 22 January 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Despite warnings, China continuing to experiment with 100% fatal coronavirus in humanized mice
DEI is a very expensive boondoggle – fails to achieve purpose & exacerbate grievances, divisions, and discrimination
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-one-college-spends-more-than-30m-on-241-dei-staffers-and-the-damage-it-does-to-kids/ar-AA1mQ1o1
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/this-must-end-elon-musk-wades-into-woke-row-as-hospital-sends-out-hit-list-of-groups-automatically-guilty-of-privilege/ar-AA1mROJH
UK plans for “biggest nuclear power expansion in 70 years” to produce 24GW by 2050
$100M plan for water treatment plant improvements at 3 Navajo facilities: Chinle, Kayenta & Tuba City
Covid extremists demand for return to draconian mandates being ignored – “rational position of accepting that people do just get ill sometimes, and in the most extreme cases, they unfortunately die”
In Congressional testimony Fauci finally admits little science behind 6-ft social distancing rule & lab-leak hypothesis is not a conspiracy theory & vaxx mandates might increase hesitancy
Fauci still not taking responsibility for funding gain-of-function research at Wuhan Lab
Traces of sunscreen agents found on Svalbard archipelago glaciers deposited mainly in winter
- https://phys.org/news/2023-12-sunscreen-agents-north-pole.html
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723070298
Almost admitting NASA still does not understand variations in climatic conditions though they still proclaim man-made global warming
- https://phys.org/news/2024-01-driven-mystery-nasa-scientist.html
- https://phys.org/news/2024-01-nasa-analysis-warmest-year.html
- https://phys.org/news/2024-01-summer.html
Greenies want more mining for critical minerals for “green energy” – but impacts for half of all existing mining areas in the world remain undocumented
- https://phys.org/news/2024-01-impacts-areas-world-undocumented.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04090-3
First, do no harm – scientific studies of disasters should not exacerbate the trauma – SHIFT guidance
- https://phys.org/news/2024-01-guidance-community-engaged-disasters.html
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969723062046
Predicting changes in population of urban and rural areas in the US
- https://phys.org/news/2024-01-city-populations-fall.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-023-00011-7
First assessment of toxic heavy metal pollution in the Southern Hemisphere from human activities over the last 2,000 years
- https://phys.org/news/2024-01-toxic-heavy-metal-pollution-southern.html
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969723080610
Climate czar John Kerry to leave government – failed to achieve any reductions in Chinese emissions in 3 years
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/scoop-john-kerry-to-leave-biden-administration-help-campaign/ar-AA1mVf4w
- https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/reason/2013/01/03/fact-check-john-kerrys-war-accounts-and-whether-he-deserved/15842428007/
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/john-kerry-s-climate-change-flop/ar-AA1n9648
Reported weekly deaths from flu & from covid
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/weekly-flu-cases-deaths-hospitalizations/ar-AA15v7j8
- CDC flu data: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
- Covid data: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00
Perspective: Biden Open Borders Policy threatens National Security – millions of illegals, trafficking of humans & narcotics, diseases and parasites
The facts behind the drowning of 3 illegals on the Mexican side of the Southern Border
The Northridge Earthquake of January 1994 changed earthquake preparedness
- https://www.dailybreeze.com/2024/01/14/the-northridge-quake-mapping-the-destruction/
- https://www.sfcv.org/articles/preview/how-cal-state-northridge-remembering-1994-earthquake
- https://sanfernandosun.com/2024/01/10/csun-prof-1994-earthquake-recovery-influenced-quick-repair-of-recent-10-freeway-fire/
- https://www.sgvtribune.com/2024/01/14/northridge-quake-it-changed-the-way-scientists-government-prep-for-big-one/
- https://sanfernandosun.com/2024/01/10/handling-stress-and-fear-during-emergencies/
Perspective: Debunking Biden deficit claims that are adversely impacting the US
Newest State Park in Nevada – Ice Age Fossils State Park
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/nevada-is-getting-a-new-state-park-this-month-with-fossils-trails-and-a-life-size-mammoth-sculpture/ar-AA1mWPS4
- Park: https://parks.nv.gov/parks/ice-age-fossils
Technological hazard: Ground collisions of planes at Chicago O’Hare International Airport
New York Mayor imposes curfew on illegal aliens at shelters after complaints about panhandling & violence – little comfort to those who live nearby
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-york-mayor-imposes-migrant-curfew-after-complaints-about-panhandling-violence/ar-AA1n0Hvz
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/new-yorkers-living-near-migrant-centers-think-new-curfews-offer-cold-comfort-what-s-it-really-gonna-change/ar-AA1n1wAm
EVs lined up like “a bundh of dead robots” in freezing cold weather in Chicago
Criticism of mandated lockdowns for plandemic is warranted – imposed massive costs on the nation that will lasts for decades – “most damaging disruption in the history of American education” – loss in learning would create up to 3% drop in gross domestic product for the remainder of the 21st century
“Container Act” would give states authority to secure the US-Mexico Border – 8.5M+ illegal aliens apprehended since January of 2020 – does not include the ‘got aways”
Book Review: “Sex Lives – Intimate Infrastructures in Early Modernity” – behind the bedchamber doors
Expecting more roads to produce less traffic congestion in San Antonio, Texas, will cost billions and will increase traffic congestion
Prospector did untold damage to 1,000-year-old petroglyph site near Fort Pearce in southern Utah
Calling fertilizers made from treated sewage sludge “natural” is misleading since sludge contain micro-plastics and other potentially harmful chemicals
End of an era at National Geographic – no more staff writers as they go digital
Study confirms the obvious: Depletion of High Plains Aquifer threatens crop yields and food security
Microfibers in laundry cited as top source of micro-plastics that pollute waterways – what can you do to reduce micro-plastics, dyes, anti-wrinkle agents & flame retardants?
Faltering “green energy” sources putting Texas Power Grid on the brink of failure
One of the biggest mass migrations in US history – leaving “blue states”
Insect repellent DEET can harm brain cells, cause seizures and adversely affect the CNS but may also affect reproductive systems
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17012024/a-new-study-suggests-the-insect-repellent-deet-might-affect-reproductive-systems/
- Paper: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(23)02776-1
191 pesticides, 107 pharmaceuticals and 81 industrial compounds contaminate recycled plastic pellets making them hazardous & unsuitable for re-use
Air pollution emissions in the US have decreased substantially since enactment of Clean Air Act in 1970
- https://phys.org/news/2024-01-air-pollution-decline-pockets-inequities.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43492-9
Urbanization in Costa Rica causes nitrate concentrations in drinking water to exceed safe levels
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1030637
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2023JG007554
Experts have already started developing vaccines & therapeutics for a disease that they have not yet even identified – makes you wonder about the “experts” since they could not develop a vaxx to prevent covid
FDA issues warnings about latest TikTok trend – cooking chicken in NyQuil can be dangerous to health – reminds us that social media has strong influence over people – but lacks intelligence
Federal Appeals Court vacates order to remove floating barrier on the Rio Grande – to rehear the cse
Expanding legal immigration will not solve the Border Crisis – we had a reasonably secure Southern Border until January 2020 & now it is chaos with adverse impacts of illegals across the country
Natural hazards are acts of God; disasters are acts of man - $357 Billion in global damages in 2023
Limiting governmental powers may not be a bad thing
- https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/01/supreme-court-likely-to-discard-chevron/
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/scotus-readies-mortal-blow-to-the-administrative-state/ar-AA1nbZWF
EVs are a con game – light-vehicle transportation accounts for less than 5% of global energy demand – that does not offset the increase in environmental & infrastructure degradation and pollution from EVs
Ongoing controversy about release of information of adverse health effects of benzene
Planning significant changes to Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate extension
Marathon Petroleum seeks renewal of permits for refinery in south-central El Paso, Texas – provides almost 400 jobs at the refinery & more than $1M in annual community investment
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19012024/el-paso-challenges-oil-refinery-permit/
- https://www.marathonpetroleum.com/Operations/Refining/El-Paso-Refinery/
Growing organic in South Dakota
Using warm water from Dresden Energy Center nuclear power plant to melt ice jam in Kankakee River
New proposal for I-10 bridge over Calcasieu River in Louisiana estimated to be 25% less expensive to build
- https://www.kplctv.com/2024/01/19/live-gov-landry-announces-new-proposal-i-10-bridge-over-calcasieu/
Investigating use of molten salt instead of water to cool test TRISO nuclear reactor
Using tradition and native expertise of Tohono O’odham and Hohokam to harvest water in Tucson, Arizona
EVs in Norway – use energy to preheat cars before going out for drive – 90% recharge in their homes
EPA to prioritize investigation of flammable toxic chemicals: vinyl chloride and others
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/epa-begins-investigation-process-that-could-ban-dangerous-chemical-that-accident-was-a-chilling-warning/ar-AA1nad4u
- EPA: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-begins-process-prioritize-five-chemicals-risk-evaluation-under-toxic-substances
Children behaving badly stems from the bad behavior of their parents – “no education” in the schools
EPA proposes pollution restrictions on 57 trash incineration facilities that burn 250 tons of trash per day and emit abundance of toxic pollutants (e.g., particulates, lead, cadmium, mercury, dioxin) – open for comments
- https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-proposes-stronger-air-pollution-standards-large-facilities-burn-municipal-solid
- https://www.epa.gov/stationary-sources-air-pollution/large-municipal-waste-combustors-lmwc-new-source-performance
- https://www.epa.gov/smm/energy-recovery-combustion-municipal-solid-waste-msw
- https://www.epa.gov/stationary-sources-air-pollution/commercial-and-industrial-solid-waste-incineration-units-ciswi-new
- Proposed rule: https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2024-01/epa-oar_large-municipal-waste-combustors_nprm_2060-ao18_eo-12866-20231219-admin_0.pdf
Cloned Przewalski’s “resurrected stallion” could help the critically endangered species survive
- https://www.livescience.com/animals/cloned-przewalski-horses-are-resurrected-stallions-that-could-help-species-thrive-scientists-say
- Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.20.572538v1.full#T1
Biden finally admits US-Mexico Border is currently “not secure” – after 3 years finally pledges to make “significant changes” to the border and asylum policies – “posturing for reelection”
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/it-s-all-about-2024-elections-internet-slams-president-joe-biden-as-he-admits-significant-changes-are-needed-to-secure-southern-border/ar-BB1gZz0m
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fetterman-says-american-dream-is-threatened-by-300-000-illegal-immigrants-swarming-southern-border/ar-BB1gZRvf
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Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board 15 January 2024 - compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Mexico broke ground for San Antonio de los Buenos Wastewater Treatment Plant in Tijuana – intended to dramatically reduce discharge of sewage that has fouled San Diego & Tijuana shorelines
- https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/story/2024-01-11/no-more-beach-closures-mexico-breaks-ground-on-long-awaited-wastewater-treatment-plant
- Transborder sewage crisis: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/thread/2024/sewage-crisis
Human infrastructure squeezes beaches and dunes along coastal areas
- https://phys.org/news/2024-01-global-analysis-human-infrastructure-beaches.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-44659-0
Back-door government contorted approval process & waiving requirements to protect taxpayers resulted in offshore Vineyard Wind project in Massachusetts
M5.9 earthquake near Fairweather-Queen Charlotte Fault in SE Alaska
- https://www.ktoo.org/2024/01/12/offshore-magnitude-5-9-earthquake-rattles-southeast-alaska/ \
- https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ak024jyw3sk/executive
Winterfell discovery in Gulf of Mexico – first oil expected in second quarter of 2024
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) filed for 1.3 GW floating wind project offshore Lecce, Italy
Exxon aims to end 5 decades of offshore oil production in California – write-down about $25B in troubled properties
Winning court case allows continued development of giant Barossa GEP gas pipeline offshore Australia
More than 60 targets across 16 locations were fired at in Yemen as retaliation to degrade Houthis ability to attack maritime vessels
Pat Abbott reminds that coastal erosion in San Diego is part of yearly cycle
Storegga Tsunami of 8,000 years ago devastated Stone Age communities from Norway to Greenland
- https://bnnbreaking.com/tech/science-tech/uncovering-the-storegga-tsunamis-impact-on-stone-age-societies/
- Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.3586
$500M new terminal at Plaquemines Port Harbor and Terminal District
Georgia may change width of buffer between coastal marshes and development
Salt Marsh Keystone Initiative announced by US Dept of Interior
$2.15B 6-lane 22-km long Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) opens – 70,000 vehicles daily
Homeowners at Kammieland on Sunset Beach on North Shore of Oahu hit with million-dollar fines by Board of Land and Natural Resources for shoreline violations
Age of the kelp forests along the Pacific Coast
Assessing potential health hazards of toxic algae blooms in 156-mile-long Indian River Lagoon
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240111113109.htm
- Paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/15/11/664
Last beautiful Xerces blue butterfly that inhabited the sand dunes of San Francisco seen in 1941 – declared extinct – driven to extinction by urban development – may attempt resurrection
"The wicked know that if the ill they do be of sufficient horror men will not speak against it. Men have just enough stomach for small evils and only these will they oppose. - Cormac McCarthy (quoted in @nytimes via @TheWeek)
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