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Elaine J. Hanford authors all the following entries.
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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 6 November 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Geologist Ferdinand Hayden & founding of Yellowstone National Park
This leaning tower in Italy is not in Pisa – but rather is the Garisenda Tower in Bologna – worse than the adjacent Asinelli Tower – shut down for restoration & safety – selenite stones in basement being worn away
- https://www.newser.com/story/342037/italian-city-begins-work-to-straighten-its-leaning-tower.html
- https://www.geplus.co.uk/news/famous-leaning-tower-in-bologna-closed-for-safety-reasons-31-10-2023/
Contemplating significance of increased activity at Long Valley Caldera & Campi Flegrei
So what if Earth passes Paris Agreement 1.5 degrees Celsius? Earth has, as they say, “been there, done that” and survived just fine
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/what-will-happen-when-earth-surpasses-1-5-degrees-celsius-of-warming/ar-AA1jdGQE
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01848-5
Mitochondrial genome of extinct European wooly rhino - Coelodonta antiquitatis – reconstructed from coprolites
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/europe-s-wooly-rhino-genes-reconstructed-from-dna-in-predator-poop/ar-AA1jffVx
- Paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0343
For paleomagnetic data, more sites provide superior data than multiple samples from one site
- https://eos.org/editor-highlights/should-i-stay-or-should-i-goto-another-paleomagnetic-site
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JB027211
Major eddy swirling in ocean waters off the coast of southeastern Australia
- https://phys.org/news/2023-11-monster-eddy-current-coast-sydneywill.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01041-8
New method to predict saltwater intrusion into fresh groundwater in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- https://phys.org/news/2023-11-hydrogeologists-saltwater-intrusion-groundwater.html
- Report: https://www.boutthydro.com/_files/ugd/b4f826_497ca9b7ed464d4a8448adab0907d8a0.pdf
Mechanism that may explain climate variability during the Last Ice Age
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1006776
- Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh1106
Evolution of lampreys in the Jurassic
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1006755
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42251-0
New insights into India-Asia collision 55 myo
Jǫrmungandr walhallaensis - New mosasaur species named for Norse sea serpent
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1006322
- Link to download pdf: https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/items/13b0485f-c73f-47f9-8d1d-0d4ab6aaedfb
Humans are disrupting the global salt cycle
Evolution of marine oxygen landscaped impacted by plate tectonics & biological innovation
Decadal variations in the Jet Stream
Devonian Brittle Star fossils found in upper unit of Baviaanskloof Formation in South Africa
- https://www.sci.news/paleontology/devonian-brittle-stars-12413.html
- Paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292636
Fragments of protoplanet Theia that collided with Earth 4.5 byo persist as low-velocity provinces in the Mantle
Dust from Chicxulub impact may have played key role in extinction the dinosaurs and ammonites
510 myo Cambrian plankton fossils in Forteau Formation in Canada
- https://www.sci.news/paleontology/cambrian-green-algae-12401.html
- Paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.1882
As shipping increases in Arctic waters, more noise pollution disrupts marine life
Increasing ocean wave energy observed in seismic wavefield
- https://www.usgs.gov/publications/increasing-ocean-wave-energy-observed-earths-seismic-wavefield-late-20th-century
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42673-w
Geologic landscapes of Valencia County basalt-capped mesas – inverted topography
Rescued archives of Charles Lyell go on display
Geologist shares analysis of underground tunnels use by Hamas in the Gaza Strip
Geology is critical concern for siting of new Guam Memorial Hospital – sinkholes and faults
Perplexing properties of the Inner Core
Stacked basalt columns in canyon north of Molokai
Removal of Copco No. 2 dam from Klamath River is now complete
- https://www.kdrv.com/news/first-klamath-river-dam-removal-effort-complete-leaving-three-for-next-year/article_18524e06-79af-11ee-8d96-eb86222f3294.html
- Video: https://www.kdrv.com/video/one-dam-gone-in-klamath-river-dam-removal-project/video_c634c485-ece9-56a7-9d74-d9c504a842b5.html
Electric Mountain – though I would not be willing to call that view beautiful
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Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 6 November 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
So-called “green” energy (wind& solar) is really very expensive and damaging to the environment – based on expensive government subsidies, high cost of energy storage & lack of back-up power
“Geofencing” and high tech are invading right to privacy & freedom of religion
USEPA to fund 5 grants to investigate impacts of PFAS forever chemicals in agricultural plants & animals – 12,000 PFAS compounds linked to cancer, impaired immune function, endocrine system function & birth defects
Legislation will slash $billions from “green energy slush funds”
Pfizer hid nearly 80% of vaxx trial deaths from regulators – 3.7-fold increase in cardiovascular deaths in vaxxed
- https://vigilantnews.com/post/how-pfizer-hid-nearly-80-of-covid-vaccine-trial-deaths-from-regulators
- Paper: https://ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/86/
Fauci & NIH funded covid experiments at lab in Montana – virus supplied by Wuhan Lab in China
Trends in hospital-associated infections (HAIs) – especially MRSA which more than doubled in last decade
Plan to expand mapping of designated flood areas could force millions to buy insurance – more representative of areas prone to flooding
- https://www.eenews.net/articles/dramatic-plan-to-expand-flood-areas-could-force-millions-to-buy-insurance/
- TMAC interim report: https://subscriber.politicopro.com/eenews/f/eenews/?id=0000018b-6e56-d6f1-a3af-eede5da70000
USEPA to strengthen rules on lead in drinking water
Charging EV is equivalent to $17.33 per gallon gasoline – EV charging continues to receive federal subsidies & incentives with your tax dollars to make it appear to be cost competitive but you are still paying the price
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/study-reveals-electric-vehicle-fueling-is-actually-equivalent-to-17-33-per-gallon/ar-AA1j9jks
- TPPF Report: https://www.texaspolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-10-TrueCostofEVs-BennettIsaac.pdf
Federal Judge issues restraining order preventing Biden administration from cutting razor wire border protection in Texas
First fully autonomous vehicle suspended in Japan after crashing into parked bicycle
Thanks to judicial and legislative roadblocks, the draconian Biden vaxx mandates failed – mounting evidence vaxx was not “safe & effective” – spike protein in vaxx is clearly pathogenic
Myotragus baleraricus – only known cold-blooded mammal – now extinct
Two more men arrested for chopping down iconic “Robin Hood Tree” at Sycamore Gap in Northumberland
So what if Earth passes Paris Agreement 1.5 degrees Celsius? Earth has, as they say, “been there, done that” and survived just fine
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/what-will-happen-when-earth-surpasses-1-5-degrees-celsius-of-warming/ar-AA1jdGQE
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01848-5
Abolish WHO to stop plandemic misinformation – WHO is “just another corrupt United Nations bureaucracy” and is an arrogant failure
Hard to make up stuff like this: Iran to chair UN Human Rights Forum
- https://unwatch.org/iran-to-chair-un-human-rights-forum-on-thursday-sparking-protests/
- https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-did-the-united-nations-hand-a-human-rights-job-to-irans-ambassador/
CRS Report: “Management of the Colorado River – Water Allocations, Drought & the Federal Role”
Poll shows 24% of Americans know someone who died from side effects of getting vaxxed
Contemplating what to do if a stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is sunk in NYC
USDA sharing knowledge of eradication methods for invasive giant African snail
Fire ants have invaded Europe – “one of the worst invasive species & fifth costliest worldwide”
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/researchers-find-first-extensive-mature-population-of-invasive-species-in-europe-one-of-the-worst-invasive-alien-species/ar-AA1jgxi1
- Paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00974-0
Humans have increased atmospheric concentrations of mercury 7X more than all volcanic eruptions combined
- https://eos.org/research-spotlights/humans-have-boosted-atmospheric-mercury-concentrations-sevenfold
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL104667
Visualizing the future demand for lithium just to build environmentally damaging EVs
Hours and hours and hours spent on “social media” is spent alone and distressed
Man who received genetically modified pig heart died 6 weeks after transplant
21 species now officially extinct
Proposed Ambler Road in remote section of Alaska to the mine would be detrimental to wildlife, fisheries & backcountry recreation
Book Review: “US Rangers, the Law of the Land – History of Law Enforcement in Federal Land Management Agencies”
Potential new approach to water electrolysis to produce “green hydrogen” – but still requires water
Lingering environmental impacts of colonial settlers in 1850s gold rush in Ballarat, Australia
- https://theconversation.com/in-the-1800s-colonial-settlers-moved-ballarats-yarrowee-river-the-impacts-are-still-felt-today-214949
- Interactive Map: https://yarrowee.cerdi.edu.au/
Toxic smog in Delhi, India, forces shut down of schools & banning of fireworks at Cricket World Cup
Clean Water Act may not be effective in controlling nonpoint-source nutrient pollution
- https://phys.org/news/2023-11-effective-nutrient-pollution.html
- Paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-023-01869-6
Natural disasters versus natural hazards – as Gilbert White would say: acts of man versus acts of God
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1006275
- Paper: https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/8357/8357.pdf
Glyphosate – jury awards victim $175M from Monsanto as Europe weighs reauthorization of pesticide & proposed Agricultural Labeling Uniformity Act would protet pesticide companies & products
- https://www.ehn.org/roundup-lawsuit-2666088361.html
- https://www.ehn.org/glyphosate-cancer-europe-2666077883.html
- https://www.thenewlede.org/2023/11/battle-brewing-over-proposed-us-law-that-would-protect-pesticides/
Increased incidence of thyroid cancer in affluent areas of Brazil is result of better access to diagnostic testing
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1006521
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1530891X23005049
Sustained human-to-human transmission of monkey pox since at least 2016
- https://www.sciencealert.com/sustained-human-transmission-of-mpox-has-been-happening-longer-than-we-realised
- Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg8116
Surprise! Tiny mice live at high altitudes in the Puna de Atacama of the Andes
- https://www.sciencealert.com/tiny-mice-discovered-at-altitudes-thought-inhabitable-for-mammals
- Paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)01161-2
Bodies of starfish and other echinoderms may really be heads
Another broken promise: US Treaty promised Native Americans fish – but they are now toxic (mercury & PCBs)
New technique for detecting early onset of “deadly infectious diseases” so we can have more politically-driven plandemics
Will we ever learn the truth behind the covid plandemic & gain-of-function research
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-real-covid-scandal-is-emerging-right-in-front-of-the-inquiry-s-nose/ar-AA1ji11d
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covid-origins-committee-chair-officials-are-hiding-info-from-americans-exclusive/ar-AA1jibdN
Federal Appeals Court tosses EPA ban on Chlorpyrifos insecticide that has been linked to brain damage in children
American Ornithological Society will rename more than 100 birds because current names are “racist” – not that the birds cared what they were called – social media backlash
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dozens-of-offensive-bird-species-to-be-renamed-because-of-racism/ar-AA1jj4vn
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bird-names-being-changed-over-racist-ties-sparks-backlash/ar-AA1jllDE
Columbia to cull some of the 166 hippos descended from herd owned by drug lord – 20 will be sterilized
Chemical recycling of plastics is “dangerous deception” that will exacerbate pollution & fail to address crisis
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-report-calls-chemical-recycling-a-dangerous-deception-and-a-former-plastic-lobbyist-agrees/ar-AA1jkm8a
- Report: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/t/653fbe1d1508e3426f160ac9/1698676260735/103023_Chemical+Recycling+Report_web.pdf
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Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 6 November 2023 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Viaduct & barriers completed for Mumbai Trans Harbor Link Road – paving & lighting & toll infrastructure remain as project cost escalated by 4X
Thousands of fish escape from fish farms to invade natural waters – “an environmental catastrophe”
Two large offshore wind projects in New Jersey are cancelled – supply chain issues & rising interest rates – had already received estimated $1B in tax-payer subsidies under Biden “Inflation reduction act” – legal action?
- https://apnews.com/article/offshore-wind-orsted-new-jersey-cancelled-b30049502ac14ca6b46e2d3386a350fd
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/biden-backed-wind-power-company-cancels-new-jersey-projects-despite-1b-in-subsidies/ar-AA1jeMl6
BOEM issues favorable “record of decision” on EIS for enormous offshore wind farm on Virginia coast but still needs permits for construction and operation
Considering coral reefs as national natural infrastructure – not just protect for people but protect from people
Despite continued opposition, Coastal GasLink pipeline in British Columbia is nearly complete
Program to enhance coastal resilience in Boston, Massachusetts
100-year-old jetty used to protect Ocean Shores
- Part 1: https://www.thedailyworld.com/news/shoreline-at-full-bore-ocean-shores-embarks-on-effort-to-save-south-end/
- Part 2: https://www.thedailyworld.com/news/in-search-for-stronger-shoreline-ocean-shores-can-look-to-coastal-neighbors/
New method of tracing coastal erosion retreat
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