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 높은 온도, 더 높은 걱정 - 유어럽 

High temperatures, and even higher anxiety, in Europe

April 26, 2007

Since the start of April, the temperatures and dryness have SET RECORDS in parts of France and Germany. Large swaths of northern France have been so cloudless, there have been about 11 hours of sunshine a day for the last few weeks, nearly double the usual amount. There also has been a lack of rain in Italy, the Netherlands and Britain. There are fears that droughts and electricity shortages are just around the corner. For some climate-change experts, the unseasonably high temperatures are a reason for anxiety. They foresee restrictions on water use and a growing likelihood of infestations by insects and pests. "Four seasons of warm weather in a row can create quite a shock to our ecosystem." This month will probably be the warmest April on record in France. "We've had an exceptionally warm month with temperatures more than 10 degrees above the seasonal averages, and we expect the next three months to be above normal." There was barely a drop of rain in some parts of France during much of April, something that is "VERY, VERY RARE." British forecasters also say April is very likely to set a new record in terms of highest mean temperature. They predict the heat to continue. "Signals for the rest of the summer indicate another warmer than average summer." Northern Italy and pockets of central Italy experienced RECORD-SETTING heat in April. In Germany, the Wednesday edition of the newspaper Bild carried a front-page headline predicting a "Sahara summer." Temperatures of 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) are predicted in some regions, including Frankfurt this weekend, and the German weather service is "quite certain" April will be the warmest, sunniest and driest since 1901, when weather monitoring began. In a sign of changes under way in Europe, clement conditions have led people to experiment with vineyards and olive groves in parts of Devon and Cornwall in Britain. Oil seed rape, the third biggest crop grown in Britain, is flowering two weeks earlier than usual and might yield a better harvest because of the sunnier weather. Around Paris the sunshine and heat were exacerbating the effects of tailpipe fumes and other emissions, and could trigger respiratory and eye conditions and other disorders. Airparif issued its EARLIEST EVER OZONE-ALERT this year on April 15, beating a record of May 30, which was set in 2003. "Everywhere looks nice" but "in the back of my mind there is a feeling that it's just not right."

변덕스러운 폭풍, 접경 지역 황폐화 - 미 텍서스

Freak storm devastates border area

Texas, USA

April 26, 2007

The monster tornado — described as a meteorological FREAK — that hit Tuesday night "was an extremely strong and EXTREMELY RARE tornado. We haven't had one like this in this area for 50 years. Its maximum wind speed was 150 miles an hour, and only about 5 percent of tornadoes reach that level." The twister touched down about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, cut a ragged swath of destruction nearly a mile long and a quarter-mile wide through the Rosita Valley neighborhood about six miles southeast of Eagle Pass. "It looked like a war zone." The storm dropped at least two tornadoes. On the U.S. side, the twister killed seven people, sent about 80 to area hospitals and nearly 700 more to five emergency shelters. A half-hour earlier in Mexico, a tornado left at least three people dead in the working-class Villa de Fuente neighborhood in Piedras Negras, across the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass. Eighty-seven people were treated at the town's main hospital. There was criticism of the city's failure to use newly installed sirens designed to warn residents of such dangers. The sirens were among improvements made following the April 2004 floods that killed more than 35 people. Accustomed to dealing with severe floods, Maverick County leaders were caught off-guard by the powerful twister. "This isn't tornado country."

인더니져 '진흙 화산 막는 장벽 금가다

Cracks in wall suppressing Indonesia's 'mud volcano'

Indonesia
Photo: An aerial view from March, 2007 shows mud that oozed and covered some 600 hectares (1,482 acres) in the area of Porong, a district of Sidoarjo in East Java.

April 26, 2007
Workers were racing Thursday to repair a massive wall holding back sludge spewing from Indonesia's "mud volcano" that has already flooded hundreds of homes. Cracks started to appear in the man-made embankment around the disaster area in east Java on Wednesday, prompting authorities to declare the area off limits.

이미 수 백 가옥을 잠기게 한, '진흙 화산'에서 뿜어 나오는 진흙을 막기 위한 거대한 장벽을 많은 작업자들이 투입되어 손질하고 있다. 수요일 동 자바의 재난 지역 주위에 인공적으로 만들어진 장벽에 금이 가기 시작해서 당국은 그 지역에 출입금지를 선언했다.

The cracks sparked panic among workers charged with reinforcing the embankment. It was built months after the volcano started spewing sludge last May, in an attempt to reduce the disastrous impact on surrounding areas. The flow has damaged roads and swamped farms, factories and homes, displacing 15,000 residents and causing millions of dollars worth of damage. Experts have already dropped hundreds of chains, each comprising four concrete balls, into the crater, aiming to narrow the funnel, obstruct the sludge and curb the flow. Experts are unsure how long the crater will spew mud if left unchecked, with some suggesting it could be years.

VOLCANOES  캄차카 반도 소프카 화산에서 두 줄기의 용암이 1km이상 흘러
RUSSIA - Two lava flows of over one kilometer each are coming down from the crater of Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano on Kamchatka peninsula. There was no threat for the nearby Klyuchi settlement with some 5 thousand people located 32 kilometers away. Some 100 local tremors were registered at the volcano on Thursday. The volcano threw clouds of steam, gas and ashes to a height of 500 meters. Clouds of ashes have moved 200 kilometers to the east of the crater. Temperatures in the volcano are beyond the measurement limits. The volcano woke up on February 15 and scientists predicted the eruption will intensify.

Solar Sunburn

Breaking Solar News

Image: From Northern Oklahoma College Enid Campus Observatory
The dark areas on the sun's surface are new sunspots imaged through an observatory in Enid, Okla.

The Associated Press

Transportation sector grapples with solar flare forecast

WASHINGTON (Apr 26, 2007)
The peak of the next sunspot cycle will come in late 2011 or early 2012, potentially affecting airline flights, communications satellites and electrical transmissions. But forecasters can't agree on how intense it will be

지구온난화 보고서, 예언상의 경고에 증인 되다

Global climate report bears witness to prophetic warning

Climate Change Perspective
By Askia Muhammad
Staff Writer
Updated Apr 25, 2007

WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Drought. Famine. Pestilence. Apocalypse. The extinction of millions of entire species; one-third of known life forms. The unthinkable: Three billion people without adequate water supplies, while melted glaciers and ice sheets will leave other major global regions ravaged by floods, violent storms and storm surges.

Not a futuristic science-fiction fantasy. Rather, it is a plague right on America’s doorstep, which the entire planet faces. Its proportions here will rival the Dust Bowl conditions which devastated this land in the 1930s.

According to a report released Apr. 6 by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), these are just some of the effects of global climate change which cannot be stopped for decades, even if the offending rich and industrialized nations—the United States and Western Europe—made dramatic lifestyle changes immediately to reduce the greenhouse gases said to be responsible for the impending crisis.

가뭄 지역 마을 강제 대피시킬 수도... - 호주

Drought towns could be forcibly evacuated

Breaking Earth News
Australia
Drought towns could be forcibly evacuated - Residents of two drought-stricken towns on the Darling Downs could be forced by the government to move as water becomes increasingly scarce. State bureaucrats have reportedly considered moving residents out of Leybum, population 200, and Killarney, population 1500. Water is currently being carted to Killarney, located at the source of the Murray Darling river system, at the cost of $8000 per week. "The reality is with no water, you can't live anywhere for long."


Water Shortage

THE NETHERLANDS - Much of the Netherlands has not had rain in 33 days. That is an exceptionally long period, meteorological institute KNMI said on Tuesday. Long dry periods like this have only occurred four times in the past. Though even those did not last 33 days. There was a smattering of rain in De Bilt on 3 April, which keeps the past period from qualifying as a drought. The dry weather is starting to cause problems for crops and various animal species. At least nine species of butterfly are suffering because of the dry warm weather. "Caterpillars need leaves, leaves need water. A lot of water has evaporated because of the warm period." "Summer hasn't even started yet and the water shortage will become even greater then."

가뭄 상태 악화 - 미 조지어

Drought conditions worsen

Water Shortage Alert
Georgia, USA

April 24, 2007

Albany-- Our lack of rain isn't just leading to those wildfires. It has also reduced flow in Georgia's waterways. Water experts and climatologists are worried. They hope things don't dry up even more.

Temperatures are on the rise across the state while water flow is reduced.

"The stream flows are very, very low in the gauging stations around the state," said Doug Wilson with the Georgia Water Planning and Policy Center.

The state of the water situation is getting worse. Georgia's climatologist announced it's gone from severe to extreme in nearly two dozen southern Georgia counties.

"The minimum recorded was 14 in 1955 so we're setting a record today," said Wilson.

WATER SHORTAGE

CALIFORNIA - The East Bay Municipal Utility District's board of directors declared a water shortage Tuesday and asked its 1.3 million customers in Alameda and Contra Costa counties to voluntarily reduce their water use until further notice. The conservation plan calls for residential customers to only irrigate three days a week, never on consecutive days, and only at night or early morning before dawn. Large irrigators are being asked to reduce their water consumption by 25 percent. The water district said it's urging greater conservation because the winter of 2007 has been ONE OF THE DRIEST IN ITS 84-YEAR HISTORY, yielding less snow and rain than necessary to fill its water supply reservoirs next fall. There's less than half of the normal runoff this year. District officials say that if the winter of 2008 also is dry, it could lead to further dwindling of water supplies and create a drought scenario that would require mandatory rationing.

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