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More flooding predicted for Queenslandlink

Debris floats down flooded Brisbane River next to Toowong park on January 13, 2010.

More than 30 suburbs were flooded when the Brisbane River broke its banks last week. (User submitted: Benjamin Nichols)

Long-range weather forecaster Haydon Walker is predicting more major flooding across Queensland in February and March.

Mr Walker predicted the devastating Queensland floods and the first of five cyclones that has already formed off north Queensland.
He says there is more heavy rain to come, with a second cyclone expected to form in late January and three more in late February and early March.
"I'd be concerned about the months of February and March for the south-east district," he said.
"It's going to be right along the Queensland coastline for February and also into the border areas of New South Wales.
"Also there's a lot of heavy rain for the inland districts and then once again in March, it's heavy rains again along the Queensland coastline."
Tens of thousands of homes across Brisbane, Ipswich, Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley were damaged or completely wrecked in major floods last week.
Twenty people are known to have died during the floods in the south-east and 10 are missing.
Rockhampton and Emerald, in central Queensland, are also still cleaning up after major flooding.

Scientists: Mass starvation possible as new Ice Age looms

Worried geologists and climatologists are crunching the numbers and the totals they're arriving at equals the sum of all fears...

A new Ice Age is looming and the only debate remaining is whether the Earth has already slipped into one or is it about to occur?

Core samples reveal bleak future

During the last century, geologists obtained deep-ocean core samples from the bottom of the Pacific. Upon analysis of those cores they were able to confirm that the cycles of Ice Ages occur with regularity. For the last 800,000 years an Ice Age starts, lasts 100,000 years, and then is interrupted by what's known as an

interglacial period (a stretch of warmer years between Ice Ages). Interglacial periods last about 10,000 years and then abruptly come to an end.

What this means—at least during the past 800,000 years—is the normal climate of the Earth is an Ice Age.

The science of climate cycles was brought to the fore by a Serbian civil engineer and mathematician named Milutin Milankovic. The data he gathered on climate cycles, Ice Ages and Interglacial periods became known as the Milankovic Theory.

At the present time we are at the very end of the last interglacial period. The warm-up lasted about 10,500 years and the Earth is now due to fall back into a 100,000 year Ice Age.

Astrophysicist and meteorologist Piers Richard Corbyn who established Weather Action has made the case of the Ice Age and its social, agricultural and political ramifications. In a recent video he explains why winters will now be the coldest in centuries.

Other top scientists in the disciplines of geology, ecology, meteorology, astrophysics, and heliology [Down loadable list] are predicting that the two major cooling cycles are converging—the short term and long term Ice Ages—and Earth has just entered the beginnings of the dangerous cooling.

The seven "seals" of the Apocalypse

During the last year, as more climate scientists abandoned the flawed man-made global warming hypothesis, many revisited the actual climate record and were shocked they had missed the obvious: Earth is slipping into a new Ice Age and every benchmark supports it.

The seven major benchmarks signaling the beginning of an Ice Age echo like the seven seals of the Apocalypse:

1. A short-lived warming cycle. Geological records show temporary warming spikes before the temperature drops and an Ice Age begins.

2. Increased precipitation. Heavy rains in the Southern Hemisphere. Heavier rains and snows in the Northern Hemisphere.continue reading
Record snowfall in 25 states
337 new records, 36 of them set more than 100 years ago New records: 337 + Tied: 30 = Total: 367 link

Roman rise and fall 'recorded in trees'link

It is stories like this that, really make you think, in these times they have published a story regarding the collapse of civilizations, and how they are linked, to the cycles of the planet, not so long ago there was a similar story regarding ice age, they will never come out with the truth so they publish articles like this to indirectly inform the public of the coming events!!!!!

By Mark Kinver Science and environment reporter, BBC News

Tree growth rings (Image: Science Photo Library)

The study offers a link between changes to the climate and the rise and fall of human societies

An extensive study of tree growth rings says there could be a link between the rise and fall of past civilisations and sudden shifts in Europe's climate.

A team of researchers based their findings on data from 9,000 wooden artifacts from the past 2,500 years.
They found that periods of warm, wet summers coincided with prosperity, while political turmoil occurred during times of climate instability.
The findings have been published online by the journal Science.
"Looking back on 2,500 years, there are examples where climate change impacted human history," co-author Ulf Buntgen, a paleoclimatologist at the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape, told the Science website.
Ring record
The team capitalised on a system used to date material unearthed during excavations.

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Distinct drying in the 3rd Century paralleled a period of serious crisis in the western Roman empire”

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"Archaeologists have developed oak ring width chronologies from Central Europe that cover nearly the entire Holocene and have used them for the purpose of dating artefacts, historical buildings, antique artwork and furniture," they wrote.

"Chronologies of living and relict oaks may reflect distinct patterns of summer precipitation and drought."
The team looked at how weather over the past couple of centuries affected living trees' growth rings.
During good growing seasons, when water and nutrients are in plentiful supply, trees form broad rings, with their boundaries relatively far apart.
But in unfavourable conditions, such as drought, the rings grow in much tighter formation.
The researchers then used this data to reconstruct annual weather patterns from the growth rings preserved in the artefacts.
Once they had developed a chronology stretching back over the past 2,500 years, they identified a link with prosperity levels in past societies, such as the Roman Empire.
"Wet and warm summers occurred during periods of Roman and medieval prosperity. Increased climate variability from 250-600 AD coincided with the demise of the western Roman empire and the turmoil of the migration period," the team reported.
"Distinct drying in the 3rd Century paralleled a period of serious crisis in the western Roman empire marked by barbarian invasion, political turmoil and economic dislocation in several provinces of Gaul."
Dr Buntgen explained: "We were aware of these super-big data sets, and we brought them together and analyzed them in a new way to get the climate signal.
"If you have enough wood, the dating is secure. You just need a lot of material and a lot of rings."

Brazil floods: Army deployed in Rio de Janeiro statelink

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More than 600 people have been killed in the worst natural disaster in at least 40 years

Brazilian soldiers have arrived in Teresopolis, one of the towns worst affected by deadly mudslides in the state of Rio de Janeiro, to assist with the rescue efforts.

Officials say at least 600 people are known to have died in the floods.
In the town of Nova Friburgo, officials are burying unidentified bodies because of a lack of mortuary space.
State governor Sergio Cabral has declared seven days of mourning for the victims of the disaster.
Major Alexandre Aragon, who commands the troops in Teresopolis, said he had been given a threefold mission: to support the rescue efforts, to help recover and identify bodies, and to guard against looting.
The military will also try to clear some of the blocked roads which have forced rescuers to reach some of the worst-hit areas on foot.
About 100 soldiers have also been deployed to the Cuiaba valley, which has been cut off since the heaviest downpours in 44 years tore through the mountainous area near Rio de Janeiro.
Rescue workers fear the number of dead will continue to rise as they reach areas which have been without communication since the rains started at the beginning of the week.

They say that with phone lines and the internet down, it is hard to tell what awaits them in the more remote mountain communities.
Civil defence forces in Nova Friburgo praised the efforts of a local group of amateur radio enthusiasts who had helped them co-ordinate the rescue efforts in the first hours after the landslides.
"Without their help, we couldn't have done anything in those first two days," Lt Col Roberto Robadey said of the group, which took their radio equipment to key points across the town to provide a communication link between rescue groups.
The Brazilian Air Force said it was installing a communication centre in Itaipava, so people could make phone calls and access data in their attempts to track down missing relatives.
Continuing danger
Heavy rains resumed in Nova Friburgo on Saturday afternoon, further hampering the efforts of emergency workers.
Some of the town's neighbourhoods still do not have electricity. Town officials have asked for candles to be donated so residents are not left in total darkness.
Forecasters have warned that the steady rainfall in the area will continue into next week.
The BBC's Paulo Cabral, who is in the area, says the soil on the hillsides is still extremely wet and unstable, so even a small quantity of water could be enough to cause new disasters.
The death toll has now surpassed the devastating 1967 mudslides in Caraguatatuba, Sao Paulo state, in which about 430 people died.
Politicians including President Dilma Rousseff have highlighted the practice of people illegally building homes on the sides of mountains.
She has vowed to stop such a disaster happening again, and has earmarked 780m reais ($480m; £296m) in emergency funding for the affected areas.