Turkey – Greenhouses collapse due to snowfall

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13,000 acres of strawberry production greatly damaged.
“This must be the greenhouse effect,” says reader.

Explaining that the greenhouses had collapsed due to snowfall, İnegöl Chamber of Agriculture President Sezai Çelik said that ​​13 thousand acres of strawberry production was damaged to a great extent.

Strawberries – the fruit called “red gold” – are one of the most important agricultural products of İnegöl, a city in the Bursa Province in Turkey.

Sezai Çelik said: “The great majority of the subalterns were damaged and it was not expected to be such a snowfall on April 23.”

Farmers worry that after the snowfall may come freezing, which will cause even greater damage. With 190 thousand acres of fruit in the field, we do not want to even think about it, said Celik.

Ali Soldildi, a strawberry farmer, said “there is a serious damage to the products because of the untimely falling snow on April 23.”

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“This must be the greenhouse effect,” says Argiris. “Heavy snowfall causes the collapse of the greenhouses.”

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April 24, 2017 at 09:41AM

Hard freeze kills 95 to 100 percent of Alsace vineyard buds – Video

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Temperatures dropped to -7 ° C, reports a reader in France.

“About the frosts in different places around Europe in the last days, there have been severe frosts in France in fruit and vine too,” writes Philippe in Alsace.

“Severe losses in vine in Champagne and Chablis (despite fighting with burning fuel or paraffine in the fields ), Alsace and even in south of France in Languedoc and Provence.

“The crops had 2 weeks advance and the clear sky in the last days allowed these spring frosts. Main frost in Alsace on the early morning of 20th of april, and then on the 21st too. 5°C to 7 °C under zero on the 20th depending on the places.

Here are words from an article that Philippe sent.

Frost and negative (below-zero) temperatures have caused great damage in the vineyards of Alsace, France.

“In many places, there are 95 to 100% loss of buds,” says Gérard Schaffar, president of the Turckheim cellar in Haut-Rhin.

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Here’s the article in French:

EN ALSACE, LES VIGNES FORTEMENT TOUCHÉES PAR LE RETOUR DU FROID
GEL MORTEL – Après quelques jours de chaleur estivale, le gel et les températures négatives ont provoqué de gros dégâts dans les vignobles d’Alsace. Il faut dire que les températures sont descendues jusqu’à -6°C dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi. “On frise dans beaucoup d’endroits les 95 à 100% de pertes” de bourgeons, explique Gérard Schaffar, président de la cave de Turckheim, dans le Haut-Rhin.

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April 24, 2017 at 09:11AM

If the Data Doesn’t Match Theory, Change The Data

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Tony Heller has some worrying news of the latest climate fraud, this time from the DMI.

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DMI have now apparently found evidence that Greenland has not been putting on quite as much ice as their original figures showed.

Their data so far this year has been a huge embarrassment to mythical claims of Greenland meltdown, as it has showed the Greenland ice cap growing at record rates.

Following a succession of similar stories of temperature tampering, extreme weather lies and changing historical Arctic sea ice data, the reputation of climate science has now hit a new low.

It is now obvious we can no longer rely on anything we are told.

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April 25, 2017 at 10:09AM

Researchers solve the century-old mystery of Blood Falls

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Blood Falls is a famous iron-rich outflow of water that scientists suspected was connected to a water source that may have been trapped under an Antarctic glacier for more than a million years. CREDIT Photo by Erin Pettit

From the UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS, and the “at least they didn’t blame climate change” department:

A research team led by the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Colorado College has solved a century-old mystery involving a famous red waterfall in Antarctica. New evidence links Blood Falls to a large source of salty water that may have been trapped under Taylor Glacier for more than 1 million years.

The team’s study, published in the Journal of Glaciology, describes the brine’s 300-foot path from beneath Taylor Glacier to the waterfall. This path has been a mystery since geoscientist Griffith Taylor discovered Blood Falls in 1911.

Lead author Jessica Badgeley, then an undergraduate student at Colorado College, worked with University of Alaska Fairbanks glaciologist Erin Pettit and her research team to understand this unique feature. They used a type of radar to detect the brine feeding Blood Falls.

“The salts in the brine made this discovery possible by amplifying contrast with the fresh glacier ice,” Badgeley said.

Blood Falls is famous for its sporadic releases of iron-rich salty water. The brine turns red when the iron contacts air.

The team tracked the brine with radio-echo sounding, a radar method that uses two antenna — one to transmit electrical pulses and one to receive the signals.

“We moved the antennae around the glacier in grid-like patterns so that we could ‘see’ what was underneath us inside the ice, kind of like a bat uses echolocation to ‘see’ things around it,” said co-author Christina Carr, a doctoral student at UAF.

Pettit said the researchers made another significant discovery – that liquid water can persist inside an extremely cold glacier. Scientists previously thought this was nearly impossible, but Pettit said the freezing process explains how water can flow in a cold glacier.

“While it sounds counterintuitive, water releases heat as it freezes, and that heat warms the surrounding colder ice,” she said. The heat and the lower freezing temperature of salty water make liquid movement possible. “Taylor Glacier is now the coldest known glacier to have persistently flowing water.”

Pettit said she enlisted Badgeley as an undergraduate student to help with the overall mission of understanding the hydrological plumbing of cold-based glaciers.

“Jessica’s work is a perfect example of the high level of work undergraduate students can do when you give them a challenge and set the expectations high,” she said.

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The National Science Foundation sponsored the research.

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April 25, 2017 at 07:10AM