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US cold snap was a freak of nature, quick analysis finds

January 11, 2018 Canada, Mid Atlantic, National, New England, South Atlantic

Consider this cold comfort: A quick study of the brutal American cold snap found that the Arctic blast really wasn’t global warming but a freak of nature. Frigid weather like the two-week cold spell that began around Christmas is 15 times rarer than it was a century ago, according to a team of international scientists who does real-time analyses to see if extreme weather events are natural or more likely to happen because of climate change. >click here to read< 12:46

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“The Bomb Cyclone Storm” (explosive cyclogenesis) – Its a Mess Everywhere!

January 5, 2018 National, New England

Gloucester – Water and whiteouts: Homes, businesses flooded; thousands without power – click here00:41

New Bedford – Carlos Rafael continues to give Feds headaches as boat breaks free – click here

Maine – Storm triggers Maine’s worst tidal flooding since historic Blizzard of 1978 – click here

PHOTOS: Massachusetts Flooding During Blizzard 2018 – click here

New Hampshire – Bomb Cyclone Pounds Seacoast – click here

Nova Scotia – Powerful storm surge rips up roads as it slams into Nova Scotia coast – click here

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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