October 27, 2013 - CHILE - Anyone looking to get some delicious Chilean fruit this winter is going to be disappointed, as the worst frost in more than 80 years has damaged 50 million boxes of fruit exports — causing the country to declare a state of emergency in its agricultural sector.
The Chilean Fresh Fruit Exporters Association said that freezing temperatures throughout mid-September hit the country’s fruit growers with the coldest frost since 1929. Temperatures fell to an average of 19 degrees Fahrenheit for an average of seven hours in several of the Chile’s growing regions, contributing to a huge drop-off in fruit exports.
Chilean growers exported about 282 million boxes of fruit last year, and experts believe that exports will fall short of that by about 50 million boxes for this year. However, when production increases are taken into account, the total frost damage to fruit production could be closer to 60 million or 65 million boxes.
The wine industry was hit hard by the frost as well.
Estimates put the total damage to Chilean crops at $1 billion. Reuters reports that between 35 percent and 61 percent of stone fruit crops were damaged, 57 percent of almonds, 48 percent of kiwis and 20 percent of grapes. The U.S. imports about 42 percent of the country’s grapes.
“These frosts are the worst that agriculture has faced in 84 years, impacting the area from Coquimbo to Bio Bio,” the National Agricultural Society said.
Because of the lost production, fruit prices are expected to rise.
“All throughout November, December and January, prices of peaches, nectarines and plums will be higher because there will be shortages,” said Cristián Allendes, president of the Federation Fruit Producers. ”There will be half the volume of a normal year, so it is impossible for them to cost the same.”
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared September 2013 to have tied with September 2003 as the fourth warmest on record. Global surface and oceanic temperatures were 1.15 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average for that month.
Antarctica also experienced record levels of sea ice in September, with 7.51 million square miles surrounding the continent. This beat out the previous sea-ice coverage record, set in 2012. - Daily Caller.
By now most of us have seen a number of strange events with marine life deaths, bird deaths, beachings of dolphins and a number of other weird things going on. I haven't seen a mass prawn death story until now.
Via bbc.co.uk (20 March 2013) - Thousands of dead prawns have washed up on a beach in Chile, sparking an investigation.
Hundreds of dead crabs were also washed ashore in Coronel city, about 530km (330 miles) from the capital, Santiago.
Fishermen suggested the deaths may have been caused by local power stations that use seawater as a cooling agent. The power firms have not commented.
Experts are looking into water temperature and oxygen levels and other details to explain the deaths.
Authorities are still collecting evidence to find an explanation for the red tide
"We're investigating the Coronel Bay to establish the physical parameters of temperature, electric conductivity and, above all, the oxygen," said local environment official Victor Casanova.
"I'm 69 years old and started fishing when I was nine, but as a fisherman, I never saw a disaster of this magnitude,'' Gregorio Ortega told local Radio Bio Bio.
While some blame pollution, others say the death of the crustaceans could be a consequence of the El Nino phenomenon, which warms the waters of the Pacific.
Hundreds of dead crabs were washed ashore on the weekend
Marisol Ortega, a spokeswoman for the fishermen, said she feared the deaths would affect the livelihood of their community.
"The way everything is being destroyed here, come the high season in November, we're already thinking we won't have anything to take from the sea," she said.
In December 2009, in the Preparatory Camp for 2012 sermons,
Pastor Wind predicted that when Planet X is near the Earth, it will affect the
magnetic field of the Earth.
At the same time, when Planet X gets near the Sun and the Earth,
there will be the radioactivity of static electricity.
Even the charged electric current will appear underground, in
the deep sea and the lake. Therefore, it will generate a lot of static
electricity underground and the temperature of the water will become higher.
This makes the oxygen level in the sea decrease and there will be electric
shock and discharging in the sea, leading to mass death of animals and fish.
When it comes to 2011, a lot of animals were found to have died
extraordinarily. Even insects began having some abnormal behavior.
The situation is not alleviating…
On May 28, 800 tons of fish died in a fish farm near the Taal volcano, south of Philippines’s capital. The officials there expressed that there was died fish in the past but the amount was very little. It was the first time to have such a large amount of dead fish. Even the experts don’t know the exact cause. This situation is extraordinary.
Some experts estimated that it was because of the change of the temperature and the oxygen in the lake decreases so the fish died. It is estimated that the total loss was around 6 million dollars.
On June 4, more fish died in the Philippines. The total
amount of dead fish was more than 1800 tons in 7 towns near Taal volcano. The
fish industry there lost 1.36 hundred million peso. Many towns declared a state
of catastrophe.
The police had started to set up observatory stations along
the roads to avoid dead fish being sent to the market which harmed citizens’
health.
Up to June 4, 3 people were hospitalized because of the food
poisoning after consuming the dead fish.
On May 21, in a river in Shun Cheng Qu, Fu Shun Shi,
Liaoning, China, all the fish died and the river became smelly overnight.
On May 21, there was a large amount of dead fished in the
lake in the Jack Darling Park of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. A large area of
yellowed water appeared in the lakeside and it triggered citizen’s concerns.
The Natural Resources Canada of Ontario said that the yellowed water was caused
by the pollen. But citizens said that there had never been mass death of fish
before.
On May 29, there were thousands of dead fish in Daughter’s
River in JinZhou, Liaoning in China.
On June 4, up to 600 penguins
died together in Uruguay. They were rushed to the Atlantic coast. Experts still
couldn’t know their cause of death. One of the marine animal rescue
organizations said, besides to dead penguins, they also found dead bodies of sea
turtles, dolphins and albatrosses.
In addition, on March 30, a large number of worms were found
in the dam of an artificial lake in Jingniulin, Haikou, China.
On April 14, tens of thousands of flies invaded homes in
South Canterbury, England. Homeowners used sprays to drive them away in order
to prevent the house being occupied by flies.
On April 27, a large number of sandworms appeared in
Diaoshan Village, Dongshan City, Zhanjiang, Guangdong and the
neighboring12-kilometer beach.
On May 13, a research done by Canada St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver
showed that three vagrants who lived in the East of Vancouver had five "bed
bugs" (commonly known as "cimicids") on their bodies. They all carried
two potentially fatal drug-resistant bacteria. These super-bacteria bite on the
skin, and then enter the body, causing fatal infection.
On May 20, Jinan, Yantai, Tyan and other places in Shandong
Province found many ticks. Some people have even been bitten by ticks. After
that they died due to organ failure.
On May 25, fever and thrombocytopenia syndrome occurred due
to ticks bites in Henan Province. Since the end of March, 70 cases were
reported, four patients died.
On May 30, when a train was moving in Inner Mongolia, China,
a train was suddenly found to have inadequate power. After checking up, caterpillars
were discovered on the 1-kilometer railway, making the train impossible to move
forward and the train was forced to stop for 3 hours.
On 2 June, thousands of earthworms came out of the soil and were
lying dead on the ground in Cincinnati, Ohio, near Great Lakes region.
More than 90 people said the same thing happened that an
extensive amount of earthworms were dead on the sidewalk from Fairfield to
Sardinia, and Louisville.
University of Kentucky entomologist Lee Townsend said during
the mating season, earthworms climb out of the soil and could get stuck on
surfaces like the sidewalk, so they were left to die.
In fact, are the experts’ explanations reasonable?
Are all these normal?
The unusual mass death of animals happened persistently. Were some important facts being suppressed?
On the other hand, when Planet X is approaching, the energy of
the earth will increase and it triggers the eruption of the volcanoes all over
the world.
On May 21, Grimsvoetn volcano exploded in the southeast part
of Iceland, sending clouds of ashes and dusts high into the air up to 20km. The
wind blew the volcano ashes to the northwest Greenland. The ashes plunged areas
near the volcano in southeast Iceland into darkness.
The volcano eruption was Grimsvoetn’s largest in 100 years. The
Keflavik airport was shut down and the whole nation’s airspace was closed for a
few hours. Many flights in Europe were affected and nearly 1000 flights were
cancelled.
On June 3, situated in 70 km southeast of Mexico
capital, Popocatepetl volcano erupted suddenly, sending smoke and dusts high
into the air up to 3 km. The ashes drifted to Pueble, a city in the east. Mexican authorities had put the area around the volcanoes on
alert and residents were restricted to enter the area 12 km away from the
volcano.
On June 4, the Puyehue volcano in southern Chile erupted,
sending a huge plume of smoke and ash into the sky and prompting the shutdown
of nearby domestic and international airports in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
During the eruption, there were thunders and lightning flashing in the sky.
6 hours after the eruption, an average of 230 earthquakes
per hour was recorded in Puyehue. 12 earthquakes with Richter magnitude scale 4
and 50 earthquakes with Richter magnitude scale 3 or above broke out.
Chile government hoisted a red alert , increasing the number
residents to be evacuated from 700 to 3500.
