Fenomena ALam yang Langka

Segala sesuatu memang bisa saja terjadi di Dunia, namun bila sebuah kejadian yang jarang terjadi secara merata di berbagai daerah, maka kejadian yang terjadi tersebut dianggap merupakan sebuah fenomena yang luar biasa.Berikut adalah beberapa fenomena alama yang luar biasa yang terjadi diberbagai daerah dibelahan bumi, dimana fenomena tersebut tidak terjadi merata diberbagai daerah dibelahan Dunia. 1.Petir Abadi di Venezuela  Petir Catatumbo yang misterius adalah sebuah fenomena alam yang unik di dunia. Terletak di muara sungai Catatumbo di Danau Maracaibo . Fenomena ini berupa awan petir yang membentuk sebuah “garis” kilat sepanjang 5 kilometer, setiap 140 – 160 malam dalam setahun, selama 10 jam tiap malam, dan lebih dari 280 kali dalam 1 jam itu. Ini hampir bisa disebut ‘badai permanen’. Petir ini mempunyai intensitas 400.000 ampere dan terlihat hingga 400 km jauhnya. Menurut penelitian, petir ini terjadi karena tumbukan angin yang berasal dari Pegunungan Andes. Petir ini juga dijadikan sebagai navigasi oleh para pelaut. 2. Hujan Ikan di Honduras The Rain of Fishes (Hujan ikan) ada diceritakan dalam Cerita Rakyat Honduras . Namun, juga terjadi secara nyata di Departamento de Yoro, antara bulan Mei dan Juli. Saksi mengatakan bahwa fenomena ini dimulai dengan awan gelap di langit, diikuti dengan kilat, guntur , angin kencang dan hujan lebat selama 2 – 3 jam. Setelah hujan berhenti, ratusan ikan ditemukan hidup di tanah. Orang mengambil ikan – ikan ini dan memasaknya. Sejak 1998, Festival Hujan Ikan dirayakan setiap tahun di kota Yoro. 3. Kambing yang Memanjat di Maroko Kambing yang memanjat pohon, hanya dapat ditemukan di Maroko. Kambing ini memanjat pohon karena ingin memakan buah dari Pohon Argan, yang mirip dengan Buah Zaitun. (sori ga ada keterangan lebih lanjut) 4. Hujan Merah di Kerala Dari 25 Juli sampai 23 September 2001, hujan merah turun di selatan India , Propinsi Kerala. Tidak hanya merah, hujan warna kuning, hijau dan hitam juga dilaporkan terjadi. Pemerintah India menemukan bahwa hujan ini telah “diwarnai” oleh spora dari alga, yang tersebar di udara. Kemudian, awal tahun 2006, Kerala pun menjadi perhatian dunia. 5. Ombak Terpanjang di Brazil Dua kali dalam setahun, antara Februari dan Maret, air Samudera Atlantik bertumpuk di Sungai Amazon, menciptakan gelombang ombak terpanjang di dunia. Fenomena ini disebabkan oleh arus Samudera Atantik yang memenuhi muara sungai, sehingga menghasilkan ombak setinggi 12 kaki yang dapat berlangsung hingga lebih dari setengah jam. 6. Matahari Hitam di Denmark Selama musim semi di Denmark , sekitar satu setengah jam sebelum senja, lebih dari 1 juta Sturnus Vulgaris (sejenis burung) berkumpul dari seluruh pelosok untuk bergabung dan membentuk suatu kumpulan yang luar biasa besar di udara. Hinnga membuat langit menjadi terasa gelap. Fenomena ini disebut Black Sun, dan dapat disaksikan di awal musim semi di barat Denmark. 7. Pelangi Api di Ida ho Femonena atmosfer yang dikenal dengan circumhorizon arc atau Fire Rainbow (pelangi api), akan muncul ketika matahari berada tinggi (lebih dari 58 derajat diatas horizon). Cahaya matahari menembus lurus dan menyinari awan cirrus, sehingga menghasilkan semacam lempengan kristal segi enam dan membentuk efek prisma. Sehingga terlihat pelangi yang berbentuk seperti api.

Eboue and Silvestre linked with £25m move to Man City

SkySports News sources understand that Man City are in negotiations with Arsenal about the possible transfers of Emmanuel Eboué & Mikael Silvestre for a reported £25m.

City have pulled the plug on the possible move  for John Terry and have now come in for the Arsenal pair Eboue  & Silvestre to sort out there defensive problems. Eboue is set to earn £140.000 a week and sign a 5 year deal  while Silvestre will sign a 2 year deal worth a reported £90.000 a week.

Our source is telling us that Man city also want Amaury Bischoff who is on a free transfer and will pay him £300.000 aweek.

One Arsenal insider told us “We want to give them all our shit for as much as possible, After they took Adebayor we offered them Eboue and Silvestre and they wanted them. We also offered them Senderos but they told us to fuck off”

So that means that Man City have payed Arsenal £50m for 3 players this week. Manager Arsenal wenger has told Arsenal action that he will not spend the money on new players  as he feels the young players are “good enough” and wilth Rosicky and Eduardo coming back from injurys they will be like new signings.Wenger said ” Yesss now we have £50m to spend it doesnt mean that i will spend zit, We have signed Van persie and Ramsey on new deals and that is more inportance then new signings, Plus the kids are that much stronger this year, Rosicky and Eduardo are back and they will be like new signings for us”NO i dont think i will spend this summer. I would rather keep the money in the bank then pay crazy prices on players”

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“There appears to be something fundamentally wrong with the way temperature and carbon are linked in climate models.”

Global warming: Our best guess is likely wrong

Published: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 – 11:45 in Earth & Climate

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No one knows exactly how much Earth’s climate will warm due to carbon emissions, but a new study this week suggests scientists’ best predictions about global warming might be incorrect. The study, which appears in Nature Geoscience, found that climate models explain only about half of the heating that occurred during a well-documented period of rapid global warming in Earth’s ancient past. The study, which was published online today, contains an analysis of published records from a period of rapid climatic warming about 55 million years ago known as the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum, or PETM.

“In a nutshell, theoretical models cannot explain what we observe in the geological record,” said oceanographer Gerald Dickens, a co-author of the study and professor of Earth science at Rice University. “There appears to be something fundamentally wrong with the way temperature and carbon are linked in climate models.”

During the PETM, for reasons that are still unknown, the amount of carbon in Earth’s atmosphere rose rapidly. For this reason, the PETM, which has been identified in hundreds of sediment core samples worldwide, is probably the best ancient climate analogue for present-day Earth.

In addition to rapidly rising levels of atmospheric carbon, global surface temperatures rose dramatically during the PETM. Average temperatures worldwide rose by about 7 degrees Celsius — about 13 degrees Fahrenheit — in the relatively short geological span of about 10,000 years.

Many of the findings come from studies of core samples drilled from the deep seafloor over the past two decades. When oceanographers study these samples, they can see changes in the carbon cycle during the PETM.

“You go along a core and everything’s the same, the same, the same, and then suddenly you pass this time line and the carbon chemistry is completely different,” Dickens said. “This has been documented time and again at sites all over the world.”

Based on findings related to oceanic acidity levels during the PETM and on calculations about the cycling of carbon among the oceans, air, plants and soil, Dickens and co-authors Richard Zeebe of the University of Hawaii and James Zachos of the University of California-Santa Cruz determined that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased by about 70 percent during the PETM.

That’s significant because it does not represent a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Since the start of the industrial revolution, carbon dioxide levels are believed to have risen by about one-third, largely due to the burning of fossil fuels. If present rates of fossil-fuel consumption continue, the doubling of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels will occur sometime within the next century or two.

Doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide is an oft-talked-about threshold, and today’s climate models include accepted values for the climate’s sensitivity to doubling. Using these accepted values and the PETM carbon data, the researchers found that the models could only explain about half of the warming that Earth experienced 55 million years ago.

The conclusion, Dickens said, is that something other than carbon dioxide caused much of the heating during the PETM. “Some feedback loop or other processes that aren’t accounted for in these models — the same ones used by the IPCC for current best estimates of 21st Century warming — caused a substantial portion of the warming that occurred during the PETM.”

Source: Rice University

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