A Tsunami has hit the Solomon Islands. I recently posted about the Tuvalu Islands.

HONIARA, Solomon Islands - A powerful undersea earthquake Monday in the South Pacific sent a tsunami several yards high crashing into the Solomon Islands, devastating at least one village and killing at least four people, officials and residents said.

Police and residents said a wave about 10 feet high struck the western town of Gizo, inundating buildings and causing widespread destruction within five minutes of the bone-rattling earthquake.

“There wasn’t any warning — the warning was the earth tremors,” Alex Lokopio, the premier of the Solomon’s Western Province, told New Zealand’s National Radio. “It shook us very, very strongly and we were frightened, and all of a sudden the sea was rising up.”

“I saw the wave … all of a sudden the water was just rising up and moved toward the island and hit all the houses on the coastal area, and all of their property was washed away to the open sea,” he said.

Lokopio said up to 4,000 people had fled to a hill behind the town and that they may need emergency shelter and other supplies.

Just bringing some attention to the global warming problem. Tuvalu will be affected before many of us.

http://www.tuvaluislands.com/warming.htm

A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada’s Arctic, scientists said.The mass of ice broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 800 kilometers (497 miles) south of the North Pole, but no one was present to see it in Canada’s remote north.

Scientists using satellite images later noticed that it became a newly formed ice island in just an hour and left a trail of icy boulders floating in its wake. (Watch the satellite images that clued in ice watchers)

Warwick Vincent of Laval University, who studies Arctic conditions, traveled to the newly formed ice island and could not believe what he saw.

“This is a dramatic and disturbing event. It shows that we are losing remarkable features of the Canadian North that have been in place for many thousands of years. We are crossing climate thresholds, and these may signal the onset of accelerated change ahead,” Vincent said Thursday.

In 10 years of working in the region he has never seen such a dramatic loss of sea ice, he said.

Source: AP/CNN

–And from the coincidence department, I just saw “Inconvenient Truth” last night.

According to a report by the scientific committee of the International Whaling Commission, one of the world’s leading bodies of whale biologists, the evidence linking sonar to a series of whale strandings in recent years is “very convincing and appears overwhelming.” Despite the broad scientific consensus that military active sonar kills whales, the use of this deadly sonar in the world’s oceans is spreading.

From the NRDC.org Website

–Not a direct prediction, but this is environment related. I wanted to hopefully bring some attention to NRDC, especially with the recent Whale lost in the Thames river.

whales, dolphins, nrdc, endangered

Its not the Loch Ness Monster, but it has nearly the same mythology. Japanese scientists have for the first time ever photographed a giant squid in the wild.

The giant squid was photographed 10 miles off the remote island of Chichijima, which is about 600 miles southeast of Tokyo in the area known as the Ogasawara Islands.

Maybe the scene for a future Survivor series?

National Geographic has pictures of the Squid.