News of the Imbalance – December 2008

Couples astonished by UFO sightings over Deeside [UK]
Evening Leader, 31st December 2008

"TWO couples from Deeside were left amazed after they spotted an unidentified object in the sky on Boxing Day. Kelly Dawson had stepped outside her home on Boxing Day with friend Leanne Newby when they spotted a "flaming orange ball" hurtling towards them in the sky. Kelly, of Sandy Way in Connah's Quay, said she had never seen anything like it before and is appealing to anyone else in the area who may have seen the "phenomenal sight", to get in touch with the Evening Leader.
Comment: Wow!...From the description, this sounds like it was a magnetospheric plasmoid flying in.... No bang or flash of bright light, what else could it be....

Madoff attorneys explore insanity defense
PressTV, 30th December 2008

"While Bernard Madoff is being investigated for his alleged $50 billion fraud scheme, a report says he is considering an insanity defense. "Bernie's family and his attorneys may argue that, somewhere along the line, he had a mental break," a Madoff acquaintance told the New York Daily News. "They may even say he has a multiple personality disorder," the source added Madoff's business began to collapse this fall as investors, hit by the financial crisis and seeking cash, started taking money out faster than Madoff could bring fresh cash into the country. A quiet force on Wall Street for decades, Madoff was arrested on December 11 after confessing to his two sons that his entire business was "a giant Ponzi scheme.""
Comment: Maybe lawyers can plea that all that money sent Madoff mad.... However, investors need to think about their sanity too....

How a Cloud of Space Dust Could Wipe Out Life on Earth
Seemingly innocuous specks could throw off the whole solar system—and we might not see them until it's too late.
Discovery Magazine, 30th December 2008

"No, nothing is going to blot out the sun. But recent observations and numerical simulations suggest that eventually—in a few millennia, maybe—the solar system may plow into a cloud of gas and dust a thousand times denser than the space we travel through now. This interstellar fog could reduce the sun’s sphere of influence until most of the outer planets are sitting naked in space. Dust and gas will penetrate as far as Earth’s orbit and may begin eating away at the oxygen in our upper atmosphere. The solar wind, now greatly compressed, will no longer provide adequate protection from the high-speed electrons and ions ripping through space. These cosmic rays will tear into the atmosphere, to the detriment of the delicate molecules of life. This will be one bad cloud."
Comment: There are many points to make about this article, but what amazes me is no mention that our solar system is currently experiencing an increase in cosmic dust that is expected to maximise in 2012, as reported by the European Space Agency in 2003!

Hong Kong University Renounces Its UFO Courses
The decision was made following complaints from the faculty
SoftPedia.com, 29th December 2008

"Ufologists in Hong Kong harshly criticized the Hong Kong University (HKU) for dropping a proposed UFO course, to be provided as an optional subject for those willing to learn about alleged alien sightings and space crafts. Sources inside the University told AFP that pressure from faculty members made the management change its options on making the subject available to students. The curriculum was prepared in collaboration with the HK Institute of Ufology. "Some members of the university's science faculty were concerned that the course would present only the views of the UFO experts. But we believed that they were just worried about the possibility of ufology becoming a mainstream discipline at the university," said Moon Fong, one of the committee members of the institute. She also argued that this was a common problem for universities overseas, where such subjects are cast aside and laughed at."
Comment: University UFO courses, very interesting!

Solar Storm:Perfect Disaster
YouTube, 28th December 2008

Comment: I was amazed to see this documentary-drama on mainstream UK TV on the 28th December. It was originally made for Discovery Channel and has been placed on Youtube in it's entirety. It starts off by informing people that there are occasional storms from the Sun that consists of a blast of electrical charged particles from the sun but it states they have "little effect" living things, which cannot possibly be true or else astronauts would not have to run for cover during solar storms when they are aboard the International Space Station. Then it goes on to dramatically depict the consequences of a massive Coronal Mass Ejection from the Sun burning out transformers and taking down national power grids around the world. With the recent announcements from NASA it seems that this has to be now seriously considered as a distinct possibility. Note the comment in part 3 about "super big" geomagnetic storms only being produced by solar magnetism with a largely southward component, this is now out of date. It seems that we are now experiencing certain magnetic configurations resulting in the Earth lowering her shields to large blasts of space weather in the form of coronal mass ejections with any magnetic polarity. Also the Sun is still in a funk, the peak of solar cycle 24 will be in 2012, if not later. Meanwhile, the citizens of planet Earth are largely unaware that we are facing crunch time....

Alternative health capital turns its 'negative energy' on pioneering wi-fi system
It is regarded as an oasis of calm and tranquility, and the nation's capital for alternative health therapies and spiritual healing remedies.
The Telegraph, 27th December 2009

"But now the residents of Glastonbury, which has long been a favoured destination for pilgrims, are at the centre of a bitter row in which many blame the town's new wireless computer network - known as wi-fi - for a spate of health problems. Some healers even hold that electro-magnetic fields (EMFs) generated by the wi-fi system are responsible for upsetting positive energy fields of the body, which are known as chakras, and positive energy fields of the earth, which are known as ley lines. There are now calls for the project, the first of its kind in Britain, to be "unplugged" and for wi-fi masts in the centre of the Somerset market town to be removed just seven months into its experimental run. Meanwhile soothsayers, astrologers and other opponents of the wi-fi system have resorted to an alternative technology - known as "orgone" - to combat the alleged negative effects of the high-tech system. [...] Matt Todd, who campaigns against EMFs, said that residents had complained that chakras and ley lines are being disrupted. "They believe positive energy flows are being disturbed," he said. Mr Todd has started building small generators which he believes can neutralise the allegedly-harmful radiation using the principles of orgone science. The pyramid-like machines use quartz crystals, selenite (a clear form of the mineral gypsum), semi-precious lapis lazuli stones, gold leaf and copper coil to absorb and recycle the supposedly-negative energy. "I have given a number of generators to shops in the High Street and hidden others in bushes in the immediate vicinity of the antennae. That way you can bring back the balance," said Mr Todd."
Comment: We shall overcome.....

Half of the USA is covered in snow
wattsupwiththat.com, 25th December 2008

"This is something you don’t see every day. We recently heard that Canada had a white Christmas EVERYWHERE, the first time in four decades. Here we see that the USA has an increased albedo (surface reflectivity) for about 1/2 of it’s land area. The increased albedo combined with low sun angle this time of year conspires to keep ice and snow unmelted."
Comment: There is lots of snow everywhere! Canadians get first national white Christmas in nearly four decades Snowfall immobilizes rural communities in eastern, central Turkey Blizzard traps thousands in India

France's first woman in space hospitalized after suicide attempt
Scientific America, 24th December 2008

"The first French woman in space has been hospitalized after she tried to take her own life, according to published reports. Claudie Haignere, 51, was hospitalized late yesterday after she tried to commit suicide, an unidentified French government source told Agence France-Presse. Another source told AFP that Haignere overdosed on pills. Haignere, a rheumatologist, flew to the MIR space station as an astronaut in 1996 and to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001."
Comment: I simply can't speculate on a cause, but astronauts are heavily vetted for their stability and ability to deal with stressful environments so the recent spate of stories about astronauts with abberant behaviour may indicate that their training and work conditions are now inadequate to protect their mental health.

Purple squirrel baffles experts
A purple squirrel which appeared at a school has baffled experts who are unable to explain its colour.
The Telegraph, 22nd December 2008

"Teachers and pupils at Meoncross School in Stubbington, Hants, were amazed when they saw the creature through the window during a lesson. Since the squirrel, now nicknamed Pete, was first seen, it has become a regular fixture at the school but no one has been able to say whether the animal has fallen into purple paint, had a run-in with some purple dye, or whether there is another explanation. Dr Mike Edwards, an English teacher, said: "I was sitting in my classroom and looked out the window and saw it sitting on the fence. I had to do a double take. "Since then it's been a bit of a regular at the school - everyone's seen it. "We thought it might have been paint or something but then when you look at it up close, it's an all over coat, not in patches like you'd expect if it had been near some paint. "Its fur actually looks purple all the way through. It's an absolute mystery."
Comment: Yes, our reality is really starting to morph.... more baffled experts? Alice in Wonderland time? Someone needs to catch this squirrel and check out it's DNA. It's no surprise the Chinese have taken a great interest, they are the world's no.1 hotspot for bizareness with even household cats growing wings....

Russia licenses faith healers
Miami Herald, 21st December 2008

"For the past two years, the Federal Health Service has been issuing licenses to practitioners of what it calls "traditional medicine," meaning anything from the use of herbal treatments to the manipulation of "auras." His claims buttressed by officialdom, Fadkin charges patients 3,500 rubles ($150) per session. And he says business is very good. "Every day I learn something new," the smiling Muscovite says, gesturing to what he says is an invisible aura surrounding him - "because all the information I need is out there, in the vast energy field surrounding us." So far, 130 healers, including Fadkin, have passed the service's voluntary testing program, which promoters in the government say can determine whether someone has the inherent ability to cure. The program is limited to Moscow, but a Russian lawmaker is pushing to extend it nationwide and make it mandatory. [...] he program includes a background check, a scan of electrical activity in the brain and a committee review of the results. The agency charges applicants 10,000 rubles ($428) for the tests. Andrei Karpeev, director of the Federal Scientific Clinical Center for Traditional Methods of Diagnostics and Healing, which administers the tests, insists that folk medicine, including psychic healing, is backed by scientific studies. While he acknowledges some of the criteria for determining who has healing powers are subjective, he claims the tests are able to wean out "charlatans." According to Karpeev, there are perhaps 100,000 people in Russia offering to use magic, psychic or other extra-sensory methods to cure illnesses, read minds or cast spells."
Comment: Well, quite frankly I have been scandalised by what goes on in the New Age community. However, there are so many scientific studies that have proven that genuine healers are most certainly generating unique brain waves patterns when they are channelling energies from the the Universal field. The Russians are right, this is measureable.

Magnetic Field Hole Could Cripple Communications
Fox News, 19th December 2008

"Scientists have found two large leaks in Earth's magnetosphere, the region around our planet that shields us from severe solar storms. The leaks are defying many of scientists' previous ideas on how the interaction between Earth's magnetosphere and solar wind occurs: The leaks are in an unexpected location, let in solar particles in faster than expected and the whole interaction works in a manner that is completely the opposite of what scientists had thought. The findings have implications for how solar storms affect the our planet. Serious storms, which involved charged particles spewing from the sun, can disable satellites and even disrupt power grids on Earth."
Comment: Good to see this being widely reported in the mainstream press. However, when you consider that NASA have just announced that there is a MASSIVE HOLE in the roof of the world and it's just about to start raining heavily [Space Weather], it really makes you wonder about making this announcement 1 week before christmas.

Doctor removes 'perfectly formed' FOOT growing inside baby's brain
Daily Mail, 18th December 2008

"A doctor has removed a brain tumour from a newborn baby which contained an almost perfectly formed foot and parts of another foot, a hand and a thigh. The incredible discovery was made by pediatric neurosurgeon Dr Paul Grabb in Colorado, America, when he operated on three-day old Sam Esquibel after an MRI scan showed a microscopic tumour on his brain. The finding in the otherwise healthy baby is so unheard of it could come straight out of Greek mythology in which king of the gods Zeus produced his daughter Athena fully-grown from his forehead. Dr Grabb, who carried out the operation in Memorial Hospital for Children, Colorado Springs, says that while removing the growth, he discovered it contained a nearly perfect foot, complete with five toes, along with the formation of another foot, a hand and a thigh. 'It looked like the breach delivery of a baby, coming out of the brain,' Grabb said. 'To find a perfectly formed structure (like this) is extremely unique, unusual, borderline unheard of.' Grabb is not sure what caused the growth but said it may have been a type of congenital brain tumour. However, such tumors usually are less complex than a foot or hand, he said."
Comment: Unfortunately, the electromagnetic chaos will effect the processing of human DNA. That is why I wrote my book, Tuning the Diamonds to explain why there is a tremendous need to build up our personal energy fields to act as shields and to activate the octahedron/diamond layer of light that acts as the perfect receiver and transmitter, attracting the right frequencies of light to process DNA and deflecting the rest.

Selflessness, Core Of All Major World Religions, Has Neuropsychological Connection
Science Daily, 17th December 2008

"All spiritual experiences are based in the brain. That statement is truer than ever before, according to a University of Missouri neuropsychologist. An MU study has data to support a neuropsychological model that proposes spiritual experiences associated with selflessness are related to decreased activity in the right parietal lobe of the brain. The study is one of the first to use individuals with traumatic brain injury to determine this connection. Researchers say the implication of this connection means people in many disciplines, including peace studies, health care or religion can learn different ways to attain selflessness, to experience transcendence, and to help themselves and others. This study, along with other recent neuroradiological studies of Buddhist meditators and Francescan nuns, suggests that all individuals, regardless of cultural background or religion, experience the same neuropsychological functions during spiritual experiences, such as transcendence. Transcendence, feelings of universal unity and decreased sense of self, is a core tenet of all major religions. Meditation and prayer are the primary vehicles by which such spiritual transcendence is achieved.
Comment: The analysis here is very misleading and leads some people to think that by using certain meditation techniques or drugs that work on the pineal gland, they have reached the pinnacle of spiritual attainment. Others think that because they have developed the use of extra-sensory perception that they have reached a level of 'enlightenment'. Unfortunatrely, the 'guru' culture that now exists is insidious and infiltrated by many who have zero interest in the spiritual development of their devotees. Thus, I would like to take the opportunity to provide an excerpt from an interview with Mata Amritanandamayi (aka Amma, "the hugging saint"). "When You Go Beyond the Ego You Become an Offering to the World" by Amy Edlestein (from What Is Enlightenment? magazine, issue 17/Spring-Summer 2000). See the Joyfire article Spiritual Intelligence.

Cosmic Rays Do Not Explain Global Warming, Study Finds
Science Daily, 17th December 2008

"A new study supports earlier findings by stating that changes in cosmic rays most likely do not contribute to climate change. It is sometimes claimed that changes in radiation from space, so-called galactic cosmic rays, can be one of the causes of global warming. A new study, investigating the effect of cosmic rays on clouds, concludes that the likelihood of this is very small. [...] Unlikely that cosmic rays affect global warming There are scientific uncertanties about cosmic rays and cloud formation. Some researchers have claimed that a reduction of cosmic rays during the last decades has contributed to the global temperature rise. The hypothesis is that fewer cosmic rays causes fewer cloud droplets and reduced droplet size, and that this again causes global warming, since reduced cloud droplets would reflect less energy from the sun back to space. However, the researchers who stick to this hypothesis find little support amongst colleagues. "According to our research, it does not look like reduced cosmic rays leads to reduced cloud formation", says Jon Egill Kristjansson, a professor at the University of Oslo. Kristjansson and his collegaues have used observations from so-called Forbush decrease events: Sudden outbreaks of intense solar activity that lead to a strong reduction of cosmic rays, lasting for a couple of days. The researchers have identified 22 such events between 2000 and 2005."
Comment: I wonder if they realise that there has been no perceptible global warming since 1998 and therefore it may explain why this research was inconclusive. Svensmark et al. also maintain that not all cosmic rays have the same effect in generating cloud condensation nuclei, thus various institutions and universities are still investigating the possible links between climate change and variations in cosmic rays.

Sun Often 'Tears Out A Wall' In Earth's Solar Storm Shield
Physorg.com, 16th December 2008

Earth's magnetic field, which shields our planet from particles streaming outward from the Sun, often develops two holes that allow the largest leaks, according to researchers sponsored by NASA and the National Science Foundation. "The discovery overturns a long-standing belief about how and when most of the solar particles penetrate Earth's magnetic field, and could be used to predict when solar storms will be severe. [...] Surprisingly, recent observations by the THEMIS spacecraft fleet demonstrate that the opposite is true. "Twenty times more solar particles cross the Earth's leaky magnetic shield when the sun's magnetic field is aligned with that of the Earth compared to when the two magnetic fields are oppositely directed," said Marit Oieroset of the University of California, Berkeley, lead author of one of two papers on this research, published May 2008 in Geophysical Research Letters. [...]
Comment: This physorg.com report gives slightly more technical details on the NASA THEMIS discovery. It highlights the issue of our scientists being faced with the new phenomena of Space Weather and previously unknown geomagnetic conditions that completely confound our scientific understanding, such that current theory has to be scrapped and replaced to match the hard evidence of observational data. The observation of a massive tear 7 Earths wide by 4 Earths high is certainly incredible and in the future, it means Earth will be exposed to geomagnetic storms of billions of tons of plasma, highly charged sub-atomic particles that will result in Earth becoming increasingly electrified and spiritualised.

A Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field
NASA News, 16th December 2008

NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a breach in Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist. Solar wind can flow in through the opening to "load up" the magnetosphere for powerful geomagnetic storms. But the breach itself is not the biggest surprise. Researchers are even more amazed at the strange and unexpected way it forms, overturning long-held ideas of space physics. "At first I didn't believe it," says THEMIS project scientist David Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "This finding fundamentally alters our understanding of the solar wind-magnetosphere interaction. [..] "The opening was huge—four times wider than Earth itself," says Wenhui Li, a space physicist at the University of New Hampshire who has been analyzing the data. Li's colleague Jimmy Raeder, also of New Hampshire, says "10^27 particles per second were flowing into the magnetosphere—that's a 1 followed by 27 zeros. This kind of influx is an order of magnitude greater than what we thought was possible." [...] The size of the breach took researchers by surprise. "We've seen things like this before," says Raeder, "but never on such a large scale. The entire day-side of the magnetosphere was open to the solar wind." The circumstances were even more surprising. Space physicists have long believed that holes in Earth's magnetosphere open only in response to solar magnetic fields that point south. The great breach of June 2007, however, opened in response to a solar magnetic field that pointed north. "To the lay person, this may sound like a quibble, but to a space physicist, it is almost seismic," says Sibeck. "When I tell my colleagues, most react with skepticism, as if I'm trying to convince them that the sun rises in the west." Here is why they can't believe their ears: The solar wind presses against Earth's magnetosphere almost directly above the equator where our planet's magnetic field points north. Suppose a bundle of solar magnetism comes along, and it points north, too. The two fields should reinforce one another, strengthening Earth's magnetic defenses and slamming the door shut on the solar wind. In the language of space physics, a north-pointing solar magnetic field is called a "northern IMF" and it is synonymous with shields up! "So, you can imagine our surprise when a northern IMF came along and shields went down instead," says Sibeck. "This completely overturns our understanding of things." Northern IMF events don't actually trigger geomagnetic storms, notes Raeder, but they do set the stage for storms by loading the magnetosphere with plasma. A loaded magnetosphere is primed for auroras, power outages, and other disturbances that can result when, say, a CME (coronal mass ejection) hits. The years ahead could be especially lively. Raeder explains: "We're entering Solar Cycle 24. For reasons not fully understood, CMEs in even-numbered solar cycles (like 24) tend to hit Earth with a leading edge that is magnetized north. Such a CME should open a breach and load the magnetosphere with plasma just before the storm gets underway. It's the perfect sequence for a really big event." Sibeck agrees. "This could result in stronger geomagnetic storms than we have seen in many years.""
Comment: Gaia is letting down her defences to cosmic forces! It's now SHIELDS DOWN! Here it seems that our scientists are in shock because the Earth's magnetic field is not providing the expected defence against Space Weather, but instead opening up a HUGE hole to space weather thereby accelerating evolutionary change. The date of this discovery in June 2007 during solar minimum, is particularly interesting as that coincides with metaphysical predictions of a MASSIVE exponential increase in evolutionary energies....

Boundary Between Earth's Upper Atmosphere And Space Has Moved To Extraordinarily Low Altitudes, NASA Instruments Document
Science Daily, 16th December 2008

"Observations made by NASA instruments onboard an Air Force satellite have shown that the boundary between the Earth's upper atmosphere and space has moved to extraordinarily low altitudes. These observations were made by the Coupled Ion Neutral Dynamics Investigation (CINDI) instrument suite, which was launched aboard the U.S. Air Force's Communication/Navigation Outage Forecast System (C/NOFS) satellite on April 16, 2008. [...] CINDI's first discovery was, however, that the ionosphere was not where it had been expected to be. During the first months of CINDI operations the transition between the ionosphere and space was found to be at about 260 miles (420 km) altitude during the nighttime, barely rising above 500 miles (800 km) during the day. These altitudes were extraordinarily low compared with the more typical values of 400 miles (640 km) during the nighttime and 600 miles (960 km) during the day. The height of the ionosphere/space transition is controlled in part by the amount of extreme ultraviolet energy emitted by the Sun and a somewhat contracted ionosphere could have been expected because C/NOFS was launched during a minimum in the 11-year cycle of solar activity. However, the size of the actual contraction caught investigators by surprise. In fact, when they looked back over records of solar activity, they found that C/NOFS had been launched during the quietest solar minimum since the space age began. This extraordinary circumstance is providing an unparalleled opportunity to study the connection between the interior dynamics of the Sun and the response of the Earth's space environment."
Comment: Well, the Sun is now very inactive whilst in a deep solar minimum, therefore the boundary between the ionosphere and space is not being inflated by chemical reactions caused by UV radiation from the Sun, which varies 6-8% in amount, when the Sun is active. Even so, I am wondering if there are major implications for the shielding properties of a thin ionosphere, especially as the planet is now more exposed to galactic cosmic rays. The ionosphere can be compared to the Earth's skin providing us with some protection against direct cosmic influences, so it seems this is another layer of Earth's defence that is 'evaporating'. Certainly, with the numerous atmospheric and geomagnetic changes taking place, there can be no doubt, that all life on Earth will be getting a thorough cosmic inspection. Now, it's easier to see why there are some really crackpot geoengineering schemes being proposed to place a shield in space, but it seems those who understand their relationship with universal forces and the need for spiritual evolution are much more likely to cope with the new terms and conditions for living on planet Earth.

Earthquake shakes southern Sweden
The Local, 16th December 2008

"Southern Sweden was rocked by an earthquake early on Tuesday morning which caused a flood of phone calls to emergency services operators from alarmed residents. "The bed shook for about 20 seconds," Helsingborg resident John O'Leary told The Local. O'Leary said the quake woke him at about 6:20am and that the shaking knocked over several items in his apartment. Uppsala University seismologist Reynir Bödvarsson estimated the quake measured between 4.5 and 5.0 on the Richter scale. "It was likely felt in much of southern Sweden. For Sweden, this is a very strong quake," Bödvarsson told the TT news agency.
Comment: The planetary refresh is effecting every corner of the globe, even seismic backwaters like Sweden.

Downturn spurs "emotional survival panic" for some
Reuters News, 16th December 2008

"For those who need to abruptly curtail spending, that leaves a major void, said James Gottfurcht, clinical psychologist and president of "Psychology of Money Consultants," which coaches clients on money issues. "People that have been ... identifying with and defining themselves by their material objects and expenditures are losing a definite piece of their identity and themselves," he said. "They have to learn how to replace that." [...] After the attacks of September 11, 2001 killed thousands and shuttered U.S. financial markets, consumers were encouraged by politicians and business leaders to spend as a way of saving the economy and proving capitalism could not be crushed."
Comment: I would maintain that this will be very difficult for those who have been brainwashed for years to spend, spend, spend. What did George Bush say after 9/11, it was something like 'go out and shop....'

UFO Seen In The Skies Above Cheshunt [UK]
Herald 24, 16th December 2008

Full Story: "A UFO has once again been seen performing aerobatics above the Herald patch. A multicoloured ball of light was seen by a startled Cheshunt couple, who videoed the 'close encounter of the third kind' on a mobile phone. Mary Georgiou, of Southmead Crescent, contacted the Herald after reading our story last week about the 'Hertford Fireball', which blazed across the sky on December 7. Mary and her husband Stav were left "gobsmacked" by the November 2 sighting. She said: "I saw an orange light in the sky. I screamed at hubby that there was a plane on fire as the orange light was so bright. "We went into the garden and there was no sound coming from it was too large to be plane and too low down. This thing travelled across our house and then did 90 degree turn and travelled away from us till it disappeared. "We were gobsmacked and gutted that we did not take a photo of it, probably because we were rooted to the spot. Anyway five minutes later it happened again. This time we took a video of it on hubby's mobile, it followed exactly the same flight pattern as the first." "We are convinced we saw a UFO, and still have the footage." She added that it could [not] have been an asteroid because it performed a 90 degree turn. Mary said the second object moved in exactly the same way as the first, "It was as if we had rewound time it happened exactly the same again," she said.
Comment: There is a video with this report. I think Mary Georgiou was misreported here because an asteroid CANNOT do 90 degree turns. Again it looks like we have 2 orbs appearing in exactly the same spot and following a similiar route which I believe is associated with higher dimensional exit points (ie Cosmic String, Cosmic Lattice) and the Earth's magnetic grid (Ley lines).

Southern sky to be mapped for first time
New Scientist News, 16th December 2008

"Celestial cartographers will soon sail into uncharted territory: the southern sky. The first digital map of the sky south of the equator could reveal renegade stars and new dwarf galaxies in orbit around the Milky Way. [...] Brown also expects the new maps to reveal a number of new hypervelocity stars, renegade stars fleeing the galaxy at breakneck speed. Astronomers have searched for them by scanning Sloan data for blue stars that stand out against the background of old, red stars that dominate the outer reaches of the galaxy. [...] Measuring where and how fast the stars are going could also provide a means of tracing the shape of the dark matter 'halo' that envelops our galaxy."
Comment: The question here is: what do they mean by "new hypervelocity stars, renegade stars fleeing the galaxy at breakneck speed". There is now tremendous focus on the celestial sky and especially what is taking place at the galactic center, thus the expression 'We are at the crossroads' is taking on a new depth of meaning. It seems that there are now more reports acknowledging that our galaxy has it's own 'dark matter' aura, just like all living entities.

Freak Giant Waves destroy funfair in Cannes France
NouvelObs, 16th December 2008

English Translation: "Waves up to several meters high last Sunday evening destroyed the booths and whirligigs of Luna Park in Cannes [South of France], leaving no deaths, as reported on Monday 15th. "It is as though a war had been fought. Trucks were knocked over, the games damaged. Nothing is left. The whirligigs are not even broken. They exploded. It looks as if the place had been bombed", declared to the AFP Jean-Philippe Boubier, one of the fairground men. Public officials in the town of Cannes confirmed the extent of the destruction: "It is a catastrophe, something never experienced before", said Iris Perben, the town hall's spokesman. [...] "Huge waves, up to 5 or 6 meters (16-20 feet) high, started to enter from above the dike", said Jean-Philippe Boubier." SOTT Link here
Comment: Another 'freak' event.

Defying Predictions, Sea Level Rise Begins to Slow
DailyTech News, 15th December 2008

"World's oceans rise slower since 2005, fail to display predicted accelerating trend. Satellite altimetry data indicates that the rate at which the world's oceans are rising has slowed significantly since 2005. Before the decrease, sea level had been rising by more than 3mm/year, which corresponds to an increase of about one foot per century. Since 2005, however, the rate has been closer to 2mm/year. The decrease is significant as global climate models predict sea level rise to accelerate as atmospheric CO2 continues to increase. In the 1990s, when such acceleration appeared to be occurring, some scientists pointed to it as confirmation the models were operating correctly."
Comment: Hmmm.... More observational data that contradicts the global warming hypothesis.

Sun Induces Strange 'Breathing' of Earth's Atmosphere
Wired Science News, 15th December 2008

"San Francisco, California - New satellite observations have revealed a previously unknown rhythmic expansion and contraction of Earth's atmosphere on a nine-day cycle. This "breathing" corresponds to changes in the sun's magnetic fields as it completes rotations once every 27 days, NASA and University of Colorado, Boulder, scientists said Monday at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting. [...] The finding emphasizes the many ways that solar activity impacts the Earth - and its increasingly space-utilizing humans. "From the Earth's perspective, we're in the sun's outer atmosphere," said Jeffrey Thayer, an aerospace engineer at UC-Boulder. [...] "What's going on in the sun that's causing all this?" Solomon said. "It's not entirely clear. That part of it is quite mysterious.""
Comment: Interesting, this is another previous unknown atmospheric phenomena now taking place on this planet caused by unknow factors within our Sun....

Lightning-Storm Gamma Rays Could Harm Air Travelers
Wired Science, 15th December 2008

"SAN FRANCISCO, California — The most energetic particles in the electromagnetic spectrum could pose a danger to commercial airline passengers. About every 3000 hours of flying time, a plane is hit with a bolt of lightning. Recently, spacecraft have found gamma rays can be created by thunder storms, and according to new research presented at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting this week, the rays could be intense enough to cause radiation sickness. "Everywhere we look, we're seeing x-rays and gamma rays flying out of thunderstorms and lightning," said Joseph Dwyer, a physicist at the Florida Institute of Technology and lead author of the study. "The gamma rays coming out of thunderstorms are so intense we can measure these 600 kilometers away and so bright that it almost blinds the spacecraft. Finding particles flying around at what physicsts call "ultrarelativistic speeds,," i.e. very close to the speed of light, came as a shocker to physicists. Gamma rays had previously been associated with only the most extreme environments in the universe, like supernovae. Now, scientists believe that about 50 terrestrial gamma ray flashes occur per day on Earth. [...] "We just don't know enough. The consequences are bad enough that people could potentially get hurt from this," he said. "This is a call for more research. We really need to find out where we are and how big these things are. Could people be hit by these things and get sick? And how would you know?""
Comment: Airline passengers could start getting radiation sickness? In my book Tuning the Diamonds, I wrote a section called "Extreme Physics Right here on Earth", but at that time, scientists were only prepared to tell us that gamma-rays from Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes (TGFs) were being launched into space from the Earth's upper atmosphere. This is not a typical report, the scientists really seemed panicked by this discovery and maybe something has changed in the short period from reports back in February 2005.

Long-term pilots at higher DNA damage risk
UPI.com, 15th December 2008

"Pilots with long-term flying experience may be at risk of DNA damage from cosmic ionizing radiation, U.S. researchers suggest. Lee C. Yong of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Cincinnati and colleagues compared the rate of chromosomal -- DNA -- abnormalities in blood samples taken from 83 airline pilots and 50 university faculty members from the same U.S. city, matched for age and smoking habits. [...] However, when the analysis focused on how long pilots had been flying, differences emerged. The chromosome translocation frequency of those who had flown the most was more than twice that of those who had flown the least -- biologically significant -- after taking age into account."
Comment: This is a well known fact but in the extreme electromagnetic conditions that now exist around our planet, airline passengers are at risk too from short term exposure to radiation.

Madoff investors unlikely to regain money
Financial Post, 15th December 2008

"After years of enjoying unusually steady returns by investing with Bernard Madoff, a growing list of wealthy individuals, celebrities, charities and big banks is admitting they now stand to lose everything they invested with the prominent Wall Street trader amid revelations he was running a sham operation. The lengthy list of victims ranges from a charity of director Steven Spielberg to New York Mets-owner Fred Wilpon and European bank HSBC, which may be out as much US$1-billion."
Comment: Now a few rich folk are getting seriously stung, but the real issue is how this will unbalance others who fear financial loss as their self-worth is heavily invested in their financial status. See also; Bernie Madoff's Victims: The List .

Solar Flare Surprise: Stream Of Perfectly Intact Hydrogen Atoms Detected
Science Daily, 15th December 2008

"Solar flares are the most powerful explosions in the solar system. Packing a punch equal to a hundred million hydrogen bombs, they obliterate everything in their immediate vicinity. Not a single atom should remain intact. At least that's how it's supposed to work. "We've detected a stream of perfectly intact hydrogen atoms shooting out of an X-class solar flare," says Richard Mewaldt of the California Institute of Technology. "What a surprise! If we can understand how these atoms were produced, we'll be that much closer to understanding solar flares. [...] The event occurred on Dec. 5, 2006. A large sunspot rounded the sun's eastern limb and with little warning it exploded. On the "Richter scale" of flares, which ranks X1 as a big event, the blast registered X9, making it one of the strongest flares of the past 30 years."
Comment: I am sure this discovery will be hotly debated in astrophysics world, but at the moment, these scientists are only speculating about another observation that falsifies the popular Solar Fusion Model.

Snowstorms Cut Power In France
Tens of thousands of people have been left without power or transport by freak snowstorms in south-central France.
Sky News, 14th December 2008

"Up to 100,000 were left without electricity in the largely hilly region, with some losing their phone lines, according to regional power company ERDF. Traffic has been blocked on several highways, while heavy snow in the elevated Massif Central region near the Alps cut train lines between Béziers and Clermont-Ferrand. [...] Spain is also suffering from unusual weather after a weekend of snow, rain and plummeting temperatures. Last night, more than 3,000 cars were trapped on mountain roads near Madrid."
Comment: There are cold weather records now being set around the world and reports of unusually high snowfall, see some great photos here! 'Once-in-100-year-snowfall' photos in Southern Austria. No evidence of global warming to report....

Something is rotten in Norway - 500,000 sq-km of sea ice disappears overnight
Watts Up With That?, 14th December 2008

"I had planned to do a post yesterday evening about how sea ice area and extent had returned to very near normal levels. But I was tired, so I saved off the graphs from the NANSEN arctic sea ice site. This morning I was shocked to discover that overnight, huge amounts of sea ice simply disappeared. Fortunately I had saved the images and a copy of the webpage last night. Here is the before and after in a blink comparator:"
Comment: Whoops! It seems that there are now many desperate measures being taken to uphold the global warming myth and global-warmongers are getting caught out manipulating data on a regular basis.

Ozone holes and cosmic rays
Real Climate, 14th December 2008

"Browsing through the blogosphere recently, I came across an interesting little story about the scientific method, scientific progress, and un-scientific spin (h/t Hank Roberts). The subject concerns the polar ozone hole in Antarctica and a possible role for cosmic rays in its variability on solar cycle timescales. The proponents of this link are a small research group at the University of Sherbrooke in Canada, who find themselves up against the mainstream stratospheric chemistry community and whose ideas are twisted out of all recognition by the more foolish of the usual suspects."
Comment: It's interesting that no discussion of the Earth's magnetic field and the horizontal component that deflects cosmic rays which explains why the ozone holes are over the poles and not over the CFCs polluted parts of the world. We also know from cloud formation that high energy galactic rays do not generate the same phenomena as lower energy cosmic rays, so Dr Lu may be making some false assumptions, even though we know for certain, far more high energy comsic rays are now hitting rhe Earth from the galactic center.

Discovery Of Warm Plasma Cloak Surrounding Earth, New Region Of Magnetosphere
Science Daily, 14th December 2008

"A detailed analysis of the measurements of five different satellites has revealed the existence of the warm plasma cloak, a new region of the magnetosphere, which is the invisible shield of magnetic fields and electrically charged particles that surround and protect Earth from the onslaught of the solar wind."
Comment: Another source of 'New Energy' around the planet?

Alice in Climateland
National Post, 14th December 2008

"It was a global warming debate hosted by a pillar of the American establishment and my opponent was a respected scientist representing one of the most authoritative organizations in the field. I was there to dispute the conventional wisdom that the science is settled on climate. No sooner did the debate start than I felt as if I had stumbled onto a set for Alice in Wonderland. "I really detest phrases like the science is settled," asserted Dr. Jay Gulledge, a climate specialist at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change in his opening statement. "To characterize myself and the Pew Center as viewing the science as settled is a bit of a red herring."
Comment: Many scientists are now having to contort their global warming arguments to seemingly support a failed hypothesis, but at the same time leave the door open to bolt, because the evidence is so overwhelming that our planet is cooling rather quickly. To onlookers this must see rather strange and so the comparison with the bizarre discussion of reality in the book Alice in Wonderland is rather fitting.

Meteorite destroys NZ warehouse in fire, witnesses say
Space News Examiner, 14th December 2008

"A warehouse in Auckland, New Zealand was destroyed by fire after what witnesses claim was a direct meteorite hit.According to the NZ Herald: Some people were convinced the fire was caused by what may have been a meteorite, which was seen from various parts of the upper North Island streaking across the sky just after 10 o';clock. Several callers claim the light in the sky was very bright, and it was described by some as a blinding flash. Others said it was trailing smoke. One man, Mike, says he saw the object crash with an exploding noise in the Ponsonby area, and reckons it could have started the fire.
Comment: Well, as the number of reports escalate it is inevitable that there will be a direct hit, but this is still not on the scale as the recent event in India where many buildings were destroyed. See the classic YouTube desert fireball here. Once seen, never forgotten! Also Dramatic fireball sighted by Twin Ports residents and others — more to come?. Fireball Sightings are logged on the American Meteor Society Web site (www.amsmeteors.org).

Rich investors 'wiped out' by Wall Street fraud
Broker who delivered huge returns is charged with $50bn swindle carried out over decades
The Independent, 14th December 2008

"Some victims of Wall Street's biggest fraud – planned and carried out over decades by one of its most respected figures – are as yet unaware that their entire savings have been wiped out, financial experts in New York said yesterday. Such is the extent of Bernard Madoff's alleged $50bn (£34bn) swindle, and so convoluted its paper trail of derivatives, that this weekend there will be Americans under the impression they are rich who are oblivious that their wealth had been placed in Mr Madoff's apparently criminal hands, and is therefore now lost. Enough details of the fallout were emerging yesterday to begin to judge the mayhem this one-time chairman of Nasdaq, and Democratic Party and Jewish charity benefactor, has wreaked."
Comment: What? One-time chairman of Nasdaq!?!?! This reminds me of a bank robbery in Surrey [UK], where the police were tipped off and a shoot out occurred. When one of the shot robbers arrived at the hospital, he told one of the nurses not to inform his wife because she thought he was a respectable business man. My views on criminality changed immediately. Quite frankly, this is what happens when only money talks and regulators turn a blind eye.

Klaus: Climate issues are silly luxury good
Reference Frame, 12th December 2008

"Czech President Václav Klaus hit out at the EU climate [20-20-2020-20-20] deal concluded Friday and described global climate issues as "a silly luxury." "I do not like the way they forced it", Klaus said shortly after an agreement was announced in Brussels. He also claimed that his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy had "pushed" the deal so that it would not be left when the Czech Republic takes over the EU presidency from France on January 1. "This is scandalous," he said. "We should have been able to discuss it during our presidency, to force it now is not very good." "Environmental issues are a luxury good," Klaus added. "Now we have to tighten our belt and to cut the luxury."
Comment: When I started to do some serious research for my book, I developed certain strategies for working out who was standing in their truth. I realised that scientists who stood up for what they believed, despite the risk to their reputation and loss of funding opportunities were more likely to have attained some ground breaking insights. The other group were scientists with 30, 40 or even 50 years experience in their fields and were on the verge of retiring. This is when some will publish their most controversial papers with their truth because they have secured their pensions and they no longer feel the need to tow the line. This is the point when I started to fall in love with the old people! Václav Klaus is another type who is strong and ferocious, and knows how to play the political game but at the same time is enlightened, I'm in love!

Did magnetic blip trigger mass extinction?
Rising hot material upset convection in Earth's core, says new theory
MSNBC News, 12th December 2008

"It was a dying on a scale never seen before or since on Earth. The slaughter was everywhere; the fertile ocean and balmy supercontinent Pangea were transformed into killing fields, littered with the bodies of ancient animals. By the time the dust had settled on the Permian-Triassic mass extinction 250 million years ago, 90 percent of life on the planet had been snuffed out."
Comment: This new theory suggests that the trigger that caused 90% of life on Earth to be wiped out, was a weak magnetic field allowing cosmic rays to come in and seed clouds that effected the climate. Wait a minute, isn't that what's happening now.... Whatever, the extinction took millions of years and still certain species survived and evolved to meet the challenge of the new conditions. This is the exact same scenario facing all life on this planet, to meet the challenge of changing conditions and to evolve.

Before the Big Bang There Was Another Universe
A new theory rules out singularity
SoftPedia News, 12th December 2008

"A new challenge to classical cosmology comes from a novel field named loop quantum cosmology (LQC), which started from applying rules of loop quantum gravity on the context of general relativity. The new vision states that the universe we live in did not emerge from an infinitely small particle with a similarly infinite mass (the dreadful singularity all scientists have been trying to avoid). Instead, the authors claim that another (possibly similar) universe existed before. The laws of physics to which singularity abides are still elusive, but theoretical aspects suggest that it is highly likely that Planck-scale densities are impossible. So, Martin Bojowald, an assistant professor of physics at Pennsylvania State University, and Abhay Ashtekar, Eberly professor of physics and director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at the same institution, have devised a model where the universe is the result of another kind of Big Bang, called a Big Bounce.
Comment: Yes, many cosmologists have realised that the mathematics and theory to support Big Bang Theory is impossible. Some have deducted this from the observation of quasars and plasma physicists know this for sure from laboratory experiments, hence some have already produced far more realistic theories. Whatever, the name 'The Big Bounce' is rather catchy, I suppose it designed to go down well at an elementary level....

Cosmic diamonds may be hidden in 'carbon onions'
New Scientist News, 12th December 2008

"An exotic carbon structure could explain why astronomers have seen very little diamond dust in the universe. Since the 1980s, researchers have puzzled over the origin of "nanodiamonds", tiny diamond deposits preserved in meteorites, such as the Allende meteorite that landed in Mexico in 1969. These tiny diamonds make up roughly 3% of the carbon in the rocks. That suggests nanodiamonds should abound in clouds of interstellar gas and dust, possibly forged in the fiery blasts of previous supernovae. But so far, signs of diamonds have only been found in the dusty discs around three young stars. Strangely, the diamonds are found close to the stars, as opposed to being distributed more evenly in the space around them. That hints that they were not left over from ancient stellar explosions but may have formed near the stars, at comparatively low pressures."
Comment: If cosmic diamonds are templates that act to bind other elements, this will explain the evidence and other theories about the formation of matter. Whatever, cosmic diamonds are now dropping on the heads of the inhabitants of planet Earth and the vast majority are totally unaware.

Did anyone else spot Gipton UFO?
Yorkshire Evening Post, 10th December 2008

""WHAT the hell is that?" questioned the voice of an unseen female. I presume this lady was witnessing exactly what I was on my street, St Wilfrid's Circus, Gipton, Leeds. Whilst I was catching a fresh breath of frosty air out of my landing window at (approximately) 3am on the morning of November 30, I saw what can only be described as a 'milk-white teardrop' UFO, the size of a family car floating through the sky which , from my point of view, slowly drifted over Harehills Lane, down onto Rounday Road, then disappeared behind houses towards the Chapeltown/Potternewton area of Leeds. Is there anybody else out there who witnessed this strange incident, any reports, CCTV or mobile/photo footage? There could be an innocent (or not) explanation...who knows?
Comment: This is getting absolutely brilliant! Talk about reality becoming so strange that it will seem like being Alice in Wonderland! I love it!!

Complex Decision? Don't Think About It
Science Daily, 10th December 2008

"When faced with a difficult decision, we try to come up with the best choice by carefully considering all of the options, maybe even resorting to lists and lots of sleepless nights. So it may be surprising that recent studies have suggested that the best way to deal with complex decisions is to not think about them at all—that unconscious thought will help us make the best choices."
Comment: Many of the most brilliant people have explained that their best ideas or solutions appear when the mind is diverted and information bubbles up from the unconscious. Many people find that even sleeping on a problem will help them come up with a better solution the next day.

UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
Inhofe EPW Press Blog, 10th December 2008

"The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore. Set for release this week, a newly updated U.S. Senate Minority Report features the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists, many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN. The report has added about 250 scientists (and growing) in 2008 to the over 400 scientists who spoke out in 2007. The over 650 dissenting scientists are more than 12 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers." [...] A hint of what the upcoming report contains:
"I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion." - Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.
"Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical." - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called "among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years."
Warming fears are the "worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists." - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.
Comment: Due to the upward evolution of consciousness, the truth will prevail.... Update Link to Full Printable PDF Report

Take a look at Norwich's [UK] latest UFO
EDP24.co.uk, 10th December 2008

"Is it a plane … or could it be an alien spacecraft? When Neal Herbert bought a new camera he tried a few night-time shots in Norwich- and found something he wasn't expecting. "When I opened the files, I noticed that one had something which I would have to erase," he said. On closer inspection he decided to enlarge that section of the image. But has he captured a UFO on film? "I'm not sure what to make of the image and I certainly don't think I'm about to be abducted by little green men," said Neal. "It could be a plane but could be something else." What do you think?"
Comment: My first impression was that this looked like a UAP with a spine. However, on second thoughts, it's more likely that this is some 'old energy' being assisted off the planet by a collection of orbs. This is certainly one of the more interesting UAP images that I have come across in the public domain.

Ice age wasn't simultaneous
Science Alert, 10th December 2008

"Major climate events during past global ice ages did not happen simultaneously or with the same intensity world-wide, new data from the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation's (ANSTO) latest climate change research has revealed. The research, which used sophisticated nuclear dating techniques on rocks from Mongolian glaciers, could impact future climate change forecasts. [...] Dr David Fink, Leader of ANSTO's Cosmogenic climate Archives of the Southern Hemisphere (CcASH) project, said ANSTO has refined a dating technique which measures nuclear signals, scientifically termed 'cosmogenic radioisotopes', produced in rock surfaces when they are freshly exposed after glaciers retreat to cosmic rays coming from the sun and outside the solar system. This technique can accurately date the time glaciers advance and retreat. [...] Dr Henrik Rother, the ANSTO post-doctoral research scientist who recently went to Mongolia for the second time to bring back rock samples, explained that glaciers are sensitive climate change indicators. "The expansion or retreat of mountain glaciers mirrors changes in temperature or precipitation and glacial records are therefore extremely useful to help scientists reconstruct past climates."
Comment: Unfortunately, this article does supply enough information to tell us if these scientists believe major climatic changes are associated with solar and cosmic rays. However, since the planet is constantly being bombarded, the concept of "freshly exposed" rocks seems a bit strange especially when we know that long-lived radioisotopes called Beryllium-10 are created by cosmic rays with moderate energy that respond to the variations in the magnetic field of the Sun.

Mystery Over Hertford [UK]Fireball
Herald24 News, 9th December 2008

"A FIREBALL blazed across the skies above Hertford on Sunday night. The UFO sped across the sky at just after 8.30pm. An eyewitness wrote in an online forum: "It travelled south and I tracked it for about two minutes. It was at quite a height, bright orange and had shots of what looked like orange flame that shot from the sides or top every now and then. [...] Another contributor speculated that the sighting was "an asteroid burning up in the atmosphere." Malcolm Robinson, of Strange Phenomena Investigations, told the Herald: "In the main the vast majority of all UFO reports have identifiable solutions, as high as 95 per cent." Commenting on the Hertford sighting he said: "It may well have been a fireball or meteorite burning up, although it may well be something very bizarre. "Balls of light in the sky do give rise to what many people think might be UFOs. "As I said 95 out of 100 turn out to be explainable, but it is the five per cent that are not that turn out to fascinating to myself and my colleagues.
Comment: It would be interesting to know whether Malcolm Robinson, has read the UK Ministry of Defence's UAP report, because he could be like many people who become professionals at being 'mystified'.

Women find happiness is not about the economy, stupid
Reuters News, 9th December 2008

"Men are happier with money, while women find greater joy in friendships and relationships with their children, co-workers and bosses, a new global survey reveals. The online survey of 28,153 people in more than 51 countries by global marketing and information firm Nielsen found that as the world grapples with a recession and financial markets remain volatile, many people are reminding themselves that money can't buy happiness. [...] "Happiness is a local and personal matter and Nielsen sought to uncover what specific factors contribute to making people happy in different parts of the world," Paul said. "Many of the world's poorer and emerging markets outranked developed countries for happiness and satisfaction levels in nearly all aspects of their lives.""
Comment: This seems to based on another survey with a different perspective to the earlier press releases by Nielsen. Here the emphasis seems to be that people are not guaging their happiness on economic factors. This survey must be quite a shock for world conrollers desperately trying to keep people strapped down to the lower echelons of consciousness by encouraging consumption, greed and pride through the media.

Chinese committing suicide every two minutes
Agence France-Presse, 9th December 2008

"A two-year-old boy was orphaned in the southwest Chinese city of Chongzhou when his parents drank pesticide after a nasty row. The tragedy, reported in the state media last month, bears testimony to the dark side of reform - suicide rates that are now among the highest in the world. On average, a Chinese person takes his or her own life every two minutes, giving the world's most populous nation a dismal record as it prepares to celebrate 30 years of otherwise spectacular economic reform. [...] People have become more fragile,'' said Zhang Chun, the head of a suicide prevention network in the eastern city of Nanjing. "Since the opening up, the rapid social changes and the clash between modern and traditional values have made many people lose their mental balance,'' he said. "Many now try to regain the balance in the rush for money.''"
Comment: Well, the geomagnetic environment is changing to benefit those with the highest levels of balance to flourish and encourage others with high levels of imbalance to recalibrate and evolve.

21 spotless days and solar magnetic field still in a funk
WattsUpWithThat.com, 9th December 2008

"We are now at 21 days with no sunspots, it will be interesting to see if we reach a spotless 30 day period and then perhaps a spotless month of December. [...]What I find most interesting about the Geomagnetic Average Planetary Index graph above is what happened around October 2005. Notice the sharp drop in the magnetic index and the continuance at low levels. Read on for more. This looks much like a "step function" that I see on GISS surface temperature graphs when a station has been relocated to a cooler measurement environment. In the case of the sun, it appears this indicates that something abruptly "switched off" in the inner workings of the solar dynamo. Note that in the prior months, the magnetic index was ramping up a bit with more activity, then it simply dropped and stayed mostly flat."
Comment: It's fascinating that Anthony Watts keeps insisting that something switched off in the Sun in October 2005, see graph for details. Yet, he is linking this to when global sea levels began to lose its upward trend. Whatever, if the Sun remains quiet, this will mean that more galactic cosmic radiation will reach the Earth, at the same time that we are reaching our maximum alignment with the galactic centre and metaphysical sources specify a 100,000 X year on year increase in the energies of evolution from the galactic centre in the time period 2007-2012. We are living in incredible times!

Rivers Of Gas Flow Around Stars In New Space Image
Science Daily, 8th December 2008

"A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of dusty material. "The stars are like rocks in a rushing river," said Matt Povich of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. "Powerful winds from the most massive stars at the center of the cloud produce a large flow of expanding gas. This gas then piles up with dust in front of winds from other massive stars that are pushing back against the flow." Povich is lead author of a paper describing the new findings in the Dec. 10 issue of the Astrophysical Journal."
Comment: Here we have astronomers using very simple terms to describe a universe that is 99.999% plasma. Unfortunately, it may take a long time before astronomers are required to study plasma physics so that they can fully appreciate how cosmic features evolve in an electromagnetic universe. Meanwhile, it would be helpful if they used the correct terminology, it's plasma not "gas", but it's almost bizarre how this then gets extrapolated and becomes "rivers of gas", "a rushing river", "powerful winds", "expanding gas", you would think these guys would be embarrassed to write such rubbish....

U.K. Greens' Uncivil Disobedience
Planet Gore, 8th December 2008

"There could be no better snapshot of the elitism, killjoyism, and outright snobbery of the radical environmentalist movement than the protest taking place at Stansted Airport in London today. Here we have an attempt by a tiny clique of well-to-do eco-protesters — with Middle-England names like Joss, Tamzin, and Lily — to prevent thousands of people from flying abroad, whether for fun, to meet loved ones, or, in one distraught woman’s case, to attend her father’s funeral in the Republic of Ireland. This is the very essence of environmentalism: an aloof effort to police and restrain the desires of the mass of the population." See also Business Week article, Protesters break into secure area at UK airport .
Comment: Unfortunately, the consciousness that governs the green mentality cannot comprehend a bigger picture. Meanwhile, there is more action worldwide as activists shut down two airports in Thailand and invaded a runway in Athens. Analysts say airport incursions might inspire copycat tactics. Yet, this is EXACTLY the kind of civil disobedience that Al Gore has been advocating , as reported by the Wall Street Journal: "If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration."

Plane Selfish
Climate Resistance, 8th December 2008

"Ridiculous, self-indulgent, self-absorbed, self-righteous, and self-important protest outfit, Plane Stupid broke into Stansted Airport today, to delay the reopening of a runway." See also Soap tycoon: Why I am funding airport demonstrations and paying protesters' legal bills.
Comment: The folks at Climate Resistance are just not impressed! So, whilst 'rent-a-mob' cause havoc, Al Gore says he thinks he has failed.... something is just not adding up...

UN is told that Earth needs an asteroid shield
Scientists call for £68m a year to detect danger, and more for spacecraft to defend against it
The Guardian, 7th December 2008

"A group of the world's leading scientists has urged the United Nations to establish an international network to search the skies for asteroids on a collision course with Earth. The spaceguard system would also be responsible for deploying spacecraft that could destroy or deflect incoming objects. The group - which includes the Royal Society president Lord Rees and environmentalist Crispin Tickell - said that the UN needed to act as a matter of urgency. Although an asteroid collision with the planet is a relatively remote risk, the consequences of a strike would be devastating. [...] 'Over the next 10 to 15 years, the process of discovering asteroids will likely identify dozens of new objects threatening enough that they will require proactive decisions by the United Nations,' the report added."
Comment: There seems to be a concern about asteroids or Near Earth Objects (NEOs), which I believe is due to the region of space that we are entering when objects can appear with quite erratic behaviour due to the highly charged plasma environment. New telescopes on the ice in Antartica and the rapid increase in meteorites and fireballs with a few highly publicised near asteroid misses seem to indicate why there is this heightened concern.

Theory Says Climate Change Depends On Solar Wind/Cosmic Rays
The People's Voice, 7th December 2008

"Predicting climate change is tough, but now there's an excuse for not knowing how wet the winter might be: Climate on Earth could be shaped by forces coming from beyond the planet. A new theory links climate change to cosmic rays, high-energy particles from space that wash over the planet. If the idea can be proved, it might imply that much of Earth's rising temperature could be caused by extraterrestrial factors, some physicists say. "If this is real, we have a way of understanding the extra heat load this century and a way of explaining climate anomalies over the past 1,000 years," says Jasper Kirkby, a particle physicist at the CERN atom smasher in Switzerland. [...] Dr. Svensmark presents data from satellites that have taken pictures of Earth's cloud cover for the past 20 years. He noticed that the average amount of cloud cover could vary by 3 to 4 percent from year to year. The cloud changes matched changes in the 11-year cycle of the sun; so, Dr. Svensmark concluded, something related to the sun must be affecting Earth's climate. He believes that the solar wind, a wave of charged particles from the sun, interacts with cosmic rays as they approach Earth. How many cosmic rays get through the solar wind determines how many clouds form, he suggests. The amount of cloud cover then determines how hot or cold the planet is. "There are so many things that connect so well, it's such a beautiful agreement," said Dr. Svensmark."
Comment: Dr. Svensmark's work is groundbreaking because he has PROVEN that for clouds to form in our atmosphere, an electric field and the interaction of cosmic rays is needed to provide condensation nuclei. Before Svensmark's work, how clouds form was only theory. There are now eight major institutions and as many universiities devoted to this research.

Cold is the new warm
When is a short term trend not a short term trend? When it's an upward anomaly.
Climate Resistance, 5th December 2008

[..]In January 2007, the Met Office backed the wrong horse - El Niño. When La Niña emerged as the favourite, they changed their bets. This wasn't sophisticated computer modelling. This was gambling by gamblers posing in lab coats. It was a safe bet that La Niña's effects would last until 2009."
Comment: The folks at Climate Resistance give us their perspective on the global warm-mongers trying to maintain the current high levels of climate hysteria.

Happiness Can Spread Among People Like a Contagion, Study Indicates
Washington Post, 5th December 2008

"Happiness is contagious, spreading among friends, neighbors, siblings and spouses like the flu, according to a large study that for the first time shows how emotion can ripple through clusters of people who may not even know each other. The study of more than 4,700 people who were followed over 20 years found that people who are happy or become happy boost the chances that someone they know will be happy. The power of happiness, moreover, can span another degree of separation, elevating the mood of that person's husband, wife, brother, sister, friend or next-door neighbor. "You would think that your emotional state would depend on your own choices and actions and experience," said Nicholas A. Christakis, a medical sociologist at Harvard University who helped conduct the study published online today by BMJ, a British medical journal. "But it also depends on the choices and actions and experiences of other people, including people to whom you are not directly connected. Happiness is contagious.""
Comment: That's because it's a higher state of conciousness with greater power to effect others.

New twist in UFO mystery
Sussex and Essex Online, 5th December 2008

"A UFO spotted above St Edmundsbury Borough Cathedral was seen by a member of staff, it emerged today. Police were first notified about a UFO above the cathedral in Bury St Edmunds on Saturday night. The incident, which lasted just minutes, happened in Bury St Edmunds on Saturday night. It is understood the man saw the grey UFO spinning in the air near the cathedral before disappearing behind the Bury landmark. [...]"It happened in between two short power cuts, so we wondered if it was linked to that."
Comment: Well the UK is fast turning into a great UFO hotspot. When I started this blog, I avoided listing UFO stories until I started to realise that some reports were about UAPs. Now, I have decided that something is really happening and my concern is for ordinary citizens who really want to understand what is taking place. Just remember, four more years of the aetheric density weakening at an exponential rate... See 11th December, More witnesses come forward claiming to have seen the St Edmundsbury Catherdral UFO.

Early snowfalls in Europe hit Historic Levels
WattsUpWithThat.com, 3rd December 2008

"www.Skiinfo.com is following still more heavy snowfalls across Europe over the past 48 hours, with much more snow in other parts of Europe and many areas of North America too. The snowfall has been so great that it has closed roads, brought down power lines and even led to the cancellation of some Swiss rail services this week. One of the greatest beneficiaries are the Italian Dolomites where 150cm (five feet) has fallen at Cortina in a 48 hour period up to Monday, with snow still falling. Alessandro Fregni of Skiinfo.com's Italian office commented, "In three days ski areas have seen almost as much snowfall as for the whole winter last year.""
Comment: In 2006, the New York Times wrote: "The record warmth — in some places autumn temperatures were three degrees Celsius above average — has brought home the profound threat of climate change to Europe's ski industry." Well, the skiers will be delighted, as climate change obviously does not mean increasingly bare slopes.

Volcanic Eruption Signals Simulated In Lab For First Time
Science Daily, 2nd December 2008

"For the first time, seismic signals that precede a volcanic eruption have been simulated and visualized in 3-D under controlled pressure conditions in a laboratory. The ability to conduct such simulations will better equip municipal authorities in volcanic hot spots around the world in knowing when to alert people who live near volcanoes of an impending eruption. [...] Scientists tested fracture properties of basalt rock from Mount Etna, the active volcano found on the island of Sicily in southern Italy. They were able to record the seismic signals that are routinely generated during earthquakes that occur before volcanic eruptions. The seismic (sound) waves recorded by the team were similar to those emitted by a church organ pipe and are ubiquitous in active volcanic regions."
Comment: These seismic signals are like church organ pipe sounds!?!

New US military report on global warming raises worry
WattsUpWithThat.com, 6th December 2008

"WASHINGTON - A new US military report has come under scrutiny for asserting that the scientific data on what is causing global warming is "contradictory" - a position one leading specialist said indicates the government still hasn't fully embraced the urgency of climate change. [...]The Joint Forces Command maintains that it is fully cognizant of the threat posed by climate change, saying the purpose of the report was not to debate what is or isn't causing global warming. "We are in complete agreement that climate change will be a national security driver in the future," said Rear Admiral John M. Richardson, director of strategy for the command. "We are focused on the implications of climate change. We see what is happening. What is causing it is not in our purview. The commanders have to deal with the effects."
Comment: Well, the military are fully aware of the new phenomena of Space Weather and have been closely monitoring and trying to mitigate the effects for quite some time. Their scientists will be studying the Sun-Earth electromagnetic environment, because it's rather more pertinent to the health of satellite communications and their corresponding electronic systems.

Another UFO sighting
Yorkshire Evening Post, 5th December 2008

"On Saturday, November 30 at around 7.30pm I was going outside to put some rubbish in the bin when I gazed up to the north-west, toward Roundhay Park, and noticed three lights in formation heading towards us. They were candlelight in colour and brighter than any star out that night. As the lights moved towards us on a completely clear night they began to turn towards McDonald's. As they turned, another light appeared fom nowhere and continued along the same path. This pattern happened about three times until about six or maybe seven lights had appeared then they turned and vanished, apart from the last one which seemed to be going slightly faster than the rest and undercut them on the inside of their turn as if taking a short cut."
Comment: Is this evidence that orbs are travelling through higher dimensional cosmic string, to only seem as if they have just 'appeared' in our skies when they enter our dimension?

Green-on-Green Violence
Junks Sience, 4th December 2008

"The activist group Environmental Defense got a taste of what it used to dish out this week when its Washington, D.C., offices were invaded by another green group, the Global Justice Ecology Project. The Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP) essentially accused Environmental Defense (ED) of collaborating with the enemy -- big businesses that want cap-and-trade global warming legislation. Noting that her father was one of ED's founders, GJEP head Rachel Smolker said she was now "ashamed" of ED because it advocated cap-and-trade. Smolker said that the European version of cap-and-trade, the Kyoto Protocol, had "utterly failed" to reduce emissions and served "only to provide huge profits for the world's most polluting industries." "Instead of protecting the environment, ED now seems primarily concerned with protecting corporate bottom lines. I can hear my father rolling over in his grave," Smolker said. The GJEP activists who took over ED's offices rearranged the furniture to illustrate how cap-and-trade is "like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic," and sported signs that read "Keep the cap, ditch the trade" and "Carbon trading is an environmental offense." [...] Hardcore Greens like the GJEP are understandably upset at supposed allies "sleeping with the enemy." But large activist groups like Environmental Defense went mainstream long ago and are now more like the big businesses they used to scorn rather than the than grassroots groups they started out as. In contrast to GJEP's hand-scrawled 2006 tax return showing revenues of a mere $103,349, ED's neatly typed out 2006 tax return showed revenues of $83,827,034. Environmentalism has become an industry of sorts. According to a recent Forbes report, the 11 largest environmental groups have combined annual revenues of about $1.8 billion and own billions of dollars of assets. By selling out, Big Green has cashed in."
Comment: Well, this is going to get very interesting, as the rise of consciousness continues...

UFOs: 'They're trying to warn us of something
Gratham Journal, 4th December 2008

"Beverley Parker spotted mysterious lights hovering over Normanton-on-Cliffe last week. She said: "It was a very clear night and at first I saw a light which I thought was an aircraft. But it seemed to be hovering in the same place for a long time. "I was watching with binoculars and there were lots of lights jumping around." [...] Even more bizarre phenomena have been encountered around, Great Ponton, Old Somerby, Bulby and Kirkby Underwood. Linda Longmire contacted the Journal to say she had seen many UFOs in the area and a friend had a terrifying brush with a glowing orange object. She said: "He was cycling out one evening when his lights on his bike and his telephone went dead. A glowing oval orange-coloured UFO hovered above him before vanishing - he was petrified. The following morning we noticed unusual prong point marks on his knuckles. "I think they are trying to warn us of something.""
Comment: Obviously, UFO spotting will become a new and extremely cheap hobby, if all you need is a pair of binoculars! More seriously, there are stories of people having encounters with UAPs but I have never heard of anything sinister occuring. At this time, from reading many reports and my interpretation of metaphysical messages widely available, there is a massive clean-up operation taking place. 'Old energies' are being extracted or forced out of the Earth, sometimes violently as a precursor to earthquakes. The only relevant warning that I am aware of is that in the planetary refresh process, the Earth is now emitting certain low frequency emissions that are damaging to the Human Energy Field. For those who understand that our energies fields are precious and hold morphogenetic information that acts as a guiding system for everything about us, then you will realise the importance of this warning at this time of evolutionary change. Hence, due to the electromagnetic chaos, various sources are encouraging us to activate our octahedron (diamond) energy field so that we will attract beneficial energies and deflect energies that do not support our evolutionary progression. This is explained in more details in my book, Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism & Spiritual Evolution

Scientist warns against overselling climate change
Climate change forecasters should admit that they cannot predict how global warming will affect individual countries, a leading physicist has said.
Telegraph, 4th December 2008

"Lenny Smith, professor of statistics at the London School of Economics, said that scientists risk "blatantly overselling what we know. That could bring everything down and cost the world valuable time". As the world gathers to decide a new way forward on climate change, he said the data produced by models used to project weather changes risks being over-interpreted by governments, organisations and individuals keen to make plans for a changing climate – with dangerous results. "They are certainly right on the basic story of global warming. Man-made climate change is real. "However, there is a risk that something important will happen that is not predicted by any of today's models – and they cannot give us trustworthy forecasts of climate for regions as small as most countries are. The bottom line is that the models help us understand pieces of the climate system, but that does not mean we can predict the details."
Comment: Obviously, I don't agree that global warming, which is often the term used for climate change, is man made unless we consider that the consciousness of mankind is so imbalanced that as the 'New Energy' hits the planet it is being 'tuned' in such as way to generate more chaotic and abberant climate and weather. Whatever, this statistican is warning of an unpredictable change – 'a black swan'. Yet, politicians, money makers and scientists are most unlikely to pay attention, unless something drastic happens. Personally, I think we are well on the way to something drastic and that is due to the dimensions merging. There is a whole spectrum of natural 'light beings' out there that are becoming visible... would the sudden appearance of new lifeforms be considered 'a black swan' by statisticians?

Polar regions key to understanding climate change, scientists say
Earth Times, 3rd December 2008

"Geneva - Changes taking place in the Arctic and Antarctica, as well as the unique conditions existing at those ends of the planet, make the polar regions key to understanding climate change and a host of other topics, scientists said. Polar weather influences climates in areas as far away as the tropics and changes will have effects across the world. [...] "We are trying to understand how the Earth system works," Salmon said, adding that "to understand climate change we need to understand all the interconnections," and better connect the public and researchers. [...] As part of the interconnectivity, scientists are also studying space weather, which can lead to improved television satellites and defense systems as well as increase understanding of Earth's weather patterns."
Comment: You have to look really hard and go beyond the ususal rhetoric, to find out what's really happening.

Environmentalism's Appropriation of Christianity
Ecofascism, December 2008

"The ecological reformation of Christianity," according to one scholar, "may be one of the most significant, though least noted events of this age." (1) The environmental movement has conducted a 50 year campaign to appropriate the world’s Christian Churches. This is a top-down affair involving the recruitment of key clerics, theologians, Archbishops, Patriarchs and Popes. The stakes are huge. Churches claim 2 billion followers and assets worth trillions (US$). The reformation is partly complete. While Churches now promote Ecology they have yet to convert most Christians into green consumers, activists and voters."
Comment: Personally, I think Christianity is trying to stay relevant, as they long ago lost interest in teaching spiritual truths that will enable their followers to reach their greatest potential.

Astronomer: "By far the most impressive event I have ever witnessed"
This is Cornwall.co.uk, 3rd December 2008

"AN AMATEUR astronomer says he was "transfixed" on Monday by what he describes as the most impressive event he has ever witnessed in the night sky. Dr David Billington was looking through a telescope from his home, The Watch House at Trevaunance Cove, St Agnes, when he saw a bright meteor with a persistent wide trail. As an amateur astronomer he has seen many meteors from his garden, all short and of one or two seconds duration, and always very narrow streaks of yellowish light across the sky. [...] Dr Billington was in his front garden at 9.25pm on Monday looking down at the ground at some wiring, and considering setting up his telescope as it was a clear night. "Suddenly there was a very bright flash illuminating the whole garden, at least as strong as a bright lightning flash. "I looked up and there was a bright trail in the sky. It looked like a solid bar of white light with clear green and blue lines also visible along its length on the edges of the bright blue-white core. There was no visible taper at either end." It was very wide, similar in width to an aircraft condensation trail. [...] "I was totally transfixed for several minutes as this was by far the most impressive event I have ever witnessed in the night sky, clearly the trail from a very violent atmospheric encounter with a relatively large object," says Dr Billington." See also 4th December, 'Meteor' burns up over Auckland
Comment: Something very different is happening and the experts are not sure what exactly these meteorite-like objects are because their characteristics defy conventional explanations. Whatever, this experts says it was big...

"On The Misconception That Planting Trees Worsens Global Warming"
Climate Science, 3rd December 2008

"Forests typically have lower albedo than other land surface types. This has led to the popular view that planting trees may worsen global warming (see Trees may warm the Earth, Snowy forests ‘increase warming’ and How trees might not be green in carbon offsetting debate). However, forests and climate influence each other through an interwoven web of energy, mass and momentum flows. In this web, no factor can act alone. Recently, Bonan (2008) provides an excellent review on the complex interactions between forests and climate."
Comment: Does the average person really think that planting trees is a bad idea? In reality, it's only scientists with political agendas that would twist the science to convey such blatant propaganda.

Memories may be stored on your DNA
New Scientist News, 3rd December 2008

"Remember your first kiss? Experiments in mice suggest that patterns of chemical "caps" on our DNA may be responsible for preserving such memories. To remember a particular event, a specific sequence of neurons must fire at just the right time. For this to happen, neurons must be connected in a certain way by chemical junctions called synapses. But how they last over decades, given that proteins in the brain, including those that form synapses, are destroyed and replaced constantly, is a mystery. Now Courtney Miller and David Sweatt of the University of Alabama in Birmingham say that long-term memories may be preserved by a process called DNA methylation - the addition of chemical caps called methyl groups onto our DNA."
Comment: If memories are preserved by DNA then it means they can also be effected by external electromagnetic forces coming from the environment and our own thoughts.

An international court to prevent climate change. Now that is a good idea.
William Briggs, 3rd December 2008

"Stephen Hockman QC—which, if you read Rumpole, you know means queer customer—is a European (I can't say Englishman, because an Englishman would not voluntarily cede his country's sovereignty to a foreign body) who is proposing to create an International Court of Environmental Justice, whose purpose will be to "punish states that fail to protect wildlife and prevent climate change."[...] I like creating the new court. In order to punish a group for creating an "unhealthy environment", a healthy environment must be defined. And in order to "prevent" climate change, climate itself must finally be explicitly defined. The idea of what it means to "change" must also be fully specified right down to the dotted "i"s and crossed "t"s so beloved of bureaucrats. Isn't that wonderful? Don't you see the beauty of this? Think of it. Right now, believe it or not, there is no legal definition of climate. There isn’t even a "scientific" one. That is, there is no consensus on exactly what climate is. Nobody—and I mean no body—has ever sat down and spelled out exactly, precisely what climate is, what it means for a climate to change, and what an ideal, healthy climate specifically entails."
Comment: William Briggs has a very good point, it would be most interesting to see lawyers fighting this one out.

Sun's Magnetic Field May Impact Weather And Climate: Sun Cycle Can Predict Rainfall Fluctuations
Science Daily, 3rd December 2008

"The sun's magnetic field may have a significant impact on weather and climatic parameters in Australia and other countries in the northern and southern hemispheres. According to a study in Geographical Research, the droughts are related to the solar magnetic phases and not the greenhouse effect. The study uses data from 1876 to the present to examine the correlation between solar cycles and the extreme rainfall in Australia. [...] Professor Baker adds, "This discovery could substantially advance forecasting from months to decades. It should result in much better long-term management of agricultural production and water resources, in areas where rainfall is correlated to SOI and El Niño (ENSO) events.""
Comment: Some weather forecasters already understand the connection between the Earth and the Sun's magnetic field and hence have high weather prediction success rates. See also 18 July 2008 report Sun Could Cause 15% To 20% Of Effects Of Climate Change, Researcher Says

Will the U.N. Chill Out on Climate Change?
WorldClimateReport.com, December 2, 2008

Excerpt: "10,000 people from 86 countries have descended upon Poznan, Poland for yet-another United Nations meeting on climate change. This time, it's the annual confab of the nations that signed the original U.N. climate treaty in Rio in 1992. That instrument gave rise to the infamous 1996 Kyoto Protocol on global warming, easily the greatest failure in the history of environmental diplomacy. Kyoto was supposed to reduce global emissions of carbon dioxide below 1990 levels during the period 2008-2012. But since it was signed, the atmospheric concentration of this putative pollutant continued to rise, pretty much at the same rate it did before Kyoto. [...] Since Kyoto, a very funny thing has happened to global temperatures: IPCC data clearly show that warming has stopped – even though its computer models said such a thing could not happen. According to the IPCC, the world reached its high-temperature mark in 1998, thanks to a big "El Niño," which is a temporary warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean that occurs once or twice a decade. [...] Even if the earth resumes warming at the pre-1998 rate, we will have nearly a quarter-century without a significant warming trend.
Comment: It's all getting a bit embarrassing. There is something major taking place, but the supposed climate change, measured by a warming globe has stopped, refusing to follow the computer models. Meanwhile there are reports of some serious snowfall, cold temepertures and flooding all over the planet peppered with some amazing climatic abberations. Meanwhile, UFO/UAP sightings are skyrocketing.... Instead, our world is facing evolutionary change, something that most politicians have no idea how to face.

Odd Comet Possibly from Another Star System
Space.com, 2nd December 2008

"The bizarre chemical make-up of a comet suggests the blob of ice is an interloper, possibly flung into our solar system from beyond, astronomers now say, adding that the wacky comet is forcing them to create a new category for such objects. [...] The comet, now bound in an orbit around the sun, is expected to come into view again in 2012, at which time Schleicher expects astronomers will point other instruments toward it to measure even more carbon-bearing molecules."
Comment: Most scientists believe extremely outdated theory concerning comets and so I would refer people to the research papers of James McCanney (now 3 decades old) and other Electric Universe theorists that can explain all the electrical phenomena like x-rays and sunward spikes associated with comets. Whatever, the only reason this story gets a mention is that this comet is due back in 2012 and it seems that all the comet activity in the 1990s was partly responsible for pumping up the activity of the Sun. Hence, it is interesting that scientists are already pointing out that this particularly comet that will arrive at the predicted peak of the next solar cycle. So despite the late start of this solar cycle, it's likely that this and maybe other wild card comet arrivals (that's why there are telescopes being placed on ice at the southpole), may give us some heightened solar action at least nearer to 2012.

Czech President: EU's Outspoken Global Warming Doubter
Deutsche Presse-Agentur, 2nd December 2008

"Czech President Vaclav Klaus, one of the most prominent climate change doubters, is about to get a new platform: the EU presidency. Others in the bloc worry that he could stall important climate talks next year. Klaus has called manmade global warming a myth and questioned sanity of Al Gore, the former US vice-president who received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for turning a spotlight on climate change. Most recently, Klaus expressed hopes the EU would give up its ambitious plan to spearhead the global struggle against climate change in the face of the global financial crisis."
Comment: There's some real panic out there, over someone powerful, intelligent and armed with the truth that we are facing evolutionary change....I am particularly thrilled about his appointment....

Highest tide in 20 years floods historic Venice
Yahoo News, 1st December 2008

"VENICE, Italy – Venice could use a bailout. The city built on water has too much of it. Residents and tourists waded through knee-deep water Monday as they navigated the city's narrow streets and alleys, and its historic St. Mark's Square was inundated. Boxes of tourist merchandise floated inside the flooded shops around the square and even the city's famed pigeons sought refuge on rooftops and windowsills. One of the highest tides in its history brought Venice to a virtual halt, rekindling a debate over a plan to build moveable flood barriers in an effort to save the lagoon city from high tides."
Comment: It would be interesting to know why the authorities had initially failed to forecast such a high water level. We have had excessive flooding worldwide this year but I have seen no specific reports blaming this on the lack of sunspots. However, when there are few sunspots, the solar wind is weakened which means that more cosmic rays hit the planet that form more clouds. The cosmic rays that form clouds are not powerful enough to create the evolutionary change that seems to be required to change the environmental morphogenetic fields. Yet, it seems that these ultra high energy galactic cosmic rays are now bombarding the planet and are being monitored by various teams of researchers worldwide.

Farmers Panic About a 'Cow Tax'
New York Times, 1st December 2008

"The comment period for the Environmental Protection Agency’s exploration of greenhouse gas regulation ended last Friday, with farmers lobbying furiously against the notion of a "cow tax" on methane, a potent greenhouse gas emitted by livestock. The New York Farm Bureau issued a statement last week (PDF) saying it feared that a tax could reach $175 per cow, $87.50 per head of beef cattle and upward of $20 for each hog. Such a tax would represent a "massive hit on our industry here in New York," said Peter Gregg, a spokesman for the farm bureau, in an interview."
Comment: Taxing burps and farts.....are humans next?

Solar activity may trouble Earth more
NDTV, 1st December 2008

"The Sun is beginning another 11-year cycle of activity and considering that the fiery star is to blame for some unfavourable climate changes on the Earth, the coming decade could spell more trouble for our planet. The first measuring instruments of the Sun's activity made their appearance 440 years ago. They showed that our nearest star treats the Earth to more than just solar eclipses. Sunspots, solar flares and other phenomena affect everything on the Earth - from atmospheric events to human behaviour. These phenomena are known collectively as solar activity." "On Aug 28, 1859, polar lights glowed and shimmered all over the American continent as darkness fell. Many people thought their city was aflame. The instruments used to record this magnetic fluctuation across the world went off their scales. Telegraph systems malfunctioned, hit by a massive surge in voltage. This was an actual solar storm. Its results for humankind were small, because civilization had not yet entered a hi-tech phase of development. Had something similar happened in our nuclear space age, destruction would have been catastrophic." "Now our dependence on radio electronic devices is so immense that increased solar activity could disable life-support systems all over the world, and not only on the surface. America has long been sounding an alarm, because the continent is close to the northern magnetic pole and most vulnerable to solar activity. A study by the MetaTech Corporation revealed that an impact similar to that of 1859 would incapacitate the entire electricity grid in North America. Even the relatively weak magnetic storm of 1989, provoked by solar activity, caused an accident at a Canadian hydro-electric power plant that left six million people in the US and Canada without electric power for nine hours.
Comment: Correction: These phenomena are known collectively as SPACE WEATHER! The only reason this report from Moscow gets an entry is because firstly, it states the sun is causing climate change and secondly that humans will be effected by solar activity. The Russians do not share the same need to politicise science and have done some excellent research in the past which explains the link between human behaviour, historical events and sunspots.

The Religion of Global Warming
Hawaii Reporter, 1st December 2008

"The religion of global warming is moving much faster than traditional religions. For example, as Ann Coulter observes, "It took the Catholic Church hundreds of years to develop corrupt practices such as papal indulgences. The global warming religion has barely been around for 20 years, and yet its devotees are allowed to pollute by the simple expedient of paying for papal indulgences called 'carbon offsets.'" (5) As with the system of papal indulgences introduced in the late Middle Ages, anyone with enough money can buy their freedom from damnation by purchasing enough 'credits.' This gives them an official license to continue sinning, by emitting excessive amounts of carbon dioxide, regardless of what a corrupt sham the whole system has become.(6) I recently saw a one-act skit in Oakland, CA, highlighting the absurdity of this practice. In the skit, folks who wanted to commit adultery could do so providing they found someone they could pay to agree to not commit the same sin; a perfect analogy with the religion of global warming." See also Beware the church of climate alarm
Comment: Are humans really this stupid? Yes, it looks like it....

Susan Joy Rennison, B.Sc.Hons. (Physics with Geophysics)

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“Space Weather is now a fact of life.”

“We are all astronauts now!”

“We must spiritually evolve as part of the new terms & conditions for living on Earth.”

“Space Weather will force many changes in how we do business on this planet.”

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“Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that's new to human history.”

“We're on the threshold of a new era in which space weather can be as influential in our daily lives as ordinary terrestrial weather.”

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