Military Must Prep Now for ‘Mutant’ Future, Researchers Warn
Wired News, 31st December 2012
The U.S. military is already using, or fast developing, a wide range of technologies meant to give troops what California Polytechnic State University researcher Patrick Lin calls “mutant powers.” Greater strength and endurance. Superior cognition. Better teamwork. Fearlessness.
But the risk, ethics and policy issues arising out of these so-called “military human enhancements” — including drugs, special nutrition, electroshock, gene therapy and robotic implants and prostheses — are poorly understood, Lin and his colleagues Maxwell Mehlman and Keith Abney posit in a new report for The Greenwall Foundation (.pdf), scheduled for wide release tomorrow. In other words, we better think long and hard before we unleash our army of super soldiers.
If we don’t, we could find ourselves in big trouble down the road.
Comment: We are the mutants... Human DNA is tied into the environment and there will be a lot of changes due to the general increase in cosmic radiation and cosmic rays so that some humans will be able to evolve quickly and survive... there are even a few stories of people with superpowers already emerging, see archives... I was surprised with the revelation of soldiers being given electroshock treatment... I suppose using universal energies on the human energy field is still a little too gentle and advanced as an alternative, even for the military...
Man Captures Video Of Strange Explosion In The Sky
CBS Sacramento News, 30th December 2012
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A Sacramento man scanning the night sky caught a sudden burst of light through his telescope. He recorded that strange sight with his smart phone.
CBS13 shared the video with experts to see if they could solve the mystery.
This mysterious little tale begins earlier this week when Good Day Sacramento’s Cody Stark got this message on Facebook: “I have something on video no one has ever seen. I had my telescope out, caught an explosion in space.
Comment: I am only bothering with this story because we are told, "CBS 4 also contacted a Vatican expert who said it could be some sort of light refraction." Pardon me? What!?! OK they could have contacted NASA, or NOAA or even the ESA or the US military, NORAD, US airforce or FAA, but they contacted the Vatican.... How long have the US media been informing the Vatican of plasmoids entering our atmosphere or out in space and exploding? Words fail... Now we have the excuse that this was a weather balloon that exploded and that is even worse... So.... that means CBS 4 contacted a Vatican expert to report an exploding weather balloon! BUT if this is true, it would fit in with the reports direct from Vatican experts who are well aware of the existence of Shadow Life and are busy trying to work out how to tell their faithful flock that there is another lifeform on this planet with some major peculiarities.... Please note: the Orb Phenomenon has been promoted by Míceál Ledwith & Klaus Heinemann in their book, ‘The Orb Project’. Heinemann is a NASA scientist and Ledwith is an ex Vatican theologian who claims to have a personal collection of 10,000 orb images. See archives for more background info.
Disaster for Lloyds TSB customers on New Year's Eve as technical glitch renders cashpoints and debit cards out of action
Daily Mail, 31st December 2012
* Credit in customers' accounts also appeared to have been wiped out
* Lloyds claimed the problems were resolved in an hour
* Latest glitch caps a calamitous year for Lloyds which was forced to set aside £1.4bn in compensation for mis-sold payment protection insurance
The New Year’s celebrations got off to a terrible start for many Lloyds customers who were unable to get their money out of cash machines or pay by card.
Gremlins in the state-backed lender’s computer systems left many stranded without money as they prepared for the biggest night out of the year.
Revellers also received a nasty shock when the credit in their current accounts appeared to have been wiped out.
The problems, which kicked off from 4pm, affected those with Lloyds TSB, Bank of Scotland and Halifax bank accounts.
Halifax and Bank of Scotland are both part of the Lloyds banking group, which has 22million current account customers and received a £20billion bail out during the financial crisis.
Comment: I keep reading about people who angrily state they will take their custom elsewhere but ALL the banks and building societies have the same issues with highly vulnerable computer systems due to spaceweather and specifically cosmic rays.... The biggest banks have the additional problem of old legacy systems that require extra effort and expertise to maintain. For more info, see the blog archives Best of the Blog
Space Weather, Electronics & Electromagnetic Chaos.
NYSE Trading Glitch Caps Year of Snafus for Exchanges
Wall Street Journal, 31st December 2012
Rival exchanges briefly stopped sending orders to the New York Stock Exchange as the Big Board experienced trading problems with more than two dozen stocks Monday.
The glitch, which was quickly resolved, came in the last hour of trading in a year that has been marked by technological glitches large and small.
Comment: The NYSE in trouble again....
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TOP STORIES 2012: The Year of the Glitch
Traders Magazine, 26th December 2012
There's a good chance the date Aug. 1, 2012, will be burned into the collective memories of stock trading executives just as much as May 6, 2010.
That was the day Knight Capital Group unintentionally built up a gross position of $7 billion in just 40 minutes as it lost control of one of its algorithms at the New York Stock Exchange. The market maker lost $440 million getting out of those trades, pushing it to the brink of collapse. [...]
Knight's gone-wild algorithm was the fourth prominent software glitch of the year and the straw that broke the Securities and Exchange Commission's back. [...]
The Knight fiasco followed the Nasdaq-Facebook fiasco in May, which itself followed the BATS Global Markets fiasco in March, which itself followed the Ronin Capital fiasco in February. (See Traders Magazine, September, for details.)
Why so many glitches all of a sudden? Were there, in fact, more than usual? Or has the media simply been more vigilant in covering computer-generated trading errors since the flash crash?
Comment: The question of 'Why so many glitches all of a sudden?' is what I have been trying to explain on this blog because it is not just trading platforms and banking systems, our modern technology infrastructure is now vulnerable to spaceweather and specifically cosmic rays and new solutions are required. For more info, see the blog archives Best of the Blog Space Weather, Electronics & Electromagnetic Chaos.
Birds fall from sky in Seymour
Dozens of starlings litter roadway and fields
The Mountain Press, 31st December 2012
SEYMOUR — Residents and those passing by near Dogwood Hills subdivision on Boyd Creek Highway Sunday afternoon were met with an unusual scene. Dozens of dead birds littered the highway and surrounding fields after falling from the sky.
Sgt. Robert Stoffle of the Sevier County Sheriff's Department said a call about the birds came in around 1:15 p.m. He said a witness reported seeing the birds in flight before turning back around to see them on the ground.
"It covered one lane of traffic," Stoffle said of the bodies of the birds. Estimates of the number of birds varied from between 30 and 60 up to 300. They appeared to be starlings.
While the vast majority of the birds were dead by the time The Mountain Press photographer arrived, several were still alive, convulsing and flopping their wings on the ground.
Comment: Over at SOTT.net this was given the headline
Double Deja Vu on December 31st? Up to 300 starlings litter roadway and fields in Seymour, Tennessee . I think we are back for a repeat of last year with dead birds littering roads and gardens and lots of reports of sky noises.... The interstellar wind blowing through our solar system at this time of year is exactly the same but Earth's unstable magnetic shielding and solar activity might be a little different and therefore could produce a different result so we will have to see what happens...
Waves in the Sky - Signs of More Cosmic Dust in the Atmosphere?
spaceweather.com, 30th December 2012
VAN GOGH CLOUDS:
On Christmas morning, Gene Hart of Jonesport, Maine, woke up early to enjoy the sunrise before opening presents. What he saw may have been the best gift of all. "There was a cloud formation showing a remarkable series of wave shapes," says Hart. "They were backlit by the rising sun over Moosabec Reach." He snapped this picture of the harbor using a 14-megapixel digital camera:
"I also took some 28x zoom images of the wave structure," says Hart. The close-ups are a must-see.
These clouds, sometimes called "billow clouds," are produced by the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability when horizontal layers of air brush by one another at different velocities. A better name might be van Gogh clouds: It is widely believed that these waves in the sky inspired the swirls in van Gogh's masterpiece The Starry Night
Comment: This is not just about fluid dynamics, the
Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is also a strong feature of strongly coupled dusty plasmas. There seems to quite a few reports of these clouds over the United States and fits the pattern of a lowered ionosphere over parts and the atmosphere generally showing signs of being more disturbed....
The political superstorm that devastated New York
WUWT, 29th December 2012
Sandy was merely the latest “confluence” (tropical storm, northeaster and full-moon high tide) to blast the New York-New Jersey area. It was never a matter of if, but only of when, such a storm would hit. [...]
If Sandy had been a category 3 hurricane like its 1938 ancestor, the devastation would have been of biblical proportions – as winds, waves and surges slammed into expensive homes, businesses and high-rises, and roared up waterways rendered progressively narrower by hundreds of construction projects.
Lower Manhattan has doubled in width over the centuries. World Trade Center construction alone contributed 1.2 million cubic yards to build Battery Park City, narrowing the Hudson River by another 700 feet. The East River has likewise been hemmed in, while other water channels have been completely filled. Buildings, malls and raised roadways constructed on former potato fields, forests, grasslands and marshlands have further constricted passageways for storm surges and runoff.
As a result, storms like Sandy or the Long Island Express send monstrous volumes of water up ever more confined corridors. With nowhere else to go, the surges rise higher, travel faster and pack more power. It’s elementary physics – which governors, mayors, planners and developers ignore at their peril.
Comment: This is just a nice summary of facts re superstorm Sandy and a reminder of some basic physics.... Thus, the author takes the opportunity to slap "Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Cuomo and other politicos" around the head for policies that pack more and more people into a densely populated area with very narrow corridors that in a high storm surge scenario channel water to make even more devastating disasters... the mentality is described as 'madness on steroids'. As usual, many of the comments here are thoughtful and informed... This one made me laugh:
polistra says:
December 29, 2012 at 2:30 pm
It’s always about status. High-status people always get what they want, and low-status people always have to pay for it. Takers and makers, though not in the way the high-status people use those words.
High-status people enjoy living on beaches for some reason that I can’t begin to comprehend. What’s so special about sand? If you want sand in your yard, you can live on high ground and put sand in your yard.
But then I’m a low-status person and can’t hope to understand the superior ways of superior people. So I’m going to pay for the high-status people to rebuild their billion-dollar McMansions over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. I’m not allowed to say that flood plains are places where floods happen.
What can you say to that? Also:
John West says: December 29, 2012 at 12:16 pm
Found this interesting, worth reading the article:
“The Seven Rules of Bureaucracy”
by Loyd S. Pettegrew and Carol A. Vance
http://mises.org/daily/5955/The-Seven-Rules-of-Bureaucracy
Rules of Bureaucracy
Rule #1: Maintain the problem at all costs! The problem is the basis of power, perks, privileges, and security.
Rule #2: Use crisis and perceived crisis to increase your power and control.
Rule 2a. Force 11th-hour decisions, threaten the loss of options and opportunities, and limit the opposition’s opportunity to review and critique.
Rule #3: If there are not enough crises, manufacture them, even from nature, where none exist.
Rule #4: Control the flow and release of information while feigning openness.
Rule 4a: Deny, delay, obfuscate, spin, and lie.
Rule #5: Maximize public-relations exposure by creating a cover story that appeals to the universal need to help people.
Rule #6: Create vested support groups by distributing concentrated benefits and/or entitlements to these special interests, while distributing the costs broadly to one’s political opponents.
Rule #7: Demonize the truth tellers who have the temerity to say, “The emperor has no clothes.”
This is a nice summary....
Sandy Tops List of 2012 Extreme Weather & Climate Events
Climate Central, 28th December 2012
From unprecedented heat waves that shattered "Dust Bowl" era records from the 1930s, to Hurricane Sandy, which devastated coastal New Jersey and New York, 2012 was the year Mother Nature had it out for the U.S. No country on Earth rivaled the U.S. in 2012 in terms of extreme weather and climate events, as one rare episode after another rocked the country.
Many served to highlight the growing role that global warming may be playing in tipping the odds in favor of high-impact weather events.
Comment: I am wondering whether the issue is not just about record breaking events but just more extreme weather....
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Top Ten U.S. Weather Events of 2012
Weather Underground, 21st December 2012
It was another year of incredible weather extremes unparalleled in American history during 2012. Eleven billion-dollar weather disasters hit the U.S., a figure exceeded only by the fourteen such disasters during the equally insane weather year of 2011. I present for you now the top ten weather stories of 2012, chosen for their meteorological significance and human and economic impact.
Summary: 1) Superstorm Sandy, 2) Warmest Year on Record, 3) The Great Drought of 2012, 4) Wildfire Season of 2012, 5) March 2 - 3 Tornado Outbreak, 6) June 29 Multi-State Derecho, 7) Hurricane Isaac, 8) The Non-Winter of 2011-2012, 9) April 30 - May 1 Severe Weather Outbreak [Ohio Tornadoes], 10) Late-Spring Freeze: Northeast/Midwest +++ Honorable Mentions
Dana Nuccitelli’s holiday trick for sobering up quick: put a little less rum in your egg nog
WUWT, 28th December 2012
When he argues that a reduction in forcing will cause cooling Dana Nuccitelli is not actually talking about drinking. He is talking about the solar forcing of global temperature, but the drinking analogy is a handy way to understand where his argument goes off the rails.
Mr. Nuccitelli, who blogs for the consensus-approved Skeptical Science website, was writing about Henrik Svensmark’s GCR-cloud theory of indirect solar forcing, where Galactic Cosmic Rays are hypothesized to seed cloud formation. If Svensmark is right then a strong solar wind, by deflecting some GCR from reaching the earth, in-effect blows some of the clouds away, letting more sunlight through to warm the planet’s surface.
Comment: Quite amusing and informative but tough if you are not familiar with some real climate science. My interest is the existence of the mysterious forcing mechanism that influences global temperatures... Some climate scientists have found a surprising link with Earth's magnetic field and the quickly accelerating North magnetic pole it's not just about cosmic rays and cloud cover.... Some of the comments here look like long extracts from research papers....
Avian flu virus learns to fly without wings
New Scientist, 21st December 2012
Potentially fatal bird flu viruses can spread on the wind, a hitherto suspected but unproven route of transmission.
Usually, people catch bird flu through close physical contact with each other or, much more commonly, with infected poultry.
The newly identified capacity for wind to spread it opens up a potential route by which the viruses can spread between farms.
The finding came about after Dutch researchers studied an outbreak of the avian flu strain H7N7 in poultry on Dutch farms in 2003, which resulted in 89 confirmed human infections including one death.
Computer models showed that wind patterns at the time of the outbreak explain how different genetic variants of H7N7 ended up on different farms (Journal of Infectious Diseases, doi.org/j3b).
Comment: Viruses can originate from space where they are manufactured in a comet or in comet tails and arrive in our atmosphere from a cometary fragment that explodes in our atmosphere. (BUT there is a lot of bacteria held in suspension in the upper atmosphere and scientists tell us that this bacteria is held up by strong electric fields and can act as condensation nuclei... therefore, some of this bacteia drops in rainfall on our heads too...) So, it looks like scientists are presuming that airbourne viruses have mutated from viruses already on Earth and are getting carried in the wind but this is just one scenario, it is not the complete picture... Due to a lot of perplexing falls of gunk in recent years, (see archives) scientists are getting a lot more vocal and declare that new unrecognisable viruses and organisms are most likely coming from space. For more background info, see the work of scientists who have been advocating the theory of Panspermia for decades and this includes Nobel Prize winners. Currently Prof. Chandra Wickramasinghe is a leading proponent.
Earthquakes, The Fuse That Ignites Volcanoes, Have Increased Worldwide
Guardian Express, 16th December 2012
Over the last couple of years researchers have gradually shifted from the decades old belief that asteroids killed the dinosaurs. As a former college history professor, I can confirm that almost all text books claim dinosaurs were killed 65-million-years ago by an asteroid slamming into the earth.
Today, research suggests that tens of thousands of years of lava flow from the Deccan Traps, a volcanic region near Mumbai may have spewed poisonous levels of sulphur and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and caused the mass extinction through the resulting global warming and ocean acidification.
The findings are the latest volley in an ongoing debate over whether an asteroid or volcanism killed off the dinosaurs in the mass die-off known as the K-T extinction, the ‘Live Science’ reported. [...]
The idea that volcanic eruption may have terminated life on earth for the dinosaur, simply wakes you up when you consider the true danger an eruption poses to civilization. It’s even more daunting when you grasp the fact that earthquakes are essentially the fuse that sets them off.
In recent weeks, worldwide earthquake data indicates an increase in the magnitude and a significant increase in the frequency (magnitude > 5.5) of earthquakes.
Current graphs clearly show an alarming worldwide trend of increasing earthquake strength and frequency. These results are in agreement with the USGS statistics page, which shows an increase in the frequency of stronger earthquakes (M > 5.0).
These trends also show that the depth of earthquakes has diminished, they occur closer to the Earth’s surface. Shallow earthquakes occur along fault lines and are due to the accumulation of stress. Earthquake waves can also propagate far enough to trigger other earthquakes; this may explain the noted increase in earthquakes.
Comment: Due to the rising seismic activity some scientists realise that we need to be more proactive and cap volcanoes before they spew their contents into the atmosphere and make living on this planet even more difficult, see archives for some recent reports... I would have liked some names or a title of a research paper so I could track down some statistics about this "alarming worldwide trend of increasing earthquake strength and frequency"... as this is quite an interesting statement that needs some independent examination because there are some seismologists trying to downplay the amount of seismic activity and other geoscientists who are alarmed... Electric Universe proponents might argue a little about the definition of an earthquake being a fuse.... because according to recent experiments, earthquakes are caused by underground lightning see archives and more below:
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Plan for quake 'warning system'
BBC News, 5th June 2008 Flashback!
Nasa scientists have said they could be on the verge of a breakthrough in their efforts to forecast earthquakes.
Researchers say they have found a close link between electrical disturbances on the edge of our atmosphere and impending quakes on the ground below.
Just such a signal was spotted in the days leading up to the recent devastating event in China.
They have teamed up with experts in the UK to investigate a possible space-based early warning system.
Many in the scientific community remain deeply sceptical about whether such signals are indeed indicators of an approaching earthquake.
But Minoru Freund, a physicist and director for advanced aerospace materials and devices at Nasa's Ames Research Center in California, told BBC News: "I do believe that we will be able to establish a clear correlation between certain earthquakes and certain pre-earthquake signals, in an unbiased way." [..]
Minoru and his father Friedemann Freund, also from Nasa Ames Research Center, developed the scientific theory behind these earthquake precursors. It boils down to the idea that when rocks are compressed - as when tectonic plates shift - they act like batteries, producing electric currents.
"We now pretty much understand the solid-state physics of these rocks," Minoru added.
According to their theory, the charge carrier is a "positive hole", known as a phole, which can travel large distances in laboratory experiments.
When they travel to the surface of the Earth, the surface becomes positively charged. And this charge can be strong enough to affect the ionosphere, causing the disturbances documented by satellites.
When these pholes "recombine" at the surface of the Earth, they enter an excited state. They subsequently "de-excite" and emit mid-infrared light particles, or photons. This may explain the IR observations.
Comment: The photon emission at distinct wavelengths might be a good explanation for the disco light displays (war of the world lights) that have started appearing around the world... So these would be photons that belong in the visible part of the light spectrum... presumably, there must be a relationship with quakelights... I have already found an alternative theory, but I will have to dig around for some more mainstream work...
In Praise of Empty Souls—Can We Learn From Psychopaths?
The New Republic, 14th December 2012
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The Wisdom of Psychopaths by Kevin Dutton, a research psychologist at the University of Oxford. Dutton’s eye-catching thesis is this: “Psychopathy is like sunlight. Overexposure can hasten one’s demise in grotesque, carcinogenic fashion. But regulated exposure at controlled and optimal levels can have a significant positive impact on well-being and quality of life.” Psychopathy, proposes Dutton, is “personality with a tan.”
Strangely, nowhere in this book about psychopathy does Dutton accurately define psychopathy, so I will do so here. Psychopathy is a disorder of brain and behavior, the central characteristic of which is the complete absence of conscience. All of its other pathological features (such as callousness, habitual lying, and ruthlessness) emanate from this defining deficit. Yet, as a tip-off to the major fallacy in his argument, Dutton does not once discuss the concept of conscience, and, in the entire body of his book he mentions the word itself—conscience—a total of four times, and then only in passing.
Comment: A book review of
The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success by Kevin Dutton where the author Martha Stout, is concerned about Dutton's efforts to put a positive spin on psychopathy. So, we are reminder that, "The reality is more literal: no one matters to a psychopath." Moreover, Stout writes: "In reality, a touch of psychopathy would mean a malignant streak of brutality, oiliness, predatory single-mindedness, callousness, carelessness, exclusive self-involvement, and clinical impulsivity. " I agree with Stout, we must not forget, psychopaths HATE real humans...
Grandmother 'comes back from the dead just minutes before post-mortem' after spending THREE DAYS in the morgue
Daily Mail, 29th December 2012
A grandmother has been brought back from the dead twice - and has even survived spending three days in a morgue.
The 61-year-old Russian woman has been declared dead twice by doctors, but each time has come back to life - and once was minutes away from being cut open for her autopsy.
Hardy Lyudmila Steblitskaya spent 3 days laying in a freezing cold morgue, while her family mourned the retired cook.
The mother's eery habit of returning to life has not only left her family torn between grief and hope that she may come back to life, but perplexed doctors too,
The Siberian Timesreported- She has scared both doctors, friends and family once in November last year and in October this year.
Comment: Hmmm.... So strange after the resent Daily Mail article abour zombies.... Well, this is another example of someone coming back from the dead, see archives for other examples.... Oh well, for those who want to do some research, there is ancient text that tells us there will come a time when there is no more death... this might just be the very start of something that might take thousands of years to come to fruition...
US sailors sue operator of Fukushima nuclear plant
The Australian, 29th December 2012
US Navy sailors who say they were showered with radiation from the exploding Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant during relief operations are suing its operator, Tepco, for tens of millions of dollars.
A lawsuit believed to be the first example of foreigners suing the Japanese electric utility over last year's tragedy has been lodged on behalf of eight sailors in a US federal court in San Diego.
The sailors were crew members of the USS Ronald Reagan, which played a pivotal role in the US government's massive tsunami relief program called Operation Tomadachi.
The aircraft carrier was dispatched to the coast off Fukushima in the days after the disaster but had to move on March 14 when it became clear from radiation readings that fallout from the plant had reached its location.
The US Navy said at the time that 17 of the ship's crew were exposed to "low-level" radiation but the total exposure was no higher than one month's absorption of normal background radiation.
Comment: This is incredible when we consider that people in the Fukushima prefecture are being exposed to huge amounts of radiation every single day but these US Navy sailors only received a low relative dose but still think they merit a huge compensation pay out...
Thousands without power in Austin area
KVUE News, 28th December 2012
"AUSTIN -- Crews are working to restore power to thousands of Austin residents.
Austin Energy says up to a record 50 pole fires sparked overnight due to dirt and moisture on equipment, causing power outages for about 5,000 customers.
As of 9:30 a.m. about 3,000 people were without power.
"The rash of fires is the result of a lack of rain over a long period of time," Ed Clark with Austin Energy said in a statement. "Dirt and dust builds up on the small devices (called insulators) that connect power lines to power poles. Misty conditions such as those experienced overnight can cause the dirt and dust to track across the insulator providing a pathway for electricity to move from the power line to the pole."
Comment: Poles lighting up like candles again... Yes, I did say before that this was St Elmo's fire, see previous comments....
Chinese scientists find evidence for speed of gravity
Space Daily, 28th December 2012
Chinese scientists revealed Wednesday that they have found evidence supporting the hypothesis that gravity travels at the speed of light based on data gleaned from observing Earth tides.
Scientists have been trying to measure the speed of gravity for years through experiments and observations, but few have found valid methods.
By conducting six observations of total and annular solar eclipses, as well as Earth tides, a team headed by Tang Keyun, a researcher with the Institute of Geology and Geophysics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), found that the Newtonian Earth tide formula includes a factor related to the propagation of gravity.
"Earth tide" refers to a small change in the Earth's surface caused by the gravity of the moon and sun.
Based on the data, the team, with the participation of the China Earthquake Administration and the University of the CAS, found that gravitational force released from the sun and gravitational force recorded at ground stations on Earth did not travel at the same speed, with the time difference exactly the same as the time it takes for light to travel from the sun to observation stations on Earth.
Comment: This is useful to know for those who prefer to consider alternative theory about the origin of existence.
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MIT researchers discover a new kind of magnetism
Space Daily, December 21, 2012
"Following up on earlier theoretical predictions, MIT researchers have now demonstrated experimentally the existence of a fundamentally new kind of magnetic behavior, adding to the two previously known states of magnetism."
University of Graz Responds to Parncutt’s calls for death penalty for “deniers”
WUWT, 27th December 2012
I [am] writing to you in protest of the remarks made by Richard Parncutt. While the university has done the right thing by removing these remarks from their website, that is hardly strong enough action. I’m sure you need no reminder that advocating for forced “re-education” and death penalties for one’s beliefs carries with it the stench of barbarism from history’s darkest chapters. I am not one of those who “deny” the science of global warming, in fact the opposite. But having studied the science closely, I’ve also concluded that many of the draconian measures proposed to mitigate global warming would themselves cause more harm than good. As a single example, we are already converting crops into bio-fuels, in essence burning the food while millions around the world are starving. Are the deaths of those people similarly on Richard Parncutt’s conscious? By his own standard, should he not be punished in the precise same manner he proposes to punish others?
The issues regarding climate science are many and complex. They deserve to be debated publicly. Indeed, it is crucial that they be debated publicly that facts, logic and science may prevail over politics, rhetoric, and in the case of those such as Richard Parncutt, hate speech reminiscent of last centuries darkest horrors.
The university owes the world not simply an apology for what appeared on their web site, but a strong and unequivocal statement denouncing this blatant attempt to silence the debate by threat of violence. – David M. Hoffer
Comment: The latest death threat for those who refuse to believe the climate fairy tales....
If there's an apocalyptic zombie invasion, rest assured, we're well
prepared
Daily Mail, 26th December 2012
Contingency plans emerge in response to enquiry from member of public
Cabinet Office would lead efforts to 'return England to pre-attack glory'
It's not often you hear of fears of a zombie invasion - and if you do, it's almost certainly on television. But in the event of an apocalypse brought about by an army of the undead, civil servants would co-ordinate the military's efforts to 'return England to its pre-attack glory'. The country's contingency plans for a zombie onslaught emerged in a response to an enquiry from a member of the public.
A Freedom of Information request has shown the surprising level of readiness for the eventuality. The Ministry of Defence would not lead efforts to plan for such a horror attack or deal with the aftermath, reported by the Daily Telegraph, because that role would rest with the Cabinet Office, which co-ordinates emergency planning for the Government.
The MoD replied to the FoI request: 'In the event of an apocalyptic incident (e.g. zombies), any plans to rebuild and
return England to its pre-attack glory would be led by the Cabinet Office, and thus any pre-planning activity would
also take place there. 'The Ministry of Defence's role in any such event would be to provide military support to the civil authorities, not
take the lead.
Comment: Hmmmm.... It is obvious to me that world controllers are preparing for something to happen. Obviously, there are two options, they can create zombies or more likely, they have access to information about the re-animation of the souls of the dead... I personally think it is latter and if we go back to ancient texts and the warnings that were encoded in the Bible, the phrase "the dead in Christ will rise" has always been a puzzle for me. I would like to see the original translation as best as is available, but I think this was a major warning about the life force energy (a crystalline energy.... remember there have been 10 years of plasma dust experiments on the International Space Station), hitting the planet in such a way that it could literally suck the life force out of people or re-animate those who are spiritually dead, whether that means even bodies lying in morgues I simply don't know.... Moreover, it is a fact that humans are regularly infected by viruses from space. Whether these viruses originate from: viruses being manufactured from material in the general space environment but distributed by the comet tail of Venus; other passing comets spewing material from the back of their tails; or small comets and meteors that explode in our atmosphere when they arrive. Whatever, we do know that this is continually happening as scientists often tell us they expect flu epidemics but often get it wrong yet, we have historical events like the Black Plague where the evidence suggests people in distant parts were simultaneously subjected to the same airbourne contamination. Currently, there is talk of a new horrible virus or disease in Africa where the skin turns yellow and eyes turn green.... that sounds very nasty.... Here is the ATS thread that discusses the strange medical symptoms and provide the original source links etc,
Epidemic Alert on Dec 24th that described victims eyes turning green...read on. Whatever, the fact that some governments are preparing for a zombie apocalypse has to be seriously considered by those with some spiritual intelligence...
Man-made tornadoes could one day power our cities
Electronic Products, 19th December 2012
Canadian engineer Louis Michaud has been working on one of the Earth’s natural disasters, tornadoes, as a source of power. In 2009, Michaud founded the company AVEtec and performed a successful test of an atmospheric vortex engine (AVE) that can harness the physics of tornadoes and their upward heat flow to produce cheap and clean energy. [...]
Now, after years of struggling to be viewed as a serious company, AVEtec has just received $300,000 in funding from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, to improve on the initial concept and build a working engine to prove the viability of using this technology to produce electricity with virtually no carbon foot print.
“The power in a tornado is undisputed," said Louis Michaud. "My work has established the principles by which we can control and exploit that power to provide clean energy on an unprecedented scale.”
Comment: Yet, another technology that needs to be seriously considered as the current modus operandi will fail as the geomagnetic conditions on this planet worsen, see archives for more information.
Englishman, 81, who was evacuated to Wales during the war awakes from massive stroke speaking fluent WELSH
Daily Mail, 27th December 2012
* Alun Morgan evacuated to Wales as child, but never picked up native tongue
* Diagnosed with aphasia, which causes shift in the brain's language centre
An Englishman has baffled doctors by waking up after a severe stroke speaking fluent Welsh despite having never learned the language.
Alun Morgan, 81, was evacuated to Wales during the Second World War but left 70 years ago.
During his time there, he was surrounded by Welsh speakers, but never picked up the native tongue
He left the country aged 10 and lived his life in England and recently suffered a severe stroke.
But when Alun regained consciousness three weeks later stunned doctors discovered he was speaking Welsh - and could not remember any English.
It is thought that the Welsh Alun heard as a boy had sunk in without him knowing - and was unlocked by the massive stroke. [...]
Doctors have diagnosed Alun with aphasia, a form of brain damage which causes a shift in the brain's language centre.
In 2012 grandmother Kay Russell, 49, of Bishop Cleeve in Gloucestershire, suffered a migraine and began speaking in a French accent.
Sarah Colwill, 35, of Plymouth, Devon, also suffered a migraine and began speaking with a Chinese accent.
Doctors say they suffered Foreign Accent Syndrome, a condition which damages the part of the brain that controls speech and word formation.
More than 150,000 people have a stroke every year in the UK, and a third end up with aphasia as a result.
Comment: More examples of people with Foreign Accent Syndrome which implies the numbers worldwide MUST be rising too.... The e-book version of my book has information and details about Foreign Accent Syndrome that includes my explanation for an apparent increase in these cases in recent years, see also Best of the Blog -
Brain & Neuroscience.
Erratic Environment May Be Key to Human Evolution
Live Science, 25th December 2012
At Olduvai Gorge, where excavations helped to confirm Africa was the cradle of humanity, scientists now find the landscape once fluctuated rapidly, likely guiding early human evolution.These findings suggest that key mental developments within the human lineage may have been linked with a highly variable environment, researchers added.
Olduvai Gorge is a ravine cut into the eastern margin of the Serengeti Plain in northern Tanzania that holds fossils of hominins — members of the human lineage. Excavations at Olduvai Gorge by Louis and Mary Leakey in the mid-1950s helped to establish the African origin of humanity.
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We find complementary forcing mechanisms — one is the way Earth orbits, and the other is variation in ocean temperatures surrounding Africa," Freeman said.
These findings now shed light on the environmental shifts the ancestors of modern humans might have had to adapt to in order to survive and thrive.
"Early humans went from having trees available to having only grasses available in just 10 to 100 generations, and their diets would have had to change in response," Magill said in a statement. "Changes in food availability, food type, or the way you get food can trigger evolutionary mechanisms to deal with those changes. The result can be increased brain size and cognition, changes in locomotion and even social changes — how you interact with others in a group."
This variability in the environment coincided with a key period in human evolution, "when the genus Homo was first established and when there was first evidence of tool use," Magill said.
Comment: Previous research has already established that climate change and evolution of all species of life on this planet are directly related. The reason being is that DNA is directly linked to the environment and when signals from the environment change if the corresponding version of DNA does not exist, then species go extinct. The science of somatic hypermutation is now scientific fact but the reasons why some species evolve and thrive during climate change and others go extinct are not known.
Huge pillars of light appeared December 17, 2012 near the town of Palotina, Brazil- VIDEO
HainanWel.com, 26th December 2012
Comment: This is very bright and I am not really satisfied with the standard answers, see Wikipedia,
Crepuscular rays,
Anticrepuscular rays & NASA's APOD, 2010 November 28,
Anticrepuscular Rays Over Colorado .
The Diamond
Michael Prescott Blog, 22nd December 2012
On a regular basis, I practice guided meditations, in which I try to achieve a mild trance state and then ask questions of a "spirit guide." I'm very much aware of the possibility – in fact, the probability – that much of the information I receive originates in my unconscious mind. However, I'm of the opinion that the boundary between the unconscious mind and the spiritual realm is pretty fuzzy, and that we can't access spiritual sources of information without going through the unconscious. [...]
During this time I practiced various meditations, and as I said, they were more vivid and clear than usual. In one case, I asked what my soul was like.
I was shown an image of a diamond, brilliant and multifaceted. But this was no ordinary diamond. It was alive. The facets, which were far more luminous than any real-life diamond's, were in constant motion. They were constantly shifting positions like the pieces of a mosaic, creating patterns that were intricate and harmonious. It did not appear that there was anything random about these patterns; rather, they seemed to involve the working-out of some larger scheme, much in the way that notes of music can be used to work out the themes and melodies of a musical composition.
I was told that this diamond was my true soul, and that the individual facets were merely contributing elements. The real me, the eternal me, was the diamond as a whole, even though I wasn't aware of it in everyday life.
Comment: Hmmm... I hope this is a genuine experience because it takes us back to the realm of genuine mystics who also saw the soul as a diamond... For various reasons, I now believe not everyone has a diamond soul.... it is something that has to be birthed.... I also believe the human diamond needs to be tuned to pick up the most divine frequencies in the cosmos... From Michael's description, I am wondering whether the patterns on the diamond facets are the so-called lightcodes or phosphenes.... Again, we are entering dangerous territory where some will misuse this knowledge and create the next big New Age mind virus or Socially Transmitted Delusion (STD)... This is a gentle warning and reminder for those who are still wide-eyd and naive and don't realise there are magicians in the cultic milieu who can make things seem very magical and enticing for spiritual children...
Weather goes haywire over Europe: scientists baffled by erratic swings of jet stream
Extinction Protocol, 25th December 2012
CLIMATE – From deadly cold in Russia, floods in Britain and balmy conditions that have residents in southwest France rummaging for their bathing suits, the weather has gone haywire across Europe in the days leading up to Christmas. The mercury in Moscow has fallen to minus 25 degrees Celsius (minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit) — unseasonably cold in a country where such chills don’t normally arrive until January or February. The cold has claimed 90 lives in Russia since mid-December and 83 in Ukraine, with eastern Eurasia in the grips of an unusually icy month that has seen temperatures drop to as low as minus 50 degrees C in eastern Siberia. Another 57 people have died from the cold in Poland this month, and officials say the icy front is probably “the most severe of the last 70 years,” according to Regis Crepet, a forecaster with Meteo-Consult. While the former Eastern bloc shivers and Britain fights severe flooding after heavy rains, holiday-makers and residents in the south of France and in Italy have dug out their shorts and swimwear to welcome an unexpected blast of beach weather. [...]
“The question: Is the waviness and the unusual configuration of the jet stream the result of climate change? We don’t know. The models are probably not quite good enough to tell us,” said Palmer, though there was “some evidence” this may be the case.
Unstable sea slab near Barrier Reef could cause monster tsunami in north Queensland
Extinction Protocol, 21st December 2012
AUSTRALIA – An enormous slab of sea floor is in the early stages of collapse off north Queensland, and could generate a tsunami when it finally breaks off, researchers warn. The one cubic kilometer slab – dubbed the Noggin Block – is the remains of an ancient underwater landslide, and sits perched on the edge of the continental shelf. Researchers discovered it while mapping the sea floor around the Great Barrier Reef. James Cook University marine biologist Robin Beaman says the slab will eventually break away from the Great Barrier Reef and when that happens it could generate a huge tsunami.
Comment: We have a continuation of the reports coming from geoscientists listing areas of the planet that could generate a natural mega-disaster. The comment here is interesting:
John says:
December 21, 2012 at 3:47 pm
"There was an excellent Australian movie released in 1977 called “The Last Wave”. It examined Aboriginal prophecy that predicted a giant wave would eventually destroy the coast of the continent.
UFOs many times appeared in Vietnam?
VietNam Net, 28th December 2012
More and more people in Vietnam have stated that they could see UFOs with their eyes, or could take picture of UFOs which they believed come from other planets.
Most recently, an UFO appeared on the sky in the central province of Thanh Hoa. A picture showing a strange flying object was made public. The author of the picture was Le Khac Dat, 19, who lives in Hoang Ha Commune of Hoang Hoa district.
Dat said the picture was taken at about 5 pm of December 9, 2012. Dat did not discover any strange thing when he took picture. However, later, when he reviewed the picture, he discovered an unfamiliar subject on the picture.
The original picture of Dat has stirred up the public. Local people thought that this was really an UFO from another planet, who came to learn more about human beings. Meanwhile, others believed that Dat used his Photoshop skills to fabricate the story about UFO. However, the people, who saw the original picture, said they could not find any signs showing that the boy made some changes to the picture.
Comment: More countries reporting internationally about their trouble with the strange lights....Some of these magnetospheric plasmoids look like they are swimming like tadpoles in Earth's atmosphere...
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Sri Lanka Air Force on a 24-hour vigil
News 1st, 12th December 2012
The Sri Lanka Air Force states that it is keeping a twenty four hour vigil regarding the unidentified lights that were witnessed in the skies over several parts of the country in the recent past.
SLAF Media Spokesperson Wing Commander Shiras Jalaldeen said that no unidentified airborne craft had been picked up on radar as yet.
Menahwile, unidentified lights were witnessed in the skies over several parts of the country, on Monday as well.
Will the World End on 21st December 2012?
Thunderbolts Info, 20th December 2012
Thoughts on the Origins of the Mayan Calendar
The sacred Mayan calendar based on cycles of 260 days and 360 days can be traced back to the Olmecs living in 800 BCE but the cycles themselves have no known counterparts in the real world today. The nearest naturally occurring cycles are the Earth year of 365.2422 days which is approximated as 365.2425 days in the Gregorian calendar; and the orbital period of Venus of 224.7 days.
Many early civilisations based their calendars on a 360-day year but in the case of the Maya this cannot be ascribed to ignorance of the true length of the year. They knew the year was 365.2420 days long, which is closer to the real value than our Gregorian calendar approximation!
Comment: This is some useful background info on the high precision astronomy of ancient Mayan calendars.
Rare Moon Haloes & Diamond
spaceweather.com, 24th December 2012
ODD-RADIUS MOON HALOS:
Many sky watchers have witnessed a halo around the moon--a ring of light that surrounds the lunar disk at a radius of 22 degrees. The phenomenon is caused by pencil-shaped ice crystals in cirrus clouds that bend moonlight. On Dec. 21st, Harald Edens of Magdalena, New Mexico, witnessed a rare double halo:
"Just after 7 PM local time I noticed a bright 22-degree halo around the moon," says Edens. "It was only when I started photographing that halo when I discovered a rare 9-degree halo inside the 22-degree halo."
The inner 9-degree halo is caused by ice crystals in the shape of pyramids. "Apart from the 9-degree circular halo, an 18-degree and perhaps a 35-degree circular halo were also present at times," he adds. All of these "odd-radius" halos are caused by icy pyramids.
The display quickly became even more varied. Edens saw at least a dozen different kinds of luminous rings and arcs, enumerated in his complete description of the event. "The display was highly transient," he notes. "Not only did the cirrus move fairly swiftly in the sky, but the halos - especially the odd-radius halos - appeared to come and go over the course of just a few minutes." But what a few minutes it was!
Comment: This is a combination of a highly electrified moon plasmasphere and a specific type of diamond dust in our atmosphere with a cosmic origin, see previous comments related to the not-so-rare-these-days atmospheric phenomena.
What Have We Learned From December 21, 2012?
Humberto Braga Blog, 22nd December 2012
From the perspective of being the manager at a spiritual bookstore witnessing the New Age 2012 craze at ground zero in West Los Angeles, I feel it incumbent to take the opportunity to lay out some observations regarding this period in time because all too often, I meet people like this:
Hello and Namasté dear New Agers,
Well… Here we are.
Dec 21st, 2012 has come and gone.
Are you “enlightened” yet?
Was there a “global awakening”?
Are you still in a human suit, marooned in Monkey Land, where governments kill, steal, and oppress? Where cultures distract and ensnare you with lies and myths to coerce your obedience through empty promises, convolution, illusory Left/Right paradigms, and fear?
Yep.
So, do you realize what it means?
It means these MANY YEARS of flashy “You Create Your Own Reality” and New Age marketing leading up to the “Awakening/ Ascension of 2012? was a MANUFACTURED LIE. The planets were never going to “align” and there was never going to be a worldwide global enlightenment on Dec 21, 2012. [...]
Just like Santa Claus, Religion, Nationalism, the Return of Jesus, and the “savior” Obama, it was just another disappointment in a laundry list of false saviors that promised to give you everything you were brainwashed to crave.
It’s about time you faced the objective facts, dear. Your mind has contracted yet another STD (Socially Transmitted Delusion)- 2012.
Who gave it to you? Daniel Pinchbeck? Gregg Braden? Richard Hoagland? David Wilcock? José Argüelles? John Major Jenkins? Drunvalo Melchizedek? Doreen Virtue? Barbara Hand Clow? Giorgio Tsoukalos (the big haired guy from the spurious show “Ancient Aliens“)? Lawrence Joseph? Terence McKenna? Or was it that emotional orgy of unquestioned wishful belief, pseudoscientific word salad, and a lot of partying at Burning Man & Lightning in a Bottle? [...]
After your latest binge of cultural intoxication to avoid anything “negative” that “lowers your frequency”, you’re perhaps still clinging to the “Insta-Enlightenment” afterglow, trying to save face by stringing along further speculation with lies and logical fallacies. You may be trying to defend the years of delusional nonsense that your worldview revolved around with vague Deepak Chopra-esque “quantum” terminology and New Age pseudospiritual “feel-good” over-generalizations that allow you to avoid the cognitive dissonance which comes from your subjective illusions falling to the inevitable confrontation with objective reality.
Comment: I picked this up at SOTT.net.... This is essential reading. Humberto Braga sums up the 2012 New Age delusion and names BIG NAMES in the New Age Milieu and castigates them for giving people another mind STD (Socially Transmitted Delusion) - 2012. (This is another expression for a mind virus, but far more provocative.... see my book review
Virus of the Mind.) In my opinion, this is not harsh, this assessment is fairly accurate... Meanwhile, real modern Mayan Elders with useful information were ignored and the real phenomenon of Space Weather was ignored. Presumably, there is little understanding amongst the BIG NAMES that we exist in a physical and spiritual universe that can be better understood by intelligent and educated people with some real knowledge...
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2012 – Collective Awakening or End of the World?
Piercing the Veil of Reality, 22nd July 2012
Bernhard Guenther has a good rant about the New Age movement in this article too and explains the origins of techno-spirituality that I also explained in my long essay Spiritual Evolution in the Cultic Milieu (August 2011). It seems that Guenther has also reached a deep understanding of some of the major issues facing humanity like the normalisation of psychopathy and most certainly, the New Age movement as a whole is part of the problem and not part of the solution. Since my own shock awakening to the existence of malignant narcissists and psychopaths, now seen by me as littering the cultic milieu as badly disguised angels of light, I have wondered who else out there has noticed the existence of the death angels and who even cares. Well, it does seem there are a few carers who are prepared to point out the dangers for genuine seekers and have drawn swords to fight back...
Phew, we survived! And now the virals have begun: Deadline passes for Mayan apocalypse without raining fire or killer earthquakes
Daily Mail, 21st December 2012
How predictable. While the apocalypse coinciding with the end of the Mayan age did not materialise today, a deluge of internet virals did.
Internet users around the world rushed to knock up weird and wonderful creations that saw the funny side when it turned out the world wasn't going to be besieged by raining fire or killer earthquakes.
For centuries, the ending of the Mayan calendar, which occured today, has been taken as a sign of an impending Armageddon.
Comment: Lots of photos that represent an interesting snapshot of a supposed Mayan Apocalypse.
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Forget the Mayan Apocalypse, the new date for doomsday is January 1 2017, claim Sword of God cult
Daily Mail, 22nd December 2012
Followers believe they will survive but everyone else will 'perish in hellfire'
Gloomy prediction follows worldwide anticipation of annihilation yesterday
Other forecasts are 2023, after death of the next pope and 4,500,000,000 AD
The world may have escaped Armageddon yesterday but the actual Apocalypse is nigh on four years away, Doomsdayers have claimed.
The new date for annihilation is January 1, 2017, according to followers of The Sword of God Brotherhood.
They believe the 'Prophet Gabriel' told the Brotherhood that the 'dying time' will come on this date and only members of the cult will survive, while everyone else perishes in 'hellfire.'
Comment: Of course, the business of spreading fear and lies has to carry on...
VIDEO: Massive Power Outages Near Annapolis
About 68,000 BGE customers in the county lost power Thursday night after blue and green lights filled the Anne Arundel skyline.
Edgewater-Davidsonville News, 20th December 2012
UPDATE (10 a.m. Friday)—More than 68,000 homes and businesses throughout Anne Arundel County lost power Thursday night after unexplained blue and green lights filled the skyline just before 9 p.m.
"We lost two of the main lines that feed into Annapolis and the surrounding areas," said Baltimore Gas and Electric's (BGE) spokesperson Rachael Lighty.
While there were still more than 1,600 BGE customers out of power in Anne Arundel County at about 6:30 a.m. Friday, nearly 67,000 customers had their power restored, according to BGE's online outage map.
By 10 a.m., the outage map showed only 359 customers without power and 68,340 with power restored.
"We do believe that we have located and isolated the issue," Lighty said early on Friday morning but couldn't say exactly what the issue was, only that crews would continue to work well into Friday.
Comment: Another incidence of the sky glowing different colours, first seen and described as "War of the World Lights" at Forth Worth, Dallas in May 2011. For more details and video links, see archives Best of the Blog
Space Weather, Electronics & Electromagnetic Chaos. Please note: as I have explained in the past, transformers do not emit photons at different wavelengths to light up the sky in different colours... This appears to be a new geophysical phenomenon but only if it can't be categorised as a new type of quakelight.
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Strange Lights Over Annapolis Maryland Dec. 20, 2012
YouTube, 21st December 2012
"Strange lights reported over the skies in Annapolis Maryland on December 20 2012. I know there was power outages there and around 2am where i live in Pennsylvania, also military base near by but please leave your thoughts on what you think this is. The witness said that the lights are moving across the sky."
Extreme Rainfall Event in Western Australia
Weather Underground, 17th December 2012
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology just released (December 17th) a special statement concerning recent extraordinary rainfalls that occurred in the southwestern portion of Western Australia on December 10-13 (last week). All-time 24-hour precipitation records were broken at several locations when more than 8” (200 mm) of rain fell in less than 24 hours. [...]
The area most impacted was the Bunbury to Collie region located about 80 miles south of Perth. Collie measured 157.2 mm (6.19”) on December 13th(126 mm/4.96” of which fell in just 12 hours). The town not only smashed its previous December daily rainfall record of 42 mm/1.65” (set on December 24, 1987) but also broke its greatest 24-hour rainfall for any month in a 106-year long period of record. The amount also broke its December monthly record of 80.6 mm (3.17”) set in 1913. [...]
This portion of Australia has a pleasant Mediterranean climate similar to the California south coast. Perth is Australia’s 4th largest city with a population of 1.8 million and is often cited as one of the world’s best places to live. It has an annual average rainfall of about 850 mm (33.5”) but December is normally one of its driest months with an average of just 13 mm (0.5”). So one can see how extraordinary this event is for the time of year.
Ironically, the 2nd greatest rainstorm to occur in the region over the past 100 years happened almost exactly one year ago on December 11, 2011.
Comment: I will echo the comments here that two extreme events within ~1 year might be coincidence, or some evidence of the new norm of "extreme weather", but at this rate we will find out soon enough....
Extreme Weather
National Geographic, September 2012
Rains that are almost biblical, heat waves that don’t end, tornadoes that strike in savage swarms—there’s been a change in the weather lately. What’s going on?
Comment: Hmmm... Reports of record breaking events at a local level have been going on for quite a while in the United States, but this report has no statistics and the overall statistics available don't show anything of great significance either.... This might be a problem of changing local extremes that disappear on a national level....
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Introducing The New WUWT “Extreme Weather” Reference Page
WUWT, 8th December 2012
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Ice Age Now
Latest headlines at Ice Age Now --- there have been lots of reports of excessive snow in recent weeks.
270km/h winds as Cyclone Evan smashes Fiji
News.comn.au, 18th December 2012
Next stop New Zealand...
More bad news for alarmists – no trend in global hurricane landfalls
WUWT, 17th December 2012
Below is the dataset from 1970 first presented in our paper, updated with 2011 and 2012 included. In short, 2012 is just about an average year with 14 total landfalls (15.4 is average) of which 4 (initially, but could change, 4.6 is the average) characterized as major. [...]
Anyone who’d like to argue that the world is experiencing a “new normal” with respect to tropical cyclones is simply mistaken. Over the past 4 years, the world is actually in the midst of a very low period in tropical cyclone landfalls — at least as measured over the past 43 years.
Comment: I will persist with WUWT reports because we get data and intelligent comments from people who understand climate science and the pitfalls of 'statistics'.... You know the maxim, there are lies, damn lies and then there are statistics... Personally, I want to understand the justification for why there is a new panic about "extreme weather" and if it is related to space weather... I actually watched the end of a documentary on TV about extreme weather and it talked about superstorm Sandy... What I noticed was a weak admission that there is an issue due to extra energy in the atmosphere... Anthony Watts and climate realists think this is a new form of the old climate scaremongering but I don't agree... If the new panic is really about Earth's weakening magnetic field and a magnetosphere that has recently starting to act like a sieve then the original CO2-is-causing-global-warming argument might be a millstone that world controllers have created for their own necks.... especially when there is no warming but big massive electrical currents (NASA's magnetic flux tubes) are coming in from space and interfering with the jet streams etc etc and the world's weather systems become even more unpredictable.... not necessarily pure chaos, just not as expected... Anyway, I noted the following comment from where the 2nd image icon originates:
azleader says:
December 17, 2012 at 10:57 am
I don’t want to rain on anybody’s parade, but…
http://www.pbase.com/azleader/image/147905297.jpg
That link is to a line graph of Pielke’s data above I made with Excel, including 2011 and 2012. It plots only the number of “Intense” hurricanes (Cat 3,4 and 5) by year since 1970. Then I added the linear trend line in red.
As you can easily see, there is a linear increase in the number of “intense” hurricanes over time just like that AGW alarmists say.
The reason for the trend is that 2004-2008 had lots and lots of intense hurricanes. Though it is true that intense hurricanes are down over the last 4 years, the bottom line is that, in general, the alarmists are right on this one.
There is a lot of discussion concerning azleader's post... The scientists who organised the 2011 geocatacyclsm world conference are already convinced and they have distinctly different hurricane graph. The graph for numbers of North Atlantic tropical storms between 1925 and 2007
link has a cut-off at 2005 and that is a bit naughty because hurricanes numbers dropped off just as quickly and apparently, we are in a hurricane drought of the most intense category 3,4 and 5s... At the moment, I will say the jury is still out.... We are now waiting for official reports about Superstorm Sandy because hurricane metrics were blown up as meteorologists say they have never seen anything like Sandy before...IF Sandy is indicative that we will see strange weather anomalies, then there is no point trying to talk about trends... the past cannot be used to predict with accuracy what will happen in the future...
Strange
orange clouds appeared over Ankara, Turkey at December 14, 2012
hainanwel.com, 17th December 2012
On the Internet appeared the video, which, according to the author of this video, shows the unusual and strange
orange cloud (UFO?) in the form of concentric rings of orange color, which appeared over the city of Ankara in
Turkey at December 14, 2012, THE VIDEO:
Comment: This video is stunning almost shocking IF it is genuine... It reminds me of something similar that fell down from the sky at Toulouse, France.... that caused a sensation too, see below:
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Strange orange clouds appeared over Ankara, Turkey at December 14, 2012
YouTube, 14th December 2012
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UFO Transient Luminous Event in the Toulouse Sky?
SOTT, 20th January 2009 Flashback!
"The object was seen in Villemur, Montauban and the Tarn department.
The remnant of a spacecraft? A meteorite fragment? Little green men?
Questions remain after a mysterious apparition literally pierced the sky in the area North of Toulouse, last Saturday in the late afternoon. Several persons witnessed what most of them would later describe as a "big red light falling from the sky". The object was not only seen in Montauban, but also around the Tarn border and in Villemur-sur-Tarn, where Martine, a resident who was coming home from shopping, reported:
"Suddenly, I saw a kind of red square shining like fire. The object formed an arc in the sky. It was really, really big. I'm a a rational person and I don't believe in aliens. But I'd like to know what it was..." So would many witnesses. In Toulouse's Jolimont observatory, Laurent Koechlin saw the strange UFO too. He confirms, while remaining cautious.
Comment: Unfortunately at the moment, the media are stating that any new phenomenon in the sky is a UFO. On first appearance, this looks like a Transient luminous event, the halo shape puts it in the category of elves, normally found at 100 km in the region known as the 'E region' of the ionosphere and scientists have only recently acknowledged this new phenomena since 1989 and are still cataloguing new variants.
Mysticism, Internet fuel Mexico's Maya "Armageddon" fears
Reuters, 17th December 2012
(Reuters) - A few words by an American scholar, a crumbling Mexican monument and the love of a good yarn were all it took to spawn the belief that the world could end this week.
December 21 marks the end of an age in a 5,125 year-old Maya calendar, an event that is variously interpreted as the end of days, the start of a new era or just a good excuse for a party.
Thousands of New Age mystics, spiritual adventurers and canny businessmen are converging on ancient ruins in southern Mexico and Guatemala to find out what will happen. [...]
Still, the mix of religion, ancient inscriptions and media-driven speculation about impending doom remains potent.
"I got an email the other day from a mother who was contemplating taking her own life, because she didn't know what was really going to happen, she didn't want her children to live through this ordeal," said David Stuart, a Maya expert at the University of Texas. "We can dismiss it as a kooky idea, which it is, but they're still ideas and they still have power."
Comment: After reading this article, I think the headline should include something about vulnerable people and exploitation... I have never heard of a young Maya expert named Michael Coe who wrote in the 1960s, "that to the ancient Mesoamerican culture the date could herald an 'Armageddon' to cleanse humanity." Is that where people like McKenna and Arguelles originally picked up the idea? I have read a lot but obviously, the rabbit hole is very deep if this is true....Well, maybe Mayan academics should have got more involved instead of allowing the likes of Jenkins et al. with no academic qualifications to help hype up a Mayan Apocalypse...
Overall, I really don't think there is much 2012 hysteria at all... it seems that the internet can create hype quickly but also dissipate it quickly too... I think the real issue now is that those who helped to fuel the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse hype now know about space weather and to maintain some credibility are being forced to re-engineer their stance... Whatever, it is impossible to overlook the Mayan warning of an Age of Aether or Space combined with the reality of space weather. Thus, it is truly obvious that there are many who don't understand much science or astronomy, or anything much about a spiritual universe. The metaphysical community managed to hype a lot of bad astronomy and space physics concerning a Photon Belt but this hype has now dissipated like the hot air that it was... As I have blogged, the Mayan calendar end-date marks the official end/start of a major 5,125 year period, but because it is ultimately about an energy shift, most of that shift took place over a 25 year period and 'coincides' with the onset of severe space weather and many major changes that have been documented to have occurred in our solar system. On Earth, we have reached the stage where it is now public knowledge that there is concern about living on a high energy planet where whole nations are ill-prepared for mega-disasters.... I have mentioned some of the spiritual implications in my book
Tuning the Diamonds and on this blog, but more people with Spiritual Intelligence need to contribute and so far I not seen much that I think is impressive...
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Mexico's Mayas face Dec. 21 with ancestral calm
Yahoo News, 15th December 2012
UH-MAY, Mexico (AP) — Amid a worldwide frenzy of advertisers and new-agers preparing for a Maya apocalypse, one group is approaching Dec. 21 with calm and equanimity — the people whose ancestors supposedly made the prediction in the first place.
Mexico's 800,000 Mayas are not the sinister, secretive, apocalypse-obsessed race they've been made out to be. [...]
Oprah Winfrey's website got into the act by publishing a list of "Apocalypse Dinners." It says: "Whether the world is really ending or whether you're just having a busy week, these six make-ahead meals from cookbook author Lidia Bastianich freeze well and feed many." [...]
Expectations are also running high in New Age circles.
Shantal Carrillo helps her mother, The Venerable Mother Nah-Kin, run the Kinich-Ahau spiritual center in Merida, and hopes to lead hundreds of people in an energy-renewing ceremony at the "dawn of the new era" at the Mayan ruins of Uxmal. They hope Uxmal, whose rounded-edge pyramid is unique in the Maya world, will act as an "antenna" for cosmic energy.
"We have performed ceremonies for many years to reactivate the pyramid at Uxmal as an antenna, because it had been unused for many years," said Carrillo, who expects Dec. 21 "to give the world an injection of this energy" by having hundreds of people hold hands at the foot of the pyramid.
It's unclear whether archaeological authorities will allow such ceremonies.
Comment: Apocalypse Dinners..... as suppose this is the type of triviality we can expect from certain quarters.... Btw, New Agers are not needed to activate pyramids. The key is understanding some sacred and esoteric science and the finished pyramid will work on it's own as we have seen elsewhere.... These New Age 'activation' ceremonies are just an excuse for a jolly... Yahoo News has a whole collection of Mayan Apocalypse articles available on the sidebar....
Great Nepalese quake of 1255 points to Himalayan risk
Space Daily, 16th December 2012
A mega-quake in 1255 that wrecked the Nepalese capital, wiped out a third of the population of Kathmandu Valley and killed the country's monarch, King Abhaya Malla, was of a kind that may return to the Himalayas, seismologists reported on Sunday.
Comment: This is the latest risk assessment report in a region of known mega-earthquakes.... This is curious... "The study says it takes probably takes centuries for the strain to accumulate before another bust occurs, if the evidence of the surface turnover is a guide." This ambiguity implies that seismologists don't know exactly where the energy comes from to cause the strain in the first place and there is an element of guess work, but we do know that there has been lots of new energy being absorbed by the planet in recent decades....
Black snow befalls
Siberian city twice in a week
Moscow News, 14th December 2012
Black snow covered the ground in the Siberian city of Omsk on Thursday night, making local residents worry for the second time this week.
On Wednesday, grayish fall-out was seen in another district of the second largest city of Russia’s Asian territories, RIA Novosti reported.
But though suspects for this gloomy snowfall – one of Russia’s largest black carbon manufacturing plant and a local power station – are being checked, the reasons for the most recent tinted precipitation in the Oktyabrsky district are yet to be found.
“Calls about the strange snow keep on coming, indeed, from the district’s residents,” a spokesperson for the local branch of the Federal environmental watchdog, Rosprirodnadzor, told RIA Novosti on Friday.
Comment: I have blogged about funny coloured snow before and we are given a short round-up here...
Nearly four in 10 U.S. residents blame weather on "end times"
Yahoo News, 13th December 2012
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Nearly four in 10 U.S. residents say the severity of recent natural disasters such as Superstorm Sandy is evidence the world is coming to an end, as predicted by the Bible, while more than six in 10 blame it on climate change, according to a poll released on Thursday.
The survey by the Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with the Religion News Service found political and religious disagreement on what is behind severe weather, which this year has included extreme heat and drought.
Most Catholics (60 percent) and white non-evangelical Protestants (65 percent) say they believe disasters like hurricanes and floods are the result of climate change.
But nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of white evangelical Protestants say they think the storms are evidence of the "end times" as predicted by the Bible.
Overall, 36 percent point to end times and 63 percent to climate change.
Comment: If religious establishments and the rest of the cultic milieu taught that we live in a spiritual universe that operates on cycles, then people would know that the "End Times" and "Climate Change" are not mutually exclusive...
‘Red rain from outer space - Prof. Chandra Wickramasinghe
The Nation, 16th December 2012
The peculiar ‘red rain’ is a novel phenomenon for Sri Lanka. The Medical Research Institute said it contained some kind of algae. And very recently, Industrial Technology Institute also announced that it contains heavy elements such as arsenic and silver. Is it possible these elements to enter the atmospheric clouds? What kind of algae is it? What is the real reason for such an event?
The Nation had an opportunity to ask the said questions from the principal investigator, who studied the red rain occurred in Kerala some years ago, a Sri Lankan-born British astrophysicist and astrobiologist, currently the Director of the Buckingham University Centre for Astrobiology, Prof. Chandra Wickramasinghe.
Q. How would you explain the red rain phenomenon recently occurred in Sri Lanka?
We haven’t investigated red rain in Sri Lanka yet, but I have been very closely involved in the red rain studies in Kerala, southern province of India. This took place in 2001 and 2008. Samples of that red rain were sent to me for investigation. I had a big team of investigators working with me. Although we were in possession of the samples for several years we have still not identified what sort of organism it is.
It’s a living organism, we have been able to replicate it and we found that it multiplies in a temperature up to 120 0C at least, perhaps more than that. I think this is a very strong case that micro organism from space made their way down to the Earth with the red rain. These organisms had probably originated in a comet or a piece of a comet that exploded in the atmosphere. This is my conclusion for the red rain in Kerala. [...]
Q. Is this a rare occurrence?
It became common only recently. The Kerala red rain made headlines and then the Sri Lankan red rain. It hasn’t been talked about but it doesn’t mean it has not happened. If you have small showers of pinkish rain people tend to ignore it. However the Sri Lanka rain was very red.
But historically there have been stories of blood falling from the skies. Even in the bible rain of blood has been talked about. I think it has happened in the past.
Comment: Hmmm.... raining blood as part of the many signs that there are dramatic changes taking place in the cosmic environment of Earth.... I still think we are experiencing an interstellar debris field because the dramatic increase (9,000 asteroids are passing Earth at any one moment) has to be caused by a massive disturbance. I suspect the cause is the incredible magnetar blasts NOT Planet X because the magnetar blasts we have experienced in recent years are FACT and the resultant aetheric/dark matter tide is what we can expect for the low speed material that must also affect floating cosmic debris sending it in our direction... Presumably, some comets have been knocked off their usual trajectory too...
Parents who are horrified by real violence are drowning their children in simulated violence
Natural News, 16th December 2012
(NaturalNews) The great contradiction in the recent Newtown, Conn. elementary school shooting is that many of the parents who are horrified at violence directed at their children are the very same parents who allow their children to inundated with simulated violence from every imaginable direction.
Many of the very same kids who were seen crying after the shooting incident will go home and watch simulated murder on television, where mass murder is considered "normal" and "acceptable."
Beyond simulated violence on television, children are also routinely exposed to violence through Hollywood movies. The violence in movies has dramatically escalated over the past two decades, to the point where movies that are considered PG-13 today would have been rated "R" just twenty years ago.
The message? It's okay for children to witness mass murder on the big screen, over and over again, while dosing them up with mind-altering psychiatric drugs that we already know are linked to violent thoughts and suicidal behavior.
Comment: Obviously, there is a lot of focus on the reasons for the latest mass murder of children in the United states but a few are choosing to point out the normalisation of violence in our societies....
Psychiatry goes insane: Every human emotion now classified as a mental disorder in new psychiatric manual DSM-5
Natural News, 13th December 2012
Former DSM chairperson apologizes for creating "false epidemics"
Allen Frances chaired the DSM-IV that was released in 1994. He now admits it was a huge mistake that has resulted in the mass overdiagnosis of people who are actually quite normal. The DSM-IV "...inadvertently contributed to three false epidemics -- attention deficit disorder, autism and childhood bipolar disorder," writes Allen in an
LA Times opinion piece.
He goes on to say:
The first draft of the next edition of the DSM ... is filled with suggestions that would multiply our mistakes and extend the reach of psychiatry dramatically deeper into the ever-shrinking domain of the normal. This wholesale medical imperialization of normality could potentially create tens of millions of innocent bystanders who would be mislabeled as having a mental disorder. The pharmaceutical industry would have a field day -- despite the lack of solid evidence of any effective treatments for these newly proposed diagnoses.
All these fabricated disorders, of course, result in a ballooning number of false positive. As Allen writes:
The "psychosis risk syndrome" would use the presence of strange thinking to predict who would later have a full-blown psychotic episode. But the prediction would be wrong at least three or four times for every time it is correct -- and many misidentified teenagers would receive medications that can cause enormous weight gain, diabetes and shortened life expectancy.But that's the whole point of
psychiatry:
To prescribe drugs to people who don't need them. This is accomplished almost entirely by diagnosing people with disorders that don't exist.
Comment: I was going to ignore this until I read that someone confessed to creating three false epidemics... I mean that is incredible.... Medical fraud on a HUGE scale....
Global network to track Sun’s effect on Earth
European Space Agency, 12th December 2012
Next year the Sun enters the most active phase of its 11-year cycle. ESA is establishing a worldwide chain of monitoring stations to give a ringside seat to see how this solar activity affects our upper atmosphere, and assess the consequences for satellite navigation and communications.
ESA’s Monitor project will track changes to Earth’s ‘ionosphere’, a shell of plasma towards the top of the atmosphere.
Its sensor station network is being set up in advance of the next solar maximum, predicted for mid-2013.
“The current Monitor network is still being developed but has already been detecting mild ionospheric storms,” said Roberto Prieto-Cerdeira, heading the project.
Monitor stations work by measuring variations in GPS signals with greater accuracy than existing systems.
“We are placing sensor stations around the globe, but the vicinity of the equator is a particular focus of interest,” added Roberto. “It exhibits much more dynamic behaviour than the mid-latitudes.
“So we have established stations at Cape Verde off West Africa and Malindi, Kenya, on the other side of the continent.
Comment: There are reports of these plasma bubbles (like soap bubbles) appearing in the skies and the phenomenon is quite spectacular, see archives...
Sun storm threat to GPS: Space agency plans global network to study effects of 'solar max' on satellite communications
Daily Mail, 14th December 2012
The Sun reaches the most active period of its 11-year cycle in summer 2013
Increases in the number of sunspots will cause changes in the ionosphere that could interfere with radio transmissions from space
GPS relies on transmissions timed to the split-second, and there are fears the interference could case serious problems with navigation.
Comment: The Daily Mail version has a few more pictures....
Ohio witnesses say sphere 'dripping plasma' while crossing sky
UFO Examiner, 12th December 2012
Two Ohio witnesses at Milford reported watching a "flame colored sphere" that appeared, disappeared, and reappeared in various positions moving east while "some type of plasma or material was dripping or pouring from the bottom" beginning at 6:55 p.m. on December 12, 2012, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witnesses were outside when the object was first seen.
"It was visible for a few seconds, disappeared very briefly and came back as two," the reporting witness stated. "A couple seconds later it vanished and appeared again, much farther to the east, as one sphere this time."
The object then disappeared. [...]
December 12. 2012, 6:55 p.m., Milford, OH - A flame colored sphere that appeared to change into two spheres, disappeared, then reappeared further off in the distance as one orb, disappeared again, appeared closer yet again and looked like it was discharging something from the bottom, became two. Case 44496.
My mother and I were outside taking out the trash when she told me to look up and asked, "whats that?" I looked up and observed a flame colored sphere, almost star like. It was visible for a few seconds, disappeared very briefly and came back as two. A couple seconds later it vanished and appeared again, much farther to the east, as one sphere this time. Then disappeared again and came back very close to its original position, this time appeared to have some type plasma or material dripping or pouring from the bottom. At this point it appeared as two again, lasted for maybe 7-8 seconds and then vanished for good.
Comment: I can't resist UFO/UAP reports where intelligent people state exactly what they see... Please see my archives and especially when I refer to the existence of magnetospheric plasmoids that the military and scientists worldwide generally call Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP),
Best of the Blog - Orbs, UAP & UFO Traffic) &
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena [UAP] Index Page.
Apocalypse made in Japan
Japan Times, 9th December 2012
A world-ending cataclysm is common to many mythologies. The Biblical flood narrative is the best known and follows a fairly typical pattern: wrathful deity, mass destruction, surviving remnant — in this case the righteous man Noah and his family. We gather from these tales that life to early humans felt dreadfully precarious — more so, even, than it may feel to us.
Japan's mythological account of the world on the brink of annihilation is in a class by itself. Other stories of its kind are tragic, terrifying. Japan's is comic, even bawdy.
The sun goddess goes into hiding. She has been offended by her brother the storm god, an unruly, malicious spirit who damages his sister's rice fields and fouls the hall where she has been celebrating the festival of first fruits. Outraged, the sun goddess withdraws into a cave. If that's the way the world is, she will decline to shine on it. The "eighty myriads of gods" take counsel. How can they lure her out? One of them, the "Dread Female of Heaven," lights a fire and dances a lewd dance, at which there is such hearty divine laughter that the sun goddess can't resist a peek outside to see what's going on. She is seized and dragged out, and the world is saved. [...]
Buddhism teaches a descent from a golden age of the True Law (Shoho) through a lesser age of the Imitative Law (Zoho) to an apocalyptic age called Mappo — the Latter Days of the Law. "In the Latter Days of the Law," wrote a ninth-century Japanese cleric, "there will be none to keep the Buddha's commandments. If there should be such, they will be as rare as a tiger in a market place." Or as the modern historian G. Cameron Hurst III put it (in an article in "The Cambridge History of Japan," 1990), "Time was conceived of as an inexorable process leading to the final conflagration of all worlds."
Comment: I think the mythology here retains the memory of days of darkness as part of planetary conflagration/shift, but the Sun is expected to re-appear and this is exactly what Mayan Elders think will happen at some point too... Here, we are also told about the Buddhist version of the Hindu Yugas that describe vast periods of time where it is apparent there is a flux in cosmic consciousness and the consequence is that levels of spirituality measured as human morality varies enormously. All major religions have conserved teaching that in the final stages before a Golden Age arrives, people are extremely corrupt and quite frankly the conflagration is caused by a mismatch when very high quality cosmic consciousness hits the planet and there is some serious sorting out of the wheat from the chaff.... All very Biblical and explains Christian priests using a final "judgment" scenario to terrify parishioners into being good citizens...
As I have explained on this blog, the highly encrypted religious text provide details about astronomical events, long astronomical cycles and what we can expect... Today, NASA has already informed us there is virtually nothing on the planet that is not being affected by Spaced Weather.... If you have done enough work and your brain can handle the integration of lots of information, you will know that this all adds up... Sorry, I am not focusing on specific texts but look around on the internet because there are a few who do understand this and are sharing their research.
Increasing resilience: A national imperative
Earth Magazine, 18th November 2012
Over the past several years, the concept of resilience has increasingly captured public attention. Even fitness clubs are advertising resilience to get you in the best shape of your life — able to handle anything that comes your way. The same resiliency that helps individuals — being mentally, physically and financially prepared, and having a disaster-recovery plan — applies to communities and even to nations.
In August, a committee of the
National Resource Council (NRC) of the National Academies released a report in which the authors (myself included) looked at how communities can increase their resilience to natural disaster.
The committee outlined a plan for becoming more resilient over the next two decades, but that work must begin today.
In the report, “
Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative,” the NRC committee defined resilience as “the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events.” Resilience is thus broader than preparedness, as it implies an innate ability to absorb and adapt to an array of impacts, whether anticipated or surprising. [...]
Resiliency starts at the individual level, but the greatest impact is at the community level; to be resilient as a nation, we must be a nation of resilient communities. From a hazards perspective, a number of factors feed into resiliency.
Comment: I have only just found this website with a collection of interesting and relevant articles, but it seems the message coming from the scientific mainstream is that there is an urgent need for nations to be prepared for disasters... Who knew?
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Being prepared to face disasters: Superstorm Sandy won't be the last
Phys.Org News, 30th November 2012
The financial costs of Superstorm Sandy now exceed $60 billion, with the estimate continuing to climb. Given that the U.S. population is growing, with new buildings and infrastructure added to the national inventory every year, the cost of natural and human-caused disasters will only increase if the country isn't better prepared.
Facing inevitable future disasters – but with far greater civic resilience – is the topic of an internet-accessible event held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., starting at 9 a.m. Friday, Nov. 30.
USC's Susan Cutter will address the audience at the event, which will include panel discussions with officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Ralph J. Cicerone, the president of the National Academy of Sciences, will give opening remarks and Miles O'Brien, science correspondent for PBS NewsHour, will moderate the panels.
Comment: In a way it has been a relief to discover major reports being presented to world governments that make it very clear that there is a new imperative because this planet has shifted gear and humans can expect more mega-disasters in the future. Despite the vast amount of foolishness being presented by many in the metaphysical community/cultic milieu, it does seem there were a few sources who provided some clarity... So, even though the Disaster Resilience Summary is the product of two years of work, and provides a roadmap of "how to move the nation from reactive to proactive approaches to disasters, with the ultimate goal of diminishing their burden on society", we don't get an explanation for what has changed... Thankfully, the Geocataclysm 2011 report makes it very clear, and the summary for natural factors in global climate change is a useful synopsis in terms of understanding the consequences of living on a planet that is experiencing energy driven evolutionary change. Thus we read:
12. The role of natural factors in global climate change:
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- The role of Earth’s volcanic activity in global climate change is significantly higher than suggested in IPCC reports.
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- Increased degassing of the mantle during the periods of intensification of Earth’s endogenous activity can be one of the main factors causing global temperature changes. This process occurs as a result of the following: growing number of volcanic eruptions; increased seismic activity and higher rate of gases entering the atmosphere through deep faults in the crust; deep gases penetrating into the world ocean and subsequently the atmosphere as a result of intensification of the spreading processes. All this ought to result in higher amount of greenhouse gases released from the mantle into the atmosphere.
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- An important role in climate change is attributed to global changes in the parameters of the geomagnetic field and magnetosphere; this refers in particular to the more than 500% increase in the North Magnetic Pole’s drift rate and reduction of the geomagnetic field intensity. Today, the impact of magnetospheric processes on Earth’s climate is considered a proven scientific fact.
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- Global climate change is also affected by solar activity, solar constant variations (flux of solar radiation) in particular, which is also a proven scientific fact.
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As a result of the studies conducted, a conclusion has been drawn about the beginning of the so-called global “energy spike” in our planet’s energy manifesting itself across all its strata: the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and magnetosphere. The starting point for the global “energy spike” is roughly 1998. The global “energy spike” is explicitly reflected in the soaring statistical indicators for the vast majority of natural disasters most dangerous to humanity: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, tornadoes, hurricanes, storms, floods and forest fires.
PROCEEDINGS: Natural Cataclysms and Global Problems of the Modern Civilization, WORLD FORUM – INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS September 19-21, 2011 – Istanbul, Turkey
Source: (43.7 MB .pdf) Link.
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2012: The end of the world or just another year of living in harm’s way?
Earth Magazine, 24th July 2012
We live on a knife-edge, separated from an ocean of super-heated rock by a wafer-thin and perpetually rupturing crust, swinging our way through a cosmic minefield of lethal debris around a nuclear furnace prone to tantrums. For doomsayers, the end of the Mayan long-count calendar, set against such a backdrop, is a gift. Though Mayan culture never spoke of a cataclysm, Dec. 21, 2012 — the purported last day of a 5,125-year cycle in the Mesoamerican calendar — has been added to an endless list of days when the world has been predicted to end.
But what are our real chances of being wiped out by a cataclysmic event of the geologic sort — the kind that has happened in the past and will inevitably occur again someday? Let’s take a look at four of the most probable global catastrophes that could change life on Earth forever: asteroid impacts, super-eruptions, solar storms and earthquakes. [...]
To Prepare or Not to Prepare?
Most world-changing events that punctuate the vast prehistory of our planet are lent exaggerated immediacy by prophets of doom. Scientists who study such events concede that these hazards can change lives when they occur. However, the highly infrequent nature and scale of total threat posed make preparation for all potential hazards an unrealistic, impractical and impossible venture. It is fortunate that truly global catastrophic events are rare.
That said, realistic fears surrounding local and regional threats posed by small to mid-sized asteroids and volcanic eruptions, and larger earthquakes and solar flares, can often be addressed, and in some instances, dismissed with sustained research. The Spaceguard Survey and the ShakeOut drills have shown that we may profit from scientific advancements through enhanced understanding and sense of well-being, as much as through preparation and the prevention of human or material loss.
Perhaps, if the December 21, 2012, infers a passing, it is not of a world but an age, as the time comes when we understand our home as not something to fear, but rather to appreciate and respect.
Comment: The article focuses on disaster prearedness and resilience and the conclusion implies that disaster preparation is not such a bad idea as we enter a New World Age...
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Tourists Flee, Residents Prepare As 'Monster' Cyclone Bears Down On Fiji
Business Insider, 16th December 2012
FIJI - Fijian authorities scrambled to evacuate tourists and residents in low-lying areas Sunday as a monster cyclone threatened the Pacific nation with “catastrophic damage” after causing devastation in Samoa. At least four people were killed when Cyclone Evan slammed into Samoa and the toll was expected to rise with a search launched for eight men missing on three fishing boats. Only one survivor has been found, said the New Zealand Rescue Co-ordination Centre, which is overseeing the search. After crossing Samoa, Evan intensified as it ploughed through the Pacific and forecasters said destructive winds could reach nearly 300 kilometers per hour (186 miles per hour) by the time it hits Fiji early Monday. Government officials fear it could be as devastating as Cyclone Kina, which killed 23 people and left thousands homeless in 1993.
Comment: The another killer storm arrives.... Gleaned from recent reports and articles, our climate and atmospheric scientists are now starting to mutter that these massive hurricanes and cyclones are part of a 'new norm' as they admit there is now much more energy in the atmosphere.... On this blog, I have been explaining where this extra energy is coming from and it's not CO2 trapping heat because that is impossible and defies basic physics.... what greenhouse do you know that is less than 400 parts per million but traps heat? Please remember, climate scientists talk impossible physics but they have now hit a brick wall in their climate model fantasy as global temperatures are starting to dip and the embarrassment is palpable....
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Fiji under curfew as cyclone arrives
stuff.co.nz, 16th December 2012
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Category 3 Cyclone Evan leaves Samoa, heads for Fiji
WunderBlog, 14th December 2012
Category 3 Tropical Cyclone Evan is finally done pounding Samoa and American Samoa, after spending two days meandering over the islands. Evan made landfall on the north shore of Samoa near the capital of Apia on Thursday as a Category 1 cyclone with 90 mph winds, and intensified into a Category 3 storm with 115 mph winds after the eye wandered back offshore late Thursday. Media reports indicate that Evan has killed two and brought heavy damage to Samoa. "Power is off for the whole country... Tanugamanono power plant is completely destroyed and we might not have power for at least two weeks," the Disaster Management Office (DMO) said in a statement.
Comment: I realise that many don't see why scientists are starting to panic about extreme weather events but it seems we are now seeing a paradigm shift amongst climate and atmospheric scientists... Instead of all the outdated explanation of "warm waters" that provide the energy for hurricanes that don't make sense because hurricanes can form in cold water too, (see archives) we are now getting major admissions that what’s going on in the atmosphere is what’s most important... Even when I wrote my book back in 2006 NASA was investigating the link between what was going on in the ionosphere and hurricanes and the “Distribution of electric
currents connecting the magnetosphere to the ionosphere”... Due to the changes in Earth's magnetic field and the changes in the size and position of the jet streams we are getting even more weather chaos...
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NOAA: Tropical Cyclone Evan Water Vapour Loop
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Reflections on a surreal superstorm and the 2012 hurricane season
WunderBlog, 6th December 2012
Mel Shapiro is one of the world's leading experts on cyclones.
Bob Henson of NCAR/UCAR, in an article about the hybrid superstorm, writes, "I asked Shapiro how often he’s seen a storm like Sandy. He replied, 'Never.'" [...]
Sea surface temperatures (SSTS) were running well above average all along Sandy’s path from the Caribbean to the north, and exceptionally so in the Gulf stream offshore of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast coasts, an area representing a critical time in Sandy’s track. How warm the water is at the surface and below can be overrated as a factor in tropical cyclone intensity, as what’s going on in the atmosphere is what’s most important, but everything else being equal, water which is much warmer than average is more favorable to increasing or maintaining strength than water which is much cooler than average. The question with Sandy is whether it made a difference and if so to what extent, and to what extent this regional anomaly was related to the overall global trend of warming ocean water.
Comment: This is only a short extract but details needed for historic reference....
That Monster Andrew Cohen - The American Guru Exposed
Ken Barlow's son and the humiliation sect: The extraordinary saga of how the Coronation Street star's actor son is helping run a very troubling 'cult'
Daily Mail, 15th December 2012
The British headquarters of the ‘Enlightenment’ organisation are based in a modern five-storey building behind wrought iron gates in Islington, North London.
The reception, on the ground floor, is manned by a middle-aged man with an American accent. Visitors seeking more information about the group, which draws on Tibetan Buddhism and Hindu mysticism for inspiration, are handed a leaflet entitled ‘Meditation and Evolution’.
These are the buzz words of the Enlightenment movement — or EnlightenNext, as it is officially known — which claims to have thousands of followers and a ‘membership base spanning 20 countries’, [...]
But critics have accused EnlightenNext of being little more than a cult. Certainly, its methods have attracted controversy and criticism.
So what does its leader Andrew Cohen encourage his followers to believe? It is almost impossible to say because his philosophy, such that it is, is couched in near impenetrable gobbledegook. But ‘enlightenment through meditation’ is probably the simplest way of putting it.
Even former followers find it hard to describe it more clearly, but some believe it has damaged lives. Take the British woman we spoke to this week, who claims her 16-year marriage ended after her husband bbecame a follower of Cohen, who describes himself as a spiritual teacher and ‘cultural visionary’.
Comment: I took the liberty of changing the headline.... Well, I am thrilled to see this article about that monster Cohen in the mainstream UK media... Well, Cohen is supposed to be one of Deepak's Chopras evolutionary leaders but when approached by the Obama Administration in 2008, they had to confess they did not have a bloody clue about planetary challenges and presumably had no idea why they were being asked.... Look at what is happening on this planet and the seriousness of it all! Yet, people are running to this monster and others of a similar elk for spiritual enlightenment! What Enlightenment! People are so desperate for experiences they are thrilled to find people who can put them in a trance or hypnotise them and they think this is great! Unfortunately these quick fix enlightenment seekers do not realise that once they are in an altered state, fake gurus will work over their inner space and reprogram them to become docile servants... This is standard practice in the enlightenment business but because most of these so-called gurus are malignant narcissists/psychopaths, they will use a spectrum of cult tactics that includes physical and mental cruelty to control those who are a little more resistant to their fake charms... Meanwhile, the vast majority of sheeple are clueless and I mean clueless to what is really going on.... Yet, Cohen is supported by Ken Wilber a so-called intellectual who teaches about the evolution of consciousness but thinks Cohen's disgusting behaviour is acceptable and calls him a "rude boy".... Quite frankly, it is all very sick and twisted... but this is the major problem of psychopathic behaviour being 'normalised' in the cultic milieu... Wilber if you want to discuss this I will take you on because I am sick of this crap....
The Watkins’ Spiritual 100 List for
2011 &
2012 , puts Cohen at 70. in 2011 and 28. in 2012. The listing is partly derived by using google search results to guage popularity, but this is rather naive as it ignores the fact that many searches will be for popular websites dedicated to exposing the fraud and depravity of BIG NAMES like Cohen and there has been a lot of negative press for Cohen recently... Since I started looking, quite a few of the BIG NAMES in the New Wage are proven lying frauds but celebrated because they sell lots of books that sell false hope to gullible people. Presumably, the real metric is financial success in exploiting the gullible, but now we are back to what the New Age movement is really about... Sorry Oprah, we can chat about it if you like, but you are part of the problem not part of the solution... I refuse to use a picture of Cohen on this blog, he represents so much of what is wrong when genuine seekers innocently look for a spiritual teacher and end up with a brute and torturer....
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Andrew Cohen: From Rude Boy to Nice Guy?
What Enlightenment ??!, 2012
The What Enlightenment ??! blog is shocking reading but a drop in the bucket to the guru antics and abuse that is being blogged on the internet.
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Crazy Wisdom & New Age Narcissism
Energy Grid Magazine, June 2006
So many New Agers can come across as a little narcissistic — this is perfectly natural and there is nothing wrong with that. In fact, it is to be somewhat expected from the foundational beliefs and practices of this spiritual movement — herein lies its power to escape from religious dogma that has enslaved humanity for thousands of years. But if that self-appointing aspect appears all-consuming and excessive, then we are probably dealing with a pathological New Age narcissist, one that is expounding on spiritual philosophy and divine self-importance primarily for reasons of self-validation. Of course, as in the case of those who teach with crazy wisdom, New Age narcissists are likely to appear sincere, wise and extremely appealing. They will usually go overboard with their expressions of love for others, to mask the fact that they actually feel very little love. So just someone is a narcissist does not mean that he or she is not spiritual, although pathological narcissism and spirituality may well be mutually exclusive.
Someone who becomes addicted to attention and who cannot just enjoy its moment and let it pass (the difference between pathological narcissism and ordinary narcissism) has a problem because in the effort to continually up the ante and keep attention flowing, the pathological narcissist veers away from authenticity in order to artificially remain the center of things. And as authenticity is a requirement for spirituality, the pathological New Age narcissist actually cuts herself off from the genuine spiritual experience. New Age narcissists may delude themselves into thinking that the "honey pot" self they have constructed IS authentic, but those more perceptive around them will know that it is just the addict's fabrication to maintain supply — the supply of attention. All pathological narcissists are serial liars.
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And whilst the bait of love and specialness may first be used by the narcissistic teacher to hook in followers, once they form an emotionally codependent relationship with the teacher, one that becomes extremely strong and intimate, the love can be replaced by a whole array of emotions and behaviour… anything that supplies attention. This is why those on the outside of these types of spiritual groups only hear about the teacher's love, whereas only those who have managed to work their way into the teacher's inner circle will see the temper tantrums and inconsistencies. But by this time the student has too much invested emotionally and intellectually to back out, and a pathological relationship between narcissist and supplier is established.
Comment: This is for those who don't understand the issues surroundimg New Age narcissists & pathological New Age narcissists pretending to be gurus but I don't think this is restricted to New Age, as the cultic milieu in general attracts narcissists. I have made a distinction because I think it's a matter of degree and I have come across people who seem to be at different levels of the same condition. It has left me wondering what I am dealing with and years later I want to understand just how genuine or not some people have been, I just wonder whether it was all an act to make sure they got their narcissistic supply... I have had the malignant narcissistic pig type in my life long term, but only had brief encounters with cold blooded New Agers that gave me the creeps, there is nothing on the planet that would encourage me to associate with the straight psychopath reptiles... There is a warning with this link... the behaviour of one famous guru is described and even though I have read stuff about this person before, what we have presented here is graphic and very very shocking but the same kind of stuff is going on now around the world but we only get headlines when a follower(s) is/are killed.... My issue is that some deviant treating you like #### has nothing to with spirituality.... I cannot see any justifcation for this and I don't agree with this article and the need to "employ the services of pathological narcissists as our light-bearers..." However, I will admit that I had to run up against so many narcissists that I eventually was forced to wake up to the existence of people who did not act or behave like me and a type of person that I now realise I do not want or need in my life...
Man-made global warming: even the IPCC admits the jig is up
The Telegraph Delingpole Blog, 13th December 2012
Breaking news from the US – h/t
Watts Up With That? – where a leaked draft of the IPCC's latest report AR5 admits what some of us have suspected for a very long time: that the case for man-made global warming is looking weaker by the day and that the sun plays a much more significant role in "climate change" than the scientific "consensus" has previously been prepared to concede.
Here's the killer admission:
Many empirical relationships have been reported between GCR or cosmogenic isotope archives and some aspects of the climate system (e.g., Bond et al., 2001; Dengel et al., 2009; Ram and Stolz, 1999). The forcing from changes in total solar irradiance alone does not seem to account for these observations, implying the existence of an amplifying mechanism such as the hypothesized GCR-cloud link. We focus here on observed relationships between GCR and aerosol and cloud properties.
As the leaker explains, this is a game-changer:
Comment: At the moment, I simply do not have time to go through this but others will... Jo Nova has this to say..
What was the point of keeping the IPCC draft secret? The point is so the IPCC can control both the content and the PR. The IPCC wants a free kick, and they get one if the world doesn’t see how they arrive at the conclusion, and if critics can’t specifically point to errors or flaws until weeks after the giant press circus has done its megaphone production.
It’s how the media game works. First they release the “up and coming” scary headline. (Already done for AR5.) Critics can’t criticize what they can’t see.
Then they release the Summary with a three ring display of terrifying headlines. The black box that justifies it is shown off in all its mysterious glory: 4,000 experts labored for 5 years, produced 2,000 papers, 2 million emails, and rigorously, savagely dissected the science to give you this ominous, frightening message. Pay us your tithe! We will stop the Storms! The inner workings of the black box are held in the Sacred Vault. Those who question it are “deniers, nutters, conspiracy theorists, believe the moon landing was faked, are simultaneously paid by Exxon and suffer from ideological mental deficits — they wouldn’t accept any evidence anyway because they are old white male conservatives (that’s why we have to save the world by hiding the science — it simply is not a fair competition: the IPCC only has billions in funding, the support of the UN, most large banks, all western governments, most university money managers, the thought police in the press, the $176b carbon trading market, and the $257b renewables investment scene. Skeptics have wit, evidence, and the world wide web.)
Then finally they release the long paper with a few more headlines, but the circus has moved on. The people “know” the message. The press is bored, and the critics will need weeks to study the massive document in any case.
Draft IPCC report leaked (the evidence is so overwhelming it has to be kept secret!) « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
Currently, I would prefer to spend time looking at the clear link beween solar activity which affects the Earth's magnetic index and the north magnetic pole wandering which has dramatically accelerated in recent years. It seems that geomagnetic activity reflects all solar activity and is highly correlated to global temperature variations in the whole period for which scientists have data. So, now that the man-made global warming hoax has fully imploded, it is probably a good time to highlight the scientific data that will provide insights into a whole range of major science missions that focus on the change in the Earth's magnetic and gravitational fields. The mumurings from many that we should be looking at the Sun is too simplistic... We should take an even closer look at what is happening to Earth's magnetic field. As one NASA scientist Jean Dickey of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadenas suggests:
“...one possibility is the movements of Earth's core might disturb Earth's magnetic shielding of charged-particle (i.e., cosmic ray) fluxes that have been hypothesized to affect the formation of clouds. This could affect how much of the sun's energy is reflected back to space and how much is absorbed by our planet. Other possibilities are that some other core process could be having a more indirect effect on climate, or that an external (e.g. solar) process affects the core and climate simultaneously.”
Source: NASA Study Goes to Earth's Core for Climate Insights, 03.09.11
It seems that the science is readily available to help us see how massive evolutionary change is closely related to climate change.
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IPCC AR5 draft leaked, contains game-changing admission of enhanced solar forcing – as well as a lack of warming to match model projections, and reversal on ‘extreme weather’
WUWT, 13th December 2012
[...] Lead story from the Second Order Draft: strong evidence for solar forcing beyond TSI now acknowledged by IPCC
Compared to the First Order Draft, the SOD now adds the following sentence, indicated in bold (page 7-43, lines 1-5, emphasis added):
Many empirical relationships have been reported between GCR or cosmogenic isotope archives and some aspects of the climate system (e.g., Bond et al., 2001; Dengel et al., 2009; Ram and Stolz, 1999). The forcing from changes in total solar irradiance alone does not seem to account for these observations, implying the existence of an amplifying mechanism such as the hypothesized GCR-cloud link. We focus here on observed relationships between GCR and aerosol and cloud properties.
The Chapter 7 authors are admitting strong evidence (“many empirical relationships”) for enhanced solar forcing (forcing beyond total solar irradiance, or TSI), even if they don’t know what the mechanism is. This directly undercuts the main premise of the report, as stated in Chapter 8 (page 8-4, lines 54-57):
Comment: The main point I can see is climate scientists are baffled that their terrible science and abysmal climate models have failed and it seems they are looking for a missing factor related to solar activity to explain our climate.... It also seems that some reality in the form of Henrik Svensmark's cosmoclimatology (now proven scientific fact that cosmic rays create clouds and the amount of clouds determines our climate) has penetrated some thick academic skulls... So, it looks to me that 'consensus' climate scientists are at a dead end and they are being forced to do a complete turnabout and walk into some light... The amplifying mechanism they are looking for is most likely Earth's magnetic index that is the best reflection of solar activity... The amount of cosmic rays entering Earth's atmosphere is most closely related to solar activity and what is happening to Earth's magnetic field but we also know that the heliosphere (the shielding around our whole solar system) is shrinking too, so that means more galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) coming in too and changing the climate. It might take a long time for the IPCC climate scientists to talk about the decline in the Earth's magnetic field and the antics of a north magnetic pole that looks like it is in the start of a full reversal or at least a minor magnetic excursion, but apparently, other more savvy climate scientists around the world have already got some fundamentals understood. Here is one example:
A 2009 paper (Adrian Kerton: “Climate Change and the Earth's Magnetic Poles, A Possible Connection”, Energy & Environment, Vol 20, 2009 [link] states: “Analysis of the movement of the Earth's magnetic poles over the last 105 years demonstrates strong correlations between the position of the north magnetic, and geomagnetic poles, and both northern hemisphere and global temperatures. Although these correlations are surprising, a statistical analysis shows there is a less than one percent chance they are random, but it is not clear how movements of the poles affect climate.”
Source: Earth’s Magnetic Field and Climate Variability, Global Warming Science - www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming,
[last update: 2010/05/28] Link
From my point of view, I have come full circle... I started off my quest with Space Weather because I realised that the messages coming from the metaphysical community meant massive evolutionary change on this planet. But, I was puzzled by a few New Agers that I met whispering about people finding it difficult to cope in an unstable geomagnetic field and they were looking for ways to fortify the human energy field to become adequate cosmic shields... For whatever reason, I knew these people were on to something and since I have a honours degree in physics and geophysics I wanted to understand what was about to happen on this planet..... Well, 6 years after I published my book Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism & Spiritual Evolution where I was forced to quickly self-published because I did not want my thousands of hours of work stolen, it seems that the changes in the cosmos, Space Weather and the condition of Earth's magnetic field are all directly related and I had got the basic premise of my book right. So, even though I quoted metaphysical sources concerning the relative speed and volume of the arrival of evolutionary energies, it is still shocking to discover that mainstream scientists and policy makers have not been asleep and are starting to galvanise the public into the need to be ready for mega-diasters... From my point of view, it is a fact that space weather is a result of a new aetheric or dark matter tide, but I have not seen any scientists giving their opinion on the impact on the human energy field, my book was just for starters, so I am interested in what else is out there... I realise the lack of serious interest in my work is because the vast majority do not understand the science of the spirit, but whether people understand it or not, the background energy of our reality has changed and humans need to cope in a much more chaotic and charged geomagnetic environment with negative consequences that are scientific fact.
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The real IPCC AR5 draft bombshell – plus a poll
WUWT, 14th December 2012
Take a look at Figure 1.4 from the AR5 draft (shown below). The gray bars in Fig 1.4 are irrelevant (because they flubbed the definition of them), the colored bands are the ones that matter because they provide bounds for all current and previous IPCC model forecasts, FAR, SAR, TAR, AR4.
Look for the surprise in the graph.
Comment: I was highly amused by the first comment here...
Beng says:
December 14, 2012 at 12:11 pm
IPCC model forecasts, FAR, SAR, TAR, AR4
And the upcoming forecast, FUBAR.
This is no other way to say this, this is just #### poor... these scientists need to hang their heads in shame... Please remember, policy decisions have already been made on atrocious climate science and models that are now proven to be worthless...
Meteorite fell into the sea with a loud boom – 2012-12-11-Turkey, Black Sea region (video)
Investment Watch, 11th December 2012
Last night a meteorite fell into the sea near the Black Sea region city Ordu, Turkey. A security cam recorded the impact. The video can be seen from here; trt is the govermental TV channel :
link
translation : A security cam recorded the impact of the meteorite. Last night a meteorite fell into the sea near Persembe county of Ordu. The sky brightened up and a slight tremor has occurred on land. Some inhabitants panicked.
Comment: Ironically, this landed not too far from Sirince, Turkey, a safe haven for those who fear the 21st December 2012 is doomsday...
NASA releases ‘Told Ya So’ apocalypse video early
Yahoo News, 12th December 2012
Dec. 21, 2012, has long been rumored to be the day of the Mayan apocalypse, when Earth comes to its inglorious end. The good folks at NASA want you to know that isn't going to happen.
In fact, NASA is so confident that it recently published a video that appears as if it were intended to be aired on Dec. 22. Titled "The World Didn't End Yesterday," the four-minute clip explains how the idea of the Mayan apocalypse was a huge hoax and how the rumors began. A commenter on YouTube jokes, "The correct title for this video: Told ya so!—Love, NASA."
Time magazine reports that the space agency has been besieged with questions from citizens worried that their lives are about to end. NASA is taking the fears seriously, not because there is any danger, but because irrational fears can sometimes lead to irrational and dangerous actions. [...]
NASA's official site features an area dedicated to debunking the claims. "The world will not end in 2012," NASA writes. "Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012."
Comment: The reason is that some NASA scientists are worried about the hype and they want to stop children and teenagers committing suicide which I think is commendable.
Mayan apocalypse: Serbia's mystic mountain targeted by believers
Hotels at the base of a supposedly mystical mountain in Serbia are being inundated with booking requests from people who are convinced that the end of a Mayan calendar heralds the destruction of the world on Dec 21.
The Telegraph, 10th December 2012
Hotel owners around the pyramid-shaped Mount Rtanj, in the east of the Balkan country, say that bookings are flooding in, with believers in the prophecy hoping that its purported mysterious powers will save them from the apocalypse.
Adherents of the end-of-the-world scenario think the 5,100ft-high mountain, part of the Carpathian range, conceals a pyramidal building inside, left behind by alien visitors thousands of years ago.
Great ball of China: Farmer builds survival pod to save him (and 13 others) from tsunami, earthquake... and Mayan doomsday
Daily Mail, 11th December 2012
* Farmer Liu Qiyuan has built seven pods consisting of a fibreglass shell around a steel frame
* He hopes they will be adopted by government departments and international organisations for use in the event of tsunamis and earthquake
* The airtight spheres contain oxygen tanks and seatbelts with space for around 14 people, and remain upright when in water
With just ten days to go before the Mayan apocalypse supposedly spells the end of the world, many believers may be looking for ways to dodge doomsday.
But one farmer in China believes he is ready for any eventuality after building seven emergency survival pods.
Liu Qiyuan created the fibreglass shells - dubbed Noah's Ark - after being inspired by the apocalyptic Hollywood movie 2012.
Building them around a steel frame in a yard at his home in the village of Qiantun, Hebei province, south of Beijing, he says
the pods can offer life-saving shelter during natural disasters such as tsunamis and hurricanes.
The pods are able to float on water and some of have their own propulsion.
The airtight spheres with varying interiors contain oxygen tanks and seatbelts with space for around 14 people, and are designed to remain upright when in water.
Comment: These disaster pods look and seem like a great idea! Clearly, Farmer Liu Qiyuan is not just thinking about a hyped one-day apocalypse event... Well, we don't have long to go before the 21st December 2012 and so hopefully, the Mayan Apocalpse hype will be forced to stop. At the moment, there is still widespread ignorance about astronomical cycles and the significance of space weather, but it is clear that most so-called spiritually influential people do not understand a spiritual universe or they would care enough to teach something relevant....
Anyway, as we hear about the latest daily disaster, it is becoming clear that the current message from people who actually care about fellow humans is about weather extremes and disaster preparedness and the spectrum of mainstream and off-beat geoscientists are remarkably in sync with disaster "preppers". As Earth's magnetic field declines whilst acting like a sieve, we have a fast moving magnetic north pole affecting weather parameters, solar storms delivering huge electrical shocks with huge electric currents arriving from space adding huge amounts of energy into Earth's atmosphere on an erratic basis etc etc. The consequences are an unstable atmosphere and seismic instability, so more extreme weather events and mega disasters are expected and people who want to survive anything that comes need to prepare anyway they can.
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RT News: Apocalypse Balls: Chinese invention to defend against doomsday
YouTube, 13th December 2012
As people across the globe tremble in anticipation of next week's supposed Mayan-predicted apocalypse, one Chinese villager says he may have just what humanity needs: tsunami-proof survival pods. Camouflage-clad former farmer and furniture maker Liu Qiyuan, 45, inspected his latest creation, a sphere several metres tall he calls "Noah's Ark", designed to withstand towering tsunamis and devastating earthquakes.
Mayan apocalypse: Turkish village becomes latest doomsday hotspot
A Turkish village has become the latest apocalypse hotspot, with believers of the Mayan calendar prediction that the world will end on December 21 flooding into the area.
Telegraph, 11th December 2012
Some New Age spiritualists are convinced of a December 21 "doomsday" foretold by Mayan hieroglyphs – at least according to some interpretations.
Sirince, a village of around 600 inhabitants near the ancient Greek city of Ephesus, has a positive energy according to the doomsday cultists, who say that it is close to an area where Christians believe the Virgin Mary ascended to heaven.
The Mayan prophecy has sparked a tourism boom in the village, which is now expected to host more than 60,000 visitors according to local media. [...]
He said the tourists at his hotel believed that the positive energy of Sirince would save them from an apocalyptical catastrophe.
Apia slammed as cyclone hits Samoa
Stuff.co.nz, 13th December 2012
The small but powerful Cyclone Evan has battered the country, inflicting a severe ocean surge on the capital Apia. The city has been largely evacuated due to massive damage. [...]
Earlier this evening DMO reported that a feared ocean surge was hitting the northern coast of Samoa, including Apia.
"The storm surge is hitting us now, it is really high, 12 to 15 feet (3.6 to 4.5 metres)," a DMO official said on a failing phone line.
Insane Auroras but NO geomagnetic storm
spaceweather.com, 12th December 2012
ARCTIC LIGHTS: There was no geomagnetic storm last night, but around the Arctic Circle a geomagnetic storm is not required to produce auroras. Last night, photographer Mike Theiss was traveling along the Dempster Highway just north of Eagle Plains, Canada, when the sky erupted in color. The sign in the foreground marks the latitude of the Arctic Circle:
It was insane," he says. "Lights danced all over the sky for 3 hours! I've never seen anything like it."
Theiss was located beneath Earth's
auroral oval, a doughnut of light circling the North Pole where auroras sputter on and off even when geomagnetic storms are at low ebb. Displays like this could occur on any night of northern winter. Such auroras are all we can expect for the next few days as NOAA forecasters estimate a mere 5% chance of geomagnetic storms.
Comment: So...... No geomagnetic storm, but spectacular green/purple/red 'rare' auroras that not so long ago were only reserved for the most fierce geomagnetic storms... Well, something has to have changed then! I think Earth's magnetic field must have opened up like a sieve with big holes and allowed in more of the solar wind...
TMX resolves glitch that caused data freeze, affected some stock prices
Global News, 12th December 2012
TORONTO - The owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange says it has fixed a technical that had temporarily affected how traders saw some real-time numbers.
The TMX Group Ltd. (TSX:X), which operates the TSX, says systems are back to operating normally after the setback.
Wednesday's glitch had caused both the headline S&P/TSX composite index numbers, as well as some specific stock prices to be displayed incorrectly through some sources, including on the TSX website.
Statue of Liberty indefinitely closed by Sandy damage on island
LA Times, 11th December 2012
Among Superstorm Sandy victims still struggling to recover: Liberty Island.
The Statue of Liberty remains indefinitely closed to the public due to damage on the island, joining another shuttered national icon, the Washington Monument, which has been closed due to damage from an Aug. 23, 2011, earthquake.
The statue, the pedestal and base came through the storm, which made landfall Oct. 29 in southern New Jersey, without significant damage.
But the docks that bring visitors to the island were seriously damaged, and more than half of the bricks in the walkway that circles the island in New York Harbor were dislodged and tossed about as water came probably within 10 to 15 feet of the statue’s base, said National Park Service spokesman Mike Litterst. Security screening and concessionaire facilities also were damaged.
Comment: Does this make it official that New York was completely mashed up by Superstorm Sandy? As some have noted, this was reported by the Los Angeles Times and not the New York Times... Maybe, this is a psychological blow that some in New York would rather ignore...
Mystery Signals Show Up in Neurological Amplifiers
Design News, 11th December 2012
About seven years ago, a brain scientist was working with primate brain signals three floors underground. The scientist was using special neurological amplifiers that amplified micro-volt signals. He called me to solve a strange, sporadic noise problem that had appeared in his amplifier outputs.
His laboratory had been in operation for many years before this problem appeared. When confronted with a mysterious problem, I always ask one particular question: "What is changed, what is different?" But in this case, the answer was nothing.
Connecting up a scope, I soon saw a signal on the screen that coincided with a noise from a speaker connected to a neural amplifier output. We heard a distinctive "click” sound. By slowing the horizontal time period to one second/division, we could see the entire several-millisecond-long noise pulse. But this was no ordinary noise pulse -- it was actually a perfect bipolar square wave.
Comment: There are no accusations here so I will give my interpretation... It looks like we are being told that some radar signals in the United States are being broadcasted with a scalar EM wave component that can be picked up by the human brain... Presumably, that implies that few are aware of the broadcasting of these waves as they can only be detected with highly specialist equipment. If members of the general public are affected then that it would be very very difficult to prove... Well, my answer to that is the metaphysical teaching and science that implies humans can create/enhance their own internal scalar wave that can counteract malicious external signals. This is a quote reported to be from Dr. Elizabeth Rauscher-Bise, Nuclear Physics and Engineering, University of California that comes from one of my oldest articles:
One last infamous quote, from a world expert in consciousness, who is very happy to demonstrate on any sceptic, the effectiveness of this technology.
"Give me the money and three months...and I'll be able to affect the behavior of 80 per cent of the people in this town without their knowing it. Make them happy - or at least they'll think they're happy. Or aggressive."[17]
Electromagnetic Man and The Dark Side of Electromagnetism, Susan Joy Rennison, July 2005
The fact that 20 per cent of people cannot be affected has always given me hope....
A Huge Natural Gas Line Explosion Just Lit Up West Virginia [PHOTOS]
Business Insider, 11th December 2012
aReports are coming in of a big explosion in Sissonville, West Virginia (scroll down for photos and video).
Via local news outlet WSAZ:
The northbound lanes of Interstate 77 are closed in the Sissonville area, from Tuppers Creek to Pocatalico due to what's being called a major gas line explosion.
Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper tells WSAZ.com crews were called to what was described as a major gas line explosion in Sissonville.
WSAZ says that right now, no injuries or fatalities have been reported. A "Shelter in Place" has been issued for buildings in the area, though.
The AP reports that according to state police, several structures are on fire.
Comment: These HUGE explosions in the US are now happening weekly... Well, I have pointed out the problem of spaceweather corroding pipelines... but, stormy geomagnetic conditions might also be causing faster ignition... See EM Chaos archives for previous comments and references....
Major fault line found running under nuclear reactor west of Tokyo
The Extinction Protocol, 11th December 2012
TOKYO - A fault running directly underneath the Unit 2 reactor of the Tsuruga plant, operated by Japan Atomic Power Co. and located about 330 kilometers (200 miles) west of Tokyo, “could be an active one,” the panel said in a meeting to review an on-site investigation carried out Dec. 1-2 into faults within the plant’s premises. The government’s top spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura, stressed, however, that steps need to be taken before any final decision. “We shouldn’t make any predictions at this stage,” he said. For one, the panel’s assessment needs to be reviewed by the new regulator, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and it isn’t known when the commission will meet. Still, NRC Chairman Shunichi Tanaka said the commission won’t be able to consider a request to restart the plant as long as there is a possibility the fault is active.
Comment: This is the copied version just in case the Wall Street Journal version goes behind a paywall... Well, we have proof here of Japanese psychopathy as authorities placed a nuclear reactor on top of an earthquake fault. I don't think it matters whether the fault is active or not... After the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan is finished anyway, as many now agree and I have been saying for quite some time....
Russia saves satellite after launch glitch
Space Daily, 11th December 2012
End of the World? Hear the 2012 Prophecy … Direct from the Mouths of the Mayan Priests
Zero Hedge, 10th December 2012
Preface: The Mayan 2012 end of the world “prophecy” is scaring the pants off numerous children and suicidal teeangers. 1-in-10 people believe that the Mayans have prophesied the end of the world (and see this). A Google search for "Maya 2012" currently brings up 325 million hits, only slightly less than a search for the most popular words.
This post is a public service announcement to reach children and adults scared about the Mayan prophecy … to show with the Mayan priests’ own words that the world will not end in 2012.
Many people are talking about the Mayan 2012 prophecy.
But few know what the Mayan priests actually said about 2012.
In reality, Mayan elders say something very different from what you might have heard.
For example, Wakatel Utiw – leader of the National Council of Elders Mayas, Xinca and Garifuna, Day Keeper of the Mayan Calendar, and 13th generation Quiche Mayan Spiritual Leader - says that the end of the Maya calendar has nothing to do with the end of the world.
Comment: I still struggle with the notion of real modern Mayan Elders being ignored in preference to charlatans talking crap... For real scholars and academics, it should have been obvious that this is all about the end/start of a major new astronomical cycles... After over 30 years or seeking truth combined with a series of big shocks, I have come to trealise there has been an historic great divide between initiates or astronomer-priests and the ignorant uneducated rabble easily entertained by stories. Some believe the New Age movement was created and promoted to maintain this two-tier system of belief and this might explain the volume of toxic teaching provided by big New Age publishers... Anyway, please note the opinion of Mayan Elder Carlos Barrios, who with his brother made great efforts to find out the truth by traipsing through the Guatemalan jungle during a war to interview 600 Mayan Elders who held information as part of their oral tradition.
“Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. It's just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed.”
Before I wrote and self-published my book in September 2006, no author had pointed out the scientific theory of how the process of transformation of a whole planet was going to take place... I pointed out clearly the new phenomenon of space weather and the hellfire blasts coming from the Sun charging up the planet and solar system with trillions of tonnes of plasma and the equivalent of billions of megaton nuclear bombs in magnetic energy... It is just simple basic physics, energy has to come from somewhere to generate evolutionary change, but the obvious cannot be obvious to uneducated and ignorant people... Well, modern Mayan Elders have been vindicated, but some children and adults are now frightened by idiots and trolls in the cultic milieu promoting a Mayan Apocalypse...
"Meteorite Crash" In Sweden (Pictures)
Aftonbladet, 10th December 2012
Complete Google Translation:
What is it that has struck in Värmland?
SOS, police and air rescue center has received calls from concerned Värmlandsbor after a ball of light is said to have exploded in the evening.
- It lit up the sky and flew over us, then we heard an explosion, says Jessica Berg Stöllet.
Jessica Berg Stöllet was out walking with a friend when they were surprised by the strong lights. Calls have come from Stöllet, Ekshärad, Karlstad and Forshaga.
All have seen a mysterious ball of light which then struck down - followed by an explosion.
- They say they have seen a sharp blue glow, then a sharp orange ball struck, says Leif Svensson, duty officer at the Värmland police.
Surprisingly Established by the strong light
Jessica Berg Stöllet was out walking with a friend when they were surprised by the strong lights.
- It sounded nothing in the sky when it flew over us. Then it hit bottom near Klarälven somewhere. Then we were struck by the sound, like an echo after the explosion, she says to Aftonbladet and continues:
- It was mysterious. Nasty mysterious.
Several readers have contacted the Times about the event.
- I heard a bang and the whole house shook, said a witness in Vansbro.
Saw the overthrow
24-year-old Sandra was sitting in his apartment in Karlstad and suddenly felt that she would look out the window - where she saw a plunge from the sky.
- At first I thought it was fireworks, but small and just never went on, I thought maybe it was a comet, for it looked a bit like a ball. It was a red and yellow light around and after, she says, adding that she had seen shooting stars before, and this is not at all like that.
- This was really different and much larger. It looked as if something falls from space in a film Armageddon or something. I do not know what to describe it as, I have never seen such a thing before, says Sandra.
No airplane accident
Police have received several calls about the phenomenon and also SOS has been dialed.
- We do not know, but it may have been part of the meteor shower as it talked about, says Leif Svensson told TT.
- We can not do much without linking it to the Air Force among others.
Although Naval and air rescue center has been alerted about a light phenomenon in the sky from Värmland region.
- There are two people who have dialed in observations and it should have been seen from the air traffic control tower at Karlstad Airport. One woman spoke of a really big explosion, says Jonas Sundin, deputy incident commander.
- But it is not about any airplane accident. It's probably some kind of meteorite.
At 1:00 on Wednesday morning had readers from among other Sodertalje, Stenungsund Kungalv, Karlstad, Vansbro heard from Aftonbladet with eyewitness accounts.
- And we have also heard that people on the West Coast and even in Finland have made observations, says Leif Svensson told TT.
Buys Bow
Michael Sundin was out with her dog in Billingsfors just outside Amal, Västra Götaland, at 2:12 last night when he saw the light phenomenon in the sky.
- It was the craziest thing I've seen. It remained so long that I got the phone and take a picture. I do not think the end of the world but tomorrow it is I who buy a bow, he says to Aftonbladet.
Even in Åmotsfors in Värmland synthesis light globes.
- It was around midnight when I saw it. It was powerful. A work mate saw something yesterday that he never had time to take pictures, which
looked like a fork in the sky, says Mattias Mellgren, who took a picture.
Hampus Johansson, 17, heard the reports about light orbs reported and sat and looked out of his window at home in Hagfors in Värmland at 2:30 tonight.
- I was totally shocked when I saw it. It was so great. It could not compare with other stars in the sky.
"Gets a little jittery"
Even today continue the phenomena in the sky to get spectators to be placed - and fear.
Ellen Hallberg from örebro was out with his friends and counted 17 light globes from 9 am to 9:30.
- We saw the aircraft that was as far away as them. But this was not the airplanes. This was a ball of light at the front, with a tail behind. It was both strange and awesome at the same time you become a little jittery. I actually think it's worth it if the police are taking and check it what it is, because it will just more and more and they go in the same path, she says.
Comment: Another example of a big ball of light (plasma) floating in my space and exploding... I have called this type "The Detonators".... BUT we have had many reports and some excellent video of huge even multi-coloured magnetospheric plsasmoids exploding into smaller orbs and then flying off in convoy to get on with some Earth business... In this case, it seems some wanted to hang about in the sky and as I have stated on this blog over and over, I think there is some kind of information network (mostly invisible) that acts like neurons in a huge Earth matrix brain, but it operates inside the Earth and in the Earth's atmosphere.... It seems they are needed as part of an Earth Management/Intelligence Network and the activity is about a huge maintenance/upgrade process ... It's very exciting watching this Earth neural network become partly visible... We are also told about "a fork in the sky", the Electric Universe folk are going to be thrilled with more and more reports of massive electrical discharges being seen in the sky... What have I been saying on this blog? Oh yes, we can expect more and more MASSIVE electrical discharges in the sky... So people are frightened but still nobody wants to offer a real explanation even though I have identified scientists openly researching orbs (The Hessdalen Project) and others secretly studying this phenomenon for over forty years. Amateurs like war historian and ufologist Trevor James Constables captured photos in the infra-red in the mid 1950s onwards... Read my archives, the evidence is overwhelming that world controllers are not completely stupid and they do understand some of what is going on....
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A New Meteor Shower in December?
NASA Science News, 11th December 2012
Dec. 11, 2012: If you're outdoors after sunset this week, be alert for meteors. Not only is the Geminid meteor shower active as Earth passes through a stream of debris from "rock comet" 3200 Phaethon, but also, say forecasters, a new meteor shower could make an appearance.
"The source of the new shower is Comet Wirtanen," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "Dust from this comet hitting Earth's atmosphere could produce as many as 30 meteors per hour."
I don't think large orbs hanging in the sky can be dismissed as a passing meteor shower, but some are desperate to make any excuse...
Motor mutts pass doggie driving test with flying collars
France 24 News, 10th December 2012
AFP - A pair of highly trained canines guided a modified car along a New Zealand race track Monday, passing their doggie driving tests with flying collars on live television, despite the odd off-road detour.
In a heartwarming project aimed at increasing pet adoptions from animal shelters, a group of cross-breed rescue dogs from Auckland were taught to drive a car -- steering, pedals and all -- to show the potential of unwanted canines.
Footage of the motorised mutts learning their skills has proved an Internet sensation but their ultimate test came on Monday, when the two best performers, Monty and Porter, were put through their paces on national television.
New Zealand: Report finds several flaws in February 2011 killer quake building
'I just want justice'
stuff.co.nz, 10th December 2012
A royal commission of inquiry into the CTV building, which collapsed during the February 2011 earthquake killing 115 people, has identified serious deficiencies in its design and construction and found it should not have been issued a building permit. [...]
The building did not meet construction standards, was designed by an engineer out of his depth and was overseen by a boss who should have known better, the royal commission found.
The report recommends changes in building practices to avoid a repeat of the disaster. [...]
Maurice Gardiner, whose sister, Donna Manning, was killed, said the report could not bring family members back.
"It doesn't give you any answers to why it was green-stickered or why it was even built. It just says it shouldn't be."
Gardiner said he received the report last week, and it had made for emotional reading. [...]
"Personally, as a builder, it does make me saddened to think the design, every part of that particular building, it was set to fail in this earthquake. That's the thing that was disappointing. It just wasn't done properly."
Gardiner said his family simply wanted lessons learnt from the tragedy.
"The whole world is watching what is happening in Christchurch," he said.
"As long as they learn from it and buildings are built stronger ... all of New Zealand is going to be a stronger place as a result. A lot of young builders and architects are going to be so well educated in seismic buildings, it can only be better."
Read more reaction to the report's release here.
FINDINGS FOLLOW EVIDENCE FROM 80 WITNESSES
The findings come after an eight-week hearing, with testimony from more than 80 witnesses.
The commissioners found building designer David Harding was working ''beyond his competence'' and identified fundamental errors in his plans.
They criticised the hands-off approach of Harding's boss, Alan Reay.
Harding did not know he was ill-equipped for the job, the report said, and Reay was mistaken in placing such responsibility in him.
''[Harding's] self-assessment of his competence and the confidence he had that he could design the building competently was unfounded,'' it said.
''This ... raises issues about Dr Reay's decision to hand over the design of the CTV building over to Mr Harding without having any intention of reviewing his work.''
Harding had no experience designing multi-storey buildings, and had Reay reviewed his work he may have picked up the design problems. [...]
The commissioners identified four major reasons for the building's collapse:
- Poorly designed joints between the building's beams and columns. The reinforcing that held to two together was weak and not up 1986 building standards.
- Inadequate steel reinforcing in the concrete columns.
- Weak ties between the floors and north wall - the strongest part of the building.
- Smooth surfaces of the precast concrete beams where they met the columns weakened the join. That they were not roughened was a ''critical omission''.
The building permit, issued by the Christchurch City Council in September 1986, should not have been granted, the report said.
Comment: I looked around for different versions of this story and finally settled on this one but I still decided to change the headline... I was upset to discover that a building collapse was caused by poor building design when I know that normally engineers take great efforts to maintain high standards.... New Zealand is not Haiti (poor standards) or Aquila, Italy with lots of historic old buildings... I am actually quite shocked and yes, the world's engineers will be paying attention .... I wonder whether the engineer David Harding, was a product of being over priviledged and arrogant and hired because he was the son of a friend of a friend.... Please note the following below:
“Building codes and retrofit standards need to be widely adopted and strictly enforced. If those features are in place, post-disaster recovery may be greatly accelerated by upgraded infrastructure hardened against natural disasters and with sufficient redundancy to help reduce the impact of single point failures and to address regional infrastructure interdependencies.”
Increasing resilience: A national imperative
Earth Magazine, 18th November 2012
I hope this message is taken seriously and enforced by people who actually care about the common good...
How the 'Mayan Apocalypse' came from a New Age magic mushroom trip
The 'prophecy' does not stem from the Mayans at all. Instead, the beliefs come from two New Age books in the Seventies and Eighties, says a British academic.
UK Yahoo News, 10th December 2012
People who are expecting the world to end on December 21 - the so-called 'Mayan Apocalypse' - should be in for a pleasant disappointment.
The 'prophecy' does not stem from the Mayans at all - or date from thousands of years ago.
Instead, the beliefs come from two New Age books in the Seventies and Eighties.
The two books predict outcomes as surreal as a 'upgrade' to human consciousness predicted by a spirit from the seventh century. The date itself comes from a prophecy based on a magic mushroom trip.
Comment: José Arguelles and Terence McKenna (see image icon) are both dead but I don't have anything nice to say about either of them... I am disappointed that this academic did not provide the complete detail about McKenna channeling his magic mushrooms, but look around the internet as there are YouTube videos where McKenna talks about this.... Also, please see my archives where I point out my issues with McKenna, see
Best of the Blog - The Maya, The Mayan Calendar, Indigenous Wisdom & 2012 and my
Book Review: The Book of Destiny where modern Mayan Elder, Carlos Barrios in his book points out the indignation of Mayan Elders with Jose Arguelles because he created his own pseudo-Mayan calendar that he also for a time denoted as 'Pleidian'.... As far as I am concerned, José Arguelles and Terence McKenna were both charlatans.... This article is not exactly accurate for various reasons and real academics have been arguing about the end-date of the Mayan calendar for quite some time, nothing to do with a New Ager tripping on mushrooms... See below:
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The Astronomical Insignificance of Maya Date 13.0.0.0. (.pdf)
Dartmouth College, August 2009 Flashback!
"As the year 2012 approaches, students of Maya calendrics are increasingly
looking for some underlying significance to the ending of one so-called “Grand Cycle” and the beginning of another."
Comment: I came across this document written by Vincent H. Malmström
but once again I am disappointed that an Emeritus Professor of Geography, decides to pick holes on someone else's weak arguments with equally weak arguments and that somehow, this is a reflection on the veracity of Mayan prophecies and their calendars. Personally, I would be interested in finding intellectuals who have actually understood what Mayan Elders and indigenous sources have clearly stated about the evolution of spacetime and the arrival of a New Age dominated by space or the aether. The Mayan elders talk about a period of transition lasting twenty-five years which we now must realise coincides with the onset of increasingly extreme Space Weather and major potential problems for technological societies.
Mayan Elders talk about various cycles of time where changes can be expected at certain points but they know that in the evolutionary process, there is NEVER an exact repeat. This is the principle that underlies chaos theory and the Lorentz's Butterfly fractal that can be derived from data that appears meaningless. Mayan Elders realise that we are experiencing evolutionary change but they also know "it's not like turning on a light" and instantaneously something happens. They have talked about Earth being cleansed and the arrival of the "defenders of the Earth", meanwhile UFO sightings are at an all time high. We have major fulfillment of Mayan prophecy and yet Mayan "researchers" and their critics have missed major aspects of their teaching and are waiting around for something to happen in 2012 when the action is taking place NOW! I do not claim to be a Mayan expert, but I pay attention to what the Mayan and other 'Keepers of Ancient Knowledge' have to say and I understand more than most about the true nature of our reality.
It is a FACT that over the last 20 plus years, our planet has been swamped with solar, cosmic, galactic and intergalactic energies to the point where there is real panic in certain quarters and desperation has set in to persuade the sheeple that Earth requires A GLOBAL SHIELD for protection under the guise that our planet is warming, when the facts show this is not the case. However, it is evident that something major is happening when the US Air Force announces that GPS is expected to start "breaking down" in 2010 as Space Weather is generating a plethora of new atmospheric phenomena that technically can no longer be compensated for. It is my belief that knowledge based in the scientific disciplines of cosmology, astronomy, plasma physics, atmospheric physics, geophysics, geomagnetism, and bioelectromagnetism to name a few are required to understand the significance of 2012 prophecies and this has to be integrated with ancient sources of knowledge that have been passed down as metaphysical teaching. Therefore, I am interested to know who the intellectuals are that have actually understood what the Maya and other Keepers of Ancient Knowledge have attempted to convey. Therefore, let's say I am not impressed with this offering.
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Mayan Calendar Discovery Confirms 2012 'End Date'
Discovery News, 29th June 2012
An ancient Maya text has emerged from the jungles of Guatemala confirming the so-called "end date" of the Maya calendar, Dec. 21, 2012.
Considered one of the most significant hieroglyphic finds in decades, the 1,300-year-old inscription contains only the second known reference to the "end date," but does not predict doomsday.
"The text talks about ancient political history rather than prophecy," Marcello A. Canuto, director of Tulane University's Middle American Research Institute, said. [...]
"This was a time of great political turmoil in the Maya region and this king felt compelled to allude to a larger cycle of time that happens to end in 2012," Stuart said.
The discovery is consistent with the only other reference to the 2012 date in ancient Maya inscriptions -- Monument 6 from Tortuguero, Mexico.
"What this text shows us is that in times of crisis, the ancient Maya used their calendar to promote continuity and stability rather than predict apocalypse," Canuto said.
Australian police warn Apple maps 'could kill': Users looking for city directed to barren outback more than 40 miles away
Daily Mail, 10th December 2012
* Users searching for the city of Mildura found themselves directed to the middle of the Murray-Sunset National Park
* They ended up in an area with no nearby water supplies and no mobile network where temperatures can reach 46C
* Some motorists were stranded for up to 24 hours and were forced to walk long distances before they were able to call for help
Police in Australia today warned drivers with iPhones not to navigate with Apple Maps after users looking for one city found themselves in barren outback more than 40 miles away.
Motorists following the much-criticised mapping service to the city of Mildura in the country's south-east ended up in the middle of the nearby Murray-Sunset National Park.
With no nearby water supplies and temperatures in the park reaching as high as 46C, police warned the mapping error had the potential to be 'life-threatening'.
Comment: In the future, people are going to die in droves because they refuse to engage brain and think.... Please see my previous comments on GPS and satellite navigation, poor quality Apple Maps is not really the issue...
Does Psy's 'Gangnam Style' fulfill a Nostradamus Doomsday 2012 prophesy? (Video)
Celebrity Examiner, 10th December 2012
As December 21, 2012 draws near, many believers in the "Doomsday" scenario look to an old friend for guidance: Nostradamus.
And one video on YouTube claims to have found evidence that the world's most famous seer knew just what omen would signify the end of the world. That's right. It's PSY's "Gangnam Style" video which has broken all-time records for viewing.
Comment: This is just funny.... I actually thought the interpretation would have been that Nostradamus had identified a marker in history for just how banal society had become....
New Report: 'Extreme Weather Report 2012': 'Latest peer-reviewed studies, data & analyses undermine claims that current weather is 'unprecedented' or a 'new normal'
Climate Depot's New 35-Page Report: 'Current weather is neither historically unprecedented, nor unusual' -- 'Extreme weather events are ever present, and there is no evidence of systematic increases'
Presented at UN Climate Conference in Doha, Qatar on Dec. 6, 2012
Climate Depot, 6th December 2012
The man-made global warming movement has officially shifted from runaway global warming fears over to extreme weather fears. This strategic shift has been in the works for years as global average temperatures have stalled by up to 16 years. First there was a transition from “global warming” to “climate change” and now to “global climate disruption.” Some have suggested “global weirding” others have suggested a “new normal.”
At the opening of the 18 annual United Nations climate summit being held in Doha, Qatar, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, urged governments around the world to “do something about” extreme weather. “We have had severe climate and weather events all over the world and everyone is beginning to understand that is exactly the future we are going to be looking about if they don't do something about it,” Figueres explained at the opening of the annual UN climate summit.
In June of this year, Democrat Rep. Henry Waxman (Ca) blamed CO2 for wildfires in Colorado and floods in Florida. “It's time to stop denying science. Extreme events like the wildfires in Colorado and the floods in Florida are going to get worse unless Republican-controlled Congress changes course soon,” Waxman explained.
Global warming proponents claimed that 2012 was a 'new normal' in climate with “unprecedented” weather events. Former Vice President Al Gore summed up this view when he wrote:
“Every night on the news now, practically, is like a nature hike through the book of Revelations. [...]
In 2012, some climate campaigners are warning the global warming activists to lay off extreme weather claims. See: Keith Kloor: 'Extreme weather and disasters has become crack cocaine to the climate community. Many of them are now hooked': 'And they come crashing down once the heat breaks and global warming disappears from the headlines' [...]
Even religious leaders have recognized the scientific transition to paganism. See: Catholic Cardinal George Pell in 2006: 'In the past, pagans sacrificed animals and even humans in vain attempts to placate capricious and cruel gods. Today they demand a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions'
Comment: Another amusing report from Marc Morano at Climate Depot. However, I have my reservations because it seems most US based climate 'realists' are using weather records for the United States and extrapolating that to represent the whole world... Whatever, little known research indicates Earth's magnetic field is a major indicator of processes that change our global weather, cause extreme weather events, drive global temperatures, and provide the prognosis for more mega-earthquakes and volcanoes erupting galore... Long term, the continuation of low solar activity means a new mini-ice age is inevitable.... Hence, due to cosmic factors that includes solar magnetism and known variations associated with Earth's magnetic field, the conclusions of the major Geocataclysm 211 conference is an important milestone in understanding what is really happening on this planet. Unfortunately, due to complexity, world controllers and many climate scientists agreed to dumb this all down and blame global warming (climate change, climate change disruption, global weirding, extreme weather etc) on human behaviour causing a rise in CO2 to obtain a mandate for more control over humanity's future. This then resulted in an unexpected fight because a few honest climate scientists and campaigners refuse to accept the poor science... On this blog, I have insisted that global warming is the cover for cosmic climate change but due to a domino effect identifying each factor like solar magnetism, the interplanetary magnetic field, Earth's magnetic field, the Earth's jet streams etc is hard work, but I am now stating that evolving people need to be able to accept and understand some complexity...
Asteroids flybys, big and small, near and far...
spaceweather.com, 10th December 2012
BIG ASTEROID FLYBY:
Large near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis is flying past Earth this week. At closest approach on Dec. 12th, it will be 7 million km away, or 18 times farther than the Moon. Astronomers are taking advantage of the flyby to learn more about the asteroid's orbit, shape, and topography. Here are a few shadowy images of the asteroid illuminated by NASA's Goldstone radar in the Mojave desert:
Measuring 5 km in length, Toutatis is one of the largest known potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) and its orbit is inclined less than half-a-degree from Earth's. No other kilometer-sized PHA moves around the Sun in an orbit so nearly coplanar with our own. This makes it an important target for asteroid studies.
Fortunately, there is no danger of a collision with Toutatis for hundreds of years. Radar observations should improve researchers' ability to predict the asteroid's trajectory even farther into the future. Goldstone will pinging Toutatis from now until Dec. 22nd. Stay tuned for daily updates.
Comment: This massive asteroid is of great astronomical interest as it needs to be monitored and catalogued for future flybys... but the real interest is the last minute asteroids that seem to appear from nowhere...
2012 XE54 was only discovered on December 9th. It is a small 36 meter Apollo class near earth object and makes its closest approach at 0.6 LD between Earth and Moon... That is still not so close....
The skies are alive with dusty plasmas....
spaceweather.com, 10th December 2012
AMAZING STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS OVER EUROPE:
"These are nacreous clouds," explains atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley. "Of all Earth's clouds they are most spectacular, and a very rare treat for skywatchers."
"For up to an hour after sunset or before dawn they glow like eerie electric discharges or gas jets in the darkening sky, their filmy shapes slowly curling and uncurling with intense shifting colors. They are composed of tiny ice crystals more than twice as high as ordinary clouds, 9-16 miles up, in the stratosphere and form at temperatures of minus 85 Celsius and below. The crystals are all of similar size and they diffract the high altitude sunlight to make the colours."
"Search for nacreous clouds at high latitudes (e.g., Scotland, Scandinavia, Iceland, Northern US) in winter and preferably downwind of mountains," Cowley advises. "They like stormy weather that perhaps creates gravity waves to loft the necessary moisture to make them upwards across the tropopause into the stratosphere. Once seen they are never forgotten!"
Comment: I have reported these not so rare colourful clouds before but the extra detail from an expert here is very interesting, like:
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they glow like eerie electric discharges or gas jets in the darkening sky
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They like stormy weather that perhaps creates gravity waves to loft the necessary moisture to make them upwards
We have a mixture of legacy scientific terminology being used here. Presumably, in the future, atmospheric physicists will move on and explain the behaviour of plasma and electromagnetic forces in the Earth's atmosphere using the more coherent terminology of plasma physics. Regardless, these nacreous clouds are a sign of highly charged dusty plasmas in the atmosphere. Sunlight passing through highly charged dusty plasma produces the characteristic bright iridescent colors by diffraction and interference.
“Especially Alarming”: Giant quake of magnitude 8 or greater could soon strike Japan — Gov’t calls for ‘continued vigilance’
Energy News, 8th December 2012
Title: Fears Grow that Japan Could be Hit by Another Powerful Earthquake
Source: Arirang News
Date: December 08, 2012
Fears Grow that Japan Could be Hit by Another Powerful Earthquake
Concerns are rising that Japan could be hit by another massive earthquake after a magnitude-7.3 quake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan on Friday. [...]
Japan’s Asahi Shimbun reports that aftershocks could continue and warned residents in the northeastern region to exercise caution.
Japan’s Defense Science and Technology Institute says the latest tremor is especially alarming, adding an earthquake with a magnitude of eight or over could soon strike the country.
Russian premier Dmitry Medvedev muses on aliens and Vladimir Putin's lateness
The Telegraph, 8th December 2012
Mr Medvedev let his guard down after an interview with five Russian television stations when he failed to realise the cameras were still rolling. [...]
Another of the journalists asked whether the president is handed secret files on aliens when receiving the briefcase needed to activate Russia's nuclear arsenal.
"Along with the briefcase with nuclear codes, the president of the country is given a special 'top secret' folder. This folder in its entirety contains information about aliens who visited our planet," Mr Medvedev answered playfully.
"Along with this, you are given a report of the absolutely secret special service that exercises control over aliens on the territory of our country ... More detailed information on this topic you can get from a well-known movie called 'Men In Black' ... I will not tell you how many of them are among us because it may cause panic," he says.
Comment: Hmmm.... Quite frankly, this story is only relevant for those who have come across studies that imply that we have had 'visitors' in the ancient past and they have never left... Interbreeding might explain the interest and desperation to maintain certain bloodlines and the origin of psychopaths who the world's top psychologists do not even believe are human... I realise that most do not appreciate or understand any of this, but I have long ago given up bothering about the opinion of the uneducated and ignorant. Btw, I believe we should be more concerned with psychopaths than the existence of aliens...
Special Report Update: Dramatic Increase in Black Triangle Sightings Across the Country
The Object Report, 7th December 2012
Something is definitely going on. We've had nearly 100 reported sightings of enormous, silent black triangles from 21 different states, plus Canada in November and December alone. I feel it's necessary to run a follow up piece to my recent article about these craft because we're quite obviously in a full-on Big Black Triangle Flap...
Comment: I have given my opinion on these black triangles on this blog based on a previously top secret UK MOD report and the physics of magnetism and plasma, but I presume it is too exotic for the uneducated, I don't know what else to say...
A problem: nearly one third of CO2 emissions occured since 1998, and it hasn’t warmed
WUWT News, 6th December 2012
But one-third of all human emissions of CO2 have occurred since 1998. And temperatures haven’t budged as a result.
This does not ‘disprove’ global warming–at all. I still believe that temperatures will climb this century, mostly as a result of the brute force effect of the 3,000 quads of energy we will burn every year starting in 2075–the reason I started this weblog. [...]
Those who think that there isn’t much of an additional effect (that sensitivity of the atmosphere is low) have been chuckling very publicly because temperatures haven’t risen very much (if at all) since the big El Nino year of 1998. This is not hugely surprising, as the shape of the data is uneven, a sawtooth with ups and downs that can last a decade or longer. But it is happening at an inconvenient time politically for those who are worried that sensitivity is high. They are trying to get the world to prepare for warming of 4.5C or higher, without much success.
Comment: This is a guest post by Tom Fuller, who describes himself as a Luke Warmer and I think it is a nice presentation of the data concerning the rise in CO2 and the belief that it will cause global warming. The only problem is that there does not seem to be any solid cause and effect to support the hypothesis. I am actually quite stunned by the weakness of the argument used in this presentation and so are others.
Stephen Singer says:
December 6, 2012 at 8:51 pm
Looks to me like the next third runs from about 1972 t0 1997, so 2/3 since just 1972. We should have fried by now if the active hypothesis were true.
Catcracking says:
December 6, 2012 at 9:15 pm
As an engineer, I would think one would pause to rethink a hypothesis when the response is flat for fifteen years while the level of the stimulus is dramatically increased. An open minded engineer or scientist not married to his/her theories would look elsewhere for a valid relationship. Maybe there is something wrong with the “physics” after all.
There are some real gems in the comments here with interesting links to more interesting links... The most revelatory is the correlation between global temperatures and the geomagnetic Aa index....
Why Is the Media Ignoring the Mass Sinkholes Popping Up Around the Country?
Natural News, 3rd December 2012
Have you heard of the massive sinkholes popping up around the nation? Flammable craters spanning acres wide and leaking radiation, monster sinkholes described as ‘apocalyptic’ have forced residents out of homes, expelled radiation into the environment, and are now ushering in concerns about serious Earth changes in the near future. If you’ve heard of these sinkholes, chances are it has been from the alternative media.
It’s a hot issue on forums, some social networking sectors, and certain alternative talk radio programs. Sure, it has come up in some mainstream reports here and there, but there are virtually no in-depth pieces tying everything together. And they often fail to mention the scale of these sinkholes, behemoth anomalies that can swallow up 100 foot trees, houses, with the latest Ohio sinkhole devouring 4 football fields of land. Events that are sending residents scrambling.
Comment: I think this is about real sinkholes not the laser cut holes that have been of great interest to me... This is interesting: "Bloomberg reports that fracking is a likely cause for a dramatic rise (sixfold) in earthquake activity from 2000 to 2011. Not to mention contamination of the water and food supply." So....someone thinks we should blame the rise in earthquakes solely on fracking?
Are Preppers responsible for the unprepared?
World Net Weekly, 7th December 2012
Last week on the website Emergency Management, there appeared a blog post written by an emergency manager named Valerie Lucus-McEwen in which she made a grave error in judgment. She called doomsday preppers “socially selfish.”
She based this startling conclusion on the National Geographic’s “The Doomsday Prepper” series and concluded that because the people featured in this show were spending their OWN time and their OWN money to stockpile their OWN resources in order to prepare their OWN families for whatever disastrous scenario they foresaw, they are selfish. Specifically, as another emergency manager phrased it, this is “a level of indulgence that is selfish and counter-productive to providing for the common good.”
“You might wonder,” wrote Ms. Lucus-McEwen, “why someone like me, who has been in the business of encouraging disaster preparedness for a very long time, is so critical of people who are doing just that. It’s because they are being socially selfish – preparing themselves and the hell with everyone else. Instead of spending time and energy making changes that would benefit the larger community, in their very narrow focus of loyalty they are more concerned about themselves. … Our job is to prepare individuals and communities and jurisdictions and regions and – ultimately – the globe for disasters, knowing we won’t always succeed.”
Little did Ms. Lucus-McEwen realize she was opening an enormous can of worms. The blog post got blitzed with comments, universally condemning her for her conclusions and asking why it was the job of ordinary preppers to “provide for the common good” at their own expense. [...]
The people featured in the Doomsday Prepper show – many of whom, granted, were featured because they were extreme – aren’t emergency managers. It’s not their job to prepare an entire community (much less the globe) to meet a disaster. So they’re doing the next best thing: making sure their families and friends won’t require government assistance in the event of an emergency. (Incidentally, Ms. Lucus-McEwen admits that she herself wouldn’t make it more than a week or two without outside assistance.)
Comment: Societies across the globe are generally ignorant about astronomical cycles and times of rapid evolutionary change where we can expect there to be major disasters for reasons that have been outlined on this blog. As I have been also pointing out on this blog and in my writings, the knowledge of astronomical cycles and major cataclysm has been preserved through religion, mythology, literature, monuments and artefacts. Religious leaders in the West who have traditionally retained this message on this planet have failed BIG-TIME to warn the masses and world controllers and governments are mostly only interested in self-preservation. New Age 'leaders' don't count because they don't recognise the essence of what religion was originally about and generally only promote a toxic blend of narcissism and consumerism. Regardless, there are a few individuals who have noted the rising tide of natural disasters and because they value their own lives have been preparing to cope in the event of any disaster natural or manmade. Some are even prepared to deal with the unprepared hordes who will be desperate to pillage for their own survival when resources become scarce. Yet, here we are told some moronic government official is calling those who choose to be ready “socially selfish.” This viewpoint can only be described as twisted, when even NASA management has been telling its own employees to be prepared in the event of a major disaster. This article is very well written and needs to be read in its entirety, but it reminds me of the New Testament parable in the Bible of the foolish and wise virgins... The wise are stocked up with oil for their lamps when the master arrives. As I have explained many times, the correct intrepretation well understood by the astronomer-priest class, is the need to be ready for the Christ or crystalline energy as it pours onto this planet... There is absolutely no argument about this as the signs of the times are obvious for those who are awake... Today, "the sounds of the apocalypse" refer to the sky noises where energy in the atmosphere is being transduced into sound. In the Kolbrin texts, it is described as "the noise of trumpeting and shrilling... heard in the Heavens". (I expect the next major wave of reports in January 2013 but reports have already started.) The ancient scriptures preserve the knowledge of seas and rivers turning blood red, which is now happening. This is a well known quote: "There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven." (Luke 21:11 ESV) There are plenty of "signs" in the heavens in terms of fireballs, meteors, asteroids and comets, etc etc. and plenty of other rare and bizarre atmospheric events and 'signs'. Those who are prepared to deal with anything should be congratulated... Personally, I would like to thank many different groups and websites in the blogosphere for keeping watch and seeking to inform.
Flooding fears as Bopha returns to Philippines
ABC.net News, 9th December 2012
Killer storm Bopha is set to make landfall in the Philippines for a second time, just days after it slammed into the south of the country and left almost 1,400 dead or missing.
Bopha, now downgraded from a typhoon to a tropical storm, changed course after heading into the South China Sea and is heading towards the main Philippines island of Luzon.
Despite being weaker, with 55 kilometre per hour winds, the storm brought heavy rain and concerns of landslides and flash flooding with its return.
"It will bring rain, not so much wind," civil defence chief Benito Ramos told AFP.
"We anticipate flash floods and landslides. We expect low-lying areas to be flooded again."
Beyond 2012: Why the World Won't End
NASA.gov, 13th November 2012
Dec. 21, 2012, won't be the end of the world as we know, however, it will be another winter solstice.
Contrary to some of the common beliefs out there, the claims behind the end of the world quickly unravel when pinned down to the 2012 timeline.
Below, NASA Scientists answer questions on the following 2012 topics:
End of the World, 'Prediction' Origins, Mayan Calendar, Total Blackout, Planetary Alignment, Nibiru/Planet X/Eris, Polar Shift, Meteor Strike, NASA Science, Solar Storms
Tornado 2 km wide in Indonesia
RSOE - Emergency and Disaster Information Service, 8th December 2012
More than a dozen people have been injured and hundreds of houses left damaged after a tornado swept through the Yogyakarta district of Sleman on Friday. The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesman said on Saturday that
the tornado - which had a radius of two kilometers at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour - lasted for 10 minutes and hit 10 villages in Sleman, with the Bromonila village in the subdistrict of Purwomartani reporting the most damages.
"Two people were seriously injured and have to undergo treatment now, and 12 others were lightly wounded," BNPB spokesman Sutopo Purwo said in a statement published at bnpb.go.id. Sutopo said 519 houses in total were damaged and dozens of cattle sheds and hundreds of trees also reportedly collapsed. The district head of Sleman has declared the area an emergency situation until Dec. 11.
"The Sleman office of the BPNB has established an emergency station and a makeshift kitchen in Bromonila village," said Sutopo, adding that people displaced from their houses had been evacuated to safe places. The tornado also disrupted some flights to and from the Adisucipto International Airport in Yogyakarta. A Merpati Airlines plane from Bandung was forced to reroute to Surabaya and a Garuda Indonesia flight from Jakarta was forced to turn back.
Comment: This is extreme...
New study finds mega-tsunamis pose potential threat to Hawaiian Islands
Our Amazing Planet, 7th December 2012
December 7, 2012 – HAWAII - It’s almost unimaginable: a tsunami more than 1,000 feet (300 meters) high bearing down on the island of Hawaii. But scientists have new evidence of these monster waves, called mega-tsunamis, doing just that. The findings were presented here yesterday (Dec. 5) at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Unlike tsunamis from earthquakes, the Hawaiian tsunamis strike when the island chain’s massive volcanoes collapse in humongous landslides.
This happens about every 100,000 years, and is linked to climate change, said Gary McMurtry, a professor at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.
Sitting about 30 feet (10 m) away from today’s Ka Le (South Point) seashore are boulders the size of cars. Some 250,000 years ago, a tsunami tossed the enormous rocks 820 feet (250 m) up the island’s slopes, said Fernando Marques, a professor at the University of Lisbon in Portugal. (The boulders are closer to the shore now because the main island of Hawaii is one of the world’s largest volcanoes, and its massive weight sends it sinking into the Earth at a rate of about 1 millimeter a year.) McMurtry’s team found two younger and slightly smaller tsunami deposits at South Point on the main island of Hawaii, one 50,000 years old and one 13,000 years old. He suggests the tsunami source is the two Ka Le submarine landslides, from the flanks of the nearby Mauna Loa volcano.
Comment: The identification of another potential mega disaster that we are told is linked to climate change. Please note: on this blog, I prefer to point out the known science that periods of major seismic shifts are caused by cosmic factors, i.e. an influx of energy from deep space combined with a declining magnetic field... The energy to cause mega-earthquakes and tsunamis has to come from somewhere and this scenario happens repeatedly on this planet...
Japan earthquake: tsunami alert liftedJapan has been hit by a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake, but a tsunami alert issued for the country has now been lifted.
The Telegraph, 7th December 2012
A tsunami measuring slightly over 3 feet high hit the Ayukawa district of Ishinomaki at 6.02 pm local time, although there were no immediate reports of injuries. More tsunami warnings were in force for the rest of Miyagi Prefecture, as well as Aomori, Fukushima and Iwate prefectures.
Warnings had been issued on television and radio channels immediately after the magniude 7.3 quake struck at 5.18 pm and residents of coastal regions and low-lying areas had been ordered to evacuate to higher ground.
The quake was the most severe since much of north-east Japan was devastated by the magnitude-9 earthquake on March 11, 2012, and inevitably caused concern among local residents.
Comment: The concern is that because this earthquake was so large at 7.3, it could be the pre-cursor to the big one. Basically, it is only recently that Japanese seismologists have been warning about a magnitude 10 earthquake being a possibility... As a reminder it was only about 48hrs after an earthquake at 7.2 hit on March 9, 2011 that there was the massive 9.0 Tohoko earthquake and subsequent tsunami that caused massive devastation.
Motor mutts learn to drive in New Zealand
Yahoo News, 7th December 2012
Rather than chasing cars, dogs in New Zealand are being taught to drive them -- steering, pedals and all -- in a heartwarming project aimed at increasing pet adoptions from animal shelters.
Animal trainer Mark Vette has spent two months training three cross-breed rescue dogs from the Auckland SPCA to drive a modified Mini as a way of proving that even unwanted canines can be taught to perform complex tasks.
The motorised mutts -- Porter, Monty and Ginny -- sit in the driver's seat, belted in with a safety harness, using their paws to operate specially designed dashboard-height pedals for the accelerator and brakes at Vette's command.
The car's steering wheel has been fitted with handles, allowing the dogs to turn it, while the "starter key" is a dashboard-mounted button that the dogs press to get the motor running.
"There's about 10 different behaviours involved, so we had to break them down into each behaviour -- using the accelerator, feet on the wheel, turn the key on, feet on the brake, the gear(stick) and so on," Vette said.
Comment: Hmmm... I am sure people think the whole idea of some
humans devolving and some animals evolving is crazy but we have to look at the
evidence... Simply, there are a lot of humans who are too narcissistic,
psychopathic and feral and that makes them dangerous... In the past, I have pointed out that species that do not contribute enough to the environment and instead stress the environment are eliminated in times of environmental change, but humans have been too oblivious to realise that they are also under the same rules... Now, we find out that human reproduction rates are dramatically declining worldwide... I think that we are seeing a lethal blend of man-made radiation and natural radiation from space, but of course this planet is so polluted with chemicals, EM radiation and GM foods that it could be declining sperm counts are due to any number of toxic and lethal causes, but existing studies into low dose radiation may prove to be decisive....
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Birds line nests with cigarette butts to repel pests, scientists claim
Birds are lining their nests with cigarette butts to repel pests and keep themselves warm, according to research.
The Telegraph, 5th December 2012
Wild birds have long protected their nests from mite invasion by importing chemical-emitting plants.
But now birds living in cities seem to have adapted similar behaviour, filling their nests with up to 48 cigarette buts to make use of the repellent properties of tobacco.
The nicotine and other chemicals in discarded filters act as a natural pesticide that repels parasitic mites. At the same time, the cellulose butts provide useful nest insulation.
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The catfish that strands itself to kill pigeons
Discover Magazine, 5th December 2012
In Southwestern France, a group of fish have learned how to kill birds. As the River Tarn winds through the city of Albi, it contains a small gravel island where pigeons gather to clean and bathe. And patrolling the island are European catfish—1 to 1.5 metres long, and the largest freshwater fish on the continent. These particular catfish have taken to lunging out of the water, grabbing a pigeon, and then wriggling back into the water to swallow their prey. In the process, they temporarily strand themselves on land for a few seconds.
Apologies from control tower at Schiphol to KLM pilot
Haarlem Dagblad, 7th December 2012
UITGEEST - (with sound) The ATC Schiphol made Tuesday, Nov. 13 via the aeronautical radio apology to a KLM pilot, apparently by erroneous instructions from the control tower was almost rammed by a Garuda plane.
,, This was certainly not the intention, sorry for that,'' said the controller in Dutch, indicating that he appeals to the KLM crew and not the Indonesian pilot. Usually the control tower communicates in English.
Moments earlier headed the Garuda plane at the same height as the KLM airplane simultaneously to the new runway. Both planes were at the same level there directed. Normally there is three hundred meters in height between.
If ATC realizes that something is not going well, both aircraft hastily directed the other way. The KLM pilot, who neatly on course for the new runway, is instructed to go right out of the way. The Garuda pilot must quickly left. [...]
The flight data previously known has become apparent that the aircraft instruction for a course correction should have received a second later, because they were fifteen seconds later above Uitgeest collided in the air.
Comment: This is an update for Dutch followers of this blog. I was sent two links from Eurydice P. In Amsterdam,
link 1 from, and
link 2 and I put the second through google translate. At the moment, we don't know if this was just a human error...
SaskTel ‘glitch’ slaps customers with $100,000 cellphone bills
Globe & Mail, 5th December 2012
Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. is blaming a technology glitch for a billing error that slapped some wireless customers with incorrect charges as high as $100,000.
The provincially owned telco, more commonly known as SaskTel, said roughly 9,000 of its more than 600,000 wireless customers were affected by the billing mistake, which occurred late last month.
Africa's Homo sapiens were the first techies
Escience News, 5th December 2012
The search for the origin of modern human behaviour and technological advancement among our ancestors in southern Africa some 70,000 years ago has taken a step closer to firmly establishing Africa, and especially South Africa, as the primary centre for the early development of human behaviour. A new research paper by Wits University archaeologist, Prof. Christopher Henshilwood, is the first detailed summary of the time periods he and a group of international researchers have been studying in South Africa: namely the Still Bay techno-traditions (c. 75,000 -- 70,000 years) and the Howiesons Poort techno-tradition (c. 65,000 -- 60,000 years).
Comment: I don't have time to wax lyrical on this but I am fed with the messed up timelines and corrupted research from archaeologists and anthropologists who have tried to hide the truth of human origins and cataclysms that have wiped out advanced civilsations on this planet in the past.... I am particularly fed up after hearing a story of a stupid middle class person who couldn't even cook chicken without giving themselves food poisoning but this same idiot-class person would look down on so-called primitives who we find were not so primitive and developed "innovative technologies" to help them survive climate change.... What the hell are we doing? World controllers are so damn stupid that they are trying to make a fast buck selling carbon credits via carbon trading... truly pathetic....
Power Line Poles Catch Fire, Prompt Outages
KCEN TV News, 6th December 2012
A series of utility pole fires across Central Texas caught on fire early Thursday morning, causing people in several counties to lose power. [...]
They're repairing utility poles like the one in front of Andy McDonald's house in Lorena. It was one of around 60 to catch fire across Bell, McLennan, Falls and Hill counties Thursday morning.
"Kind of like our own personal Olympic torch," McDonald described the candle-like flames atop the pole. [...]
Across Central Texas law enforcement officials scratched their heads.
"I can't even say career - not in my lifetime have I heard of this," said DPS Trooper D. L. Wilson.
The main theory is all the moisture from the fog helped spark an electrical fire with all the dust buildup from lack of rain. Oncor crews have seen this before.
"It's very common on a foggy day if it hadn't rained for a good while," Lynn Trout said while he fixed one of the burnt poles.
With almost no rain since September, and heavy fog Thursday morning, it was a perfect mixture to spark the fires. The first calls came in at around 4:30 a.m.
"All the electric companies are gonna be working hard today to try to get the power back on but that many poles being affected it could take a little while," Wilson said.[...]
"Start of the apocalypse," laugh McDonald, "the electrocolypse."
Comment: Actually, I don't feel like laughing... McDonald is right... this is an electrocolypse.... Anyway, there is a bit of a contradiction here.... We are told this is common on foggy days but DPS Trooper D. L. Wilson says he has never seen anything like it in his lifetime and I wonder why his opinion was called for if that is true... Regardless, the strangeness of this event is being echoed around the blogosphere. The description of an olympic torch really makes me think that this was a brilliant example of a huge electrical discharge over a wide area... a case of "Boston Stump" in the vernacular used by the UK RAF.... This phenomenon is already highlighted in my archives, but possibly hundreds of poles across a large area is incredible, so here is my explanation. "Boston stump" is the term used by UK radar operators for a famous church spire in Boston, Norfolk which is known for generating St Elmo's fire. This is an electrical discharge that can create stationary bright lights in the skies usually for many hours. Normally, St Elmo's fire is associated with being seen around church steeples, but sailors have also witnessed this phenomeon on ships' masts. Traditionally, static and dancing lights or flames have also been seen over swaps, moors and farmland. There is a huge variety of names in many different cultures, but in traditional English folklore they have most often been called Will-o'-the Wisp. The Latin name for Will-o'-the Wisp is "Ignis Fatuus" which means "foolish fire" or "the luring fire." It has often been described by witnesses as "appearing like a torch in the unsteady hand of an unseen traveler." See
Mysterious Light Phenomena Known By Modern, Ancient and Traditional People &
here. At this time, I have assumed that the utility poles and transformers were discharging energy from the Earth and so joins the list of other very strange geological discharges in recent times that appear to be happening quite frequently.
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Texas: BTU Responds to 5 Power Pole Fires Monday Night
KBTX News, 3rd May 2012
More than 70 BTU customers lost service for a few hours after power poles began to spark and catch fire.
Dust and a little bit of rain caused the problems.
BTU linemen were staying busy Monday night responding to power pole fires across their service area, including here at South College Avenue and Dodge Street in Bryan. [...]
"Very unusual for us to have five pole top fires in one night ," said Dan Wilkerson, Bryan Texas Utilities General Manager.[...]
"The form of either dust and on the coast salt builds up on insulators and when there's just enough light rain the two mix together and make a mud that is conductive and it will conduct electricity down to the pole or the cross arm and catch them on fire," Wilkerson said. [...]
With more than 100,000 poles in the BTU system, Wilkerson said a good rain is needed to fix the problem and says light rain, mist and fog causes the most problems.
"I've never seen sparks shoot from a power line. I've never seen it personally so it was a little shocking, a little surprising," Foster said. [...]
Four refineries along the coast also experienced power pole fires last week.
Comment: So multiple poles lighting up has happened before, the issue now is the scale of this electromagnetic phenomenon and presumably something in the environment is causing ignition. This could be quickly fluctuating geomagnetic fields, or a combination of geological or atmospheric effects... I now wonder if this also explains St Elmo's fire when it is seen on tall spires....
Texas: Power Pole Fires Leave Thousands Without Power Thursday
KWTX-TV News 10, 6th December 2012
WACO (December 6, 2012)-Power poles in as many as five Central Texas counties were burning Thursday morning and authorities were trying to find out why.
A Department of Public Safety communications officer said power poles in Hill, Falls, Bell, Williamson and McLennan counties mysteriously began bursting into flames at about 4 a.m. Thursday.
He said the fires that had been reported were burning at the tops of the poles, some involving transformers.
Various power company representatives had been dispatched to survey the damage and several fire departments were sent to douse the flames.
One power company technician told a News 10 reporter near McGregor that the fires likely were caused by a build up of dust on transformers that shorted out due to low-lying fog. [...]
As many as 30 power poles were burning in one area of Hill County, just off Interstate 35 at mile marker 361.
As many as 20 poles were reported burning in Bynum east of Hillsboro and and others in the Aquilla area where some customers were without power.
There were poles on fire along Highway 6 near Falls County roads 112 and 113 that had forced closure of Highway 6 and had stopped trains along an adjacent railroad line for about an hour but traffic was moving normally by about 5:45 a.m.
Some limited power outages were reported in the area around Perry, just north of Marlin.
Comment: Read the story, because there were many more than 50 transformers/poles on fire! This reminds me of the concern about dust in the atmosphere causing explosions... Also see archives for astronomers' estimates of the amount of cosmic dust entering our atmosphere.... Is there a link with the mystery tremors also causing consternation in Texas? It is really is getting hard to keep up with the EM chaos in the environment.
Freak tornado kills 3 in Auckland, New Zealand
The News, 6th December 2012
AUCKLAND –
A freak tornado hit Auckland Thursday killing three people and causing “utter devastation” as wild weather ripped apart homes and caused flash flooding in New Zealand’s largest city.
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About 150 homes were badly damaged, many rendered uninhabitable, forcing residents into temporary accommodation at a nearby air force base. Resident Suzanne McFadden said the storm roared through in “five minutes of utter devastation.”
Texas: Mystery tremors puzzle experts
Not confirmed earthquakes
Corsicana Daily Sun, 5th December 2012
Corsicana — Reports of earthquake-like tremors starting Tuesday afternoon and continuing until early Wednesday can’t be confirmed as true earthquakes, but experts can’t say what it is, either. [...]
After the second round of reports, Meyers posted it on Facebook and suddenly there were more reports, but coming from all over, including Streetman, Purdon, Pursley and Dawson. Some of the reports came from as far away as Freestone and Limestone counties. The line runs about 50 to 60 miles long, and
the tremors didn’t act like any other thing except perhaps earthquake booms, which are shallow sometimes undetectable tremors similar to what’s been happening locally.
Today’s rush to judgment by MSM on new NHC proposed hurricane categorization
WUWT, 5th December 2012
Following the criticism of the National Hurricane Center’s handling of Hurricane Sandy and the non-issuance of hurricane warnings north of North Carolina, it has been decided that the NHC will now have more flexibility in their policy regarding the issuance of advisories. Beginning in 2013, the NHC will have the flexibility to issue multiple advisories on post-tropical cyclones for landfalling systems or close bypassers.
According to the NHC, this required a revision of the Hurricane Warning definition. [...]
I think some new categorization is a good idea, because some storms are big on winds, some are big on rain, some are big on storm surge, and some are big on all three. Getting a handle on these to truly rate storm effects would be better. In this case, Sandy happened to just hit a place that isn’t used to hurricanes on a regular basis, and it wasn’t strong enough to rate hurricane strength, so hurricane warnings were not issued. The fact that it was NYC put a microscope on it. If hit Florida, it would have been just another storm.
Comment: Anthony Watts is a meteorologist by profession and even though I don't agree with everything, his synopsis here is quite good.... Simply, there are powerful and violent storms coming that cannot be called hurricanes because they are powered by energy in the atmosphere not "warm waters"... This means that authorities expect a lot of loss of life and property to come as most people are programmed to only motivate themselves when they hear about a hurricane and will pooh pooh anything they think is just a storm. The disaster in New York/Eastern seaboard was devasting in one sense because people were told 'it's just a storm'.... and hence had no idea what was coming and from video footage, I think there was more going on than what we have been told... Thus, it seems these new proposals by meteorologists at NOAA imply that some education or re-programming of the masses is now mandatory...
Scientists warn of sperm count crisis
Biggest-ever study confirms drastic decline in male reproductive health
The Independent, 5th December 2012
[...] The findings confirm research over the past 20 years that has shown sperm counts declining in many countries across the world. Reasons ranging from tight underwear to toxins in the environment have been advanced to explain the fall, but still no definitive cause has been found.
The decline occurred progressively hroughout the 17-year period, suggesting that it could be continuing. [...]
The worldwide fall in sperm counts has been accompanied by a rise in testicular cancer – rates have doubled in the last 30 years – and in other male sexual disorders such as undescended testes, which are indicative of a "worrying pattern", scientists say.
There is an urgent need to establish the causes so measures can be taken to prevent further damage, they add.
Richard Sharpe, professor of reproductive health at the University of Edinburgh and an international expert on toxins in the environment, said the study was "hugely impressive" and answered sceptics who doubted whether the global decline was real.
"Now, there can be little doubt that it is real, so it is a time for action. Something in our modern lifestyle, diet or environment is causing this and it is getting progressively worse. We still do not know which are the most important factors but the most likely are … a high-fat diet and environmental chemical exposures."
Comment: Men are getting a strong message in the nuts... Maybe it is the only way that many will get the message that the human race is not omnipotent... Anyway, I am curious how people will react because most seem apathetic to just about everything... Whatever, some have been talking about the need for a big cull of the human race and it seems universal consciousness is obliging... So, it looks like there will be a status of Paradise on this planet, but not so many humans will be around to experience it...
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Decline in French sperm count should be considered global warning
Wired News, 5th December 2012
A study revealing a significant decline in sperm concentration among French men should be considered a health warning, and could be linked to environmental factors, say its authors.
Comment: Long termers who follow my blog will not be surprised by this headline that is accompanied by not one shred of scientific evidence or even scientific opinion... I decided to check if sperm reduction caused by global warming is listed at numberwatch.co.uk to see if it was one of the 883 past and present claims currently listed, see A complete list of things caused by global warming. Well, I found "starfish sperm eaten by parasites" and "polar bears fewer cubs" but I might have missed a few other things but human sperm reduction is not on the list... Whatever, if we remind ourselves that global warming is the cover story for cosmic climate change and a deluge of cosmic energy that has a myriad of effects, then it is easy to see why some might be so bold as to make this kind of "wild" assertion...
Death rate 2 to 4 times as high among childless couples
Medical Xpress, 5th December 2012
Despite the popular belief among parents that having children shortens their lives, the reverse seems to be true, particularly for women, indicates a large study of childless couples, treated for infertility, and published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
The search is on to find the faker behind Piltdown Man
The earliest known human, discovered in 1912, turned out to be an elaborate hoax. Now scientists believe they can track down the perpetrator, says Karolyn Shindler.
The Telegraph, 3rd December 2012
One hundred years ago, the world was introduced to Piltdown Man, seemingly one of the most remarkable discoveries of the age – which turned out to be perhaps the most audacious and brilliant fraud in scientific history. [...]
The discovery had been made by a Sussex solicitor and amateur antiquarian, Charles Dawson, who brought his finds to his friend Dr Arthur Smith Woodward, the Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museum. Although Smith Woodward’s expertise was in fossil fish, he staked his – and the museum’s – reputation on the find, which he named in honour of his friend: the Dawn Man of Dawson, or Eoanthropus dawsoni. [...]
With the centenary of the “discovery” approaching, a group of scientists – known unofficially as the Piltdowners – recently decided that it is time finally to expose the forger. Led by Professor Chris Stringer, research leader in human origins at the Natural History Museum, the team is re-analysing all the Piltdown material, using a range of sophisticated techniques from DNA and isotope analysis to a high-resolution microscope. With this forensic arsenal, every facet of the forgery will be exposed. It is hoped that an identifying “signature” of the perpetrator will emerge – or, at the very least, that we will learn how many hands were at work and where the various specimens came from. [...]
Of course, the likeliest suspect has always been Charles Dawson himself. It was he who first brought the fossils to Smith Woodward, who found most of the material, and who is the only source for the second Piltdown man. [...] For his part, Smith Woodward always described Dawson as an engaging, cheerful colleague. But many of those who knew him in Lewes, where he lived, not only had doubts about his character but also believed him capable of deception. It’s now known he forged many of his other archaeological finds
Comment: I don't have time for this but really, there have been so many other revelations of academic fakery it is really necessary to point out that some think it is their duty to con the masses for their own self-agrandisement and they have been doing it for a long time... This is from a previous comment on this blog:
"There is a long history of fakes by paleontologists e.g. 'Piltdown Man' and levels of scepticism are high. The Piltdown Man was a supposed relic of an ancient ape-man discovered near the village of Piltdown in Sussex, England in 1912. What followed was tremendous academic celebration but immediately, some suspected it was a grand hoax, and after decades of campaigning it was eventually exposed as a forgery by the British Museum in the 1950s. From the book, Forbidden Archaelogy: The Hidden History of the Human Race(1993) by Cremo and Thompson they quoted Kenneth Oakley of the British Museum who wrote:
"I have sometimes wondered whether it was a misguided impatience for the discovery of a more acceptable 'missing link' that formed one of the tangled skein of motives behind the Piltdown Forgery (1912)."
Cremo and Thompson conclude that the "carefully planned forgery" by someone with scientific training, acting alone or with others. There is a cast of suspects and people with a solid motive for trying to convince the world of the veracity of Darwin's The Origin of Species and the connection between Homo Sapiens and ancient Miocene apes."
The real question is: why has it taken so long for scientists to identify the fraudster(s)? Presumably, the need for integrity in this academic field is now only just high enough....
Is the end of the world really nigh? Authorities reassure Russians over Mayan Armageddon prophecy amid reports of 'unusual behaviour'
Some parts of Russia, which is often said to have a penchant for mystical thinking, appear to have been spooked by the Mayan predictions
The Independent, 3rd December 2012
As a consequence the Russian government's minister for emergency situations has sought to calm panic over the prophecy, saying he had access to "methods of monitoring what is occurring on the planet Earth," and that he could say with confidence that the world was not going to end in December.
He did, however, make clear that Russians are still vulnerable to "blizzards, ice storms, tornadoes, floods, trouble with transportation and food supply, breakdowns in heat, electricity and water supply." [...]
Russia may be the most extreme example of prophecy panic so far, but other countries are also experiencing problems.
In Ukraine the Orthodox Church has issued (a not quite reassuring) message that 'doomsday is sure to come', but advised it would be brought about by moral decline and not the: “so-called parade of planets or the end of the Mayan calendar.”
Comment: Hmmm... mass psychosis in a Chinese prison? The Russians authorities are acutely aware that humans face living on a volatile planet as we undergo the transformation of our world. But, most societies and governments are too entrenched in the current modus operandi to cope with quick change so we can expect lots more major disasters... Btw, you can't expect the Orthodox Church to say anything else but 'doomsday is sure to come' because the message of divine judgement at the end of an Age is deeply embedded into Christian beliefs... Quite frankly, once you understand that humans are subject to divine law whether the majority understand this or not, then the confluence of events associated with a downpour of cosmic energy and the subsequent 'purification' process makes total sense... Simply, it's tough #### for those humans who don't get it...
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Doomsday French mountain to be closed 'on day the world ends'
A mountain in the French Pyrenees that doomsday cultists claim will be the only place still standing after the end of the world, slated December 21, is to be closed to visitors to avoid pandemonium on its peak.
The Telegraph, 3rd December 2012
New Agers and UFO watchers will be barred access to the flat-top mount outside Bugarach, population 179, during a four-day period around the date they are convinced represents Armageddon.
Harbingers of doom base their apocalyptic prediction on an ancient Mayan calendar predicting the end of the world will happen on the night of December 21, 2012.
They believe the Pic de Bugarach is an "alien garage" and that extraterrestrials are quietly waiting in a massive cavity beneath the rock for the world to end, at which point they will leave, taking, it is hoped, a lucky few humans with them.
To avoid a sudden, massive influx of esoteric outsiders, the mayor has banned gatherings of any sort, and anyone landing in a light aircraft will be arrested.
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2012 Celebrity Believers
December212012.com, December 2012
Cargo ship feared lost after collision off Dutch coast
BBC News, 5th December 2012
Dutch coastguards are mounting a major rescue operation in the North Sea after a cargo ship is reported to have sunk after a collision.
The accident took place around 100km (60 miles) off the coast of Rotterdam.
A coastguard spokesman said helicopters were winching the 24 crew members of the Baltic Ace to safety.
Three lifeboats and two helicopters are assisting the rescue, and two naval frigates are also reported to be heading for the scene.
Comment: Another GPS fail? Apparently, earlier today two planes came within 15 seconds of a mid air collision by Amsterdam airport.... I have no link for this... More:
Search continues for seven missing crew members after cargo ship collides with another vessel in North Sea
Reuters: Last 24 hours have ‘killed’ French nuclear -Analyst — “It looks really bad”
Energy News, 5th December 2012
Title: UPDATE 2-Enel pulls out from French EPR nuclear project
Source: Reuters
Author: Stephen Jewkes and Michel Rose
Date: Dec 4, 2012
h/t Enformable
Last 24 hours have ‘killed’ French nuclear – analyst
French power group EDF received a new blow on Tuesday when Italy’s biggest utility Enel announced its has pulled out from a project to build a next-generation nuclear reactor in northern France. [...]
“In a way, the last 24 hours have killed French nuclear finally because the cost makes it totally impossible to export and now you have one of the few partners actively withdrawing; it looks really bad,” said UBS analyst Per Lekander. [...]
Wikipedia: Nuclear power is the primary source of electric power in France. In 2004, 425.8 TWh out of the country’s total production of 540.6 TWh of electricity was from nuclear power (78.8%), the highest percentage in the world. France’s nuclear power industry has been called “a success story”
Earlier in the week the US nuclear industry was already discussing ‘losing’ in France: Meanwhile, In France … Losing the Nuclear Advantage
Comment: From the comments: "France may need to shut down all of their nuclear reactors just to maintain a population." Yes, it is that bad....
French sperm count 'falls by a third'
BBC News, 5th December 2012
The sperm count of French men fell by a third between 1989 and 2005, a study suggests.
The semen of more than 26,600 French men was tested in the study, reported in the journal Human Reproduction.
The number of millions of spermatozoa per millilitre fell by 32.3%, a rate of about 1.9% a year. And the percentage of normally shaped sperm fell by 33.4%.
The average sperm count remained within the fertile range, but experts want to see more research into possible causes.
One of the paper's authors, Dr Joelle Le Moal, an environmental health epidemiologist, said: "To our knowledge, this is the first study concluding a severe and general decrease in sperm concentration and morphology at the scale of a whole country over a substantial period.
"This constitutes a serious public health warning."
Comment: Nuclear radiation or genetically modified foods? I am also thinking this might also be related to the increase in cosmic radiation at ground level...Either way, it's not just the French with dramatically lowered sperm counts, other nations are candidates for national Darwin awards too.... For more info especially the opinion of Professor Chris Busby, one of the world's top radiation experts who has a lot to say about infertility and the general risks associated with small amount of radiation leaking from nuclear power plants, see Best of the Blog
DNA 'Abnormalities' & Mutations & Best of the Blog
The Japan Disaster March 2011 & The Ongoing Nuclear Risk.
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New paper shows a large increase of solar radiation in Spain since 1985, dwarfs alleged effect of CO2
The Hockey Schtick, 29th November 2012
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“Tends to concentrate in the testicles”: 360+ atoms of radioactive sulfur per day may have been inhaled by Californians after Fukushima
Energy News, 17th August 2011 Flashback!
When the news broke yesterday that a previously unreported type of fallout from Fukushima—radioactive sulfur—had reached the United States in late March, nearly all mainstream media reports made the claim that it poses no threat to the health of Americans. [...]
And if you’re a man, you may be interested to know that some miniscule portion of it could be in your testicles. [...]
Sulfur-35 is absorbed by the entire body but is of particular concern to men because it tends to concentrate in the testicles, according to a Nuclide Safety Data Sheet from the University of North Carolina Charlotte. Beta radiation occurring there could damage neighboring cells. [...]
Comment: Let's see how long it takes now for people (men) to wake up and decide enough is enough...
[Update: 5th December 2012.... So who knew that certain types of radiation accumulates in the testicles? And to think for all these years people have been so damn uninterested in the radiation pouring onto this planet from space...]
- THE LOW LEVEL RADIATION CAMPAIGN
‘Black swan’ cyclone could hit northern Australia
Cosmos Magazine, 5th December 2012
SAN FRANCISCO: There is a small but real chance, scientists say, that super cyclones with freak 10-metre storm surges could hit cities such as Darwin, Australia, Tampa, Florida and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Such a storm is an example of what Ning Lin, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Princeton University in New Jersey, USA, calls a "black swan" cyclone. Something similar, she says, could hit the Persian Gulf, inundating unprepared cities like Dubai – which has never seen a cyclone – with similarly enormous storm surges.
"A black swan is a surprise with huge impact," she said yesterday at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California. "For this study, we defined [it] as an event which cannot reasonably be anticipated based on historical records alone." [...]
"When we talk about black swans, we're talking about the extremes of the
extreme," she said. "So even though the total number might decrease, the
extremes might increase."
Comment: We are certainly now getting lots of reality checks coming from atmospheric scientists as the earth's weather systems decend into chaos... But, it is very poor form to use the concept of a black swan for disasters we can anticipate because a black swan should should be used to describe an event that absolutely no one could anticipate.... Well, I wondered what a so-called respected metaphysical source was talking about when they talked about "the arrival of the winds" and the need to re-design houses.... Of course, as far as I know, the warnings did not stir much interest because the narcissism amongst the metaphysical community does not allow for much in the way of a decent appraisal of the facts...
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How 'black swans' and 'perfect storms' become lame excuses for bad risk management
PhysOrg.com, 15th November 2012
This is just a reminder that some are already declaring that the excuse of 'black swans' is very lame... From my perspective, the build up of charge on this planet over the last two decades or so due to a dramatic escalation of space weather had inevitable consequences... So, the warnings for many people now seem to be coming out of the blue, but our space agencies and space industry have been well aware for quite some time about the changes in the near Earth cosmic environment...
Philippines: Typhoon Bopha leaves over 270 dead
The death toll from Typhoon Bopha has risen to over 270, with hundreds more reported missing as rescue teams battle blocked roads and driving rain to reach cut-off areas.
Telegraph, 5th December 2012
156 people alone have been killed in the worst-affected province of Compostela Valley, after Bopha slammed into the eastern coast of Mindanao island in the southern Philippines on Tuesday.
Bringing winds gusting up to 130mph and torrential rain, it is the most powerful storm to hit the Philippines this year.
At least 66 villagers and soldiers died after flash floods overwhelmed emergency shelters and a military camp in New Bataan town.
"They thought they were already secure in a safe area, but they didn't know the torrents of water would go their way," Compostela Valley provincial governor Arturo Uy told local media. [...]
Locals described winds so powerful that entire villages and towns were destroyed. "I was told the force of the wind could even lift an army truck loaded with troops from the ground," said Rommil Mitra, a police chief in Davao Oriental Province.
The provincial governor of Davao Oriental said rescuers trying to reach the most isolated parts of the province were "running an obstacle course", with collapsed bridges and felled trees hindering their efforts.
An unknown number of people in other coastal areas of Mindanao have also died in the storm, one of the 20-odd typhoons that hit the Philippines annually.
Comment: Hmmm... The US military are building superdomes around the Texas coastline that can sustain winds in excess of 250 mph... But of course, most refuse to engage brain and think about why they would do this...
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Category 5 Super Typhoon Bopha bearing down on the Philippines
Weather Underground, 3rd December 2012
Extremely dangerous Typhoon Bopha is bearing down on the Philippine island of Mindanao as a Category 5 storm with 160 mph winds. Bopha completed an eyewall replacement cycle on Sunday and has been steadily intensifying today, and will make landfall on Mindanao in the early morning on Tuesday local time. Mindanao rarely gets hit by typhoons, since the island is too close to the Equator, and the infrastructure of Mindanao is not prepared to handle heavy typhoon rains as well as the more typhoon-prone northern islands. Bopha is potentially a catastrophic storm for Mindanao. [...]
Bopha: the 2nd most southerly typhoon on record
Bopha became a tropical depression unusually close to the Equator, at 3.6°N latitude. Tropical cyclones rarely form so close to the Equator, because they cannot leverage the Earth's rotation to get themselves spinning. According to hurricane expert Dr. Paul Roundy of SUNY Albany, Bopha got its spin from a large-scale atmospheric wave called a mixed Rossby gravity wave. Because of the lack of atmospheric spin so close to the Equator, it took Bopha over four days to intensify into a typhoon, and it stayed a relatively small storm
Comment: I have been neglecting a lot of major weather events because there is simply a lot going on but now I am on the look out for storms being powered by the atmosphere and it looks like Typhoon Bopha is another example of an 'unusual' storm causing another major disaster.
Scary Rumors about the World Ending in 2012 Are Just Rumors
USA.gov blog, 3rd December 2012
False rumors about the end of the world in 2012 have been commonplace on the Internet for some time. Many of these rumors involve the Mayan calendar ending in 2012 (it won’t), a comet causing catastrophic effects (definitely not), a hidden planet sneaking up and colliding with us (no and no), and many others.
The world will not end on December 21, 2012, or any day in 2012.
Unfortunately, these rumors have many people frightened, especially children. NASA has received thousands of letters concerned about the end of the world. David Morrison, a planetary astronomer and senior scientist for NASA who answers questions from the public about astrobiology, says, “At least a once a week I get a message from a young person ? as young as 11 ? who says they are ill and/or contemplating suicide because of the coming doomsday.”
According to NASA, the old mystery-planet-collision rumor year was 2003, but when 2004 arrived safely, the rumors changed to 2012. So what end-of-the-world year will the rumor mill make up next?
Comment: The blogosphere are highlighting that this is an unsigned USA.gov blog post but obviously there is concern. It seems that there is genuine concern by government scientists, unlike the lack of empathy amongst vast swathes of the cultic milieu who started off the Mayan 2012 media bandwagon, but somehow the bandwagonistas were derailed and what we have left is mostly stupid 2012 hype for cult leaders and internet trolls... Meanwhile, for the intelligentsia that properly understand the concept of world/astronomical ages, it seems the ancient warnings of what we should expect are being fulfilled by the arrival of space weather and planetary chaos that we must associate with evolutionary change, a certainty that comes with a massive influx of energy...
Richard C. Hoagland Sees Pink Energy Beam that’s “Proved to NOT Be a Hoax”
Exposing Pseudo Astronomy, 3rd December 2012
Photo: A set of tourist’s photographs [of the famed Kulkulkan Pyramid at Chitzen Itza] taken last year (and, after investigation, proved to NOT be a hoax), showed an amazing beam of pink energy emanating from the top of the pyramid during an afternoon thunderstorm, apparently triggered by the electric fields of nearby lightning.
[...] The fact that he’s presenting this image as genuine is one thing. But the further fact that he writes in there, “and, after investigation, proved to NOT be a hoax,” is icing. I mean, seriously? Even the lunar ziggurat looked more genuine than this does.
Some digging shows that this was not taken “last year,” but back in 2009. July 24, 2009, actually — or at least as far as I can tell. In fact, at that link, we can get a higher-resolution version:
Comment: I am amused by this debunking effort when the debunker does not have a shred of scientific evidence to debunk anything... Quite frankly, the originals were only holiday snaps by ordinary people who probably don't want to be hassled by hordes of 'researchers' bothering them... Well, I know the Russians have the equipment to detect ion beams coming off pyramids because the same energy has been detected coming off some of their 25 pyramids that were built around Moscow from the 1990s onwards... Apparently, scientists have also recently detected an ion beam coming off one of the ancient Bosnian pyramids, see archives. My research suggests that pyramids act like aetheric energy chimneys so they are not always 'smoking'... With a little bit of research, it is easy to ascertain that this photo is not a sign of anything extraordinary these days...
Malabar beach glows blue following red algae invasion
news.com.au, 4th December 2012
AUSTRALIA – After the eastern beaches coastline resembled the Red Sea last Tuesday, the “night lantern” visited Sydney’s Malabar beach that evening. These photos have not been digitally enhanced – in fact, photographer Dr David Psaila said the water was an even more spectacular color blue than that shown in these images, the Southern Courier reports. “The organism responsible, Noctiluca Scintillans known as “night lantern” is very aptly named, as it will luminescent a bright blue when it is disturbed by waves,” he said.
The Chifley scientist said the red algae that crept along the east coast last week contained a chemical called luciferin which was a common protein found in bioluminescent animals. “It’s a chemical reaction that causes light,” he said. “It is often found in deep sea creatures and is the exact same chemical that causes fire flies to glow.”Dr Psaila said although he had seen this effect before but never to this degree. “The reason why there are probably not seeing it at other beaches is that those beaches would have a lot more lights around so it’s really hard to see whereas at Malabar – you see the waves rolling in and they are all blue,” he said.
Comment: Don't you find it strange that the chemical in the red algae is called luciferin... Yes, Lucifer in! Please, I don't want any emails from paranoid and ignorant Christians either... At the moment, I am thinking the red/blue is a signature of a magnetic polarity switch but I don't know what is causing the switching process... Well, on this blog, I have highlighted the fact that biologists don't fully understand bioluminscence but the fact that red tide/blue bioluminescent rivers and seas are becoming more prevalent indicates that somehow, marine organisms are registering magnetic changes... At the moment, I still need to look out for an explanation for how the world's largest rivers can also turn blood red overnight...
Himalayas and Pacific Northwest could experience major earthquakes, geophysicists say
Phys.Org News, 4th December 2012
(Phys.org)—Research by Stanford scientists focuses on geologic features and activity in the Himalayas and Pacific Northwest that could mean those areas are primed for major earthquakes.
Stanford geophysicists are well represented at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union this week in San Francisco. Included among the many presentations will be several studies that relate to predicting – and preparing for – major earthquakes in the Himalaya Mountains and the Pacific Northwest. [...]
Although Caldwell emphasized that his research focuses on imaging the fault, not on predicting earthquakes, he noted that the MHT has historically been responsible for a magnitude 8 to 9 earthquake every several hundred years.
Comment: This is yet another report of seismologists identifying the regional risk of very large earthquakes.
China and U.S. military practice earthquake drill
English People Daily, 3rd December 2012
Military officers of China and the United States have held a joint indoor war game to practice humanitarian rescue and disaster relief in case of an earthquake and consequent nuclear leaks. The two-day exercise, which ended on Friday, was staged in Chengdu, capital city of southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
A total of 32 people from the two countries attended the drills on humanitarian rescue, based on the scenario of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in an unspecific Southeast Asian country, causing huge damages, injuries and leaks of chemical and radioactive materials, according to a statement by the Chinese delegation.
The participants included officials from the China Earthquake Administration and the U.S. government as well as members for functions of intelligence, combat, communication, engineering, anti-chemical and anti-radiation, logistics, medical treatment, journalism, research and rescue as well as legal affairs. The delegations discussed issues of decision-making, organization, command, action and coordination in the rescue mission.
Comment: Hmmm... It really is getting obvious that major world governments think that the planet is going to start rocking and rolling.... Well, it's interesting that some countries think the solution to major earthquakes is to practice dealing with the aftermath, but the Russians decided over 20 years ago to build massive pyramids around Moscow to mitigate the impact of the most destructive earthquakes by balancing the flow of aetheric/scalar energies... As it is now public knowledge that seismic activity is expected to dramatically increase, it will be interesting to see if the Russians start to boast about their foresight and understanding of esoteric science.
Third storm in five days wreaks havoc on U.S. West Coast
Mercury News, 3rd December 2012
CALIFORNIA - Blasting out of the Pacific, the third and most powerful “Pineapple Express” storm of the week swept over the Bay Area Sunday morning, dumping heavy rain on a region already soaked to the roots and reeling from power outages and flooding. “It’s a mess,” said CHP Officer James Evans. “We’ve got flooding everywhere.”
The triple whammy toppled trees and power lines, snarled traffic, caused accidents on slippery roadways and cut electrical power to about 297,000 customers in the region, including BART riders who were stranded on subway cars during a harrowing, one-hour outage early Sunday morning. Measured by rainfall and wind, this was one of the most powerful storm events since October 2009, said Jan Null, a meteorologist with the Golden Gate Weather Services.
Erratic swings of jet stream leaves southern U.S. baking in record December heat
Daily Texan, 3rd December 2012
TEXAS – High temperatures in the Austin area have already broken records during December, after November also brought record high temperatures and, for the first time in decades, no rain in Austin for the entire month. Austin saw no measurable rainfall in November, according to reports compiled on the Austin-Bergstrom Airport Area by the National Weather Service Southern Region Headquarters. According to the report, this is the first year Austin has had only trace amounts of rainfall in the month of November since 1970, more than four decades ago. Record highs were set on Nov. 1 at 88 degrees and Nov. 3 at 87 degrees. High temperatures reached into the 80s on 15 days in November, and lows never reached freezing.
Comment: The weather aberrations in the US continue...
A carbon tax is climatically useless
WUWT News, 3rd December 2012
How Much U.S.-Side Global Warming?
Lest alarmists protest, let’s work through the numbers to see just how much “global warming” is being caused by U.S. economic activity.
In other words, how much of the IPCC’s projected 1.1°C to 6.4°C of warming will the U.S. be responsible for in the next century? The answer is about 0.08°C of the low end estimate and about 0.35°C of the high end estimate (according to an IPCC-like analysis*). Using the IPCC’s mid-range scenario, carbon dioxide emissions from the U.S. contribute about 0.19°C of the total 2.96°C global temperature rise.
Yep, that is it. For all the incessant talk as to how the highly consumptive U.S. lifestyle—from SUVs, to air conditioners, to big screen TVs and huge portion sizes—is leading climate catastrophe, the sum total of our contribution to “global warming” this century will amount to the neighborhood of about 0.2°C. Not five degrees. Not two degrees. But about two-tenths of a degree Celsius. And even this number may be on the high side if the climate sensitivity is lower than about 3°C (see here for more on recent findings concerning the climate sensitivity).
So all the U.S. carbon dioxide emissions restriction tactics—EPA regulations, cap and trade schemes, carbon taxes, efficiency programs, guilt-inducing ad campaigns, etc.—are aimed at chipping away at this already tiny 0.2°C. Big deal.
Comment: I have been saying for quite some time that the removal of CO2 is solely for esoteric reasons but in my next interview with Red Ice Radio (late December 2012), I actually briefly give my reasoning. I think world controllers hoped they could get enough people to believe that CO2 was an evil and then they would be given a mandate to wield more control over humanity via taxation. Presumably, it was hoped that scientists would come up with enough schemes that would work to reduce CO2 emissions. Obviously, this has all failed as there are too many climate scientists with some integrity... Now, it is apparent that Global Warming and the curse of CO2 is a scam and soon the news will break as to what the removal of CO2 is really about.
Is Al Gore the Latter Day Pardoner?
Carbon Credits Are Modern Indulgences
WUWT, 2nd December 2012
So the Pardoner sold indulgences or pardons, hence his name, that absolved your sinful lifestyle and guaranteed going to Heaven. Who could resist a no lose offer?
It’s important to understand why Medieval and modern minds are gullible to such scams. Medieval people lived in fear of not being able to go to Heaven. Two examples help explain the intensity of that belief. The power of the fear of excommunication was effective even against Kings like Henry VIII. If excommunicated you were denied all church sacraments and services without which you couldn’t go to Heaven. [...]
Getting to heaven was the goal of being religious, anything that made it easier was an easy sell.
Environmentalism became the new religion in the 1960s, although the seeds were effectively planted when Darwinism replaced Creationism. Life became dependent on Gaia the planet, not God. This belief system claims humans are killing the planet with CO2. [...]
The analogy between Indulgences and Carbon Credits is very good, but especially as both create a source of income for those who identify and define the problem, exploit the guilt, and offer a solution. They also do nothing to ameliorate the supposed problems, the amount of sinning or the amount of CO2 going into the atmosphere from human sources. In fact, they almost guarantee an increase in both cases. The analogy fails because sin exists, whether it is a transgression against religious or secular law. CO2 in the atmosphere from any source, including human, is not causing global warming or climate change. More important, it’s essential to life on the planet and an increase in atmospheric levels is beneficial to their distribution, abundance, and productivity. [...]
Undoubtedly, Al Gore is the most effective pardoner of carbon credits. An Oscar and a share of the Nobel Peace Prize testify to his effectiveness. The movie, “An Inconvenient Truth” is full of “thick and fast” examples. Gore’s television appearances are a litany of stories from the past designed to capture through fear and to stick in the mind so they can be repeated, especially by the media.
Comment: Here, we are given a history lesson about those who routinely manipulate and exploit the ignorant and gullible masses through religion and how we can compare this to the global warming scam and the modern selling of indulgences in the form of carbon credits. In the comments, someone claims that Al Gore began his college education at divinity school and many have noted Al Gore's initial enthusiastic religious tone. But, due to the opposition to his efforts, his deameanour has changed and he comes across as a much darker character. In fact, since he has started talking about "dirty energy", Gore now comes across like the depiction of a high ranking member of the evil Magisterium church as described in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy... Well, selling indulgences worked for centuries by an all powerful and evil Church, but today, all things religious and New Age really are under suspicion by many and for good reason...
Alleged robber shows off money in video
York News Times, 2nd December 2012
YORK – It appears that before her arrest, Hannah Sabata, 19, of Stromsburg, took it upon herself to make a YouTube video, in which she brags about stealing a car and robbing a bank.
Sabata was taken into custody Wednesday on charges that she robbed the Waco bank after stealing a car in York.
In the video, (http://youtu.be/lAZoo5KRMZ4) which is coined “Chick Bank Robber,” Sabata holds up handwritten signs (accompanied by subtitles) in which she says she’s having the “best day of her life,” because she stole a Pontiac Grand Am and walked away with more than $6,000 when she robbed a bank. She also holds up a large bundle of cash, demonstrating to the camera how much money is in her possession.
Sabata also claims that she is a “victim of the government” and says she planned to pay off student loans and “go on a shopping spree.”
Comment: The blogosphere has a lot to say about the dumbness of this girl... Well, I find it hard to believe there is this level of dumbness around, but people showing off their loot on YouTube and Twitter is now quite common... However, most looters and thieves are intelligent enough to disguise themselves, but this girl somehow felt immune... The real question is: are we seeing some serious devolution in terms of intelligence? The best comment I have seen in the blogosphere is, "Idiocracy is not a movie, it is a prophecy."
Dr. Paul Babiak on the crisis of psychopaths in the workplace
The Washington Times Communities, 1st December 2012
Florida - Whenever people feel that they have been manipulated or short-changed, there is a good chance that they will call their perceived wrongdoer a "psychopath."
The term could very well be one of the most overused in our society. It is thrown around so casually that more than a few have probably ceased to take it seriously.
Needless to say, this is most unfortunate. When a real psychopath crawls out of the woodwork then the situation becomes all the more difficult to manage.
Even worse is that psychopaths are attracted to positions of power. This means that the workplace is especially vulnerable to the schemes of individuals who prey on the weakest among them.
Paul Babiak is an industrial-organizational psychologist who has done a great deal of research on this disturbing pattern of behavior. The co-author of Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work, he has devoted much of his career to raising awareness about how mental and emotional predators have found their way into the business world. [...]
Cotto: From your research, what motivates workplace psychopaths?
Dr. Babiak: We know very little about the actual motivations of the psychopath as they lack insight into themselves and lie when asked about almost everything. However, in my work I have identified three motivations, which I believe characterize the psychopath: 1. a need for stimulation, which we know (from fMRI research) is based on physiological factors; 2. they like to play "head games," meaning they seem to enjoy conning and manipulating others, including those high up in power and influence; and 3. they need to "win," and they define winning as "you losing." Whereas seasoned athletes, for example, likes to compete and win events, they are typically motivated by "personal achievement" within their sport, that is, competing against their "personal best." The psychopath has no such sense of competition (or personal achievement motive).
Comment: It really does seem that many in society are getting really sick of the destructiveness associated with psychopaths... We need people in positions of power that actually care about the future of humanity not "intraspecies predators" who actually hate real humans... Well, for those who want to understand the issues, I can recommend Sam Vaknin, author of
Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisted. Vaknin is certified as a psychopath, but he is a world treasure because he does have insight into his own motivations and those of other psychopaths and can articulate them very well. His insights have helped me enormously understand the motivations of the truly nasty so-called people I have come across in my life.
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Are psychopaths in the workplace on the rise and what does it mean?
The Washington Times Communities, 3rd December 2012
In this second part of our discussion, he shares his views on the above-mentioned questions, explains what inspired him to write about psychopaths in the workplace, and discusses his life and career.
Joseph F. Cotto: Empathy is something that most us experience, though for very different reasons. Are most workplace psychopaths able to empathize at all?
Dr. Paul Babiak: Lack of empathy, remorse and guilt are some of the defining features of a psychopath, whether they are incarcerated, out in public or working for an organization.
So, I would say they are incapable of feeling any empathy for those they manipulate. They also do not feel any loyalty to their companies or teams, despite a persona (mask) that portrays them otherwise.
Cotto: Have incidences of psychopathy in the workplace increased over the last several years?
Dr. Babiak: It would seem so based on the increasing number of financial frauds, horrific murders and audacious crimes that are being reported in the media.
Comment: I don't think psychopaths are on the rise, the problem is that for a long time psychopathic traits were seen as beneficial to large organisations and companies and their traits were normalised as acceptable... Unfortunately, it has now been realised that psychopaths can wrought total destruction because they will take huge risks. If psychopaths are in positions of power and trust and they take risks that go wrong, large organisations and businesses can be decimated, but of course, a psychopath would not even care... They can't care because they are psychopaths... My real issue is psychopaths in the cultic milieu, the wolves in sheeps clothing. Due to popular New Age teaching, there is now an abundance of people who have been taught to act, think and behave like psychopaths and encouraged to believe they are entitled to whatever... Currently, there is discussion at the Rick Ross Cult Education Forum about a woman who was raped and her rapist justified his behaviour by citing the Law of Attraction and giving her a book, see Law of Attraction and rape. At the moment, I don't want to belive this story is true, but due to my experiences with New Agers, the lying, coniving, twisted behaviour of some is a signature of the 2nd hand psychopathy that I believe is prevalent in the New Age milieu. Thus, if you care to look, there are a lot of Big Names who have been caught out as damn liars and most likely, they got the Big Name by using their psychopathic charms... My advice these days is seekers have to be very very careful because the 2nd hand psychopathy in the cultic milieu is now widespread....
Survival kits and trips to hell, doomsday hysteria grips Russia
RT News, 1st December 2012
Doomsday hysteria has gripped Russia and some of its neighbors. Travel agencies are selling tours to either heaven or hell and people are stocking up on food and fuel. Officials are publicly denying the apocalypse, hoping to calm the hype.
Those awaiting Doomsday have three weeks to finish their preparations before the date of the much publicized apocalypse allegedly predicted by Mayan calendar, that is going to happen on December 21, 2012.
Thousands of people across Russia keep stocking up their back rooms and balconies with food, fuel and other supplies they might need when disaster strikes. Some are even moving outside of cities because of the widely spread rumors that cities would be impossible to survive in after an apocalypse on Earth.
Comment: The doom predicted for the 21st December 2012 is only for the really gullible to swallow, I think others realise that there is much more of a long term issue on a geophysically and atmospherically unstable planet... Besides, it is clear that Russian authorities have been preparing for some doom....
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Final offer: Tickets to Heaven and Hell go on sale
RT News, 30th November 2012
"Ahead of the upcoming Mayan apocalypse, firms have started selling post-apocalyptic survival kits, coupons for indulgence and even tickets to Heaven and Hell."
Let's get ready to rumble.... only joking!
Nasdaq Glitch Caused Index Derivatives Halt in Sweden
Wall Street Journal, 30th November 2012
A computer error caused Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.’s (NDAQ) system to wildly overstate the size of an order for Swedish stock-index futures, prompting the exchange operator to close index futures and options trading on its Stockholm market Wednesday, a spokesman for the exchange said Friday.
The glitch was resolved in a couple of hours, the spokesman said, and involved a relatively obscure product, but it was the latest in a series of technical problems that have rattled investors. Critics say such incidents highlight vulnerabilities of the increasingly fast–and complex–global markets.
On Wednesday, a trader entered an order to buy or sell six OMX30 futures contracts expiring in December. Because of a “bug” in Nasdaq’s system that disseminates information to customers’ trading applications, the order showed up as 4.2 billion contracts instead, the spokesman said.
Comment: A bug? Really? What about a bit-flip instead? Well, as a critic, I will say that space weather in the form of cosmic rays corrupting computer hardware and software is highlighting the vulnerabilities of the increasingly fast–and complex–global markets....
Forecasting solar activity and the weather in space
Phys.Org News, 30th November 2012
The ability to forecast periods of intense solar activity may be improved after scientists compared cycles of solar magnetic activity (over the past 10,000 years as reconstructed from ice cores) with the action of the planets. The Sun determines the course of the planets, but it has been discovered that the planets may also exert an influence on the Sun. Their configurations appear to be responsible for long-term cycles of increased solar activity.
This discovery is deemed important as our society becomes more dependent on technologies such as satellite communications and navigation systems - as well as power grids - which can be disabled by major solar eruptions. Scientists at Eawag and the ETH Zurich, in collaboration with colleagues from Australia and Spain, are continuing to study the configuration of the planets.
In their study, appearing in Astronomy & Astrophysics, the lead authors Professor José Abreu and Dr Jürg Beer from Eawag Aquatic Research demonstrate why they find the idea of planetary influence so convincing. Tracing the 5 most prominent periodicities of solar activity back over the last 10,000 years, they observed that the peaks and troughs reappear with precisely the same periodicity even after being reduced or vanishing altogether for some time. Dr Beer concludes, '
Everything points to an external 'clock', and that can really only be the planets.' [...]
Their study also looked into the effect of superflares - huge eruptions of solar plasma, hurling billions of tonnes of gas into the atmosphere and causing magnetic storms in space and on Earth.
Satellites, aircraft avionics, power grids, radio signals and many other systems could be disrupted or destroyed by an event of this kind. But whether an improved understanding of solar magnetic activity will help to predict the frequency and intensity of such eruptions remains an open question. Dr Beer admits: 'Storm warnings are still a long way off. But the recent research takes us one step closer towards being able to give a better explanation of the longer-term space climate.'
Comment: This research was first cited in the popular blogosphere three weeks ago (see archives), but I have been reminded since that some geoscientists see the planets as dispersing charge from the galactic centre. Here is an interesting excerpt from the International Congress GEOCATACLYSM 2011 report:
Rising earthquakes: precursor of volcanic winters/ice age that we may AVERT - Other necessary preparations
Several studies since the '70ies show a correlation between weak solar cycles and raised magma and volcanic activity. Present data show not only a weak solar cycle and a rise in earthquakes - volcanic eruptions – cloudiness - storms, but that most probably next decades will be worse. (The proposed explanation is that planet positions disperse electricity from the galactic centre to the planets from its course to the sun, so Earth's magma is charged and is rising its disturbance). Volcanic winters occuring during solar minima, is a FREQUENT but not discussed enough phenomenon.
PROCEEDINGS: Natural Cataclysms and Global Problems of the Modern Civilization, WORLD FORUM – INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS September 19-21, 2011 – Istanbul, Turkey
Source: (43.7 MB .pdf) Link.
The planets are also dispersing charge entering our galaxy and solar system from deep space...
Panel Urges More Funding, Coordination For Space Weather
Aviation Week, 29th November 2012
Space weather — the high-energy interactions of the Sun with Earth and its surroundings — is a growing economic factor as more of the economy goes wireless, but U.S. government efforts to forecast it are hampered by a shortage of funding.
House Science Committee witnesses from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which is responsible for operational space-weather forecasting, and NASA, which funds the space science that feeds the NOAA space-weather models, agreed Nov. 28 with the thrust of the latest National Research Council (NRC) decadal survey on space weather, which was released in August.
At the top of the priority list, which was based on a survey of researchers in solar and space physics, was a call to complete the current program of spacecraft designed to expand knowledge of how the Sun’s violent nature affects the space around it. Collectively the 18 solar-observation spacecraft NASA is flying, and the network of ground facilities run by the National Science Foundation (NSF), comprise a virtual “Heliophysics Systems Observatory” that collects information on the solar flares and coronal mass ejections that can damage satellites in space and power grids on the ground, as well as how the solar wind spreads through the Solar System and interacts with Earth’s magnetic field.
Comment: I suppose the problem is the wrong priorities, with the vast expenditure on trying to convince people that CO2 and global warming was the explanation for the inevitable spaceweather related planetary challenges that we are experiencing on this planet.
Another WUWT.TV video, Mike Smith, severe weather expert
WUWT, 29th November 2012
Certified Consulting Meteorologist Mike Smith of WeatherData Inc. in Wichita, KS, a world renowned expert on severe weather, talks about the issues of trying to connect weather and climate and where these issues fail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu-6NIUNNw0
Comment: From the WUWT comments I think the following deserves to be highlighted. Please note the mention of our cities that are now being increasingly seen as death traps during major natural disasters.
Stephen Rasey says: November 30, 2012 at 12:37 am
At the very end, Mike had three points:
1. You can be an environmentalist and conservationist and not believe in CAGW
2. We must build a more resiliant and sustainable society regardless of Global Warming, Global Cooling, ( or tsunami, earthquake, blizzard, pick your disaster).
3. Heed Storm warnings. Pick safety of your family over inconvenience.
I’m in agreement with all to various degrees.
1. You it is not necessary to buy in to the C, the A, the G, nor the W, to strongly believe in energy efficiency at rational cost and to eschew waste.
2. We cannot evacuate cities. We must HARDEN them. We must harden the infrastructure. We must HARDEN the will and skill of the PEOPLE who live in them.
3. Heed Storm warnings — but don’t panic and don’t over heed them.
This last point needs some elaboration. I live in Houston. Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005. Less than one month later, Rita, was targeting Houston. The costal communites needed to evacuate and the state set up evacuation routes well. Then Mayor Bill White overdid it: “Don’t wait; the time for waiting is over,” That brought the freeway system to a stand-still. Mayor White recanted within hours, but the damage was done; a million people were away from their homes, out of gas, facing the storm in their cars. People who really needed to evacuate faced choked highways far too close to the coastline and tight gas availability.
Three years later, IKE bigger than Katrina, came barreling through the Galvaston coastline, wiping out the Bolivar peninsula. Evacuations were much more orderly. Most people who didn’t need to evacuate stayed home, thus leaving the road clearer for those who needed to bug out. That made life and recovery better for everyone. They say good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
New paper shows a large increase of solar radiation in Spain since 1985, dwarfs alleged effect of CO2
The Hockey Schtick, 29th November 2012
A paper published today in Global and Planetary Change finds solar radiation at the Earth surface in Spain "shows a significant increase over the 1985-2010 period" of "+3.9 Wm-2 per decade." By way of comparison, the alleged forcing from increased CO2 during the same period was only 0.11 Wm-2 at the Earth surface per decade. The authors attribute the large increase in solar radiation to a "decrease in clouds and/or aerosols." Several other papers have shown a decrease in cloudiness since the 1980's could alone account for all global warming observed since the ice age scare of the 1970's.
Comment: I am keeping a note just in case there are more revelations of large increases in solar radiation at Earth's surface from other scientists. Presumably, the dramatic increase in the impact of space weather, but will be associated with the new scientific field of cosmoclimatology. Update: Not even a week later we get an announcement about a dramatic drop in the sperm count of French men by a third between 1989 and 2005.... French sperm count 'falls by a third'. 1989 has always been my marker for when space weather really got ferocious and after 8 years, I don't see any need to change my views at all....
Cosmic rays reveal event in Earth's magnetic field history
Phys.org News, 29th November 2012
41 000 years ago, the Earth's magnetic field faded and practically disappeared, leaving our planet unprotected from the bombardment of cosmic rays. Evidence for this event has been found in ocean sediment cores by a team from the Centre de Recherche et d'Enseignement de Géosciences de l'Environnement (CEREGE, CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université/IRD/Collège de France). In the cores, the researchers measured variations in concentrations of beryllium-10, a radioactive isotope produced by the action of cosmic rays on oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the atmosphere. The work, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, is an important step towards developing a new method for studying the history of Earth's magnetic field, which should shed light on why its strength has been declining over the past three thousand years.
Evidence for the event was uncovered by the researchers in sediment cores collected off the coasts of Portugal and Papua New Guinea. In the samples, they found an excess of beryllium-10, an isotope produced solely by collisions between particles of cosmic origin and atoms of nitrogen and oxygen. The beryllium-10 (10Be) produced in the atmosphere then falls to the Earth's surface where it is incorporated into ice and sediments. In sedimentary beds dating from the age of the Laschamp excursion, the researchers found up to twice as much 10Be as normal, evidence of the intense cosmic ray bombardment that the Earth underwent for several thousand years. [...]
The method based on beryllium-10, which has been developed over the past 10 years at CEREGE, therefore makes it possible to obtain a continuous reconstruction of variations in the strength of the Earth's global magnetic field.
It is also known that over the past 3000 years the magnetic field has lost 30% of its strength. This trend suggests that in the coming centuries, the Earth might undergo an excursion similar to the one that took place 41 000 years ago. Since high energy cosmic rays can cause mutations and cell damage, such an event would have a significant impact on biodiversity, and in particular on humans.
Comment: The reason for the new urgency for research is because Earth's magnetic shielding is fading fast, see archives for more info and details, Best of the Blog Earth Changes & Earth Science.
What's Causing Salem's Mystery 'Explosions'?
We've been flooded with emails ever since we published a police log post about several recent reports of unexplained 'explosion noises' in Salem.
Salem, 26th November 2012
Ever since we published a police log post entitled "Explosions Heard on Bridge Street" last week, we've received more than a dozen emails from Salem residents who are interested in finding out what's causing the unusual late-night noises.
At 12:22 a.m., on Monday, Nov. 19, local police officers responded to multiple reports of loud explosions in the area of Bridge Street. A search of the area, however, didn't reveal the source of the alleged sounds, according to the following morning's police log.
Some local residents even emailed in other information, including other dates when they swear they heard similar unexplained booming sounds echoing across the city.
One even suggested that there could be some correlation between that earthquake in Maine in October and the booming noises heard just beforehand in Salem. (A minor 2.1 earthquake was recorded in Belfast, Maine, on Friday night.)
Comment: There are many reports of loud noises and booms over the United States and the increasing reports are signs of severe atmospheric/geophysical instability is probably the reason why NASA decided to warn its employees in June 2011 to be prepared for disasters...
Mysterious algae that turned Sydney's beaches blood red glows BLUE at night
Daily Mail, 30th November 2012
* Rare algae bloom turned the sea water bright red at beaches around Sydney, Australia, this week
* Pictures reveal the spectacular night time scene created by the tiny plants, which glow fluorescent blue in the darkness
Rare algae that turned the waters at Sydney's beaches an unsettling shade of red has been found to have an altogether more picturesque effect by night - when it glows fluorescent blue.
Several popular beaches around the Australian city - including iconic surfers' mecca Bondi - were closed this week due to health fears when the enormous algae bloom left swathes of the seawater blood red.
These pictures, taken just before daybreak at Stanwell Park beach, reveal the spectacular effect created by the algae, dubbed sea sparkle, when darkness falls.
Comment: Blue bioluminescent waters always reminds me of the film Avatar and my hope that this planet will be transformed into a true paradise... I don't know how long it would take and how many humans will be around to experience the next level of human evolution... but I don't think our modern technological societies will survive in their current form whilst the planet is experiencing the chaos inherent in evolutionary change.
Human Evolution Enters an Exciting New Phase
Wired News, 28th November 2012
If you could escape the human time scale for a moment, and regard evolution from the perspective of deep time, in which the last 10,000 years are a short chapter in a long saga, you’d say: Things are pretty wild right now.
In the most massive study of genetic variation yet, researchers estimated the age of more than one million variants, or changes to our DNA code, found across human populations. The vast majority proved to be quite young. The chronologies tell a story of evolutionary dynamics in recent human history, a period characterized by both narrow reproductive bottlenecks and sudden, enormous population growth.
The evolutionary dynamics of these features resulted in a flood of new genetic variation, accumulating so fast that natural selection hasn’t caught up yet. As a species, we are freshly bursting with the raw material of evolution.
“Most of the mutations that we found arose in the last 200 generations or so. There hasn’t been much time for random change or deterministic change through natural selection,” said geneticist Joshua Akey of the University of Washington, co-author of the Nov. 28 Nature study. “We have a repository of all this new variation for humanity to use as a substrate. In a way, we’re more evolvable now than at any time in our history.”
Comment: Hmmm... Humans are ready to quickly evolve, whether some want this or not...
Ready For the Apocalypse?
Azizonomic, 30th November 2012
A new national survey by National Geographic and Kelton Research finds some interesting results:
Comment: This is mainly graphics but very interesting... As someone points out in the comments.. “7% of Americans think the Planet of the Apes might come true?” Well, a lot of people have noticed that some humans are becoming more feral and that some animals are acting more human... The book and movie Planet of the Apes (1968) was set in the future AD 3978, on another planet and quite frankly, nobody can say whether the human race as a whole is fit enough to comply with universal directives and continue as the dominant species on this planet in the future...
Megastorms Could Drown Massive Portions of California
Huge flows of vapor in the atmosphere, dubbed "atmospheric rivers," have unleashed massive floods every 200 years, and climate change could bring more of them
Scientific America, 30th November 2012
Editor's note (11/30/12): The article will appear in the January 2013 issue of Scientific American. We are making it freely available now because of the flooding underway in California.
In Brief:
Geologic evidence shows that truly massive floods, caused by rainfall alone, have occurred in California about every 200 years. The most recent was in 1861, and it bankrupted the state.
Such floods were most likely caused by atmospheric rivers: narrow bands of water vapor about a mile above the ocean that extend for thousands of miles. Much smaller forms of these rivers regularly hit California, as well as the western coasts of other countries.
Scientists who created a simulated megastorm, called ARkStorm, that was patterned after the 1861 flood but was less severe, found that such a torrent could force more than a million people to evacuate and cause $400 billion in losses if it happened in California today.
Forecasters are getting better at predicting the arrival of atmospheric rivers, which will improve warnings about flooding from the common storms and about the potential for catastrophe from a megastorm.
Comment: Hmmm.... How very biblical.... So what force exactly is confining an average of about 95 percent of all vapor transport outside of the tropics, in just 5 - 10 narrow bands, moving massive amounts of water vapour towards the poles, when just one of these bands can carry more water than the Amazon? Well, the gap between two different weather systems is actually a cell wall, in plasma physics this is known as a "double-layer". The 'wall' maintains most of the voltage difference between the two different weather systems and so is a zone of strong electric fields and is the reason why such huge volumes of water can be sucked up... Note the article describes these types of storms as 'jets' -- zones of high winds... Surely, it is obvious that forces greater than gravity MUST be operating to be able to carry such huge amounts of water across the globe? Now, on a planet where there is interference from strong electric currents coming in from space (NASA's magnetic flux tubes in operation), these double layers will vary in their intensity and presumably, biblical references retain the memory of very large atmospheric rivers breaking and causing massive floods... Well, the more electrified the planet's atmosphere becomes, the more water will be sucked up and the stronger the floods will be if they break over land... Simply, if climate change means cosmic climate change, then in the future there are going to be more major floods, it is inevitable...
Finland snowstorm causes blackouts
Ice Age Now, 30th November 2012
“Snowstorms in Finland, massive blackouts,” says reader. “But not a word in the Dutch MSM.”
Tens of thousands of households were without electricity on Friday as a result of a storm that dumped heavy snow across southern Finland and sent winds gusting up to 27 metres per second, felling trees and downing power lines.
The affected areas are in Uusimaa, Häme, Pirkanmaa, Finland Proper, Kymenlaakso and South Savo. Fortum said that some of its customers in Porkkala, Kirkkonummi, Nummi-Pusula, Parainen and Salo were cut off, and that around 250 fitters were out working to restore supplies.
Comment: Finland struggles with too much snow? Ice Age Now has lots of snow related stories...
Massive solar flare could have caused eighth century radiation burst
Nature Blogs, 28th November 2012
A mysterious spike in atmospheric carbon-14 levels 12 centuries ago might be a sign the Sun is capable of producing solar storms dozens of times worse than anything we’ve ever seen, a team of physicists calculates in a paper published this week in Nature.
Carbon-14 (14C) is created when high-energy radiation strikes the Earth’s upper atmosphere, converting nitrogen-14 into 14C, which eventually makes its way into plants via photosynthesis.
Earlier this year, a team of Japanese physicists discovered a spike in 14C in tree rings of Japanese cedars dating from the 774–75 growing season. But they were unable to explain where that 14C might have come from because all possible explanations appeared unlikely.
But Adrian Melott, a physicist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, who is the lead author of the new study, says that the Japanese team made a miscalculation in ruling out one of these possibilities — a giant solar storm. [...]
If the 774–75 event was indeed a flare, it’s a disturbing find. Such a flare would be about 60 times more powerful than the 1989 solar storm that knocked out power to much of Quebec for nine hours on a cold winter night. Multiply that by 60 and add two decades of increased technological vulnerability, and the effects might be disastrous. “A lot of people could die,” Melott says. “You could have power out for months or longer — no refrigerated food, no food being transported to all the people who live in big cities.”
Comment: Hmmm.... More evidence that something major happened around that time that caused major disruption for life on Earth, it might explain the problem with the calendars too...
OPEN CLIMATE LETTER TO UN SECRETARY-GENERAL: Current scientific knowledge does not substantiate Ban Ki-Moon assertions on weather and climate, say 125-plus scientists.
Financial Post, 28th November 2012
Policy actions that aim to reduce CO2 emissions are unlikely to influence future climate. Policies need to focus on preparation for, and adaptation to, all dangerous climatic events, however caused
Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations
H.E. Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General, United Nations
First Avenue and East 44th Street, New York, New York, U.S.A.
November 29, 2012
Mr. Secretary-General:
On November 9 this year you told the General Assembly: “Extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal … Our challenge remains, clear and urgent: to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to strengthen adaptation to … even larger climate shocks … and to reach a legally binding climate agreement by 2015 … This should be one of the main lessons of Hurricane Sandy.”
Comment: See link below for comments.
Survival kits and trips to hell, doomsday hysteria grips Russia
RT News, 1st December 2012
Doomsday hysteria has gripped Russia and some of its neighbors. Travel agencies are selling tours to either heaven or hell and people are stocking up on food and fuel. Officials are publicly denying the apocalypse, hoping to calm the hype.
Those awaiting Doomsday have three weeks to finish their preparations before the date of the much publicized apocalypse allegedly predicted by Mayan calendar, that is going to happen on December 21, 2012.
Thousands of people across Russia keep stocking up their back rooms and balconies with food, fuel and other supplies they might need when disaster strikes. Some are even moving outside of cities because of the widely spread rumors that cities would be impossible to survive in after an apocalypse on Earth.
Comment: The doom predicted for the 21st December 2012 is only for the really gullible to swallow, I think others realise that there is much more of a long term issue on a geophysically and atmospherically unstable planet... Besides, it is clear that Russian authorities have been preparing for some doom....
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Final offer: Tickets to Heaven and Hell go on sale
RT News, 30th November 2012
"Ahead of the upcoming Mayan apocalypse, firms have started selling post-apocalyptic survival kits, coupons for indulgence and even tickets to Heaven and Hell."
Let's get ready to rumble.... only joking!
ISS Video of Huge Rod UFO over S.America 11:16pm est 11/16/12 ISS UFO
YouTube, 16th November 2012
There has been a lot of blogosphere chatter in recent weeks about 'rods' being seen in the skies, around volcanoes and around the ISS. Below is an alternative plasma explanation, but as I have pointed out on this blog, others have made the same claims over many decades.
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Towards a natural plasma explanation of certain UFO phenomena
Hossein Turner's The Media Discerner, 12th September 2012
"In this article, I will attempt to offer an explanation for at least some of the unexplained UFO observations in our skies. The often aetheric and dynamic and variable morphologies of the observed phenomena do challenge the notion that they are neccessarily manmade or extra-terrestial vehicles. The behaviour of electrodynamic ionized particles (plasma) in certain double-layer regions of our lower atmosphere deserves serious consideration as a possible driver of these sightings." [...]
The question to ask, regarding some UFO phenomena - is whether they are manifestations of a plasma discharge occurring within a double-layer in our lower atmosphere. Plasmas typically cannot store high-value electric fields and large voltages between any small distance or area, and the state of the electrical field tends to be quasi-neutral. But at specific and thin boundary zones, the voltage and electric field can be much greater and be confined within that zone. If our sun is periodically emitting charged particles at a greater than average density - can we really say that all of them will simply enter the magnetosphere and become confined to the poles or become confined to our ionosphere?
We have found already that powerful electric currents flow in an intermittent fashion and we already know that powerful solar storms can even induce electric currents in power grids via the action of magnetic fields that disrupt the infrastructure. The question is - do electric fields from variable and periodic bursts of charged particles entering the upper atmosphere create localised sharp voltage gradients in our lower atmosphere? This possibility deserves serious consideration by the scientific community.
The plasma-like and aetheric behaviour of these UFO sightings might be generated primarily via an upper layer with high electric potential and electric fields localised within a double-layer cross-section of the atmosphere. Depending on the composition of the atmosphere or the charged particles present - a complex series of double-layer circuits could possibly form within a cross-section of the Earth's atmosphere. The powerful electric field within these double-layers can cause particle acceleration in various directions. Plasma present in glow-mode or bright arc-mode may maintain its discharge for as long as there is a sufficient electric field present above the area of atmosphere that it is passing through.
Important developments in plasma physics may finally reveal that our universe is not only more electric than we have imagined - but also our planet may be a key component in that circuit. Plasma is a unique state of matter and it has been known to take almost life-like forms and highly complex and unpredictable morphologies and behaviours. These behaviours may explain certain UFO sightings often assumed to be that of top-secret technology or even alien craft.
Comment: Hmmm... This is a plasma expert looking at so-called UFO reports and pointing out the similarity with plasma discharges... As I have pointed out in my UAP Index, UK military top brass already know that plasma manifestations and plasma entities (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) are mostly called UFOs by the public... Please note the explanation for the image icon used here: "This morphology is, most likely - a Peratt instability in the form of a stack of plasma toroids. They (and other related phenomena) are discussed in Anthony's paper which
can be found here: link. The author writes, "Notice that these plasma formations match the petroglyphs carved into rocks by various peoples' around the world. Could it possibly be that intense auroras in our past produced these huge plasma instabilities in our skies? And could it be that UFO sightings with similar morphologies - are just greatly scaled-down forms of the same instability?" Hmmm... as the planet electrifies and we reach a high level as that experienced on this planet before, it is inevitable that there will be terrifyingly giant plasma instabilities seen in our skies... Plasma is described as being be "life-like", but the metaphysical perspective is that plasma entities like everything in the universe has varying degrees of consciousness... Another life-form would better explain the intelligence demonstrated by some UAPs.
Cigar-shaped UFO's - Plasma "pinches" in the sky?
Thunderbolts Forum, 4th September 2012
Inside Britain's Armageddon houses: Meet the 'preppers' who are stockpiling food and weapons because they fear the world will end
Daily Mail, 29th November 2012
* Britons are stockpiling arms, food, and even condoms
* Some have secret hideaways away from towns and cities for when the apocalypse strikes
* They all appear in a documentary on people preparing for disaster
* Mayan calendar has predicted the apocalypse on December 21, 2012
The Mayan calendar predicts that the end of the world is less than a month away - but there are some Britons who are taking the doomsday prophecy more seriously than most.
Meet the UK's 'preppers'- people who are preparing for Armageddon behind closed doors. Between them they fear a new dark age, natural disasters, a solar flare, and a world without law and order.
They spend their entire lives and thousands of pounds preparing for disaster. [...]
They all feature in PREPPERS UK:SURVIVING ARMAGEDDON which is exclusive to the National Geographic Channel on Thursday 29th November at 11pm or Friday 30th November at 8pm.
The show is part of the British version of a series about people preparing for the apocalypse. The date that some believe will bring the end of the world is fast approaching.
Comment: This is a surprisingly long article.... BUT, it is clear these people do not fear the end of the world, just the end of modern societies that are not prepared for drastic changes...
Cheap material made from DIRT can convert heat directly to electricity: New discovery could revolutionise power generation
Daily Mail, 28th November 2012
Thermoelectric material converts differences in temperature directly to electrical voltage
It is not the first, but previous ones have been derived from rare and sometimes toxic elements via costly synthesis procedures
Researchers say their discovery could pave the way for low-cost, environmentally friendly electricity generation
An incredible new material made from common dirt can take heat and directly convert it into an electrical current, a study claims.
Researchers say they produced the groundbreaking substance using commonly found materials and that it can be cheaply manufactured.
They believe the it could spark a revolution in eco-friendly power generation by taking waste heat from a range of common sources and converting it directly to electricity.
Comment: This is about 100 years after George Westinghouse stopped funding Nikola Tesla's research when Tesla showed him that he could offer free electricity to the whole world by simply "ramming a stick in the earth in your backyard". Westinghouse was concerned that he would go bankrupt if that happened... Today, the world's modern technological infrastructure relies on national power grids that would collapse in the event of a major category 5 geomagnetic storm... Cheap simple ways to generate electricity at a local level is now essential if we do not want our modern world being thrown back to the level of that before the industrial revolution.
2012 Mayan Apocalypse Rumors Have Dark Side, NASA Warns
Space.com, 28th November 2012
NASA scientists took time on Wednesday (Nov. 28) to soothe 2012 doomsday fears, warning against the dark side of Mayan apocalypse rumors — frightened children and suicidal teens who truly fear the world may come to an end Dec. 21.
These fears are based on misinterpretations of the Mayan calendar. On the 21st, the date of the winter solstice, a calendar cycle called the 13th b'ak'tun comes to an end. Although Maya scholars agree that the ancient Maya would not have seen this day as apocalyptic, rumors have spread that a cosmic event may end life on Earth on that day.
Thus NASA's involvement. The space agency maintains a 2012 information page debunking popular Mayan apocalypse rumors, such as the idea that a rogue planet will hit Earth on Dec. 21, killing everyone. (In fact, astronomers are quite good at detecting near-Earth objects, and any wandering planet scheduled to collide with Earth in three weeks would be the brightest object in the sky behind the sun and moon by now.) [...]
Real-world consequences
Unfortunately, Morrison said, the fantasy has real-life consequences. As one of NASA's prominent speakers on 2012 doomsday myths, Morrison said, he receives many emails and letters from worried citizens, particularly young people. Some say they can't eat, or are too worried to sleep, Morrison said. Others say they're suicidal.
"While this is a joke to some people and a mystery to others, there is a core of people who are truly concerned," he said.
Comment: I think the final comment is worthy of some consideration:
Mitzi Adams, a heliophysicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, agreed.
"The greatest threat to Earth in 2012, at the end of this year and in the future, is just from the human race itself," Adams said.
Unfortunately, NASA scientists are speaking up because of the scale of the doomsday hype based on falsehoods being perpetuated by ignorant and uneducated people... The 21st December 2012 is NOT the end of the world....
US Power Grid Vulnerable to Just About Everything
Testosterone Pit, 28th November 2012
As Washington hunts ill-defined al-Qaeda groups in the Middle East and Africa, and concerns itself with Iran’s eventual nuclear potential, it has a much more pressing problem at home: Its energy grid is vulnerable to anyone with basic weapons and know-how.
Forget about cyber warfare and highly organized terrorist attacks, a lack of basic physical security on the US power grid means that anyone with a gun—like disgruntled Michigan Militia types, for instance--could do serious damage.
For the past two months, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has been tasked with creating a security strategy for the electric grid and hydrocarbon facilities through its newly created Office of Energy Infrastructure Security. So far, it’s not good news. [...]
One key problem is theoretically a simple one to resolve: a lack of spare parts. According to the National Academy of Sciences, the grid is particularly vulnerable because it is spread out across hundreds of miles with key equipment not sufficiently guarded or antiquated and unable to prevent outages from cascading.
We are talking about some 170,000 miles of voltage transmission line miles fed by 2,100 high-voltage transformers delivering power to 125 million households.
"We could easily be without power across a multistate region for many weeks or months, because we don't have many spare transformers,” according to the Academy.
High-voltage transformers are vulnerable both from within and from outside the substations in which they are housed. Complicating matters, these transformers are huge and difficult to remove. They are also difficult to replace, as they are custom built primarily outside the US. So what is the solution? Perhaps, says the Academy, to design smaller portable transformers that could be used temporarily in an emergency situation.
Comment: From the comments, "Another day, another apocalypse...." I think that will catch on...
River of storms headed for Northern California
The Sacremento Bee, 28th November 2012
It's shaping up as California's equivalent of a hurricane: A series of warm, wet storms arriving today that will be unlike anything the state has seen in years.
By Sunday, weather experts say Sacramento could see 4 to 8 inches of rain, and the mountains of the Northern Sierra Nevada and Shasta regions could be deluged with 12 to 18 inches of rainfall.
If this comes to pass, Sacramento could receive more rain in a few days than it gets in an average January, typically the wettest month of the year.
The culprit is a weather phenomenon called an "atmospheric river," which channels tropical moisture all the way across the Pacific Ocean like a fire hose. Sometimes called a "pineapple express," these storms are viewed by weather experts as California's equivalent of a hurricane. [...]
Atmospheric rivers form very differently from hurricanes, but the rainfall intensity can cause damage on the same scale.
"There is potential for one of the longer-lived atmospheric river events that we've seen in the last 10 years or so," said Marty Ralph, an expert on the phenomenon at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo.
"These are the types of events that are responsible for the biggest flood damages on the West Coast," he said. "To me, that's the analogue to the hurricane problem."
Comment: More at Weather.com California Flood Threat From "Atmospheric River"
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Northern California’s coming super soaker event via the
‘Pineapple Express’Atmospheric River
WUWT, 28th November 2012
There’s lots of buzz here in Northern California about a series of upcoming storms starting today and through the weekend that are expected to bring gusty winds and significant rain. So much rain in fact, that there is likely to be flooding. Some reports have my area of NorCal getting as much as 20? of rain (~75% of the normal seasonal total). I think that is over-forecasted, but it certainly is a possibility.
I remember one similar event in the El Niño years of the 1990?s, a “March Miracle” that dropped ~17? of rain in a 24 hour period in the mountains just east of me at a DWR weather station called “Four Trees” above the Feather River Canyon. It was such an anomaly that former California State Climatologist Jim Goodridge and I set out to see if maybe the rain gauge had a urinal attached or some other such issue. It turned out that the station was fine.
Comment: I changed the headline... An atmospheric river is a lot more meaningful, see more below: Anthony Watts is a meteorologist by profession.
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What Is An Atmospheric River?
Gizmodo News, 29th November 2012
A gigantic storm is set to hit the US west coast later today, bringing with it over 30cm of rain. It’s what meteorologists call an Atmospheric River — but what is that, exactly?
An atmospheric river is a meteorological phenomenon…
You guessed it! It’s not a river at all. It’s a weather event, a serious one, that happens all the time over oceans — but can be catastrophic when hitting land.
…when weather fronts blow in different directions…
Weather systems don’t neatly blend into one another. You probably know that when high and low pressure weather systems meet they can combine to form a storm front — but that’s not the whole story. When two weather systems are dominated by winds that are moving away from each other, what meteorologists would call divergent surface air flow, they leave an empty space between them, which is just waiting to be filled.
…moisture can become concentrated in long, thin corridors…
When a gap between those two diverging weather fronts appears, it provides a speedy route for water to ascend into the atmosphere. Think of it as a low pressure void that can’t help but suck up whatever is beneath it — and if it happens to over the sea, it will naturally suck up huge quantities of water vapour.
…which carry unbelievable amounts of water…
And when we say huge, we mean huge. Atmospheric rivers can grow and grow and grow… until they’re hundreds of kilometres wide and thousands of kilometres long. In fact, they can often carry more water than the Amazon. Yes, the world’s biggest river. Which is why, despite the fact that you may never have heard of an atmospheric river, they actually account for 90 per cent of the world’s north-south water vapour transport.
… and can shed their payload in dramatic style.
Which means that, occasionally, they wreak havoc. Usually these things are confined to the air above oceans; there are often up to 10 floating around the planet at any given moment.
Comment: This reminds me of old atmospheric experiments done by the US military that caused rain for 40 days and nights, see HAARP: From the perspective of a true Eco Warrior.... So, we do know that electromagnetic interference can cause problems, but before anyone can suggest human interference and "weather on steroids", to explain extreme weather, we have to take into account meteorologists who have high success rates of predicting extremes (like Piers Corbyn at weatheraction.com), because they take into account solar magnetism and activity which some believe ultimately controls weather patterns on Earth...
SDSS J1106+1939: Biggest Black Hole Quasar Blast Discovered
Science 2.0 News, 28th November 2012
Quasars are the luminous centers of distant galaxies powered by huge black holes. Although black holes are noted for pulling material in, most quasars also accelerate some of the material around them and eject it at high speed.
Many theoretical simulations suggest that the impact of these outflows on the galaxies around them may resolve several enigmas in modern cosmology, including how the mass of a galaxy is linked to its central black hole mass, and why there are so few large galaxies in the Universe. However, whether or not quasars were capable of producing outflows powerful enough to produce these phenomena has remained unclear until now.
The newly discovered outflow lies about a thousand light-years away from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the quasar SDSS J1106+1939. This outflow is at least five times more powerful than the previous record holder. The team's analysis shows that a mass of approximately 400 times that of the Sun is streaming away from this quasar per year, moving at a speed of 8000 kilometers per second.
Comment: Yet again, another record breaker... For a few years now I have suggested that there is a very good reason why there has been a lot of record breaking blasts being recorded... simply the properties of spacetime have changed and astronomers can more easily detect powerful blasts... but at the moment, there is only murmurings amongst astronomers that something fundamental has changed...
More WUWT.TV video segments – Joe D’Aleo on Hurricane Sandy and extreme weather
WUWT, 28th November 2012
I continue with uploading videos from the 24 houre WUWT.TV Gore-a-thon on November 14-15th seen live here on WUWT. This post contains two segments, one that was seen during the live session on Hurricane Sandy, and one that was a backup that never made it to air on extreme weather and climate connections.
Both are from Joe D’Aleo, an AMS Certified Consulting Meteorologist, co-founder of the Weather Channel, and currently a lead forecaster for WeatherBELL. Joe offers decades of forecasting experience in these presentations.
Comment: These presentations are for those who are new to why so many climatologists, scientists and meteorologists are challenging the hype that our world is facing global warming. Here, there is also some discussion on the evolution of climate scaremongering.
Video: How neuroscience can explain your trading risk profile
The Globe & Mail, 28th November 2012
Karl Moore speaks with John Coates, a senior researcher at Cambridge University, who is examining how hormones can affect traders' views.
Talking Management Transcript: How neuroscience can explain your trading risk profile
KARL MOORE – This is Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University with Talking Management for The Globe and Mail. Today I am delighted to speak to John Coates who spent 12 years on Wall Street with Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank as a trader in the heart of the beast, then moved on and now is a senior researcher at Cambridge University Neuroscience and Finance.
Comment: Thanks Milhail for the link.... Traders are also affected by the geomagetic environment too..
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Playing the Field: Geomagnetic Storms and the Stock Market (.pdf)
In a study for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (October 2003), Anna Krivelyova and Cesare Robotti found a connection between geomagnetic storms and stock market performance. Stocks tend to be negatively affected in the 6 days after a geomagnetic storm. There are about 35 such geomagnetic storms per year.
Universe Grows Like a Giant Brain
Live Science, 26th November 2012
The universe may grow like a giant brain, according to a new computer simulation.
The results, published Nov.16 in the journal Nature's Scientific Reports, suggest that some undiscovered, fundamental laws may govern the growth of systems large and small, from the electrical firing between brain cells and growth of social networks to the expansion of galaxies.
"Natural growth dynamics are the same for different real networks, like the Internet or the brain or social networks," said study co-author Dmitri Krioukov, a physicist at the University of California San Diego.
The new study suggests a single fundamental law of nature may govern these networks, said physicist Kevin Bassler of the University of Houston, who was not involved in the study. [What's That? Your Physics Questions Answered]
"At first blush they seem to be quite different systems, the question is, is there some kind of controlling laws can describe them?" he told LiveScience.
Comment: I have written about this similarity in some of my essays and e-books because it is something that many cosmologists with alternative opinions about how the universe operates have noted. This is a quote from my e-book Workbook - The Electrotechnics of the Heavens,
Plasma Cosmology may provide some advantages to a deeper understanding of the cosmos when we know that the physical structure of the cosmos is directly related to the ability of plasma to scale-up from the microscopic to the intergalactic scale, indicating the existence of some kind of universal law. The Self-Similar Cosmological Model (SSCM), was first proposed by Robert L. Oldershaw in 1978 and formally presented in two review papers (Oldershaw 1989a, b). It recognizes that the cosmos is organized in a highly stratified hierarchical manner, based on the assumption that the universe displays infinite fractal geometry. From what we can detect, the universe is composed of galactic systems, which are comprised of stellar systems, which are comprised of atomic systems, three out of a large, and possibly infinite, number of nested cosmological scales. A defining principle of the SSCM is the general principle of discrete cosmological self-similarity, which asserts that for each type of system or fundamental property on a given cosmological scale, there is a self-similar analogue on all other scales.
The Electrotechnics of the Heavens (2012).
Nine radar images of asteroid 2007 PA8
Phys.Org News, 28th November 2012
(Phys.org)—A collage shows nine radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2007 PA8 that were obtained between Oct. 31 and Nov. 13, 2012, with data collected by NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif. On Nov. 5 at 8:42 a.m. PST (11:42 a.m. EST/16:42 UTC), the object came about 4 million miles (6.5 million kilometers) from Earth, or 17 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
The images of 2007 PA8 reveal possible craters, boulders, an irregular, asymmetric shape, and very slow rotation. The asteroid measures approximately one mile wide (about 1.6 kilometers).
Comment: So.... asteroid 2007 PA8 is 1 mile wide but it could only be detected by radar? The naming convention for new asteroids tells it was only recently discovered in 2007 but we have been told it has been around before and the 2012 flyby was the closest since 1880.... See Spaceweather.com's listing: Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters - 4th November 2012 The question I have is: if we can use infra-red telescopes to look deep into the galactic centre trillions of miles away, why do we need to use radar too to detect asteroids? Whatever, I have stated many times that the new energy flooding our solar system is a dark matter or aetheric tide and I now believe that things are so bad that according to the European Space Agency, even orbital debris around our planet is difficult to observe. In my archives there is a good example of a US Spy Satellite satellite appearing and disapppearing and at the time I gave my opinion... For those interested in the metaphysical implications, the asteroids in our solar system are being carried on a tide of primordial energy from deep space, this energy is creative and transformative and that is why we can expect a spiritual transformation on this planet. The affects have already been noticeable for a few decades already, but with the latest news from the ESA confirming my views, it looks like I understood enough to get the implications right that space weather was changing the properties of spacetime in and around our planet. Yes, I will gloat, I have been right, right and right again, see links below and previous comments in the archives. Update: My mind has been whirling.... OH MY! Now we know why there is stupid talk of CO2 making satellites move faster and the ESA's requirement to map out the spacetime around our planet... it seems locating satellites dead and alive is now at a new level of difficulty and then with the wildcard element of bad geomagnetic storms knocking satellites and junk out of orbit, it seems the relocation of satellites may be somewhat difficult at times without radar... My goodness, it seems that my prognosis that the whole of our satellite infrastructure was at risk was totally understated... Then, I have blogged about a plane disappearing off radar for a while... Well, we know that radar does not always work and simply from the many difference reports, Earth's upper atmosphere is being breached by energies from space that can make things disappear.... This is just incredible...
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A Spy Satellite Disappears behind a plasma double layer?
spaceweather.com, 18th February 2012
SPY-SAT DISAPPEARING TRICK:
US spy satellite Lacrosse 5 occasionally confounds observers by disapppearing: In a matter of seconds, it can fade more than three astronomical magnitudes. Is this a deliberate form of stealth? Most experts think not, but no one outside of classified circles knows for sure what is going on. To investigate, French astrophotographer Thierry Legault used his satellite-tracking telescope to photograph Lacrosse 5 as it sailed 490 miles above Paris on Jan. 15, 2012, and he caught the spysat in the act of disappearing: [...]
During the passage, the brightness of the satellite decreased by 10 times in only 4 seconds (a loss of 2.5 magnitudes)," describes Legault. "After 33 seconds of [dark flight] it regained its original brightness. Lacrosse 5 often shows this very singular behaviour, which is called by other observers (especially Marco Langbroek) the 'disappearing trick.'"
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Europe sets sights on asteroid tracking radars
Would radars help track the 14-story size asteroid currently approaching Earth?
Network World, 12th September 2012
The European Space Agency today said it would develop a radar system that will be capable of tracking space hazards such as asteroids and orbital debris.
ESA and France's Office National d'Etudes et Recherches Aérospatiales - research center will work with five other partners in France, Spain and Switzerland to this month design a test surveillance radar and develop a $6 million demonstrator model.
Man: Prayer Group Told Me to Kill
ABC News, 28th November 2012
Less than three months after he stood as a groomsman in the wedding of two friends he had known since college in Texas, Micah Moore walked into a suburban Kansas City police department and unloaded a dark secret: He had taken the woman's life at the request of her new husband, a charismatic prayer group leader.
Police said Bethany Deaton's death initially appeared to be a suicide. Officers found a note and empty bottle of over-the-counter pain medication along with her body in a minivan parked by a lake on Oct. 30.
It wasn't until Moore confessed nearly two weeks later that police announced she had been killed. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on a first-degree murder charge Wednesday. In the criminal complaint filed in support of the charge, police detailed a stunning series of allegations that Moore made as part of his confession.
Comment: This is yet another example of why it is not a good idea to automatically trust people who can act religious or spiritual... Psychopaths are very good liars and actors... Plain text version here
Research shows lemmings were wiped out by Ice Age's climate change
PhysOrg.com, 27th November 2012
(Phys.org)—Small mammal populations across Europe were wiped out multiple times during the last Ice Age, due to an inability to deal with rapid climate change, according the research published today in the journal Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences.
Led by researchers at Royal Holloway university, the international team of scientists found that a series of short-lived warm periods led to inhospitable environments for many cold-adapted animals, leading to a series of collapses in local ecosystems.
The research casts further doubt that humans played a significant role in causing the megafaunal extinction at the end of the last Ice Age – a period which saw the demise of many of the world's largest terrestrial animals, including woolly mammoth, giant deer and cave bears. [...]
Scientists have known for a long time that the Ice Ages led to diversification and speciation in many animals. However, this study is one of the first to demonstrate that the climatic changes that took place during the last Ice Age, were also important drivers for the extinction process.
The results showed that a series of extinctions had taken place in Western Europe, and that each extinction was followed by recolonisation of genetically different lemmings.
"That the lemmings in Western Europe became extinct five times during the last Ice Age is unparalleled among mammals. We were really surprised by this finding," said Eleftheria Palkopoulou from the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
"Our research shows that the modern-day genetic variation in lemmings is just a small fraction of the variation that existed in the past. The amount of diversity that was lost due to these past changes in climate is simply stunning," said Dr Love Dalén from the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
Comment: There is no argument that climate change is always associated with evolutionary change, the issue is about how species are going to respond and this seems to be on a case by case basis. This report is specific that humans cannot be blamed for having a significant role in causing certain megafaunal extinctions in the past or for diversification and speciation in many animals. Simply, if species have not produced DNA via the process of somatic hypermutation to help them adapt to future environmental changes and avoid extinction, then that is the end of them, but why this process fails to work in all cases is an interesting conundrum... Incidentally, this article states "lemmings in Western Europe became extinct five times during the last Ice Age", I assume this means some lemmings adapted 5 different ways and each variation still ended up going extinct...
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Unravelling the causes of the Ice Age megafauna extinctions
Was it humans or climate change that caused the extinctions of the iconic Ice Age mammals (megafauna) such as the woolly rhinoceros and woolly mammoth?
PhysOrg.com, 4th November 2011
For decades, scientists have been debating the reasons behind these enigmatic Ice Age mass extinctions, which caused the loss of a third of the large mammal species in Eurasia and two thirds of the species in North America.
Now an extensive, inter-disciplinary research team, involving over 40 academic institutions around the world and led by Professor Eske Willerslev's Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, have tried to tackle the contentious question in the biggest study of its kind. And the answers are far more complicated than ever imagined.
The study, published online in the journal Nature reveals that neither climate nor humans alone can account for the Ice Age mass extinctions. Using ancient megafauna DNA, climate data and the archaeological record, the findings indicate dramatically different responses of Ice Age species to climate change and humans. [...]
Professor Alan Haywood, a paleoclimatologist from the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, who helped provide climate simulations for the project, said: "This new study is conclusive in its size and scale, and points to climate change as a major driver of extinctions for specific megafauna. But in a wider context, statements about how species are going to respond in the future to global warming are extremely difficult to make on the basis of what's happened in the past."
Comment: This report forgets to mention the arrival of new species that seem to come from nowhere during these periods of evolutionary change...
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Organisms cope with environmental uncertainty by guessing the future
Eureka Alert, 16th August 2012 Flashback
In uncertain environments, organisms not only react to signals, but also use molecular processes to make guesses about the future, according to a study by Markus Arnoldini et al. from ETH Zurich and Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. The authors report in PLoS Computational Biology that if environmental signals are unreliable, organisms are expected to evolve the ability to take random decisions about adapting to cope with adverse situations.
Most organisms live in ever-changing environments, and are at times exposed to adverse conditions that are not preceded by any signal. [...] Previous experimental work with microorganisms has reported variability in stress responses between genetically identical individuals. The results of the present study suggest that this variation emerges because individual organisms take random decisions, and such variation is beneficial because it helps organisms to reduce the metabolic costs of protection without compromising the overall benefits.
Comment: I believe the scientists here are refering to Somatic Hypermutation — rapid or excessive alterations of the genes. This is a process that allows an organism to use a suitable gene variant to effectively relieve an environmental stress. Simply, if a bacterium needs help, it can simply cut out some useless genetic material and replace it with a new and more helpful version.... This has seriously freaked out biologists and blown Darwin's theory of evolution out of the window.... As I wrote in the 2012 version of my book
This was first revealed in 1988, by the internationally recognized
geneticist John Cairns who wrote the paper, “The Origin of Mutants” that was
published in the prestigious British journal Nature. Since, this research was a
serious challenge to prevailing beliefs of random mutations espoused by Darwin
followers, it was immediately condemned as complete heresy. Of course, after
10 years of replication, scientists were forced to admit that an alternative
mechanism for evolution existed.
Tuning the Diamonds: Electromagnetism & Spiritual Evolution (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012)
Sea turns Red at Bondi Beach Australia
Sydney Morning Herald, 28th November 2012
Bondi Beach could be closed for up to 36 hours while tests are conducted on the algal bloom that stained the water a red colour this morning.
A spokeswoman for Sydney Water said a maintenance team, including a water quality expert, arrived at Bondi at 11am to carry out extensive tests on site, plus take samples to be tested in laboratories.
''We think it is looking very likely that it is a blue-green algal bloom,'' she said.
Comment: I changed the headline... There are more details in a subsequent report added below. Well, marine biologists state that these red tides are becoming more frequent across the globe. I believe they should be considered as a 'sign of the times' i.e. associated with ancient warnings of imminent Earth changes and should be considered as evidence of excessive electromagnetic interactions with Earth's atmosphere.... See below for an important excerpt.
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Bondi clear but algal blooms linger
News.com.au, 27th November 2012
A bloom was first spotted at Bondi at 6.30am (AEDT) on Tuesday, with subsequent outbreaks popping up at Clovelly Beach and Gordons Bay later in the day.
On the NSW central coast, blooms were spotted off Wamberal, Copacabana, Terrigal, Avoca and North Avoca beaches at around 9.30am but dispersed shortly after, a Gosford City Council spokesperson said.
No beaches were closed on the central coast.
While Gordons Bay and Clovelly, which resembled tomato juice on Tuesday afternoon, remain closed, Bondi Beach has reopened.
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RED TIDE & SHELLFISH POISONING
The University of the Western Cape, November 2012
WHAT TRIGGERS A RED TIDE?
Red tides usually occur along the Cape west or south coasts in late summer and autumn. The prevailing southerly winds at this time of year cause cold, nutrient-rich water to rise up from the deeper regions of the ocean to the surface, a process known as upwelling. Swept along with this upwelled water are dinoflagellate cysts, the resting stages of the organism, which lie dormant in the sediments on the sea floor. The high nutrient concentrations in the upwelled water, together with ideal conditions of temperature, salinity and light, trigger the germination of the cysts, so that the dinoflagellates begin to grow and divide. The rapid increase in dinoflagellate numbers, sometimes to millions of cells per litre of water, is what is known as a "bloom" of phytoplankton. Concentration of the bloom by wind and currents, as well as the dinoflagellates' ability to swim to the surface, together lead to the formation of a red tide.
Red tides are therefore not a result of sudden population explosions of phytoplankton attributable to increased division and growth rates, but result from confinement or concentration of phytoplankton following normal population increases to such an extent that they discolour the water.
If conditions in the surface waters become unfavourable for the dinoflagellates, for example if the nutrients are depleted or the bloom is dispersed by wind and currents, the dinoflagellates will again form dormant cysts and sink to the sea floor. [...]
RED TIDE AND THE ROLE OF THE SEA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE
In recent years there has been a growing awareness worldwide of the problems associated with red tides, largely due to the expansion of the shellfish industry and the increased risk to human health. In addition, scientists have concluded that red tides are occurring with increasing intensity and frequency over a wider global distribution, and that this may be a result of human activities. Nutrient enrichment through various forms of pollution, and subtle changes ascribed to the greenhouse effect, are thought to have influenced the intensity and frequency of red tides. Also, the transport of dormant cycts in the ballast tanks of ships is thought to have contributed to the spreading distribution of red tide outbreaks. It has therefore been recommended that an international research effort be undertaken to evaluate the global expansion of algal blooms and man's involvement in it.
Comment: Please note the photo of a small patch of red tide surrounded by normal sea water and we are told that some force is sucking up "cold, nutrient-rich water to rise up from the deeper regions of the ocean to the surface"... I can't see how "prevailing southerly winds" can produce such localised upwellings but it is a fact that electromagnetic vortexes can exist in air and water (tornadoes, fire tornadoes, ice tornadoes, dust devils, water spouts etc...) and sometimes they are so strong they can create huge amounts of sea foam... see archives... I think this is yet another electromagnetic phenomenon that is on the increase due to strong interactions between the atmosphere and the oceans and rivers, see previous reports in the last few months. Update: There are also the beams of "killer electrons", maser beams and beams of light from space and the radiation belts that are sometimes only visible to digital cameras, that I have been documenting over the last four years or so...
The 21st century Noah: Chinese man blows £100,000 life savings on building an ark to 'escape the impending Mayan apocalypse'
Daily Mail, 27th November 2012
No, God didn't reveal himself to this Chinese man in a vision. But it seems Lu Zhenghai has been reading about the Mayan prophecy that predicts the end of the world on December 21. He is so afraid of the rumours he has spent his whole life savings trying to build his very own apocalypse-proof 'Noah's Ark'.
The vessel, which has cost him ¥1million (£100,000), measures 21.2m long, 15.5m wide, 5.6m high and displaces about 140 tons of water. Lu, from Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, admits it's not much to look at, but is confident it will serve its purpose.[..]
In France, the authorities have been forced to ban access to a sacred mountain, rumoured to be a haven from the apocalypse, because hordes of believers have been flocking to the region in recent weeks.
Legend has it that the Pic de Bugarach in south-west France will burst open on that day revealing an alien spaceship which will carry nearby humans to safety.
A hundred police and firefighters will also control approaches to the tiny village of the same name at the foot of the mountain, and if too many people turn up, they will block access there, too.
Comment: To be honest, it does not look like a £100,000 vessel.... maybe, the Daily Mail are exaggerating... I think the authorities are right to stop the crazies camping out at Pic de Bugarach, see previous reports in the archives...
Strange Objects in the Sky: Bullet-Shaped UFOs, Florida Clouds -- Secret Sydney Planes, or UFOs? [PHOTO, VIDEO]
International Business Times, 27th November 2012
"We were taking a walk through the hills with some friends when this giant disk cloud appeared from over the hill. It looks like a UFO and I have never seen anything like this before. It moved slowly and made no sound, if its a UFO, its trying to look like a cloud. The bottom was fluffily like a jellyfish, the top smooth like a ceramic bowl. It was about 400-500 meters across. Has anyone else reported this?"
Hmmm... there are a few other examples of 'UFO' clouds in the archives that I have tried to explain as being a variation on hole punch clouds... see archives for previous comments... BUT it also looks similar to the not so rare pileus cloud...
Another WUWT.TV segment – Engineer and aviation pioneer Burt Rutan on why he doubts global warming
WUWT, 26th November 2012
This aired on WUWT.TV on November 14th in response to Al Gore’s “dirty weather report”. Engineer and aviation pioneer Burt Rutan gives his presentation on why he doesn’t think global warming/climate change is a problem, by presenting the data that convinced him it is a non-issue from an engineering standpoint. Burt gets a bit fired up in this presentation, saying to me afterwards by email that “it was fun!”.
Researcher Says Crop Circles Inspire A New Expression Of Religiosity
Red Orbit, 26th November 2012
Crop circles have always been a staple of the mysterious side of our world, and they’re often offered as direct evidence of a higher, other-worldly existence. The legitimacy of these shapes in the fields can be debated over and over, but no matter where the discussion falls, one thing remains: These crop circles have a certain magnetic quality. Even as an oddity or an amusement, we want to see, experience and most importantly question these crop circles.
This is all a natural response, says Anne Kalvig, a specialist in religion at Norway’s University of Stavanger (UiS). Kalvig has written an article about these “temporary temples” and the people who flock to them as a sort of pilgrimage – a journey once reserved for spiritual enlightenment and only the most sacred of sites. Her paper was recently published in Aura: Nordic Journal for the Study of New Religions. Kalvig didn’t only write the paper, but also got hands-on with the research, walking through these fields with her bare feet, investigating the phenomenon on the Internet and talking with those who pay homage to these crop circles.
“You can be involved a lot or a little in this,” explained Kalvig in a University of Stavanger press release. “Ever more aggressive opposition to various forms of new religiosity helps more to demonise [sic] this subject than to encourage critical thinking.”
Comment: This for my Norwegian blog followers...
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Fields for feelings
Phys.Org News, 26th November 2012
While some people experience great benefit when visiting churches, mosques and similar holy sites, she notes that others get a similar reward from crop-circle tourism. Enthusiasts refer to the circles as "temporary temples".
A specialist on religion, Kalvig has been researching this subject in recent years and published her findings in Aura 3/11 – a Nordic journal for academic studies of new religiosity.
Asahi: Expert says Japan should be prepared for possibility of M10 quake — “Days of tsunamis” — Only 1 magnitude below asteroid strike (VIDEO)
Energy News, 23rd November 2012
(Subscription Only) Title: Researcher: Japan should prepare for worst-case magnitude-10 earthquake
Source: Asahi
Author: SHIGEKO SEGAWA
Date: November 23, 2012
Japan should be prepared for the possibility of a magnitude-10 earthquake, although the chances of a temblor that size are slim, a seismologist said.
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If a temblor of such a scale should strike, the underground rupture would continue for 20 minutes to an hour, meaning tsunami could hit coasts before the shaking subsides.
If a 3,000-kilometer stretch from the Japan Trench to the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench along the Pacific Ring of Fire has a slip of 60 meters, that would constitute a magnitude-10 earthquake, [professor Toru Matsuzawa of Tohoku University] said.
The energy of a magnitude-11 quake, 30 times more powerful than a magnitude-10 temblor, would be equivalent to that of the asteroid impact that is believed to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 65.5 million years ago. Such a quake would cause a shift extending more than 20,000 kilometers. Matsuzawa concluded that consideration would not be needed for such an earthquake.
Title: Expert says maximum M10 earthquake possible
Source: NHK WORLD English
Date: Nov. 22, 2012
A magnitude-10 quake would be 32 times more powerful than the 9.0 earthquake that hit northeastern Japan in March last year. [...]
A magnitude-10 quake would occur, for example, if an 8,800-kilometer fault along a northern Pacific Rim trench shifts 20 meters.
Matsuzawa says such an earthquake would result in tremors lasting 20 minutes to one hour, and trigger days of tsunamis.
Matsuzawa stresses he’s not saying a magnitude-10 quake would definitely occur. But he notes that Japan was hit by a magnitude-9 earthquake when it had been expecting a maximum magnitude-8, so people should be aware of what could happen.
Comment: I had to think about this for a few days because of the seriousness of a geoscientist even daring to make this kind of claim.... Yes, there was the powerful Tohoku earthquake in March 2011 that generated the 9.0 major earthquake and tsunami, but a geoscientist is suggesting the possibility of something 32 times stronger... Well, this is amongst a background of geoscientists across the world warning people to prepare for disasters... NASA has been warning its own employees to prepare for disasters (June 2011, see archives) and physicist Michio Kaku has had the priviledge of warning via the mass media that we are facing "a new kind of future" echoing geoscientists who believe that recent natural disasters were not an aberration, but "the beginnings of a new kind of future in which mega-disasters are going to be more frequent." World experts know that things have become very serious on this planet, the energy has been building up for the last two decades or so due to massive deliveries of charged magnetic energy by space weather, the warnings now were inevitable...
Ready for Apocalypse? Insurance companies refuse to cover Armageddon
RT News, 22nd November 2012
Latvian insurers have rejected the request to insure against “breaking the space-time continuum” and the coming of a fictional deity Cthulhu as the “damage from the end of the world is difficult to evaluate”.
With one month to go before the end of the world according to Mayan calendar cycle, an unusual request came from organizers of a festival to a Latvian insurance agency, reports Apollo.lv. The client also wanted to insure against abduction by aliens and breaking the space-time continuum that could take festival goers into parallel worlds.
The Russian market is also not ready to offer such a product, the Vice President of Russian insurer Ingosstrakh Ilya Solomatin told newsru.com.
"You can ask the Russian insurance company to insure the risk from the so-called end of the world. The Question is, if the end of the world comes, who will pay you, and what would you need it for?" he says.
Comment: Well, I am now predicting embarrassment amongst prominent 2012ers as it becomes clear that there was a miserable failure to integrate the ancient warnings with modern science... As Earth's external magnetic field deteriorates and the impact of Space Weather worsens, Earth's geomagnetic environment is expected to become very unstable and mega disasters and just disasters will increase.... This is just a domino effect... The science is available for those who are interested in what life is going to be like on this planet as we adjust to a new level of chaos that is a basic requirement for evolutionary change for ANY energetic system...
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'End of capitalism': Bolivia to expel Coca-Cola in wake of 2012 Mayan 'apocalypse'
RT News, 1st August 2012
In a symbolic rejection of US capitalism, Bolivia announced it will expel the Coca-Cola Company from the country at the end of the Mayan calendar. This will mark the end of capitalism and usher in a new era of equality, the Bolivian govt says.
“December 21 of 2012 will be the end of egoism and division. December 21 should be the end of Coca-Cola,” Bolivian foreign minister David Choquehuanca decreed, with bombast worthy of a viral marketing campaign.
The coming ‘end’ of the Mayan lunar calendar on December 21 of this year has sparked widespread doomsaying of an impending apocalypse. But Choquehuanca argued differently, claiming it will be the end of days for capitalism, not the planet.
“The planets will align for the first time in 26,000 years and this is the end of capitalism and the beginning of communitariani
sm,” said Choquehuanca as quoted by Venezuelan newspaper El Periodiquito.
The minister encouraged the people of Bolivia to drink Mocochinche, a peach-flavored soft drink, as an alternative to Coca-Cola. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez followed suit, encouraging his country to ditch the American beverage for fruit juice produced in Venezuela.
Comment: LOL... I am wondering if getting rid of the Coca-Cola Company counts towards evolutionary change... but it's certainly not devolutionary....
To Make Steam Without Boiling Water, Just Add Sunlight And Nanoparticles
A mixture of plain water, nanoparticles, and sunlight can convert water into steam without ever even bringing it to a boil
Popular Science, 21st November 2012
Today in mind-bendingly cool stuff that nanoparticles can do: A team of researchers at Rice University in Texas has demonstrated a mechanism by which they can create steam in just seconds by focusing sunlight on a mixture of water and nanoparticles. This isn’t just some artificial means of lowering boiling point either; this solar powered “boiler” can produce steam before the water even gets warm to the touch, without ever bringing the aggregate water to a boil.
Right now this research is very much still in the lab, and the researchers aren’t yet sure exactly how far they can push it. But it doesn’t take much to imagine the possibilities for a steam generator that runs solely on water and sunlight.
The technology works by mixing a small amount of either carbon or gold-coated silicon dioxide nanoparticles, each just one-tenth the diameter of a single human hair, with water in a glass vessel. Their small diameters--smaller than the wavelength of visible light--means that they can absorb most of a light wave’s energy rather than scattering it. So when sunlight is focused on the vessel with a lens, the particles quickly become quite hot--hot enough to vaporize the water directly surrounding it
Comment: Well, my first reaction is that making expensive steam is what nuclear reactors do to turn turbines and generate electricity... Well, The Washington Post states "A nanoparticle steam generator could be used over and over. And, as James Watt and other 18th-century inventors showed, if you can generate steam easily, you can create an industrial revolution." Link I do hope this process can be utilised at an industrial level in Africa where there is plenty of sunlight...
The Classified Report DHS Doesn’t Want You To See: “The Electric Power Delivery System… Could Be Severely Damaged By A Small Number of Well-Informed Attackers”
SHTFplan.com, 15th November 2012
In 2007 the National Academy of Sciences completed an extensive review of the national power grid infrastructure in a 164 page report titled Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System. In it the NAS detailed a wide array of physical, personnel and cyber vulnerabilities that could pose a significant risk to the national security of the United States.
Even though the report was originally written for public release, notes Madison Ruppert of End the Lie, the entire document was almost immediately classified by the Department of Homeland Security and hasn’t seen the light of day until this week. That release came after five years of committee reviews, reversals, deliberations and pressure from the Academy itself.
The contents of the report make it clear why DHS wanted to keep it out of public view, as it illustrates severe deficiencies within the whole of the national power grid infrastructure.
Comment: This is essential reading especially after the fiasco in New York. Here is another important excerpt:
A terrorist attack on the power system would lack the dramatic impact of the attacks in New York, Madrid, or London. It would not immediately kill many people or make for spectacular television footage of bloody destruction. But if it were carried out in a carefully planned way, by people who knew what they were doing, it could deny large regions of the country access to bulk system power for weeks or even months. An event of this magnitude and duration could lead to turmoil, widespread public fear, and an image of helplessness that would play directly into the hands of the terrorists. If such large extended outages were to occur during times of extreme weather, they could also result in hundreds or even thousands of deaths due to heat stress or extended exposure to extreme cold. [...]
Full Report: National Academy of Sciences
Well, as this article points out, the Department of Homeland Security have sat on this report for five years, so none of the proactive measures recommended by the report have been taken. But then one of the nightmare scenarios occurred when New York got hit by an extreme weather event... The DHS fully expects "hundreds or even thousands of deaths due to heat stress or extended exposure to extreme cold." I expect there to be trouble as people find out about this report...
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Horrors of FEMA disaster relief
Exclusive: Chuck Norris applauds private efforts to help Hurricane Sandy victims
World Net Weekly, 18th November 2012
Right now, homeless Americans are literally freezing, wrapped in blankets and trash bags as they struggle to survive in FEMA tent cities such as New Jersey’s “Camp Freedom,” which reportedly “resembles a prison camp.”
“Sitting there last night you could see your breath,” displaced resident Brian Sotelo told the Asbury Park Press. “At (Pine Belt) the Red Cross made an announcement that they were sending us to permanent structures up here that had just been redone, that had washing machines and hot showers and steady electric, and they sent us to tent city. We got (expletived).”
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Are People Getting Dumber? One Geneticist Thinks So
Popular Science, 19th November 2012
[...] Human intelligence may have actually peaked before our ancient predecessors ever left Africa, Gerald Crabtree writes in two new journal articles. Genetic mutations during the past several millennia are causing a decline in overall human intellectual and emotional fitness, he says. Evolutionary pressure no longer favors intellect, so the problem is getting exponentially worse. He is careful to say that this is taking quite a long time, so it’s not like your grandparents are paragons of brilliance while your children will be cavemen rivaling Hartman’s SNL character. But he does posit that an ancient Athenian, plucked from 1000 BC, would be “among the brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and companions.”
His central thesis is that each generation produces deleterious mutations, so down the line of human history, our intelligence is ever more impaired compared to that of our predecessors.
Not surprisingly, the hypothesis, published in the prominent journal Trends in Genetics, has several geneticists scratching their heads.
Comment: I quite like this write-up over the furore caused by a Standford geneticist claiming that genetic mutations during the past several millennia are causing a decline in overall human intellectual and emotional fitness.... But quite frankly, maybe he is only one of many wondering how humans have managed to survive when there are so many dumb people around... Well, to add to the argument, there is plenty of evidence that major civilisations have existed in the past and have been wiped off the planet and whether they were more technologically advanced than us is irrelevant because they could not save themselves from catacylsm... So, I disagree with the notion that "if there is a problem stemming from our declining intellects, it’ll solve itself." No, No, No..... At a time of rapid evolutionary change, celestial epigenetics under the control of universal consciousness will ensure that those who cannot adapt to the new cosmic environment and are therefore not fit for purpose will eventually disappear. So-called respected metaphysical sources claim that when people die those who are not up to scratch will be taken off to reincarnate somewhere low grade because this planet is in a new status.... /sarc on: The new metaphysical utopian dream /sarc off:... Personally, I think the whole 2012 phenomenon is a extremely good example of the challenge of the institutionalized dumbness inherent in societies that can only focus on short term economics... People with little or no qualifications talking up a one-day planetary apocalypse, whilst others with esoteric and astronomical knowledge of cosmic cycles are busy preparing for disasters because the planet is going to be very unstable for the forseeable future.... Personally, I am grateful that modern Mayan Elders pointed out the shift to a New Age dominated by aether/space based on their ancient astronomical calendars. What's more, I had enough intellectual capacity and brain development to integrate vasts amounts of readily available information to realise that modern Mayan Elders had got some essentials correct and some metaphysical sources were at least trying to encourage humanity to wake up to some reality despite the general preference for narcissism... Now, it is more than obvious that humanity is moving into a new era. The implications of a sudden onset of severe Space Weather is that there is additional energy to drive dramatic climate change and generate major geophysical upheaval. The argument for a one-day apocalypse is looking very lame, but due to the general lack of intellectual capacity, the 2012 hype was enough to at least alert some that something momentous is taking place.
Huge explosion hits Massachusetts club — “Building just vanished” — BREAKING: ‘Higher than normal’ gas levels still under streets in area; More leaks a concern (BLAST VIDEO)
Energy News, 24th November 2012
Title: 18 injured after gas explosion tears through Massachusetts strip club
Source: CNN
Date: Nov 23, 2012
h/t Anonymous tip
Eighteen people were injured early Friday evening when a gas-fueled explosion ripped through a strip club in the western Massachusetts city of Springfield, the city’s mayor said.
Those in the club and nearby buildings had evacuated by the time the blast occurred at 5:25 p.m., Mayor Dominic Sarno said.
Nine of those injured were Springfield firefighters, four were gas company employees, two were police officers, two were civilians, and one was a municipal water and sewer department employee, the mayor said. [...]
Comment: Energy News have put together a few reports but the information in the comments about methane is excellent...
Software 'glitches' are not acceptable. Learn from aviation
Tech World News, 20th November 2012
The term “glitch” is often used to describe an error in software, but the word itself undermines the severity of such errors, according to open source software company Adacore.
Only this year, a so-called software glitch was responsible for a substantial IT failure at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which meant that millions of customers could not gain access to funds in their bank accounts.
Events from the Wall Street Crash to Toyota's brake failings in 2009 have also been attributed to software glitches – trivialising the problem and implying that it can be reasoned away.
According to Robert Dewar, president and CEO of AdaCore, however, there is no excuse for these outages. In the world of aviation, where failure is not an option, software glitches simply do not happen.
Speaking to Techworld, Dewar said that the banking sector can learn a great deal from ultra-paranoid industries like aviation, which use highly reliable programming languages such as Ada in their application development. [...]
Ultimately, writing more reliable code will cut down on errors and reduce the risk of costly outages in most industry sectors. Before this can happen, however, people have to stop accepting that “glitches” are trivial and start demanding better software.
“You wouldn't excuse the crash of a jumbo jet by labelling it a glitch, so why the failing of a banking application?” he concluded.
Comment: This article is all sales pitch but anyone who reads my blog will know that this article is not exactly accurate.... In the world of aviation, the specialists all know that at typical cruising altitude cosmic radiation is approx. 300 times more of an issue for electronics than at ground level. ["At normal aircraft cruising altitudes the radiation is several hundred times the ground level intensity and at 60000 feet a
factor three higher again." Source: ESA Space Weather Net: Effects on Spacecraft & Aircraft Electronics (1998) But since frequent fliers are being given new warnings about high levels of cosmic radiation, it must be assumed that space weather especially during geomagnetic storms is now far higher...] So, software is created where everything is done in triplicate --literally -- and radiation hardened microelectronics are used to try and ensure software that controls flight data is not being corrupted by cosmic rays. However, with the onset of severe space weather that is still not good enough and engineers are having to work out how to make aviation software, especially autopilot systems even more reliable. Here, it seems this article provides us with another flicker of hope as it seems a few more people engage brains and try to improve the chances against our modern technological world collapsing....
Making Sense of Post-Cult Trauma & the Relational System of the Traumatizing Narcissist
American Guru, November 2012
My Thirteen Years at EnlightenNext
by William Yenner
This paper was presented at the October 2012 conference sponsored by the International Cultic Studies Association, in New York.
[...] Nearly a decade had passed since meeting Andrew Cohen. Foxhollow was my home, my fellow students were my family, and Andrew was my spiritual mentor. Yet not everything was as it seemed. In addition to new rules and practices that seemed to contradict some of Andrew’s earlier teachings, money began to have a growing influence on day-to-day life. To help finance Foxhollow, Andrew instituted an entrance fee of $1000 per formal student for each year of prior participation. This fee entitled the student to participate at Foxhollow.
Thus, with the gradual imposition of rules, taxes and spirit-breaking confrontational meetings, the climate in Andrew’s community had changed significantly, and I began to witness transformations in Andrew’s personality, methods and teachings that would take me years to fully comprehend. But in 1997, with a gleaming new facility, a growing community, and my own personal sense of accomplishment, Foxhollow was still where I wanted to be. At that point, I could not see the storm clouds gathering on the horizon. [...]
Along with new rules and regulations, Andrew also began instituting punishments as well. The methods were often random, harsh, out of proportion to the alleged wrong, and questionable as educational “skillful means.” Andrew referred his new system as “Acts of Outrageous Integrity,” and it consisted of extreme “teaching methods” designed to cut through a student’s ego and resistance in order to facilitate awakening.
Cohen’s “acts of outrageous integrity” included disciplinary face slapping in which it was difficult to discern any particular “lesson” other than “Shape up!” In some cases, Andrew would direct one student to slap another; in others, he administered the slaps himself
Comment: It really does seem like there is a concerted effort to deal with that monster Cohen.... On a wider scale, seekers need to be warned and learn how to protect themselves against the malignant narcissist fake gurus who think abusing and even beating up their followers can be passed off as something to do with encouraging spiritual evolution... After spending well over a thousand hours in about 5 years or so studying the dynamics in the Cultic milieu, most of this effort came after James Ray managed to kill 3 + 1 of his followers, I realise there are a tremendous number of damaged people about... Since the 1970s, the Enlightenment industry has created huge volumes of people that are now considered "collateral damage" and the 2nd hand psychopathy being spread by psychopathic monsters like Cohen means that there are many who simply do not care... The whole scenario is absolutely incredible, but the fightback has started... Many many groups of ex-devotees are forming on the internet.... the revolution has started... The 'victims' are learning about how their own delusion was created and maintained and then once truly enlightened, they are going after the demons...
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My So-Called Guru
KCRW News, 8th May 2012
Interview with Jane O'Neill who described how she was pressurized to hand over the 2 million dollars that made possible Andrew Cohen's purchase of Foxhollow.
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Andrew Cohen and the Corruption of Power
What Enlightenment??!, 6th December 2006
[Editor's Introduction: The author of this piece, Jane O'Neil, is a former close student of Andrew Cohen. It was her devotion to him and her contribution of $2 Million that made possible the purchase of Foxhollow, Cohen's residence and the headquarters of EnlightenNext in Lenox, Massachusetts. After she left the group, Andrew Cohen betrayed his promise to her to keep her contribution confidential by publicly discussing it while severely disparaging her for leaving him. This part of her story is briefly recounted in Dr. Andre van der Braak's book Enlightenment Blues (page 210-211):
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Not Forgotten – The Story Of Caroline Franklyn
What Enlightenment??!, 19th January 2006
By Mario Puljiz
[Mario Puljiz was a formal student of Andrew Cohen, in his European community, from 1995-2000. He was a friend of Caroline Franklyn.]
Caroline Franklyn was in her late seventies at the time of her death and, having been of delicate health for some time, it seemed of little surprise that despite her remarkable spirit she passed away in London just before Christmas 1999. Caroline was also Andrew Cohen’s most elderly formal student in the UK and had been his devoted disciple for the last seven years of her life.
Comment: I am not shocked by this story but others who are new to the dark side of the enlightenment business may be stunned by the brutality... I found the following comment particularly insightful:
Anonymous says -
19 January, 2006
"The fact is that Andrew is offering nothing short of ego-death in his teaching. This means there is nothing for the person in his organization. No compassion, no understanding, no empathy, no support, no love.
He is committed to murdering ego and everyone needs to realize what this truly means. He is not offering social or humanitarian aid in any form. He is offering death to personal values. Strength of character, autonomy, independance, a warm and caring heart, connection with others through loving service...these are not experiences to be sought through association with Andrew Cohen.
When a frail old woman is crushed at his command, what was the ego-dead response to her passing?
The crux of the matter is whether Andrew's vision of Enlightenment is in fact correct and true. What kind of world would his vision create? What would be the qualities of the ego-dead humans he is seeking to engender? Could these automatons function without his complete control and direction?
Surely the only way to live the kind of vision Andrew is proffering would be to accept and embrace living in total Ignorance. No need for compassion, understanding, patience, kindness, empathy, love.
The only requisite would be the ability to follow orders blindly...."
Author and expert Sam Vaknin explains the need for malignant narcissists/psychopaths to create zombies, clones and automatons as part of the need to obtain ultimate control of human beings... Thus, the person who wrote this comment has fully understood what Cohen is really about...
A Chance that Sunspot AR1618 will deliver a X-class solar flare
spaceweather.com, 23rd November 2012
CHANCE OF STORMS:
NOAA forecasters estimate a 60% to 65% chance of polar geomagnetic storms on Nov. 23/24 when a pair of CMEs is expected to hit Earth's magnetic field. The incoming clouds were propelled toward Earth by the recent eruptions of sunspot AR1618. Black Friday might be tinged red and green by the glow of high-latitude auroras. Aurora alerts: text, voice.
SUNSPOT AR1618--UPDATE: Sunspot AR1618 has experienced some decay during the past 24 hours, but it is still potent. The sunspot's magnetic canopy has a 'beta-gamma-delta' configuration that harbors energy for X-class solar flares. Because of the sunspot's nearly central location on the solar disk, any eruptions today would be Earth-directed. Solar flare alerts: text, voice.
A sunspot, like AR1618, is a vast island of magnetism floating on the surface of the sun. Magnetic fields bubble up from the sun's interior to form the sunspot's dark cores much like a Pacific island forming from the lava of an undersea volcano. Phil Scherrer, a member of the Solar Dynamics Observatory science team at Stanford Unniversity, has prepared an 8-day movie showing the genesis if AR1618:
A companion movie shows the region's magnetic development. In the movie, which Scherrer made using data from SDO's Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI), white denotes positive polarity, black denotes negative. Places with mixed polarities are where the magnetic fields can reconnect and erupt, producing solar flares.
Comment: Earth is the way of direct fire and some are quite nervous...
Sunspot 1618 facing Earth
Anticlockwise rotation of sea-surface height near Norway’s west coast
The Watchers, 21st November 2012
An unusual anticlockwise rotation of sea-surface height patterns has been observed near Norway’s west coast. A topographic depression about 3500 m deep in the Norwegian Sea, the Lofoten Basin is a region of high mesoscale activity and plays an important role in sustaining global ocean circulation. The Lofoten Basin is known to be the major heat reservoir for the Nordic Seas (Greenland, Norwegian and Iceland Seas), where large interactions between the ocean and atmosphere occur. It is the area where salty and warm Atlantic Water transit on its way to the Arctic Ocean and loses its heat to the atmosphere. Mixing with surrounding water it becomes dense and sink, forming ‘deep water’ in adjacent regions.
Comment: This is based on a press release from the European Space Agency (ESA). I will look out for more commentary from an expert...
Singapore is world's least emotional country, poll finds
Only 36% of Singaporeans report feeling positive or negative emotions on a daily basis, compared to 60% in the Philippines
The Guardian, 21st November 2012
Never mind its temperate 28C weather, low unemployment rate and high per-capita GDP – Singapore is the most emotionless society in the world, according to a new Gallup poll, beating the traditionally po-faced Georgia, Lithuania and Russia in a survey of more than 150 nations.
Asking respondents questions such as "Did you feel well-rested yesterday?", "Were you treated with respect all day yesterday?" and "Did you smile or laugh a lot yesterday?", the survey found that Singaporeans were the least likely to reveal experiencing any emotions at all.
Just 36% of Singaporeans reported feeling positive or negative emotions on a daily basis, while 60% of Filipinos recorded regularly feeling both – the highest response rate of any country worldwide.
Comment: I am interested to know who is funding these types of polls and why... I wrote about emotions and spiritual evolution in my book Tuning the Diamonds but since then life has forced me to learn more about people with personality disorders and I have discovered the irony of narcissists, malignant narcissists and psychopaths pontificating about spiritual evolution. From my studies, I believe if you don't have a full set of emotions in operation you cannot evolve... the parts of the brain that process emotions actually need to be switched on for the brain to evolve further, psychopaths with certain types of brain defect must be less evolved and some psychologists do not consider them as even being real humans... Synaesthesia is an example of those with more parts of the brain operational, but I have not seen definitive research that links the evolution of the brain to a healthy expression and processing of a wide range of emotions. Still, it would not surprise me if this was true because there is a component to synaesthesia that is linked to defining personality type by emotions/colours etc that can be detected... In terms of what these polls really mean about levels of emotional well-being, I wonder whether it is even possible to make relevant sweeping statements as evolution is about greater complexity... (hence there is a lot of articles and reports in the archives concerning lots of different but related research...) Whatever, in my experience, empathy seems to be in very short supply and a few media pundits are wondering whether we are seeing new trends in society. Again, I will state I think we are seeing simultaneous evolution and devolution, and in some of the most Orwellian societies, psychopathic behaviour is 'normalised'.
Professor: “Really disturbed” by recent solar flares — We could have lots Fukushima-type events if one causes power blackout (VIDEO)
Energy News, 22nd November 2012
From From Coast to Coast: In the first half, theoretical physicist and popularizer of science, Dr. Michio Kaku, discussed the latest science stories in the news, including monster solar flares, and the search for dark matter. Lately, the sun has been throwing "temper tantrums," with some very large solar flares, he said, and as we head into the maximum of the sunspot cycle, "the fear is that one of these solar flares could hit the Earth," like the event that occurred in 1859, which fried telegraph wires. He also noted that the asteroid Apophis could be a threat to our planet when it flies by in 2029, and again in 2036, though the odds have diminished somewhat that it will be a direct hit.
Comment: Sorry, there was a few links to choose from here, but I liked the headline at Energy News. Anyway, I actually wonder whether Michio Kaku has found my website yet... He is really getting on the ball with Space Weather and the grim reality of the vulnerability of our modern technological world... Yes, he does regularly talk about big solar flares and CMEs, but I think this is the first time I have come across him worried about nuclear power plants needing uninterrupted power supply 24/7.... No doubt, he does have a well functioning brain inside his head and was stunned by the vulnerability when Superstorm Sandy caused massive blackouts and at least 5 nuclear power plants had problems... You need to be a member to access the C2C show on their website, but there are short and long versions of this interview on YouTube, see below:
Newspaper: Japanese evacuating country because of radiation — “Passport issuance growing sharply” — “Increase is attracting attention”
Energy News, 21st November 2012
New figures reveal the number of Japanese leaving their homeland for a life abroad has more than tripled in the wake of last year’s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident. [...]
Next year the number is likely to climb further, as travel industry research indicates passport issuance is growing sharply.
Worries about radiation, predictions of another devastating quake and diminishing opportunities in Japan’s economically depressed and rapidly ageing society are driving young families and singles and wealthy retirees abroad.
In insular and conservative Japan, this increase is attracting attention. [...]
Foreigners tended to assume Japan had bounced back from the triple disaster, and in some areas that was true. But many Japanese now had, for the first time, a deep distrust of their government. [...]
Comment: The original version is behind a paywall. Well, this comes as no surprise, Japan has been devastated...
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Michio Kaku: 3 meltdowns in Fukushima, but uranium actually totally liquified… 1st time in history — “Reactor actually melted totally” (VIDEO)
Energy News, 22nd November 2012
Professor Michio Kaku, City College of New York: We had three simultaneous core meltdowns in Fukushima, but the uranium actually liquified — liquified — we’ve never seen a totally liquified core before. First time in history. But the Fukushima reactor actually melted totally. Listen to the broadcast here
You can find the complete interview (over two and a half hours) on YouTube... Michio Kaku is Japanese and not stupid, so he tends to keep it real when he talks about the mega-disaster in Japan...
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Asahi: Now almost 100,000 Fukushima kids with thyroid problems, parents concerned — Whether that’s “alarmingly high” it’s difficult to say
Energy News, 20th November 2012
[...] The Fukushima prefectural government [...] survey found that 40 percent of 96,000 or so children for whom test results are available developed thyroid gland problems, such as nodules, or lumps, and cysts. [...]
Despite parental concerns about radiation exposure, it remains difficult to say with any certainty whether the 40-percent occurrence rate is alarmingly high or not. This is because no exhaustive thyroid gland tests have been done on children using highly reliable ultrasound technology.
Trapped in my homemade cage: Meet the woman who is allergic to modern technology
Yahoo News, 21st November 2012
Velma Lyrae spends up to 18 hours a day confined to a cage because she is allergic to modern technology. The 51-year-old can't use a mobile phone, satnav or WiFi, or even use a hairdryer to blow dry her hair. Instead she spends her days reading books, doing artwork and writing letters, all from the comfort of her Faraday cage
She suffers from an increasing common condition called electromagnetic hypersensitivity syndrome (EHS) which means she cannot stand to be near electromagnetic fields. Velma's condition emerged with the arrival of 3G mobile phones, although having a previous electric shock is believed to make people more susceptible.
Dr Erica Mallery-Blythe said: "The symptoms of EHS can cover a broad range of systems, often start subtly and can be mistaken for other medical conditions. "Adults and children today are exposed to very high levels of electromagnetic fields (EMF) that no life on the planet has ever witnessed before.
"It is no surprise that the numbers of those with EHS and other conditions linked with EMF exposure are rising."
Dr George Carlo, from Washington, added: "One of the tragedies is that folks use these approaches - cages, shades, necklaces - to try to protect themselves, but those are not long-term solutions.
"They are simply survival mechanisms. The long-term solution is building the internal adaptive capacity that enables those with ES to be like the rest of us - living our lives without the incumbrance of awful ES-triggered symptoms."
Comment: The final comment by Dr George Carlo is quite surprising.... From my research, I believe it is possible to build up the human energy field to act as a cosmic or radiation shield, but these days I have no recommendations for a suitable methodology despite what I wrote in the earliest editions of my book Tuning the Diamonds.... Simply, I am not aware of the resilience of the human energy field attracting any serious study by research scientists, but that does not mean that studies have not been carried out... What's more, the metaphysical community have not focused on providing a reasonable concensus viewpoint because it requires real insights by many different individuals that has been integrated to reach a concensus and this effort has not been made to my knowledge.
Lost civilization unearthed in Indonesia
The Jakarta Post, 22nd November 2012
Ancient Balinese history was not uppermost in Ida Rsi Bhujannga's life until plans to build a septic tank at his home turned into an archeological discovery that has scientists bewitched.
The elderly high priest says he is now fascinated by his community's history, which the rare find of dozens of massive stones has uncovered. These meter-long stones are believed to be from a 14th century temple complex that may have been the largest ever constructed on the Island of the Gods.
"I have become very interested in archeology since this was found, because we must know our history here in Bali. As a priest I need to know about this history so I can teach people," said Bhujannga. [...]
"We have no stories, no histories of this temple and of its people. So our community was really surprised by this discovery. The archeology department says there may be much more still to be found under the rice fields here. They believe the section we have found is the eastern wall of the temple complex, it was huge and the biggest ever found in Bali. What is clear I think is that at the time there must have been a civilization made up of many people, because a big temple like this would have needed a lot of people to build it," says Bhujannga.
Comment: I am impressed that this Bali priest takes the responsibility of teaching the people about ancient civilisations and historical cataclysmic events on this planet seriously...
Global cooling predicted for the next 30 years
Tucson Citizen, 20th November 2012
Dr. Norman Page says that “The earth is entering a cooling phase which is likely to last about 30 years and possibly longer.” See his detailed analysis here.
Page’s prediction is based on observation of the geologic record. He notes that there has been no net warming since 1997 even thought carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere has risen 8.5%. Page says that atmospheric temperature is driven by sea surface temperature (SST) which is, itself, solar driven. The oceanic oscillations control the general climate. There is good correlation between solar cycles and SST, but note that because of the enthalpy and thermal inertia of the oceans, there is a 10 – 12 year lag between solar cycle troughs and global SSTs. This lag time definitely establishes cause and effect similar to the lag in carbon dioxide changes following temperature changes in the major glacial cycles as shown in ice cores [..]
Page goes on to say:
“The major ice age climate cycles are controlled by the sun – earth orbital eccentricity, and the earth’s obliquity and precession. These cycles are approximately 100,000, 41,000 and 21,000 years in length respectively and are well documented in the ice core and geological record. It is useful to keep in mind that the warmest temperatures in the current interglacial occurred about 7500+/- years ago and the general trend is now a cooling towards the next ice age.”
Comment: Well, I have been reading an interesting unclassified CIA report, A Study of Climatological Research as it pertains to Intelligence Problems(1974) written at a time when leading climate scientists had all agreed that we were entering a period of detrimental global climatic change and a return to the neo-boreal (1600-1850) with generally cooler temperatures that are very unfavourable for agriculture. The report also cites research that finds Ice Ages are cyclic in nature and consist of an approx. 90,000 year glacial period followed by a relatively brief warming peak of 10,000 to 12,500 years called the interglacial periods with climate change between these periods as "sharp and dramatic". The decline in sunspots and low solar activity in the past decade or so has led many solar scientists to predict dramatic cooling and hence the spectacle of ferocious battles between climate scientists who refuse to accept "global warming" as the excuse to try and modify/geo-engineer the climate.
No doubt this report is out of date but it is still a fascinating read... I can only presume this statement is still true: "It is not obvious how the Earth maintains it's energy balance." Well, this is not an isolated article as there are lots and lots of similar reports all poining out exactly the same type of research, but it is a fact there is currently no warming. The study of Cosmoclimatology provides proof that the climate is determined by cosmic factors but there is no proof that removing the rather minor greenhouse gas CO2, will have any impact on the climate despite the concerted effort....
Study: Unexpected microbes fighting harmful greenhouse gas
PhysOrg.com, 21st November 2012
The environment has a more formidable opponent than carbon dioxide. Another greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide, is 300 times more potent and also destroys the ozone layer each time it is released into the atmosphere through agricultural practices, sewage treatment and fossil fuel combustion.
Luckily, nature has a larger army than previously thought combating this greenhouse gas—according to a study by Frank Loeffler, University of Tennessee, Knoxville–Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor's Chair for Microbiology, and his colleagues.
The findings are published in the Nov. 12 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Scientists have long known about naturally occurring microorganisms called denitrifiers, which fight nitrous oxide by transforming it into harmless nitrogen gas. Loeffler and his team have now discovered that this ability also exists in many other groups of microorganisms, all of which consume nitrous oxide and potentially mitigate emissions.
Comment: This report raises several issues... Again, we are told that there is another greenhouse gas that is more potent than CO2 and also scientists do not fully understand enough to have the right to interfere with the fine balance inherent in the Earth's atmosphere and ecosystems.
Japan's new nuclear-proof robot gets stage fright
Yahoo News, 21st November 2012
YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - A Japanese robot designed to withstand high levels of radiation and extreme heat at damaged nuclear plants such as Fukushima froze on Wednesday on its first public demonstration.
Despite being home to the largest number of industrial robots in the world, Japan did not have a device capable of entering the damaged Fukushima nuclear facility after last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami.
Instead, Japan brought in U.S. robots to survey the extent of the damage inside the reactor buildings.
Toshiba Corp unveiled Japan's own nuclear-proof robot on Wednesday, a four-legged device able to carry up to 20 kg of equipment and capable of lifting itself up if it falls over on uneven surfaces and amid debris.
During the demonstration, the robot experienced a case of stage fright. The shuffling Tetrapod locked up and suddenly froze after it tried to balance itself, forcing technicians to carry it away.
Comment: Hilarious... More comment at Energy News.
Jesus was born years earlier than thought, claims Pope
The Telegraph, 21st November 2012
The 'mistake' was made by a sixth century monk known as Dionysius Exiguus or in English Dennis the Small, the 85-year-old pontiff claims in the book 'Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives', published on Wednesday.
"The calculation of the beginning of our calendar – based on the birth of Jesus – was made by Dionysius Exiguus, who made a mistake in his calculations by several years," the Pope writes in the book, which went on sale around the world with an initial print run of a million copies.
"The actual date of Jesus's birth was several years before."
The assertion that the Christian calendar is based on a false premise is not new – many historians believe that Christ was born sometime between 7BC and 2BC.
Comment: For those of us that realise that there has historically been a two-tier religious system of astronomer-priests (those in the know) and then the rest of the rabble, the Pope confessing that the Christian calendars are not accurate is interesting news... Today, there are some good websites that lay out the astronomy of the Christian narrative in fairly simply detail, but I want to know why this is considered as important news now...
Btw, this is not the biggest discrepancy found with the Christian calendar... See Wikipedia Phantom time hypothesis for more details.
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Pope dismisses December doomsday
Sydney Morning Herald, 19th November 2012
Pope Benedict XVI has called on Christians not to heed doomsday warnings that the world will end on December 21.
During his weekly Angelus address from the window of his Vatican apartments on St Peter’s Square, Benedict spoke of extracts from the Bible that speak of ‘‘the sun and moon going out, the stars falling from the sky’’.
Several films and documentaries have promoted the idea that the ancient Mayan calendar predicts that doomsday is next month, on December 21, 2012.
But Benedict said that Jesus ‘‘does not describe the end of the world, and when he uses apocalyptic images, he is not acting the prophet’’.
Hunter spots rare white deer in Iowa
KCCI 8 Des Moines, 20th November 2012
The numerous reports of white animals informs us that there has been a rapid increase in mutagens affecting DNA, see archives for more info: Best of the Blog DNA 'Abnormalities' & Mutations.
Myths and Facts about Global Warming
Friends of Science, November 2012
MYTH 1: Global temperatures are rising at a rapid, unprecedented rate.
FACT: The HadCRUT3 surface temperature index shows warming to 1878, cooling to 1911, warming to 1941, cooling to 1964, warming to 1998 and cooling through 2011. The warming rate from 1964 to 1998 was the same as the previous warming from 1911 to 1941. Satellites, weather balloons and ground stations all show cooling since 2001. The mild warming of 0.6 to 0.8 C over the 20th century is well within the natural variations recorded in the last millennium. The ground station network suffers from an uneven distribution across the globe; the stations are preferentially located in growing urban and industrial areas ("heat islands"), which show substantially higher readings than adjacent rural areas ("land use effects"). Two science teams have shown that correcting the surface temperature record for the effects of urban development would reduce the warming trend over land from 1980 by half.
There has been no catastrophic warming recorded. [...]
MYTH 6: The UN proved that man–made CO2 causes global warming.
FACT: In a 1996 report by the UN on global warming, two statements were deleted from the final draft. Here they are:
1) “None of the studies cited above has shown clear evidence that we can attribute the observed climate changes to increases in greenhouse gases.”
2) “No study to date has positively attributed all or part of the climate change to man–made causes”
To the present day there is still no scientific proof that man-made CO2 causes significant global warming.
MYTH 7: CO2 is a pollutant.
FACT: This is absolutely not true. Nitrogen forms 80% of our atmosphere. We could not live in 100% nitrogen either. Carbon dioxide is no more a pollutant than nitrogen is. CO2 is essential to life on earth. It is necessary for plant growth since increased CO2 intake as a result of increased atmospheric concentration causes many trees and other plants to grow more vigorously. Unfortunately, the Canadian Government has included CO2 with a number of truly toxic and noxious substances listed by the Environmental Protection Act, only as their means to politically control it.
MYTH 8: Global warming will cause more storms and other weather extremes.
FACT: There is no scientific or statistical evidence whatsoever that supports such claims on a global scale. Regional variations may occur. Growing insurance and infrastructure repair costs, particularly in coastal areas, are sometimes claimed to be the result of increasing frequency and severity of storms, whereas in reality they are a function of increasing population density, escalating development value, and ever more media reporting.
Comment: See comments at WUWT, Myths and Facts about Global Warming
Insect expert: UFOs over Denver not bugs; images on video remain a mystery
Fox 31 Denver News, 20th November 2012
DENVER — It’s a story that’s captured worldwide attention. UFOs caught on camera that appear to be launching and landing in the Denver metro area.
An aviation expert could not identify it but we’ve heard from hundreds of viewers who think they can.
So we talked to more experts, and asked an entomologist to analyze the video, but the answer is still anything but clear.
We first told you about the strange sightings in the mile high skies, after a Denver man, who does not want to be identified, brought us his home video.
The flying objects are too fast to see with the naked eye, but when we slowed down his footage frame by frame, we saw something there.
Comment: As I have stated many times before, due to Earth becoming a high energy plasma environment, members of the Shadow Biosphere are appearing all over the planet and denial won't stop the orbs and UAPs etc, becoming a public nuisance... The Veil is Lifting.... I suppose there is a religious brainwashing legacy that means most refuse to consider that there must be many different lifeforms in the universe...
UFO sightings inside Indian territory bordering China raises security concerns
India Today, 19th November 2012
Top security brass of the Indian government is battling a "mysterious" threat from the Chinese side these days: tennis ball-sized UFOs.
Hundreds of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have been sighted inside the Indian territory bordering China in recent months, raising security concerns. The issue, initially dubbed a minor one, has turned serious as India prepares to raise it at the diplomatic level with China.
Sources said a meeting of the boundary coordination mechanism - a highlevel official mechanism set up by the two sides to ensure that the boundary incidents between their armed forces do not escalate - is being scheduled later this month where the issue of "luminous objects" will be at the centre of the discussion. [...]
"Earlier these reports coming from various sectors of the boundary were sketchy but now we have definite proof of these yellowish spheres coming from the Chinese side; and our concerns will be raised," a source said.[...]
Earlier it was believed that the Chinese could be sending remote-controlled lanterns but that theory was shot down after an internal probe. [LOL!!]
Comment: That's funny, the theory of remote-controlled lanterns was shot down... LOL... Surely, India and China must have some scientists that realise these are orbs that belong to the Shadow Biosphere on this planet?
SMERF search for alien visitors
Goldcoast.com, 18th November 2012
The people of Springbrook, in the Gold Coast Hinterland, are so convinced they have been visited by aliens they have now formed a society to prove the existence of extraterrestrials. [...]
The Springbrook Mountain Extraterrestrial Response Force, known as SMERF, has formed in a bid to prove the existence of ET and other-world life.
The group of 30 meets once a month at the end of Springbrook Rd and has declared itself a pro-active service designed to respond to and determine the veracity of close encounters of the first kind.
Its mission is to "survey the night sky, explore the Earth's peculiar magnetic field fluctuations and ponder the Earth's energetic links to space and beyond".
Comment: There is an abundance of UAP reports that I don't have time to read, but there is something intriguing about humans spying on the Shadow Biosphere... it's almost like some kind of strange psychological reversal taking place... The emphasis on Earth's magnetic field fluctuations and presumably UAP activity is a touch of sophistication...
Moe ranked as one of Australia's earthquake danger zones
Herald Sun, 20th November 2012
MOE has been ranked as one of Australia's earthquake danger zones, according to a new national hazard map, released yesterday. [...]
Seismologists from Geoscience Australia developed the Earth Hazard Map of Australia by analysing the location of past earthquakes. [...]
Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson explained the map estimated the likelihood of a particular area experiencing strong ground-shaking from earthquakes.
He said it was this, rather than the magnitude of an earthquake, that endangered people, buildings and infrastructure.
The new risk map could be used by emergency services and influence Australian building standards to bolster earthquake-prone areas against damage.
"Although these maps do not enable us to predict earthquakes, they will allow engineers and planners to design and locate buildings and infrastructure so as to better protect our communities," Mr Ferguson said.
Comment: Since there are other similar reports, maybe geoscientists around the wold have been recently asked to assess the risk of earthquakes and other associated geophysical hazards to produce "national hazard maps". This would make sense as the number of earthquakes of magnitude 6.0 and upwards seem to have gone up dramatically... Quite frankly, I am puzzled by claims that seismologists cannot predict earthquakes when I have found claims from the mid 1970s from respected scientists who stated that they had found a methodology that gave them a good chance of predicting when an earthquake was on the way, even though it is not precise, I think earthquake alerts should be made standard so that people can at least know they should be prepared. It seems a similar method was used to predict the highly destructive earthquake in Haiti two years in advance but authorities still did nothing to warn.... Maybe the Italians have a point in locking up seismologists so they get the idea that earthquakes endangering humans needs to be taken a bit more seriously...
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Haiti Earthquake Disaster Little Surprise to Some Seismologists
Scientific American, 13th January 2010
"Yeats was not the only one to raise concern about a large earthquake in Haiti. Geologic groups have been monitoring the area for decades, and a University of Texas team has been keeping a close eye on the Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden Fault. Two years ago at the 2008 Caribbean Geological Conference, the Austin-based group asserted that there was enough stress built up to cause a magnitude 7.2 earthquake, Nature News reported (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group)."
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Haiti Could Be in New Earthquake Cycle, Scientists Say
Our Amazing Planet, 26th January 2012
"People shouldn't be surprised if, in the decades to come, there are more very damaging earthquakes in the region," Bakun told OurAmazingPlanet, "and they should plan and build accordingly."
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I have copied a Geocataclysm 2011 graph for monthly numbers of M>6.5 earthquakes between 1976 and 2010 forecasted until 2015 by highlighting sinusoidal trend (by E.N.Khalilov, 2010, according to USGS data) here
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Geocataclysm 2011 (pdf) with more graphics.
Al Gore’s USTREAM viewership is as inflated as his ‘science’
WUWT, 19th November 2012
Last week on November 14th and 15th, former vice president Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project let loose with another “24 hours of Climate Reality” in a global TV webcast hosted on USTREAM. The emphasis this year was in trying to make connections between energy use and weather events with the theme being “dirty energy=dirty weather”.
While there’s probably a dirty joke in there somewhere, Gore as usual took anecdotal events such as hurricane Sandy and tried to connect weather and climate with leaps of scientific certitude such as “In fact, all weather events are now effected by global warming pollution.” in a recent Guardian interview. Just a few years ago, attempts to connect weather and climate were laughed at by the global warming crowd and they used the oft repeated maxim “weather is not climate”.
Comment: I sometimes wonder who is Al Gore's scientific adviser, because the man appears to be very obtuse, it must be hard work trying to teach.... Global Warming Pollution? Superstorm Sandy was a very unusual event in fact NOAA officials stated: “We’ve never seen anything like it.” Superstorm Sandy was different because there was a direct input of jet stream energy from the upper atmosphere and energy in the upper atmosphere is directly powered by energy in space. NASA explains the existence of "flux tubes" or magnetic "tornadoes" – twisted bundles of magnetic fields connecting Earth to interplanetary space. Since Earth's magnetic field is now like a sieve according to the European Space Agency, we can expect these unusual 'Frankenstorms' to be extremely powerful if they are being directly powered from interstellar space.... Here is a quote from my e-book The Electrotechnics of the Heavens:
We are not informed exactly just what order of magnitude of amperes are being carried in these “twisted magnetic flux tubes” but the University of Berkely in April, 2009 revealed:
“Earth-bound tornadoes are puny compared to ‘space tornadoes,’ which span a volume as large as Earth and produce electrical currents exceeding 100,000 amperes, according to new observations by a suite of five NASA space probes.
The probe cluster, called Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS), recorded the extent and power of these electrical funnels as the probes passed through them during their orbit of Earth. Ground measurements showed that the space tornadoes channel the electrical current into the ionosphere to spark bright and colorful auroras on Earth. [...]
Space tornadoes are rotating plasmas of hot, ionized gas flowing at speeds of more than a million miles per hour, far faster than the 200 m.p.h. winds of terrestrial tornadoes, according to Andreas Keiling, a research space physicist at the University of California, Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory.
Both terrestrial and space tornadoes consist of funnel-shaped structures. Space tornadoes, however, generate huge amounts of electrical currents inside the funnel. These currents flow along twisted magnetic field lines from space into the ionosphere where they power several processes, most notably bright auroras such as the Northern Lights, Keiling said.
The Electrotechnics of the Heavens [April, 2012]
When Al Gore is talking about "dirty energy" I presume he is being childish like saying rain is bad because he does not have an umbrella and does not like getting wet.... To make sense of this man's ramblings, I propose he is talking about space weather to a dumbed down audience.... quite scary really...
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Dirty Weather In 1926
Steven Goddard Blog, 18th November 2012
Florida was hit by three hurricanes in 1926, killing hundreds of people. One of the storms was a category 4 major hurricane. By contrast, it has now been more than seven years since Florida was hit by a hurricane – the longest such period on record. It has also been more than seven years since the US was hit by a major hurricane.
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Dirty Weather In 1935:
Steven Goddard Blog, 18th November 2012
Florida was hit by a category 5 hurricane on Labor Day, 1935 which killed more than 500 people. The storm surge was 20 feet high & washed an evacuation train out to sea
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Dirty Weather In 1957
Steven Goddard Blog, 18th November 2012
Hurricane Audrey brought 145 MPH winds to Texas and Louisiana and wiped many cities off the map. CO2 was at very safe levels in 1957 – perhaps Al Gore is looking for a repeat performance?
Please note: The Climate Realists are right that Sandy was not the most powerful storm on record, but they are overlooking the issue that meteorologists refused to 'officially' call Sandy a hurricane when it hit the coast because it was being powered from the jet stream in the upper atmosphere and not 'warm waters'... According to Michio Kaku Sandy was "a new kind of animal", but I personally find it hard to believe that this has never happened before... Maybe, it has, but only recently have we had the satellite technology to track how storms are powered... Anyway there are some old historic pictures here worth looking at... Btw, looking through this blog, Steven Goddard is one tough cookie, see Raising A Generation Of Morons & How To Get A Job At The Huffington Post.
Meet the superhumans
From Serena Williams and her unbeatable serve, to the pianist with the fastest fingers in the world and the man who learnt Icelandic in a week, Emma John tracks down five people whose powers are out of this world
The Guardian, 18th November 2012
For Tom Sietas, thinking is the enemy. Thinking uses oxygen – something he simply can't afford when he's suspended under water for considerable lengths of time. "The more emotional your thoughts, the worse it gets," says Sietas. "So if you think about the last fight with your girlfriend, your heart rate goes up."
Freedivers are known for mastery of both their body and their breathing, but Sietas's abilities are in a league of their own. Since he began his freediving career in 2000, Sietas has redrawn human boundaries in dynamic and static apnea – holding your breath while swimming or stationary – and broken 22 world records, most of them his own. For his last feat, in May, he took to a water tank and held his breath for 22 minutes and 22 seconds, beating his own record by five minutes.
Comment: I am most interested in the diver, probably because I have read some interesting books about human origins that can be linked to the recent mermaid documentary that caused a kerfuffle... Thanks Milhail for the tip...
EBT System Crashes In 10 States: Millions Unable to Use Their Food Stamp Cards
The Daily Sheeple, 17th November 2012
The Electronic Benefits Transfer system managed by JP Morgan Chase crashed on Friday, leaving millions of recipients of the benefits in ten states without a way to put food on the table.
Bank officials said that the outage affected EBT recipients in Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Georgia, South Carolina, Indiana, Kentucky, Connecticut, West Virginia, Delaware. It also hit the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Florida’s Department of Children and Families said that some 3.6 million people were unable to access their benefits when the system crashed.
According to JP Morgan, a technical glitch was responsible for the outage.
Credit cards, debit cards and other forms of electronic money transfer and processing were not affected. A bank spokesman for JP Morgan would not elaborate on the cause of the glitch.
Service for frustrated EBT residents was restored after about 6 hours on Friday.
Comment: Most commentators predict rioting and looting if this system goes down for an extended period of time... JP Morgan will not comment, but I have explained that an increase in cosmic rays is causing computer systems to crash more often... Remember, in 2004, an Intel representative stated "we are living on borrowed time...."
Fireball pictured in the sky over Chelmsford is a burning mystery
This Is Total Essex, 17th November 2012
"THESE photographs apparently show a large fireball in the skies above Chelmsford.
The pictures are just two of a series taken by Eleanor Collop, 13, and her 17-year-old sister Leanne, after they spotted the 'meteor' from outside their home on the Beechenlea Estate." [...]
An expert from the Royal Astronomical Society said it was "unusual" to see a meteor during the day.
Dr Robert Massey said: "On the face of it, the streaks look a lot like aircraft contrails illuminated by the setting sun.
"That said, there are occasional meteors that are bright enough to be seen in daylight – in this case the sun didn't set until around 4.15pm.
"So, without having seen it in motion, this may be an image of a larger-than-average piece of debris burning up in the Earth's atmosphere," he added.
Comment: The eye witnesses actually saw the fireball break up and the photo is just one of the pieces of debris... this was not a plane with a contrail...
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'Massive' meteor lights up sky over Toronto; not a Leonid
680 News, 15th November 2012
"You know how the North Star is really bright and big. From where I was looking it was five times bigger than that from the naked eye; it was huge, it was massive," Sherry said.
Although it's not yet confirmed, an astrophysicist and lecturer with the University of Toronto isn't doubting what people saw, and he too, is pretty sure it was a meteor.
Tyler Alred Sentenced To Go To Church After Manslaughter Conviction
Huffington Post, 16th November 2012
An Oklahoma teen convicted of manslaughter has sentenced to 10 years of probation, with requirements that include regularly attending church.[...]
Instead of sentencing the teen to prison time, Judge Mike Norman gave him a 10-year deferred sentence. In order to stay out of prison, Alred must graduate from high school; graduate from welding school; take drug, alcohol and nicotine tests for a year; wear a drug and alcohol bracelet, take part in victim's impact panels, and attend church for the next 10 years.
This last requirement "raises legal issues because of (the separation of) church and state," University of Oklahoma law professor Randall Coyne told the Tulsa World.
Comment: I think this puts a whole new meaning to serving time...
Brazilian mediums shed light on brain activity during a trance state
Medical Express, 16th November 2012
Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil analyzed the cerebral blood flow (CBF) of Brazilian mediums during the practice of psychography, described as a form of writing whereby a deceased person or spirit is believed to write through the medium's hand. The new research revealed intriguing findings of decreased brain activity during mediumistic dissociative state which generated complex written content. Their findings will appear in the November 16th edition of the online journal PLOS ONE.
The 10 mediums—five less expert and five experienced—were injected with a radioactive tracer to capture their brain activity during normal writing and during the practice of psychography which involves the subject entering a trance-like state. The subjects were scanned using SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) to highlight the areas of the brain that are active and inactive during the practice.
"Spiritual experiences affect cerebral activity, this is known. But, the cerebral response to mediumship, the practice of supposedly being in communication with, or under the control of the spirit of a deceased person, has received little scientific attention, and from now on new studies should be conducted," says Andrew Newberg, MD, director of Research at the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine and a nationally-known expert on spirituality and the brain, who collaborated with Julio F. P. Peres, Clinical Psychologist, PhD in Neuroscience and Behavior, Institute of Psychology at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, and colleagues on the research. [...]
Content produced during psychographies involved ethical principles, the importance of spirituality, and bringing together science and spirituality.
Comment: Hmmmm.... It always surprises me just how much scientific interest there is that validates people's spiritual experiences... BUT linking up with higher intelligences that suggest integrating science and spirituality would provide content similar to that produced by ancient philosophers that were really mediums.... Oh dear, did I really just explain why so much ancient philosophy is still not translated from Latin... Silly me....
How The Anti-Bullying Movement Is Setting Up Kids For Failure In Life and Their Evolution of Consciousness
Prevent Disease, 15th November 2012
The anti-bullying movement now so pervasive in all segments of society from schools, to community institutions and even the desks of lawmakers has penetrated almost every aspect of our lives that involves social interaction. It is no longer confined to children as it is well integrated within the human resources policies of most corporations alongside anti-harassment positions. [...]
When I see the same recurring theme being promoted across what appears to be multiple unrelated shows, documentaries and general news media, there is a little light that turns on inside my head to remind me how effective neurolinguistic programming (NLP) is among our media outlets.
Comment: The Anti-bullying Utopian Handbook listing forgot the "No critical thinking" and "Let morons walk all over you"... In a nutshell, the author is warning against cognitive suicide... Malignant narcissists, psychopaths and devolving neanderthals don't understand respect, so you have to learn how to recognise this type and their methods and then beat them off anyway you can... Unfortunately, that is what I have been forced to learn in the last 7 years... I don't want this kind of parasitical low-life in my life.... Oh dear, I just broke one of the above rules...
Animals Are Moral Creatures, Scientist Argues
Yahoo News, 15th November 2012
Until recently, scientists would have said your cat was snuggling up to you only as a means to get tasty treats. But many animals have a moral compass, and feel emotions such as love, grief, outrage and empathy, a new book argues.
The book, "Can Animals Be Moral?" (Oxford University Press, October 2012), suggests social mammals such as rats, dogs and chimpanzees can choose to be good or bad. And because they have morality, we have moral obligations to them, said author Mark Rowlands, a University of Miami philosopher.
"Animals are owed a certain kind of respect that they wouldn't be owed if they couldn't act morally," Rowlands told LiveScience. [...]
And there are many examples of animals demonstrating ostensibly compassionate or empathetic behaviors toward other animals, including humans. In one experiment, hungry rhesus monkeys refused to electrically shock their fellow monkeys, even when it meant getting food for themselves. In another study, a female gorilla named Binti Jua rescued an unconscious 3-year-old (human) boy who had fallen into her enclosure at the Brookline Zoo in Illinois, protecting the child from other gorillas and even calling for human help. And when a car hit and injured a dog on a busy Chilean freeway several years ago, its canine compatriot dodged traffic, risking its life to drag the unconscious dog to safety.
All those examples suggest that animals have some sense of right and wrong, Rowlands said.
Comment: After reading many animal stories whilst researching, I have come to the point where I realise there is not much difference between some humans and animals. Infact, I now refer to some humans as being like wild dogs, and thankfully, I can cite some intelligent humans who have also come to the same conclusion that some so-called humans are not human at...
How 'black swans' and 'perfect storms' become lame excuses for bad risk management
PhysOrg.com, 15th November 2012
The terms "black swan" and "perfect storm" have become part of public vocabulary for describing disasters ranging from the 2008 meltdown in the financial sector to the terrorist attacks of September 11. But according to Elisabeth Paté-Cornell, a Stanford professor of management science and engineering, people in government and industry are using these terms too liberally in the aftermath of a disaster as an excuse for poor planning.
Her research, published in the November issue of the journal Risk Analysis, suggests that other fields could borrow risk analysis strategies from engineering to make better management decisions, even in the case of once-in-a-blue-moon events where statistics are scant, unreliable or non-existent.
Paté-Cornell argues that a true "black swan" – an event that is impossible to imagine because we've known nothing like it in the past – is extremely rare. The AIDS virus is one of very few examples. But usually, there are important clues and warning signs of emerging hazards (e.g., a new flu virus) that can be monitored to guide quick risk management responses.
Similarly, she argues that the risk of a "perfect storm," in which multiple forces join to create a disaster greater than the sum of its parts, can be assessed in a systematic way before the event because even though their conjunctions are rare, the events that compose them – and all their dependences – have been observed in the past.
Comment: It seems that some are starting to worry about relying on sections of society that are still sound asleep... So, I think the professor is politely stating that society has to face up to some reality about the changes taking place on this planet... What is really interesting is that at the same time, representatives from the World Bank are also starting to bleat about disaster preparedness... So, even the ardent materialists are waking up to the harsh realities of living on a high energy planet.... they are obviously worried about the rug being pulled from under their feet too...
US East Coast Faces Variety of Tsunami Threats
Our Amazing Planet, 15th November 2012
Although the risk is small, tsunamis are possible on the East Coast of the United States from a variety of sources, according to new research.
And as Hurricane Sandy showed, the region is completely unprepared for a major influx of water, said U.S. Geological Survey researcher Uri ten Brink.
The most likely source for an East Coast tsunami would be an underwater avalanche along the continental slope, according to research presented by ten Brink and others earlier this month at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Charlotte, N.C. Ten Brink also outlined several other possible sources of tsunamis, including earthquakes and even collapsing volcanoes.
Comment: I think it's part of the job description for geoscientists to warn about the possibility of geocatacyclsm on this planet... However, it is generally agreed that there is an energy imbalance on this planet and we can expect some major events caused by geophysical instability as Earth continues to charge up electrically. Hence, geoscientists who are encouraging people to be more prepared for emergencies have the right approach. See the Geocataclysm 2011 report (.pdf) Link.
Keep driving! Jeep speeds past seafront as huge waterspout heads inland
Daily Mail, 18th November 2012
It may have looked like something out of a disaster movie - but the Jeep driver passing through was probably under no illusions to the very real threat posed by this gigantic waterspout.
The amazing natural phenomenon, which is created when tornadoes form above the sea, was spotted earlier today along the shoreline near Batemans Bay, which is 140 miles (225km) south of Sydney.
Comment: It's interesting how often the media are comparing real events on this planet to those portrayed in disaster movies... That's because disaster movies depict extremes but on a daily basis, we are seeing examples of atmospheric/geophysical extremes on this planet... Not surprisingly, world authorities are encouraging/warning people to be prepared for disasters.
Tornado causes pandemonium in Algarve city, Portugal
The Portugal News, 16th November 2012
Unprecedented chaos tore through the Lagoa Sol urbanization (Lagoa, Algarve) on Friday, 16 November, when a massive tornado literally ripped up the neighbourhood at around 1.30pm. [...]
Residents in Silves told The Portugal News "it looks like a bomb has hit it."
Comment: Yes, the geomagnetic conditions on this planet are now very unstable due to changes in the cosmic environment and space weather and the result is a very disturbed atmosphere that is generating more and more extreme forms to try and maintain equilibrium. Thus tornadoes in places that have never seen them before are becoming more common.
Guru who brainwashed and swindled French aristocrats gets 8 years
Religious News Blog, 13th November 2012
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A man dubbed by the media as “the guru” was convicted Tuesday by a court in Paris of brainwashing three generations of an aristocratic French family for nearly a decade, swindling them of their home and fortune.
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Thierry Tilly, an Oxford-based Frenchman, was arrested in November, 2009, over allegations that he kidnapped, tortured and brainwashed several generations of the rich and highly educated De Védrines family into giving up their fortune.
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Tilly posed as a secret agent to convince the family that they were the lost descendants of an ancient society called L’Equilibre du Monde (The Balance of the World), that they were in mortal danger from a cabal of Freemasons, a European secret society and paedophiles, and that he had “superhuman powers” to help them reclaim their illustrious past and its “limitless treasure.”
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Over the course of 9 years 11 family members aged 16 to 89 sold off their possessions — including the family manor — and handed over €4.5 million ($5.7 million)
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Tilly was convicted of arbitrary detention, using violence against vulnerable people and abusing people weakened by “psychological subjection.”
Comment: This is just a short summary, Yahoo News gives us a proper write up, see 'Guru' swindler of French aristocrats gets 8 years. I am disgusted that the media had a part to play promoting a psychopath but quite frankly, there are more and more examples where popular media personalities love to promote the biggest snakes in the grass and we can cite Oprah promoting James Ray who then went on with his fame to go and kill four people. Well, I wrote my essay Spiritual Evolution in the Cultic Milieu because it was necessary to explain the dynamics of the Cultic/New Age milieu and make it clear that some Seekers are not in limbo waiting for the next wannabe/fake guru... Psychologists have identified the existence of some extremely flawed characters whose modus operandi is to control and abuse others which feeds them a sense of power... This is combined with a belief that they have a right to whatever they want, more correctly identified as a very strong sense of entitlement. Psychologists classify these types as malignant narcissists or psychopaths and gurus tend to have these major personality disorders but heavily disguised in a cloak of religiousness or spiritualiy, hence the phrase 'a wolf in sheep's clothing'... In the process of controlling and abusing, their nasty character traits will be passed onto their followers... This is why I believe the New Age teaching The Law of Attraction is so terrible as it just disguises the sense of entitlement that is a hallmark of a malignant narcissist/psychopath. So, it should be no surprise when these type use prosperity teaching to hook follows combined with cult tactics, to keep them controlled and barely functional so that they can follow orders... Psychologists use the term 2nd hand psychopathy to describe the warped state of victims and that is why I use the same terminology because it aptly describes those in cult-o-matic mode... Cult leaders flourish because they are predators that have learnt the art of subjugating 'normal' humans and passing on their characteristics like a disease... Cults are a self-perpetuating mind virus phenomenon and that is why the cult syndrome never dies... Feeding on others is parasitical but the spread of ideas and beliefs operates like a virus. The book Virus of the Mind, is recommended as it outlines the issues, but some analysis suggests that mind viruses are an independent form of consciousness and humans are just hosts....
Polygamist leader's end-of-world prophecy has neighbors worried
KSL News, 16th November 2012
Wyler said Jeffs apparently predicted an apocalypse. "From what I've heard," Wyler said, "there was a prophecy that the 'lifting up' would occur before the end of the year."
In FLDS theology, the "lifting up" is a literal, physical event. "All the righteous FLDS people would be lifted up, and everybody else would be destroyed," Wyler said.
It's not clear if the end-of-the-world prophecy is what prompted the FLDS faithful to shut down the businesses. It was one of a series of edicts coming in the past few days, according to Wyler. Among them was a ban on consumption of oatmeal, corn, turnips and dairy products.
Comment: I think this is more an 'End Times' cult leader than a '2012 End of the world' cult leader....
Sri Lanka to investigate the cause of red rain received in some parts
Colombo Page, 16th November 2012
Nov 16, Colombo: Sri Lanka Medical Research Institute (MRI) has commenced investigations to ascertain the cause of the red rain received by several parts of the island.
Director General of MRI Dr. Anil Samaranayake said the MRI has received the samples of rainwater collected from the areas where the red rain was reported.
Red rain was reported on November 14 from Sevenagala area and on November 15 from Moneragala and Manampitiya areas in the southeastern parts of the island.
No damage to life or property has been reported due to the unusual rain.
Increase in the acidity of the air and sand storms are the usual reasons for red rain. Sri Lanka does not get sand storms.
Dr. Samaranayake said similar rains were reported from Kerala of India in 2001 and most recently in June 2012 and recently released reports said that the rainwater got red color possibly due to spores of algae or similar organism.
Comment: It is a scientific fact that bacteria live high up in Earth's atmosphere suspended by high atmospheric currents. Hence, I am now wondering with the geomagnetic chaos associated with space weather, that we are seeing more of this bacteria-like material being brought down to Earth, rather than simply falling off the back of a passing comet and entering Earth's atmosphere.
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Weird red rain in India panics people . . . ‘blood red’ rain falls
Examiner News, 7th July 2012
Nostradamus, Century 2, Quatrain 46
After a great misery for mankind an even greater approaches. The great cycle of the centuries is renewed: It will rain blood, milk, famine, war and disease. In the sky will be seen a fire, dragging a tail of sparks.
Two scientists, Godfrey Louis, Ph.D. and Santhosh Kumar of the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, proposed a controversial hypothesis, "The mysterious red color in the rain is caused by unidentified life form that does not have DNA."
In August 2008, they presented their case at an astrobiology conference:
"The red cells found in the red rain in Kerala, India are now considered as a possible case of extraterrestrial life form. The molecular composition of these cells is yet to be identified."
Comment: These scientists are brave enough to tell us their opinion but it is backed up with a huge amount of evidence that there is plenty of alien life being constantly manufactured out in the universe. Nostradamus saw a lot of the future but he was also aquainted with hidden esoteric knowledge so he was well aware of the existence of long astronomical cycles and what happens when the geomagnetics of the planet goes topsy-turvey... The link with a big comet does not have to be directly related, as today it is indeed raining blood red rain without a big comet being seen in the skies.
Superstorm hits Australia's east coast with 4000 lightning strikes in one hour in Brisbane
News.com.au, 18th November 2012
A DAMAGING storm has turned "day into night" in Brisbane, as lightning and winds brought down powerlines and left more than 6000 homes and businesses without electricity.
Meanwhile, another severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for other parts of the state.
The Queensland State Emergency Service was busy cleaning up the Brisbane CBD this afternoon after wild weather ripped through the city around 11am today. [...]
A weather alert was posted by the Bureau of Meteorology just minutes before rain smacked the east coast, leaving thousands of people without power.
Weatherzone reported more than 4000 lightning strikes within 80km of Brisbane in the space of one hour.
Comment: What is interesting is that this was called a superstorm but so was Sandy.... Clearly meteorologists need to develop some new terminology as we are running out of superlatives.... I think this should only be classified as an extreme thunderstorm... The lightning in the photo used for an image icon is quite bizarre... almost like an thundercloud that normally exists higher up in the atmosphere that has appeared quite low and was busy discharging its contents...
Do Red Auroras Mean Extreme Geomagnetic Conditions Now Exist On Our Planet?
spaceweather.com, 16th November 2012
RED AURORAS:
Auroras are usually green, and sometimes purple, but seldom do sky watchers see much red. The geomagnetic storm of Nov. 13/14 was different. It produced auroras with a distinctly rosy hue. David E. Cartier, Sr. photographed the phenomenon near Marsh Lake, about 40 km east of Whitehorse in Canada's Yukon Territory.
"I was amazed by the deep scarlet color, which was immediately recognizable to the unaided eye," says Cartier. Similar splashes of candy-cane red were spotted over Norway, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
The apparition might be related to rare all-red auroras sometimes seen during intense geomagnetic storms. They occur some 300 to 500 km above Earth's surface and are not yet fully understood. Some researchers believe the red lights are linked to a large influx of low-energy electrons. When such electrons recombine with oxygen ions in the upper atmosphere, red photons are emitted. At present, space weather forecasters cannot predict when this will occur.
Comment: So we have now gone from 'rare' purple auroras becoming common to the appearance of 'rare' red auroras appearing in more southernly locations, that previously only appeared during extreme geomagnetic storms. Red auroras appearing after only mild geomagnetic storming implies there is some new geomagnetic factors influencing what is happening on this planet... Btw, there is a 'new' type of spaceweather made up of jets of high-energy electrons streaming from the sun known as electron strahl... The science is still very very new... As I wrote in my workbook The Electrotechnics of the Heavens these 'strahl electrons' maybe a missing link that Electric Sun theorists needs to make their theory all tie up with the observations of electrical activity on the Sun, but the fact that Earth is getting a new abundance of these strahl electrons that arrive in beams is more than interesting, it suggests the magnetosphere has deteriorated another notch...
An Active Sun
spaceweather.com, 16th November 2012
HUMONGOUS ERUPTION: A truly gigantic explosion happened on the sun today. Magnetic fields snaking halfway across the sun's southern hemisphere erupted in tandem, producing a prominence so big, it doesn't fit inside this image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO):
The blast hurled a CME into space, but the cloud does not appear to be heading for Earth. A movie of the event, prepared by Steele Hill of the Goddard Space Flight Center, shows magnetic fields in concerted motion across an expanse of solar "terrain" more than 700,000 km wide.
Observations by SDO have shown that such wide-ranging eruptions are not uncommon on the sun--the great Global Eruption of August 2010 being the iconic example.
Comment: I wonder what we could have expected if the prominence/CME had been flung towards Earth... I am sure we will finally find out when one extra big strip of the surface of the sun peels off and eventually hits us. I think we can only expect serious real trouble if solar flares and CME's are combined to provide a volley of shots over say a two week period after Earth's magnetic field is left in shreds or totally disappears on the daylight side..... i.e. far worse than its usual dilapidated state....
Giant Sun eruption captured in NASA video
Space.com, 17th November 2012
Asia's mega-cities more vulnerable to disasters
Space Daily, 15th November 2012
Asia's cities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters as they struggle with poor planning, population explosions and climate change, the Asian Development Bank warned on Tuesday.
Floods, earthquakes and other disasters claim tens of thousands of lives a year and cost billions of dollars in the region's cities and urban areas, but not nearly enough is being done to improve their defences, the bank said.
"The region has borne the brunt of the physical and economic damage of the sharp rise in natural disasters (globally) since the 1980s," the ADB said in a statement accompanying the release of a new study.
"Its people are four times more likely to be affected by natural disasters than in Africa, and 25 times more likely than in Europe or North America," it added.
It found that the impact of storms on cities and urban areas has worsened due to chaotic urban planning and environmental degradation, as well as poorly-managed urbanisation and deforestation. [...]
"However, there is growing international recognition that the incidence and impact of natural disasters are increasing for a variety of reasons: persistent poverty, population growth, and climate change.
"Policymakers need to recognise that investments in disaster risk management are an essential means to sustain growth."
Comment: Vinod Thomas is Senior vice-president, Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank, see the link below. It seems that authorities are now waking up to the fallacy of moving so many jobs to Asian factories where pollution levels are at catastrophic levels (National Darwin Award contenders) and where poor planning and none existent operations for disaster management, have made mega-disasters inevitable on a high energy planet. However, I will say that besides new warnings relating to space weather and geocataclysm, there was an awakening after the Fukushima earthquake/tsunami disaster when spare parts for Japanese cars/products became hard to obtain and then further nasty surprises when goods eventually arrived that were radioactive.... Well, it seems that some are now seriously waking up to some harsh realities of massive evolutionary change. There is a good reminder on this same web page of the costs of mega-disasters, see New York governor seeks $30 bn in aid after Sandy.
Pipelines Explained: How Safe are America’s 2.5 Million Miles of Pipelines?
Pro Publica, 15th November 2012
At 6:11 p.m. on September 6, 2011, San Bruno, Calif. 911 received an urgent call. A gas station had just exploded and a fire with flames reaching 300 feet was raging through the neighborhood. The explosion was so large that residents suspected an airplane crash. But the real culprit was found underground: a ruptured pipeline spewing natural gas caused a blast that left behind a 72 foot long crater, killed eight people, and injured more than fifty. [...]
“It's inevitable that as pipelines age, as they are exposed to the elements, eventually they are going to spill,” said Tony Iallonardo of the National Wildlife Federation. “They’re ticking time bombs."
Critics of the Keystone proposal point to the hundreds of pipeline accidents that occur every year. They charge that system wide, antiquated pipes, lax oversight and inadequate precautions put the public and the environment at increasing risk. Pipeline operators point to billions of dollars spent on new technologies and a gradual improvement over the last two decades as proof of their commitment to safety.
Comment: Space weather corrodes pipelines, so now more maintenance is required.... See archives Best of the Blog Electronics & Electromagnetic Chaos & references from the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Geophysical Research Division that can be found at Best of the Blog Oil, Gas, Pipeline Disasters.
Dangerous Changes On Earth -
New Huge Land Cracks This Time In Spain
Message To Eagle, 15th November 2012
MessageToEagle.com - New dangerous cracks in ground appeared on our planet.
This time, they have been reported in Spain.
The Department of Emergency situations urgently requested the Geological Survey of Murcia to assess the cause of the "huge cracks in ground", which appeared after the recent heavy rains in the industrial park area "El Saladar", Totana, situated in the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula.
The real-life Moby Dick: Incredibly rare WHITE humpback whale spotted off coast of Norway
Daily Mail, 15th November 2012
A white whale has been causing a splash after being spotted swimming in a pod of humpbacks by a British maritime engineer.
Dan Fisher, 32, was on a boat trip to Svalbard in Norway when he noticed a giant white hump rise from the water.
Rushing up a mast to get a better look, he quickly realised he was witnessing one of nature's rarest sights — a white whale, just like the iconic Moby Dick in the novel by American author Herman Melville.
Comment: I think white animals and creatures are becoming less rare and are a sign of the times... Specifically, the occurrence of more and more white animals is a sign of certain types of DNA mutations heralding evolutionry change. Despite this article failing to actually provide much of scientific explanation, evolutionary biologists and geneticist do understand what is happening, see below.
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Rare white horse has 'DNA spelling error'
Geneticists say a rare white foal's lack of colour comes from a spontaneous or 'de novo' mutation - a spelling error in the DNA.
SBS Australia, 30th May 2012
DNA tests confirm that the snowy foal, born May 6, is a mutant, but that's nothing to be ashamed of. So are most humans, according to a new analysis.
Geneticists and veterinarians say this unusual foal's lack of colour comes from a spontaneous or "de novo" mutation - a spelling error in the DNA carried in either the sperm or egg from which he was conceived.
"De novo mutations are the fuel of evolutionary change," said Joshua Akey, a University of Washington geneticist. He's been studying de novo mutations in humans, and found hundreds of them. Most of these new mutations haven't caused anything as dramatic as this foal's white coat, but Akey says they are probably influencing our susceptibility to diseases. [...]
White horses can be the product of several possible mutations, said Galantino-Homer. Albino horses result from mutations that prevent production of the compound melanin - a pigment that gives colour to skin, hair, and eyes. But such animals usually have pink eyes. This foal's eyes are blue.
Other mutations that can lead to white animals prevent pigment-producing cells from migrating around an embryo during development, Galantine-Homer said. Such mutations also crop up in mice, pigs, and dogs.
Melanin-producing cells, called melanocytes, form along the proto-spinal cord of an embryo - what's called the neural crest, she said. During development, those cells normally receive signals that prompt them to migrate away and become distributed over the embryo.
If a mutation interferes with this process, an animal can come out white with a smattering of colour on the head or along the mane. A few animals with these mutations are also born deaf, Galantino-Homer said. That's because some melanin-producing cells are important for inner-ear development.
Comment: The science carefully explained here, implies an increase in the number of white animals corresponds with an increase in mutagens. Since NASA have informed us that cosmic rays are at a space-age all time high, then we must agree that we are seeing real-time widespread evolutionary change as Earth's magnetic field declines and repeats the standard pattern of evolutionary change that occurs on this planet.
Forensic Experts Examine Explosion Site
WBIW News, 15th November 2012
(INDIANAPOLIS) - Citizens Energy Group said its workers have finished testing the gas meter for the home that exploded on Indianapolis’ south side Saturday.
Ebone Monet, of RTV6 reports, the utility turned over those findings to the Indianapolis Fire Department, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police and Indianapolis Homeland Security.
Dr. John Goodpaster investigates explosions for a living, as the director of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Forensic and Investigative Sciences Program.
At the request of RTV6, he reviewed the aftermath of the deadly south side explosion that engulfed homes in flames late Saturday night, killing two people and creating a ripple of destruction.
"When you look at this damage, it literally does look like a bomb went off. It's catastrophic," said Goodpaster. "In terms of making a parallel, it's equivalent to literally having a bomb dropped on you, so like a military ammunition dropped from an airplane would cause similar damage to this."
With workers not finding problems with underground gas pipes, the National Transportation Safety Board has pulled out of the investigation.
Citizen Energy leaders say their workers haven't found the cause either, with no evidence of a leak in the gas lines running to the homes.
Still, Indianapolis Homeland Security is convinced natural gas is behind the blast, and investigators are focusing on home appliances.
"It's my opinion it looks like methane gas was the explosive and in that case you actually can't identify that after the fact," Goodpaster said. "You just have look at the scene itself, the type of damage that was caused."
Goodpaster said it would take an appliance leaking gas for several days to create enough buildup to cause an explosion of this magnitude, but once it did, even something as simple as static could set it off.
Comment: Hmmm.... I presume 'static' refers to a spark or a flow of charge and that can be generated by a rapid geomagnetic fluctuation with charge flowing through the air and ground... In the current chaotic geomagnetic environment, a build up of methane (primary constituent of natural gas) in an empty house is an explosive combination.... Well, I have been ignoring the escape of methane gas into the atmosphere even though methane is 20 times more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide (CO2) over a 100-year period and increasing amounts of methane in the atmosphere is probable more of an issue but as I keep mentioning the reasons for removing CO2 is purely esoteric.... Anyway, a methane explosion explains why the DHS were telling people to say nothing... there might also be an issue related to local fracking...
Human intelligence 'peaked thousands of years ago and we've been on an intellectual and emotional decline ever since'
A leading geneticist who believes that the immense capacity of the human brain to learn new tricks is under attack from an array of genetic mutation
The Independent, 12th November 2012
Is the human species doomed to intellectual decline? Will our intelligence ebb away in centuries to come leaving our descendants incapable of using the technology their ancestors invented? In short: will Homo be left without his sapiens?
This is the controversial hypothesis of a leading geneticist who believes that the immense capacity of the human brain to learn new tricks is under attack from an array of genetic mutations that have accumulated since people started living in cities a few thousand years ago.
Although we are now surrounded by the technological and medical benefits of a scientific revolution, these have masked an underlying decline in brain power which is set to continue into the future leading to the ultimate dumbing-down of the human species, Professor Crabtree said
Comment: I will repeat the comment at anomalist.com.
Professor Gerald Crabtree theorizes that ancient humans as hunter-gatherers were far more intellectually challenged in their daily lives, whereas in the case of "Ipod Man" (modern man), "The fruits of science and technology enabled humans to rise above the constraints of nature and cushioned our fragile intellect from genetic mutations." In other words, we're getting dumber by each generation and should maybe view the movie Idiocracy as a documentary. Not surprisingly, plenty of other scientists aren't as quick to jump onboard the Stupid Humans train, and some have dismissed Crabtree's claims as the result of the "Linus Paulding" effect, littered with errors and lapses in research and critical thinking. For example, Crabtree's study completely ignores the proven Flynn Effect, which has measured a marked increase in IQ since the 1930s.
I have never watched the movie Idiocracy, but it's been recommended. This research is tapping into a groundswell of opinion about the stupidity (intellectually and morally) and the consequences for society as a whole that idiots generate, see archives. I personally think that we are seeing simultaneous evolution and devolution...
WUWT-TV’s answer to Al Gore’s ‘Dirty Weather Report’ is ON THE AIR
WUWT, 14th November 2012
Welcome, for the next 24 hours, WUWT will be bringing you the counterpoint to Al Gore’s claim that “dirty energy=dirty weather” which you can watch over here.
Comment: I actually like the idea of Climate Reality but NOT Al Gore's Climate Reality.... Dirty Energy = Dirty Weather is so wrong... Space Weather is not bringing "dirty energy" this attitude is too similar to the attitude of the evil Magisterium church as described in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials books but this is not a fictional narrative, see Book Review: His Dark Materials... It's like saying rain is bad just because you don't have an umbrella... WUWT-TV has a great line up of climate skeptics... and recordings will be made available a few days after the broadcast.
United Airlines has another large computer outage
Third major computer outage since June
Wavy.com, 14th November 2012
NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of United Airlines passengers around the globe are stranded at airports and on planes after another computer outage at the world's largest carrier.
This is at least the third major computer outage for the Chicago-based airline since June. [...]
In a subsequent phone call with The Associated Press, Franck added: "Why is there a total system failure on a beautiful day? What happened to the backup and the backup to backup?"
United Continental Holdings Inc. spokesman Charles Hobart said the airline was aware of a computer issue affecting some of its flights and was working to resolve it.
Comment: I have explained a few times that airports are vulnerable due to their location at energy vortexes that I think were good for communications, but this is now a major problem in a celestial deluge.... The clue I had was orbs making a nuisance of themselves at airports...
Weather Channel spawns 'Deadliest Space Weather': New series to highlight extreme conditions in solar system
Chicago Tribune, 14th November 2012
The Weather Channel will take viewers out of this world with "Deadliest Space Weather," a new original series slated to bow in January.
Each half-hour episode will highlight extreme weather conditions throughout the solar system and explore what would happen if these weather patterns occurred on Earth. Examples include Venus's acid rain, Saturn's winds and Mars' dust storms.
"Exploring these unique weather phenomena in our solar system is a fascinating journey, but one understands the true magnitude of these galactic storms so much more when they are theoretically placed into the familiar context of life on Earth," said Michael Dingley, senior VP of content and development at the Weather Channel.
Comment: Interesting....
Russian Civil Satellite Links Lost After Cable Cut
RIA Novosti, 14th November 2012
MOSCOW, November 14 (RIA Novosti) - A severed communications cable in the Moscow region on Wednesday has rendered Russian specialists unable to control most of the country's civilian satellites, a source in the space industry said. “Communications have been lost between civilian ground-based tracking, command and control stations,” the source told RIA Novosti. It will take at least 48 hours to fix the problem, the source said. The emergency has not affected communications with the Russian segment of the International Space Station, the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said.
LIPA chief Michael Hervey resigns
Newsday, 13th November 2012
LIPA chief operating officer Michael Hervey has resigned, according to Long Island Power Authority chairman Howard E. Steinberg.
The resignation is effective at the end of the year.
Hervey had become a target for an outpouring of anger at LIPA from a range of critics, including Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and residents who had been without power for more than two weeks after superstorm Sandy
Comment: I can only imagine that Hervey was getting some nasty emails see, Class action filed against LIPA, but he has been spared from getting punched in the face by some ignorant hobbitt... See Suspect arrested in utility worker's assault. Well, in the future there is a risk that national grids will go down and stay down, but most are oblivious to this possibility and the consequences of life in the aftermath.
CME Impact & 'Sick' Auroras over Tromso
spaceweather.com, 14th November 2012
GEOMAGNETIC STORM UNDERWAY: A moderately strong (Kp=6) geomagnetic storm is underway on Nov. 13/14 as Earth passes through the wake of a CME that swept past our planet yesterday. [...]
Ole C. Salomonsen sends this picture of the display over Tromsø, Norway:
"Tonight was a spectacular night," he says. "This for sure was the strongest auroras so far this season. The magnetograms at the University of Tromsø went bananas! Tromsø is a city of about 70,000, so it has a lot of light pollution; even so, the auroras were clearly visible standing in the middle of the city. It was just sick!"
"Once a year the Arctic cathedral in Tromsø is lit in blue to put focus on diabetes. This was the first night it was lit blue this year, and man was I lucky to get one of the strongest outbreaks I have ever seen just above it. This was just a mindblowing visual and astronomical experience. I came home with almost 500GB of photos."
Comment: Well, I lived in Norway for about 8 years and Norwegians are not known for this level of excited rhetoric, not even concerning auroras.... Personally, I think it is 'sick' that so many people are oblivious to the fact our world is changing due to dramatic changes in the cosmic environment... Btw, for over 14 years I have lived in countries where English is popular but obviously not the first language, so I know full well that you can forget subtlety in the use of the English language...
Carbon emissions make satellites move faster
It's a non-intuitive consequence of CO2 emissions and climate change.
Ars Technica, 13th November 2012
When you think about CO2 emissions from the use of fossil fuels, you probably think about climate change. Temperature. Maybe precipitation patterns. Storms. But do you think about managing the orbital mechanics of satellites?
As humans, we really only experience the lower atmosphere—the troposphere and stratosphere that extend about 30 miles from the surface. That’s where nearly all of the gas in the atmosphere resides, and that’s where weather happens. Even Felix Baumgartner, the daredevil skydiver, "only" jumped from the stratosphere. But technically, the atmosphere extends a whole lot higher than that. It’s another 150 miles or so before we truly reach interplanetary space. A number of satellites, as well as the International Space Station, are actually whizzing around in a layer of the atmosphere called the thermosphere. [...]
The researchers say that this unexpectedly large increase indicates that more mixing takes place between the thermosphere and the lower atmosphere (where anthropogenic CO2 is accumulating) than we realized. When they increased that vertical mixing in an atmospheric climate model, the behavior of the thermosphere matched the new observations.
This story illustrates some of the non-intuitive consequences of CO2 emissions and climate change. While politicians continue to debate the reality of climate change, the professionals who manage satellites show up to work and get down to the practical details of dealing with that reality. In this case, that means accounting for fine-scale modifications to the motion of satellites and space debris caused by a changing climate system. That will require continued monitoring of thermospheric CO2 to see if the upward trend observed over the past eight years continues smoothly or is altered by vertical mixing behavior or other processes.
Comment: I think Carbon emissions is now the cover story for more fundamental changes in the properties of space-time as I have already pointed out recently. But, I have picked up similar stories in the past and commented before I knew about the ESA's Mission Space-Time Explorer and Quantum Equivalence Principle Space Test or STE-QUEST. We also have to take into account the use of climate models that have mostly failed to predict the world's global sea-level temperature and have been denounced by many including the hilarious synopsis, Camille Paglia on “fancy-pants, speculative, climate models” (2007). It is also common knowledge that scientists are being encouraged to blame anything and everything on CO2 and global warming/climate change, see
I Was On the Global Warming Gravy Train (2007). In fact this has become such a joke that there are websites that list all the ridiculous claims. At numberwatch.co.uk, there are currently 883 past and present claims listed, see A complete list of things caused by global warming.
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That CO2 is powerful stuff, now causes satellites to be threatened in orbit due to lingering space debris
WUWT, 12th November 2012
The researchers report evidence that COv(2) levels are increasing faster than expected in the upper atmosphere, which seems to be cooling and contracting at a pace that current models have not predicted. Reduction in atmospheric drag brought on by the resulting decrease in density could keep space junk in orbit longer, creating more congestion by orbital debris.
Comment: The WUWT crowd are extremely skeptical here.... Please note,
Michael Moon says:
“Instead, the gas absorbs heat from its surroundings and radiates much of it away from Earth.” Professor Wang who taught me Transport of Heat is ROFL. This statement is sense-free. Radiation heats or cools by “FLUX!” Heat cannot be transferred from a cool thing to a hot thing, no way no how. All gases, liquids and solids radiate all the time unless at Absolute Zero. CO2 doesn’t do anything different than the rest of the atmosphere. It absorbs some infrared radiated in the 15 micron band, which corresponds to -4 F, and heats up a little from this. It absorbs and emits photons exactly like the rest of the atmosphere.
This guy has a PhD???
The Gray Monk says:
Michael Moon – ah, but CO2 transcends the mere Laws of Thermodynamics dontcha know …
Isn't this exactly what those who think geo-engineering the planet want? Reduced the amount of solar radiation Earth receives to offset the supposed effects of a global increase in temperature... No wonder the crowd here are all laughing...
Russian satellite system official sacked
Space Daily, 13th November 2012
Russia's defense industry housecleaning continued over the weekend when satellite navigation system designer Yuri Urlichich was sacked from his job.
Urlichich, the chief designer of the costly and scandal-plagued Glonass system of 24 navigation satellites, was fired Sunday by the Kremlin's military-industrial commission headed by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, RIA Novosti reported.
The resignation came shortly after police accused unnamed Glonass officers of embezzling $200 million of $10 billion program's funds. [...]
This month's sacking of Serdyukov isn't merely a Kremlin-style replacing of leadership but part of wider effort by Putin to "purify" the entire authoritarian structure of the military-industrial complex, former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov told Xinhua.
Comment: This is a long article. It seems that some are so busy being fraudulent that they are not interested in what is happening in space hence a series of technical glitches and launch failures.... However, the ignorant and stupid attitude of 'let's just keep committing crimes' whilst the ship is sinking is widespread...
Is there a planetary influence on solar activity? It seems so according to this new paper
WUWT, 10th November 2012
Long suspected, it seems that this has now been confirmed by a paper in Astronomy and Astrophysics with the title “Is there a planetary influence on solar activity?” by Abreu et al that was published on 22nd October, 2012. [...]
The idea that planetary motions may influence solar activity seems to have been initiated by Rudolf Wolf in the 1850s. While energy considerations clearly show that the planets cannot be the direct cause of solar activity, they may perturb the solar dynamo. [...]
Specifically, the authors calculated planetary torque at the tachocline. The tachocline of the sun is a shear layer which represents a sharp transition between two distinct rotational regimes: the differentially rotating convection zone and the almost rigidly rotating radiative interior. The tachocline plays a fundamental role in the generation and storage of the toroidal magnetic flux that eventually gives rise to solar active regions. A net tidal torque is exerted in a small region close to the tachocline due to the buoyancy frequency originating from the convection zone matching the tidal period. [...]
If planetary torque modulates solar activity, does solar activity in turn modulate the earth’s climate? Let’s have a look at what the 10Be record is telling us. This is the Dye 3 record from Greenland:
Conclusion:
This paper is a major advance in our understanding of how solar activity is modulated and in turn its effect on the earth’s climate. It can be expected that planetary torque will progress to being useful as a tool for climate prediction – for several hundred years ahead.
Reference:
J.A. Abreu, J. Beer, A. Ferriz-Mas, K.G. McCracken, and F. Steinhilber, Is there a planetary influence on solar activity?” Astronomy and Astrophysics, October 22, 2012. Download .pdf
here.
Comment: Interesting.... we get some new science related to the recently discovered tacholine... Concerning the fact it has been over 150 years since some astronomers suspected the planets influenced the behaviour of the Sun, the website www.justgoodtiming.com, has a collection of references concerning the influence of the planets on the Sun and us humans. This was traditionally generally ignored in the scientific world because of the link with astrology and electromagnetism, but it has not been ignored by some geoscientists who are adamnant that planetary alignments electromagenetically induce earthquakes, see the Geocataclysm 2011 report. For that matter, Comet Holmes was clearly ignited by an alignment of 3 planets but many astronomers are still living in the dark ages and refuse to acknowledge the electromagnetic force that is 39 orders of magnitude stronger than gravity.... Thus this paper is a major challenge to the status quo by suggesting that planetary alignments can be used to predict the Earth's climate.... And just to confirm this viewpoint, this paper was rejected by the pro-establismment Nature Journal...
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Solar Activity – Past, Present, Future
Essay/paper by Dr. Leif Svalgaard
WUWT, 11th November 2012
As our civilization depends increasingly on space-borne assets and on a delicate and vulnerable earth-bound infrastructure, solar activity and its potential impact becomes of increasing importance and relevance. In his famous paper on the Maunder Minimum, Eddy (1976) introduced the notion that the Sun is a variable star on long time scales. After the recent decade of vigorous research based on cosmic ray and sunspot data as well as on geomagnetic activity, an emerging consensus reconstruction of solar wind magnetic field strength has been forged for the last century.
Hoa Binh’s farmer catches strange fish with “snake head, pig tongue”
Vietnam Net News, 10th November 2012
VietNamNet Bridge - A farmer in the northern province of Hoa Binh caught a fish with a strange shape several days ago. Leading experts on freshwater fish said it could be an Ophicephalidae snakehead.
The unknown catfish has a snake head while its body and tail look like an eel. It is 1.14m long and 4.2 kg in weight. The weird thing is that it has a pig tongue.
Many people in Don Village said they had never seen such a fish.
Mixed up morphogenetic fields?
BREAKING: The ‘secret’ list of the BBC 28 is now public – let’s call it ‘TwentyEightGate’
WUWT, 12th November 2012
UPDATES ARE CONTINUOUSLY BEING ADDED
at the end of this story. Check below.
WUWT readers may recall this post last week:
The BBC pits six lawyers against one questioning blogger, Tony Newbery of Harmless Sky, who was making an FOI request for the 28 names. In the process, the judge demonstrates he has partisan views on climate change.
Now, thanks to the Wayback machine and Maurizio Morabito (omnologos) we can now read the list that the BBC fought to keep secret. [Damn those mischevious bloggers ;-) ]
This list has been obtained legally. (link to Wayback document.) My heartiest congratulations to Maurizo for his excellent sleuthing!
UPDATE4: Bishop Hill makes this excerpt from correspondence the “quote of the day”:
We now know that the BBC decided to abandon balance in its coverage of climate on the advice of a small coterie of green activists, including the campaign director of Greenpeace. This shows that the “shoddy journalism” of Newsnight’s recent smear was no “lapse” of standards at all. BBC news programs have for years been poorly checked recitations of the work of activists.
Comment: The blogosphere is now blowing up with this news... Personally, I think the credibility of the BBC has now been destroyed. Yes, the Saville atrocity and Newsnight allegations are bad, but it is now apparent that a cabal of green activists and journalists that included three scientists and 4 'A' list BBC managers plotted to push a green agenda of BBC 'programming' at the same time that the BBC were using their pension money to invest in green companies... What is worse is the sleaze factor... Those 4 BBC representatives were Peter Rippon, Steve Mitchell, Helen Boaden, George Enwistle, the first three resigned the following a shelved probe into Jimmy Savile's sex abuse and Enwistle (Director General) resigned this week over the false paedophilia accusations against Lord McAlpine.... It now looks like senior people at the BBC might have been trying to use diversionary tactics as clearly their minds were focused on digging themselves out of this 'green pit'... Incredible stuff...
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28 Gates Later…the BBC's nightmare gets worse and worse!
Telegraph Delingpole Blog, 12th November 2012
[...] The important thing is not to let the scandal lie down and die – as the BBC and its chums at places like the Guardian no doubt hope it will. It can't be said often enough: this is a scandal far more significant than either the Jimmy Savile affair or the Lord McAlpine fiasco. Why? Because those first two were (mostly) cock-ups whereas this one is definitely a cynical and deliberate conspiracy by an institutionally corrupt organisation which has got far too big for its boots.
Tallbloke sums it up nicely:
So now the BBC has yet another big problem on its hands. It turns out it has lied to the public who pay for it about the makeup of the group which has determined it’s climate reporting policy. This is no small matter considering the billions of pounds involved in the Green energy industry. Additional carbon taxation has directly led to fuel poverty for hundreds of thousands. The excess cold related deaths in the UK have shot up in the last few years. We hear stories of pensioners buying secondhand books by the yard and burning them to keep warm.
This one should run and run. Well I hope so.
Comment: Exactly, I am pleased that Delingpole sees this exactly the way I do.... Anyway, for those who are new to the issue of why the BBC would choose to promote anthropogenic (manmade) global warming leading to climate change... Our whole world is changing very quickly and world controllers have their own particular agenda to maintain control no matter what.... So, space weather is driving climate change but cosmic factors cannot be regulated... Taking carbon out of the atmosphere is a fix for something far more momentous.... It is not a solution for climate change but it will help line the pockets of those with green interests...
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Major BBC Investments
WUWT, 12th November 2012
BBC Bias
WUWT, 12th November 2012
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Here’s a BBC scandal that should really make you disgusted
The Spectator, 17th November 2012
Utility worker reportedly attacked on Long Island by customer upset with Sandy response
Fox News, 13th November 2012
A utility worker from Florida was brutally attacked outside a Long Island restaurant after working a 16-hour day by a power customer who was apparently upset with the progress of power restoration in the area, MyFoxNY.com reported. [...]
"He gave me no signs of anything aggressive. He was in a nice vehicle, dressed fairly nice from what I could tell," Applewhite says.
The man jumped out of his car.
"Just as soon as I got within arm's reach of him, he decked me," Applewhite says.
Comment: Narcissists really think that their needs are all that matters and in a crisis situation, these are the last types you want around... But quite frankly, this type are best avoided at any time...
Arizona woman allegedly runs over husband with car after learning he didn't vote
Fox News, 13th November 2012
A pregnant Arizona woman was arrested after allegedly running over her husband with her SUV upon discovering he did not vote in last week's election.
Police say 28-year-old Holly Solomon was enraged when she discovered her husband Daniel did not vote because she believes President Obama's re-election will bring hardship to their family, MyFoxPhoenix.com reports.
Witnesses say Daniel Solomon attempted hiding behind a light post to escape his wife's wrath and was running away when he was struck. He is now in critical condition at a local hospital.
Comment: Feral... the devolution continues....
Study suggests humans are slowly but surely losing intellectual and emotional abilities
Medical Express, 12th November 2012
Human intelligence and behavior require optimal functioning of a large number of genes, which requires enormous evolutionary pressures to maintain. A provocative hypothesis published in a recent set of Science and Society pieces published in the Cell Press journal Trends in Genetics suggests that we are losing our intellectual and emotional capabilities because the intricate web of genes endowing us with our brain power is particularly susceptible to mutations and that these mutations are not being selected against in our modern society.
Comment: Hmmm... I don't think this article is a very good analysis because there are a lot of low intelligence people about and only a few lonely but brilliant people about... Emotional intelligence and superiority is not exactly a popular meme on this planet either, but we do know a lot about malignant narcissists and psychopaths with low/none existent emotional capabilitites because they make everybody else's life miserable.... I personally think that dumbing down is being down by stealth by world controllers who are cunning and crafty but not necessarily super intelligent... Actually, after my experiences, I also think we are seeing a lot of devolution in the cultic milieu... Read my essay
Spiritual Evolution in the Cultic Milieu and anyone intelligent that has not switched off most of their brain capacity will understand the issues at hand.....
Noon earthquake rattles Madison County residents
Epicenter of 4.3 quake reported near Whitesburg
Richmond Register, 10th November 2012
RICHMOND — Residents in Madison County and throughout eastern and central Kentucky got a lunchtime scare when an earthquake rattled through the area. [...]
The 4.3-magnitude earthquake happened at 12:08 p.m. Saturday, according to the U.S. Geological Service. The epicenter was about 8 miles west of Whitesburg.
“I not only felt the whole house shake but also heard a ‘roar’ of some sort ... my dishes were rattling, light fixtures were shaking, and floors and walls were vibrating,” reported Dawn Agee Truett, of Berea, on the Register’s Facebook page shortly after the quake. “... Definitely a very strange feeling!”
Near-death experiences occur when the soul leaves the
nervous system and enters the universe, claim two quantum physics experts
Daily Mail, 30th October 2012
* Ground-breaking theory holds that quantum substances form the soul
* They are part of the fundamental structure of the universe
A near-death experience happens when quantum substances which form the soul leave the nervous system and enter
the universe at large, according to a remarkable theory proposed by two eminent scientists.
According to this idea, consciousness is a program for a quantum computer in the brain which can persist in the
universe even after death, explaining the perceptions of those who have near-death experiences.
Dr Stuart Hameroff, Professor Emeritus at the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology and the Director of
the Centre of Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona, has advanced the quasi-religious theory.
It is based on a quantum theory of consciousness he and British physicist Sir Roger Penrose have developed which
holds that the essence of our soul is contained inside structures called microtubules within brain cells.
Comment: Well, scientists have established that when a person dies they immediately lose weight and that weight equates to a tremendous amount of electrical power... The issue is that this mass-energy is held in a quantum state that makes it invisible to normal instrumentation.... Thus, these scientists have developed a theory as to where this energy actually resides inside all forms of life not just humans... As usual, when reviewing the work of world experts it is best to find world experts who have been following developments for years if not decades and see what they have to say. Thus. I was quite pleased to find a nice beginners explanation at the Canadian Institute for Health Research who provided with a nice short, simple critique and update to previous research on consciousness, see below. These days I have decided that there are humans that can only attract the 'Minimum Life Force' that keeps them alive but I think Christianity defines those who are
Born Again who can then attract the 'Maximum Life Force' or as the religious call it "Christ" Energy... [Btw, this has nothing to do with a particular religion or belief system, but some have got the truth regardless...] Those with 'Minimum' are continuing leeching 2nd hand 'Maximum Life Force' and this explains the problem of narcissists and their continuous search for narcissistic supply... It does not matter what psychologists call them, parasites are parasites and if you are attracting "Maximum Life Force" the parasites will come running. This is my conclusion after over 30 years of searching for truth (maybe over 40 years as I started Sunday School at age 5...) and I have considerable experience of being leeched upon... For the naysayers, why has society got such a problem with paedophiles and why are so many being busted in the highest echelons of society? Maybe, because these types are the real experts in extracting high volumes of 2nd hand Maximum Life Force energy.... The reason that spiritual leaders do not teach this is because most often, these same people are on 'Minimum Life Force' and are busy energetically exploiting their 'flock' or followers for their own benefit... If you have any qualms about this notion, I suggest a good 500 hundred hours of reading over at the Cult Education Forum where there are links to hundreds of other websites that outline the issues in great detail.
NYSE Trading Glitch Hits 216 Securities, Zaps Half Of Average Trading Volume
Forbes, 12th November 2012
The New York Stock Exchange suffered an outage in a new matching system that caused its share of Monday’s trading volumes to fall by about 50%. The trading glitch affected 216 securities including JPMorgan Chase, Deere, CVS, and Schlumberger, but didn’t really throw off equity markets, which closed the day basically flat.
A voracious arms race to make financial markets faster has made them technologically more complex and, at the same time, seems to have increased the number of blunders, glitches, and mistakes that undermine not only the markets themselves, but investors’ confidence in the system. [...]
Trading glitches have increased in frequency over the last few years, zapping investor confidence on markets and their infrastructure.
Comment: Incredible....Well, things are now looking very bad, but I have been explaining what was obvious to me... NASA tells us that cosmic rays are at an all time high and expected to get far higher and the European Space Agency (ESA) tells us that Earth's magnetosphere (external magnetic field) is like a sieve so it is inevitable that we can expect computers and electronics to be affected by bit-flips as more cosmic rays corrupt computer and networks and turn on/off bits and bytes with dire consequences... Please see archives for my comments ad infinitum on the continuing problem of "glitches" affecting computer systems and especially affecting stockmarkets around the world in recent months.... Best of the Blog -
Space Weather & Electromagnetic Chaos .
Stunning Increase In Orange Light
UFO Sightings Nationwide
Rense.com, 12th November 2012
PHENOMENON OF ORANGE AND RED “FIREBALLS” APPEARS TO INCREASE DRAMATICALLY ON NOVEMBER 10TH AND 11TH, 2012
For almost two years, the National UFO Reporting Center has attempted to call to the attention of the public thefact that frequent sightings of clusters of red, orange, and yellow “fireballs” are occurring, for which there appears to be no adequate explanation. The objects clearly are not aircraft, meteors, satellites, weather balloons, swamp gas…all objects that frequently are cited by UFO skeptics in attempt to explain the UFO phenomenon in pedestrian terms.
On the evening of Saturday, November 10th, 2012, NUFORC began to receive a “pulse” of reports of sightings of these peculiar “fireballs,” and that trend appears to continue, as this text is being written.
In order to bring this information to the attention of the public as quickly as possible, we post below a sample of some of the reports that have been submitted to our Center over the last 24 hours. The event appears to us to be of sufficient importance and magnitude to warrant our posting the reports in their “raw” form. The reports are largely unedited, and appear in their original form, although we have attempted to confirm that each report indicates the correct times. The reports are in order of occurrence of the sightings, allowing for the three time zones in the U. S..
Comment: I have explained over and over again about the appearance of Earth's Shadow Biosphere and the expected “Lifting of the Veil”. Concerning the issue, I am particularly fed-up with the ignorance in the metaphysical community... This should have been totally understood a long time ago... Even Carl Jung the so-called Father of the New Age knew this was coming... Jung was so concerned he risked his reputation and wrote the book
Flying Saucers : A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies (1959).
Quote. I even have more respect for the Catholic Church who openly talk about the existence of 'Shadow Life' but the thickness amongst the metaphysical community as a whole is breathtaking.... However, I have some books in my possession that indicate a few ufologists, metaphysicians and indigenous groups had worked this out many decades ago... Presumably there have always been a few with the capability to see more into the infrared and ultraviolet and could see the normally invisible presence all around us...
Priests in violent brawl over parking space
Orange News, 12th November 2012
An 80-year-old retired priest allegedly bit an ear off another elderly clergyman during a fight over a parking space.
The punch-up broke out outside an apartment block, which houses three retired Catholic priests, in Perth, Western Australia.
Father Thomas Henry Byrne has appeared in court charged with grievous bodily harm over the incident involving his neighbour, 81-year-old Father Thomas Joseph Cameron Smith.
According to police, after the brawl Father Byrne told Father Smith to pick up an item up on the ground.
It was not until Father Smith returned to his flat that he realised the item he had picked up and put in his pocket was his right ear.
Comment: Even the fabulously outragious and hilarious TV sitcom 'Father Ted' does not have this level of violence.... These old priests are feral, they have devolved into wild animals... [I have added the prefix 'wild' because using the term animal is an insult to those animals that appear to be evolving and act humanely towards each other and other species that are not exactly the same as them... even this definition is not very good as there was a recent story of a group of 'wild' cats looking after an abandonned human baby...] The image icon is an actor playing the old drunk Father Jack.
Explosion affects 80 homes, damages estimated at $3.6M
Fox59 News, 11th November 2012
Emergency officials announced Sunday that an explosion on the city's southeast side affected 80 homes, causing an estimated $3.6 million in damage.[...]
Of the 80 homes affected, 31 suffered major damage. Five of those homes will require demolition and 26 have been temporarily deemed uninhabitable.
Officials have sorted homes into three categories: 1) homes that folks can occupy, 2) homes that are structurally questionable and 3) homes unsafe for anyone to enter.
Engineers have inspected all 126 homes in the affected neighborhood. Firefighters have escorted some homeowners to get items out of some homes.
"There have been explosions here in Indianapolis that were similar. I can say from my personal experience that this is probably the biggest I have ever seen," said Kenneth Bacon, Deputy Chief of Operations for the Indianapolis Fire Department.
It's still not clear what led to the blast.
Comment: Well, there you have it..... Homeland Security want people to believe it was a gas leak but nobody else in an official capacity is prepared to say anything without a proper investigation and it maybe that a gas explosion was triggered by something else... See also
Deadly Indiana blast puzzles officials and residents. BUT the damage shows two houses were incinerated... not even household appliances were left charred.... the emergency radio indicated people needed help as they could not breath and fireman had to wear gas masks so something was taking oxygen out of the air.... From what I have read, there is a lof of discussion concerning methane but no conclusions... The metallic debris is thought to have been house insulation, but if everything elsewas incinerated, why was the house insulation not? I think there are a lot of people looking for answers on this one....
Computer glitch forces reactor shutdown
Standard Speaker, 11th November 2012
SALEM TWP. - One of the two nuclear reactors at PPL's Susquehanna plant near Berwick was shut down early Friday because a computer system that controls the reactor's water level was not functioning properly.
Operators and federal regulators are investigating the cause of the computer problems at Unit 2, according to a press release from the company, which said the reactor remained in "a safe condition."
U.S. nuclear spokesman Neil Sheehan said operators manually shut down the reactor at 1:18 a.m. by inserting control rods after monitors showed lowered water levels in two systems: one that circulates water inside the reactor to maintain safe temperatures and another that channels water through the reactor to produce steam to drive turbines.
"There were no releases of radiation, no complications, no danger to plant workers or the public," Sheehan said.
He said Unit 2 will remain offline until the cause of the computer malfunction is found and corrected.
"Now it's a matter of diagnosing what the problem is with the digital control system," Sheehan said.
Comment: Is this yet another cosmic ray hit?
Apocalypse Then? Six False Prophecies of the End Times
Carholic Exchange, 9th November 2012
In case you haven’t heard, the world is supposed to end at midnight on December 21—this year.
At least, that’s according to some popularized interpretations of what the Mayans said. But predictions of the end times are hardly a new or unusual thing. For Christians, prophecies of an imminent apocalypse are just about as old as the Church itself. Those predicting the end were an eclectic lot, with wild ideas and strange teachings. They include an antipope, a saint who rode the devil like a donkey, and cultish charismatics who dressed like harlots. Some were inspired by their false interpretations of the fantastic visions in the Book of Revelation, calling to mind G. K. Chesterton’s remark that [t]hough St. John the Evangelist saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.
Here are just a few of the greatest—and ultimately false—predictions of the apocalypse from Church history:
Comment: We need to realise that there is a huge amount of Christain literature concerning
The End of an Age or
End Times. Eschatology is the biggest study of Christian theologians for a very good reason.. In ages past, the astronomer-priests retained highly coded astronomical knowledge from previous high civilisations on this planet and tried carefully to keep accurate astronomical calendars... This worked quite well until the modern era when the Catholic Church became extremely corrupt and decimated their own calendars to the point where they could not even work out what century they were living in.... Today, there are some very interesting anomalies that suggest this was never properly fixed and why I believe there is so much envy concerning Mayan Calendars.... Question: Why would the American Founding Fathers copy Aztec calendars and place them in Washington DC unless it was important? See:
2012: The American Founding Fathers Knew, January 2012. Anyway, the astronomer-priests of old know massive evolutionary shifts driven by cosmic energy occur on a cyclical basis, but this was totally beyond the capabilities of the ignorant masses who were happy with stupid stories, not so different to the stupidity that exists today amongst the ignorant masses... The astronomer-priests fully expected that the next major shift would be the dominance of the Holy Spirit or the Mayan 'Age of Aether'. Hence, the romantic and religious looked forward to ruling the roost.... Obviously, being blasted by space weather was not exactly what the likes of Joachim of Fiore in the 12th Century were expecting... but today, we have a huge amount of scientific knowledge that can help us understand the implications of cosmic energies frying the planet and the human energy field... Yes, the morphogenetic fields that control all forms of life on this planet are being affected and they are either capable of adapting or they are not.... it's that simply... Today, the modern astronomer-priests know that Christ or crystalline energy is now flooding our solar system. The Stardust Mission collected interstellar dust between February and May 2000, and again between August and December 2002, while passing through a stream of dust that flows into our solar system from interstellar space. For the ignorant naysayers, please consider why NASA would send a probe to the edge of our solar system to collect bits of interstellar dust and then deliver the contents back on Earth simply to have a look at what is leaking in? Again, why have astronauts been performing plasma crystal experiments for 10 years onboard the International Space Station (ISS), making the plasma crystal facilities the most used scientific experiments onboard the ISS? Well, the wealth of evidence that Space Weather is delivering the promised Apocalypse is overwhelming for those who can integrate a plethora of scientific fields, metaphysics and ancient knowledge.
Extreme weather preceded collapse of Maya civilization
University of California, 8th November 2012
“It has long been suspected that weather events can cause a lot of political unrest and subject societies to disease and invasion,” Macri said.
“But now it’s clear. There is physical evidence that correlates right along with it. We are dependent on climatological events that are beyond our control.”
Comment: Are these archaeologists trying to tell us something?
Said Winterhalder: “It’s a cautionary tale about how fragile our political structure might be. Are we in danger the same way the Classic Maya were in danger? I don’t know. But I suspect that just before their rapid descent and disappearance, Maya political elites were quite confident about their achievements.”
Comment: Are these archaeologists trying to tell us something?
It’s a planetary emergency!
WUWT, 10th November 2012
Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben joins Jennifer Granholm in Al Gore’s CURRENT TV “The War Room” to talk about the impact that climate change will have during the president’s second term and just how much we’re affecting our planet. McKibben explains, “If 1 degree melts the Arctic, we’re in a world of hurt. This is an emergency now.”
Comment: Hmmm.... I used the term "planetary emergency" on this blog in late October and even replied by email to someone in the media a week later using this exact same phrase but I don't recall this term being used elsewhere in the blogosphere or media and this seems to be confirmed by comments at WUWT... So, I do sometimes wonder who is reading this blog... For newbies, Anthony Watts at Watts Up With That? is a mega famous climate realist, who is not denying climate change, the main issue is climate scientists pretending that global warming is caused by us humans but the facts do not support this at all.... The facts suggest there is no warming and Earth's climate is driven by cosmic factors, but regardless, there is real desperation among climate scientists and campaigners to try and convince the general public so that there is some kind of mandate to start risky attempts at geo-engineering the planet.
US military warned to prepare for consequences of climate changeNational Academy of Sciences recommends crash course for analysts on preparing for rise in sea level and food shortages
The Guardian, 9th November 2012
The Pentagon was warned on Friday to stand guard against "climate surprises" which could throw off its efforts to secure America's future.
An expert report, prepared for the intelligence community by the National Academy of Sciences, warns that the security establishment is going to have start planning for natural disasters, sea-level rise, drought, epidemics and the other consequences of climate change.
The Pentagon already ranks climate change as a national security threat, putting US troops in danger around the world and adding fuel to existing conflicts. More than 30 US bases are threatened by sea level rise.
Comment: The Pentagon are well aware that climate change is a national security threat. In February 2004, The UK Guardian reported:
Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us but few in the general public understand the implications especially now that there is more "honest" talk of "climate surprises"... The previous emphasis on removing CO2 from the atmosphere will not stop superstorms and big geomagnetic storms [no scientific studies that I am aware of] as "climate surprises" are due to the unpredictable nature of high atmospheric energy levels on this planet influencing the occurrence of major geophysical events such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods and forest fires etc.
'We are living like animals': Sandy victims hit out after being forced to spend 12 days without power
Daily Mail, 10th November 2012
* An estimated 300 residents in Hicksville, Long Island, took to the street on Saturday, protesting the Long Island Power Authority for ongoing power outages
* There are still over a quarter million New York customers without power
* Early on Saturday more than 500 people lined up in Far Rockaway with empty fuel cans
* President Barack Obama is set to visit hard-hit areas of New York City on Thursday
The trail of devastation left by Hurricane Sandy has been long and trying for those still overcoming setbacks.
An estimated 300 residents in Hicksville, Long Island, took to the street on Saturday protesting the Long Island Power Authority at its headquarters for ongoing power outages 12 days after the storm hit the area -- the second protest against the energy provider this weekend.
There are still over a quarter million New York customers without power. As of Friday more than 170,000 of those customers were on Long Island, many of them staying in temporary shelters.
Comment: Well, Superstorm Sandy has brought home the message being given by those of us who understood the repercussions of widescale blackouts due to a major natural event... Instead of hundreds of transformers being destroyed by a massive category 5 geomagnetic storm (due to the arrival of a big solar coronal mass ejection) affecting many millions of people, we had a "surprise" new type of superstorm driven by energy from the jet stream and two weeks later people are "living like animals"... The difference is the scale and duration as the numbers without power are currently a maximum of a million[?] people across the Eastern seaboard of the United States.
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Sandy refugees say life in tent city feels like prison
Reuters News, 9th November 2012
(Reuters) - It is hard to sleep at night inside the tent city at Oceanport, New Jersey. A few hundred Superstorm Sandy refugees have been living here since Wednesday - a muddy camp that is a sprawling anomaly amidst Mercedes Benz dealerships and country clubs in this town near the state's devastated coastal region.
2 dead after explosion levels 2 homes, damages 18 others on Indianapolis' Southside
Indystar News, 11th November 2012
3:30 a.m. update: IFD confirms a second person has died
IFD is reporting a second fatality in the explosion on Fieldfare Way. And 18 homes are confirmed damaged around where the explosion occurred shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday. It forced the evacuation of an area of several blocks, and families won't be allowed back in because the cause remains unknown pending further investigation.
"Every investigator in town is here sorting through the rubble tonight," Indianapolis Fire Department spokeswoman Bonnie Hensley. "We don't know if there are more victims."
Some witnesses have said they thought it was a plane crash. Others have said fireworks, or a gas explosion is possible.
Gas has been cut off to the area.
Nearby businesses have donated food and water to the evacuation shelter at Mary Bryan Elementary School where at least 200 people had been to in the hours after the incident. The American Red Cross is caring for people as well.
Comment: Another mysterious sonic boom/explosion causing a massive blast... The media and blogosphere chatter suggest a gas explosion/meteor/plane crash. Yet the facts do not add up as usual... It was reported that the blast was felt at least 15-16 miles away, houses were shaking before the explosion, one woman saw
metal debris falling from the sky,
houses levelled, people dead, "mass casualty incident", too dangerous for the coroner to examine bodies in situ, unconscious people, police initially tell locals that a plane had crashed but this is later denied, the Department of Homeland Security quickly got involved, newscasters stated how tornado-like the destruction looks,
people who are being evacuated to the elementary school are not allowed to be interviewed by the news by some higher authority..... And why not? Quite frankly, this incident follows the same pattern of other anomalous reports over the last three years or so... In summary, if this was just a normal gas explosion, then why were the Department of Homeland Security quickly called in? It could have been a meteor/dead satellite falling from the skies or even a clump of plasma coming in from space. If this was another large meteor exploding low down in the atmosphere then the blast might have ignited a small gas line and explains the damage but we still need some independent weather radar or meteorite observational data... Regardless, this is very similar event to the San Bruno CA disaster, see archives.
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Massive Explosion, Fire In Indianapolis
Firefighters battle flames at several homes on Indy's southside. One fatality has been reported.
Buzz Feed, 11th November 2012
Authorities told Indianapolis' RTV6 that a natural gas explosion may have caused a fire that broke out just after 11 p.m. local time. WISH-TV reporters on the scene said dozens of homes were damaged and at least two completely destroyed in Indianapolis' Richmond Hill neighborhood.
An Indianapolis Fire Department spokeswoman told BuzzFeed multiple people were transported to area hospitals, but could not confirm the count or whether there had been any fatalities. WISH has reported one fatality. About 100 to 150 people were evacuated to the Mary Bryan Elementary School,
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One killed, homes flattened in south Indianapolis explosion
MSNBC, 11th November 2012
"It was just the loudest thing I ever heard, inside my house," said Julie Hamm, who lives in the area. She said two or three minutes later, cotton-like metal debris was falling from the sky.
Another homeowner told Eyewitness News his house shook and "teeter-tottered" on its foundation.
The entire neighborhood has been evacuated and power has been turned off to the homes in the subdivision
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Photo gallery: Big explosion on S. Side of Indianapolis (Night-time burning)
Chicago Tribune, 11th November 2012
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Explosion destroys homes in Indianapolis
Homeland Security NTARC News | 11/10/2012
A thunderous, late-night explosion destroyed at least two homes in Indianapolis and set surrounding homes ablaze, causing injuries, authorities said Sunday.
The cause of the explosion and fires wasn’t immediately clear, but Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard dismissed reports of a possible plane crash as he arrived at the scene. Fire officials said separately that investigators would be checking whether natural gas was possibly involved but they had no further details on what was behind the blast that sent tall flames skyward.
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Video: Chopper 8 flies over aftermath of deadly explosion
Wish TV, 11th November 2012
Satellite radar could predict deadliest eruptions
Scientists test it to detect swelling magma near summit of vocanoes
MSNBC News, 9th November 2012
The world's deadliest and largest volcanic eruptions happen in Indonesia. Future eruptions in this jungle-filled region could be better predicted by using satellite radar to detect swelling magma near the summit of those volcanoes, a new study suggests.
To search for evidence of imminent eruptions, scientists monitored surface changes at 79 volcanoes with technology called Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR). The data were gathered between 2006 and 2009 by the Japanese Space Exploration Agency's ALOS satellite. [...]
"I'm hopeful in the future we could use InSAR are a forecast tool," Chaussard said. "With this type of survey, we are able to see the big picture. You can detect the behavior of volcanoes with time, even if you are in jungle conditions, where you don't have ground monitoring."
Comment: Hmmm.... This science links in nicely with scientists who want to stop volcanic winters with fire-resistant cap or grid held by zeppelins some hundred meters above extra active volcanoes, in order to prevent volcanic ash reaching the troposphere and thus spread all over the planet with predictable catastrophic consequences... See
Rising earthquakes: precursor of volcanic winters/ice age that we may AVERT - Other necessary preparations page 86, PROCEEDINGS: Natural Cataclysms and Global Problems of the Modern Civilization, WORLD FORUM – INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS September 19-21, 2011 – Istanbul, Turkey
Source: (43.7 MB .pdf)
Link. Use the radar to pinpoint volcanoes that are going to blow and then quickly cap them... Sounds like some practical solutions to preventing worldwide famine and hunger to me... Humanity is not completely helpless, we just have to set new priorities to ensure our survival on this planet...
Officials Want Military to Take Over Power Restoration on Long Island
NBC New York News, 9th November 2012
Some officials are calling for the U.S. military to take over the managerial structure of the Long Island Power Authority until power is restored on Long Island, where more than a quarter million homes and businesses are still in the dark after Sandy and a snowstorm.
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and U.S. Rep. Peter King will ask the federal government for help, a spokesman for King tells NBC 4 New York. [...]
A week and a half after Sandy slammed the coast and inflicted tens of billions of dollars in damage, hundreds of thousands of customers in New York and New Jersey are still waiting for the electricity to come back on, and lots of cold and tired people are losing patience.
Comment: Wow.... Well, if this is what people want... see the other options currently being discussed...
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Hurricane Sandy update: Local residents banned from barrier island up to 8 months
New Jersey News, 2nd November 2012
TOMS RIVER — Residents are being forcibly evacuated tonight from seven Ocean County communities because of extensive repairs needed after the devastation Hurricane Sandy left behind, Seaside Height Police Chief Thomas Boyd said.
Authorities told residents they may not be able to return home for months.
"It's looking bad. It's a catastrophe," Boyd said.
The towns affected are Seaside Heights, Seaside Park, island sections of Berkeley Township, South Seaside Park, Lavallette, Ortley Beach and Mantoloking.
The decision followed an afternoon meeting among the chiefs of police in the affected communities and other county authorities. [...]
Busloads of people were being escorted out, with several residents interviewed saying police and fire officials knocked on their doors, telling them they had five minutes to pack a bag before they had to leave.
Comment: I have been shocked to discover that people trying to survive in what remainded of their homes and neighbourhoods were told to leave and only given 5 minutes to collect stuff in plastic bags.... this evokes some alarming comparisons....
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Virus Breaks Out at NYC School Being Used as Storm Shelter
NBC NY News, 6th November 2012
A Brooklyn high school being used as a shelter for Sandy victims has to be shut down and sanitized after about a dozen storm refugees came down with a stomach virus.
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New York officials reportedly consider closed prison for displaced Sandy victims
My Fox DC News, 9th November 2012
Officials in New York are reportedly eyeing a recently-closed prison as temporary housing for people displaced by superstorm Sandy and this week's nor'easter.
The New York Post reports that state officials are considering the Arthur Kill Correctional Facility on Staten Island to feed and house as many as 900 victims with nowhere else to turn.
JetBlue pilot who disrupted flight free to go home
Houston Chronicle, 9th November 2012
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — A JetBlue Airways pilot who disrupted a cross-country flight by leaving the cockpit and yelling about religion and terrorists is free to go home rather than be committed to a mental health facility, a Texas judge ruled Friday.
Clayton Osbon was charged with interference with a flight crew for the March incident, but was found not guilty by reason of insanity in July. A forensic neuropsychologist testified in a short, unpublicized trial that Osbon had a "brief psychotic disorder" brought on by lack of sleep. [...]
Neuropsychologist Robert E.H. Johnson testified in July that Osbon's psychotic disorder at the time of flight lasted for about a week afterward, according to a hearing transcript. He determined Osbon suffered from a brief psychotic disorder and delusions "secondary to sleep deprivation." He didn't say how long Osbon had gone without sleeping before boarding the plane, and his psychiatric evaluation of Osbon has been sealed.
Comment: What is interesting is that there is minimum explanation provided for this psychotic episode besides lack of sleep but the pilot still manages to keep his job... After various repeated reports in the mainstream media, I have been making constant claims based on scientific research, that pilots and flight attendents are sometimes being badly mentally affected or 'triggered' by the increasingly chaotic geomagnetic environment. This outcome has not convinced me that I am wrong and I am pleased that this pilot is being supported by his airline which I think is the decent thing to do.
Dozens Killed in Guatemala Earthquake
New York Times, 7th November 2012
MEXICO CITY —
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Guatemala on Wednesday, killing at least 48 people, injuring about 150 and leaving 23 unaccounted for, government officials said. They warned that the official toll was preliminary and could rise.
“This is the largest earthquake we have had since the one in 1976,” President Otto Pérez Molina said at a news conference, recalling the temblor that killed about 23,000 people.
The earthquake on Wednesday, centered off the Pacific Coast of Guatemala, struck at 10:35 a.m., leveling houses and damaging government buildings, schools and roads.
Comment: Well, I have been ignoring the rising number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions but there seems to be a new uptick taking place.... From my point of view, the issue is that too many geoscientists are directly linking the rising numbers of geophysical with climate change and manmade warming, very few are looking at the overall Earth system and seeing that geophysical, meterological, hydrological and climatalogical events are being driven by changes in the cosmic environment. [Geophysical events are earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions.] Thus scientists who have been monitoring all the changes taking place in the planets in our solar system combined with the dilapidated state of Earth's magnetosphere, know that electromagnetic forces must be taken into account to explain the build up of energy/charge on this planet. Despite the lack of interest in solar system changes, the impact of magnetospheric processes on Earth’s climate is considered a proven scientific fact. So, it may not be that the overall number of earthquakes has increased but the statistics show that the energy of earthquakes has significantly increased and with bigger population densities the impacts are far worse... There is a lot of geophysical reports and articles but the most popular ones want to blame climate change and global warming, but anyone who knows anything about the subject knows there has been no global warming for 16 years.... So, it is incredible thast scientists are still trying to flog this dead horse at the same time suggesting we block out the sun which is the most powerful driver of energy in our solar system whilst supporting all life on this planet... I have copied a Geocataclysm 2011 graph for monthly numbers of M> 6.5 earthquakes between 1976 and 2010 forecasted until 2015 by highlighting sinusoidal trend (by E.N.Khalilov, 2010, according to USGS data)
here Original Geocataclysm 2011 pdf source:
Link with more graphics. At the moment, I am presuming that the energy leap in 1998 as clearly shown in some of the Geocataclysm 2011 graphics was due to magnetar SGR 1806-20 blasting the planet in May and August 1998. That is even more of a problem for geoscientists i.e. major cosmic events also affect the energy levels on Earth (anyone who wants to argue with me needs to first search the archives or my workbooks for examples of some big cosmic blasts that dramatically changed normal weather patterns...). Anyway, re-insurers Swiss Munich Re released a short report in 2011 looking at catastrophic events around the world that clearly reveal an upward trend. Here is the graphics (pdf) for the press release
link.
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Climate change may trigger earthquakes and volcanoes
New Scientist, 23rd September 2009
FAR from being the benign figure of mythology, Mother Earth is short-tempered and volatile. So sensitive in fact, that even slight changes in weather and climate can rip the planet's crust apart, unleashing the furious might of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and landslides.
That's the conclusion of the researchers who got together last week in London at the conference on Climate Forcing of Geological and Geomorphological Hazards. It suggests climate change could tip the planet's delicate balance and unleash a host of geological disasters. What's more, even our attempts to stall global warming could trigger a catastrophic event (see "Bury the carbon").
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Seismic activity linked to global warming
Climate Debate Daily, 1st October 2012
Finally, human civilization is starting to get global warming events that it can FEEL.
Earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes. Something real, something hard, fast, and impossible to ignore. Increasing evidence and statistical analysis links increased seismic activity to global warming.
This alarming notion was first discussed in 1998 and is now more widely mentioned in university studies and recent publications - from the Journal of Geodynamics to National Geographic, to blogs reporting opinions of scientists (below).
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Climate change may stir geological mayhem
New Scientist, 15 February 2012 2012
In Waking the Giant: How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes, geologist Bill McGuire warns we may be waking primordial monsters
IN 2006, London geologist Bill McGuire argued in New Scientist that global warming would trigger epidemics of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis. Now he's written the book. The story is even scarier writ large.
Comment: I think the science that suggests a redistribution of the Earth’s mass due to melting ice disturbing the relative equilibrium of its crust, releasing monumental forces in the form of increasing earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic activity is totally valid. BUT, in an electromagnetic universe geoscientists also know that earthquake precursors include increases in the electrical conductivity of the ground and chemical composition of ground water [as well as the traditional sesmological indicators like the velocity of local earth waves]. So, space weather causing a rapid fluctuation of geomagnetic/electromagnetic forces are a very important consideration. Changes in the cosmic environment also includes planetary conjunctions as well as the moon and various planets, comets, asteroids, meteoroids etc.... It's not just gravitational effects as many scientists over the last 60 years or so have been pointing out, see archives for more information.
The Milky Way’s Black Hole Shoots Out Brightest Flare Ever
Universe Today, 7th November 2012
For some unknown reason, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy shoots out an X-ray flare about once a day. These flares last a few hours with the brightness ranging from a few times to nearly one hundred times that of the black hole’s regular output. But back in February 2012, astronomers using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory detected the brightest flare ever observed from the central black hole, also known as Sagittarius A*. The flare, recorded 26,000 light years away, was 150 times brighter than the black hole’s normal luminosity.
Comment: I don't want to comment just yet on this observation even though I have pointed out that astronomers have reported many record breaking cosmic blasts in the last decade or so. However I will point out again that Sagittarius A* is a tiny region within the Galactic Centre, populated by millions of stars and a 4 million solar mass 'Black Hole' accompanied by a very powerful 2.6 million solar mass radio source that has been identified as IRS 7, a red supergiant star that puts out most of its energy in the near infrared. Astronomers deliberately confuse Sagittarius A* with the rather innoculous and "feeble" black hole, but they are NOT the same thing. See archives Best of the Blog -
Space & Cosmology for the latest information about why astronomers around the globe are closely watching the galactic center.
Humans Smell Fear, and It's Contagious
Live Science, 6th November 2012
Humans can smell fear and disgust, and the emotions are contagious, according to a new study.
The findings, published Nov. 5 in the journal Psychological Science, suggest that humans communicate via smell just like other animals.
"These findings are contrary to the commonly accepted assumption that human communication runs exclusively via language or visual channels," write Gün Semin and colleagues from Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
Most animals communicate using smell, but because humans lack the same odor-sensing organs, scientists thought we had long ago lost our ability to smell fear or other emotions. [...]
The findings suggest that humans can communicate at least some emotions by smell, which could prove useful in crowded places, the authors suggest.
"Our research suggests that emotional chemo-signals can be potential contributors to emotional contagion in situations involving dense crowds," the authors write in the study.
Comment: Hmmm.... Well, I regularly blog about my synaesthesia because sometimes smelling the energy field of people and places is not very nice at all so I like to vent... (The pun is intentional...) Due to the vast numbers of people with some form of synaesthesia, I predict this will become a major issue for lying frauds. Those who are clinical psychopaths won't smell since they don't have any emotions to give off, so they can be detected by their "chill factor". In my case, the stink or chill tends to focus my attention on what I am dealing with when certain types come knocking... The medical research on how quickly medical conditions can spread amongst the population due to an increase in "connectedness" and "emotional empathy", becomes quite relevant as we see more reports of "mass hysteria" especially amongst women and children. Whatever, it seems that this rapid spread or contagion of ideas, beliefs, feelings, etc has been noted by a wide selection of social scientists.
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Study shows people can guess personality via body odor
Medical Xpress, 5th December 2011 Flashback
(Medical Xpress) -- An interesting study conducted by Polish researchers Agnieszka Sorokowska, Piotr Sorokowski and Andrzej Szmajke, of the University of Wroclaw, has found that people are able to guess a person’s type of personality to a reasonable extent, simply by smelling them, or their clothes. The team did some testing with volunteers, as they describe in their study published in the European Journal of Personality, and found that people could guess another’s personality through odors at least as well as they could when shown videos of people in action. [...]
The Jet Stream Is Shifting – The Trouble with Haarpianity
The Intel Hub, 3rd November 2012
The Jet Stream is moving – and it’s NOT HAARP. No, it’s a much more powerful electrical source: The SUN
The worshipers of the “HAARP can do anything and everything anywhere and everywhere” church of magic realism don’t do much comparative research in their field. If they did, they’d find that the electrical nature of the universe, and solar system – and Sun – easily and readily (and better) explain what’s going on with the weather…
“Like most sciences, meteorology still considers the Earth to be an isolated body in space. It is not.
It is a charged body moving through an active plasma environment, surrounded by a web of electric currents commonly called the magnetosphere. [...]
What controls the weather? It’s the SOLAR CYCLE? It’s the SUN. The largest SOURCE OF POWER ANYWHERE IN LIGHT YEARS. Let’s get on with gardening and living then. And please, stop the” HAARP lizard-people are destroying my salad” MYTHOS. That, (in my not so humble opinion) is a distraction from living, from focusing on what you CAN affect, what you can change…
Hey! It’s the Electric Universe! You’re soaking in it! Wake up and smell the IONS. We don’t need to invent a supercharged electric machine somewhere in Alaska to do what the SUPERCHARGED ELECTRIC MACHINE in space Already Does.
Comment: Finally, we are getting somewhere... HAARP conspiracy is for those who are scientifically illiterate, but the numbers have grown to such an extent, that it is time to deal with the mass stupidity.... This is not my job, so I am pleased to see that others have taken up the
cudgel.
Ohio woman who drove on sidewalk to avoid school bus ordered to wear 'idiot' sign
Fox News, 6th November 2012
CLEVELAND – A woman caught on camera driving on a sidewalk to avoid a Cleveland school bus that was unloading children will have to stand at an intersection wearing a sign warning about idiots.
Court records show a Cleveland Municipal Court judge on Monday ordered 32-year-old Shena Hardin to stand at an intersection for two days next week. She will have to wear a sign saying: "Only an idiot drives on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus."
Comment: I wonder how many people disagree with the punishment?
Cockatoo shows tool-making skills
BBC News, 6th November 2012
A captive-bred Goffin's cockatoo has surprised researchers by spontaneously making and using "tools" to reach food.
The species is not known to use tools in the wild.
Researchers in Austria recorded the cockatoo - named Figaro - repeatedly breaking off splinters from a wooden beam and using them to reach nuts on the other side of his wire enclosure.
The team believe Figaro's feat is the first recorded instance of tool-making among parrots. [...]
But he added: "Nobody yet understands in what sense tool-use requires a very high level of intelligence."
While Figaro is alone among Goffin's cockatoos to have been recorded making and using tools, Prof Kacelnik says that his behaviour could display a "level of intelligence for solving a new problem" in the species.
Comment: For those scientists who refuse to accept the existence of
morphogenetic or morphic fields as defined by Rupert Sheldrake, that is closely related to the theory behind the
100th Monkey Effect, I would imagine a few evolutionary biologists might start to get worried. Frankly, the evidence suggests we are in a time of massive evolutionary change amongst various species on this planet and we are seeing incredible changes right in front of our eyes...
Still 'paranoid' after all these years
CNN News, 4th November 2012
Look around. Trust is hitting historic lows. [...] Paranoia isn't on the fringe anymore... It's now closer to the beating heart of the mainstream. [...]
Indeed, there is good money in playing to your audience. the more the audience buys into it, the harder it is to dislodge their beliefs.
Writer Charles P. Pierce laid out the rules in his indispensable book "Idiot America": "1. Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings or otherwise moves units. 2. Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough. 3. Fact is that which enough people believe (and) Truth is determined by how fervently you believe it."
No wonder the so-called mainstream media has trust issues. In the search for ratings and Internet traffic, it gives voice to the same fearful hyperbole found elsewhere in society -- and often plays it for entertainment value.
Comment: This is a long article. Well, the problem with conspiracy theorists is that sometimes they are right... I am interested in the discussion of trust as these days, I have very little or no tolerance for shysters who approach me thinking they have found the next mark... It must be a sign of the times... Anyway, Pierce is right! This also explains the abundance of crap that passes for spirituality in the cultic milieu. I will repeat Pierce for any passing idiots...
1. Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings or otherwise moves units.
2. Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough.
3. Fact is that which enough people believe (and) Truth is determined by how fervently you believe it.
It looks like I have found another book by someone sane that I need to purchase...
2012 Hurricane Season Filled with Oddities
Weather.com, 5th November 2012
Nineteen Named Storms
With a total of 19 named storms, the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season has been very active. This is only the seventh hurricane season in the last 162 years that we've had 19 or more named storms.
In addition to being active, we've seen many oddities along the way. This includes our latest example, Hurricane Sandy. Let's step through these oddities beginning with the 2012 "preseason" storms.
Two Storms Before Season Starts
It's unusual to get one named storm before the official June 1 start of the hurricane season. In 2012, we saw two storms form in May. Only two other years have seen two named storms before the "official start" of the Atlantic season (1908 and 1887).
First Hurricane in an Unusual Spot
Where would you expect the season's first Atlantic hurricane? Caribbean? Gulf of Mexico? Eastern Atlantic? All good guesses...but all incorrect in 2012. Hurricane Chris became 2012's first Atlantic hurricane on June 21 in the open waters of the North Atlantic at a latitude of 41 degrees north, farther north than New York City! Only a single 1893 hurricane was farther north as a hurricane in June than Chris. Only twice before in history (1959 and 1887) has the third named storm of the season formed earlier than Chris. Not to mention the average date by which we've seen the first Atlantic hurricane is August 10.
Fourth Atlantic Storm....in June!
Debby was christened as a tropical storm on June 23. Tropical storms in the Gulf of Mexico aren't unusual for June. So what's the big deal? Well...it was the record earliest date for the Atlantic season's fourth named storm, besting the previous record held by 2005's Dennis (July 5). On average, the fourth named Atlantic storm occurs by August 23, so this took place two full months ahead of that pace!
July Goes Quiet
After seeing four named storms by the end of June, things went quiet in July. We did not see a single tropical depression or named storm during the entire month in the Atlantic basin.
August Ties a Record
Right as the calendar flipped to August, the Atlantic came back to life with the formation of Tropical Depression Five on the first day of the month. The depression became Tropical Storm Ernesto the very next day.
Ernesto was the first of eight named storms in August 2012. This tied August 2004 for the most named storms to form in the month of August.
Comment: There is a lot of information here.... but we are provided with evidence that we are seeing new atmospheric conditions affecting the production, properties and location of hurricanes...
What is REALLY going on in New York?
Ice Age Now, 3rd November 2012
Airports running out of jet fuel…
“A lot worse than it’s being portrayed in the media” … “Finding bodies left and right”…
‘They forgot about us’…
Fights for fuel getting nasty – Drivers Waiting 6 Hours For Gasoline…
Tempers Rise in Wake of Storm…Residents yell at Sen Chuck Schumer: ‘We’re gonna freeze! We’re Gonna Die!’ – Video
Craigslist: $15 a gallon…
Potential Nor’Easter looming for East Coast
Citizens throwing things at utility workers…
Red Cross Offering Cookies & Hot Chocolate, Not Blankets Or Clothes – Residents Furious…
Staten Islanders Plead: ‘We need food, clothing’…
‘Staten Islanders angry! You’re going to run a marathon … while we’re knee-deep in water?…
VIDEO: Stranded New Yorkers Defecating in Apartment Buildings…
In order to pump the gas, you need electricity…
NJ town enacts 70s style gas rationing…
Comment: I picked this up at the website Ice Age Now, the headlines are a useful summary... I would also like to add a reminder that back in mid June 2011, NASA specifically warned it's employees to be prepared for disasters. Here are a few headlines from websites that took this warning seriously
NASA releases Emergency Preparedness Video &
NASA Head Issues Agency-Wide Preparedness Alert: “I Became Aware of Some Things…”, but I think the NASA video that was put onto YouTube was removed due to copyright infringement...So, I believe that the conditions on this planet are now so volatile due to the high energy levels, that it has become extremely obvious that we can expect dramatic geophysical events. Hence, some members of the scientific community held a Geocataclysm conference in September 2011 and issued a very large report warning about the consequences of high energy levels on this planet. Quite frankly, you do not need to be a geoscientist to notice that geophysical activity in the form of rising numbers of large earthquakes and reports of volcanic rumblings and eruptions (including undersea volcanoes) are increasingly appearing in the news media. What is of interest to me is that a geophysical upheaval is the OBVIOUS consequence of space weather once we understand some basics.
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Stock certificates feared damaged by Sandy
CNN Buzz Money, 2nd November 2012
The vault contains certificates registered to Cede & Co., a subsidiary of DTCC, as well as "custody certificates" in sealed envelopes that belong to clients.
The DTCC provides "custody and asset servicing" for more than 3.6 million securities worth an estimated $36.5 trillion, according to its website.
"At this point, it is premature to make an accurate assessment as to the full impact of the water damage nor would it be helpful to project on what specific actions need to be taken with respect to our vault," said DTCC Chief Executive Michael Bodson in a statement. "We are aggressively working on this situation to minimize disruption to our clients and will provide additional updates as more information becomes available."
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Sandy's CT Scan, and Other Vital Images
Science Friday, 2nd November 2012
Owen Kelley, a research scientist at NASA Goddard, works with data from the TRMM satellite to image the insides of storms. TRMM looked into the eye of Sandy the day before it made landfall and saw something surprising. Satellites also took snapshots of Sandy. J. Marshall Shepherd, president-elect of the American Meteorological Society and the director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program at the University of Georgia, explains some of Sandy's unusual features.
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Queens residents arm themselves in the post-storm blackout from looters
Residents feel isolated and some use guns, baseball bats, booby traps — even a bow and arrow — to defend themselves.
NY Daily News, 2nd November 2012
When night falls in the Rockaways, the hoods come out.
Ever since Sandy strafed the Queens peninsula and tore up the boardwalk, it’s become an often lawless place where cops are even scarcer than electrical power and food. Locals say they are arming themselves with guns, baseball bats, booby traps — even a bow and arrow — to defend against looters.
Thugs have been masquerading as Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) workers, knocking on doors in the dead of night. But locals say the real workers have been nowhere in sight, causing at least one elected official — who fears a descent into anarchy if help doesn’t arrive soon — to call for the city to investigate the utility.
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Mayor Greeted By Upset Residents In Rockaway Beach [VIDEO]
NY 1 News, 3rd November 2012
The caption here is incorrect. The blogosphere are labelling this as the 'When are we going to get some f---king help' video...
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Minor earthquake shakes New Jersey
A 2.0 magnitude tremor, centered in Ringwood, N.J., struck Monday morning
NY Daily News, 5th November 2012
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Here's What The East Coast Blackouts Looked Like From Space
Business Insider, 5th November 2012
Jet pilots fear 'chemtrail' attacks
news.com.au, 2nd November 2012
AIRLINE pilots fear their jumbos could be shot down by conspiracy theorists who believe they are being poisoned by commercial aircraft.
The conspiracy theorists are part of a global "chemtrail" movement that claims jets are spraying toxic chemicals over heavily-populated towns and cities around the world.
"Threats to shoot down aircraft or harming pilots are becoming more prevalent, overt and alarming," says Mike Glynn, a current airline captain and former vice-president of the Australian and International Pilots Association.
Comment: I think this is the craziest story about "conspiracy theorists" that I have read for a long time.... How the hell can anyone shoot down a jumbo jet? It's not as if just anyone can go buy a big rocket launcher at the local supermarket... If this article is about scaring people who are complaining about chemtrails, then I think it has had the opposite affect as people are now just ridiculing the media/world controllers as being totally pathetic... Who exactly has "room temperature IQs"? What I want to know is when will the "conspiracy theorists" understand that all the attempts at geoengineering is because world controllers think we have a major problem with space weather....
Halloween-colored lobster caught off Massachusetts coast
India Today, 2nd November 2012
A Massachusetts fisherman has caught a creepy-looking lobster that's colored to match Halloween.
The New England Aquarium says the 1-pound female lobster has an orange side and a black side, with the colors split perfectly down the middle.
Marine officials say such coloration is estimated to occur once in every 50 million lobsters.
The fisherman who caught the seasonally colored crustacean in a trap last week is from Beverly, a seaside community 20 miles northeast of Boston.
Comment: Another example of the strange DNA 'split' mutation.... other examples in the archives are Venus the ‘two-faced’ chimera cat and a red/green spilt apple.
Mystery Sighting Spooks Soldiers
UFO sightings in Ladakh spook soldiers
India Today, 2nd November 2012
Units of the Indian Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) have reported Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOS) in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. An ITBP unit based in Thakung, close to the Pangong Tso Lake, reported over 100 sightings of luminous objects between August 1 and October 15 this year.
In reports sent to their Delhi headquarters in September, and to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), they described sighting "Unidentified Luminous Objects" at day and by night. The yellowish spheres appear to lift off from the horizon on the Chinese side and slowly traverse the sky for three to five hours before disappearing. These were not unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS), drones or even low earth-orbiting satellites, say Army officials who have studied the hazy photographs taken by ITBP.
In September, the Army moved a mobile ground-based radar unit and a spectrum analyser-that picks up frequencies emitted from any object-to a mountaintop near the 160-km-long, ribbon-shaped Pangong Lake that lies between India and China. The radar could not detect the object that was being tracked visually, in dicating it was non-metallic. The spectrum analyser could not detect any signals being emitted from them. The Army also flew a reconnaissance drone in the direction of the floating object, but it proved a futile exercise. The drone reached its maximum altitude but lost sight of the floating object.
In late September this year, a team of astronomers from the Indian Astronomical Observatory at Hanle, 150 km south of the lake, studied the airborne phenomena for three days. The team spotted the flying objects, Army officials say, but could not conclusively establish what they were. They did, however, say that the objects were "non celestial" and ruled out meteors and planets.
Yet, none of the experts from the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO)-in charge of technical intelligence-and Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO), has been able to identify the objects. This has caused embarrassment rather than fear in the establishment.
"Something is clearly wrong, if our combined scientific resources can't explain the phenomena," says a senior Army official in Delhi. Intelligence officials say these objects could be a crude psychological operation by China, or sophisticated probes attempting to ascertain India's defences in Ladakh.
"We can't ignore these sightings. We need to probe what new technology might have been deployed there, says former Indian Air Force (IAF) chief Air Chief Marshal (retired) P.V. Naik. In 2010, the IAF probed and dismissed Army sightings of such luminous objects as Chinese lanterns. UFO sightings have been endemic to Ladakh over the past decade.
In late 2003, 14 Corps sent a detailed report on sightings of luminous objects to Army headquarters. Army troops on posts along Siachen had seen floating lights on the Chinese side. But reporting such phenomena risks inviting ridicule. When told about them at a northern command presentation in Leh, the then army chief, General N.C. Vij, had angrily dismissed the reports as hallucinations.
Scientists say the mysterious objects are not necessarily from outer space. There is no evidence of UFOS being of extra-terrestrial origin, says reputed Pune-based astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar. The implication of them being alien objects is fancy, not fact, he says.
There is still no explanation, however, for what is believed to be the clearest UFO sighting yet, in the Lahaul-Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh less than 100 km south of Ladakh in 2004. A five-member group of geologists and glaciologists led by Dr Anil Kulkarni of the ISRO's Space Applications Centre in Ahmedabad were on a research trip through the barren Samudra Tapu Valley. They filmed a fourfoot tall robot-like figure, that walked along the valley, 50 m away from them. The humanoid object then rapidly became airborne and disappeared. The encounter lasted 40 minutes.
Comment: It is good to know the Indian military can tell the difference between UFO/UAPs and drones, but it would be helpful if they could pass their technology over to other countries who seem to be struggling with identification of various unknown objects including 'drones' violating sovereign air space... Whatever, this is a reminder that members of the Shadow Biosphere are appearing all over the planet -- the Veil is Lifting.
"Miracle" child born without brain dies in Pueblo
KOAA News, 1st November 2012
A family in Pueblo is remembering the life of a little boy was considered a medical miracle. Nickolas Coke has died. He's the three year old was born without a brain.
Brain may 'see' more than the eyes, study indicates
Eureka Alert, 1st November 2012
Vision may be less important to "seeing" than is the brain's ability to process points of light into complex images, according to a new study of the fruit fly visual system currently published in the online journal Nature Communications.
University of Virginia researchers have found that the very simple eyes of fruit fly larvae, with only 24 total photoreceptors (the human eye contains more than 125 million), provide just enough light or visual input to allow the animal's relatively large brain to assemble that input into images.
"It blows open how we think about vision," said Barry Condron, a neurobiologist in U.Va.'s College of Arts & Sciences, who oversaw the study. "This tells us that visual input may not be as important to sight as the brain working behind it. In this case, the brain apparently is able to compensate for the minimal visual input."
Comment: This research supports the notion of the holographic brain theory and all the research into our senses that suggests that the human brain can pick up additional signals held in the environment. Some humans are then able to process certain 'additional' information and present it in a variety of ways that our neurologists call synaesthesia. The existence of phosphenes is another example of how people can process environmental information to produce images in the mind's eye.
Is "weather on steroids" the new normal?
CBS News, 2nd November 2012
(CBS News) Superstorm Sandy is restarting an old debate over climate change, and its effect on the weather.
Professor Michio Kaku, of the City University of New York, is a world-renowned theoretical physicist and a climate change expert. Kaku's book "Physics of the Future" was a New York Times best-seller. [...]
The term "global warming," according to Kaku, is a misnomer. "It's not really a uniform warming of the Earth," he said. "It's global swings. In other words, the weather on steroids. So think of 100-year forest fires, 100-year droughts, 100-year floods, 100-year hurricanes. That could be a new way of life in the future because there's more energy circulating in the atmosphere."
As for Sandy in particular, Kaku said the storm was caused by the collision of large air masses that created something we haven't seen before. He said,
"We had a normal hurricane that collided with the jet stream -- which normally goes maybe to Kansas -- it went all the way down to Florida. And so the irregularity of cold air from the Arctic and warm air from the Caribbean area -- hotter than normal -- the collision of those two morphed into an animal we've never seen before. This hybrid storm, which then became the hurricane from hell."
"We could be seeing a new way of life," Kaku said. [...]
Kaku said he has changed his mind in respect to climate change. He said, "I used to be a skeptic. I used to say, 'Come on. The Earth is so big. We are so small.' But then you look at the indicators. The fact that all the glaciers are receding. We have wacky weather. We have 100-year storms that are now the new-norm. We have to realize the trends are all in one direction. There's not trend in the other direction.
All trends are in the direction of the heating of the Earth, the energizing of the atmosphere, which provides the energy of the hurricanes."
Comment: Oh yes...... there is more energy in the atmosphere due to space weather forcing a huge energy leap in the cosmic environment of Earth, but "hurricanes from hell" is pure poetic licence.... As I have been explaining over thousands of blog comments in the last 6 years or so, we are entering a new era and space weather will change how we do business on this planet. The scientific community have provided the hard facts but simply, the increased energy in the atmosphere means Earth has become a high energy plasma environment.
Lack of Hurricane Warnings May Help Homeowners
Climate Central, 2nd November 2012
Silver linings post Hurricane Sandy have been hard to find. But the decision by the National Weather Service not to issue hurricane warnings north of North Carolina, and to instead declare Hurricane Sandy a “post-tropical cyclone” mere hours before landfall near Atlantic City on Oct. 29, may have significant ramifications for homeowners and insurance companies. In four hard-hit states — Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York — the storm classification may save homeowners from having to pay costly hurricane insurance deductibles. [...]
With Hurricane Sandy, the Weather Service faced a rare challenge — how do you warn people in a heavily populated area of a storm that would have all the impacts of a hurricane, yet was going to lack the structure of a true hurricane when it made landfall?
The main difference between a hurricane and a “post-tropical cyclone” has to do with the energy source from which the storm is drawing. Hurricanes draw their power from warm ocean waters, whereas post-tropical cyclones are energized by sharp temperature differences between air masses.
Comment: Please note: it is official that the National Weather Service refused to call Sandy a hurricane when it hit land because the power was coming from the atmosphere and not "warm waters". What is the jet stream? This is a question intelligent people should be asking.... More evolved thinkers, realise that climate change is directly related to changes in the cosmos but climate eventally translates into weather and quite frankly, with a magnetosphere like a sieve, the solar wind breaking through will cause "weird weather". Wal Thornhill writes:
The electrical energy that courses through the solar system and powers the Sun is a subtle form of energy that all of the planets intercept to some degree. Planets orbit within this discharge and intercept some of the electrical energy. Planets are minor “electrodes” within a stellar discharge envelope. The electrical energy is delivered to stars and planets in the manner of a simple Faraday motor.
The electromotive power is deposited mostly in the upper atmosphere at mid to low latitudes and gives rise to fast upper atmosphere winds and even “super rotation.” That is, the wind races around the planet faster than the planet turns. It is a phenomenon observed on Venus and Titan and remains unexplained by atmospheric physics, which relies on solar heating. It is the cause of the extraordinary winds on the gas giant planets in the outer solar system, where solar heating is weak. It has implications for the jet streams and weather patterns on Earth as well. [...] It is apparent that electrical energy from space doesn’t merely light up auroras. It has a profound influence on upper atmosphere winds and storms.
Global Warming in a Climate of Ignorance
Holoscience, 15th February 2007
The following helps to put Sandy into some kind of perspective for those who want to think about what this superstorm means for humanity and the start of a
new age.
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In other words, Sandy wasn’t so tough.
WUWT, 2nd November 2012
A suggestion the Great Gale of 1821 was worse than Hurricane Sandy, and Alarmists are wrong to suggest otherwise. [...]
In other words, Sandy wasn’t so tough. In some ways, Sandy was a Wuss, and an imperfect storm, compared to 1821, which had wind gusts toppling chimneys in Philadelphia, entire houses in New York City, and flattening forests up through New England.
In conclusion, things could get a lot worse for New York City, even if storms are not a bit “unprecedented.” Things could be worse even if they are ordinary!!!!!
Comment: This is more analysis because we need to learn lessons and quickly because our world is changing. This is NOT 1821. The population of the world is much higher and cities are now highly populated. Our modern technological infrastructure is much more complicated. Think, electrical power lines and transformers, pipelines for oil, gas, water and sewage, phone lines/internet connections, mobile phone networks, rail/road transportation networks, airports, delivery services for food, water, gas/petrol, commodities etc etc. It does not matter if Sandy was not the worst storm on record, because it impacted a large area of people and caused devastation and now hardship for survivers unaccustomed to going back to basics.... A real issue is the over reliance on electrical power that is now vulnerable in an extreme geomagnetic environment....
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HURRICANE SANDY 3 TREES FALL AND FIRE!!
YouTube, 29th October 2012
OMG I can't believe I was filming! D:
Filmed on Long Island NY. Yes this is the original, I filmed this.
Media Contact: johnmateer13@yahoo.com
Comment: The commentary is inane but the footage demonstrates that this was NOT a 'normal' storm. The trees are only slightly swaying and then bizzarely, the trees either snap in the middle or become uprooted... I think the give away is the start of the fire, I would suggest it was an electrical fire... Meteorologists plainly stated that people needed to ignore "official" terminology see, Extraordinary storm, extremely serious threat and I believe that the issue here was that the jet stream touched ground and brought with it a huge electrical or Birkeland current. From that footage, the 'winds' could only be called a breeze but the reaction of the trees is simply strange... The irony is the talk of 'Apocalypse' by people who have no idea what the hell they are talking about.... Now, humans are having those same highly charged 'winds' blowing through their bodies and energy fields... The deliveries of cosmic energy are now getting very personal... It looks like John Mateer, the person who took the footage, made it onto ABC's 'Katie'.
At New York Aquarium, Staff Considers Evacuating Fish
ABC News, 2nd November 2012
This is a real story, it is not a joke...
Battered by storm, Staten Islanders feel forgotten
Boston.com, 3rd November 2012
NEW YORK (AP) — Gazing at her bungalow, swept from its foundation and tossed across the street, Janice Clarkin wondered if help would ever come to this battered island off the coast of Manhattan. [...]
Staten Island was devastated beyond recognition by superstorm Sandy and suffered the highest death toll of all of New York City’s boroughs, including two young brothers who were swept from their mother’s arms by the swirling sea and drowned. Yet days after the waters receded, residents feel ignored and forgotten. [...]
Most of the deaths were clustered in beachfront neighborhoods exposed to the Atlantic Ocean along the island’s southeastern shore, an area of cinderblock bungalows and condominiums. Many of these homes were built decades ago — originally as summer cottages — and were not constructed to withstand the power of a major storm.
Comment: If these were only built as summer houses then there should have been a mandatory evacuation, it beggars belief that people would stay when meteorologists were predicting a high storm surge... Quite frankly, people need to savvy up...
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Strange Domes to Line the Texas Coast in Preparation for Something to Come
FEMA Funding Impenetrable Dome Structures Around Houston
The Intel Hub, October 15, 2012
HOUSTON — Disaster-proof domes that can sustain winds in excess of 250 mph will cost taxpayers more than $50 a foot.
FEMA has now offered to pick up the tab of at least $50 million dollars, to install disaster shelters in and around Houston that, according to the manufacturer, (ABC Domes based out of Sealy – Division of Golden Sands General Contracting out of Miami) are “almost impenetrable”.
The company has been building these type of shelters for decades.
The government has also offered to cover 75% of the cost on structures over 20,00 square feet in size. A facility of this size would cost around $1 million.
What is interesting is how recent reports vary in nature. Some say that the domes are to protect citizens from hurricanes while others say that FEMA equipment will be held in the domes.
If it is true that FEMA will store equipment in the domes, why now?
Comment: I found this report and I was angry and elated at the same time.... I was angry/elated that the military/FEMA are demonstrating pragmatism and commonsense as they realise that these dome structures are essential in a world where extreme weather is going to become the norm. Yet, I note the sheer ignorance of the author who can't engage brain and work out that the domes are being built to safeguard military/FEMA equipment. Moreover, I am more angry that generally people are oblivious to what is happening to our world and continue to build matchstick properties in areas vulnerable to tornadoes, hurricanes and floods. Not enough communities realise that it might be a good idea to provide communal super domes that can be used as emergency shelters.... For the record I will repeat the link to a website promoting dome buildings that has been on this blog since May 2007.
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Monolithic Domes and Disaster Resistance
Monolithic Dome Institute, May 2007
Previous Comment: Disaster resistance homes and buildings. We are talking tornados, hurricanes, wildfire, earthquake liquefaction, lightning, even flooding if built right. We cannot fight Earth & climate changes, we just have to think differently and apply new solutions. Dome houses are cheaper to build and cheaper to maintain, I think the bigger domes can be designed to be very stylish. We have to do business differently on this planet, it's the only way we will survive.
Bloomberg Businessweek: ‘It’s Global Warming, Stupid’
Think Progress, 1st November 2012
The cover of the year goes to Bloomberg Businessweek, “It’s Global Warming, Stupid.”
Bill Clinton famously campaigned on the slogan, “It’s the economy, stupid.” Upwards of $50 billion damages from the Frankenstorm Sandy — which was made far more destructive by manmade climate change — underscores the point that it will be increasingly difficult to separate the economy from how we respond to (or fail to respond to) global warming.
The story opens:
Yes, yes, it’s unsophisticated to blame any given storm on climate change. Men and women in white lab coats tell us —and they’re right—that many factors contribute to each severe weather episode. Climate deniers exploit scientific complexity to avoid any discussion at all.
Clarity, however, is not beyond reach. Hurricane Sandy demands it: At least 40 U.S. deaths. Economic losses expected to climb as high as $50 billion. Eight million homes without power. Hundreds of thousands of people evacuated. More than 15,000 flights grounded. Factories, stores, and hospitals shut. Lower Manhattan dark, silent, and underwater.
The piece goes on to provide much-needed clarity — and our favorite climate metaphor:
An unscientific survey of the social networking liter moodature on Sandy reveals an illuminating tweet (you read that correctly) from Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. On Oct. 29, Foley thumbed thusly: “Would this kind of storm happen without climate change? Yes. Fueled by many factors. Is storm stronger because of climate change? Yes.” Eric Pooley, senior vice president of the Environmental Defense Fund (and former deputy editor of Bloomberg Businessweek), offers a baseball analogy: “We can’t say that steroids caused any one home run by Barry Bonds, but steroids sure helped him hit more and hit them farther. Now we have weather on steroids.”
Comment: OK.... From the reports I have read, there are areas that are very quickly descending into chaos in the New York/Eastern seaboard most affected by Hurricane Sandy, but those who are politically savvy and live by the maxim, 'never let a good crisis go to waste' are now exploiting those left in shock and awe by the destruction wrought by Superstorm Sandy. I simply can't keep up with the fight between climate campaigners and climate realists, but as usual I will link to the websites of the real heavyweights who are dealing with this issue. Btw, I do believe that we are facing climate change, but it is being induced by changes in the cosmic environment and not human activity.... (see copious previous comments). Interestingly, the expression
weather on steroids is probably very apt...
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Helping Bloomberg understand ‘stupid’
WUWT, 1st November 2012
This cover today is making the rounds in the alarmosphere, where a single storm, a single data point in the hundreds of hurricanes that have struck the USA during its history, is now apparently “proof” of global warming causing bad weather. It is just another silly example of Tabloid Climatology™
Hurricane expert Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. says:
The only accurate part of this Bloomberg BusinessWeek cover is “stupid”
There, I fixed it for you.
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Hurricane Sandy’s ‘Unprecedented’ Storm Surge
WUWT, 1st November 2012
Funny thing… Hurricane Sandy’s unprecedented storm surge was likely surpassed in the New England hurricanes of 1635 and 1638. From 1635 through 1954, New England was hit by at least five hurricanes producing greater than 3 m storm surges in New England. Analysis of sediment cores led to the conclusion “that at least seven hurricanes of intensity sufficient to produce storm surge capable of overtopping the barrier beach (>3 m) at Succotash Marsh have made landfall in southern New England in the past 700 yr.” All seven of those storms occurred prior to 1960.
SHOCK: 72 Hours After Grid-Down: Starvation, Supply Shortages, Food Lines, No Clean Water, No Gas, Transportation Standstill *Independent Reports, Pics and Video*
Investment Watch, 2nd November 2012
A recent study noted that the majority of people have enough food in their pantries to feed their household for about three days and that seemingly stable societies are really just nine meals from anarchy. With most of us dependent on just-in-time transportation systems to always be available, few ever consider the worst case scenario.
For tens of thousands of east coast residents that worst case scenario is now playing out in real-time. No longer are images of starving people waiting for government handouts restricted to just the third-world.
In the midst of crisis, once civilized societies will very rapidly descend into chaos when essential infrastructure systems collapse.
Though the National Guard was deployed before the storm even hit, there is simply no way for the government to coordinate a response requiring millions of servings of food, water and medical supplies
Many east coast residents who failed to evacuate or prepare reserve supplies ahead of the storm are being forced to fend for themselves.
Frustration and anger have taken hold, as residents have no means of acquiring food or gas and thousands of trucks across the region remain stuck in limbo.
Limited electricity has made it possible for some to share their experiences: [...]
A simple 72 hour survival kit and some basic hurricane preparedness would have prevented days of heartache for residents of stricken areas.
The vast majority of those waiting in mile-long long food lines, rummaging through the trash, and criticizing their government officials for a slow and insufficient response have no one to blame but themselves.
This may be harsh – but it’s true.
Comment: After reading comments in the blogosphere, I am sorry to say that the pragmatists are stating the obvious and the survivalists are now laughing.... There was plenty of warning and time to prepare... Few can bleat in theUnited States about not knowing about how bad things can get after Hurricane Andrew, Ivan, Irene, Katrina etc etc. Poor people living on the breadline and the old and sick may not have had any options...
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A demonstration of how modern societies can quickly unravel following a major disaster
Gasoline Runs Short, Adding Woes to Storm Recovery
New York Times, 1st November 2012
UNION, N.J. — Widespread gas shortages stirred fears among residents and disrupted some rescue and emergency services on Thursday as the New York region struggled to return to a semblance of normalcy after being ravaged by Hurricane Sandy. [...] Four days after Hurricane Sandy, the effort to secure enough gas for the region moved to the forefront of recovery work. The problems affected even New York City, where the Taxi Commission warned that the suddenly indispensable fleet of yellow cabs would thin significantly Friday because of the fuel shortage. [...]
Though Thursday marked a return to routine for many who ride the subway to work or celebrated the resumption of power, the scenes of long lines, fistfights at gas stations and siphoning at parking lots highlighted the difficult, uneven slog to recovery.
I changed the headline inspired by the one at Extinction Protocol. Well, the New York Times is also reporting fights breaking out over gasoline.... This is going to get very ugly soon in parts, as people become overwhelmed by a complex modern infrastructure supported by modern technology that has broken down and cannot be completely fixed quickly.... Furthermore, read the reports, there must be many people trapped in skyscrappers with no food and water.... When the hospital generators failed, critically sick people were moved down 17 flights of stairs supported by medical students with flashlights and people coming off the streets to help (see photos)... Basically, unless people help each other then many more people are going to die... Please note: Planetary upheaval has been expected by indigenous groups who have retained the memories of previous "End Times" i.e. end of an age or end/start of a long astronomical cycle. Specifically, Native Americans have been warning for a long time and bluntly telling people to get out of the cities, it was obvious to them that cities are not the best place when a disaster strikes.
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Running on empty: Fury as storm-hit gas stations are forced to CLOSE - while others charge desperate drivers SIX dollars a gallon [PHOTOS]
Daily Mail, 1st November 2012
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FIFTY DEAD...and it's NOT over: Obama's grim warning as he prepares to visit scenes of hurricane 'major disaster' tomorrow
Daily Mail, 31st October 2012
These pictures are very grim...
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Twitter troll who posted fake superstorm Sandy news apologises and resigns
Sydney Morning Herald, 1st November 2012
I think society has found an easy way of identifying the worst narcissists.... they simply can't help themselves and will go after a big buzz despite the risk of being caught out... I am sure there will be lots of valid opinions aired on the internet concerning this person, but in preference, the psychology behind narcissists needs to be understood.
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Hurricane Sandy Satellite Photos: Before And After
Zero Hedge, 1st November 2012
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Military helps pump water and restore power
More than 200 power generators set up in NY, NJ
KSBW News, 1st November 2012
CME Impact
spaceweather.com, 1st November 2012
CME IMPACT: A coronal mass ejection hit Earth's magnetic field on Oct. 31st around 1530 UT. The
impact jolted Earth's polar magnetic field and sparked auroras around the Arctic Circle. Frank Olsen sends this picture from Sortland, Norway:
For a while, the auroras were bright enough to see despite the glare of the nearly-full Moon. "Conditions were excellent for aurora photography," says Olsen. "I captured the Moon with the Pleiades on top and Jupiter to the left. And just over the mountain, Orion was rising."
Pastor, 55, 'strangled fiancee's daughter, 24, after fantasizing about having sex with her dead body then helped her son, 3, get ready for Halloween'
Daily Mail, 1st November 2012
Another monster... Maybe some time in the future, society will demand that anyone who acts in the capacity of a spiritual 'servant' will have to be assessed for psychopathy first... I think what will happen is that the true psychopaths will be rejected but it will become obvious to more than psychology experts that the real issue is this profession attracts narcissists.... Obviously, on a sliding scale, most are not as nasty as psychopaths but it will be too obvious that many seek these positions who can't exactly prove to have others interests at heart...
Buddhist monk is 'happiest man on earth'
NY Daily News, 29th October 2012
The monk, molecular geneticist and confidant of the Dalai Lama, is passionately setting out why meditation can alter the brain and improve people's happiness in the same way that lifting weights puts on muscle.
"It's a wonderful area of research because it shows that meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree but it completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are," the Frenchman told AFP.
Ricard, a globe-trotting polymath who left everything behind to become a Tibetan Buddhist in a Himalayan hermitage, says anyone can be happy if they only train their brain. [...]
The scans showed that when meditating on compassion, Ricard's brain produces a level of gamma waves -- those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory -- "never reported before in the neuroscience literature", Davidson said.
The scans also showed excessive activity in his brain's left prefrontal cortex compared to its right counterpart, giving him an abnormally large capacity for happiness and a reduced propensity towards negativity, researchers believe.
Comment: This seems to be the original version of this story but there is a lot more background information... So, I am wondering about why neurologists have never seen this brain pattern before... I suppose the reason is that the exercise was specifically about compassion and maybe there has not been much interest amongst the academic community as the emphasis in this article is that compassion is a practical route to happiness, an emotional state that many are not too familiar with in modern societies that promote big time narcissism.... The other thing is the neurologist
Richard J. Davidson (born December 12, 1951), professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is criticised for being too involved with the Dalai Lama. Infact, it appears that he is a Buddhist promoting Buddhism and of courcse, there are some who are ironically very unhappy about a possible conflict of interest. Thus we read at Wikipedia:
A longtime friend of the 14th Dalai Lama, some of his work involves research on the brain as it relates to meditation.[5] Davidson has long maintained his own daily meditation practice, and continues to communicate regularly with the Dalai Lama.
This connection has caused controversy, with some scientists criticizing Davidson for being too close to someone with an interest in the outcome of his research and others claiming that it represents an inappropriate mix of faith and science. When he invited the Dalai Lama to participate in the "Neuroscience and Society" program of the Society for Neuroscience meeting in 2005, over 500 researchers signed a petition in protest.[11][12] The majority of the petitioners were Chinese researchers, who may disagree politically with the Dalai Lama's stance on Tibet[11]. The controversy subsided quickly after most scientists attending the talk found it appropriate. [13]
Source: Wikipedia Richard J. Davidson
These days I am very cynical as my archives will atest... There is simply too much bullsh#t and the mentality
the end justifies the means is simply too prevalent in the cultic milieu even amongst scientists, especially when they get too religious/culty. I think this research needs some replication... More compassion and then some happiness... is that too much to ask?
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