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by spouting off there is nothing to worry about, folks, these things have always happened
originally posted by: 8675309jenny
originally posted by: ~Lucidity
Seems to me weather patterns are sort of shifting. Places that used to get no hurricanes or tornadoes are now. Places that did aren't.
For sure. I remember a decent hurricane every 2-3 years as a kid, but it's been 9 years since South FL had a notable Hurricane. That's unheard of. Also the summer's have been unbearable hot the past 7 years and the winter has been much shorter than when I was younger. Summer seems to start in April now and run all the way until October
originally posted by: Staroth
a reply to: Rezlooper
by spouting off there is nothing to worry about, folks, these things have always happened
Learn to read and comprehend. I did not say that or anything remotely like that.
What I did say was "We have a long recorded history and it always repeats itself. If your going to look to the current you must include its past."
*I was suggesting that if one is going to bring up the current then one must include the past and this is done logically with compare and contrast (Past/Present) to arrive at what we can expect in the future. Furthermore, do the causalities not mean anything in this scenario? It's not often that you hear of 300,000 deaths from one event. Hopefully you will comprehend this without me having to write another paragraph...
Earth's Magnetic Field Is Fading
John Roach
for National Geographic News
September 9, 2004
Earth's magnetic field is fading. Today it is about 10 percent weaker than it was when German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss started keeping tabs on it in 1845, scientists say.
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Earth's Magnetic Field Weakening More Quickly
Jul 9, 2014 06:22 PM ET // by Kelly Dickerson, LiveScience
Changes measured by the Swarm satellite over the past 6 months shows that Earth's magnetic field is changing. Shades of red show areas where it is strengthening, and shades of blue show areas that are weakening.
ESA/DTU
Earth's magnetic field, which protects the planet from huge blasts of deadly solar radiation, has been weakening over the past six months, according to data collected by a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite array called Swarm.
The biggest weak spots in the magnetic field -- which extends 370,000 miles (600,000 kilometers) above the planet's surface -- have sprung up over the Western Hemisphere, while the field has strengthened over areas like the southern Indian Ocean, according to the magnetometers onboard the Swarm satellites -- three separate satellites floating in tandem.
The scientists who conducted the study are still unsure why the magnetic field is weakening, but one likely reason is that Earth's magnetic poles are getting ready to flip, said Rune Floberghagen, the ESA's Swarm mission manager. In fact, the data suggest magnetic north is moving toward Siberia.
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Underwater volcanoes, not climate change, reason behind melting of West Antarctic Ice Sheet
By James Maynard, Tech Times | June 10, 10:43 PM
Melting of a major glacier system in western Antarctica may be caused by underwater volcanoes, and not by global climate change, according to new research.
Thwaites Glacier, a massive outlet for ice that empties into Pine Island Bay, is flowing at a rate of one-and-a-quarter miles per year. The bay opens up into the Amundsen Sea.
The Thwaites Glacier has been the subject of scrutiny by climatologists in the last few years, as new information about the severity of the melting becomes available. Traditional models had assumed heating from subterranean sources was fairly even around the region. New data provides details about areas where little was previously known.
University of Texas researchers studied how water moves underground in the region. They found liquid water was present in a greater number of sources than previously believed, and it is warmer than estimated in previous studies.
"It's the most complex thermal environment you might imagine. And then you plop the most critical, dynamically unstable ice sheet on planet Earth in the middle of this thing, and then you try to model it. It's virtually impossible," Don Blankenship, senior research scientist at the University of Texas, said.
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SCIENCE WITHOUT BORDERS. Transactions of the International Academy of Science H & E.
Vol.3. 2007/2008, SWB, Innsbruck, 2008 ISBN 978-9952-451-01-6 ISSN 2070-0334
217
ABOUT POSSIBLE INFLUENCE OF SOLAR ACTIVITY UPON SEISMIC AND VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES: LONG-TERM FORECAST
*Khain V.E., **Khalilov E.N.
*Moscow State University named after M.V.Lomonosov,
**International Academy of Science H&E (Austria, Innsbruck)
It has been determined that in the period of solar activity increase (11-year
cycles) there increase seismic and volcanic activities in the compression zone of
Earth and at the same time there decreases the activity in the tension zones of Earth.
On the basis of the discovered stable 11-year and 22-year cyclicalities in the seismic and volcanic activities and their high correlation with solar activity there has been made the long-term forecast until 2018. The next maximum of seismic and volcanic activity with very high amplitude for the compression zones of Earth is forecasted for the period 2012-2015.
Dr.Prof. Elchin Khalilov (Azerbaijani: Elçin Xəlilov (born On April, 26th 1959, Baku, Azerbaijan) is a famous scientist in the sphere of geodynamics, seismology and tectonics.
Geomagnetism and Aeronomy
December 2012, Volume 52, Issue 8, pp 959-976
Date: 30 Nov 2012
Impact of the geomagnetic field and solar radiation on climate change
V. A. Dergachev,
S. S. Vasiliev,
O. M. Raspopov,
H. Jungner
Abstract
Recent studies have shown that, in addition to the role of solar variability, past climate changes may have been connected with variations in the Earth’s magnetic field elements at various timescales. An analysis of variations in geomagnetic field elements, such as field intensity, reversals, and excursions, allowed us to establish a link between climate changes at various timescales over the last millennia. Of particular interest are sharp changes in the geomagnetic field intensity and short reversals of the magnetic poles (excursions). The beginning and termination of the examined geomagnetic excursions can be attributed to periods of climate change. In this study, we analyzed the possible link between short-term geomagnetic variability (jerks) and climate change, as well as the accelerated drift of the north magnetic pole and surface temperature variations.
The results do not rule out the possibility that geomagnetic field variations which modulate the cosmic ray flux could have played a major role in climate change in addition to previously induced by solar radiation.
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originally posted by: Oannes
Could these effects actually be caused by what the Sumerians called Nibiru? This is supposed to be a planet surrounded by at least 10 moons. Who are we to deny what the Sumerians clearly stated? There is a member of our solar system that comes close every 3,600 years. Ancient tales speak of this planet wreaking havoc every time it makes it's approach. It is said to have an extremely oval shaped orbit that is tilted 30 degrees below the elliptic plane. This should mean that the southern continents should see it first.
originally posted by: Soulece
Well, if all of this is just nothing to be concerned about, tell me what it was like in the 1990's when this stuff was just as common, please.
Oh, oh it wasn't?