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| Voyager Makes an Interstellar Discovery | 12.23.2009 |
| + Play Audio | + Download Audio | + Email to a friend | + Join mailing list December 23, 2009: The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA's Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery.
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Just a couple of caveats to mention:
1) The ice core data from Greenland doesn’t go past the year 1900
2) The reason for this is that ice is formed by the compaction of snow, that takes time. Young snow, and snow in transition to becoming ice through compaction is not a reliable indicator yet.
3) From the observed temperature change in the last century, one could add about a .5C to 0.7C line to the end of the ice core data. It does not change the conclusion.










Just a couple of caveats to mention:
1) The ice core data from Greenland doesn’t go past the year 1900
2) The reason for this is that ice is formed by the compaction of snow, that takes time. Young snow, and snow in transition to becoming ice through compaction is not a reliable indicator yet.
3) From the observed temperature change in the last century, one could add about a .5C to 0.7C line to the end of the ice core data. It does not change the conclusion.
Not My Water Park – Lyrics
What has happened to this place
I don’t recognize it anymore
It used to be so fun and special
What is life worth living for
The dream is dead
Our land is gone
There’s a hole in my heart
And I can’t go on
There are too many minorities (minorities)
At my water park (my water park)
This was our land, our dream (our dream)
and they’ve taken it all away
They just keep coming and coming (minorities)
I tried to go and tell the police
But even the authorities
Are minorities (are minorities)
At my water park
There’s no place for me to sit anymore
And the lines just keep getting crazier
There are Mexicans all around me
The lazy river has never been lazier
It’s a 40 minute wait to go down one slide
And the instructions are in Spanish on the Zip Line ride (just do it in English!)
There are too many minorities (too many)
At my water park (somebody do something)
Where did they all come from
Why can’t they leave this land alone
And it’s such a tragedy (feel a bit like dying)
We looked the other way too long
We’ve got to change our priorities
And get all these minorities
Out of my water park
(Minorities) Mexicans and Asians
Black people
I think I even saw Native Americans (gross)
God I’m asking please
Get all of these minorities
Out of my water park (my water park)
It us too bad many authors and editorialists misrepresent what the actual satellite temperature data really is... http://www.drroyspencer.com/
And Fail to Inform their readers that available climate models fail because they make no effort to account for the Solar Wind and Solar ... Irradiation (space debris included) as factors determining the composition of the atmosphere, its buoyancy, and its expanse. In truth, until climate models can accurately forecast sun originating variables, they will not be very useful as accurate futurecasters of relatively specific weather events beyond 5-10 days (I dtimeframes or more generally the 27 day sun rotation at best.
with our water vapor topped atmosphere is this really that surprising http://www.nytimes.com... or finding similar conditions on nearly atmosphereless Mars (We live on a planet that makes a water rich atmosphere and the the sun blows some of it (that is more than replaced) across the solar system
The discovery of water on the moon also seriously damages the Greenhouse Gases Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory because it presumes that earth's climate is a closed system whose atmosphere is trapped and thus that Earth atmosphere does not have its escape valve controlled by solar wind
The point being that no one can wish away the impeding much colder climate nor the fact that the sun has been, with cyclical progress, leading us into a deep ice age (that repeats on a 100,000 year calendar) since the Vikings were frozen out of their Greenland homes (this means that the sun's heating impact upon the earth will continue to be reduced until the 100,000 year cycle completes itself, we are at ~year 99,999 and 15,000 years past the Bölling-Allerød climate optimum/ maximum solar energy release. AURORA ALERT: Did you miss the Northern Lights? Next time get a wake-up call: Spaceweather PHONE. ASTEROID FLYBY: Newly-discovered asteroid 2009 WJ6 is flying past Earth today only 110,000 miles away--about half the distance to the Moon. At the time of closest approach (1100 UT on Nov. 20th) the 14-meter-wide space rock will glide through the northern constellation Draco glowing like a 16th magnitude star. [3D orbit] [ephemeris]
*****CLARIFICATION and Refinement Required*****
***Is the influx of comsmic rays responsible for the changes to the sun? If solar cycles are determined by the amount of cosmic rays (and cosmic microwave background radiation) that enter our solar system because of how much neighboring star system are processing , then energy management of all stars is interdependent. ....cooperative behaviors quite possibly influenced by gamma rays **their rate of influx flattens the heliospheric current sheet by stimulating the sun's nuclear fusion dynamo ...making its core heavier...until the heart of the gamma ray influx has been passed and the sun's core weight/gravity rebalanced by energy releases** looking for regular cosmic ray updates from ACE as I write.... http://www.srl.caltech.edu/ACE/ASC/r
(corrected nebular hypothesis for planet building )
the planet fission theory and the nebular hypothesis are both wrong. The sun's fusion dynamo regularly cycles through refresher courses on planet building. When the interior of the sun is made protonically heavier, the strength of its gravitational pull is increased and the repulsing effect of the solar wind (its strength actually characterizes the stage of the nuclear process responsible for the balancing of the sun's weight and gravity) is diminished. It is during the time of a colder sun, less solar wind and more gravity, that more extrasolar debris from the kuiper belt and the oort cloud (the milky way of our galaxy) are pulled into the solar system. The debris begins accreting as it passes through a corresponding to colder sun rapid growth of gas accumulation at the edge of the heliosheath (some of the gas is water vapor from earth)
and when they strike supervolcanic eruptions will occur...not forgetting to mention the ~70million year extinction level event calendar that occurs when our solar system interacts with thicker (by process-the stars in our sector were born at the same relative time under the same conditons and are operating on the same time schedule for the most part. The next oldest section starts warming while our sections stars are cooling so it is spitting out more solar debris into the oort cloud) portions of the oort cloud *milky way of our galaxy.
Since the post-Chixulub Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) Boundary some 65 million years-before-present (YBP), durations of five geological eras have varied widely but averaged 14 – 16 million years. Dating from 1.8 million YBP, the current Pleistocene Era is characterized, even defined, by regularly recurring cyclical ice ages averaging 102,000 years, interspersed with interglacial epochs of a median 12,250 years.
On post-Cretaceous time-scales, then, periodic Pleistocene glaciations are due to persist another 12 – 14 million years. Since this pattern did not prevail before the Pleistocene, neither atmospheric nor astronomical phenomena can be responsible. As Edward Lorenz asked in 1960, “Does the Earth have a climate? The answer, at first glance obvious, improves on acquaintance.” Lorenz’s “butterfly effect”, his Chaos Theory’s “sensitive dependence on initial conditions”, proves that for complex systems –those with three or more interacting variables– non-linear progression will be “non-random but indeterminate”, amenable to post hoc mathematical description but not to any meaningful extrapolation whatsoever.
What drives planetary temperature regimes, misnamed “climate”, is plate tectonics, geophysics, first hypothesized by Alfred Wegener in 1912 and confirmed in detail by deep-ocean (bathymetric) surveys since 1964. Geologists before then dismissed Wegener on the assumption that continental landmasses were similar to deep-ocean basins. When surveys in the mid-1960s revealed global “continental drift” in terms of sea-floor spreading, geo-science recognized Planet Earth as a dynamic rather than a static system.
Over some 2 – 5 million years now, from the late Pliocene on, plate tectonics has driven North and South American continents together, walling off eastern from western hemispheres. Perhaps allied with pulsating deep-ocean “magmatic episodes” worldwide, this configuration evidently interferes with global atmospheric circulation, canceled or reinforced by solar irradiation as may be. This means that cyclical Pleistocene glaciations will likely persist until plate tectonic dispositions shift– i.e., that Earth will suffer regularly recurring Ice Times for another 12 – 14 million years.
This is so far from Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), a hypothetical C02-induced atmospheric effect totally neglectful of underlying geophysical components, that Climate Cultists’ shrill expostulations become prima facie meaningless. Not only does Lorenz’s Chaos Theory render “climate” (sic) extrapolations a mathematical impossibility, but on a statistical basis our current Holocene Interglacial Epoch is decades overdue to end. Skewed by the 1,500-year Younger Dryas “cold shock” of BC 8800 – 7300 (an astronomical result of cometary/meteorite objects raining to the inner solar system from Sol’s enveloping Oort Cloud), the Holocene began to fade in AD 2000 + (12,250 – 12,300) = AD 1950.
Now as we enter a 20 – 70 year “dead sun” period presaging either a Dalton or a Maunder
Minimum, chances are that Gaia is due for a 102,000-year Big Chill. Absent the Younger Dryas, this would have happened 1,500 years ago, coincident with the fall of Rome. Blinkered academics, and supremely dishonest ones at that, who willfully fail to warn humanity of impending geophysical catastrophe are guilty of a criminally negligent abuse of trust.
dear specks of dust
You have about as much chance of impacting the climate during the next 80,000 years as a ladybug has in piloting the space shuttle. Below demonstratively destroys your "i am giant who craps notions". The introduction of the GIANT Kreutz Sungrazer comet to the solar system several hundred years ago was the instantiation of what I
I like to call the actual Malinkovitch event that is the signal for a heavier sun/colder sun omening the ice age....If you pay attention to IBEX observations you will be aware of the recently discover ribbon of gas between the heliosheath and heliopause...this is likely where these comets are forming (with little movement until tugged inward by the strength of the sun's gravity...Just as the moon was pulled inward,the same will occur for the plutinos (which were made by another solar system. Will the solar system keep them when it grows warm in empty space?)..You are nothing in comparison to the galaxy
Sincerely
The Milky Way