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Rainbows of Fire Posted on June 20, 2006 Email To Friend Print Version June 19, 2006 — It looks like a rainbow that's been set on fire, but this phenomenon is as cold as ice.http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060619-rainbow-fire.html Known in the weather world as a circum-horizontal arc, this rare sight was caught on film on June 3 as it hung over northern Idaho near the Washington State border. The arc isn't a rainbow in the traditional sense—it is caused by light passing through wispy, high-altitude cirrus clouds. The sight occurs only when the sun is very high in the sky (more than 58° above the horizon). What's more, the hexagonal ice crystals that make up cirrus clouds must be shaped like thick plates with their faces parallel to the ground. When light enters through a vertical side face of such an ice crystal and leaves from the bottom face, it refracts, or bends, in the same way that light passes through a prism. If a cirrus’s crystals are aligned just right, the whole cloud lights up in a spectrum of colors.This particular arc spanned several hundred square miles of sky and lasted for about an hour, according to the London Daily Mail. —Victoria GilmanBeautiful weather phenomenon awes skygazers in Spokanehttp://www.krem.com/news/local/stories/krem2_060506_sundog.57f7b3f7.htmlIt is an exceptionally rare event that can only be seen in the Northern United States during the late Spring/early Summer months, and even then under only the most unique atmospheric conditions. "It works as the same fashion as a rainbow, but in a rainbow you have liquid water. In this case you have ice crystals which act as little prisms," said meteorlogist Rich Marriott. Viewers sent in their photos of the Circum-horizontal Arc as it moved through the area. Many didn't know what it was, calling it everything from a "fly away rainbow," to a "rainless rainbow" to a "sky prism." Hannah Shedd, who lives in the Spokane Valley, said she had no idea what she was seeing. "I was outside and some some very interesting things going on in the sky, so I grabbed my camera," she said. Jyn Meyer was packing up her garage sale when she saw the beautiful display. "It was changing constantly and as clouds passed over it, it got really rally bright orange and red," she said. Nanette Graupner saw it from south Spokane. "We watched as the colors changed and moved about the sky for at least a half hour in and out of the clouds," she said.Below are other images which have been sent to me from readers who saw this beautiful event.These images from Derek outside of Spokane Washington June 3rd 2006 I shot this circum-horizontal arc just east of Cheyenne Wyoming May 22nd 2006. This event lasted for more than an hour. It was also accompanied a much smaller diameter solar halo seen in the upper portion of the image presented below. Early afternoon May 22nd 2006 on I-80 just east of Chyenne Wyoming.Ogallala Nebraska June 3rd 2006 11:16am Mountain Looking south east... These ice crystals were changing colors from an extreme violet to deep red.6/03/2006 11:19 am Mountain Time Note the rapid change in color from reds to deep blue violet! Chemtrail planes were all over the sky this particular morning. In fact, chemtrail flights have been seen in the vicinity of all, ALL reports and photos of these rare phenomena. The necessary vertical orientation of ice crystals that results in this light display used to be so very rare… Not any longer! With the HAARP array getting additional transmitting power and other nation’s getting into the weather modification game there is precious little natural weather left to enjoy. Scott: Vibration and resonance are being used to stand these ice crystals on end for purposes other than to create beautiful ice rainbows. These now exceedingly common “rare circum-horizontal arcs” are yet another calling card of man’s manipulation of this planet’s atmosphere. Get used to them! May 21st 2006 11:15am/1715Z Mountain Idaho -- And this is cloud is formed how? Convective, advective... Maybe it is conductive? In any case, thermodynamics can't explain this one. With funked up cirrus shields like this is it any wonder we are seeing all of these odd solar light phenomena! Clouds emanating from these holes at right angles to the primary cloud formation. Friday June 16th 1:37PM/1937Z Pocatello Idaho It is this vertical organization of the cloud which results in the rainbows seen in the images above. A Resonance Square A very cool link to a visual experiment which clearly has relevance to the atmosphere which remains subject to these scalar/gravity waves… Imagine if you can the patterns that could manifest if two, three or even fifty transmitters are all operating in unison. In this way is becomes very easy to see just how the clouds can be vibrated into all of these very, very unusual shapes and designs.http://www.dumpalink.com/media/1146643985/Resonance_Square Toxic Sky http://www.nbc4.tv/news/9155725/detail.html?taf=la It's a quiet mountain community, but some residents claim something's happening in the sky that's making them sick -- Mystery clouds and unusual contrails ... Is it a weather experiment on a massive scale? In a Channel 4 News investigation, Paul Moyer looks into why some say the government is manipulating the weather. Finally, the mainstream press begins adressing the chemtrail issue.Night Flights Worse for Global Warminghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/leadingedge.shtml Aviation is the fastest growing contributor to global warming. It is not just carbon dioxide from the jet engines which is the problem. The water vapour that also comes out often forms persistent condensation trails, or contrails, which trap the Earth's heat. New research from the University of Reading suggests that night-time contrails have much more of a warming effect than daytime ones. Does this mean we should stop flying at night? The Ners who saw too Much http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/the-nerd-who-saw-too-much/2005/07/12/1120934245512.html?oneclick=true McKINNON was born in Glasgow in 1966. His parents separated when he was six and he moved to London with his mother and stepfather, a bit of a UFO buff. "He comes from Falkirk," McKinnon says, "and just outside Falkirk there's a place called Bonnybridge, which is the UFO capital of the world. When he lived there, he had a dream that he was walking around Bonnybridge seeing huge ships. He told me this and it inflamed my curiosity. He was a great science-fiction reader. So, him being my second father, I started reading science-fiction, too, and doing everything he did." McKinnon read Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein - "the golden age of science-fiction". When he was 15 he joined Bufora, the British UFO Research Association, which describes itself as "a nationwide network of [about] 300 people who have a dedicated, non-cultist interest in understanding the wide-ranging extent of the UFO enigma". Then he saw WarGames, and he thought: "Can you really do it? Can you really gain unauthorised access to incredibly interesting places? Surely it can't be that easy." And so, in 1995, he gave it a try. He sat in his girlfriend, Tamsin's, aunt's house in Crouch End, and he began to hack. McKinnon was looking for - and found time and again - network administrators in high levels of the government and military establishments who hadn't bothered to give themselves passwords. That's how he got in. He did a few trial runs, hacking into Oxford University 's network, for example, and he found the whole business "incredibly exciting. And then it got more exciting when I started going to places where I really shouldn't be.Like where?" I ask. "The US Space Command," he says. And so, for the next seven years, on and off, McKinnon sat in that aunt's house, a joint in the ashtray and a can of Foster's next to the mouse pad, and he snooped. From time to time, some NASA scientist sitting at his desk somewhere would see his cursor move for no apparent reason. On those occasions, McKinnon's connection would be cut. This would never fail to freak out the then-stoned McKinnon. When I ask if he is brilliant, he says no. He's just an ordinary, self-taught techie. And, he says, he was never alone. "Once you're on the network, you can do a command called NetStat - Network Status - and it lists all the connections to that machine. There were hackers from , , , , …All on at once?" I ask. "You could see hackers from all over the world, snooping around, without the spaceniks or the military realising?Every night," he says. "What was the most exciting thing you saw?I found a list of officers' names," he says, "under the heading 'Non-Terrestrial Officers' …. It doesn't mean little green men. What I think it means is not Earth-based. I found a list of 'fleet-to-fleet transfers', and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren't US Navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet.The Americans have a secret spaceship?" I ask. "That's what this trickle of evidence has led me to believe.What were the ship names?" The very interesting full article linked to here. Record meteorite hit Norway http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1346411.ece As Wednesday morning dawned, northern was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima . Remnant of Comet 73/P? At around 2:05 a.m. on Wednesday, residents of the northern part of Troms and the western areas of Finnmark could clearly see a ball of fire taking several seconds to travel across the sky. A few minutes later an impact could be heard and geophysics and seismology research foundation NORSAR registered a powerful sound and seismic disturbances at 02:13.25 a.m. at their station in Karasjok. Farmer Peter Bruvold was out on his farm in Lyngseidet with a camera because his mare Virika was about to foal for the first time. "I saw a brilliant flash of light in the sky, and this became a light with a tail of smoke," Bruvold told Aftenposten.no. He photographed the object and then continued to tend to his animals when he heard an enormous crash. Scott: This is all I really expected from the close encounter with come SW-3 (73/P). Is Global Warming Making Hurricanes Worse? May 11th 2006http://time.blogs.com/eye_on_science/2006/05/is_global_warmi.html Last fall's killer hurricanes Katrina and Rita were extremely powerful; global warming theory predicts that hurricanes will become more powerful. A coincidence? Probably not, but some new research out of the University of Virginia, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that the relationship between greenhouse warming and hurricane strength may be more complicated than anyone realized. Over the past quarter-century, the oceans have warmed slightly, and strong hurricanes have indeed become more frequent. But a careful analysis of water temperatures in the direct path of the most powerful recent storms shows that while higher temperatures are a factor, they can explain at most only about half of the boom in killer storms. The rest has to do with atmospheric factors--wind and air temperatures, largely. Global warming critics will undoubtedly jump on these results as though they torpedoed one of the favored scare stories about what will happen as the planet heats up. But climate scientists have said all along that the atmosphere is so complex that there will be surprises. Some phenomena will be less bad than we think, while others could be far worse. Even if only half the increase in killer storms is due to global warming so far, the percentage could change as warming increases--and even if it doesn't, there should still be a rise in the number of such storms. Just not as much of a rise as we might have thought--small comfort to those who get slammed by one. And since some effects will undoubtedly be more severe than current predictions allow for, any relief we might feel over these latest studies should be tempered by a fair amount of nail-biting as we wait to see what happens on the downside. —M.L. Sunspots Still Surprise Investigators http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/060414sunspots.htm Anomalous sunspot behavior continues to baffle solar physicists. Even the cause of sunspots remains elusive, and the more detailed pictures only seem to push the answers farther down the path. “Exactly what happens and why these kind of structures are formed, we don't know " Dan Kiselman, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. In the extreme close-up photograph of a sunspot above, we see the rope-like filaments of the penumbra, or margins of the sunspot. For many years solar physicists have claimed that these filaments were convection cells, typical of heated gases. But the higher-resolution details shown here, including the twin bridges across the sunspot, do not support traditional theory. All of the structure shown is consistent with the principle of anode tufting, a plasma discharge effect expected of a positively charged electric Sun. High-resolution images of the penumbra filaments have revealed the distinctive characteristics of tornado-like charge vortices. By giving us a peek beneath the tops of the rotating discharge columns, sunspots enable us to view directly the columns’ explosive rise from below, as they heat and project plasma upward into the bright photospheric granules. For conventional theory, sunspot penumbrae remain a mystery: the standard solar model neither requires nor predicts such phenomena. In the electric model they are predictable. Electric discharges in plasma take the form of long, thin and twisting filaments. Because they are tornadic funnels of glowing plasma, they will appear darker in their centers, exactly as seen in the recent pictures. Convection cells would appear darker on their cooler peripheries. The electric explanation of sunspots, like that of the penumbra, is rooted in the observed behavior of plasma discharge. In laboratory experiments, a torus forms above the equator of a positively charged sphere. Discharges then fly between the torus and the mid- to low-latitudes of the sphere. In the electric model, the Sun is the positively charged focal point of an electric field. And now we know that the Sun is indeed surrounded by an equatorial torus (as shown in the polar UV image here). Sunspots are the direct evidence that electric discharges punch holes in the photosphere to deliver current directly to lower depths, exposing a view of the cooler interior. Nothing ever observed on the Sun supports the idea of heat transfer from the core, where standard theory places the nuclear fusion “furnace”. In the electric model, what nuclear fusion that does occur is located where the most energetic events occur, in the fierce electric tornadoes. Long Range Solar Forecast http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10may_longrange.htm Solar Cycle 25 peaking around 2022 could be one of the weakest in centuries. May 10, 2006: The Sun's Great Conveyor Belt has slowed to a record-low crawl, according to research by NASA solar physicist David Hathaway. "It's off the bottom of the charts," he says. "This has important repercussions for future solar activity." The Great Conveyor Belt is a massive circulating current of fire (hot plasma) within the Sun. It has two branches, north and south, each taking about 40 years to perform one complete circuit. Researchers believe the turning of the belt controls the sunspot cycle, and that's why the slowdown is important. Right: The sun's "Great Conveyor Belt" in profile."Normally, the conveyor belt moves about 1 meter per second—walking pace," says Hathaway. "That's how it has been since the late 19th century." In recent years, however, the belt has decelerated to 0.75 m/s in the north and 0.35 m/s in the south. "We've never seen speeds so low." (Emphasis Mine) According to theory and observation, the speed of the belt foretells the intensity of sunspot activity ~20 years in the future. A slow belt means lower solar activity; a fast belt means stronger activity. The reasons for this are explained in the Science@NASA story Solar Storm Warning. "The slowdown we see now means that Solar Cycle 25, peaking around the year 2022, could be one of the weakest in centuries," says Hathaway. This is interesting news for astronauts. Solar Cycle 25 is when the Vision for Space Exploration should be in full flower, with men and women back on the Moon preparing to go to Mars. A weak solar cycle means they won't have to worry so much about solar flares and radiation storms. Above: In red, David Hathaway's predictions for the next two solar cycles and, in pink, Mausumi Dikpati's prediction for cycle 24.On the other hand, they will have to worry more about cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are high-energy particles from deep space; they penetrate metal, plastic, flesh and bone. Astronauts exposed to cosmic rays develop an increased risk of cancer, cataracts and other maladies. Ironically, solar explosions, which produce their own deadly radiation, sweep away the even deadlier cosmic rays. As flares subside, cosmic rays intensify—yin, yang. Hathaway's prediction should not be confused with another recent forecast: A team led by physicist Mausumi Dikpata of NCAR has predicted that Cycle 24, peaking in 2011 or 2012, will be intense. Hathaway agrees: "Cycle 24 will be strong. Cycle 25 will be weak. Both of these predictions are based on the observed behavior of the conveyor belt." How do you observe a belt that plunges 200,000 km below the surface of the sun? "We do it using sunspots," Hathaway explains. Sunspots are magnetic knots that bubble up from the base of the conveyor belt, eventually popping through the surface of the sun. Astronomers have long known that sunspots have a tendency to drift—from mid solar latitudes toward the sun's equator. According to current thinking, this drift is caused by the motion of the conveyor belt. "By measuring the drift of sunspot groups," says Hathaway, "we indirectly measure the speed of the belt."Below: Hathaway monitors the speed of the Conveyor Belt by plotting the drift of sunspot groups from high to low solar latitude. This plot is called "the Butterfly Diagram." The tilt of the wings reveal the speed of the Conveyor Belt. [More] Using historical sunspot records, Hathaway has succeeded in clocking the conveyor belt as far back as 1890. The numbers are compelling: For more than a century, "the speed of the belt has been a good predictor of future solar activity." If the trend holds, Solar Cycle 25 in 2022 could be, like the belt itself, "off the bottom of the charts." Scott: Does mean that a natural end to these past 70 years of intense solar activity is nearly upon us? Would this collapse of solar activity, following the blow-off cycle forecast to peak in 2012 usher in a much more quite Sun and hence cooler weather for us here on Earth? Lots of questions! This is unbelievable!NASA shelves climate satellitesEnvironmental science may sufferBy Beth Daley, Globe Staff | June 9, 2006NASA is canceling or delaying a number of satellites designed to give scientists critical information on the earth's changing climate and environment.The space agency has shelved a $200 million satellite mission headed by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor that was designed to measure soil moisture -- a key factor in helping scientists understand the impact of global warming and predict droughts and floods. The Deep Space Climate Observatory intended to observe climate factors such as solar radiation, ozone, clouds, and water vapor more comprehensively than existing satellites, also has been canceled.And in its 2007 budget, NASA proposes significant delays in a global precipitation measuring mission to help with weather predictions, as well as the launch of a satellite designed to increase the timeliness and accuracy of severe weather forecasts and improve climate models.The changes come as NASA prioritizes its budget to pay for completion of the International Space Station and the return of astronauts to the moon by 2020 -- a goal set by President Bush that promises a more distant and arguably less practical scientific payoff. Ultimately, scientists say, the delays and cancellations could make hurricane predictions less accurate, create gaps in long-term monitoring of weather, and result in less clarity about the earth's hydrological systems, which play an integral part in climate change.``Today, when the need for information about the planet is more important than ever, this process of building understanding through increasingly powerful observations . . . is at risk of collapse," said Berrien Moore III, director of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire.Moore is cochairman of a National Research Council committee that will recommend NASA's future earth science agenda later this year. It is unclear, however, whether NASA will follow those recommendations.``NASA has canceled, scaled back, or delayed all of the planned earth observing missions," he said.Despite NASA's best-known role as a space agency, one of its key missions is to study the earth. Scientists collect data through ground- and space-based observatories using instruments that can sense heat and through which they can see with exquisite detail from many miles up. In recent years, these missions have increased in importance and visibility as global temperatures rise and scientists rush to better understand the phenomenon and the role of humans in it.While NASA is proposing similarly deep cuts to other important science programs such as astrobiology -- the search for life in space -- the earth science mission cancellations and delays take on greater significance, some scientists say, given recent allegations by a top NASA researcher and other government scientists that the Bush administration tried to silence their warnings about global warming.While scientists interviewed for this story said they do not believe the earth science cuts are a deliberate attempt to stall science on climate change, they say it comes at a time when more research, not less, is needed. NASA's earth science budget also has sustained a prior round of cuts during the last two years.NASA, which projects its budget five years out, intends to cut the overall science budget about $3.1 billion below program projections over that time. In 2004, the overall science budget was projected to grow from about $5.5 billion to about $7 billion in 2008. The new projections provide for $5.38 billion in 2008, and less than the cost of inflation after that, according to a report issued last month by the Space Studies Board, a National Research Council committee charged with analyzing NASA's science program. The exact amount of cuts to earth science programs could not be determined because they are not listed separately in the budget proposal.A NASA earth science official acknowledged that the proposed earth science cuts are steep, and said the agency is attempting to replace some of the funding. He noted the satellite data are used by other agencies, from the military to the US Department of Agriculture. But given competing priorities, there is little chance all the money will be replaced, he said.``Right now, we are going through the program carefully looking for efficiencies to restore some of these cuts," Bryant Cramer, acting director of NASA's earth science division, said in an interview. ``We are keenly aware of the shortfall, of the necessary research that should be funded, and we are trying to respond. I can't tell you a solution yet."Almost every planned earth studying mission, all that have some contribution to understanding global warming, has been affected. The $100 million Deep Space Climate Observatory, already built, was canceled earlier this year. First proposed by then-Vice President Al Gore in the 1990s, the satellite was planned to give researchers a continuous picture of the sunlit surface of the earth and allow the first direct measurements of how much sunlight is absorbed and emitted, key information that could serve as an indicator of global warming.The Global Precipitation Measurement mission, designed to record rain, snow, and ice fall more accurately, has been delayed 2 1/2 years. It is meant to replace another satellite whose mission was extended last year. Now, scientists do not believe the older satellite will last until the Global Precipitation mission is launched, creating a big gap in data collection for weather prediction and climate modeling.Another key satellite, the $10 billion National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, is over budget and has been delayed at least 18 months. And while NASA previously told earth scientists to start developing proposals for other earth-centered missions to be chosen in 2004, no such round of proposals will be analyzed until 2008.Scientists at area universities say that they are worried most about a proposed 20 percent cut to research and analysis in the earth science budget, which funds smaller-scale projects. Many of these projects analyze data from satellites and help with long-term monitoring of earth systems. The cuts also may have a chilling effect on attracting and retaining university scientists, who realize their research could be only partially funded -- or not at all.``Missions can be delayed a year or two, but the most urgent issue right now is to restore the cuts to research and analysis," said Ronald G. Prinn, director of the Center for Global Change Science at MIT. ``We need to understand the climate system much better than we do."NASA's earth science program was fairly robust until about two years ago, when several missions were canceled or delayed -- a situation that has made the current round of cuts all the more painful, scientists said. Last month, a report by the Space Studies Board concluded that the space and earth science program is neither robust nor sustainable.``There is a widespread sense that earth sciences has been suffering more than its fair share," said Drew Shindell, a physicist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.Beth Daley can be reached by e-mail at bdaley. © Copyright 2006 Globe Newspaper Company.Scott: I wonder what they don't what us to discover about the state of our climate? With this kind of commitment to this planet's environment I've got nothing but four letter words for this Bush Administration. They know something and they don't want you or I to figure it out.The Tornado seeking rocket trailer which is a QuickTime movie file download. The clip is 16Mb in length. Right click and save to your computer. We are looking for investors to help with the costs of editing the completed documentary and eventual distribution and marketing of the final product which will be available in at least four episodes. Keep looking up! --Scott ___<Paranormal_Research >