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Are there longer term history satellite weather images available on the web? What I am looking for is something preferably in .mpg or .wmv format or similar, showing weather patterns over time periods of weeks or months. Similar to the National Weather Service's satellite images of the past few hours, only covering a much longer time period.

Is there a website which gives real time weather satellite images? Not just USA but world wide

past Satellite Weather Images from October 2008? Hello to all. Where can I find (on the web) Weather images taken from satellites on last October 25, 2008? Thanks in advance

Is there a weather satellite image archive that goes back to the 1960s? It seems I once found such a thing, but I can't now. I'm looking for some visible spectrum images from the Apollo program era. Any ideas?

Weather Forecast Sites with Animated Satellite Images? My brother gave me a link on a weather forecasting site where you can actually see an animated satellite image of a specific country on a certain duration of time. Unfortunately I was not able to save the link when I reformatted my laptop. Can someone help me on what is the name of that certain site?

How do i set up a pro weather station? and how can i go about receiving satellite images to my pc? (weather)? The Question Says It All Hope some one can help :) Thanks

What Do I Need To Do , To Receive Satellite Images To My Pc? - Weather?

is there a site to watch live satellite images of earth weather from space?

Do you think meteorologists are more accurate since they can now see satellite images of weather patterns?

Where can I find a current satellite image of Europe - not cloud conditions but ground conditions? Where can I find a current satellite image of Europe - not cloud conditions but ground conditions? All I can find are current weather satellite images with either no or outdated ground conditions. Most weather services show current cloud conditions but use a relatively old photo of earth's surface. Thank you all for your answers. I will let the public decide the best one as they are all good answers. Thanks again.

why are satellite images more useful than local weather radar in this case?

How can meteorologists predict the temperature well in advance with satellite images? I thought weather satellites can give a general view of rain, snow etc. But how is that temperature for Monday is predicted on Friday?

Where can I find a Weather Satellite Image for Australia? Hi, For school I have to do a project on the weather, and to do so I need a weather satellite image of Australia on the 19th of March, 2012. I can find plenty for today and yesterday on this website (http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/satellite/?unit=p11&view=IDE00135&tz=ACDT), but I can not find archives or anything like that! Does anyone know where I can find one for that date? Thanks, Adele.

How to find archives of satellite images? Hey, So I need to find a [weather] satellite image for the 19th of March, 2012, and I can not find one ANYWHERE! I found a website that has good images (http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/satellite/?unit=p0&view=IDE00135&tz=AEST), but it only has this day, and the day before, and I was wondering if anyone knows how I can access the archives or something like that so I can find the image/video for the 19th of March. If you know of any other sites I can find one for that date of Australia, let me know :)

this is science can Anyone help me please:). describe weather satellite imaging.? if you don't wanna answer do anyone know a site i can go on to learn how a weather satellite works, what is it benefits to society,Thanks

Weather Satellite Image of Siberia? Does anyone have a link to satellite imagery of Russia that updates 3hrs or less?

Free weather satellite download? Someone told me that some NOAA weather satellites send a continouous download of weather images that it is very easy to receive via a radio scanner and decode on a PC computer. I think he is lying! WEFAX is transmitted by terrestrial stations. What he was talking about was copying the signal direct from the satellite as it passes above your house!

Which is the best site to get updates on weather forecast? Which is the best site to get updates on weather forecast? satellite images will be preferred

Odd cloud patterns in satellite image Many years ago when I first connected to the internet I was playing around downloading weather satellite images. This feature in one of them caught my attention. I was so intrigued with it that I kept a copy of it. It is the pattern of clouds to the north west of the Canary Islands, containing a very pronounced spiral. I am no meteorologist, but it doesn't look like any weather pattern I have seen, it is too small and self contained to be a hurricane and I think too big for a tornado. The image is dated October 1998. Can anyone offer an explanation for this? http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee34/charcinders/Galaxies/SpiralCloud.jpg

Whats the site that has real-time satellite images of clouds? I forgot the site and the name of it. Its a weather page that shows the cloud cover of any area plus more during the day and at night, also in real time.

Are the times used on the weather radar and Satellite photos NZ time or GMT? Looking at the images I can see on Radar or Satellite they don't appear to relate very closely to the weather I can see out the window, nor do they match the isobaric maps unless a 12 hr allowance is made.

Is there anyway at all to view "real-time LIVE" satellite images of like my house? Im not talking about weather satellites. I would put corradants in (lat/lon) and see a snap shot of that place at that exact time. If I was to refresh it would update it. any programs or web sites that do this. I know it exist in the civillan world, I just cant find it. I think its an actual program. I just want to find out what its called & where to get it.

Having trouble with videos and images? I am unable to watch videos. There is a blank space where the video should be playing. I also cannot view certain images, like the weather radar on weather.com, or satellite images from zillow.com. All I get is a white box where the video/image should be. I am using internet explorer on windows 7. Any suggestions?

im looking for a good web site to view satellite images and topographical maps .? I've been on the weather channel site and heard of terra server but it doesnt get as close as image as i would like any help is welcomed

Why doesn't the weather channel local forecast work if you have satellite? Something I've always wondered, if you have cable and the weather channel then you get to see what the local forecast is for your town, but if you have satellite you instead see just radar images all over the U.S. Why don't you get to see the local forecast if you have satellite?

Can you back-date satellite images? Heya! I need to find some Satellite Images from 3 weeks ago when the weather was miserable in the UK. It's for a project - do you know any site that back-dates the satellite images instead of the present satellite images? Thankyou! Help please.

What is a Tornado scar, on a Satellite image? Yesterday I walked in on the very end of the weather. They were showing a satellite image of Wisconsin and saying something to the effect of it being a tornado scar. Also how does that happen?

Doppler radar and satellite images provide information to create...... EASY 10 POINTS!!!!? Doppler radar and satellite images provide information to create ___________ A.station models B.weather data C.weather models D.regional data

What proof is there that we say in the UK that we usually get the remnants of the USA East coast weather? Are there satellite images or video clearly showing the movement of eastbound weather systems from the east coast USA over to the British mainland? It'd be fascinating to see it to know if it was true or not :)

Does the size of a satellite tv dish affect the tv image quality? Do bad weather like thunderstorms,? lightnings, fog, rain, hurricanes, tornades affect satellite tv reception?

weather help??????????????? cane anyone recommend any good weather websites where i can get live satellite images and weather reports and 10 minute update for uk only thanks

Is there a website that have satellite image tracking storm movement for the next couple of days.? I just want to see the storm or rain path in the mexican riviera. I only see how the weather is going to be on a specific date on weather.com. I actually want to see the satellite prediction like on tv weather. thanks what is another reliable weather website for 10 day to month prediction forecast besides weather.com.

What is the weather channels problem? I heard their comment about the face in the clouds , are they jealous of anyone who can see things other than storm clouds or clear skies. I take pictures of clouds and they make awesome images for those of us who have the eye to see details. Yes the clouds will give an artists impression of biblical deity, I have a few pictures that I took with my camera and it did not come from a satellite image.

What effects the Weather? When I see a satellite image of weather highs and lows, the weather patterns seem to move in no predictable manner, and the Radio station DJ's always seem to get the weather forecast wrong. What determines the weather?

is there any wallpaper of Earth that changes as the time goes on? Like a satellite image? I am looking for a free wallpaper program that displays a satellite image of Earth and changes depending on the time or weather. i heard there was something like this but i can't find it. thank you.

how can weather maps be used to predict weather? for example, satellite images are used to predict cloud cover... what do weather maps predict? precipitation? or is that radar that shows precipitation ( thinking out loud now..!) thank you kindly! xx God bless x

Did weather satellites happen to image the hand of God making miracle rain in Georgia?

How does weather.com / weather channel come up with their forecast? What technology do they (weather.com) use to find predict the forecast? Is it doppler radar and other things, satellite imaging, etc? Please try to be specific when naming the technology..Thank you.

What are high density winds on radar, what do the flag symbols represent, and how are they measured? I've always wanted to be a meteorologist but never had the chance nor the funds to become one but I still love weather. I was looking at the NOAA Satellite images and you can bring up the high density winds and it shows I believe three different strength categories and these flags. If you can try to explain to me in plain terms what they mean? As far as the Flag symbols, I know they point out the direction of the winds, but why do some have one, two or three flags?

Geography, what kind of satellite? or whatever this is? The _________ ________ _______ _________ or ___ is a weather satellite. It orbits the Earth in sync with Earth's rotation so it always views the same area. It gathers images of atmospheric conditions that are used in weather forecasting. I can't find it in my World Geography Book.

Which type of technology scientist use to monitor coral reef development? My bff and I, are in the middle of doing some science homework and she keep telling me the answer is weather satellites but I think it's Landsat satellites can someone please help us!!! here the answer choices VLBI Weather Satellites Landsat satellites Computer imaging

What is a typical workday for a meteorologist? I would like to know what a meteorologist does on a typical 8 hour workday. For example, suppose a meteorologist works for a local news channel. Of course he spends some time on camera broadcasting his forecast, but what about the rest of the time? Does he look at satellite image, look at temperature readings, weather models?

Can someone answer these questions fo me regarding Weater and Climate? 1) Why are clouds and precipitation often associated with fronts? 2) Residents of Chicago look to the west for an indication of what tomorrows weather might be. Explain why. 3) What are the advantages of infrared satellite images over visible satellite images for monitoring storm systems that travel across the nation?

Is there a NOAA satelite image archives? I'm writing an article and I'm trying to locate a NOAA satellite image for the West Coast of California (Eastern Pacific) for June 21, 2008 that I observed that morning which showed a strange weather system that formed just previous to the "unseasonal" thunderstorm that caused 1700 lightening fires in California that day. Can you lead me to archived NOAA images for that day?

Weather Map Questions Help? Can someone please help me with these questions? -What can meteorologists learn by the shade of the clouds in a satellite image? -What does radar show? -How do you use the map key on a radar map? -How do we get radar images? -What are some of the limitations of radar maps? -What is precipitation? -What are some examples of precipitation? -Define the different types of precipitation on a map? -What causes different types of precipitation? -What is temperature? What are the two most important factors of temperature? -Why is it usually cooler at night? -Why does temperature change during the seasons? -Explain the main cause of winds? -Why are some winds stronger than others? -How does wind affect the weather? -How are winds named? -What is a low-pressure system? What is a high-pressure system?What kind of weather does each typically bring? -What is a cold front?What is a warm front?What types of weather does each typically bring?

Satellite/ orbit calculation? ESA wants to launch a weather satellite with a mass of 194kg into orbit. The time used for one orbit must be 4 hours to obtain usable information from the images. The earth's mass: 5,976 * 10^24 kg The earth's radius: 6,378 * 10^6 m Gravitational constant: 6,6726 * 10^ -11 Pi: 3,142 1 hour has 3600 seconds Use this information and this information only, to solve the following: Calculate at which altitude (distance above the earth's surface) the satellite has to be, to fulfill the above stated requirements. *note: I took this exercise from a physics school book. I believe this one to have a flaw. The "correct" answer stated in the book is 6,4*10^3 km. Ps.: by using for example: G · m · t² = 4 · π² · r³ Thus: 6,6726*10^(-11) * 194 * (3600*4)² = 4 · π² * r³ I get r=0,408151. Now I don't know about short people, but I would pretty much run into that satellite orbitting at 40cm altitude.....xD

Meteorology homework help? 3. Visible satellite images rely on _______, and infra-red satellite images rely on ________. infra-red radiation emitted from the targets, infra-red radiation emitted from the targets light from the Sun reflected by the target, light from the Sun reflected by the target light from the Sun reflected by the target, infra-red radiation emitted from the targets each of the answers above is true. none of the answers above is true. 4. Which is true of interpreting infrared satellite images? areas of bright white indicate relatively cold temperatures on the image. areas of relatively dark colors indicate warm temperatures on the image. they can indicate locations of clouds even at night. each of the answers above is true. none of the answers above is true. 5. If from the ground you could see weather satellites orbiting the Earth, the geosynchronous satellites would appear_______, and the polar-orbiting satellites would appear_______. to move roughly along lines of latititude, to move roughly along lines of latitude to be stationary, to move roughly along lines of longitude to move roughly along lines of longitude, to be stationary to be stationary, to be stationary to move roughly along lines of longitude, to move roughly along lines of longitude

Have You Worshipped At The Church Of Global Warming Yet? " 5:18 And to the unbeliever, if ye question my claim, ye are ignorant and shall be shunned, and if ye are a senior scientist, ye will be removed for your disobedience to doctrine. And lo, remember a majority of scientists agreed- that they be not climatologists is merely inconvienent. Ignore the natural weather cycle my flock, and the satellite images from NASA showing no temperture change in the troposphere, these are lies from the conservative devils trying to mislead you. " --Letter From Gore To Solar Panelians Friend, have you come to Gore yet? Have you accepted Al Gore as your personal savior?

Anywhere to find a world weather map? I recently set up two monitors for my computer set up. Im trying to make a screen saver that will be on both screens so the Image need to be pretty big. My idea involves a global weather map so I assume theres a satellite view off some government website that I could use. Any site would help so Im open for all comments. Greatly appreciated. Thanks guys. PS: Hopefully the image could be around 2560x by 1024x.

weather questions...? 1. Atmospheric pressure systems are often easy to see on satellite images. This particular image focuses on western Europe in October 2001, with Spain in the lower left part of the image and clouds showing up in bright white. Given your understanding of pressure systems, where is the high pressure system in this image? Where is the approximate center of the high? In what direction is this system spinning and where are the southerly and northerly winds in the system? 2. Why is air pressure greater at low altitudes rather than high altitudes? 3. Which direction does air flow at the surface, from cyclone to anticyclone, or the reverse? lol here it is http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l268/vondocha/weather.jpg

Why would the infrared weather pictures be black? I was checking out some of the most recent pictures of Irene (I'm in the middle of it right now) and when I checked the infrared satellite images, the whole of the US and Canada were blacked out, like a visible image at night. Why would it be dark like that? I'm sure I'm not looking at the visible, because I checked that one right after just to be sure. What could cause it? http://www.ametsoc.org/amsedu/dstreme/sat/sat_ir.gif that's the image btw

What are the best storm-tracking sites? I am a weather geek and I like tracking storms. What are the best sites for this kind of thing? I want to watch animated satellite images, rainfall maps and radar, as well as information about prediction, wind-speeds, coordinates and all the rest of it. I googled it for ages, but couldn't find anything that meets all my criteria. By the way; please include only worldwide sites, not national American ones.

SCIENCE HOMEWORK HELP. 10 POINTS.? 1.What have meteorologists concluded about cloud seeding? A. It always cases a significant increase in precipitation B. It never produces precipitation C. It sometimes increases and sometimes decreases precipitation D. It has no effect on precipitation 2. Scientists study upper atmospheric conditions to A. Make local forecasts B Track local weather patterns C. Study the outer atmosphere D. Make short-range forecasts. 3. A pattern of meteorologists symbols that represent the weather at a particular observing station is a? A.Weather Station B. Station Model C. Satellite Image D. Weather Site 4. Which of the following is NOT a factor that could cause climate change according to the Milankovitch theory? A. changes in the shape of earths orbit B. changes in earths tilt C. the wobble of earth on its axis D. the movement of tectonic plates 5. Which of the following may decrease temperatures by reflecting sunlight back into space? A. Sea level change B.Global warming C. Orbital Change D. Volcanic activity 6. When an air mass encounters a mountain range, the air mass A. Stops Moving B. Slows and sinks C. Reverses its direction D. Rises and cools 7. In the Milankovitch theory, precession describes A. the wobble of earths axis B. the speed of earths orbit C. the shape of earths orbit D. the angle of tilt of earths axis 8. Which of the following factors related to earths orbit does NOT affect climate? A. Eccentricity B. Rotation C. Tilt D. Precession PLEASE HELP ME , THANKSS (: :*

Satellite signal poor .. but only on sports channels? Satellite signal poor .. but only on sports channels? checked spec of sat signal being recieved and its full. yet when we watch Sky sports 1 or 3 the images break up and freeze. is anyone else found this with their system. its not due to weather conditions as it is ALL the time and all other channels ok Is there a way i can boost the signal to my reciever?

which of the following statements is true of satellites in polar orbits? a. they can provide images of higher resolution than those from geosynchronous satellites b.they are only able to image the polar regions c.the images they provide are of no use to weather forecasters d. they always provide images of lower resoloution than those from geosychronous satellites e.a given example always provides images of the same region of the earth for anybody who would like to be hironic this is not homework they are past papers that i cannot find the answers... anybody who would like to be hironic do not give me any answer!

Earth Science questions HELP PLEASE? these are all true and false questions that i am having trouble answering if you could help that would be great!! A radiosonde is stationed on the ground to gather weather data. The circle in a station model indicates the amount of cloud cover. Infrared images use temperature to create pictures. A disadvantage of a visible satellite image is that it cannot be used at night. In a station model, the wind speed is measured in miles per hour.

HELP! i have a huge science test coming up and i don't know:? what type of rock marine fossils come from [igneous, sed., meta.?], how events occuring at a distant place are shown locally on Earth [satellites, video signals, microwave towers?], and whixh data wouls be most accurate for showing the forcast for the next 5 days - info radioed by 6 weather balloons all over the world OR images of regions recieved from a weather satellite? PLEASE ANSWER - QUICK!

earth science help plz? these are all true and false questions that i am having trouble answering if you could help that would be great!! A radiosonde is stationed on the ground to gather weather data. The circle in a station model indicates the amount of cloud cover. Infrared images use temperature to create pictures. A disadvantage of a visible satellite image is that it cannot be used at night. In a station model, the wind speed is measured in miles per hour.

atmospheric pressure question...? 1. Atmospheric pressure systems are often easy to see on satellite images. This particular image focuses on western Europe in October 2001, with Spain in the lower left part of the image and clouds showing up in bright white. Given your understanding of pressure systems, where is the high pressure system in this image? Where is the approximate center of the high? In what direction is this system spinning and where are the southerly and northerly winds in the system? here is the image http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l268/vondocha/weather.jpg

Midlatitude Cyclones Questions? what are the weather conditions that typically accompany a cyclone? describe how a midlatitude cyclone appears on a satellite image?

Global warming and natural disasters Are the predictions coming true before our eyes? ATLANTA (Reuters) - Flooding in north Georgia that killed nine people caused $250 million worth of damage to property and tens of millions of dollars more damage to infrastructure, the state insurance commissioner said on Wednesday. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090923/us/usreport_us_usa_georgia_floods Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest hurricane,[3][4] as well as one of the five deadliest, in the history of the United States.[5] Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's biggest city was shrouded in an eerie blanket of red dust on Wednesday as bushfires, earthquakes, high winds and massive hail stones caused havoc in the country. Sydney's cars and buildings turned orange as strong winds blew desert dust across the city, snarling commuter and air transport and prompting a warning for children and the elderly to stay indoors. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090923/world/australia_weather Freak 'tornado' kills 17 in Argentina, Brazil Agence France-PresseSeptember 9, 2009 http://www.canada.com/technology/Freak+tornado+kills+Argentina+Brazil/1973319/story.html The most direct shipping route from Europe to Asia is fully clear of ice for the first time since records began, the European Space Agency (Esa) says. Historically, the Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans has been ice-bound through the year. But the agency says ice cover has been steadily shrinking, and this summer's reduction has made the route navigable. The findings, based on satellite images, raised concerns about the speed of global warming. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6995999.stm Co2 , cattle farts , the warming sun , green house gas, space aliens or the speeches of politicians I do not care WHAT causes or caused it Are we seeing the predictions of increased storms freak unpredictable weather and general instability scientists associated with global warming/climate change before our eyes ? One of Canada's most respected scientists David Suzuki states on his web site Climate change is is already having a significant impact on ecosystems, economies and communities. Increased drought is one impact of climate change. Rising average temperatures do not simply mean balmier winters. Some regions will experience more extreme heat, while others may cool slightly. Flooding, drought, and intense summer heat could result. Violent storms and other extreme weather events could also result from the increased energy stored in our warming atmosphere. http://www.davidsuzuki.org/climate_change/impacts/

which of the following is an acceptable definition of remote sensing? a. the acquisition of photographic data without touch or contact b.imaging techniques that use satellites c.the observation of a target by a distant light gathering device d.the acquisition of data for weather forecasting e.the collection of data using sensors located far from the object

To identify the most severe aspect of a squall line? To identify the most severe aspect of a squall line of thunderstorms, (the strong straight-line winds) radar meteorologists try to identify a _______________ on the radar reflectivity image. This part of the squall line was created by the __________________. a. hook echo; rear flank downdraft b. bookend vortex; trailing stratiform region c. hook echo; gust front d. bow echo; rear inflow jet e. mesocyclone; bookend vortex What weather product would you look at to identify strong rotation in a supercell? What is the proper name if the rotating updraft of the supercell? a. visible satellite image; rising thermal b. radar radial velocity image; mesocyclone c. rawinsonde; bow echo d. meteogram; hook echo e. surface weather map; hail core Which of the following is not a part of the supercell thunderstorm? a. trailing stratiform region b. mesocyclone c. forward flank downdraft d. hook echo e. rear flank downdraft I have no idea waht the answers are to these 2

are we putting all are eggs in one basket with technology? Computer glitch hits US flights File image of planes at Atlanta International Airport The delays affected Atlanta airport, one of the world's busiest A computer glitch affecting aircraft flight plans has caused cancellations and delays along the US east coast. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a computer system in Atlanta, Georgia, which processes flight plans stopped working properly. As a result, controllers were forced to enter flight plans manually. The FAA said the safety of planes in the air was not affected and, according to US media reports, the computer system is now working again. The problems began at about 0515 local time (1015 GMT) on Thursday and, according to the Associated Press news agency, were resolved around 1000. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was worst affected, with dozens of flights cancelled or delayed. Airports in New York, Boston and Florida also reported delays. Airline officials said they expected the delays to continue through the day. Last August a similar computer failure affected hundreds of flights across the US. if we geta solar flair in 2012 predicted by NASA we lose all technology. just look at what happen with the planes imagine the world! FEATURE Solar Storm Warning 03.10.2006 + Play Audio | + Download Audio | + Historia en Español | + Email to a friend | + Join mailing list March 10, 2006: It's official: Solar minimum has arrived. Sunspots have all but vanished. Solar flares are nonexistent. The sun is utterly quiet. Like the quiet before a storm. This week researchers announced that a storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one," she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958. see captionThat was a solar maximum. The Space Age was just beginning: Sputnik was launched in Oct. 1957 and Explorer 1 (the first US satellite) in Jan. 1958. In 1958 you couldn't tell that a solar storm was underway by looking at the bars on your cell phone; cell phones didn't exist. Even so, people knew something big was happening when Northern Lights were sighted three times in Mexico. A similar maximum now would be noticed by its effect on cell phones, GPS, weather satellites and many other modern technologies. Right: Intense auroras over Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1958. [More] Dikpati's prediction is unprecedented. In nearly-two centuries since the 11-year sunspot cycle was discovered, scientists have struggled to predict the size of future maxima—and failed. Solar maxima can be intense, as in 1958, or barely detectable, as in 1805, obeying no obvious pattern. The key to the mystery, Dikpati realized years ago, is a conveyor belt on the sun. We have something similar here on Earth—the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, popularized in the sci-fi movie The Day After Tomorrow. It is a network of currents that carry water and heat from ocean to ocean--see the diagram below. In the movie, the Conveyor Belt stopped and threw the world's weather into chaos. see caption Above: Earth's "Great Ocean Conveyor Belt." [More] The sun's conveyor belt is a current, not of water, but of electrically-conducting gas. It flows in a loop from the sun's equator to the poles and back again. Just as the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt controls weather on Earth, this solar conveyor belt controls weather on the sun. Specifically, it controls the sunspot cycle. Solar physicist David Hathaway of the National Space Science & Technology Center (NSSTC) explains: "First, remember what sunspots are--tangled knots of magnetism generated by the sun's inner dynamo. A typical sunspot exists for just a few weeks. Then it decays, leaving behind a 'corpse' of weak magnetic fields." Enter the conveyor belt. see caption"The top of the conveyor belt skims the surface of the sun, sweeping up the magnetic fields of old, dead sunspots. The 'corpses' are dragged down at the poles to a depth of 200,000 km where the sun's magnetic dynamo can amplify them. Once the corpses (magnetic knots) are reincarnated (amplified), they become buoyant and float back to the surface." Presto—new sunspots! Right: The sun's "great conveyor belt." [Larger image] All this happens with massive slowness. "It takes about 40 years for the belt to complete one loop," says Hathaway. The speed varies "anywhere from a 50-year pace (slow) to a 30-year pace (fast)." When the belt is turning "fast," it means that lots of magnetic fields are being swept up, and that a future sunspot cycle is going to be intense. This is a basis for forecasting: "The belt was turning fast in 1986-1996," says Hathaway. "Old magnetic fields swept up then should re-appear as big suns the world would die without technology we have no way of communication. we rely on trade to get food here in America, if we cant talk it over we cant trade! they say a solar flair well do worse than lose technology it make it to where we have no electricity! so even the most basic things well, malfunction.

Geography Question !!? You must know geography to answer this following question... Describe ways in which various recent meteorological developments such as satellite photography , radar images and computers can make weather forecasting more accurate ? 'been there' thats too much info to read

President Bush and the rest of the world are finally onboard and backing the "BIG BANG THEORY", truth wins!? WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The discovery by John Mather and George Smoot of "cosmic ripples," which won them the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday, was lauded in 1992 by cosmologist Stephen Hawking as "the greatest discovery of the century, if not of all time." ADVERTISEMENT Yes No Yes No Yes No While most physicists do not go that far, they are universal in their praise of the experiment, in which the pair and their team designed a satellite and used it to find proof of the Big Bang theory of the universe's origins. They found faint variations in microwave radiation that dated back to just 300,000 years after the fiery birth of the universe. These ripples in the microwave radiation, they said, were the primordial framework on which the galaxies, stars and other stuff of the universe took shape. It explained why the universe is lumpy and not a smooth sheet of matter and energy. "The discovery changed everything," said Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist at Case Western University in Ohio. "It produced a revolution in what we know about the universe -- we know it is expanding, we know it is flat ... and we can measure that to an incredible accuracy," Krauss said in a telephone interview. "Cosmology now is a precision science." Until then, theoretical physicists had cobbled together small pieces of evidence that the universe and everything in it had appeared suddenly about 15 billion years ago from an infinitesimally small point in a vacuum of nothingness. When the 40-member research team announced some of their findings to a meeting of physicists in 1992, an "audible gasp was heard from the audience," according to the American Institute of Physics. Stephen Hawking, the Cambridge University physicist who explained theories about how the universe was formed in his popular book "A Brief History of Time," was one of most excited. "It is the discovery of the century, if not of all time," Hawking said in a statement at the time. FILLING IN THE BLANKS "I don't think he was completely out of control," Krauss said. People had known what to look for. "The picture, however, had been blank up to then," he said. "Then it was clear -- it wasn't a vague idea. It was clear the lumps were there." These fluctuations were faint variations in temperature, and scientists have since followed up on those measurements to try to understand, for instance, dark matter -- mass that no one has been able to see or measure but which must exist because of the amount of gravity measured in the universe. Some teams have come up with new theories of dark energy -- a mysterious force that may be accelerating the expansion of the universe. While the implications may far outlast humanity -- the end of the universe may be coming in a few more billion years -- Smoot has been clear on the need for the work. 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Don't believe Al Gores Hype!? Don't Believe the Hype Al Gore is wrong. There's no "consensus" on global warming. BY RICHARD S. LINDZEN Sunday, July 2, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT According to Al Gore's new film "An Inconvenient Truth," we're in for "a planetary emergency": melting ice sheets, huge increases in sea levels, more and stronger hurricanes, and invasions of tropical disease, among other cataclysms--unless we change the way we live now. Bill Clinton has become the latest evangelist for Mr. Gore's gospel, proclaiming that current weather events show that he and Mr. Gore were right about global warming, and we are all suffering the consequences of President Bush's obtuseness on the matter. And why not? Mr. Gore assures us that "the debate in the scientific community is over." That statement, which Mr. Gore made in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC, ought to have been followed by an asterisk. What exactly is this debate that Mr. Gore is referring to? Is there really a scientific community that is debating all these issues and then somehow agreeing in unison? Far from such a thing being over, it has never been clear to me what this "debate" actually is in the first place. The media rarely help, of course. When Newsweek featured global warming in a 1988 issue, it was claimed that all scientists agreed. Periodically thereafter it was revealed that although there had been lingering doubts beforehand, now all scientists did indeed agree. Even Mr. Gore qualified his statement on ABC only a few minutes after he made it, clarifying things in an important way. When Mr. Stephanopoulos confronted Mr. Gore with the fact that the best estimates of rising sea levels are far less dire than he suggests in his movie, Mr. Gore defended his claims by noting that scientists "don't have any models that give them a high level of confidence" one way or the other and went on to claim--in his defense--that scientists "don't know. . . . They just don't know." So, presumably, those scientists do not belong to the "consensus." Yet their research is forced, whether the evidence supports it or not, into Mr. Gore's preferred global-warming template--namely, shrill alarmism. To believe it requires that one ignore the truly inconvenient facts. To take the issue of rising sea levels, these include: that the Arctic was as warm or warmer in 1940; that icebergs have been known since time immemorial; that the evidence so far suggests that the Greenland ice sheet is actually growing on average. A likely result of all this is increased pressure pushing ice off the coastal perimeter of that country, which is depicted so ominously in Mr. Gore's movie. In the absence of factual context, these images are perhaps dire or alarming. They are less so otherwise. Alpine glaciers have been retreating since the early 19th century, and were advancing for several centuries before that. Since about 1970, many of the glaciers have stopped retreating and some are now advancing again. And, frankly, we don't know why. The other elements of the global-warming scare scenario are predicated on similar oversights. Malaria, claimed as a byproduct of warming, was once common in Michigan and Siberia and remains common in Siberia--mosquitoes don't require tropical warmth. Hurricanes, too, vary on multidecadal time scales; sea-surface temperature is likely to be an important factor. This temperature, itself, varies on multidecadal time scales. However, questions concerning the origin of the relevant sea-surface temperatures and the nature of trends in hurricane intensity are being hotly argued within the profession. Even among those arguing, there is general agreement that we can't attribute any particular hurricane to global warming. To be sure, there is one exception, Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., who argues that it must be global warming because he can't think of anything else. While arguments like these, based on lassitude, are becoming rather common in climate assessments, such claims, given the primitive state of weather and climate science, are hardly compelling. A general characteristic of Mr. Gore's approach is to assiduously ignore the fact that the earth and its climate are dynamic; they are always changing even without any external forcing. To treat all change as something to fear is bad enough; to do so in order to exploit that fear is much worse. Regardless, these items are clearly not issues over which debate is ended--at least not in terms of the actual science. A clearer claim as to what debate has ended is provided by the environmental journalist Gregg Easterbrook. He concludes that the scientific community now agrees that significant warming is occurring, and that there is clear evidence of human influences on the climate system. This is still a most peculiar claim. At some level, it has never been widely contested. Most of the climate community has agreed since 1988 that global mean temperatures have increased on the order of one degree Fahrenheit over the past century, having risen significantly from about 1919 to 1940, decreased between 1940 and the early '70s, increased again until the '90s, and remaining essentially flat since 1998. There is also little disagreement that levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have risen from about 280 parts per million by volume in the 19th century to about 387 ppmv today. Finally, there has been no question whatever that carbon dioxide is an infrared absorber (i.e., a greenhouse gas--albeit a minor one), and its increase should theoretically contribute to warming. Indeed, if all else were kept equal, the increase in carbon dioxide should have led to somewhat more warming than has been observed, assuming that the small observed increase was in fact due to increasing carbon dioxide rather than a natural fluctuation in the climate system. Although no cause for alarm rests on this issue, there has been an intense effort to claim that the theoretically expected contribution from additional carbon dioxide has actually been detected. Given that we do not understand the natural internal variability of climate change, this task is currently impossible. Nevertheless there has been a persistent effort to suggest otherwise, and with surprising impact. Thus, although the conflicted state of the affair was accurately presented in the 1996 text of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the infamous "summary for policy makers" reported ambiguously that "The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate." This sufficed as the smoking gun for Kyoto. The next IPCC report again described the problems surrounding what has become known as the attribution issue: that is, to explain what mechanisms are responsible for observed changes in climate. Some deployed the lassitude argument--e.g., we can't think of an alternative--to support human attribution. But the "summary for policy makers" claimed in a manner largely unrelated to the actual text of the report that "In the light of new evidence and taking into account the remaining uncertainties, most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations." In a similar vein, the National Academy of Sciences issued a brief (15-page) report responding to questions from the White House. It again enumerated the difficulties with attribution, but again the report was preceded by a front end that ambiguously claimed that "The changes observed over the last several decades are likely mostly due to human activities, but we cannot rule out that some significant part of these changes is also a reflection of natural variability." This was sufficient for CNN's Michelle Mitchell to presciently declare that the report represented a "unanimous decision that global warming is real, is getting worse and is due to man. There is no wiggle room." Well, no. More recently, a study in the journal Science by the social scientist Nancy Oreskes claimed that a search of the ISI Web of Knowledge Database for the years 1993 to 2003 under the key words "global climate change" produced 928 articles, all of whose abstracts supported what she referred to as the consensus view. A British social scientist, Benny Peiser, checked her procedure and found that only 913 of the 928 articles had abstracts at all, and that only 13 of the remaining 913 explicitly endorsed the so-called consensus view. Several actually opposed it. Even more recently, the Climate Change Science Program, the Bush administration's coordinating agency for global-warming research, declared it had found "clear evidence of human influences on the climate system." This, for Mr. Easterbrook, meant: "Case closed." What exactly was this evidence? The models imply that greenhouse warming should impact atmospheric temperatures more than surface temperatures, and yet satellite data showed no warming in the atmosphere since 1979. The report showed that selective corrections to the atmospheric data could lead to some warming, thus reducing the conflict between observations and models descriptions of what greenhouse warming should look like. That, to me, means the case is still very much open. So what, then, is one to make of this alleged debate? I would suggest at least three points. First, nonscientists generally do not want to bother with understanding the science. Claims of consensus relieve policy types, environmental advocates and politicians of any need to do so. Such claims also serve to intimidate the public and even scientists--especially those outside the area of climate dynamics. Secondly, given that the question of human attribution largely cannot be resolved, its use in promoting visions of disaster constitutes nothing so much as a bait-and-switch scam. That is an inauspicious beginning to what Mr. Gore claims is not a political issue but a "moral" crusade. Lastly, there is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition. An earlier attempt at this was accompanied by tragedy. Perhaps Marx was right. This time around we may have farce--if we're lucky. Mr. Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT.

Which type of technology can scientists use to monitor coral reef development? a.Landsat satellites b.VLBI c computer imaging d weather satellites

Republicans and global warming denialists, what do you think of this? All Antarctica seems to be warming, report says David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor Thursday, January 22, 2009 PRINTE-MAILSHARECOMMENTS (314)FONT | SIZE: (01-21) 18:16 PST -- The climate trend that is raising temperatures across most of the world is warming all of Antarctica despite earlier signs that most of the ice-covered continent has cooled during the past 50 years, researchers are reporting today. IMAGES View Larger Images MORE NEWS Car, two AC Transit buses involved in crash 01.22.09 Clinton takes the reins at State Department 01.22.09 Obama signs order to close Guantanamo in a year 01.22.09 The scientists stop short of claiming with certainty that wind-borne greenhouse gases from global industries on other continents are responsible for Antarctica's warming, but they say their evidence makes them "almost certain" that human activity carries at least some of the blame. For years the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose scientists track global warming year by year, has reported that greenhouse gases and global warming have clearly hit six of the world's seven continents, but that the evidence from Antarctica is still unclear. West Antarctica is known to be warming strongly, but the climate of the much larger eastern area was said to be cooling, some scientists have argued. Now the issue has apparently been resolved. In a report published today in the journal Nature, climatologists Eric J. Steig of the University of Washington and Drew Shindell of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies say that for the first time they combined satellite observations over the entire continent with evidence from more than 100 manned and unmanned weather stations both inland and along the continent's coasts to determine climate trends for the past 50 years. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/22/MN8015E0U9.DTL

what is barmuda triangle and where it is situated? is it mistry of this world http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl The Bermuda Triangle (also known as Devil's Triangle) is a nearly half-million square-mile (1.2 million km2) area of ocean roughly defined by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and the southernmost tip of Florida. The Bermuda Triangle has become popular through representation by the mass media, in which it is a paranormal site in which the known laws of physics are either violated, altered, or both. http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl While there is a common belief that a number of ships and airplanes have disappeared under highly unusual circumstances in this region, the United States Coast Guard and others disagree with that assessment, citing statistics demonstrating that the number of incidents involving lost ships and aircraft is no larger than that of any other heavily traveled region of the world. Many of the alleged mysteries have proven not so mysterious or unusual upon close examination, with inaccuracies and misinformation about the cases often circulating and recirculating over the decades. http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl The triangle is an arbitrary shape, crudely marking out a corridor of the Atlantic, stretching northward from the West Indies, along the North American seaboard, as far as the Carolinas. In the Age of Sail, ships returning to Europe from parts south would sail north to the Carolinas, then turn east for Europe, taking advantage of the prevailing wind direction across the North Atlantic. Even with the development of steam and internal-combustion engines, a great deal more shipping traffic was (and still is) found nearer the US coastline than towards the empty centre of the Atlantic. The Triangle also loosely conforms with the course of the Gulf Stream as it leaves the West Indies, and has always been an area of volatile weather. The combination of distinctly heavy maritime traffic and tempestuous weather meant that a certain, also distinctly large, number of vessels would flounder in storms. Given the historical limitations of communications technology, most of those ships that sank without survivors would disappear without a trace. The advent of wireless communications, radar, and satellite navigation meant that the unexplained disappearances largely ceased at some point in the 20th Century. The occasional vessel still sinks, but rarely without a trace. It should be noted that both the concept and the name of the Bermuda Triangle date only to the 1960s, and were the products of an American journalist. http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl Other areas often purported to possess unusual characteristics are the Devil's Sea, located near Japan, and the Marysburgh Vortex or the Great Lakes Triangle, located in eastern Lake Ontario. Map of the popularly-held dimensions of the Bermuda Triangle; recent claims by researchers alude to a more "trapezium" shape, extending back into the Gulf of Mexico and down into the Caribbean Sea.Contents History The cover of the 1977 Panther paperback edition of Berlitz's The Bermuda Triangle First citations The first mention of disappearances in the area was made in 1950 by E.V.W. Jones as a sidebar on the Associated Press wire service regarding recent ship losses. Jones' article notes the "mysterious disappearances" of ships, airplanes and small boats in the region, and ascribes it the name "The Devil's Triangle". It was next mentioned in 1952 in a Fate Magazine article by George X. Sand, who outlined several "strange marine disappearances". The term "Bermuda Triangle" was popularized by Vincent Gaddis in a 1964 Argosy feature. http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl Popularized by Berlitz The area achieved its current fame largely through the efforts of Charles Berlitz in his 1974 book The Bermuda Triangle (right) and its subsequent film adaptation. The book recounts a long series of mysterious disappearances of ships and aircraft, in particular the December 1945 loss of five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bombers in the infamous Flight 19 incident. The book was a bestseller and included several theories about the cause of the disappearances, including accidents due to high traffic volumes; natural storms; "temporal holes"; the lost empire of Atlantis; transportation by extraterrestrial technology; and other natural or supernatural causes. Skeptical responses The marine insurer Lloyd's of London has determined the "triangle" to be no more dangerous than any other area of ocean, and does not charge unusual rates for passage through the region. Coast Guard records confirm their conclusion. http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl Skeptics comment that the disappearance of a train between two stops would be more convincing evidence of paranormal activity, and the fact that such things do not occur suggests that paranormal explanations are not needed for the disappearance of ships and airplanes in the far less predictable open ocean. http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl Kusche's research Intrigued by the number of students coming to him looking for information about the Bermuda Triangle, Lawrence Kusche, a reference librarian with Arizona State University at the time of the Flight 19 incident, began an exhaustive follow-up investigation of the original reports. His findings were eventually published in 1975 as The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved. http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl Kusche's research revealed a number of inaccuracies and inconsistencies between Berlitz's accounts and statements from eyewitnesses, participants and others involved in the initial incidents. He noted cases where pertinent information went unreported, such as the disappearance of round-the-world yachtsman Donald Crowhurst which Berlitz had presented as a mystery, despite clear evidence that Crowhurst had fabricated the accounts of his voyage and had probably committed suicide. Another example was the ore-carrier Berlitz recounted as lost without trace three days out of an Atlantic port when it had been lost three days out of a port with the same name in the Pacific Ocean. Kusche also argued that a large percentage of the incidents attributed to the Bermuda Triangle's mysterious influence actually occurred well outside it. Kusche came to several conclusions: The number of ships and airplanes reported missing in the area was not significantly greater, proportionally speaking, than any other part of the ocean. In an area frequented by tropical storms, the number of disappearances that did occur was neither disproportionate, unlikely, nor mysterious. The numbers themselves had been exaggerated by sloppy research. A boat listed as missing would be reported, but not necessarily its eventual, if belated, return to port. The circumstances of confirmed disappearances were frequently misreported in Berlitz's accounts. The numbers of ships disappearing in supposedly calm weather, for instance, did not tally with weather reports published at the time. Methane hydrates Main article: Methane clathrate An explanation for some of the disappearances focuses on the presence of vast fields of methane hydrates on the continental shelves. A paper was published in 1981 by the United States Geological Survey about the appearance of hydrates in the Blake Ridge area, off the southeastern United States coast. Periodic methane eruptions may produce regions of frothy water that are no longer capable of providing adequate buoyancy for ships. If this were the case, such an area forming around a ship could cause it to sink very rapidly and without warning. Laboratory experiments have proven that bubbles can, indeed, sink a scale model ship by decreasing the density of the water. Hypothetically, methane gas might also be involved in airplane crashes, as it is not as dense as normal air and thus would not generate the amount of lift required to keep the airplane flying. Methane can cut out an aircraft engine with very little levels of it in the atmosphere. Tidal waves Main article: Freak wave Research has shown that tidal, freak, or rogue waves can reach up to 30 m (100 feet) in height and are capable of sinking large ships within moments. Although these are very rare, in some areas ocean currents mean they happen more often than the normal. Such waves have now been hypothesized as a cause for many unexplained shipping losses over the years. Some research suggests that some of these waves are caused by giant bubbles of methane rising to the surface. These giant bubbles are created when methane vents at the ocean bottom become clogged; then pressure builds up and eventually the gas bursts out and rises rapidly to the surface thus generating the wave. Research has shown that such bubbles are able to sink scale sized ships with great ease and speed. Famous incidents Flight 19 Main article: Flight 19 One of the known Bermuda Triangle incidents concerns the loss of Flight 19, a squadron of five U.S. Navy TBM Avenger torpedo bombers on a training flight out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on December 5, 1945. According to Berlitz, the flight consisted of expert Marine Corps aviators who, after reporting a number of odd visual effects, simply disappeared, an account which isn't entirely true. Furthermore, Berlitz claims that because the TBM Avenger bombers were built to float for long periods, they should have been found the next day considering what were reported as calm seas and a clear sky. However, not only were they never found, a Navy search and rescue seaplane that went after them was also lost. Adding to the intrigue is that the Navy's report of the accident was ascribed to "causes or reasons unknown". While the basic facts of Berlitz's version of the story are essentially accurate, some important details are missing. The image of a squadron of seasoned combat aviators disappearing on a sunny afternoon is inaccurate. Rather, it was a squadron of lost, inexperienced flight trainees forced to ditch their out-of-fuel airplanes into unknown stormy waters in the dark of night. As for the Navy's report, it is claimed that the original report blamed the accident on the commander's confusion (Lt. Taylor abandoned his airplanes twice in the Pacific after getting lost returning to his carrier), but the wording was changed in deference to the wishes of his family. Another factor to consider is that the TBM Avenger Aircraft were never designed for crash-landing into water. Wartime experience in the Pacific showed that an Avenger aircraft would sink very quickly if landed on the water. Especially with novice pilots at the helm - an Avenger would be very difficult to land on calm water - let alone the perilous rough seas in the Bermuda Triangle. Star Tiger If the disappearance of Flight 19 had been an isolated incident, it would have remained one of the great mysteries of modern aviation. However, aircraft disappearances continued to be reported near the same location, some accompanied by equally extended and confusing radio traffic, including that of a four-engine Tudor IV airliner named Star Tiger, in the predawn hours of January 31, 1948. Piloted by Captain B. W. McMillan, the airliner, which carried twenty-nine passengers and crew on board, had left hours earlier from Santa Maria, Azores, one of numerous scheduled fuel stopover points on its route from London, England to Havana, Cuba. While approaching Bermuda, McMillan made the expected contact with Kindley Field, the next stopover, requesting a radio bearing to calibrate his navigation systems and ensure he remained on course. With the response indicating that the plane was slightly off course, its position was corrected after Bermuda relayed a first-class bearing of 72 degrees from the island. At this point, with Star Tiger less than two hours flight away, McMillan gave confirmation of an ETA of 05:00 hours, an hour late due to strong headwinds; no further transmission from the aircraft was ever received. Armed with precise reports of the plane's last known position, rescue operations were launched after the craft was determined overdue for arrival; but no trace of the aircraft was ever found. In the report issued soon thereafter by the Civil Air Ministry, numerous hypotheses as to what might have occurred during the flight's final two hours are given, before each being subsequently rejected: "There would accordingly be no grounds for supposing that Star Tiger fell into the sea in consequence of having been deprived of her radio, having failed to find her destination, and having exhausted her fuel." "There is good reason to suppose that no distress message was transmitted from the aircraft, for there were many radio receiving stations listening on the aircraft's frequencies, and none reported such a message." "...The weather was stable, there were no atmospheric disturbances of a serious kind which might cause structural damage to the aircraft, and there were no electrical storms." It was ruled that the aircraft could not have gone off course, as the broadcast bearing from Bermuda, with winds prevailing, would have brought it within thirty miles of the island: "The aircraft could hardly have failed to find the island in a short time, in the conditions of visibility which prevailed." Engine difficulty was ruled out as a likely cause, since at such late stage in the flight, without the added weight of extra fuel aboard, the aircraft might have been flown safely on three, or even two, engines instead of the four it had. The probability of the aircraft entirely losing three engines in the course of under two hours was considered absurd. Faced with the accumulation of evidence, or perhaps lack thereof, the board of investigation addressed the loss of the Star Tiger with remarked eloquence: "In closing this report it may truly be said that no more baffling problem has ever been presented for investigation. In the complete absence of any reliable evidence as to either the nature or the cause of the accident of Star Tiger the Court has not been able to do more than suggest possibilities, none of which reaches the level even of probability. Into all activities which involve the co-operation of man and machine two elements enter of a very diverse chaarcter [sic?]. There is an incalculable element of the human equation dependent upon imperfectly known factors; and there is the mechanical element subject to quite different laws. A breakdown may occur in either separately or in both in conjunction. Or some external cause may overwhelm both man and machine. What happened in this case will never be known and the fate of Star Tiger must remain an unsolved mystery." 2 years ago http://miss-aishwaryarai.page.tl

What do you think of this year's Arctic sea ice melt? According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Arctic sea ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent for the year, the second-lowest extent recorded since the dawn of the satellite era. While above the record minimum Arctic sea ice extent set on September 16, 2007, this year further reinforces the strong negative trend in summertime ice extent observed over the past thirty years. Even though the sea ice didn’t retreat this year as much as last summer, “there was no real sign of recovery,” said Walt Meier of NSIDC. This year was cooler and other weather conditions weren’t as bad, he said. “We’re kind of in a new state of the Arctic basically, and it’s not a good one,” Meier said. “We’re definitely sliding towards a point where the summer sea ice will be gone.” Scientists have predicted that the Arctic will become ice free in the summer by the year 2013, if not sooner. http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/09/17/arctic-sea-ice-season-underscores-accelerating-decline/ So it didn't quite break last year's record, nor did the north pole become ice free as a few scientists predicted it might. However, the melt was the second greatest in recorded history, and the long-term trend continues clearly downward. http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/n_plot_hires.png What do you make of this information?

Have you read this peer-reviewed paper indicating the observed warming is overstated by about half? As many people know, Anthony Watts is leading an all volunteer effort to photograph and document the quality of surface weather stations around the world. He started in the US and now about 1/3 of US stations have been documented. 85% of these stations do not meet the minimum standards of the NOAA and show a strong warming bias. Some people have estimated that up to half of the observed warming is not real but an artifact of these poorly sited stations. Now McKitrick and Michaels have published a peer-reviewed paper studying the issue from a different angle. They compared grid cell satellite data with grid cell surface temp data. The null hypothesis was that that "the spatial pattern of temperature trends in a widely-used gridded climate data set is independent of socioeconomic determinants of surface processes and data inhomogeneities. The hypothesis is strongly rejected." Read the report here and tell me what you think. http://icecap.us/images/uploads/MM.JGRDec07.pdf Anthony Watts website is http://surfacestations.org What intrigued me about this new paper is the authors conclude about half of the observed warming is not real but related to nonclimatic effects at the surface. The paper is very much in agreement with my analysis of Watt's work. It looks to me like the research indicates the more a particular grid cell grows economically, the more likely it is to have poorly sited stations introduce a step-wise warming bias into the temperature record. This warming bias is nonclimatic. Regarding your thought this refers to UHI which is anthropogenic, it is possible a portion of the warming is from land use/land cover changes which is anthropogenic. However, these types of changes do not have any positive feedbacks such as those claimed for rising CO2. This means land use/land cover changes will never result in catastrophic warming. The two paragraphs above were for Keith. Dana, straight for the ad hominem attack, eh? By the way, the research was funded by Canada, not any corporation or industry group. http://icecap.us/images/uploads/MM.JGR07-background.pdf Keith, regarding your query about sea surface temps, I would like to direct your attention to this blog by Roger Pielke - the most respected and highly cited climatologist in the field. http://climatesci.colorado.edu/2007/12/17/reality-check-2-long-term-sea-surface-temperature-trend-anomalies-and-ocean-heat-content-trends/ Dana, you really should learn to read and think for yourself. By allowing RealClimate to tell you what to think, you are abdicating your intellectual responsibilities. RealClimate does not have a good reputation. It is a PR website owned by a PR company. Bob, Roger Pielke has authored more than 650 peer-reviewed articles, most of them in climatology. When he earned his Ph.D, no university offered a Ph.D in climatology. Check this out and look at the titles of the papers he has written. You will see most of them have to do with climatology. http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/formViewCharacteristic.cgi?id=3344&link1=Login&table=Publication Bob, you are embarrassing yourself when you attack Pielke. He was a climatologist before Ph.D.s were offered in climatology. Pielke is respected by climatologists on all sides of the debate. Some of them are mad at him because he has distanced himself from the IPCC, but they all respect him. Look at his list of co-authors. People line up to work with Pielke. Look at his list of publications. Are you familiar with ISI? How about ISI HighlyCited.com? http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/formViewCharacteristic.cgi?id=3344&link1=Login&table=Publication gcnp58, yes, this paper expands on their earlier 2004 paper. But if you have not read this paper, how can you assume it uses the same methods? You can't. McKitrick and Michaels felt this paper made a valuable contribution and the peer-reviewers agreed or it would not have been published. That does not mean it is correct, of course. But it does mean your criticism is invalid.

Global Warming Science. What are your thoughts on this article? The article entitled "Scare Watch: Global Cooling is really 'Global Warming'". The points are really quite intriguing. For those of you who don't want to read the thing, it gives you myths about 'global warming' and then gives you the truth. http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/scarewatch/really_cooling.pdf Without pictures and in html here: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/scarewatch/warming_really_cooling.html "“Higher temperatures make weather patterns more unstable”: In fact, the reverse is true." "“The planet has grown steadily warmer in recent decades”: In fact, the reverse is true. " "“Ice loss is happening faster than the models are showing”: In fact, there has been no trend in global sea-ice extent throughout the 30-year satellite record..." And so on, it's a fascinating article with good sources. Read it if you dare, alarmists.

More atmospheric CO2 means significantly more warming right? Revolutionary new maps show CO2 concentrations over the east coast of the United States at 2 and 3 times the global average as measured at Mauna Lao, Hawaii. http://youtube.com/watch?v=eJpj8UUMTaI http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Mauna_Loa_Carbon_Dioxide_png An increase in atmospheric CO2 is supposed to "trap" more heat in the Lower Troposphere (the part of the atmosphere closest to the ground), but in the past 30 years, satellite measurements of the lower troposphere do not show any more warming over the east coast of the US than Africa, which hardly has any CO2 emissions. These satellite measurements are compared for accuracy with actual measurements taken by weather balloons. http://www.remss.com/msu/msu_data_description.html#msu_amsu_trend_map_tlt The East coast of the USA has some of the highest CO2 concentrations in the world, up to 1500ppm daily. Shouldn't it be warming faster than the rest of the world? Benjamin, I don't know if you watched the video in my first link, but Dr. Gurney refers to CO2 concentrations several times in the video. He may be confused too. Ken and Kieth, did you ever watch the video? It clearly shows CO2 concentrations up to 1500ppm for extended periods of time all up and down the east coast on a daily basis. Heat in the form of infrared radiation travels at the speed of light, so heating should occur instantly in the lower troposphere in this area daily. Bob. I understand the physics part, but the CO2 levels being triple the global average still don't appear to be significant enough to show up in the satellite measurements.

Have you heard about the Astronaut that wants scientist's to test his underwear!? I think ewww! The story down below or here's the link if you want to read it from the source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/2709227/Spaceman-brings-back-silver-coated-undies In what might embarrass less adventurous souls, astronaut Koichi Wakata is returning to Earth with the underwear he used during his 4-1/2-month space station stay so scientists can check them out. Warning to researchers: He kept them on for a month at a stretch. They're experimental high-tech undies, designed in Japan to be odour free. The Japanese astronaut described his space underwear test Thursday as shuttle Endeavour and its crew aimed for a touchdown the next morning. The astronauts released some mini satellites, their final job before Friday's re-entry, and said it was time to come home after more than two weeks aloft. "I haven't talked about this underwear to my crew members," Wakata said in an interview with The Associated Press, drawing a big laugh from his six shuttle colleagues. "But I wore them for about a month, and my station crew members never complained for about a month, so I think the experiment went fine." The underwear, called J-Wear, is a new type of anti-bacterial, water-absorbent, odour-eliminating clothing designed for space missions. The line includes shirts, pants and socks as well. Wakata tested all of them during his mission; he had four pairs of the silver-coated underwear, a cross between briefs and boxers. "We'll see the results after landing," Wakata said. J-Wear is billed as being antistatic and flame retardant, which is especially important for spaceship wear. The cotton and polyester clothes are also seamless, making them lighter and more comfortable, according to the Japanese Space Agency. The goal is "comfortable everyday clothes for life in a spaceship." Another Japanese astronaut wore some J-Wear items during a shuttle flight last year but had only 16 days in orbit to try them out. Good weather was forecast for Friday's late morning landing attempt with the rain expected to hold off until afternoon at NASA's spaceport. On Thursday afternoon, NASA cleared Endeavour to come home, after analysing wing and nose images beamed down by the crew Wednesday in one final sweep for micrometeorite damage. "I'm ready to get back ... I think I have a landing in me, so don't want to get anybody on the ground worried about that," commander Mark Polansky told the AP. In one of NASA's longer shuttle flights, Polansky and his crew put a new addition onto the international space station - a porch for Japan's massive UA$1 billion (NZ$1.5 billion) lab - and freshened up the place with batteries, experiments and spare parts. They rocketed into space July 15. Thursday marked Day 15 in space for Polansky and all but one of his crew. For Wakata, Thursday marked day 137. He flew to the space station back in March, becoming the first person from Japan to live at the orbiting outpost. Ad Feedback Wakata said he's longing for sushi. "That's the first thing that I'd like to have and also a hot spring in Japan sometime in the near future," Wakata told the AP. love nuts, no thank you lol!

Should the government be allowed to withhold evidence which affects Americans so drastically? Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming Bush tried to hide Photos from US spy satellites declassified by the Obama White House provide the first graphic images of how the polar ice sheets are retreating in the summer. The effects on the world's weather, environments and wildlife could be devastating. Satellite images of polar ice sheets taken in July 2006 and July 2007 showing the retreating ice during the summer. Graphic images that reveal the devastating impact of global warming in the Arctic have been released by the US military. The photographs, taken by spy satellites over the past decade, confirm that in recent years vast areas in high latitudes have lost their ice cover in summer months. The pictures, kept secret by Washington during the presidency of George W Bush, were declassified by the White House last week. President Barack Obama is currently trying to galvanise Congress and the American public to take action to halt catastrophic climate change caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. One particularly striking set of images - selected from the 1,000 photographs released - includes views of the Alaskan port of Barrow. One, taken in July 2006, shows sea ice still nestling close to the shore. A second image shows that by the following July the coastal waters were entirely ice-free. The photographs demonstrate starkly how global warming is changing the Arctic. More than a million square kilometres of sea ice - a record loss - were missing in the summer of 2007 compared with the previous year. Nor has this loss shown any sign of recovery. Ice cover for 2008 was almost as bad as for 2007, and this year levels look equally sparse. "These are one-metre resolution images, which give you a big picture of the summertime Arctic," said Thorsten Markus of Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre. "This is the main reason why we are so thrilled about it. One-metre resolution is the dimension that's been missing." Disappearing summer sea ice poses considerable dangers, scientists have warned. Ice shelves are used by animals such as polar bears as platforms for hunting seals and other sea creatures. Without them, they could starve. In addition, ice reflects solar radiation. Without that process, the Arctic sea could warm up even more. The phenomenon threatens to set off runaway heating of the planet, say climatologists. The latest revelations have triggered warnings from scientists that they no longer have the funds to keep a comprehensive track of climate change. Last week the head of the US's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Professor Jane Lubchenco, warned that the gathering of satellite data - crucial to predicting future climate changes - was now at "great risk" because America's ageing satellite fleet was not being replaced. "Our primary focus is maintaining the continuity of climate observations, and those are at great risk right now because we don't have the resources to have satellites at the ready and taking the kinds of information that we need," said Lubchenco, who was appointed by Obama. "We are playing catch-up." Even before her warning, scientists were saying that America, the world's scientific superpower, was virtually blinding itself to climate change by cutting funds to the environmental satellite programmes run by the Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Nasa. A report by the National Academy of Sciences this year warned that the environmental satellite network was at risk of collapse. In February, a Nasa satellite carrying instruments to produce the first map of the Earth's carbon emissions crashed near Antarctica only three minutes after lift-off. The satellite would have measured carbon emissions at 100,000 points around the planet every day, providing a wealth of data compared to the 100 or so fixed towers currently in operation in a land-based network. The NOAA is under additional pressure to provide environmental data because of the re-emergence of the El Niño climate phenomenon, where warming of the tropical Pacific causes heatwaves, droughts and flooding around the world. June's land and sea surface temperatures were the second hottest on record, and scientists are predicting this will be the warmest decade in recorded history. The last major El Niño was in 1998, the hottest year in recorded history. The Obama administration has already taken steps to tackle America's flagging scientific lead. The president's economic recovery plan allotted $170m (£100m) to help close the gaps in climate modelling. The NOAA is seeking an additional $390m in its 2010 budget to upgrade environmental satellites, and help make data more available to researchers and government officials. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/26/climate-change-obama-administration No, dear. The ice caps do NOT "always retract in the summer" at this alarming rate. You just suck on your widdle thumb and hide under the bed, ya hear? Denial. Also - if it's "no news here" then why on Earth would the bush administration criminally withhold the evidence? And put a rag in the mouth of NASA?