Posted on 08/23/2015 7:58:07 AM PDT by PROCON
Strange blue lights glowing on the edge of space first appeared over polar regions in 1885 and today, sightings are becoming increasingly common, and now the phenomenon is moving into lower latitudes including Northern California.
Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, these glowing space clouds may be a celestial siren, warning of Earth's global warming, according to some scientists.
They're called "noctilucent clouds" or NLCs, basically, clouds that glow at night. They appear mainly in northern latitudes, about 50 miles above earth as miniscule droplets of water reflect the sun on the other side of the globe.
Now, they're moving father south.
"Public interest in noctilucent clouds is definitely growing as they spread to mid-latitudes," said SpaceWeather.com's Tony Phillips, who tracks the appearances and reports from astronomers.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
In other words, no one knows but we're still going to try to take your money and scare you.
Note: this column appears in their "Science" section.
Guess I just don’t see how this is supposed to be seen as a sign of global warming.
According to “some” scientists we could all live forever too.
:)
“As some ancient astronaut theorists believe”
See what public schools have produced?
In before the “it’s aliens” guy with the weird hair lands on this thread.
You are a problem for the social sciences, then. They are working on subtle strategies that will enable opinion makers to nudge your thinking along...
Have you seen the saucers?
Anthropomorphic Global Warming Theory is irrefutable: All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level. Hot, cold, drought, flood, hurricane, calm air, sunset, moonrise, all confirm the validity of AGWT. It is completely irrefutable.
OK, that does it — I’m now convinced that man-made global warming is real. With scientific proof like this, how could any thinking person doubt it? /s
I got some good news and I got some bad news.
Bad news first.
California is being invaded by hostile space aliens.
Now the good news.
They eat liberals, piss gasoline, and they are headed to Washington D.C.
The “old proverbial” global warming scam. These days, the old hippies blame anything and everything on “global warming”. Dale Jr. and Brad Keselowski didn’t win at Bristol last night because of “global warming.” However, the Dbacks swept Cincy which proves to me that “global warming” is a scam except in the summertime.
S>C>I>E>N>C>E
Lol. That right there is funny. I don’t care who you are!
Yes...
They’re called “noctilucent clouds” or NLCs, basically, clouds that glow at night.
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I’ve only seen them after rocket launches.
...Note: this column appears in their “Science” section...
How did it miss the science fiction section?
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