Posted on 07/17/2010 12:27:04 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
(CNN) -- An upper layer of Earth's atmosphere recently shrank so much that researchers are at a loss to adequately explain it, NASA said on Thursday.
The thermosphere, which blocks harmful ultraviolet rays, expands and contracts regularly due to the sun's activities. As carbon dioxide increases, it has a cooling effect at such high altitudes, which also contributes to the contraction.
But even these two factors aren't fully explaining the extraordinary contraction which, though unlikely to affect the weather, can affect the movement of satellites, researchers said.
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Bush's fault.
I'm sure the only way to fix this is to raise taxes, and probably outlaw guns - for the children, of course.
Shrinkage, caused by cooling.
And we could not have anticipated this?
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It’s the expanding ozone hole.
Run. Run for your life.
VERY odd! That was about the thermosphere.
NASA: Ionosphere not where it should be [Dec 17, 2008]
The U.S. space agency says it has discovered the boundary between the Earth’s upper atmosphere and space has moved to extraordinarily low altitudes. ....
But the first discovery was that the ionosphere was not where it had been expected to be. During the first months of the satellite’s operations, the transition between the ionosphere and space was found to be at about 260 miles altitude during the nighttime, barely rising above 500 miles during the day. Those altitudes, said NASA, were extraordinarily low compared with the more typical values of 400 miles during the nighttime and 600 miles during the day.
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_Ionosphere_not_where_it_should_be_999.html
They said earlier that global warming was supposed to first heat the mid and upper atmosphere and cause it to expand.
Now they claim it is suppose to cool it and cause it to shrink...
It must be great to have a theory that always fits the current observed conditions... No matter which way they go...
I woke up last night and saw really bright lightning flashes but the thunder was a long time in coming.
So I opened the window blind and saw the lightning was striking high across the sky overhead instead of coming down and then the thunder took a while to be heard but was roaring for a long time.
I told my wife “that is Weird” but she was sleeping like a log as usual.
Now it has started again and I saw it shoot across the sky with the same type of thunder.
The sky is shrinking the sky is shrinking the sky is shrinking.
Run for your life.
Now they claim it is suppose to cool it and cause it to shrink...
So you're saying that "carbon dioxide content increase" is equal to "global warming"? (They say the former and you say the latter.)
And time is going by really really slowly... Stoned cop calls 911
We could have asked Costanza...
Magnetic polar shift? Which of course would be caused by man. Too many people on one side of the earth will have to be remedied by wealth redistribution.
Opps, should have been ‘too many POOR people’.
An upper layer of Earth's atmosphere recently shrank so much that researchers are at a loss to adequately explain it, NASA said on Thursday.
Just a WAG but *maybe* that HUGH Super Gamma Ray Burst we got hit with about a week ago has just a teeny thing to do with it.
The GRB was so massive it shut down the sensors and computer that monitors GRBs. And the GRB data was so large the 'scientists' (people who smoke pipes and wear Lab Coats) thought at first it was a sensor error, or 'glitch' (technical term). BUT, if that GRB had hit us directly we wouldn't be here now.
The GRB was from a Star that went Super Nova 5 Billion years ago. So there 'could' be one coming at us now - and we'll never know it. We'll just all die. Kind of like the Dinosaurs.
Oh well, now off to read some really depressing news.
Old Deck Hand writes:
I don’t know if it is related but there is strange lightning and thunder.
I woke up last night and saw really bright lightning flashes but the thunder was a long time in coming.
So I opened the window blind and saw the lightning was striking high across the sky overhead instead of coming down and then the thunder took a while to be heard but was roaring for a long time.
I told my wife “that is Weird” but she was sleeping like a log as usual.
Now it has started again and I saw it shoot across the sky with the same type of thunder.
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You wife has it right. You should roll over and go back to sleep. Much lightning is between clouds: it is nothing unusual. In fact, it is nice that it doesn’t all strike the ground.
Have a good sleep!
So, what's your point?
The sky is falling.
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