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No distress call was received from the pilots, but a series of 24 electronic warnings were sent automatically by the twin-engine airliner in its final four minutes as its flight systems shut down one by one. These showed the cockpit was getting faulty airspeed readings and that the autopilot was suddenly disengaged. Navigation and power systems also failed. The messages have focused suspicions on the plane's exterior airspeed sensors, known as pitot probes. There is speculation the tubes may have iced up during a storm at high altitude, leaving them sending conflicting signals to the cockpit avionics computers, which began to shut down.
The real news from Saint Petersburg -- demonstrated by cooling that is occurring on the upper layers of the world's oceans -- is that Earth has hit its temperature ceiling. Solar irradiance has begun to fall, ushering in a protracted cooling period beginning in 2012 to 2015. The depth of the decline in solar irradiance reaching Earth will occur around 2040, and "will inevitably lead to a deep freeze around 2055-60" lasting some 50 years, after which temperatures will go up again.
Latest warming Dr Solanki is presenting a paper on the reconstruction of past solar activity at Cool Stars, Stellar Systems And The Sun, a conference in Hamburg, Germany. He says that the reconstruction shows the Maunder Minimum and the other minima that are known in the past thousand years. But the most striking feature, he says, is that looking at the past 1,150 years the Sun has never been as active as it has been during the past 60 years. Over the past few hundred years, there has been a steady increase in the numbers of sunspots, a trend that has accelerated in the past century, just at the time when the Earth has been getting warmer. The data suggests that changing solar activity is influencing in some way the global climate causing the world to get warmer. Over the past 20 years, however, the number of sunspots has remained roughly constant, yet the average temperature of the Earth has continued to increase. This is put down to a human-produced greenhouse effect caused by the combustion of fossil fuels. This latest analysis shows that the Sun has had a considerable indirect influence on the global climate in the past, causing the Earth to warm or chill, and that mankind is amplifying the Sun's latest attempt to warm the Earth.
Originally posted by Lavey2
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Originally posted by redeyedwonder
reply to post by spinalremain
At this point I will refute your link, which is not reported as a scientific anything, but an article written, by guess what? A writer! I don't see any doctoral following his name either.
In the very first paragraph he states
"It is not known with precision how far north we are of the galactic plane"
So then its not known how far below it we we might be either...I tried all day today to find your so called scientific proof we were above the galactic plane, I could not. So I will ask anybody to find out something for sure, and please post it here, instead of citing a writers work on a web site that looks like it was made by a sophmore in HS.
Originally posted by redeyedwonder
reply to post by FeralMonkeyMagic
Again your 1st link does not prove that we are above the plane, and looks amateurish, and your second does not prove we are above the plane either, if you only site links, where theory is supplied, (and you only give two), how are we to side with you...
I'm not taking your word alone, I put the call out to other members, as you do not prove your case with the links you provide.
By the way all that 2012 meant to the Mayans was, that we have completed the rotation around the galaxy, starting a new Sun cycle. Sorry, no doom no gloom. Just the completion of a cycle.
But my searching yesterday, did not turn up any PROOF that we are above the plane, under the plane, or near the plane, let alone which direction we are headed acending or decending...just theory.
As the galactic plane is thousands of miles thick, and we don't have cameras out far enough away to show us our exact position, we can only guess at this time.
Guess.... dear god.
What PROOF do you have that these events will take place? none.
These "amateurish" sites and blogs are from people qualified in their respective fields.
Believe what you want - seriously, if you want to buy into 2012 rubbish then there's nothing that can be done about it.
This is not even research, it was the result of a 2 second google search, of which, brought up multitudes of information regarding the hoaxes behind the fear and alarmist information brought about by people who have no idea what they are talking about.
Even NASA (Govt Org btw) refuted their own previous views about a massive solar storm...
Enough of this.
Seeya 23/12/2012
Originally posted by redeyedwonder
reply to post by FeralMonkeyMagic
Again your 1st link does not prove that we are above the plane, and looks amateurish, and your second does not prove we are above the plane either, if you only site links, where theory is supplied, (and you only give two), how are we to side with you...
I'm not taking your word alone, I put the call out to other members, as you do not prove your case with the links you provide.
By the way all that 2012 meant to the Mayans was, that we have completed the rotation around the galaxy, starting a new Sun cycle. Sorry, no doom no gloom. Just the completion of a cycle.
But my searching yesterday, did not turn up any PROOF that we are above the plane, under the plane, or near the plane, let alone which direction we are headed acending or decending...just theory.
As the galactic plane is thousands of miles thick, and we don't have cameras out far enough away to show us our exact position, we can only guess at this time.
Originally posted by redeyedwonder
reply to post by FeralMonkeyMagic
Well thank you for giving me two new links to check for my answer..
At least these appear to have more info. Sorry about the above post it went in after yours citing 2 new links.
quote from www.earthsky.org Bruce McClure
"All scientific abstracts with which I am familiar claim the solar system is north of the galactic plane. Furthermore, the solar system will continue to travel north of the galactic plane for millions of years to come. According to the computational wizard, Jean Meeus, the solstice points were in alignment with the galactic equator (plane) in 1998. However, since the sun is a disk and not a point, I suppose you could say that a portion of the December solstice sun will align with the galactic equator (plane) for a period of about 36 years, centered on 1998. That represents the period from about 1980-2016."
Abstacts? Claims?
So we may be above it but not out of it? Hmmmm
and from the second...
www.bautforum.com...
"But hang on for a minute while I rustle up some links...
Edit: I'm back. I have a collection of links to 2012-related topics in BAUT Forum that probably include some that address your particular concern about 2012. (And, I'm pleased to announce the expansion of the list to include some links to some parent-sites Universe Today and Bad Astronomy Blog articles debunking aspects of some 2012 predictions. More are welcome any time.) Sorry, answers to your specific inquiry about galactic-plane eclipsing might take a while to find in this list because there are so many aspects to 2012 predictions. Top of my head, it's not gonna happen, unless your definition of galactic-plane eclipsing is so mundane that it will happen not only in 2012, but in every year. But, details are in here somewhere:"
Probably? Top of my head? Hmmmm. I guess I am qualified enough to guess and throw links at theories too. Needless to say I am still researching, and that I do read the articles cited, I did not care if we crossed it in 2012 or not, just where our position is...and at least some science to back it up.
Thanks for trying anyway.
Edited to remove double spacing...
[edit on 23-1-2010 by redeyedwonder]
Originally posted by SquirrelNutz
My, this all sounds astonishingly familiar. Hmmmm....
[Look down]
To have survived, it must contain much more matter than previously thought, in order to provide enough gravity to hold it together. Calculations by Matthew Nichols and Joss Bland-Hawthorn of the University of Sydney, Australia, indicate that it has about 100 times the previously estimated mass
Some continental motion took place. Climates cooled somewhat over the duration of the Paleogene and inland seas retreated from North America early in the Period. This period consists of the Paleocene, Eocene, and Oligocene Epochs. The end of the Paleocene (55.5/54.8 Ma) was marked by one of the most significant periods of global change during the Cenozoic, a sudden global change, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, which upset oceanic and atmospheric circulation and led to the extinction of numerous deep-sea benthic foraminifera and on land, a major turnover in mammals. The Paleogene follows the Cretaceous Period and is followed by the Miocene Epoch of the Neogene Period. The terms 'Paleogene System' (formal) and 'lower Tertiary System' (informal) are applied to the rocks deposited during the 'Paleogene Period'. The somewhat confusing terminology seems to be due to attempts to deal with the comparatively fine subdivisions of time possible in the relatively recent geologic past, when more information is preserved. By dividing the Tertiary Period into two periods instead of five epochs, the periods are more closely comparable to the duration of 'periods' in the Mesozoic and Paleozoic Eras.
Climate: The Berriasian epoch showed a cooling trend that had been seen in the last epoch of the Jurassic. There is evidence that snowfalls were common in the higher latitudes and the tropics became wetter than during the Triassic and Jurassic.[7] Glaciation was however restricted to alpine glaciers on some high-latitude mountains, though seasonal snow may have existed farther south.
Which form, and how intense, the imminent Mayon eruption takes is not known. But at its extreme it could have global environmental ramifications. If the explosion is upward and intense enough to send dust and sulfur dioxide particles (aerosols) into the stratosphere (roughly above 50,000 feet), it could have effects that last for several years. An explosive eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991 was of that type. It resulted in a warming in the stratosphere, and a near-surface cooling of about a half degree Fahrenheit globally (a fraction more in the Northern Hemisphere) for about two years. The near-surface cooling results from reflection of sunlight off the dust and sulfate aerosols, so less sunshine to warm the ground and air nearby. Thus, explosive volcanoes are one way that the Earth can offset global warming. Those aerosol and dust particles result in some spectacular red sunsets around the globe. But the sulfates in the stratosphere are one of the agents that can result in accelerated destruction of the ozone layer. A bit more ultraviolet radiation gets through, with its risks of sunburn and skin cancer.
Earth’s magnetic field also flips, but with less regularity. Consecutive reversals are spaced 5 thousand years to 50 million years apart. The last reversal happened 740,000 years ago. Some researchers think our planet is overdue for another one, but nobody knows exactly when the next reversal might occur.
How are sun spots related to Earth's weather? We don't know exactly. During the 1600's, there were no sun spot cycles observed, and Europe was in the grip of what climatologists call the Little Ice Age. Since 1700, there have been more or less regular cycles of typical length 11 years. Careful measurements of the luminosity of the Sun from satellite observations have shown that, when sun spots are present, the Sun is actually brighter, even though the spots themselves are dark! Surrounding regions of the solar surface become slightly brighter and in fact over compensate for the loss of luminosity by the sun spots. But this modulation of the solar output by sun spots produces only a 0.04 percent change in the solar constant, so it is very hard to believe that it has any direct affect upon earth weather. Some studies have suggested that the average ocean temperature increases and decreases, world-wide, by 0.5 degrees C in phase with the sun spot cycle, but the mechanism is not understood. This entire subject is still under heavy investigation, because logically, any changes on the sun ought to have some level of climatic impact. Its just that there are so many other 'cycles within cycles' on the Earth, that solar effects, if they exist at all, are badly hidden.