Solar storms to peak in 2012

by **nomo** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:58 pm

More from the fear-mongering department? Be wewy, wewwy afwaid:  <a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/07/MNGAFHJJL91.DTL">sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...HJJL91.DTL</a> Huge solar storms could zap Earth, scientists warn Next sunspot cycle may disrupt power, communications Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer Tuesday, March 7, 2006 An 11-year epoch of increasingly severe solar storms that could fry power grids, disrupt cell-phone calls, knock satellites back to Earth, endanger astronauts in space, and force commercial airliners to change their routes to protect their radio communications and to avoid deadly solar radiation could begin as soon as this fall, scientists announced Monday. When the solar cycle reaches its peak in 2012, it will hurl at Earth mammoth solar storms with intense radiation and clouds of high-speed subatomic particles millions of miles across, the scientists said. A storm of that magnitude could short-circuit a world increasingly dependent on giant utilities and satellite communications networks. Such a storm in 1989 caused power grids to collapse, causing a five-hour blackout in Quebec. Monday's forecast was announced by scientists from agencies including NASA and the National Science Foundation, based on research centered at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado. There is disagreement on exactly when the new cycle will begin -- one key researcher predicted the cycle will start in late 2007 or early 2008, and another said it could begin either late this year or in early 2007. But they did agree that the most severe storms won't begin popping on the solar surface for several years, but when they do, they'll be huge. The solar storms in the past have knocked out huge power grids and screwed up global electronics and data communications, but "the next sunspot cycle will be 30 to 50 percent stronger than the last one," the scientists said in Monday's statement. Reaching that 50 percent threshold would make it the most intense solar cycle since the late 1950s and the second worst since the early 1700s, Peter Gilman, one of the researchers, said in a phone interview. Astronomers will monitor the sun daily in the coming months to see how it's doing. Early warning signs will be the formation of large groups of sunspots, which are clusters of solar magnetic fields that are cooler than the rest of the sun. "I look (at telescopic images of the sun) almost every day, thinking, 'It could be today,' " said David Hathaway, solar physics team leader at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. He compared it to "waiting for the first sparrow of spring." Solar storms can happen at any time during an 11-year solar cycle. However, by far the worst storms are likeliest to occur during the period known as "solar maximum," or solar max for short. The last solar max was in 2001. The scientists are confident of their forecast for 2012 because they've successfully used a new computer model to "forecast" the past. That is, they used records of old solar cycles to figure out how the sun should have behaved during eight past cycles, as far back as the early 20th century. They "forecast" the sun's past behavior -- "hindcasting," they call it -- "with more than 98 percent accuracy" the scientists said. "I'm really excited about this (discovery)," said NASA's Hathaway. "It's based on sound physical principles, and it finally answers the 150-year-old question: What causes the sunspot cycle?" The cycle's victims could include space satellites. The coming storms could heat the upper levels of Earth's atmosphere, causing it to expand and exert drag on low-flying satellites -- perhaps enough drag to tug some of them back to Earth. Solar storms have been blamed for the U.S. Skylab space station's premature fall back to Earth in 1979. Air travelers could be affected, too. Since the end of the Cold War, to avoid headwinds, airlines have increasingly flown subpolar routes to get between the United States and other Northern Hemisphere continents quickly and cheaply. But during solar storms, they must avoid the poles and fly more southerly routes. They do so partly in order to avoid having their radio communications disrupted over dangerous polar terrain and partly to avoid exposing passengers -- especially pregnant women -- to the increased radiation, said solar-storm expert Joseph Kunches, chief of the forecast and analysis branch of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo. The northern and northeastern portions of North America are historically more vulnerable to system outages caused by solar storms than California and most of the Western states, said Gregg Fishman, spokesman for the California Independent System Operator. That's possibly because among other things, he said, there's a higher iron and mineral content in the North and Northeast that conducts the ground current more easily and allows for more of an impact during solar storms.

by **Gouda** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:15 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>An 11-year epoch of increasingly severe solar storms that could fry power grids, disrupt cell-phone calls, knock satellites back to Earth, endanger astronauts in space, and force commercial airliners to change their routes to protect their radio communications and to avoid deadly solar radiation could begin as soon as this fall, scientists announced Monday.<hr></blockquote> On the bright side, this takes care of the following problems: cell phone radiation, TV, spy satellites, chemtrail planning...

by **slimmouse** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:30 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>The scientists are confident of their forecast for 2012 because they've successfully used a new computer model to "forecast" the past.<hr></blockquote> The Mayan Calender perhaps ? <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D">

by **marykmusic** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:48 am

Forget 2012. Look out for what's predicted to arrive in the next few weeks, the Galactic Wave. The Web references we found were removed within a day or so... but Dragon wrote about it. Here it is: The Galactic Superwave. It's com <a href="http://users.gloryroad.net/~bigjim/i" target="top">users.gloryroad.net/~bigjim/i</a> Let's go back a bit. Remember the post about Scott Stevens and the regular earth tremors that JPClarity brought to our attention only a few days ago, and subsequently got mentioned in the most recent Captain's Log? Recall this phrase? "A civilization 'context changing' event or series of events appears likely to occur on or after the coming March equinox." Funny thing about that click-on that Scott Stevens posted. He withdrew it, and I wrote about that yesterday, and how odd it was. He passed off some excuse that he may have been given erroneous information, and was waiting for more information before he put it up again. He hoped to have the new information by the weekend, he wrote. The weekend is here and gone, but the link to the tremor charts is not there. When I looked at the site the first time, there was a link to the site you see above, and the subject was the Galactic Superwave. The Galactic Superwave information is found further down the page. Hey! That link is no longer there. Hmmm..... When we learned of the existence of these regular tremors under several volcanoes, we went into action and stopped them. The story is told in the previous Captain's Log. Soon after the log was published, like maybe the next day, Scott Stevens posted a disavowal of the information he had previously posted. And then soon after that, the link to the Galactic Superwave was no longer on the site. Scott posted his disclaimer, and someone on this forum posted a story about the whole thing being a part of a regular test of their volcano monitoring equipment, which seemed like a hastily contrived explanation to me. It is not logical to believe that Scott Stevens has been unaware of the existence of such tests for all these years. And if they recently started, why? The signature of the test impulses on the graph did not resemble the tremors signatures posted earlier. The cover story was enough to dissuade a few people, I suppose, but this is an over-average group here when it comes to understanding cover-ups and hidden agendas. And no one here believes anything the government says until they deny it! :-) So, we went looking for outside help this morning. I had already read the Galactic Superwave story, and figured that there was substance there, but the one who posts the story is viewing it through the filter of his own belief system. We needed something beyond that. My old friend Carroll came around this morning, and she didn't even say hello before she began to download information. "You can't stop them all", was the first comment. And we were off on a journey of listen and learn. There IS something coming, she said. And it will be here shortly after the equinox. This month. Remember I told y'all that back in August of last year there was the announcement made that there's a new sheriff in town? New sheriff indeed. What we saw was just him and a handful of deputies, and the non-resident aliens are now gone. That didn't solve the problem, though. The second and third tier of the Illuminati command structure is still intact. And they have not just world rule on their mind, which is bad enough. They are Armageddon bound, and they must be stopped. The Galactic Superwave is real, all right. But it isn't quite like the guy who hosts that web site sees it. The sheriff has sent for reinforcements, and they are coming. They are coming in overwhelming numbers, and this will be the end of the trail for the whole rotten bunch of sadists, misfits, murderers, opportunists, and child-eaters. The sheriff's posse is coming in force, and they will clean up this mess. The posse is here in the form of the Cloud People, whose presence we announced a few months ago. They were the outriders, scouts and forward observers for the main group, which you will see in a matter of days. They re-populated the sylphs in the sky, and when the main body arrives they will bring with them a higher vibration for the earth. The vibratory level will go up, and for those of low intent and negative orientation, they will feel like a bug on a hot skillet. There's gonna be a cleansing, and it ain't gonna be cheap and it ain't gonna be painless. We here at Z-Force Group, with a little help from our friends, have thwarted all of the dark side's plans for 'natural' disasters. But there are natural disasters coming, and there's no way we could stop them even if we tried. The earth is changing, this is the natural order of things. This planet was designed to be one of intense experience, and life here is lived with the uncertainty of volcanoes, mud slides, and all sorts of violent weather as a part of the physical and emotional landscape where we act out the dramas that are our lives. Look for earthquakes in some of the expected places, and maybe in some that are not. Heads up, Ellie! The New Madrid fault line is on the list of possibilities. Rick, in L.A., you would do well to seek higher ground. Walls of water are coming, and I don't know where. Japan, possibly, and Taiwan. Last thing I saw in my mind this morning before I woke up was a skyscraper half-submerged in water. Could be anywhere, and more than one place. I just don't know. Apparently, Seattle is not going to be left untouched, either. Sorry about that, Purba. But you'll be all right. Hawaii may be a dangerous place to be for a while. This cleansing is not going to happen over a weekend. This will be a long-term and thorough cleansing. The polar axis has shifted some, and may shift more. When the new one is established, it will have moved about 20 degrees away from where it has always been. This may be caused by the higher internal temperature of the earth, which has melted some glaciers and changed the earth's center of gravity. First thing that happened was the slower rotation of the earth, but the inner earth did not decrease its rate of spin. So there was friction, and internal heating, and the glaciers began to melt. The glaciers melted and threw the earth off-balance, and now it has found a new axis for spin. A simple thing like internal warming has had a cascading effect that will change the way we live on this earth. The net effect locally, and by locally I mean the lower 48, is that we will all be moved closer to the equator. It has already started. Spring came here in February of this year. Part of the reason that the glaciers are melting is that they have all moved south a ways. This is gonna change a lot of weather patterns. The normal expectation is for hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. We are likely to see more Atlantic hurricanes now. The Gulf Stream may be re-routed. Monsoon season will change, as will the location of the monsoons. Europe is going to be colder. Siberia already is. We won't be growing grapefruit in Montana, but Canada is going to be a less challenging place to live for temperature sensitive people like me. As for the Dark Side forces that we've faced for so long, gone are the days when they were able to initiate action and orchestrate the flow and direction of world events. All they can do now is react, and assume one fall-back position after another. The end is in sight. I'm wondering now if they saw it coming. The man who hosts the Galactic Superwave site has made gathering and understanding information about it his life's work for the last fifty years. If he knew, then the dark ones knew, too. And maybe that is what the underground bases were for all along. Until the posse arrives, there's work to be done. I went looking in on Lockheed Martin in Denver on the night of 2 March. Lockheed is as close to being fully in charge of the government as you can get without moving the White House to Denver. They're running the show, folks. I found them in a meeting. The subject matter was the earthquake machine that had ceased to function. I posted that story on the forum. Subsequent to that date, I went looking for an upstream connection to one of the participants in the meeting, a lady named Patricia. I followed an energy thread from her that led to Condoleeza Rice. I had already spotted Rice as a potential replacement for Dead-eye Dick Cheney, and wanted to head off that possibility if I could. So Ms.Rice and I danced for a while, and when I was satisfied that she was no longer a contender, I followed an energy thread from her to a Rockefeller, but I didn't stick around long enough to learn which one. Now, Ms.Rice is a person with many connections, and we saw that she and Patricia were plotting a scandal that would un-seat Dick Cheney. Un-seating Dick is a noble goal, all right, but not if it is gonna benefit Condi. So, that situation has been resolved, we believe. And Dick is on his way out, even without Ms.Rice's help. The attack on Iran now appears to be an improbability. The bomb in the Detroit stadium was to have been blamed on Iran, and used as an excuse for the attack. There is no excuse for an attack now, and not time enough to create an incident to justify one with enough lead time for the controlled press to drum up public support for a retaliatory strike. To borrow a Pentagon phrase, it an O.B.E. situation. Overtaken By Events. An attack ain't gonna happen now. And that whole area; Iran, Iraq, Turkey, is going to be so unstable with earthquakes as to make any kind of overt action unlikely. Unlikely, also, is for the war in Iraq to continue beyond the end of the year. There will be disasters aplenty of the natural type here in the States, and more ineptness on the part of elected and appointed officials to deal with it. There will be a call for a return of the National Guard. In short, it is all un-winding for the Dark Side now. The higher vibratory level of the earth will extinguish a lot of people, removing them from the stage. The higher frequencies will make it impossible for the present world order to continue, and it will be replaced. It will all seem so 'natural'. Events will happen, and our minds will process them as separate and individual. Only by rising above ground level experience will we be able to see that this is all part of the process of dismantling what is, to be replaced by what will be. I have seen the future, my friends. I have seen it in the intelligent eyes of the children who smiled and talked to me as I made my rounds at schools. I have seen it manifest as a million acres of eco-farmed land in Australia, at last count, and countless more here in the States. I have seen it in the free energy devices that exist in the here and now, waiting for the right moment to appear. I have seen it in the scores of low tech and high tech healing devices and modalities in service right now. I have also seen it manifest as law students who turned their back on Alberto Gonzales in protest. The story made the news today, and that was not the first time. I saw the future yesterday in the eyes of my little grandchild. I have seen the future, and it is grand. All civilizations crumble. The most well-documented, of course, is the Roman civilization. Western Civilization has had it's day in the sun, and is now on the way out. Oswald Spengler saw it coming and wrote THE DECLINE OF THE WEST in the beginning of the 1900s. So this is where we are on the curve of history. The world we know is crumbling at our feet, and some are desperately trying to stop it, not knowing the futility of it all, not knowing that it will be replaced by a much better world. It is gonna be a bumpy ride, but the payoff is that we are here at the foundation of whatever is to replace the existing world order. It is our chance to leave a mark, make a difference, set the tone and the course for what comes next. It's wet cement, folks. Put your mark in it for all to see. You can tell your grandchildren that you were present at the creation of the world they now know. Dragon[/i] Bring your own discernment. --MaryK

by **dbeach** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:01 pm

Ya never know?/BUT Idon't think Iran is gettin nuked this yr MAYBE Israel will drop some conventional weapons like they did on Iraq in the 1980s when Iraq had the nuclera reactors <a href="http://www.13moon.com/prophecy%20page.htm">www.13moon.com/prophecy%20page.htm</a> "Known as Time's Special Witness, 7th century Mayan prophet Pacal Votan left a universal message for future generations of an evolving Earth. Proclaiming,"If Humanity Wishes To Save Itself From Biospheric Destruction It Must Return To Living in Natural Time," he foretold of our accelerated technological society, and the resulting damage of our collective divergence from Natural Law in exchange for materialist values. Pacal Votan's prophetic call is alerting present-day humanity that our biological process is transforming, approaching the culmination of a 26,000 year evolutionary program. Bringing the return of universal telepathy, heightened sense capacity, and self-reflective consciousness, this is a return to the sacred domain of our inner technology. This grand cycle of evolution will culminate winter solstice, December 21, 2012 AD. This time we are now in has been called "The Time of Trial on Earth," "Judgement Day," "The Time of Great Purification," "The End of this Creation," "The Quickening," "The End of Time as We Know It," "The Shift of the Ages." It is foretold that the completion of the Precession brings regeneration of Earth, offering awakening to all open, willing hearts. Many peoples spoke of these last days of the Great Cycle, including the: Maya, Hopi, Egyptians, Kabbalists, Essenes, Qero elders of Peru, Navajo, Cherokee, Apache, Iroquois confederacy, Dogon Tribe, and Aborigines. "

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:53 pm

The "computer model" is sowing doubt and divisiveness with disinfo and double-agent websites posting to deflect and diffuse the enormous implications of Global Warming. Discrediting the internet itself is part of the tactic, too. Study how tobacco was protected. Study how war is protected. Study how pollution is protected. Study how vaccines are protected. Since that damn 'Dolphins Fleeing North' thread I've found many bogus corporate PR websites like <a href="http://www.globalwarming.org/article.php?uid=562">www.globalwarming.org/art...hp?uid=562</a> and the "Cooler Heads Coalition." More like "Crueler Heads." Many corporate cut-out groups that include GROVER NORQUIST going back to 1996. Funny that it was 1997 when a Livermore Labs paper by Edward Teller assessed the various options for dealing with something that supposedly isn't happening.. <blockquote>Quote:<hr>The Cooler Heads Coalition The Cooler Heads Coalition Cooler Heads Coalition February 04, 2004 A sub-group of the National Consumer Coalition focusing on global climate issues. "The risks of global warming are speculative; the risks of global warming policies are all too real." Who we are * The Cooler Heads Coalition was formed on May 6, 1997 under the auspices of the National Consumer Coalition out of concern that the American people were not being informed about the economic impact of proposals to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Nor was the American public being provided with balanced information about the science of global warming. Myron Ebell, director of global warming and international environmental policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is the Cooler Heads group leader. * "Cooler Heads" focuses on the consumer impact of global warming policies that would drastically restrict energy use and raise costs for consumers. * Members of the coalition point out that the science of global warming is uncertain, but the negative impacts of global warming policies on consumers are all too real. Coalition members also follow the progress of the international Global Climate Change Treaty negotiations. Members "Cooler Heads" members are non-profit, non-partisan, public policy, taxpayer, activist, seniors, and consumer groups: Alexis de Tocqueville Institution Americans for Tax Reform American Legislative Exchange Council American Policy Center Association of Concerned Taxpayers Center for Security Policy Citizens for a Sound Economy Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Competitive Enterprise Institute Consumer Alert Defenders of Property Rights Fraser Institute, Canada Frontiers of Freedom George C. Marshall Institute Heartland Institute Independent Institute Istituto Bruno Leoni, Italy JunkScience.com National Center for Policy Analysis National Center for Public Policy Research Pacific Research Institute Seniors Coalition 60 Plus Association Small Business Survival Committee Spreading the word * Global warming website - The Cooler Heads Coalition has a web site solely dealing with global warming issues, www.globalwarming.org. This site, designed and maintained by Consumer Alert, pools together information from experts both inside and outside of the coalition and serves as a clearinghouse for information on global warming science and policy proposals. After only four months, it was listed by the New York Times as being among the top fifteen environmental websites, and it was the only market-oriented website listed. * Cooler Heads Newsletter - The group also publishes The Cooler Heads Newsletter, a bi-weekly newsletter which serves as an update on current economic, scientific, and political issues related to global climate change. * On the Hill - Cooler Heads members sponsor a regular series of science and economic briefings on Capitol Hill, which feature prominent researchers and academicians to discuss scientific and economic research relating to global warming issues. Congressional staff members, policy makers, and the media are invited to these educational sessions. Also... * Besides the publications sponsored by the group, individual Cooler Heads members publish research studies, reports, and issue briefs on scientific, economic, and political aspects of global warming policies. Members also sponsor press conferences, rallies, and consumer surveys. * Members give numerous presentations, sponsor seminars, take part in debates, and appear regularly on television and radio talk shows to discuss global warming issues. Articles and opinion pieces by Cooler Heads members appear in newspapers and magazines around the country and abroad. * Several Cooler Heads member groups are involved in the global warming treaty negotiations as NGOs (non-governmental organizations) at the United Nations negotiating sessions. "Cooler Heads" members’ quotes on global warming policies "It’s déjà vu all over again. First it was the bogus health care ‘crisis.’ Now it is the imaginary climate crisis. Then the solution was Hillarycare – a Rube Goldberg bureaucratic monstrosity dressed up in the rhetoric of markets, flexibility, and innovation. Now the solution is Climatecare – an even more audacious power grab decked out in the same deceptive rhetoric. I am confident the American people will see through and reject this latest assault on their freedom and living standards." -- Marlo Lewis, vice-president of policy of the Competitive Enterprise "President Clinton’s global climate change proposals will waste taxpayer money on pork-barrel corporate subsidies and will impose a ‘stealth tax’ through its emissions permit systems which will increase the cost of energy for every American."  -- Grover G. Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform "Despite President Clinton’s attempt to play down the ‘pain factor’ in his proposals to put U.S. energy-use under UN authority, the facts cannot be denied -- it will mean energy rationing or massive tax hikes or some of both. Remember the Carter years under the Carter Energy Plan? Millions of Americans sat in long lines for their turn at the fuel pump. The Clinton Energy Plan could produce similar results but its impact will be more widespread. Small businesses are America’s job creators. This proposal puts millions of American jobs at risk by unduly and unfairly burdening small businesses with vast new costs and stealth taxes." -- Karen Kerrigan, president of Small Business Survival Committee "Policies disguised as middle-of-the-road instead will be leading us down the road to national industrial policy and a planned economy. The losers will be American consumers, who will bear the brunt of restrictions on energy use in their everyday lives. They’ll have to pay the costs, not just in higher prices, but in a drastically lower standard of living." -- Frances B. Smith, executive director of Consumer Alert "The proposal that the Clinton Administration finally put on the table is long on idealism but frighteningly short on the specifics of how much it is going to cost American consumers. In fact, one might say, it leaves American consumers, particularly seniors, out in the cold." -- Thair Phillips, CEO of the Seniors Coalition National Consumer Coalition The National Consumer Coalition (NCC) is an on-going coalition organized and coordinated by Consumer Alert, which focuses on the consumer impact of policy proposals. Its 26 non-profit, non-partisan member organizations include public policy groups, seniors organizations, taxpayer and consumer groups whose individual members number 3.9 million. NCC coordinates the work of subgroups in specialized consumer issue areas. For More Information, write or call: The Cooler Heads Coalition c/o Consumer Alert 1001 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Suite 1128 Washington, D.C. 22036 Telephone: (202)467-5809 Fax: (202)467-5814 <hr></blockquote>

by **chiggerbit** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:51 pm

I just picked out the Heartland one from your list, Human, and signed up for their emails. Heehee, non-partisan. <blockquote>Quote:<hr> The Heartland Institute is a genuinely independent source of research and commentary founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1984. It is not affiliated with any political party, business, or foundation. Its activities are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Heartland's mission is to help build social movements in support of ideas that empower people. Such ideas include parental choice in education, choice and personal responsibility in health care, market-based approaches to environmental protection, privatization of public services, and deregulation in areas where property rights and markets do a better job than government bureaucracies. Heartland has been endorsed by some of the country's leading scholars, public policy experts, and elected officials. Dr. Milton Friedman calls a "a highly effective libertarian institute." Cato Institute president Edward Crane says Heartland "has had a tremendous impact, first in the Midwest, and now nationally." Activities of The Heartland Institute are overseen by a 16-member Board of Directors, which meets quarterly. A staff of 22 works with a growing network of Heartland Senior Fellows, including George Clowes (school reform), Wendell Cox (transportation and sprawl), Jim Johnston (energy and regulation), Jay Lehr (science and environment), Maureen Martin (legal affairs), Merrill Matthews (health care), and Conrad Meier (health care). Two committees provide outside advice and expertise: a Board of Policy Advisors and the Board of Legislative Advisors. The former consists of academics and professional economists who conduct research and participate in peer review of the institute's publications. The latter consists of elected officials who suggest topics and sources of information and sometimes produce model legislation..............<hr></blockquote> Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 3/8/06 8:57 pm

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