(Originally penned in 2013 - nothing has changed other than the magnetic poles are dangerously close to the 40th latitude now)
The erratic weather patterns, melting ice shelves, ozone holes and
all manner of other earth changes are being blamed on human beings.
Whilst we are culpable for some of the disturbing changes that are
currently happening on earth, should the human race accept all the
blame? Could there be other causes, causes beyond mankind’s
control?
Let’s first look at our local sun. The current solar sun spot cycle was due to start in 2008; however, what we saw was that the sun had gone into a solar minimum.
The sun has a symbiotic relationship with earth’s thermosphere; when the sun is at minimum our thermosphere collapses. The thermosphere is a rarefied layer of the planet's upper atmosphere between 90 and 600 kilometres above the surface, which shields us from the sun's extreme ultra violet (EUV) radiation. This solar minimum in 2008 was one of the lowest on record, which in turn produced a record breaking earth thermosphere collapse.
It is a given that during a solar minimum this thermosphere collapses somewhat but it was quite a shock to scientists to see a collapse of this extent. Around this time it was also noted that the coronal holes that normally hover around the poles of the sun had uncharacteristically migrated towards the sun’s equatorial region. This means that the weak solar winds that usually are blown out of these holes are no longer delivering a glancing blow to earth, but more of a direct hit.
By April 2009 the deep solar minimum extended beyond normal limits to become known officially as the longest solar minimum in 100 years and extremely significant. By August 2009 sun spot activity was at zero; the consequences of this were that earth’s thermosphere was dangerously depleted. By late 2010, although the sun was showing some signs of life, this period was already the longest solar minimum since the Maunder minimum.
“The Maunder Minimum coincided with the middle — and coldest part — of the Little Ice Age, during which Europe and North America were subjected to bitterly cold winters. A causal connection between low sunspot activity and cold winters has recently been made using data from NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment which shows that solar UV output is more variable over the course of the solar cycle than scientists had previously thought, and a UK scientific team published in Nature Geoscience journal a link that ties this variability to terrestrial climate impacts in the form of warmer winters in some places and colder winters in others. The winter of 1708-09 was extremely cold”
Interestingly that is exactly what the northern hemisphere has been experiencing in recent years. Could we be actually be IN a little ice age and be coming out of one, or vice versa? Either way, it's natural. (Dr Svensmark from the Solar Terrestrial Physics Division, Danish Meteorological Institute believes it is interaction between the solar wind, a wave of charged particles from the sun and cosmic rays that determine the earth’s climate. His theories were recently proven by experimental findings through the Danish Sky Experiment.)
November 2011 saw high sun spot activity; however since then sun spot activity has been extremely erratic, particularly over the last 12 months. This is of grave concern as planet earth needs the sun spot activity and resultant solar flares to inflate and expand the earth’s thermosphere. Of interest to this writer is the assertion that mankind and our activities has created this collapse.. the usual suspects being CO2 or methane gas.
Whilst the sun has been behaving uncharacteristically in recent times it is expected to return to a solar maximum, and soon. Perhaps with this understanding we can then take seriously the warning from renowned physicist Michio Kaku in 2009. Mr Kaku appeared repeatedly on network and cable television in the USA, warning that earth was potentially vulnerable to a mega-solar storm during this cycle, of such intensity and magnitude that it would, if blown out of the sun whilst it is earth facing, totally devastate the earth’s electrical grid, plunging humanity back to the 19th century and the era of horse and carts causing trillions of dollars worth of damage and conceivably taking anywhere from four to ten years to repair. He cited the solar storm of 1859 (aka the Carrington Event) when a coronal mass ejection reached earth within 17 hours, causing telegraph systems all over Europe and North America to fail, in some cases shocking telegraph operators. Telegraph pylons threw sparks and telegraph paper spontaneously caught fire.
Now let’s have a look at the earth’s magnetosphere. In 2003 NASA released data that this essential mechanism is weakening, to the point where breaches or large holes are appearing in our shield, which solar winds can flow through loading up our atmosphere leading to powerful geomagnetic storms. What is uncertain is whether the weakened field is on the way to a complete collapse and a reversal that would flip the north and south poles. At the time of writing the north magnetic pole has been literally galloping towards Siberia at a rate of 40 miles per year, or 575 feet per day, whilst the south magnetic pole is moving at a more sedate pace towards Australia.
It is now admitted in scientific circles that we are in the throes of a true polar wander.
More alarming however is the discovery via the IBEX satellite of a previously unknown giant mass 30 light years wide that is now abutting and interacting with our heliosphere, known within scientific circles as The Ribbon. From the data available it appears that this ribbon is perpendicular to the galactic magnetic field (this is the right-hand rule of electromagnetism at work and is revealing as a genesis and a possible cause for this anomaly) and powerful enough to be turning the solar winds around on itself pushing it back into the inner system. It also appears to be highly magnetised. NASA has no idea what has created this mass nor how it is going to affect our local solar system or sun or the possible reverberations that this will have on earth.
Up until recently it was supposed - and insisted upon - that space was a vacuum. That theory is dying a natural death and has now been replaced with the understanding that space isn’t vacuum at all and that space weather is as important to the solar system as global weather is to us here on earth, and that space weather has direct implications for earth. So a quick look at our local system is in order if only to highlight the fact that strange events and weather patterns are not isolated to earth alone.
Jupiter until recently had three white ovals on its surface to the southwest of the Great Red Spot. Two of these disappeared between 1997 and 2000, with the remainder becoming Red Spot Junior. Whilst the Great Red Spot is dying, it also lost an entire layer of cloud stripes as well. According to a UC Berkeley expert in fluid dynamics, this is indicative of an oncoming major climatic shift. Add to this also that Jupiter has new radio emissions and recently was observed to have discharged electrically. NASA claimed it was an asteroid impact but there is no visible hole blown through the outer gases. Quakes on the moon and Mars have been recorded whilst Venus has slowed down and has brightened. Saturn’s rotation is slowing down and has a brand new mega-storm along with cloud anomalies on its moon, spokes have appeared in its rings and auroras have been seen on Uranus for the first time.
For what it is worth, it does seem that the whole of our solar system is undergoing some dramatic changes, the sort that make one want to shout down the carbon credit scheme as another bankster instrument. Wonder if I can get myself one or two, seeing I have trees on my 700sqm?
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