International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured spectacular imagery of Comet Lovejoy as seen from about 240 miles above the Earth’s horizon on Wednesday, Dec. 21.
See video at NASA web site.
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Cooling 3.5 degrees Celsius by 2020.
A new Norwegian study predicts that the annual mean temperature in Svalbard will drop 3.5°C over the period of 2009 to 2020 and mean winter temperature will drop 6°C. The study is based on solar activity and the duration of solar cycles. While the study is specific to Norway, if this actually occurs, temperatures will also drop significantly in other areas.
Cooling ‘til 2068?
A recent Chinese study of Tibetan tree rings indicates that there is nothing abnormal about the current climate conditions. The research team determined that several different natural cycles – 2-3 years, 100 years, 199 years, 800 years, and 1,324 years – combined to produce the climate history seen in the varying tree ring properties from the Tibetan Plateau.
The study indicate that temperatures have peaked and predicts that they will drop until 2068 AD, rising again after that.
The studies are two of a number of studies that run counter to the anthropogenic global warming theory so prominent in today’s media.
Global warming or global cooling?
If I had a choice, I’d prefer warming.
(I’d also prefer that governments not waste money in futile efforts that aren’t going to make a significant difference. If we’re going to spend money like that, let’s do something worthwhile – like eradicating malaria or making sure more people in the world have clean water, something that would make a real difference instead of lining the pockets of bureaucrats or eco-snobs.)
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The first night of our 2011 trip was Labor Day – camped at Canton Lake, west of Oklahoma City. We had a reservation for 1 night at the Sandy Cove campground near the dam on the northeast end. We had stayed there in August 2009 and liked it well enough to stay again.
It was a good location for photographing the sun setting across the lake and I hoped to be able to do a sunset time lapse. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get the sunset in one continuous time sequence, but was able to get two good segments, which are included in the video.
It was obvious that the lake was lower this year than it had been in 2009.
The swimming area buoys were certainly high and dry.
The video includes photographs from both Karen and me, two time lapse sunset segments and a short “home video” segment of our campsite. I’ve produced the video in three formats 1920 x 1080, 1280 x 720, and 640 x 360.
Canton Lake links and resources:
- US Army Corps of Engineers– The Corps of Engineers operates five multi-use recreation areas which offer a combination of overnight camping and day-use opportunities to the visiting public. The sites are (links go to Recreation.gov):
- Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department
- Wikipedia
Our first day of travel:
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I set this up last night, but didn’t get any of the northern lights, just some flickering red glow from behind the trees. For some reason the camera shut down early or I might have gotten some images of the northern light display caused by material from a solar coronal mass ejection interacting with the magnetosphere. Click on the HD icon on the player to get a better resolution video.
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Solar activity continues to tend far lower than normal in a number of different parameters.
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Why I don’t want to be right.
June 16, 2011
In the last couple of days, hundreds of news articles have been reporting on the strange behavior of the sun.
Three new scientific papers released simultaneously June 14th suggest that our sun’s magnetic activity and sunspot cycle may be going somewhat dormant for a while – possibly several decades – resulting in a period of global cooling. The results were announced at the annual meeting of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society, which is being held this week at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. [click to continue…]
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