12-30-2006
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Member Since: Feb 2004
Location: Midwest US
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Re: Polar Bears and the denial of Global Warming
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Originally Posted by JHC
It's not a matter of what is the "right thing" to do, it is a matter of consumerism.
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The cause for polar bear extinction may not be caused by human made Climate Change Crisis Warming. The polar bears may have to be rescued using floatation devices.
In the mean time, is there anyway to stop the solar flares? The heat is on big time.
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More solar flares blast toward earth
(12/18/06) - A large electromagnetic "storm" has broken out on the face of the sun, sending masses of charged subatomic particles through the space that surrounds planet Earth.
Images from the SOHO space probe -- short for Solar and Heliospheric Observatory -- showed a bright flare near the sun's equator on Wednesday, and another was reported by ground-based observatories today. Several of SOHO's sensors were temporarily overwhelmed by the amount of radiation, engineers said.
The flare had one surprising effect: It temporarily knocked out the gyroscopes that keep the space station oriented in orbit. Apparently, NASA said, the energy from the flare caused the outer layers of Earth's atmosphere to thicken slightly.
Even at the station's altitude of 220 miles, there's a tiny bit of air -- and there was more on Thursday. When the gyros were turned back on, onboard computers sensed that they were working harder than they ought to -- and shut the gyros off again. NASA said the astronauts were in no danger. The shuttle's steering jets will keep the docked ships stable until the gyro problem is solved.
"It is a rare occurrence to have a strong event like this so late in the solar cycle," said Larry Combs, a forecaster at NOAA's Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo. The frequency of solar flares fluctuates in an 11-year pattern, and the last peak was in 2002.
"So far, yes, there's been a magnetic disturbance," said Joe Kunches, chief of the Forecast and Analysis Branch at the Space Environment Center. "And yes, it's coming from the sun." Kunches' staff reported that more radiation was likely to pass Earth over the weekend.
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