Posted on 07/23/2007 6:29:00 PM PDT by Lusis
new NASA satellite has recorded the first detailed images from space of a mysterious type of cloud called “night-shining” or “noctilucent." The clouds are on the move, brightening and creeping out of polar regions, and researchers don't know why.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Nope, Sandy Claws be coming early driving a Yugo ....
It’s got to be Global Warming! (Or is it Climate Change?)
I have an old Golden Guide of Weather that mentions noctilucent clouds, so they are not new at all.
But they must be caused by Global Warming and will melt Greenland and drown the polar bears. Unless we embrace global socialism immediately, of course.
Very mysterious. All I can say for sure, is that we’re all going to die.
It's already started.
Are the clouds the color of oil smoke-then it must be a Yugo.
kinda white so it must be a broken head where water is leaking into the cylinders ....
It might be that they never looked for them, until now.
Adrienne Barboobs and Jamie Lee Curtis in “The Fog”.
I am really scared now!
LOL!
Already happened.
And every year, they pollute the rest of us.
Excerpt:
China - April 6 and 7 - A series of huge sandstorm events called "the worst of the spring season" develop over Mongolia and sweep across western China reducing visibilities to near zero and making ground transportation all but impossible. The resulting huge aerosol cloud mass is picked up by orbiting earth satellites as it forms over China and heads out to sea.
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This Asian Haze event has been officially confirmed by:
* Jay R. Herman, Principal Investigator for TOMS Aerosol/UV projects, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
* Officials at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, California
* Gene Feldman, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
* Russ Schnell, Director of Observatory Operations, NOAA, Boulder, Co.
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On April 6 and 7, a series of huge sandstorm events developed over Mongolia and swept across western China and subsequently produced a huge aerosol cloud that was observed by orbiting earth satellites.
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Dangerous Levels of Metallic Substances detected in latest 'yellow dust' from China
[Mar. 10, 2001]
"The latest seasonal winds from China, known as "yellow dust," which blanketed the nation earlier this week twice, carried 16 times more metallic substances than last year's, a research institute said yesterday, sounding health alarms over the dust mass.
There are no immediate measures to prevent the coming of the so-called "gatecrasher of spring" that causes eye, nose and respiratory illnesses. Experts say that it is best to remain indoors and if one has to go out, to wear a mask.
The yellow dust phenomenon happens after sandstorms are created in the inland deserts in northern China, usually during dry spring weather, by strong convection of currents of warm and cold air that sweeps soil particles up to high altitudes.
They typically rise to a height of 3 km to 5 km before blowing eastward at some 30 meters per second, crossing the West Sea before arriving in South Korea in two to three days.
In addition to potential health problems, the dust in extreme cases can cause visibility problems for pilots, hinder the operation of precision machinery and impair the growth of agricultural products.
There were reports the dust may have carried the viruses that caused a deadly foot-and-mouth epidemic that hit the nation's livestock industry last year.
NASA sets up it's own annual tracking of this mysterious dust cloud event:
Background about the China Dust Storm
A Siberian cold front caused large dust storms to be created in northwestern China's Inner Mongolia region and Gansu province. As these storms hovered over northern China, they ushered in the worst period of air pollution in six years. Air quality in the capital city of Beijing reached hazardous levels, and elderly people and children were warned to stay indoors. At this latitude on the globe the air moves from west to east, so the dust storm which originated in China will move towards Japan. However, the storm is expected to weaken as it enters the Bohai Sea and the East China Sea. South Korea, which also lies in the storm's path, was also greatly affected, and the storm was its second-worst this year. The dust is actually a combination of sand from the Gobi Desert and chemicals from Chinese industrial cities that blow to the Korean Peninsula from westerly winds in April and May, reducing visibility and filling the country's skies with a thick blanket.
It’s a sign of the coming of the Anti-Christ.
It’s normal...they’re just now noticing it?
GGG interest?
In a Yugo? I figured that guy had more taste ... a Volvo at least!
Chem trails from reptilian spacecraft lifting off from the secret entrance to the hollow earth at the north pole! Get Art Bell out of retirement NOW!
They are the cooling clouds that help balance out the global warming that supposedly causes the polar regions to melt. It is it natural occurrence which humans have not yet witnessed. (Hey, it’s as good as any other explanation I’ve heard)
The earth has a way of taking care of business regardless of the crap man pulls.
“Very mysterious.”
Yes indeed. I suspect there is a Crawling Eye behind those arctic clouds. They are space aliens who want to chill the Earth down to their liking.
You fight them with fire. Napalm.
Somebody call Art Bell!!!
East of the Rockies, 555-555-55555555555555555!
West of the Rockies, 555-555-55555555555555554!
Wild card line for jokers who still live with their mothers, 555-555-5555555555555wimp!
Well as they said in Blazing Saddles: “how about some more beans Mr. Taggert?”
My GF at the times older sister asked me if I needed a ride home after watching The Fog in their basement. I said “thats alright, I will walk.”
I lived about 4 houses away. I will freely admit, I did look over my shoulder a few times.
Seeing the movie now, its almost comical.
Noctilucent clouds are definitely NOT new.
As I posted above my old Golden Guide (probably 60’s) has them, and there are older historical references.
It’s just that now we have sat pix.
Yup looks like.
Of course, Earth’s climate has been changing in a cyclic way for the last 3 million years, but still the noctilucent cloud sat pix mean we are doomed if we don’t elect a progressive to the white house (and congress).
No doubt about it. It's so bad now, they even spot these things on Mars!!!!
We're doomed!!!!! (To keep hearing crap like this from the MSM illiterates.)
ping
They know. It's due to water vapor from jet exhaust being deposited in the stratosphere. It has nothing to do with GW. Normally water would freeze out before it gets there. Those are ice crystals that see the sun all the time, because they are so high up. The shining is simply refraction of sunlight back down to where it's otherwise dark.
When I was studying for my private pilot license as a teenager, back in the early 70s, we learned about noctilucent clouds. They were considered an interesting but harmless phenomenon. I think they've been observed since the 19th century.
Noctilucent clouds are nickle dust particles (possibly from meteorites) covered with ice; they are seen primarily during late summer at higher latitudes...
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF6/676.html
Alaska Science Forum
August 16, 1984
It’s Time Again for Noctilucent Clouds
Article #676
EXCERPT:
Under an electron microscope, the surfaces on which the particles were captured revealed millions of minute motes of dust as small as 0.05 microns in diameter (a micron is one-thousandth of a millimeter; a millimeter is about half the thickness of pencil lead). Obviously, chemical analysis of samples so small is extremely difficult, but electron bombardment indicated that the particles contained nickel. Nickel is an element quite rare on earth, but common in meteorites. Hence, an extraterrestrial origin is suggested for the components of noctilucent clouds.
In addition, the collecting surfaces showed halos surrounding some particles. This implies that they originally had a coating of something that had evaporated between the time they were collected and the time they were observed in the laboratory. The coating must almost certainly have been water ice.
The picture which therefore emerges is that noctilucent clouds are meteor dust particles covered with ice. Knowing what they are, however, in no way explains why they behave as they do. It would be expected that meteoritic particles would be evenly distributed in the earth’s upper atmosphere. Why, then, are noctilucent displays localized; why do they occur only occasionally; why only during the summer months; and, why only at the higher latitudes? These questions about the rare and beautiful spectacle remain to be answered.
END EXCERPT
Check your insurance for the Sanity Clause.
Probably before that- the 19th was when someone wrote it down and it got reprinted. People in Norway and Canada and what’s now Alaska saw them long ago.
Completely natural and rather neat.
The alarmist probably knows lots of meteorology, but alarmism is more important.
Amen! ;^)
Actually, Art Bell is the master of the spooky kooky whack-job parnormal and outrageously entertaining talk radio format he pioneered. Great voice with a twinkle in it! I always felt like he often winked at the audience with that voice. Plus he's Pro 2nd Amendment, and you gotta love that.
My insurance policy was written by Rush Limbaugh and countersigned by Sean Hannity ......
OOOOOoeeeeeeoooOOOooeeeeooOOOoooeeeeeeeeeeooOOOOooeeeee!!! Ping!
Shame on you all. HARP is still functional.
Kick starting the heaters at the north Pole, Santa is going to be busy this year.
I loved foggy nights till I saw that movie.
And before that global cooling, overpopulation, DDT, Alar, silicone breast implants, cyclamates, IUD's, electromagnetic fields, frankenfoods, transfat good/transfat bad . . . .
And they wonder why they are losing credibility???
I dunno, but the article says:
"They were first seen in 1885" about two years after the powerful eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia, which hurled plumes of ash as high as 80 kilometers into Earth's atmosphere."
My vote goes to 1) VOLCANOS, and 2) CONTRAILS (water vapor).
We need both.
Leave them alone.
I know, the movie had a mood about it! It was a John Carpenter flick. He had a thing for Barboobs and Jaime Lee.
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