To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Veil today, burka tomorrow ?
2 posted on
01/30/2012 1:26:39 PM PST by
F.J. Mitchell
(Anything but Obama!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This "cold plasma" is a direct result of human activity on the earth.
Okay. . .it's actually just one human - Michael Moore. But he's a really big human, and he generates an awful lot of "cold plasma" which he releases into the atmosphere at regular intervals.
3 posted on
01/30/2012 1:30:11 PM PST by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: All
From the comments at WUWT regarding the article:
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
5 posted on
01/30/2012 1:31:25 PM PST by
ClearCase_guy
(When the night falls, it falls on me, and when the day breaks I'm in pieces.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Danger, danger, Will Robinson.
The massive cataclismic global warming will soon ignite this plasma and we’ll be come a second sun.
Oh noes, oh noes.
/s
6 posted on
01/30/2012 1:35:10 PM PST by
Da Coyote
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
But........we’re all still gunna die from global warming, right?
7 posted on
01/30/2012 1:38:05 PM PST by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: TigerLikesRooster; landsbaum; Signalman; NormsRevenge; steelyourfaith; Lancey Howard; ...
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This, of course, is where the ectoplasmic beings come from.
Be careful out there.
14 posted on
01/30/2012 2:17:09 PM PST by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Wow....Giant Veil of Cold Plasma....Cool
15 posted on
01/30/2012 2:20:54 PM PST by
xp38
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Another effect is that the Earth is bleeding off roughly 2.2 pounds (1 kilogram) of atmospheric gas every second.Great, we live on an anorexic rock.
17 posted on
01/30/2012 2:30:27 PM PST by
SouthTexas
(You cannot bargain with the devil, shut the government down.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
21 posted on
01/30/2012 6:11:12 PM PST by
Bratch
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For reference: Plasma Clouds Around the Earth
Encircling the equatorial region of the Earth, and extending to latitudes nearly as far as the Arctic Circle, are regions of space where powerful flows of particles exist. Since the late 1950s at the dawn of the Space Age, they have been called the Van Allen belts. They were at one time believed to be particles from the solar wind, trapped by the Earths magnetic field. Like an invisible bottle, particles could enter the bottle but would have a hard time leaving.
There are actually two belts which are shaped like two nested donuts centered on the Earth. The inner belt contains 10 million-volt, high-energy protons (the stripped nuclei of hydrogen atoms), and is located between 700 kilometers and 12,000 kilometers from the Earths surface. The outer belt contains mostly electrons with energies higher than 1 million volts, located between 25,000 and 40,000 kilometers from the Earths surface.
There are two other important systems of particles that invisibly orbit the Earth: the plasmasphere and the ring current. Both of these systems contain much lower energy particles than the Van Allen belts, although they occupy nearly the same regions of space extending to at least 45,000 kilometers from the Earths surface.
Low-energy particles, with energies of a few tens of volts, surround the Earth in a vast donut-shaped cloud called the plasmasphere. The Earths magnetic field in this region is so strong that the charged plasmasphere particles are pulled along with the Earths 24-hour rotation. During times of severe coronal mass ejections, atoms from the Earths atmosphere are actually pumped into the plasmasphere in a so-called polar fountain. These fountains can be detected by orbiting satellites as they pass through the arctic and antarctic regions within a few thousand kilometers of the Earth.
The ring current extends from 8,000 kilometers to nearly 30,000 kilometers from the surface and occupies nearly the same zone as the much more energetic Van Allen belts. Ring current particles carry energies of thousands of volts. It is not a complete equatorial ring, like the planet Saturns rings, but is only at its strongest on the night-side of the Earth. Its strength increases and decreases with the activity in the magnetotail region.
During times of severe storminess, when the solar wind magnetic polarity is south-type, the ring current becomes a powerful river of charged particles that create their own intense magnetic field. This field modifies the Earths own field and actually decreases its intensity in the equatorial regions of the Earth. The origin of these 100,000-volt particles is something of a scientific mystery. We dont fully understand how they are energized to such high voltages within the magnetosphere.
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/educator/litho8.html
Visualizations:
http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/1998/10/29/ast07jan99_1_resources/mag_sketch_633_new.jpg
http://images.sciencedaily.com/2008/12/081212141849-large.jpg