zaterdag 5 augustus 2017

Major Cell/Land/911 Outage During Solar Storm: Eastern Canada





Major disruption due to the impact of a geomagnetic storm. Space weather can be critical to our infrastructure and we have the early warning systems in place, yet we still struggle to address this issue on a global level. #suspicsiousobservers have been tracking this for a long time and I can highly recommend their youtube channel for more information about space weather and the relationship with earthquakes and tropical storms.

woensdag 12 februari 2014

Weakening Earth Magnetic Field

In 2003 I ran into a report +NASA's Earth Observatory  about the weakening of the geomagnetic field. You can read here that it  is weakening and has weakend over 10% since 1831 . WDC geomag in Kyoto has a nice animation of it here.

Suspious Observer C(lie)mate #4 actually points out it the fields weakening has increased to 15%. That's an additional 5% weakening in 10 years! And impressive figures indeed. I strongly suggest people with an interest in geomagnetism to read more on http://www.suspicious0bservers.org/cliemate/

To my opinion they have an excellent idea about solar forcing on our planet. I'm also glad they picked up on Scaffeta's findings concerning interplanatary oscillations that impact our planet.

I'm just curious if these forces are strong enough to affect the solar forcings (Wm-2) on our planet.

zondag 19 januari 2014

Vukcevic might have found something. Will it draw Robert felix on the stageof the great climate debate?

I have been looking into the relation between evolutionary leaps and geomagnetic refersal.
This subject was brought to my attention after reading Robert Felix book with the same title.

I recently ran into Vukcevic who has been correlating Earth and solar magnetic field variation with regional cimatic variations. This is interesting because IPCC models have a hard time coming up with local forecasts.
The IPCC models have a lot of parameteres and seem to focus on proofing anthropogenic influences on climate change. The climate debat consists of worthy adversaries. The skeptics (skeptical of the IPCC findings) like Roger 'Tallbloke' Tattersall and Joanne Nova are proponents of Scafetta's ideas about solar forcing and astronomical cycles.

While Willis totaly disagrees and claims this kind of science is just as rubbish as Biorythms. Because Scafetta is just looking for plausible cycles to hindcast the actual data. This is a case of correlation and not (yet) causation. This is when vukcevic comes to rescue scafetta with his own theorum.

It would be nice to follow this debate, becasue now we have Geomagnetic field variation finally making its appearance in the discussion on climate change. I wonder when Robert Felix is going to join in? 

donderdag 5 december 2013

What is plasma?


Plasma is the fourth state of matter. Many places teach that there are three states of matter; solid, liquid and gas, but there are actually four. The fourth is plasma. To put it very simply, a plasma is an ionized gas, a gas into which sufficient energy is provided to free electrons from atoms or molecules and to allow both species, ions and electrons, to coexist. The funny thing about that is, that as far as we know, plasmas are the most common state of matter in the universe. They are even common here on earth. A plasma is a gas that has been energized to the point that some of the electrons break free from, but travel with, theirnucleus. Gases can become plasmas in several ways, but all include pumping the gas with energy. A spark in a gas will create a plasma. A hot gas passing through a big spark will turn the gas stream into a plasma that can be useful. Plasma torches like that are used in industry to cut metals. The biggest chunk of plasma you will see is that dear friend to all of us, the sun. The sun's enormous heat rips electrons off the hydrogen and helium molecules that make up the sun. Essentially, the sun, like most stars, is a great big ball of plasma.