Scientists say an unusually prolonged period of extremely low temperatures in a part of the atmosphere called the stratosphere caused a record ozone loss over the Arctic. (Beth Ipsen/Arctic Sounder/Associated Press) Unusual winter weather in the atmosphere high above the Earth's surface caused an "unprecedented" loss of protective ozone over the Arctic this year, scientists say.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/10/03/arctic-ozone-hole.html?cmp=googleeditorspick
DO YOU THINK THERE IS A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE STORY ABOVE AND THE NEXT?
DO YOU THINK THERE IS A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE STORY ABOVE AND THE NEXT?
Massive Japanese earthquake altered Earth's gravity
Scientists now seeing if they can detect changes as crust settles back into place ...
The devastating earthquake that struck Japan earlier this year was powerful enough to slightly alter the pull of gravity under the affected area, scientists have found.
Anything that has mass has a gravity field that attracts objects toward it. The strength of this field depends on a body's mass. Since the Earth's mass is not spread out evenly, its gravity field is stronger in some places and weaker in others.
The magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki temblor in March was the most powerful earthquake to hit Japan and the fifth-most powerful quake ever recorded. To see how the temblor might have deformed the Earth there, scientists used the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites to analyze the area's gravity field before and after the quake.
The researchers found the Tohoku-Oki quake reduced the gravity field there by an average of two- millionths of a gal by slightly thinning the Earth's crust. In comparison, the strength of the gravitational pull at the Earth's surface is, on average, 980 gals. (The gal, short for Galileo, is a unit of acceleration; one gal is defined as one centimeter per second squared.)
AND DON'T YOU THINK THAT THE ABOVE TWO MAY BE ALSO CONNECTED TO THIS ONE?
NASA: Quake Shifted Earth's Axis, Shortened Day
Mar 1, 2010 – 6:37 PM
(March 1) -- Apart from claiming the lives of hundreds of people and wreaking enormous property damage, Chile's massive earthquake has likely altered the distribution of the Earth's overall mass, scientists from NASA say. http://www.aolnews.com/2010/03/01/nasa-quake-shifted-earths-axis-shortened-day/
How Japan's huge quake altered the planet
The force of Friday's historic temblor has shifted the Earth's axis and moved coastlines up to 13 feet
Last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan has actually moved the island closer to the United States and shifted the planet's axis.
The quake caused a rift 15 miles below the sea floor that stretched 186 miles long and 93 miles wide, according to the AP. The areas closest to the epicenter of the quake jumped a full 13 feet closer to the United States, geophysicist Ross Stein at the United States Geological Survey told The New York Times.
DOESN'T THE CHANGE IN THE AXIS OF THE EARTH AFFECT THE DIRECTION THE SUN RISES AND SETS AND THEREFORE WOULDN'T IT BE CORRECT TO ASSUME THAT THE ICE CAPS MAY BE MELTING FROM THAT REASON AND THAT THE STRANGE WEATHER (OTHER THAN HAARP RELATED) MAY BE RELATED TO THE CHANGING OF THE AXIS?
Some Inuit say they hope scientists coming to Nunavut for research as part of International Polar Year can help shed light on changes they're seeing in the sun — particularly, how it's been showing up more often in the usually always-dark winters.
For the past several years, residents in the High Arctic have observed that the winter dark season is ending earlier than usual, with the sun coming up at a different place than what people are used to seeing.
"The people [are] talking about earlier sunrise, more light in the dark season, instead of being more total darkness than before," Grise Fiord resident Larry Audlaluk said Thursday, adding that he has heard similar observations from people in other Far North communities.
"There are notices of more daylight earlier, and the dark season is not the real dark season that we used to know."
A bit further south, Igloolik Mayor Paul Quassa said hunters have noticed the same phenomenon.
"This year, the sun started coming up so fast that it's almost like April when it's mid-February," he said.WHAT DO YOU THINK????
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I agree that the stars have moved. The stars at night seem to set in the Southwest now rather than the West. I would attribute HAARP too as they use the Stratosphere to bounce off of.... It has to heat it up....
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