Cause of Arctic Ice Loss & Climate Change Due To Change In Earth's Axis.

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.

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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 ...

By Charles Q. Choi

OurAmazingPlanet

updated 10/6/2011 3:45:38 PM ET 2011-10-06T19:45:38

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.)

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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.

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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.

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 WHAT DO YOU THINK????

Difference in Pole Shifts Between North & South Poles

Pole Shift: North Races, South Crawls

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While the speed of the earth’s magnetic north pole shift has drastically sped up lately to about 34 miles per year (55 km), let’s look at what is happening with the south magnetic pole.

Every magnetic field has two polarities, North and South for example, and one might think that whatever is happening with one pole would be happening (in the inverse?) to it’s opposite pole.

Well as it appears, the earth’s magnetic south pole is not behaving similarly to it’s opposite north pole. In fact, it’s drift, or pole shift, is actually slowing down! Presently it’s only moving 3 miles (5 km) per year, only a tenth the speed of the north!

(Pole coordinate data sourced from NOAA’s National Geophysical Data Center)

Not only that, but it is interesting to note that both the north and south magnetic poles are favoring one side of the earth – the south pole is heavily favoring one side, and continues to move further away from true south.

The south magnetic pole is actually 1,800 miles (2,900 km) away from the earth’s true south pole! That is a substantial offset.

The north magnetic pole is fairly near true north and is ‘only’ about 360 miles (580 km) away.

When the earth is visualized with its magnetic poles more offset and favored towards one side of the planet than the other (which it has been for some time – although the south magnetic pole is moving even further to the favored side), coupled with the large variance in shift speed between the north and south, explanations may seem bizarre.

Since we know that the earth’s magnetic field is generated from the spinning liquid molten iron Inner Core, is one part of the core churning differently than the other?

Could the Inner Core, or part of it, be offset somehow, causing the magnetic pole axis to pass through one side of the planet more than the other? Wouldn’t that cause the planet to wobble?

Is the iron consistency changing in one part of the Inner Core more than the other?

If the Inner Core is ‘centered’ with the rest of the earth, and the molten iron composition is considered to be relatively consistent, do these observations indicate that the magnetic axis is actually bending or warping as it passes through the planet?


These are all interesting things to think about (for some of us), and while being just a logical minded casual observer, there is no doubt that these earth changes are powerful ones – even if only occurring relative to the time frame of the planets life.

Take a look at the following graph and see the extreme difference in North versus South Pole Shift speed since about 1930. As they say, a picture’s worth a thousand words…
Something’s happening up north…

As you can see, I spent a lot of time on graphics today 
Observe the magnetic pole axis tilt, and the fairly precise indication to the part of the planet that is favored more-so by proximity to the magnetic axis.

Could crustal movements, earthquakes and volcanoes be affected differently on this side of the planet than the other? The location is certainly right on top of the pacific ring of fire, and very near the general vicinity of Indonesia (most active volcanoes in the world), and located in the part of the world that gets the majority of earthquakes. It could purely coincidental, but who’s to say…

Checked your compass lately??




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Has Your Sign Changed?

What's your sign? Minn. prof suggests it's off

(AP) – 3 hours ago

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis astronomy professor said Friday that he's stunned by the attention he's getting for suggesting the signs of the zodiac are all wrong.

Parke Kunkle told a newspaper interviewer that the Earth's wobbly orbit means it's no longer aligned to the stars in the same way as when the signs of the zodiac were first conceived.

That means when astrologers say the sun is in Pisces, it's really in Aquarius, and so on, Kunkle said.

The story was published in Sunday editions of the Star Tribune of Minneapolis and quickly went viral, with thousands of people fretting on social networks that their sign might change.

Among them was Heather McGowan, 26, a student from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who got a red Aries symbol in a black maple leaf tattooed between her shoulders when she was 19.

"Go figure seven years later there's a possibility that I am no longer an Aries," she said, though she remains skeptical enough that she hasn't considered changing tattoos.

Kunkle, who teaches at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, said Friday that all the hubbub is based on "2,000-year-old information." He can't understand why his explanation of how a well-known wobble in the earth's orbit throws off astrology charts turned into an Internet sensation.

"Astronomers have known about this since about 130 BC," Kunkle said while sitting in his office, where the phone rang constantly, as he said it had been since the article came out.

"This is not new news. I have no idea why it went viral this time," Kunkel said. "Almost every astronomy class talks about it."

Shelley Ackerman, an astrologer and spokeswoman for American Federation of Astrologers, said she's been swamped with e-mails from worried clients whose signs would change under the new system. Ackerman said she advises the clients not to overreact.

"This doesn't change your chart at all. I'm not about to use it," she said. "I've told all of them not to worry about it. Every few years a story like this comes out and scares the living daylights out of everyone, but it'll go away as quickly as it came."

Ackerman said there are an infinite number of ways to divide the constellations, and that scientists are continually discovering new stars and solar systems. Astrologers don't change their systems for every new change, she said.

"Just as in medicine when there are new discoveries you don't change the entire system, you just work with it to see if and where it fits into existing system," she said.

Kate Agliata, 36, a freelance writer and mother of two in Birmingham, Ala., says she'll stay true to her original sign, even though she may now be a Pisces.

"Let's just say I won't be swapping out my Aries coffee mug anytime soon," she said, though she allowed it might make for heavier horoscope reading. "I have a feeling that from here on out, I'll feel inclined to read Pisces as well."

Kunkle said he's gotten a few angry calls, including one from someone who said, "Please give me my sign back."

But he said he was having fun with it, patiently answering phone calls from journalists all over the world.

Maybe it will make people more interested in the science of astronomy, he said: "I hope people go out and look more at the stars."

Dinesh Ramde in Milwaukee and Erin Vanderberg in Philadelphia contributed to this report.

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