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View 784 Wednesday, July 31, 2013

“Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.”

President Barrack Obama, January 231, 2009

We have errands but I thought this correction to last night’s mail might be important. It refers to an item in last night’s mail

: North pole camera

The pictures of the camera alone in the water are nice, but fatally flawed.

First: It was nothing more than a shallow lake only about a foot deep that was the result of surface melt of the much thicker ice floe. And it was the low point so it was the drainage sink for the surrounding area. Much like some subdivisions are constantly flooding because of being built at a depression. Since the air temperature was below freezing the lake refroze once the clouds blocked the sun.

Second. It is nowhere near the North Pole. It was originally close to the pole, but it is situated on an ice floe that has been moving. It is now some 300 miles south of the pole and on a rapid course to the Fram Strait (Greenland / Norway) where it will melt like all the other chunks of ice in the arctic. The arctic ice does not “melt”, it is eroded from beneath by warmer waters below, or is pushed around by the winds opening cracks of clear water or just pushed into the North Atlantic where it is bound to melt.

Earl Smith

I wondered if that were just a water pond on an ice floe but I didn’t check into it. I should have.

Solar Flare Narrowly Misses Earth…

http://washingtonexaminer.com/massive-solar-flare-narrowly-misses-earth-emp-disaster-barely-avoided/article/2533727

"There had been a near miss about two weeks ago, a Carrington-class coronal mass ejection crossed the orbit of the Earth and basically just missed us," said Peter Vincent Pry, who served on the Congressional EMP Threat Commission from 2001-2008. He was referring to the 1859 EMP named after astronomer Richard Carrington that melted telegraph lines in Europe and North America."

Not to worry, though. I am certain all the. "climate change" models have thus factored into their data bases.

Charles Brumbelow

I have not done a systematic study, but I believe that northern lights were seen in Alexandria about every 300 years since classical times.  That probably indicates a Carrington class solar event. In 1859 the only long insulated wires in the world were telegraph lines.  So far as I can tell, during the 1859 event there were electrical events in every telegraph station, and many of them caught fire. We have a lot more long electrical lines now, and of course the effect on the electrical power grid cannot accurately be predicted. Some would make it the end of civilization.  Something of this sort is the premise of Lloyd Tackitt’s A Distant Eden and its sequels, which presents a grim picture of post disaster life.