Signs

Discussion in 'The Signs of the Times' started by themilitantcatholic, Sep 3, 2015.

  1. Eyes on the sky!!!

    Deep solar minimum on the verge of an historic milestone


    Guest post by Paul Dorian

    [​IMG]Daily observations of the number of sunspots since 1 January 1900 according to Solar Influences Data Analysis Center (SIDC). The thin blue line indicates the daily sunspot number, while the dark blue line indicates the running annual average. The recent low sunspot activity is clearly reflected in the recent low values for the total solar irradiance. Data source: WDC-SILSO, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels. Last day shown: 31 October 2019. Last diagram update: 1 November 2019. [Courtesy climate4you.com]

    *Deep solar minimum on the verge of an historic milestone*

    Overview

    The sun is currently in the midst of a deep solar minimum and it is about to reach an historic milestone. So far this year the sun has been blank (i.e., no visible sunspots) for 266 days and, barring any major surprises, it’ll reach 269 days early next week which will be the quietest year in terms of sunspots since 1913 when the sun was spotless for 311 days. In fact, the current stretch of consecutive spotless days has reached 29 and for the year the sun has been blank 77% of the time. The current record-holder in the satellite era for spotless days in a given year is 2008 when the sun was blank for 268 days making the 2008-2009 solar minimum the deepest since 1913.

    Solar minimum is a normal part of the 11-year sunspot cycle, but the last one and the current one have been far deeper than most. One of the consequences of a solar minimum is a reduction of solar storms and another is the intensification of cosmic rays. The just ended solar cycle 24 turned out to be one of the weakest in more than a century – continuing a weakening trend that began in the 1980’s – and, if the latest forecasts are correct, the next solar cycle will be the weakest in more than 200 years.

    [​IMG]The sun remains spotless today and has been so 77% of the time in 2019; image courtesy NASA SDO/HMI, spaceweather.com

    Solar minimum and the intensification of cosmic rays

    One of the natural impacts of decreasing solar activity is the weakening of the ambient solar wind and its magnetic field which, in turn, allows more and more cosmic rays to penetrate the solar system. Galactic cosmic rays are high-energy particles originating from outside the solar system that can impact the Earth’s atmosphere. Our first line of defense from cosmic rays comes from the sun as its magnetic field and the solar wind combine to create a ‘shield’ that fends off cosmic rays attempting to enter the solar system. The shielding action of the sun is strongest during solar maximum and weakest during solar minimum with the weakening magnetic field and solar wind. The intensity of cosmic rays varies globally by about 15% over a solar cycle because of changes in the strength of the solar wind, which carries a weak magnetic field into the heliosphere, partially shielding Earth from low-energy galactic charged particles.


    [​IMG]Cosmic rays have been intensifying for more than 4 years. On Dec. 5th and 6th they surged within a percentage point of the Space Age record, according to data from neutron counters at the University of Oulu’s Cosmic Ray Station in Finland. Courtesy spaceweather.com.

    High-altitude balloons have been launched on a periodic basis in recent years to monitor stratospheric radiation associated with the influx of cosmic rays and they have shown a steady increase since 2015 (campaign sponsored by spaceweather.com). In this set of measurements, cosmic rays have increased by about 13% during the past four years over the central part of California. At another location, the neutron monitor at the University of Oulu’s cosmic ray station in Finland recorded levels earlier this month that were within a percentage point of the satellite era record.

    [​IMG]Cosmic rays in the stratosphere are intensifying for the 4th year in a row. This finding comes from a campaign of almost weekly high-altitude balloon launches conducted by the students of Earth to Sky Calculus. Since March 2015, there has been a ~13% increase in X-rays and gamma-rays over central California, where the students have launched hundreds of balloons. The grey points in the graph are Earth to Sky balloon data. Overlaid on that time series is a record of neutron monitor data from the Sodankyla Geophysical Observatoryin Oulu, Finland. The correlation between the two data sets is impressive, especially considering their wide geographic separation and differing methodologies. Neutron monitors have long been considered a “gold standard” for monitoring cosmic rays on Earth. This shows that our student-built balloons are gathering data of similar quality.

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    Cosmic rays are of interest to anyone who flies on airplanes. According to spaceweather.com, the International Commission on Radiological Protection has classified pilots as occupational radiation workers because of cosmic ray doses they receive while flying. A recent study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health shows that flight attendants face an elevated risk of cancer compared to members of the general population. They listed cosmic rays as one of several risk factors. There are also some studies that suggest cosmic rays promote the formation of clouds in the atmosphere; if so, increasing cosmic rays could affect weather and climate.


    [​IMG]400 years of sunspot observations; courtesy Wikipedia

    Solar cycle 25

    The solar cycle is like a pendulum, swinging back and forth between periods of high and low sunspot number every 11 years or so. Researchers have been tracking solar cycles since they were discovered in the 19th century. The just ended solar cycle, #24, was the weakest with the fewest sunspots since solar cycle 14 peaked in February 1906. Solar cycle 24 continued a recent trend of weakening solar cycles which began with solar cycle 21 that peaked around 1980. The very latest forecast for the next solar cycle (#25) says it will be weaker than the just ended SC24 and perhaps the weakest of the last 200 years. To be fair, some earlier forecasts had the next solar cycle being in similar magnitude to SC24. However, research now underway has apparently found a more reliable method to predict space weather. The maximum of this next cycle – measured in terms of sunspot numbers, could be 30 to 50% lower than the most recent one – solar cycle 24 according to the latest forecast. The results of this new forecasting technique show that the next solar cycle will start in 2020 and reach its maximum in 2025.

    The new forecast is the work of a team led by Irina Kitiashvili of the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California. Using data collected since 1976 from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory and the Solar Dynamics Observatory space missions, the researchers were able to come up with a prediction by directly observing the solar magnetic field rather than simply counting sunspots, which provides only a rough gauge of activity inside the Sun. Because this is a relatively new approach, there is only data from four complete cycles, but by combining three sources of solar observations with estimates of the Sun’s interior activity, the team was able to produce a prediction in 2008 that matched the activity that was observed over the past 11 years.

    One challenge for researchers working to predict the Sun’s activities is that scientists do not yet completely understand the inner workings of our star. Some factors that play out deep inside the Sun cannot be measured directly. They have to be estimated from measurements of related phenomena on the solar surface like sunspots, coronal holes and filaments. Kitiashvili’s method differs from other prediction tools in terms of the raw material for its forecast. Previously, researchers used the number of sunspots to represent indirectly the activity of the solar magnetic field. The new approach takes advantage of direct observations of magnetic fields emerging on the surface of the Sun.

    [​IMG]Temperature recordings at the Greenland Ranch weather station in Death Valley, California during the intense heat wave of July 1913. This excerpt about the record-breaking heat wave comes from an article posted during January 1922 in the meteorological journal Monthly Weather Review which is still in publication today. Courtesy NOAA

    Extreme weather of 1913

    One final note of interest, the year 1913 cited earlier for its lack of sunspots on the order of 311 days was a year filled with wild weather extremes including the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth in Death Valley, CA. For more on the extreme weather of 1913 click here.

    Meteorologist Paul Dorian
    Perspecta, Inc.

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/12/12/deep-solar-minimum-on-the-verge-of-an-historic-milestone/
     
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  4. Earth's Magnetic North Pole Is Moving Faster Than Ever, Leaving Scientists Baffled

    Earth’s magnetic north pole is moving at unprecedented speeds and scientists are still unsure of why this is the case.


    What makes these recent changes so interesting is the sheer speed at which they are occurring.

    Some fear that the rapid movement of the magnetic north pole could cause problems for Global Positioning Systems (GPS), military operations, airliners, and other navigation systems that rely on pinpointing where precisely the pole is located.

    World Magnetic Model” for 2020, shows the pole rapidly speeding in the direction of Siberia. However, the trajectory of the pole will likely change.

    This isn’t the first time that this has happened—polar wandering has been constant since the North Pole was first discovered, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

    NOAA’s National Centres for Environmental Information explained:

    “Since its first formal discovery in 1831, the north magnetic pole has travelled around 1,400 miles (2,250 km).

    This wandering has been generally quite slow, allowing scientists to keep track of its position fairly easily.”

    As recently as 2000, the magnetic North Pole was clocked at moving 6.2 miles per year toward Northern Russia, but data for the next two decades shows the average rate suddenly increasing to roughly 34 miles per year in the same direction, while the latest readings in 2019 show it slightly decreasing to about 31 miles per year.

    The World Magnetic Model predicts the average speed will slow down to roughly 25 miles per year from 2020 to 2025.

    “The WMM2020 forecasts that the northern magnetic pole will continue drifting toward Russia, although at a slowly decreasing speed—down to about 40 km per year compared to the average speed of 55 km over the past twenty years.”

    For the first time in recorded history, the pole has even passed by the Greenwich meridian—the imaginary line used to indicate 0° longitude and determine time zones.

    Geomagnetic specialist Ciaran Beggan from the British Geological Survey (BGS) told the Financial Times:

    “The movement since the 1990s is much faster than at any time for at least four centuries.

    We really don’t know much about the changes in the core that’s driving it.”


    The new model also confirms that Earth’s magnetic field is weakening. If this continues, scientists say the field could collapse entirely and flip polarity—changing magnetic north to south and vice versa—and the consequences could be dire for the planet.

    But before we begin to panic, we should remember that the Earth’s magnetic poles have already flipped up to 100 times in the past 20 million years, the last reversal occurring roughly 773,000 years ago.

    Earlier this year, the rapid movement of the North Pole garnered headlines when scientists revealed that the north was moving so fast that they had to update their model of the planet’s magnetic field much earlier than expected.

    At the time, the Mind Unleashed reported:

    “The drift is the result of processes deep in the center of the planet, where the liquid outer core comprised of iron and nickel spins and flows like water, serving as a conductor for Earth’s magnetic field.

    The recent change in the flow of the fluid is believed to be similar to the formation of a jet stream in the atmosphere, leading to changes in the planet’s magnetic field.

    … these changes are all part and parcel of the natural behavior of the Earth and have not been caused by human activity. Rock samples reveal that the Earth’s magnetic field has been in perpetual motion for millions of years.”

    University of Wisconsin-Madison geologist and NOAA study author Brad Singer told CNN that while the shifts in the pole could, in the long term, lead to impacts on satellites, communication, and navigation, researchers will likely have generations to deal with any major instability in the magnetic field.

    “The decrease in geomagnetic field is much more important and dramatic than the reversal,” said Dr. Nicolas Thouveny from the European Centre for Research and Teaching of Environmental Geosciences (CEREGE) in Aix-en-Provence, France.

    “It is very important to understand if the present field will decay to zero in the next century, because we will have to prepare.”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...moving-faster-ever-leaving-scientists-baffled
     
  5. Leo

    Leo Principalities

  6. garabandal

    garabandal Powers

    MILLIONS OF CHILDREN TORN APART IN THE WOMB BY ABORTION -- A 'HUMAN RIGHT'.


    MAN KILLS FOX IN HIS GARDEN WITH BASEBALL BAT -- THE WORLD IS ENRAGED!

    RSPCA investigates after lawyer Jolyon Maugham kills fox with baseball bat

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50919327
     
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  7. garabandal

    garabandal Powers

    Lovely cuddly foxes -- lol

     
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  8. AED

    AED Powers

    Diabolical disorientation on steroids.:confused:
     
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  10. Beth B

    Beth B Beth Marie

    This is such a outrage! Dear babies brutally murdered...
    And then they are outraged by a fox? !!! This is nuts!
     
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  11. All the big tech social media controllers will love this....and are probably responsible for this kind of an international push towards their NWO.

    UN approves Russian-sponsored, China-backed bid on new cybercrime convention

    • The resolution was approved on Friday by the general assembly by a vote of 79-60, with 33 abstentions
    • The US, European powers and rights groups fear that the resolution would legitimise crackdowns on expression
    A move by the
    United Nations
    to approve a Russian-sponsored and China-backed resolution that aims to create a new convention on
    cybercrime
    has alarmed rights groups and Western powers that fear a bid to restrict online freedom.
    The resolution was approved on Friday by the general assembly by a vote of 79-60, with 33 abstentions.

    It establishes an expert committee representing all regions of the world “to elaborate a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes”. The resolution said the committee will meet in August 2020 to agree on an outline of its activities.

    The
    United States
    , European powers and rights groups fear that the language is code for legitimising crackdowns on expression, with numerous countries defining criticism of the government as “criminal”.


    A number of countries have increasingly tried to turn off the internet, with India cutting off access in disputed Kashmir in August after it stripped autonomy to the Muslim-majority region, and Iran taking much of the country offline as it cracked down on protests in November.


    China heavily restricts internet searches to avoid topics sensitive to its communist leadership, as well as news sites with critical coverage.

    US deputy ambassador Cherith Norman Chalet told the assembly before the vote that the resolution would “undermine international cooperation to combat cybercrime at a time when enhanced coordination is essential”.

    “There is no consensus among member states on the need or value of drafting a new treaty,” she said. “It will only serve to stifle global efforts to combat cybercrime.”

    Chalet and the Finnish representative speaking for the EU both stressed that the UN’s existing intergovernmental expert group on cybercrime was already tackling the question of whether a new treaty was needed.

    “It is wrong to make a political decision on a new treaty before cybercrime experts can give their advice,” Chalet said, adding that the resolution “prejudges” and would “undermine” the experts’ work.

    A US official said a new convention was counter to Washington’s interests.

    “It is precisely our fear that (a new convention) would allow the codification at an international and global level of these types of controls that’s driving our opposition and our concerns about this resolution,” he said.

    Any new UN treaty that spells out internet controls would be “inimical to the United States’ interests because that doesn’t tally with the fundamental freedoms we see as necessary across the globe”, he said.

    Human Rights Watch called the UN resolution’s list of sponsors “a rogue’s gallery of some of the earth’s most repressive governments”.

    “If the plan is to develop a convention that gives countries legal cover for internet blackouts and censorship, while creating the potential for criminalising free speech, then it’s a bad idea,” said Human Rights Watch’s Louis Charbonneau.

    The US argues that the world should instead expand its sole existing accord on cybercrime, the 2001 Budapest Convention, which spells out international cooperation to curb copyright violations, fraud and child pornography.

    The Budapest Convention was drafted by the Council of Europe, but other countries have joined, including the US and Japan.

    Russia has opposed the Budapest Convention, arguing that giving investigators access to computer data across borders violates national sovereignty.

    A new UN treaty on cybercrime could render the Budapest Convention obsolete, further concerning rights advocates.

    Russia’s representative underscored that the resolution required that the new committee take into account the results of the expert group’s work on cybercrime, expected next year, which Moscow supports.

    Taking that into account, the Russian representative said substantive work on the new convention would begin in 2021.


    https://www.scmp.com/news/world/uni...proves-russian-sponsored-china-backed-bid-new
     
  12. Donna259

    Donna259 Powers

    I'm sorry to derail this thread....can anybody recommend a daily reflection book on the Divine Will?
     
  13. Muzhik

    Muzhik Powers

    Don't forget the number of nations who define any, ANY, criticism of Islam as "Islamophobic hate speech" and therefore "criminal activities" under current hate speech laws.
     
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  14. Muzhik

    Muzhik Powers

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  15. Byron

    Byron Powers

    Fatima is the one to ask.
     
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  19. josephite

    josephite Powers

    Are you serious?
    I ask this because....
    The Jesus, Mary and Lusia sites proliferate the internet!
    With copious amounts of reading on offer regarding her new revelations.
    Additionally the MoG site even has it's own threads dedicated to these new revelations;
    So anyone is able reflect and discern all day for years if they so wish.
    Just go the thread.....' the new and divine holiness'
     
  20. RE: the armed church goers ending what could have been much worse:

    FLASHBACK: Joe Biden Recently Attacked the Governor of Texas for Allowing Church-Goers to Carry Weapons

    ......

    In September, Biden spoke to members of the press to express his outrage over Texas Governor Greg Abbott signing a bill into law earlier this year that allowed lawful gun owners to carry firearms in places of worship.

    “Dealing with firearms, it is irrational, with all due respect to the governor of Texas, irrational what they are doing,” Biden told reporters on September 2. “On the very day you see a mass shooting … and we’re talking about loosening access to have guns, to be able to take them into places of worship, it’s just absolutely irrational. It’s totally irrational.”

    The law went into effect on September 1, and likely prevented more death and carnage on Sunday. One person was injured and one worshipper was killed, as well as the gunman.

    “We have learned many times over that there is no such thing as a gun free zone. Those with evil intentions will violate the law and carry out their heinous acts no matter what,” Texas state Senator Donna Campbell, co-sponsor of the bill, said in a statement. “It makes no sense to disarm the good guys and leave law-abiding citizens defenseless where violent offenders break the law to do great harm.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...s-for-allowing-church-goers-to-carry-weapons/
     
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