Scientists baffled by unusual upper atmosphere shrinkage

Vatic Note:   My first reaction in reading this was "What has changed at that level that could cause such a problem so quickly?"   Nothing else has grown so quickly in such a short period of time other than technology.  So, is it HAARP bouncing continually off the atmosphere that is creating this?  Remember they use it damn near daily now for earthquakes, experimentation on weather, redirecting the jet stream depending on whether they want "floods" or "droughts", even  Military communications, in concert with chemicals that could also affect it like barium or Aluminum???  Then I quickly began to remember that THE CAP AND TRADE BILL has not been accepted and will  cause a rebellion if implemented, so then it seemed that maybe this was the new crisis to justify the CAP AND TRADE BILL.  They couldn't get us to buy the Gulf as an excuse to institute the Cap and trade bill because BP should be paying for their criminality, not us. So maybe this is the next volley of assault on us to push for the C&P. 

I dont' know, but I did not see any mention of his paper being peer reviewed and hopefully not by the scientists who bogused up the Global Warming peering and science that caused the original Cap and trade to go by the way of the Dodo bird.   Check it out since he works for those in control so I have to wonder.  Remember also that Cap and Trade only works if there is enough  time to give it to work.   That is theoretical, since Cap and trade is simply about slavery and redistribution of wealth from the middle class and working poor into the hands of the ROCKEFELLERS AND ROTHSCHILDS and their ROYALTY MINIONS IN EUROPE.   They can all take a flying leap. The Cattle have spoken.  lol   


Scientists baffled by unusual upper atmosphere shrinkage
By Derrick Ho, Special to CNN
July 17, 2010 12:07 a.m. EDT

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/16/nasa.upper.atmosphere.shrinking/index.html

The thermosphere lies high above Earth's surface, close to where the atmosphere meets space.

(CNN) -- An upper layer of Earth's atmosphere recently shrank so much that researchers are at a loss to adequately explain it, NASA said on Thursday.

The thermosphere, which blocks harmful ultraviolet rays, expands and contracts regularly due to the sun's activities. As carbon dioxide increases, it has a cooling effect at such high altitudes, which also contributes to the contraction.

But even these two factors aren't fully explaining the extraordinary contraction which, though unlikely to affect the weather, can affect the movement of satellites, researchers said.

"This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years," John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab was quoted as saying in NASA news report.

Emmert is the lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19 issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters.  "We cannot explain the abnormally low densities, which are about 30 percent lower" than from previous contractions, Emmert told CNN.com.

The thermosphere lies high above Earth's surface, close to where the atmosphere ends and space begins. It ranges in altitude from 55 miles (90km) to 370 miles (600km) above the ground -- the realm of meteors, auroras, space shuttles and the international space station.

This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years.

--John Emmert, the Naval Research Lab, quoted in a NASA news report

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