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First Global Connection Between Earth And Space Weather Found
2006-09-13
Posted by:3dc

#13  So what does this have to do with the WOT?

Improving the space weather forcasts that satellite operators receive allows them to position the satellite such that the solar radiation doesn't effect them as much. GPS will be more accurate and satellite communication will be more reliable with the inclusion of this information to the models. It will improve the chances that that gps guided bomb hits its target and that the communication between the approving authority and the deployment vehicle crew is reliable.
Of course the approving authority needs the balls to call it but that isn't a problem with the current administration.

Most atmospheric science isn't about global warming/cooling or climate change and 99% of the scientists I know don't blame Bush for it (still a couple of moonbats around here).
Posted by: Gir   2006-09-13 14:46  

#12  Global warming on Mars was another link between Earth and Space weather. Perhaps the Sun goes through phases and global warming on Earth is linked to the Sun and not to fantasy rhetoric hoping to criple the US economy.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2006-09-13 13:35  

#11  Researchers discovered that tides of air generated by intense thunderstorm activity over South America, Africa and Southeast Asia were altering the structure of the ionosphere.

They have a bit of a causality issue there. The structures of ionosphere, themselves affected by the solar electromagnetic output, alter the intense (or not so intense) thunderstorm activity generating tides of air.

Sure, there is a feedback loop, one can think of earth as a self-repairing capacitor, but the main causal linkage goes from sun to ionosphere to thunderstorms to air tides.
Posted by: twobyfour   2006-09-13 12:39  

#10  Screw you Halliburton, competition's good for everybody...
Posted by: Soviet-Yakusa Woodpecker Grid Inc.   2006-09-13 12:18  

#9  nothing to see here...go about your business
Posted by: Halliburton Space Command   2006-09-13 11:38  

#8  Second Global Connection Between Earth And Space Weather Found as scientists leave office to find round Yellow thing on the high blue ceiling with white bits.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan   2006-09-13 10:05  

#7  This is happening because Bush didn't sign Kyoto! Global warming change is gonna kill us all!!!
Posted by: DarthVader   2006-09-13 09:27  

#6  The global nature of these plasma bands, when I first discovered them in the E-Layer, which I was studying to verify my previous discovery of it, was the basis for my later invention of the internet. It has since saddened me that the intense thunderstorm activity over South America, Africa and Southeast Asia has modified my previous vision of a connected world, connected by E-Layers and .....

nodding off
Posted by: AlGore   2006-09-13 09:23  

#5  Scientists learn Earth orbits Sun. Experts astonished. Warming occurs daily. Bush Implicated.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-09-13 09:10  

#4  It's all Bush's fault.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-09-13 07:53  

#3  Weather on Earth has a surprising connection to space weather occurring high in the electrically-charged upper atmosphere, known as the ionosphere, according to new results from NASA satellites.

Which wouldn't be an ionosphere if it were for something else in space - the Sun. Wow, what a concept. The sun generating electro-magnetic particles, heat, plasma, etc. You think that maybe it could effect the Earth. You know like in warming?
Posted by: Jort Chitle9044   2006-09-13 07:39  

#2  All than remains is how to blame it on Bush.
Posted by: flyover   2006-09-13 02:42  

#1  ???

I thought at least some of the global electromagnetic effects of tropical late-afternoon thunderstorms had been known for fifty years or more, although they didn't know about this particular mechanism.
Posted by: Phil   2006-09-13 02:13  

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