High Altitude Chemical Experiments, and Misrepresentations of Solar Effects and CO2

Did you also notice they are doing high altitude chemtrails, with barium, strontium, copper.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/wallops/2017/nasa-sounding-rocket-will-release-early-morning-artificial-clouds0lighting-up-the-mid-atlantic-coast-may-31

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/tracers/index.html

Great Video on "Chemtrails"

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In this article, they portend to be covering high upper atmosphere research, and end up trying to scare people, pretend bafflement, and blame everything on CO2.

stock here--stick around to the end of this article, I put a link to a useful site on sunspots, and some charts.   Keep in mind that often an 11 year sunspot cycle is mentioned, but it is really 22 years from bottom to top and back to bottom.

https://www.seeker.com/earths-shrinking-atmosphere-baffles-scientists-discovery-news-1766491731.html

The thermosphere usually expands and contracts in line with the sun's 11-year solar cycle. During solar maximum when solar activity increases, it causes the thermosphere to heat up -- reaching temperatures of 1100°C -- and expand like a marshmallow in a camp fire. The opposite happens during solar minimum.

They go on to state---

Currently, the sun is experiencing its longest solar minimum on record, with little sunspot activity and few solar flares or coronal mass ejections.

2 points----They are completely incorrect about this being the longest solar minimum “on record” and,  second, why are they baffled, and why do they use the temp “collapse” when the operant effect is a simple contraction due to falling temperature?      They should not be baffled (unless it is a request for more grant money) as the effect they are seeing is related to what they already know in relation to the sun’s 11 year cycle which is a sun-spot and thus magnetism cycle.

The Dalton Minimum and the Maunder Minimum were far longer.

Also in the upper quote, they completely ignore the magnetism, and just trot out “when solar activity increases” which most people will mistakenly take to mean “gets hotter”.

And back to the line of thinking of grubbing for grant money, what better way to do it, then to trot out the scary old CO2.    Sheesh, I think they can blame every natural effect in the universe, that is bad at least, on my favorite plant food, CO2.   They had to get this one in the first  sentence, lol, even before defining the “problem”…….can’t blame them to “hook” the reader with scary CO2.

An increase in CO2 could be one reason why a layer of Earth's upper atmosphere went through its biggest contraction in 43 years.

First, they go on record as saying this zone is a shield from extreme ultra violet radiation….

The collapse occurred in a region known as the thermosphere, a rarefied layer of the planet's upper atmosphere between 90 and 600 kilometers (56 to 373 miles) above the surface, which shields us from the sun's far and extreme ultra violet (EUV) radiation.

But then at the end, they contradict that scary shield effect by saying:

Wilkinson says the only real impact of the thermosphere collapse is in space, where less atmospheric drag will keep spacecraft in orbit longer.

This is all you get from NASA, its not nearly enough to make any

It is instructive to review a longer term look at solar cycles.    The best source I found was a guy who retired from government work.  Interesting enough, The NASA site, updated 3-15-2017, shows such a small record, that nothing useful can be gleaned by reviewing what they are offering.    A would go against the official narrative that is being pushed, the narrative that humans are warming the climate, or at least “changing the climate”, and there will be catastrophes unless trillions of dollars are transferred, and a world wide control of all energy sources be granted to the UN or a centralized world government.   

“conspiracist” might say they intentionally show just the most recent data, because a better review of long term data

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Must view website
http://solarcyclescience.com/solarcycle.html

Links the more pages about the Sun

The Sun Today Link
Solar Dynamics Observatory: SDO Link
Total Solar Eclipse 2017 Link
High Altitude Observatory Link


Links the pages about Astronomy in General

Astronomy Picture of the Day Link
Cassini: The Grand Finale Link
Juno | NASA Link
Hubble Space Telescope | NASA Link

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And from WUWT website, they do some great work, but in Orwellian disbelief, they seem to be a high majority of participants that are fully Pro-Nuclear and Anti-Solar.    Even though they are on the right side of the CO2 discussion.    I have attempted to straighten them out, and I tend to get a limited response without agreement or a full on attack like a Zerohedge discussion/rant.

This was written in 2012, 5 years ago, and is playing out exactly as they predicted.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/25/first-estimate-of-solar-cycle-25-amplitudesmallest-in-over-300-years/#more-55458

 From 2006 NASA Article on Predictions.   It is not that they are ignorant, it's more like they are overconfident but without understanding their limitations.    It's kind of like being a Leo without also having some humility of ones own limitations and the benefit of intuition.

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/10may_longrange/

stock here---these charts speak for themselves

First used with sounding rockets flown in the 1950’s, scientific research with experiments which inject vapor tracers in the upper atmosphere have greatly aided our understanding of our planet’s near-space environment. These materials make visible the naturally occurring flows of ionized and neutral particles either by luminescing at distinct wavelengths in the visible and infrared part of the spectrum or by scattering sunlight.
The type of vapor selected to create these colorful clouds and trails depends on the purpose of the investigation, the local time, and the altitude under study. Commonly used vapors that are released in space are:

Tri-methyl aluminum (TMA),
Lithium, and
Barium.
Tri-methyl aluminum (TMA)

Tri-methyl aluminum reacts with oxygen and produces chemi-luminescence when exposed to the atmosphere. The products of the reaction are aluminum oxide, carbon dioxide, and water vapor, which also occur naturally in the atmosphere. TMA releases are most often used to study the neutral winds in the lower ionosphere at night at altitudes of 100 miles (160 kilometers) or less."

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/tracers/metals.html