Global cooling could be devastating for the planet and people
Global Cooling: 2017-2053
'Cosmic Rays & Risks of Frequent Flying'
Pilots & Flight Attendants Warned To Be Careful
Pilots & Flight Attendants Warned To Be Careful
by Theodore White, astromet.sci
For years I have been doing my best to warn the world of the coming dangers from climate change that begins in outer space.
The ignorant, those pushing 'man-made global warming,' often ridicule because that is what the lack of knowledge does, but it is a fact that our planet, the Earth, lives in outer space.
And it is in space where the other planets in our solar system and the Sun - the star that governs our planet's climate - also live.
Space is where all the climate conditions and weather begin.
The dangers coming from outer space can and do cause serious problems on Earth and my specialty is to forecast these problems in advance so that preparations can be made to remain safe.
If you stay with me in this forecast post, I will explain what is happening, and why it is very important for you to take action before matters become much worse going into the coming decade of the 2020s.
Now,
The Sun's Grand Minimum, due to its reduced magnetic and ultraviolet activity means climate change - and that means global cooling for the Earth.
Global cooling is bad for the Earth.
The Sun, when operating at maximum or near maximum output, is the cause of global warming, which is good for the Earth.
Those who claim that global warming is bad for the Earth are ignorant and do not know what they are talking about.
Moreover, you cannot find a single individual among them who has ever forecasted a single weather and climate event in advance based on their fallacies and fiction.
When the Sun reduces its electromagnetic activity, it goes into a kind of 'sleep mode.'
These sleep modes are in fact quiescent phases, when there is reduced magnetic activity and few to no sunspots at all seen on the Sun's surface.
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These quiescent phases are called solar minimums.
There are various levels of minimums, to weak minimums to to very strong minimums.
The Earth has gone through ice ages before due to solar minimums, with increased seismic and volcanic activity as well caused by the Sun's reduced magnetic activity.
I have called for the start of a very strong Grand Solar Minimum, which will dominate the Earth's climate over the next 36 years.
In effect, a mini 'ice age,' or global cooling, which is bad for the Earth and its inhabitants.
Because of the Sun's coming Grand Minimum, I've also warned about the radical changes to the Earth's jet streams and wind patterns in how storms will become more frequent and powerful with torrents of precipitation in the form of rain and snow during respective seasons in both hemispheres.
The increase in clouds and torrential rains have already begun in fact. Google 'floods' and 'torrential rains' in the 'news' section to see how these events are spreading worldwide, as I've long forecasted it would.
I have also warned airlines about increased turbulence for aircraft due to the radical shifts in jet stream behavior.
It also means that as the Sun's heliosphere (the protective shield over all the planets of our solar system) weakens, it has allowed high-speed radioactive particles in the form of galactic cosmic rays to penetrate our atmosphere.
More proof of the coming of global cooling is the fact that the Sun’s Heliosphere has weakened by 25 percent over the last decade.
It is now at its lowest level than it was more than 51 years ago.
Our entire solar system is made up of the Sun’s Heliosphere that is formed by the Sun’s winds.
The Heliosphere is a protective bubble of sorts, with a combination of electrically charged particles and magnetic fields that move more than a million miles an hour from the Sun.
The Sun’s charged winds meet up with cosmic, or intergalactic gas that fills the gaps in outer space between solar systems.
At the boundary point where they meet; what is called a 'shock wave' or 'shock boundary' is formed which deflects dangerous clouds of gas and dust that are the interstellar radiation around the solar system as it travels through the galaxy.
These clouds of gas and dust between stars are also known as dark clouds, or cosmic radiation.
These dark clouds can block the light coming from particular stars.
They act as a kind of interstellar medium that surrounds our Sun’s Heliosphere.
The Heliosphere of the Sun creates a bubble of protection from speed of light travelling atomic particles that are hazardous to the climates of planets, like our Earth.
The Sun’s heliosphere is dynamic and it is a major part of what I monitor as an astrometeorologist; including angular momentum of the outer planets in our solar system that alters the path of our Sun relative and the impacts on the Earth's climate.
The heliosphere can enlarge or shrink according to the density of the interstellar medium or the dark clouds that surrounds it.
Cosmic rays are atom fragments that rain down on the Earth from outside our solar system. Since the last decade I have been very concerned about the penetration of cosmic rays to the Earth.
They travel at the speed of light and have been blamed for electronics problems in satellites and other machinery.
Because these highly-dense dark clouds can shrink the Sun’s heliosphere, at the same time they also can help to weaken the Earth’s protective shield from cosmic rays and that impacts our climate.
Understand clearly that cosmic rays constantly rain down on Earth.
Every second, each and every square centimeter of the Earth is struck by about 10,000 cosmic rays.
These charged subatomic particles from outer space can attain very high energies. They are a mixture of high-energy photons and subatomic particles accelerated toward Earth by supernova explosions and other violent space events.
Our best line of defense is the Sun, because the magnetic field and solar wind combine to create the heliosphere which normally fends off cosmic rays attempting to enter our solar system.
Their flow is particularly intense in the Arctic and Antarctica as they are attracted by the high magnetic field at the Earth’s poles.
While the high-energy primary rays collide with atoms in the Earth's upper atmosphere and rarely make it through to the ground, there are many secondary particles ejected from collisions and they do reach us on the surface.
With the Sun's reduced magnetic output and weakened solar wind, the result is global cooling and that has been my climate forecast for a long time.
According to my calculations, global cooling officially began in mid-December 2017 and will last 36 years.
It will affect everyone on Earth and already has started; especially the increase in cosmic ray penetration.
Cosmic rays can seed more clouds and therefore increase the precipitation action in the troposphere. Cosmic rays also can trigger more lightning.
There are also are studies that link cosmic rays with increased cardiac arrhythmias in the general population.
Some people may think that concerns about cosmic rays is nothing more than imagination, but cosmic rays are very real and have been increasing.
For example, that was the conclusion of a scientific paper published in the research journal Space Weather.
The authors, led by Professor Nathan Schwadron of the University of New Hampshire, confirmed that radiation from deep space is very dangerous and intensifying faster than previously predicted.
Schwadron and his team colleagues first sounded their alarm in 2014 about cosmic rays.
They discovered that cosmic rays in the Earth-Moon system were peaking at levels never before seen in the Space Age.
The worsening radiation environment, they pointed out, was a potential peril to astronauts, curtailing how long they could safely travel through space.
A figure from their original 2014 paper showed that the number of days a 30-year old male astronaut flying in a spaceship with 10 g/cm2 of aluminum shielding could go before hitting NASA-mandated radiation limits.
In the 1990s, an astronaut could spend 1,000 days in interplanetary space.
In 2014 it was down to only 700 days.
"That's a huge change," said Schwadron.
The protection of the Sun and its heliosphere when the Sun is at maximum protects us.
The problem is, as the authors noted, is that the heliosphere has been weakening:
"Over the last decade, the solar wind has exhibited low densities and magnetic field strengths, representing anomalous states that have never been observed during the Space Age.
"As a result of this remarkably weak solar activity, we have also observed the highest fluxes of cosmic rays."
Back in 2014, Schwadron used a leading model of solar activity to predict how bad cosmic rays would become during the next Solar Minimum, now expected in 2019-2020.
"Our previous work suggested a ~ 20% increase of dose rates from one solar minimum to the next," says Schwadron.
"In fact, we now see that actual dose rates observed in the last 4 years exceed the predictions by ~ 10% - showing that the radiation environment is worsening even more rapidly than we expected."
Sensors show that since 2014-2015 that there has been a 13% increase in radiation (X-rays and gamma-rays) penetrating our planet's atmosphere.
X-rays and gamma-rays detected by sensors are secondary cosmic rays that are produced by the crash of primary cosmic rays into Earth's upper atmosphere.
They trace radiation percolating down toward our planet's surface.
The energy range of the sensors (10 keV to 20 MeV) is similar to that of medical X-ray machines and airport security scanners.
It has been my forecast for a long time that as the Sun begins its Grand Minimum and the Earth enters the climate of global cooling that cosmic rays will intensify much more in the 2020s.
What are some of the effects?
Well, some people do not know that cosmic rays do in fact penetrate commercial airlines and dose passengers and flight crews to the point that frequent fliers, pilots and flight attendants can now be classified by the International Commission on Radiological Protection as occupational radiation workers.
Yes, it is true.
Frequent flyers on airlines, especially pilots and flight attendants are at very high risk, not only from the altered jet streams and extreme turbulence, but also from cosmic rays.
It is a little-known fact that pilots and flight attendants are being exposed to more cosmic radiation than nuclear power plant employees.
Consider this,
In spring 2018, a new study found that American flight attendants are at an increased risk for several types of cancers.
This is from radiation exposure at higher altitudes as there are less atmospheric protection against cosmic radiation from space. Other threats are circadian rhythm disruption.
For the latest study, published in the journal Environmental Health, researchers used data from the Harvard Flight Attendant Health Survey, which included responses from more than 5,300 flight attendants.
They compared those findings to data from nearly 3,000 adults with similar socioeconomic backgrounds: participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
The results showed that for women, breast cancer was 1.5 times as prevalent in flight attendants as compared to in the general public.
Melanoma was twice as prevalent and nonmelanoma skin cancers (such as basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas) were 4 times as prevalent.
Flight attendants also had higher rates of uterine, cervical, thyroid and gastrointestinal cancers.
In a release, study author Irina Mordukhovich, a research fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, called the findings “striking,” given the low rates of obesity and smoking in the flight attendants - 8 percent of participating flight attendants were current smokers, compared to 16 percent of the NHANES respondents.
So what’s to blame for the prevalence of cancer in flight attendants?
Although the study didn’t identify a cause (that wasn’t its purpose) Mordukhovich and her colleagues offered up a few potential explanations, including flight attendants’ exposure to cosmic ionizing radiation (or radiation from outer space).
We’re exposed to small amounts of ionizing radiation all the time, though our atmosphere offers some degree of protection.
At higher altitudes, where the air is thinner, more radiation gets through, which some researchers speculate may increase your cancer risk.
“Cabin crew have the largest annual ionizing radiation dose of all U.S. workers,” pointed out study's authors.
Radiation dose is measured in millisievert per year (mSv) and previous research has shown that the average dose for cabin crews is 3.07 mSv, compared to 0.59 mSv for U.S. Department of Energy workers.
Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere normally shields us from much of the radiation from space, but the Earth's magnetic field is weakening as is the Sun's heliosphere and more cosmic rays are easily penetrating the Earth.
An instrument aboard the Curiosity Mars Rover during its 253-day journey to Mars revealed that the radiation dose received by an astronaut on even the shortest Earth-Mars round trip would be about 0.66 sievert.
This amount is like receiving a whole-body CT scan every 5 or 6 days.
A dose of 1 sievert is associated with a 5.5 percent increase in the risk of fatal cancers.
The normal daily radiation dose received by the average person living on Earth is 10 microsieverts (0.00001 sievert).
Those interested in learning how to protect themselves should read this very sad cautionary tale of a female Korean Airlines flight attendant and her life and death struggle from exposure to cosmic radiation while working on commercial airlines.
This article by Theodore White was posted on Facebook group THE GLOBAL WARMING RATIONAL DEBATE GROUP https://www.facebook.com/groups/1137138173085884/
