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Very Strange Tsunami
Republicans and Democrats are tied at 46% among registered voters in Gallup’s weekly tracking of congressional voting preferences, marking a shift after five consecutive weeks in which the Republicans held the advantage.
Top Physicist Says Solar Flare Would Set Us Back 100 Years
Every 11 years the [sun's] north pole and the south pole flip, releasing a burst of radiation. But, every 100 years or so, a monster Tsunami from the sun emerges which could literally cause trillions in property damage.
Eyjafjallajökull Is Beginning of Decades of Misery
The ash clouds of the Eyjafjallajökull are just the beginning of decades of volcanic activity in Iceland en consequently represent the equal number of years of disturbance for the airline industry. Scottish scientists have come to this conclusion. They studied 205 eruptions out of a total of the past 1,100 eruptions.
Sometimes a problem is so big, one country cannot handle it alone.
NASA reported today at the International Living with a Star (ILWS) in Bremen, Germany, in the presence of more than 25 of the world’s most advanced nations about the potential and even likely problems solar storms could bring to our planet in the near future.
BP Gulf Oil Gusher is Worst US Oil Spill by Far
The underwater gusher of crude from the BP rig wreckage in the Gulf is the greatest oil spill disaster the U.S. has ever suffered. The flow from the Deepwater Horizon well has been unstoppable for more than a month, but progress was being made at stemming the flow by May 27th.
New Financial world 2012 and the End of Days
We talked several months ago about how our estimate of when the USD really hits the fan came to be around 2012. That was an accident, not intentional. We mentioned then that we found that very intriguing. That is because the USD is so central to our present financial world that, if it fell apart.
Instant Expert: Climate Change
Climate change is with us. A decade ago, it was conjecture. Now the future is unfolding before our eyes. Canada’s Inuit see it in disappearing Arctic ice and permafrost. The shantytown dwellers of Latin America and Southern Asia see it in lethal storms and floods. Europeans see it in disappearing glaciers, forest fires and fatal heat waves.
U.S. Prepares Non-Nuclear “Doomsday” Weapon part.2
The design of the PGS is being headed by General Kevin P. Chilton of the U.S. Air Force, the highest official of the Strategic Command of the Armed Forces and the man entrusted with the U.S. nuclear arsenal. In the Obama administration, the new part of the work of General Chilton is talking about “conventional alternatives.” Speaking from Offutt Air Force Base, General Chilton described the conventional capacity offered by the proposed system as giving the president “more options.”
U.S. Prepares Non-Nuclear “Doomsday” Weapon part.1
In a recent interview with the newspaper The New York Times, the U.S. president, Barack Obama revealed that his administration gave the green light for the study and development of a new kind of concept of a military attack without the use of nuclear weapons, but with the same destructive power. This concept is called Prompt Global Strike, a system of attack with missiles and “conventional” weapons that can reach any point on earth within an hour.
Obama’s Nuclear Gambit: Complex Calculus Governs Doomsday Weapons
For two days, the capital was gridlocked by VIP convoys and the whooping wail of police escorts marking the largest gathering of world leaders in more than half a century. Amid the main event and all of the side conversations, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s postsummit klatch at the venerable Brookings Institution was one of the most unlikely. Diminutive and dapper in a style perhaps meant to defy Russian stereotypes, Medvedev joked about forming a social network of two with President Barack Obama so they could bypass tiresome aides. He pledged to join the United States in sanctioning Iran if it continues to stiff-arm international nuclear inspectors, and he characterized an Iranian nuclear weapon that could spark a Middle East arms race a “gigantic catastrophe” (see GSN, April 14).
