Friday, November 30, 2012

Polar ice melting faster than expected


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Palestinians win implicit U.N. recognition of sovereign state

on Thursday overwhelmingly approved the de facto recognition of a sovereign Palestinian state after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the world body to issue its long overdue "birth certificate."
There were 138 votes in favor, nine against and 41 abstentions. Three countries did not take part in the vote to upgrade the Palestinian Authority's observer status at the United Nations to "non-member state" from "entity." read full article: REUTERS

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Muslims Claim Bibi to Build 'False' Holy Temple

Al Aqsa officials warn that the “new Likud” is planning to build a “false” Third Holy Temple and divide the Muslim compound.
Muslim paranoia of Jews on the Temple Mount had reached panic stages even before this week’s Likud primaries that placed Jewish Leadership faction leader Moshe Feiglin in a ranking that assures election to the Knesset in January. read full article:
Overlooking the Temple Mount
                                                                        
 
 

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Sun Flare Update

I am passing this on to you from  www.spaceweather.com
 
BIG SUNSPOT KEEPS GROWING: Sunspot AR1620 doubled in size again yesterday. It is now a behemoth almost 10 times as wide as Earth. A movie from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the sunspot materializing over the past 48 hours:


So far the sunspot has been relatively quiet, producing no strong flares. However, the sunspot's magnetic field is rapidly changing as the sunspot grows, and rapidly-changing magnetic fields have a tendency to reconnect and erupt. NOAA forecasters estimate a 35% chance of M-class eruptions in the next 24 hours.   www.spaceweather.com
 
NOAA Forecasts
Updated at: 2012 Nov 27 2200 UTC
FLARE
0-24 hr
24-48 hr
CLASS M
35 %
35 %
CLASS X
05 %
05 %

Eygpt mass protests challenge Islamist president

More than 200,000 people thronged Cairo's central Tahrir Square, protesting against Egypt's Islamist president Tuesday in an opposition show of strength, as the standoff over Mohammed Morsi's assertion of near-absolute powers escalated into the biggest challenge yet to his and the Muslim Brotherhood's rule. read full article:Houston Chronicle

What's Up In Space

PRESTO! A HUGE SUNSPOT: Yesterday, sunspot AR1620 was barely visible. Today it is a behemoth wider than a half-dozen planet Earths. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the sunspot's rapid growth in a period of less than 20 hours on Nov. 25-26:
AR1620 has a beta-gamma magnetic field that harbors energy for strong flares. Because of the sunspot's proximty to the center of the solar disk, Earth would be in the line of fire of any eruptons. NOAA forecasters estimate a 30% chance of M-class solar flares in the next 24 hours.Solar flare alerts: text, voice.
 
ARTICLE BY : spaceweather.com

'Russia supplying arms to Syria under old contracts'

Moscow is supplying Damascus with weapons under existing contracts and for defense against external aggression, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday according to the Russian-language ITARTASS news agency read full article:Jerusalem Post