The following pics (which you can make bigger by clicking on them) were taken by AAron B. Hutchins, within a thirty minutes period, at the Pocatello Regional Airport (USFS Air Tanker Base), on 12JUL2012, between 11:30 hours and 12:00 hours.
Inbound Skycrane.
Outbound Lil Bird Air Tractor…
…while at same time another Lil Bird returns home.
Inbound Huey.
Note crewman ‘saying hi’ to camera.
Comin’ down!
Neptune outbound.
Heat trail from Neptune’s exhaust.
Skycrane ready for battle, note airborne Neptune in background.
Commuters still fly, even with busy fire fighters taking off every 15 minutes.
Skycrane lift off.
Keepin’ the fuelers busy!
‘Nother Lil Bird back from the battle. Note staining on lower rear fuselage, from the fire retardant.
Remember, these pics were taken within a 30 minute period.
Some people might think local officials are being a little too cautious with their control over who has access to the Charlotte Fire burn area, at the south end of Pocatello. But, it really is so dry out their that I wouldn’t be surprised if the cause of the fire was spontaneous combustion of tinder dry field grasses (I’ve seen it happen in hay stacks).
I recently got my city of Chubbuck, Idaho, water bill for 08 May 2012 to 05 June 2012. It shows you what you used the previous year. For the same time in 2011 I used 4,000 gallons (15,141.6 liters). Yet, for 2012 I used 13,000 gallons (49,210.35 liters), a 9,000 gallon increase! And I was really trying to conserve, but I have a large yard with a victory garden and the amount of water I used in May was just barely enough to keep most plants from dying.
I have a pear tree and several plum trees, and for the first time in more than a decade they have no fruit! My Golden Delicious apple tree has not even half the amount of fruit it normally does.
Two of my three grape vines returned to dormancy two months ago, and have only now started to come back, after tons of water was flooded onto them. One of my two blackberry vines died. My normally over productive raspberry vines are now struggling, with only two raspberries visible.
My huge decades old pine tree stopped dropping pine cones a month ago. This is normal when you get into dry summer months, but since my pine tree is located in the middle of my back lawn it usually drops cones throughout summer because it gets enough water when I water the lawn. This year I’ve been flooding sections of the lawn, including around the pine tree, due to how dry the grass is getting, and yet no pine cones.
By the way, lawn grass is the most inefficient plant on the planet, and yet our incompetent municipality leaders create laws forcing us to maintain a grass lawn, for the sake of property values! And then they jack up our water/sewer/trash rates!!!
For example: In 1998 I swear I was paying a basic water/sewer/trash rate of $38.00 USD per month (not counting the per thousand gallon water charge). In 2010 it was more than $77.00. Now, in 2012 the basic water/sewer/trash rate is more than $92.00!!!
Between 1998 and 2002 water conservation actually helped keep my water bill down, but at this point none of my water saving efforts are paying off, because the city has jacked up the basic services rate so high! And you can’t conserve too much because then the city hits you with violation of beautification codes!
The city of Chubbuck actually has employees driving around neighborhoods in “code enforcement” vehicles, giving out warnings. If warnings are not heeded the city brings in landscapers and sends you the bill.
Another sign of how hot and dry it is: Laundry. I hang my laundry to dry outside in summer, it so hot/dry that a full load is dry within 20 minutes or less. That’s much less time than if I used the dryer in the house.
How about southeast Idaho reservoir levels?
Devil Creek reservoir, north of Malad City, Idaho, off Interstate Highway 15, 29 June 2012. Two months ago it was full.
Deep Creek reservoir, east of Malad City, on Idaho State Highway 36, 29 June 2012. Two months ago it was full.
The following are statements heard at the ongoing American Association for the Advancement of Science annual show taking place in British Columbia, Canada.
“If there’s greater variability, the odds the temperature being so high that you can’t grow a crop are greater.”
“Food insecurity is likely to (be) higher than it has been for some time.”
“We need to understand how the region will fare under projected future scenarios…adapt or mitigate potential consequences.”
“A super-generalist can co-exist with other species if it focuses on just a few of its possible prey at a time and switches prey regularly. It’s stabilizing the system because it allows populations to recover.” [in other words, if you have a diet that is very specific your chances of starvation are higher]
“biomass processing depots” “would process 100 to 200 tons of feedstock per day. Once processed, we could ship it much longer distances to the large scale refineries.” farmers “could own part of the depot and share in some of the income from it.”
In other words, those who will fair well in the radically changing climate are those who can quickly adapt, with new ways of acquiring food.
I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Researchers from eight countries are reporting that the hole in the ozone layer above the North Pole is now as big as the hole over the South Pole.
The North Pole hole now covers an area about 3,000 kilometers (1864.113 miles) long and 1,000 km (621.371 miles) wide.
Of course environmentalists are blaming it on man made pollution. Never mind all the volcanic activity, and record number of forest fires, in the past decade. Also, never mind the fact that the Earth’s magnetic field has being weakening, seemingly at the same time that the holes in the ozone layers have been forming.
It is a fact that the North and South Poles of the magnetic field have gotten much weaker. In fact, in 2003, PBS NOVA produced a newer program on the fact that the poles of our magnetic field are about to flip. You can go to the a PBS NOVA web site to use their interactive programs to see how they think our magnetic field works.
In 2009, famed physics professor Michio Kaku, warned that the solar flares, from the Sun’s expected 2012 pole flip, are going to be much worse than first thought, by a “factor of 20”. He called it a “tsunami of radiation”, which is not good when you realize our atmosphere and magnetic field has weakened.
I believe the real reason for the holes in the ozone layer is because of the weakening of Earth’s magnetic field. The magnetic field weakening and the intensity of the Sun’s solar flares, could be caused by extrasolar planetary encounters. There is an ancient story of another plant that experienced a similar “breaching” of their atmosphere. The story is thousands of years older than any other written stories found so far.
In the ancient story the founders of Earth’s human civilization notice changes to their planet, changes that we currently call “climate change”: “…the fields diminished their yields, fruits and grains lost abundance. From circuit to circuit [orbits], nearing the Sun heat grew stronger; in the faraway abode, coolness was more biting.”
Earth’s magnetic field is directly caused by the spinning molten core. The people of this ancient story noticed their atmosphere was thinning, and their volcanoes were growing dormant: “In the atmosphere a breaching [ozone hole] has occurred; that was their finding. Volcanoes, the atmosphere, forebear, less belching were spitting up! Nibiru’s air has thinner been made, the protective shield has been diminished!”
While most of these ancient alien people thought their volcanoes were the cause of the strength of their atmosphere, others pointed out a more astronomical cause: “It has happened before, some gave an answer: Nibiru in the past colder or warmer has grown. A destiny it is, in the Circuit [orbit] of Nibiru embedded!”
Eventually the ancients realized that their planet’s atmospheric depletion was the result of millennia of near impacts, and actual impacts, with the planets in a more stable orbit around the Sun. The most devastating impact created the Earth, and stopped the Moon’s progress to becoming a full blown planet itself. Later, a near impact slowed the spinning molten core of Mars, and stripped off the atmosphere.
This ancient planet, according to the translations done in the 1960s and 1970s, orbits against the grain of Earth and the other Solar bodies, and takes several hundreds of thousands of years to make one orbit (which is about the time line for major catastrophic events that take place on Earth).
The ancient planet (and its “companions”) approaches from our South Pole. In the past few decades, dozens of astronomical observatories have been established on Antarctica. Recently Japanese astronomers discovered at least ten large dense (with very strong magnetic fields) planets approaching from the south. They stated that the planets ‘lived’ independent of the Sun. They called them “floating planets”, I call them Ronin Planets.
Here’s a link to an OK (some grammatical & spelling errors) pdf posting of The Lost Book of Enki.
In June 2011, NASA and the Space Agency of Argentina (CONAE) launched a new Earth observatory, called Aquarius. The mission: Find out why ocean levels are seemingly dropping, despite glacial melting and heavy rain.
Scientist think the ocean water levels are going down because the ocean salt levels are going up, a sign that the ocean water is evaporating faster than it can be replenished: “Based on decades of historical data gathered from ocean areas by ships and buoys, we know the salinity has changed over the last 40 years. This tells us there’s something fundamental going on in the water cycle.”-Gary Lagerloef, Aquarius Mission
Up ’till now scientists have made some assumptions about how the ocean will react to the so called “global warming”, but, they now admit they missed an important ingredient: “We’ve been missing a key element, salinity. A better understanding of ocean salinity will give us a clearer picture of how the sea is tied to the water cycle and help us improve the accuracy of models predicting future climate.”-Gary Lagerloef, Aquarius Mission
What’s amazing is that the United States and Argentina built a satellite that could measure sea salt levels from space: “One of our Argentine instruments is another microwave radiometer in a different frequency band that will measure sea surface winds, rainfall, sea ice, and any other ‘noise’ that could distort the Aquarius salinity measurement. We’ll subtract all of that out and retrieve the target signal.”-Sandra Torrusio, CONAE
On September 1, 2011, Aquarius finished successful tests of its equipment, and has started checking the Earth’s oceans for salt. Canada, France and Italy also contributed to this global climate change mission.
