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"The collapse happened during the deep solar minimum of 2008-2009—a fact which comes as little surprise to researchers. The thermosphere always cools and contracts when solar activity is low. In this case, however, the magnitude of the collapse was two to three times greater than low solar activity could explain. "
A Puzzling Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere - NASA Science
Seeded on Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:52 AM EDT
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Has Global Warming reached the boiling point? Stay tuned. Maybe someone somewhere will observe the causative event as it happens, instead of detecting the results.
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#2 - Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:25 PM EDTJust when we think we know something about our environment, we find that 60% change that tells us we still don't understand it! I wonder if there is any other natural phenomena that would explain this? Methane gas, sulfur from volcanos, a change in the magnetic field on earth? I know that we are supposed to have our magnetic poles change in the "near future", but that could happen anytime or thousands of years from now.
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