The Harbingers of Change Can Now Be Seen All Around the World! Mysterious Noctilucent Clouds Brighten Up Night Skies

International Business Times
Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:24 UTC

The season for spotting Noctilucent Clouds or the "night-shining" clouds has begun, NASA said in a statement in early July.

Noctilucent Clouds are composed of tiny ice crystals 40 to 100 nanometers wide, which is just the right size to scatter blue wavelengths of sunlight, a NASA scientist explained.

According to NASA, the best time and location to search for these breathtakingly beautiful phenomenon would be between mid-May and the end of August in the northern hemisphere. However, with no explanation yet found, these glowing, mystical clouds have been seen even as far south as Utah and Oregon and Denver, Colorado in the recent years.

Comment: For the possible explanation, read the comment at the end of the article.

Noctilucent Clouds were first observed in 19th century but their appearance has increased over time and are seasonal, appearing most often in late spring and summer every year.

NASA's AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere) satellite, which was launched in 2007, continues to study the clouds, while scientists strive to know if noctilucent clouds signal climate change.

"They were a high-latitude phenomenon, but in recent years, AIM has spotted the clouds appearing ever lower in latitudes, but just why is not yet known," NASA said.

Noctilucent Clouds first appeared in the nineteenth century, the era of Industrial Revolution; they are spreading in the recent years, which has puzzled scientists to the possible connection of the clouds with weather and climate, it added.

As this "beautiful mystery" refuses to unravel itself, check out some of the startling pictures from Noctilucent Clouds season 2011:

© NASA/Marek NikodemIn Poland, noctilucent clouds season is the time of young stork births. Thousands of storks (Ciconia ciconia) arrive in Polish each spring. This photo was captured on June 26, 2011.

Comment: Let us suggest a reason for why instances of noctilucent clouds are increasing and intensifying.

What we suspect has been happening, based on our research thus far, is that the upper atmosphere is cooling because it is being loaded with comet dust, which shows up in the form of noctilucent clouds and other upper atmospheric formations.

Magnificent and mesmerizing noctilucent clouds (also called polar mesospheric clouds), were once considered to be rare. But now they are puzzling scientists with their recent dramatic changes. Apparently, the clouds are growing brighter, are seen more frequently, are visible at ever lower latitudes and are now appearing even during the day. If scientists were allowed to conduct honest interdisciplinary research, such changes wouldn't be a mystery.

They would be able to figure out that comet dust is electrically-charged which is causing the earth's rotation to slow marginally. The slowing of the rotation is reducing the magnetic field, opening earth to more dangerous cosmic radiation and stimulating more volcanism. The volcanism under the sea is heating the sea water which is heating the lower atmosphere and loading it with moisture.

The moisture hits the cooler upper atmosphere and contributes to a deadly mix that inevitably leads to an Ice Age, preceded for a short period by a rapid increase of greenhouse gases and "hot pockets" in the lower atmosphere, heavy rains, hail, snow, and floods.

Reader Comments

ozman · 2011-07-12T09:52:58Z

Comment Above

Well that sounds like what we are seeing now.Is a ice age coming?If so how violent will the change be?Will we in the northern part of the country freeze to death before we know what hits us?Or will it just be an abrupt change that won't stop?Will we wake up to find ourselves buried in snow with no way out?
Should we move to the southern regions of the country or will it really matter where we live? I am just thinking of trying to survive this change before it happens?I wonder how much notice if any we will have?Questions,questions,questions?????Of course the govt will never tell us the truth on this.
If there is a Ice Age coming will it be like the snowball earth it wont matter where you live.I still think the equatorial region would be the safest area to live(unless the earth tilts)for a while longer.
So does anybody else have perhaps some more nfo on this?

keit · 2011-07-12T11:50:41Z

Heavy rains

Notice the last paragraph of the comment:

"The moisture hits the cooler upper atmosphere and contributes to a deadly mix that inevitably leads to an Ice Age, preceded for a short period by a rapid increase of greenhouse gases and "hot pockets" in the lower atmosphere, heavy rains, hail, snow, and floods."

Several provinces in Canada now experiencing heavy rains and floods. Locals say that it is quite unusual. Now imagine what would happen if the temperatures were to drop drastically?

OurManFlint · 2011-07-12T15:04:46Z

High-Altitude Clouds via Cosmic Rays

One thing not mentioned in the article or in the comments above was the theory that cosmic rays increase the likelihood of high-altitude clouds. Since the sun's magnetic field has been decreasing (http://news.discovery.com/space/is-the-sun-running-out-of-juice.html) cosmic rays from our galaxy and beyond are higher than normal. (http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/29sep_cosmicrays/) You see, the sun's magnetic field forms a bubble around the solar system and acts like a shield to cosmic rays.

When a cosmic ray hits air molecules in the upper atmosphere, it induces nucleation of moisture, just like radioactive particles do in a cloud chamber particle detector. At these altitudes the moisture freezes into tiny ice crystals. If the cosmic ray influx is strong enough, high altitude clouds will result. There's a possibility that the Earth can go into a cooling phase because of these high-altitude clouds. The cycle of the Sun's magnetic field strength is what controls this. If we cool too much we enter an ice age, which typically last about 100,000 yrs. When the field strengthens, so does the solar activity and we get into an interglacial, or between ice ages, which last roughly 10,000 yrs, give or take a few thousand yrs. Since we're at the end of an interglacial now, another ice age will eventually come based on past history. [Link]

Perhaps noctilucent clouds are not only harbingers of an ice age, but also of the cosmic ray influx that causes them.

Implosion · 2011-07-12T18:01:31Z

magnetic field getting weaker?

Maybe the magnetic field is getting weaker too, because of the coming Nibiru.

thorbiorn · 2011-07-13T17:14:03Z

Beautiful skies

The pictures are beautiful and there are more on this site [Link]They say that the clouds are between 70-90 km up in the atmosphere and that they (usually) become visible when the sun is between 5 and 13 degrees below the horizon. When the sun is lower than 13 degrees the clouds will be in the shadow of the Earth and therefore not reflecting. The night sky has been very beautiful this year or is it just that I am able to enjoy them more due to EE or whatever? Right now it is 11 p.m standard time. The Sun went down two hours ago and the Northern sky is still very colorful. When I look at the red orange color I wonder if it really always was that kind of orange in other years or if it is due to more dust?