Some interesting things from Evelyn's link:

They say that the big bodies from "outerspace" that are orbiting the Sun, get the closest to the Sun when they pierce the ecliptic. Doesn't Planet X reach its closest point to the sun when it pierces the ecliptic, as well? (Please correct me if im wrong here).

Also there is a link, EARTH 2.0: The search for new worlds is gathering pace .

Both the article & the link above are hosted(?) by Murdoch's NewsCorp.  What is also interesting is the info graph depicting how many planets were discovered each year. Look at the jump in discoveries in 2014.

NASA Thinks Life May Lurk Beneath Europa's (Jupiter's moon) Surface

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2014/11/23/nasa-thinks-life-ma...

Do aliens look like SHRIMP? Nasa researchers say tiny 'extreme shrimp' on sea bed could help hunt for extraterrestrial life 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2847878/Do-aliens-lo...

Its remarkable to see NASA open up to the possibility that extraterrestrial life may live in conditions "alien" to us. However, all of this could be a PR campaign in an attempt to gain funding. Or perhaps, given the interesting times ahead of us they still hope to look relevant?

Precursor explanation (cover up excuse) for satellite/power troubles ahead? Hard to say but interesting media release today:

1. Star Trek-like invisible shield protects Earth from 'killer electrons'
2. Earth is being protected by a 'Star Trek-style invisible shield': S...

• These 'killer electrons' whip around the planet at near-light speed
• If they hit Earth, they could knock out power grids and change its climate
• Shield was found 7,200 miles (11,600 km) above Earth in Van Allen belts
• Scientists are baffled as to how the shield formed, and how it works
• 'It's almost like these electrons are running into a glass wall,' said Professor Daniel Baker from the University of Colorado Boulder

Space agency attempted to steal evidence of extraterrestrial life, claims Sri Lankan politician (Oct. 29)

[Image: Anuradhapura meteorite samples showing complex biological structures. (Credit: Journal of Cosmology)]

http://www.openminds.tv/space-agency-attempted-steal-evidence-extra...

(The politician could have been politically motivated in his claims (who knows). But the report published by the Journal of Cosmology is whats interesting. It's not recent. It was published on February, 2013)

From wiki, "[the] team discovered fossilized diatoms (microscopic plankton) inside the meteorite as well as cells similar to those found in the Red rain in Kerala that fell in 2001" (Here is zetatalk on life found in the red rain.)

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The Journal of Cosmology had previously also published a paper by Richard Hoover (a retired NASA scientist) Re: proof of life found in meteors. Nasa, however formally distanced themselves from him & his paper (Huffpo Link & archive)

Here is a quote from the criticisms against Hoover

"Anyone can call himself (referring to Hoover) an astrobiologist. That doesn't make it so," said Pilcher, the Astrobiology institute director.

However, here is the kicker. NASA's own website details Hoover's extensive accomplishments in astrobiology. (NASA Link & archive).

The NASA news release was published in 2009, only 2 years before NASA decides to distance themselves from Hoover's allegations that life has been found on meteorites. How does NASA's Astrobiology Institue director not know of a well-accomplished fellow scientist's accolades?

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So where does this take us?

Two days ago a research team in partnership with the european space agency has revealed that DNA can survive a flight through space and re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. So, after going through the scorching heat that a meteor could go through, as well as traveling in space, the DNA samples placed on the outside of the rocket was still viable!!

Translation: Do no be surprised if you find living life in meteorites in the future. Are they anticipating what lies ahead?

Backstory to post below:

'Alien life found above Derbyshire proves we're descended from extraterrestrials', say scientists (08 October 2014) Link

       "we think [the microscopic organisms] came from an aquatic environment, and the most obvious aquatic environment in space is a comet."

Microbial LIFE found living on the exterior of the International Space Station, say reports (21 August 2014) Link

New Mars head discovered. (Original picture was taken in 2005)

Traces Of Carbon In Mars Meteorite Stir Debate About Life On Red Planet

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/03/mars-meteorite-life-carbon...

Maybe Humans Didn't Drive Mastodons To Extinction

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/03/humans-mastodon-extinction...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_t2JE-yYqg&feature=youtu.be

NASA knows something Big is Coming

Are We Close to Discovering Planet X? Link

Russian Scientist Discovers Huge New Asteroid That Could Crash to Earth Link

Just to add on to the recent methane (which is usually produced by life) findings on Mars, this isn't exactly new & perhaps goes all the way back to the Viking landers from the 1970's. http://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2pk9yy/just_a_reminder_that_... .

Basically, martian soil was soaked with nutrients. And then they observed an increase in carbon dioxide, as possible evidence of metabolism from life.

This finding was however, dismissed because #1) although organic compounds (not necessarily life) was common in comets and such, none was found in Mars back then (coverup?). And #2) there was no water on Mars, which we now have known for a while is untrue. And even just recently NASA talked about an ancient lake, as well as finding water along with ancient organic compounds.

On top of this Miller (the scientist) found the gas emanations to follow a daily rhythm. So for instance, all living matter follow  a daily cycle. We wake up, sleep following the pattern of the sun. Plants release & take in gases according to the sun's daily pattern. Just like that, Miller found gas emanations to follow a pattern that repeated every martian day. These were explained away as chemical reactions taking place. So they tried comparing it with organic & lifeless, chemical reactions that take place on earth, & the patterns followed that of living matter.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/04/120413-nasa-viking-...

Now NASA has to do an about turn, which isn't exactly an easy thing to do.

Dalai Lama concedes he may be the last

Curiosity has discovered organic matter on Mars

http://www.cnet.com/news/curiosity-has-discovered-organic-matter-on...

Molecules found by Curiosity on Mars have been confirmed as organic matter -- the building blocks of all known forms of terrestrial life.

NASA

The Curiosity rover has found and analysed the first definitively identified piece of organic matter on the surface of Mars.

These organic molecules, consisting primarily of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms, are the building blocks of all life on Earth. However, it is important to note that these molecules may not have come from life forms on Mars -- organic molecules can be created from chemical processes that do not involve life, NASA said. At this stage, there is not enough evidence to determine the provenance of the molecules -- but either way, their presence has meaning.

The team responsible for Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite have several hypotheses. The first is, of course, a biological process. Others include chemical reactions in water at ancient hot springs on the Red Planet, or arrival from off-planet via dust, meteorites, asteroids or comets.

Recently, Curiosity found evidence of dry river and lake beds on Mars -- of surface water on the planet -- such as minerals that can only form in the presence of liquid water, and erosion patterns formed by sediment deposited by water flows. This indicates that, billions of years ago, conditions on Mars could have supported life.

The molecules -- which seem to confirm recent findings that a Martian meteorite contained extraterrestrial organic matter -- were found in a drilled sample in the Sheepbed mudstone of the Gale crater -- the location of Curiosity's exploration. The mudstone on the crater floor is consistent with the clay found on Earth from dried-up lakes, formed from sediment on the lake floor -- presenting optimum conditions for the preservation of organic matter.

"We think life began on Earth around 3.8 billion years ago, and our result shows that places on Mars had the same conditions at that time -- liquid water, a warm environment, and organic matter," said Caroline Freissinet of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "So if life emerged on Earth in these conditions, why not on Mars as well?"

Search for the Lost Giants

A new history channel tv series

Stonemasons Jim and Bill Vieira are on a quest to investigate an incredible theory: that the myths and legends we’ve all been told about giants are actually rooted in fact. Jim has researched over 1,000 accounts of skeletons seven feet tall or over unearthed across America in the 19th and 20th centuries. SEARCH FOR THE LOST GIANTS will follow the Vieira brothers on their quest to find evidence of these missing bones, which seem to have slipped through the hands of history. They’ll dig for secret chambers, explore underground tunnels and dive into the deepest museum storage vaults–all to find that one bone, that one hair, that single strand of giant DNA that will answer the question: did giants walk the Earth?

http://www.history.com/shows/search-for-the-lost-giants/episodes

http://www.thegic.org/nasa_releases_free_e_book_on_decoding_extrate...

NASA RELEASES FREE E-BOOK ON DECODING EXTRATERRESTRIAL

MESSAGES

Russia to Build a Scientific 'Noah's Ark'

Don't know about the coffin being real, but here's a link to another picture I found interesting. Is it an Azetc type head or just an oddity of nature/hoax making the carving? Any thoughts? 

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00184/mcam/0184MR09251...

Hi GA. Is this what you're talking about? (Looks like an eye & a nose.)

Young Red Dwarf Stars could Host Habitable Worlds (Dec 15). http://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/young-red-dwarfs-stars-host-...

"Increasing odds of extra-terrestrial life" (Dec 19) http://www.astrobio.net/topic/deep-space/cosmic-evolution/life-aqua...

Barren Deserts Can Host Complex Ecosystems in Their Soils (Dec 22). http://www.astrobio.net/topic/origins/extreme-life/barren-deserts-c...

Life Can Survive on Much Less Water Than You Might Think. (Nov 4) http://www.astrobio.net/topic/origins/extreme-life/life-can-survive...

If microbial life can survive in Earth’s Atacama Desert (right), one of the driest places on the planet, would it have

any chance on Mars (left)? From a perspective of the availability of water for biological activity, or “water activity,”

as reviewed in a new study, the answer is “yes.” Credit: NASA/JPL (left); Henry Bortman (right)

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/12/29/residents-below-aging-b-c-d...

Residents below aging B.C. dam warned: in case of major earthquake, get out in 10 minutes or die

VANCOUVER — After deciding it would be too expensive to rebuild a 103-year-old dam built in one of the most collapse-prone areas of Canada, British Columbia’s power utility has settled on a controversial plan: Bracing for a disastrous flood.

“[I]n a magnitude 9 earthquake, the people down below would have 10 or 15 minutes to get out of there, or I guess the bottom line is that they would all die,” said Mike Hicks, municipal director for the area.

Since early December, BC Hydro has been busily transforming the area surrounding its Jordan River dam into a flood-ready no-man’s-land.

The utility is pushing to stop development in the future “inundation zone” and has successfully obtained a ban on overnight camping at a popular nearby park. It is also looking to install a warning siren to alert day-trippers if they are about to be swamped by several million litres of reservoir water.

Most contentious of all, the provincial utility offered to buy up 11 houses and businesses in the tiny community of Jordan River, a once-thriving resource town that would largely be flattened by a dam collapse.

Locals are uniformly outraged at the offer, even as they see the value of their homes being wiped out by the news.

“For just about everybody around here it’s not a money thing; we don’t want to move, fix your dam,” said Doug Harvey, speaking to local television.

Mr. Hicks noted camping at Jordan River Regional Park was being shut down only four years after the municipal government spent $9.9-million to buy the land.

“If they’re going to ask us to have no overnight camping, they should buy our park, simple as that,” he said. “They sterilized Jordan River, and they’re the ones responsible for this.”

News of the looming dam collapse has also scuttled plans to turn the park over to the nearby Pacheedaht First Nation, who were to build a campground and interpretative centre.

Said Mr. Hicks, “That’s all gone, too, with BC Hydro’s announcement that they’ll all be dead.”

While the utility claims it cannot fix the dam, it has acknowledged there are ways the structure could be prevented from collapsing in an earthquake.

‘I guess the bottom line is that they would all die’

BC Hydro  could simply lower the water in the reservoir, but it said this would cause an electricity shortfall that could cost as much as $200-million to fix.

The dam could also be decommissioned, but this would also be “highly costly” and would risk flooding homes with spillover from an unregulated Jordan River.

The utility’s dramatic plans for the area were fuelled by an alarming seismic study released this month showing the Jordan River dam, built in 1911, sits atop one of the most vulnerable parts of British Columbia and possibly the country.

When the Big One hits (an event that is statistically due for coastal B.C.), the dam will shake as much as three times harder than buildings in Downtown Vancouver.

The pressures are virtually guaranteed to rip apart the structure and kick off what has clinically been called an “uncontrolled release of upstream reservoir water.” As the utility said in a statement, it was “not aware of any dams in the world” strong enough to straddle the Jordan River without collapsing.

http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/2015/01/keplers-new-mission-dis...

Kepler’s New Mission Discovers First Alien Planet Called The Super Earth

Posted on January 2, 2015 

Kepler lost its two reaction wheels, but this did not stop the NASA’s spacecraft to search foralien planets. Indeed, the space telescope discovers alien world again in its new mission. Since operating back again from a malfunction in May 2013, the spacecraft found its first new extraterrestrial planet named HIP 116454b, also called as the super Earth mainly because it is larger than approximately 2.5 times than planet Earth. Lies in the constellation Pisces, in 180 light-years from Earth, the newly discovered alien planet is near enough to be studied by other instruments, according to scientists.

The reborn of Kepler has been even better because the first discovered planet is ripe for follow-up studies, said scientist Andrew Vanderburg of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

Launched in March 2009, Kepler was on a 3.5-year mission to determine the number of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy. Scientists have discovered close to a thousand confirmed planets through Kepler. More than 50% of these known alien worlds are believed to be the real deal, along with approximately 3,200 other candidates.

In May 2013, Kepler’s second of its four reaction wheels malfunctioned. These wheels are necessary for precise pointing. However, the letdown did not stop the team to find a way to increase the stability of Kepler. Members of the team used the subtle pressure of sunlight to provide a solution to the stability issue then proposed a new mission named K2. The new Kepler’s mission would continue the hunt of exoplanet and study other cosmic phenomena as well as space objects.

Twelve times more massive as compared to Earth, the HIP 116454b is approximately 20,000 miles wide and its density suggests that it’s either a small version of Neptune with large, thick atmosphere or primarily covered by water.

The distance between the newly discovered world to its host star is 8.4 million miles or 13.5 million kilometers. Its host star is an orange dwarf, slightly smaller as well as cooler than the sun in the solar system. HIP 116454b completes an orbit every 9.1 days.

The planet’s close distance to Earth means it will be a top target for telescopes in space and on the ground.

Never mind what might cause this,

What If Every Volcano on Earth Erupted at Once?

http://www.livescience.com/49305-what-if-all-volcanoes-erupted.html

WARNING: Contains disinformation.

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/577776/20150102/orange-dwarf-star-so...

Two Orange Dwarf Stars To Reach The Solar System Might Wipe Out Human Race

January 2, 2015 11:38 AM EST

http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/2015/01/deep-earth-life-excites...

Deep Earth Life Excites Extraterrestrial Life Researchers

Posted on January 3, 2015 in Aliens, Latest posts, NASA 

Earth is commonly associated with green forests, blue oceans and animals that live in both. However, there’s a possibility too that Earth hosts another biosphere. Tiny microbial organisms could be living below the surface. This could also be the same with extraterrestrial life.

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, geoscientist Barbara Sherwood Lollar says that deep-Earth life environment could be far vaster than previously thought.

The idea that alien life could also be the same has received a sudden impact with the NASA’s announcement that Mars Curiosity rover had discovered a plume of methane that spiked and then dissipated on the red planet, an indication of microbial life.

Geochemist Lisa Pratt says that the new study and the new NASA’s discovery of the red planet suggest that scientists should begin searching for something that is different than the conventional cellular life, which researchers used to seeing and studying on Earth.

In 2006, Sherwood Lollar and Pratt announced through a Science paper about the discovery of bacteria living deep in a gold mine in South Africa, completely isolated from sunlight. These microbes managed to live deep in Earth by deriving their energy from hydrogen gas produced by water and the surrounding rock reactions. These microbes are estimated to have lived between three million and twenty-five million years.

Just last year, Sherwood Lollar also part of a team that discovered similar environment. They analyzed water in a mine in Timmins, Ontario with similar chemistry to the mine in South Africa. The team estimated that the water found in the Timmins mine was billions of years old. The site is still subject for further study to know if there’s microbial life living in it.

So, scientists and ordinary people are now curious about how many similar places in the planet host life. Furthermore, the possibility of dark life in the red planet provides exciting stuff among scientists and researchers.

Ted Turner had a tape made for CNN in case the world ever ended. (Its apparently the Armed Forces band playing "Nearer My God, to Thee"--—the song the band on the Titanic supposedly played, when it went down). (The context to the tape was provided in case a nuclear war took place. But in 1988 would he not have known about Planet x?)

ABSTRACT (from the  New Yorker, in 1988): Talk story about a signoff tape, made by Ted Turner, head of CNN, in the event of nuclear war… We wondered what was on the tape. What did Mr. Turner think America wanted to hear as it prepared for incineration?… “We need to totally disarm,” Mr. Turner told us, “Because, just as with guns, if you've got nuclear weapons you're eventually going to use them… Normally, when a TV station begins & ends the broacast day, it signs on & off by playing the National Anthem,” he said. “But with CNN–a 24-hour-a day channel– we would only sign off once & I knew what that would mean. So we got the combined Armed Forces marching bands together –the Army, Navy, Marine & Air Force bands–& took them out to the old CNN headquarters & we had them practice the National Anthem for a videotaping. Then, as things cranked uo, I asked if they'd play 'Nearer My God, to Thee' to put on videotape just in case the world ever came to an end. That would be the last thing CNN played before we–before we signed off. And, I'll tell you, those guys in the military bands knew what I was up to. He began to play the tape. “I can't watch this without getting tears in my eyes,” Mr. Turner said, and he left the room, tossing his hands in the air. We watched & listened as the band completed the hymn. When it was over, in about a minute, the band members snapped their instruments down to parade rest & the screen went dark. Mr. Turner came back into the office. “Pretty strong, huh?” he said. “I keep this tape around because when the world ends it'll be over before we can say what we wanted to say. Before we can leave any final messages.

This was supposedly leaked by a former CNN intern http://jalopnik.com/this-is-the-video-cnn-will-play-when-the-world-...

It was then picked up by BBC (& given a headline to reflect the truth on the announcement, perhaps).  Does CNN really have a video ready for the apocalypse? - BBC

Kepler 438b: Most Earth-like planet ever discovered could be home for alien life. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/06/earth-like-planet-al...

NASA made posters for some known exoplanets. Here is one. http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/08/nasa-travel-posters-exoplanets/

Two suns, you say? That's right, just like Luke Skywalker's home world of Tatooine, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of giant stars.

Can you solve some of the world’s biggest UFO mysteries? Rare microfilms of  alien sightings are now available online for free

Mr Arnold saw nine UFOs over Mount Rainier, on 24 June 1947 and the US  government agencies took an interest in reports. A similar sighting (pictured)  occurred over Tulsa, Oklahoma on July 12, 1947

The files relate to USAF  investigations into UFO from 1947-1969

They were conducted under 'Project  Blue Book' which ended in 1970

More than 700 cases remain  unsolved, accounting for  5.5% of the files

In 1948, the US  government launched several inquiries into UFO sightings, which many believed  were sparked by Cold War paranoia.

In what became  known as 'Project Blue Book,' more than 12,000 encounters with UFOs were looked  into by the Air Force.

Now, decades after  the files were closed, the microfilms have been made available online for free – allowing anyone to re-examine the evidence.

The USAF says that  the Blue Book included 12,618 sightings reports, with 701 of which remained  'unidentified' – or around 5.5 per cent of the files.

The files, which  can be accessed here, were previously only available by  visiting the National Archives in Washington, according to a report in openminds.tv. 

'There is plenty  of work for amateur investigators to try to come up with explanations they never  had time to consider or research,' Nigel Watson author of the UFO investigations  Manual told MailOnline.

One case that Mr  Watson is particularly intrigued in for historical reasons is a report filed by  Kenneth Arnold which led to the popular term 'flying saucers'.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2908998/Can-solve-wo...

Are there hidden planets in our solar system?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2912323/Are-hidden-p...

Astronomers believe there are at least two unknown planets waiting to be discovered well beyond Pluto.

They claim these planets are changing the position of objects away from Neptune, causing them to behave in strange ways.

If their theory proves true, scientists say it could 'revolutionise' solar system models.

Has Science Just Admitted Planet X/Nibiru Exists? Believers Say Full ‘Nibiru Disclosure’ Is Coming

http://www.inquisitr.com/1769216/has-science-just-admitted-planet-x...

NASA Cuts ISS Live Feed As 'UFO' Appears (video) http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/01/19/ufo-appears-iss-nasa-cut...

Al Gore's speech at the World Economic Forum that's taking place in Switzerland. (Its basically a place where the political elite meet the corporate elite). But Gore's speech on climate change is interesting (to say the least). Looks like he's doubling down on climate change. Its one way of getting ppl's attention on the earth changes & renewable energy, I guess.

http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/2015/01/ufo-disclosure-advocate...

UFO Disclosure Advocate to Play a Major Role in Hillary Clinton’s Election Campaign

Posted on January 21, 2015 

An advocate for freedom of information, John Podesta has said that it’s time for a full disclosure of everything, including the existence of space aliens. The Wall Street Journal said John Podesta, who serves as a senior White House aide, may resign and join the election campaign of Hillary Clinton.

Mr. Podesta’s role in a Clinton campaign remains unclear, the Journal reported. People with inside access to the discussions said he likely would get the role of a campaign chairman should Hillary decide to run. Podesta would be an impressive Clinton’s asset given his political and social learning.

In 2013, Podesta called Republicans “Killer Cultists” when he referred congressional Republicans the Jonestown cultists who left more than nine hundred people dead and committed mass suicide in 1978. He said that they should focus on executive action because they would likely face a second term against a cult with similarity of Jonestown taking charge in one of the houses of Congress. Republicans got furious, and Podesta eventually issued an apology through Twitter.

UFO and extraterrestrial enthusiasts will be most interested in Podesta’s suggestion that authorities should impart their knowledge about extraterrestrials to the public if they have any proof. Speaking at a press conference in 2002, he asked the U.S. government to declassify any UFO information. He also composed the foreword to the book “UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record,” published in 2010.

He wrote that the time to disclose UFO subject is long overdue. If Podesta is faithful to his words and if he’s in a position of power, Steve Bassett’s petition requesting for disclosure might not be needed anymore as disclosure may just come naturally.

In the U.S. history, no female has become president, and if human rights and equality advocate Hillary Clinton make it to the Presidential Office with Podesta at her side, people could expect full disclosure.

http://www.ibtimes.com/pulse/doomsday-clock-ticks-closer-apocalypse...

Doomsday Clock Ticks Closer To Apocalypse Because Of Climate Change, Atomic Scientists Warn

Thu, 2015-01-22 14:17

The scientists cited a handful of factors that show the accelerating threat of climate change. Let’s take a look:

1. Climate change is already happening -- and it’s our fault

It’s not a distant or wishy-washy threat. Climate change is here and now, according to a United Nations-led panel of global climate scientists. “Human influence on the climate system is clear and growing, with impacts observed on all continents,” the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a stark November report.

Over the past century, burning oil, coal and natural gas for energy use, converting forests into industrial farmland and razing pristine jungles has pumped massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. As a result, the atmosphere and oceans are warming, sea levels are rising and concentrations of carbon dioxide -- the most abundant greenhouse gas -- have increased to levels unseen in at least the last 800,000 years, according to the assessment.

Need proof the climate is changing? The panel pointed to the mass die-offs of forests in the U.S. West, where heat-loving beetles are thriving and killing trees. More frequent heat waves are destroying crops and causing tens of thousands of deaths worldwide. In New York City, sea levels are 1.1 feet higher today than in 1900. That change proved especially dangerous during 2012’s Hurricane Sandy; the added ocean height worsened the extent and magnitude of coastal flooding during the storm.

Here’s another unsettling tidbit:

2. 2014 was the hottest year on record

Last year, surface temperatures on the land and oceans reached a combined global average of 1.24 degrees Fahrenheit (0.69 degrees Celsius) above the 20th century average -- the hottest level on record since 1880, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said earlier this month.

NASA scientists separately determined that the 10 warmest years in the past 135 are all since 2000, with the exception of 1998. Last year “is the latest in a series of warm years, in a series of warm decades,” Gavin Schmidt, who directs NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, said recently.

He noted that while chaotic weather patterns in certain years can mess with global temperatures, “the long-term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases.”

3. Temperatures will keep rising -- and probably past the 2-degree threshold

Global warming must be kept to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. But scientists generally agree that we’ll breeze past that threshold before the middle of the century, and we could see warming of up to 4.8 degrees Celsius by 2100.

To prevent extreme warming, the world needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions entirely before the end of the century. As in, to zero. That means keeping all of the world’s remaining fossil fuel reserves in the ground, an action that will require aggressive government policies such as carbon pricing and trillions of dollars of investment in cleaner energy alternatives.

To limit warming to just 2 degrees, countries will have to keep 80 percent of coal, half of natural gas, and one-third of oil in the ground by 2050, according to a recent study by University College London researchers. Scientists say it’s technically possible to do this, given the recent advancements in solar and wind power and energy-saving technologies. But policy experts say it’s a “politically unachievable” feat right now.

4. Last year’s climate negotiations were kind of a dud

The Doomsday Clock scientists said the U.N. climate talks in Peru in December were “inadequate” given the scope of the threat.

At the meeting, 196 countries agreed to work over the next 12 months to develop an international treaty for reducing emissions and investing in low-carbon technologies. Many negotiators and outside observers hailed the conference as a success; it’s perhaps the closest countries have come to an inclusive global agreement in nearly two decades of talks. But critics, including the atomic scientists, pointed out that the “plan to make a plan” isn’t doing much right now to curb global emissions and halt investment in fossil fuels.

The U.N will have another climate summit in Paris later this year, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Benedict hopes to see serious developments regarding global warming. "I think it almost takes a change in consciousness and we hope that might happen in Paris, that there might be more money set aside for the people who will suffer the most from climate change. People in poor countries, especially low-lying countries along the coast, that would be a big step forward and would signal, to many, that the international community is taking this seriously," Benedict said. "Talk is talk, what we need is action at this point."

Big asteroid to fly by Earth Monday. http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/us/asteroid-fly-by/.

Also mentioned in the article is: Don Yeomans, director of the Near Earth Object Program @ NASA has retired. He used to be one of the company guys put forth to chirp the coverup lies.

Inhabitants of PX,  radio communications? Wonder if this will be on the increase as PX approaches?  Interesting.

Mysterious radio signal from space caught live for first time

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/01/26/mysterious-radio-signal-f...

Astronomers in Australia have picked up an “alien” radio signal from space for the first time as it occurred. The signal, or radio “burst”, was discovered on May 15, 2014, though it’s just being reported by the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. “The burst was identified within 10 seconds of its occurrence,” said Emily Petroff, a doctoral student from Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology. “The importance of the discovery was recognized very quickly and we were all working very excitedly to contact other astronomers and telescopes around the world to look at the location of the burst.”

Emerging from an unknown source, these bursts are bright flashes of radio waves that emit as much energy in a few milliseconds as the sun does in 24 hours.  “The first fast radio burst was discovered in 2007,” Petroff tells FoxNews.com, “and up until our discovery there were 8 more found in old or archival data.” While researchers use telescopes in Hawaii, India, Germany, Chile, California, and the California Islands to search for bursts, it is the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope in Eastern Australia that is the first to catch one as its happening.

The cause of these mysterious signals remains unknown, with possible theories ranging from black holes to alien communication. However, UFO hunters shouldn’t get too excited. According to Petroff, “We're confident that they're coming from natural sources, that is to say it's probably not aliens, but we haven't solved the case completely. The two most promising theories at the moment are that these bursts could be produced either by a star producing a highly energetic flare, or from a neutron star collapsing to make a black hole. Both of these things would be from sources in far-away galaxies just reaching us from billions of light years away.”

Catching the bursts as they happen is key to finding the source, and though Petroff’s team scrambled upon making their discovery, they didn’t move fast enough to find the afterglow and pin down the cause. “Finding one in real-time has been the goal for a while because we would then be able to act on it and mobilize other telescopes to look that way,” Petroff says. “We did this in the case of this real-time discovery, but we didn't get on the target until about eight hours later with other telescopes, at which time nothing was found.” However, they were able to eliminate a few possible causes, such as gamma-ray bursts from exploding stars and supernovae. Also, the team was able to determine that the source had been near an object with a sizeable magnetic field from the way the wavelengths were polarized.

While the source of the fast radio burst remains a mystery, the team remains hopeful that they can learn from their mistakes and one day solve the case. “All we can do is learn from our experience with this discovery and create a more efficient system for next time,” Petroff says. “We still spend a large amount of time looking for fast radio bursts with the Parkes telescope and the next time we are in the right place at just the right time, we'll be able to act faster than ever before and hopefully solve the mystery once and for all!”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2929775/Aboriginal-f...

Aboriginal folklore could be oldest accurate oral history in the world: Stories of ancient sea level rise have survived for 10,000 years

• Traditional stories describe how the Great Barrier Reef once formed part of the Queensland coastline and was studded with rivers and promontories
• Other tales tell how modern day bays were once dry land rich in kangaroo
• Scientists say they coincide with sea level rise at the end of the last ice age
• The stories could constitute an oral  that survived 300 generations 

Traditional stories passed down through generations by Australian Aborigines may be among the oldest accurate oral histories in the world, scientists have claimed.

The findings have allowed them to map how the continent may have looked around 10,000 years ago.

Oral folklore tells how the Great Barrier Reef once formed part of the coastline of north east Queensland, while Port Phillip Bay in Victoria was once a rich place for hunting kangaroo and opossum.

Researchers have found other stories from all over the continent that mirror how the landscape  towards the end of the last ice age.

The Great Barrier Reef, off the Queensland coast, was once part of the mainland according to Aboriginal tales

They say at this time sea levels rose as a result of the melting of the huge ice caps that covered much of the  around 10,500 years ago.

The researchers now believe that these stories could constitute some of the oldest accurate oral histories in the world, passing through some 300 generations.

The finding is remarkable as many anthropologists believe that exaggeration and Chinese whispers often distort oral history so severely that they can no longer be reliable if they are older than 1,000 years old.

However, Dr Nick Reid, a linguist at the University of New England, has found that the stories of Australian Aborigines are astoundingly accurate.

Hidden within  of seagull gods and ancestral heroes causing seas to rise and great floods are details of how the landscapes looked before the time.

Dr Reid studied 18 traditional Aboriginal stories and found that they seemed to coincide with true geological events.

Writing for the Conversation, he said: 'How do we know that these stories are authentic? We suggest that because they all say essentially the same thing, it is more likely that they are based on observation.

'All tell of the ocean rising over areas that had previously been dry. None tell stories running the other way – of seas falling to expose land.

'The huge distances separating the places from which the stories were collected – as well as their unique, local contexts – makes it unlikely that they derived from a common source that was invented.'

This graphic shows how Aboriginal stories from all over Australia describe the sea level rise that occurred at the end of the last ice age around 10,000 years ago, causing much of the coastline to be flooded by water

This is a year old. But what this scientist explains re: mars & meteorite samples is priceless. I hope he gets exposure after disclosure & that he is safe in the meantime.

Former NASA Scientist claims conspiracy about Mars photo

http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/196569/Mysterious_Planet_X_...

Mysterious Planet X May Really Lurk Undiscovered in Our Solar System

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Obama aide John Podesta says ‘biggest failure’ was not securing the disclosure of UFO files

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2015/02/13/obama...

Mystery Mars haze baffles scientists http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31491805

This scene of 2 suns was shown for 1 to 2 seconds in The Walking Dead, Season 5 Episode 10. About 5-10 min in the show. I took this photo with my phone while watching it on demand.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150217114121.htm

Closest known flyby of star to our solar system: Dim star passed through Oort Cloud 70,000 years ago

Scholz's Star on the BBC also. Note when describing the "companion" of Scholtz they are essentially describing Nibiru! An unlit brown dwarf traveling with the star. They are also introducing the concept of such a pair interacting with OUR solar system, as the mythical Oort Cloud (which the Zetas say in fact does not exist http://www.zetatalk.com/science/s51.htm) is purported to surround OUR solar system. Next they will say "oh, and we have one right next to our Sol! Just noticed it.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31519875

The object, a red dwarf known as Scholz's star, cruised through the outer reaches of the Solar System - a region known as the Oort Cloud. Scholz's star was not alone; it was accompanied on its travels by an object known as a brown dwarf. These are essentially failed stars that lacked the necessary mass to get fusion going in their cores. Observations of the dim star's trajectory suggest that 70,000 years ago this cosmic infiltrator passed within 0.8 light years of the Sun.

http://dcraig.blogs.redding.com/2015/02/the-real-controversy-is-tha...

The real controversy is that there is no controversy

Same story about Scholz's star, with better headline; relates it to within span of human history. There was another star in the solar system when humans first spread from Africa Link

In a Curious Case for Astronomers, a Brown Dwarf Goes Missing

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/02/150218-starstruck-b...

Talks about:

-a brown dwarf that orbits a binary system.

-The brown dwarf isn't easy to capture/image (Might be hinting at the excuses establishment might throw for coverup. idk)

-The brown dwarf's movement/path didn't follow man's scientific expectations.........

(This so-called brown dwarf, as I understand it, is completely made up. The orbit of the twin stars had periodic irregularities. So they simply hypothesized that it must be a brown dwarf tugging the stars.)

====But according to our current understanding, if an orbiting object were to slow down from its established orbit, it would be heading for a collision to its sun. So are they indirectly confessing that our current understanding of gravity fails to explain why planets orbit?)

(What Would Happen if the Earth Stopped In Its Orbit?) graphic = http://www.wired.com/2014/12/empzeal-earthfall/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leslie-kean/john-podesta-pulling-back...

 (One of many witness drawings of the Kecksburg object). Notice the markings on the UFO, which the zetas say is synonymous with STS aliens.

A 2012 poll showed that nearly 80% of Americans believe the government has concealed information about UFOs.

[According to zetatalk, the crash at Kekcksburg was spaceships provided by the STS aliens, that the military was trying to control & crashed. Zetatalk on Kecksburg]

[A judge ordered NASA to open up their files on the case & yet nothing was found...

The judge had some less than ideal things to say about NASA, as well. But I guess they're trying to turn over a new leaf. They have one chance. Let's hope they do it right; And that old habits & friends dont come back knocking]