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Preview: Doomsday Preppers

February 6, 2012 – 8:56 pm | 2 Comments

Doomsday Preppers is a new National Geographic series, launching on Tuesday, Feb 7 in the USA. Here are two of the survivalists they visit – one is your standard prepper and the other is a …

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Updates on Drew Maras and Michio Kaku

February 4, 2012 – 9:38 pm | No Comment
Updates on Drew Maras and Michio Kaku

Suspected on killing a couple and a police officer, before being gunned down was Drew Ryan Maras, an author who was working on a book covering conspiracy theories and 2012 when he died.
BlogTalkRadio are replaying …

Trailer: The Carrington Event

January 31, 2012 – 2:03 pm | No Comment
Trailer: The Carrington Event

The above trailer is for a TV series in development. Here’s the official synopsis for The Carrington Event:
Joseph Carrington runs an organic mini-farm on the outskirts of a large, southern town. His rustic lifestyle means …

X2-Class Solar Flare – But Don’t Worry!

January 28, 2012 – 12:19 pm | No Comment
X2-Class Solar Flare – But Don’t Worry!

There are several doom’n’gloom news services out there that report every solar flare as if it will cause the end of the world.
SpaceWeather.com has informed us:
Departing sunspot 1402 unleashed an X2-class solar flare today, Jan. 27th, …

Solar Storm Causes Pole Shift?

January 27, 2012 – 6:44 am | 3 Comments
Solar Storm Causes Pole Shift?

Planetary magnetic fields are generated by flows in the hot, liquid iron cores of the planets. Measurements made by Mariner 10 in 1974/75 showed that Mercury also has a magnetic field. According to the standard …

USDA Behind Bird Killings / Hoekstra on EMP

January 10, 2012 – 11:25 am | 3 Comments
USDA Behind Bird Killings / Hoekstra on EMP

This time last year there was a lot of talk about mass animal die-offs. These things happen from time to time, but the cluster of events made it newsworthy. Turns out some mass deaths can …

2012: Transit of Venus

January 9, 2012 – 4:01 pm | 2 Comments
2012: Transit of Venus

The planet Venus was important to the Maya civilization, who developed a religious calendar based in part upon its motions, and held the motions of Venus to determine the propitious time for events such as war. They …

Ancient Mayans Could Measure Solar Activity

January 9, 2012 – 1:19 am | No Comment
Ancient Mayans Could Measure Solar Activity

Many ancient cultures knew of planets that could not be seen with the naked eye, and therefore it is possible they counted sunspots as well. Yet there is a far easier way to keep track …

Earthquake Alert: Lunar Eclipse on Saturday

December 7, 2011 – 1:49 pm | 4 Comments
Earthquake Alert: Lunar Eclipse on Saturday

According to my research, the five days either side of a lunar eclipse are twice as likely to have a major earthquake – the type that cause deaths and appear on the evening news. We …

NASA Expert: Solar Flares Harmless

November 16, 2011 – 11:11 am | One Comment
NASA Expert: Solar Flares Harmless

You just know I’m going to be critical of this news item…
Dr Alex Young, a heliophysicist at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said we don’t need to worry about the sun for another …

Updates: Flood, Tsunami & CME

October 31, 2011 – 2:13 am | No Comment
Updates: Flood, Tsunami & CME

Thailand is now 1/3 under water due to the worsening floods. This map shows the affected area (might take a little while to load).
Up to 20 million tons of debris from the Japanese tsunami in …

In Brief: Elenin, NASA and more

August 20, 2011 – 6:52 am | No Comment
In Brief: Elenin, NASA and more

2012 Forum has been written about at Vice Magazine, where they condescendingly describe the five types of folk who visit there. By the way, that’s not my picture:
http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2011/08/15/the-five-people-you-meet-on-the-apocalyptic-message-board/
NASA has decided to make a page that …

Mini Ice Age Coming – Simple Explanation

August 3, 2011 – 12:18 am | No Comment
Mini Ice Age Coming – Simple Explanation

I love simplicity. It beats math-heavy arguments, or singular ideas that need an entire book to try and convince you. Check this out for a simple explanation for why you could/should be preparing for the …

Eclipse Quakes in Melbourne, Auckland & Taupo

July 5, 2011 – 2:51 pm | 3 Comments
Eclipse Quakes in Melbourne, Auckland & Taupo

While lunar eclipses tend to trigger major quakes, we have been seeing solar eclipses (July 1) setting off quakes in places that don’t usually get them. On Friday Auckland had a 2.9 quake – unusual …

Piers Corbyn: Red Alert until July 2nd

June 28, 2011 – 4:18 pm | No Comment
Piers Corbyn: Red Alert until July 2nd

Piers Corbyn of WeatherAction.com has forecast the following for the period of June 27-July 2, with the greatest likelihood July 1-2:

Major Earthquake
Volcanism
Tornadoes and Tornado Swarms
Other Extreme Weather

His methodology is not clear, but it might not …

New Precautions for Power Grids

June 24, 2011 – 7:13 pm | No Comment
New Precautions for Power Grids

According to NASA this week:
In Sept. 1859, on the eve of a below-average solar cycle, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in centuries. The underlying flare was so unusual, researchers still aren’t …

6.6M Earthquake in Papua New Guinea

June 16, 2011 – 11:14 am | No Comment
6.6M Earthquake in Papua New Guinea

This is the first 6.5+ earthquake in 30 days, highlighting how the average of every 6 days doesn’t mean they will be evenly spaced, they can occur in bunches, or be absent for quite some …

Solar Cycle 25 Will Be Quiet

June 16, 2011 – 10:58 am | No Comment
Solar Cycle 25 Will Be Quiet

As I have said before, once scientists have made predictions ahead of time, and then consequently got them right, for a few cycles in a row, then we might trust their forecasts. So far that …

Central Lunar Eclipse in 5 Days

June 10, 2011 – 9:58 pm | One Comment
Central Lunar Eclipse in 5 Days

Obviously the Earth is much bigger than the Moon, so a lunar eclipse doesn’t require a precise alignment. When the moon passes in front of the center of the Earth’s shadow, it is called a …

Amazing Solar Flare Photo

June 9, 2011 – 1:10 pm | No Comment
Amazing Solar Flare Photo

It was only a medium-sized flare, but still the biggest we’ve seen since 2006. It wasn’t aimed directly at us, but will be near enough to perhaps create some nice auroras in the next day …

LaViolette: Super-sized Solar Proton Event

June 9, 2011 – 2:52 am | No Comment
LaViolette: Super-sized Solar Proton Event

A lot of serious cataclysm research revolves around the event of 10-12 thousand years ago, when the ice age abruptly ended and mega-fauna were wiped out, especially in the Americas. Paul LaViolette is one of …