Artic sea ice falls to record low

This article appeared on Monday, August 27, 2012 on page 2A of the Tampa Bay Times newspaper. It also included two satellite pictures detaing the differences from 1979 through August 26, 2012. The amount of sea ice in summer has declined more than 40% since satellite tracking began in the late 1970s, a trend that most scientest believe is primarily a consequence of human activity. "It's hard even for people like me to believe, to see that climate change is actually doing what our worst fears indicated," said Jennifer Francis, a Rutgers University scientest who studies the effect of sea ice on weather patterns. She also said, "It's starting to give me chills, to tell you the truth." Scientest forecasts based on computer modeling have long suggested that a time will come when the artic will be completely free of ice in the summer, perhaps by the middle of the century.

In my book I predicted that the artic ice would melt by the summer of 2025 (13 years from now) not in 38 more years as scientests predict. So far most of the items I have predicted have happened. But as long as the world's numerous (68) satellite companys keep escalating their satellite launches of over 900 launches per year and growing, the artic ice will melt well before even my prediction. We must put a stop to these useless launches, money making ($1,000,000.00) per lauch companies. Where are they going to spend their fortuntes when their is no food to buy, due to all the droughts these statellite launches will cause?   

Global warming suspected as huge iceberg breaks free

The above headline was printed on page 10A of the Tampa Bay Times newspaper on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. It said: An iceberg twice the size of Manhattan broke free from one of Greeland's largest glaciers, illustrating another dramatic change to the warming island. "It's dramtic. It's disturbing," said University of Delaware professor Andreas Muenchow, who was one of the first researchers to notice the break. "We have data for 150 years andwe see changes that we have not seen before." Researchers suspect global warming is to blame, but can't prove it. Glaciers do calve icebergs naturally, but what has happened in the last three years is unprecedented. Muenchow and other scientest say.

How long will it take for these scientest's and professor's to finally figure out what I stated in my book back in April of 2009? All the wild climatic weather that we are now encountering throughout the world are all due to the constant everyday firing of satellites from forty seven (47) countries all over the world. NASA has not released the latest size of the ozone hole since 2010. At that time the size of the ozone hole was 16.8 million square miles. I will assure you that the size of the current ozone hole is well over 18 million square miles. There are currently over 30,000 satellites circling over our atmosphere. How many more do we need? Can weathermen predict the weather any better now than they could in 1980? No, so what good is it to keep sending thousands more of these weather satellites into orbit? I realize that all these satellite companies are making millions of dollars everytime they launch a satellite. But when the earth is to the point that it can not produce enough crops to feed the world due to abundant droughts and floods that will be occuring because of the solar winds and flares coming in thriugh our depleted ozone hole, no monry can buy what is not available!

NASA's mission: sweep up space junk

Tampa Bay Times, February 20, 2012 had a story of how NASA is brainstorming for a solution to retrieve the more than 20,000 pieces of space junk that are orbiting the earth in a LEO (Low Earth Orbit) trajectory. NASA just gave $1.9 million to Star Technology and Research, a small company in South Carolina, to develop and test technologies for a spacecraft it calls the ElectroDynamic Debris Eliminator -- EDDE for short. Powered by a 6-mile wire -- make that "space tether" -- that generates energy as it is pulled through the Earth's magnetic field, EDDE would sidle up to a piece of space junk, whip out a disposable net to catch it and then move to a lower orbit, where air friction would coax the item to re-enter the atmosphere. EDDE, staying in orbit, would then move on to it's next target.

Does NASA really think that a 6-mile long space tether is going to isolate a piece of space junk traveling at a speed of over 7,000 mph? I hardly think so. Even if the satellite where to be retrieved, it would fall back into our atmosphere and planet and crash land on someone. Multiply this times more than 25,000 satellites that need to be retrieved and tell me what the percentages are that any of these units (satellites) would not fall, hit and kill civilians on earth when they crash. The solution is: Not sending additional satellites into orbit to destroy the protective ozone layer of the earth. My book states the ongoing problems that are present now which I stated in 2009 when the book was published.

World's greenhouse gases Surge

New figures from the U.N. weather agency on Monday, 11/20/11 showed that the three biggest heat-trapping greenhouse in the atmosphere not only reached record levels last year but also were increasing at an ever-faster rate. "The growth rate is increasing every decade" said Jim Butler director of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Global Monitoring Division. "That's kind of scary" Scientists can't say exactly what levels of greenhouse are safe, but some fear a continued rise in global temperatures will lead to irreversible melting of some of the world's ice sheets and several-foot rise in sea levels over the centuries.

Here we go Again! Let's look at the facts: Recall back in the 1950's, 60's, 70's, and early 80's; The world's gasoline's contained lead. During these years cars did not have catalytic converters. There was no control on Freon, aerosol chemicals and refrigerant gases. All the electrical power plants were either coal, oil or gas fired plants. All the vehicles, chemical companies and power plants were emitting metric tons of CFC's daily. Yet from 1956 through 1980 there was NO OZONE HOLE. By 1982 the size of the newly discovered ozone hole (by NASA) was sized at 235,000 square miles. In 2010 the size of the ozone hole was at 16,920 miles. That's an increase of 7,200 percent. Today we have 141 Nuclear power plants that emit vapor (water) not CFC's. 80 of the old coal, oil and gas power plants have been closed. Plus, add the additional 61 new Nuclear plants into that total. There has been no lead in gasoline from 1978 through today due to the Clean Air Act law that was passed in 1996. All the vehicles manufactured since 1975 have catalytic converters automatically installed at the factories. Freon's, aerosol sprays, chemical compositions and refrigerants have been changed so as not to dispense any CFC's into the Atmosphere. Why would the size of the ozone hole increase from 235,000 square miles in 1982 to 16,920,00 square miles in 2010 with all the changes mentioned that have transpired in the past 31 years? The reasonable question to ask is what has increased from 1980 through 2010? Answer: The world's 47 Space Agencies with 51 Spaceports located throughout the world. The increase in 6 satellite launches in 1980 to 360 in 2010. That's a 6,000 percent increase in launches in a the last 30 years. STOP blaming the greenhouse gases and blame the real culprits, The world's 46 space agencies that are on schedule to launch 652 satellites by the end of this year. Why so many? GREED, the cost of a satellite launch is a minimum of $1,000,000.00. Where are the rich people at the Space Agencies going to spend there monies when there is no earth left?

Storms pound Southeast states, killing 4, injuring dozens

A strong storm system spawning several tornadoes hit the Southeast on Wednesday, November 16, 2011. Damaging dozens of homes and buildings. At least four people were killed and dozens more injured. Suspected tornadoes were reported from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and through North and South Carolina. Forecasters blamed a cold front stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Northeast.

Another coincidence? There were two satellite launched from Russia on Monday, November 14th and another satellite launch from India on Tuesday, November 15th. As I have stated in my book many times. When these satellites are launched and burn holes in the Ozone layer, the solar winds and flares enter into our atmosphere through these holes. The Jet Stream then increases in excessive speeds that will drive cold fronts into warm fronts. Outcome, tornadoes, excessive winds and rains that develop into climatic weather disasters.

Planetary Trash!

In today's edition of the St. Petersburg Times newspaper on page 6A there was a picture and article that stated: Above us, Planetary trash. Earth needs to clean up it's space. Since the space age began 54 years ago (1957), civilization has littered the region just above the atmosphere with space junk (satellites). The picture of the computer generated image depicted the locations of thousands of pieces of such trash. Scientist's had plans to limit the cosmic rubbish but then two events, a 2007 Chinese antisatellite weapon test that put 150,000 pieces of debris into orbit and a 2009 crash of tw0 satellite's, doubled the number of fragments in orbit, says a report from National Research Council, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences.

I have stated this fact on numerous occasions in my book. Not one of the forty six countries, that have fifty three satellite launching stations throughout the planet sending satellite's into orbit a a rate of one or more a day care about the space junk that they are creating. All they care about is the money that they are making ($1,000,000.00) per satellite launch. How many more Weather, G.P.S.'s, Communication or Spy satellites do we need in our upper atmosphere? Currently, there are over 350,000 pieces of space junk orbiting our planet. Where will these 46 countries launching these satellites and making all this money be able to spend it when there is no earth left? Can the weather be predicted any better today then it was predicted 57 years ago? NO! Why waste more money, clutter up our atmosphere, deplete the ozone layer and destroy our planet just for GREED?

A 360 degree turnaround theory from John Casey!

I just read the book "Cold Sun" written by John L. Casey a former NASA engineer and former White House Policy Advisor! In his book, Casey has spelled out a compelling case that a new era has arrived. 1. Global Warming ended years ago. 2. the Sun has entered an ominous state of "hibernation". 3. The Earth's ocean and atmospheric temperatures are dropping rapidly and are now on a long term decline for the next 30 years. 4. Glacial ice worldwide is growing rapidly and the threat of rising sea levels is over. 5. How the ill-effects of current climate trends may lead to global agricultural devastation and social and economic upheaval!

My question to John L. Casey. On what planet has he been living on for the past 30 years? Certainly not here on earth! Global Warming ended years ago? How many years? Why do temperatures all over the world continue to get hotter each year. How can it be getting colder when the ozone hole is now at 16.8 million square miles. The suns rays easily flow through this gaping hole, that is why the people of Punta Areanas, Chile have no protection from the sun and their skin cancer rates are over 80%. Remember the heat from the flames from each rocket booster on the Shuttle is 6,400 degrees, two total: 12,800 degrees of heat and flames. the enormous hole that the shuttle burns up on every launch is devastating to the ozone layer. PLEASE Mr. Casey, I know you are probably trying to shift the blame in the opposite direction away from NASA, but get your facts from adequate and reliable sources, not from NASA! They have done enough damage to this planet. Thank God that the Shuttle program is finally over!

Devastating Tornadoes Pulverize parts of Southern U.S.

The most recent Tornadoes that pulverized the states of Missisippi, Alabama and Georgia the past two (2) days have left over 300 people dead, many missing and thousands of families were left without homes that were blown away and apart by these devastating tornadoes. Last week hundreds of other tornadoes ripped through the midwest and left thousands homeless and 200 people reported dead & missing. The current weather forecasters have finally figuered out that the Jet Stream and Global Warming may have contributed to forming these tornadoes. What these current weather forecasters haven't figured out yet is what the REAL cause is to why and how these tornadoes develop and form!

From April 4, 2011 through April 29th (a period of 25 days) twelve (12) different countries have launched twenty six (26) satellites from twelve (12) Spaceports from all around the world. The U.S. alone has launched seven in this same period of time. The U.S. launches ranged from Poker Flats (Alaska), White Sands (New Mexico), Vandenberg (California), Wallops Island (Virginia), Marshal Islands and from the USS O'Kene in the Pacific Ocean. As I have mentioned and stated many times, when these satellites poke a hole through the ozone layer, solar winds and flares enter into the earth's atmosphere which in turn hits the Jet Stream. The Jet Stream then speeds up to over 125 mph, pulling warm air from the Gulf stream into cold air from the North. This is what starts the swirling action that develops into tornadoes. What is it going to take for everyone to realize that what I have written in my book are true with facts to prove my theory is correct!

Eartquakes in Japan & Rocket launches from India

The devasting 8.9 magnitude Earthquake & Tsunami that hit Japan on March 12, 2011 has killed over 6,500 people and left thousands of others homeless as of today. There are over 10,000 additional people still reported missing. The nuclear reactors damaged by the quake are now emmiting high levels of radiation and if the cores melt the devastation will be devastating to the people of Japan and throughout the world. The Japanese goverenment as well as the worlds news media want to blame Mother Nature for this terrible Eartquake & Tsunami.

The real blame needs to be directed at India's Satellite launching systems for launching two (2) Satellites the day before on March 11, 2011. These two launches pounded the Earth's crust with Six (6) million pounds of thrust on the same day, 3 million pounds from each rocket launch. From the loacation of the 2 launches in India to the four (4) Ring of Fire Fault lines across the Sea of Japan there is a distance of 3,000 miles. There was also a launch from the United States in Cape Canaveral, Florida on that same day, that's an additional 3 million pounds of thrust. As I stated in my book, since 1902 when records started being kept on the amount of Earthquakes that have hit our planet, the amount of Earthquakes have increased from 1980 through 2010 by 28%. What has increased by 5,000% during that same time period? Rocket launches from 67 countries with 51 Spaceports throughout the world. Another coincidence? No, blame the real culprits the World's Space Agencies, not Mother Nature. You do not have to be a Rocket Scientest to figure this out!

Wild Weather-All due to Satellite Launchings

On Thursday, January 13, 2011 an ABC News Telecast with Diane Sawyer had a segment called "Wild Weather" A scientest, Derek Arndt from NOAA's Climate Data Center and a professor, Dr. Chad Somerville a Climate scientest from Scripps, UCSD attributed the wild weather that the planet is encountering to Global Warming. Dr. Somerville said "It is no longer theory or conjecture, we are observing scientific fact". He is absolutely right. What neither mentioned was the cause of the Global Warming. The culprits of Global Warming are the world's 47 satellite countries that launched 312 satellites in 2010. The time period alone from December 4th through December 29th, 2010 there were 45 satellites launched in a period of 25 days throughout the world. These launchings opened up 45 new holes into the protective ozone layer. This in turn lets the sun's solar flares and winds enter through these holes then hit the Jet Stream driving it berserk causing the wild violent weather that followed throughout the world.

Strangely, the world's 47 countries that launch satellites on a daily basis have not launched a satellite from December 30, 2010 until today, January 20, 2011, 22 days without a launch from any of them. What does this tell us? That they know the damage and devastation that they are doing to the protective ozone layer. So they are laying low so scientest, engineers, climatoligist and others don't put 2 and 2 together and figure out they are the ones to blame for Global Warming. Also note that NASA has not revealed the size of the ozone hole in Antartica since 2009 when it was listed at 16.8 million square miles. Could that be that due to the launchings in 2009 & 2010 (over 617) the ozone hole is now larger than 18 million square miles? You can bet on that.

Winter Blizzards & Bad Weather throughout the World

The current extreme bad weather that the entire world is currently expierencing is due to the many satellite launchings that have occurred in this month of December! The current bad weater and high winds are due from the launching of the SpaceX test launh satellite that was launched on December 6, 2010 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida.
It is not another coincidince that these high winds developed when an additional ozone hole that was created by the SpaceX satellite. The solar winds entered through the newly created hole, then hit the jet stream and created the high (50-60 mph) winds that brought the cold artic air from northern Canada into the United States. Even as far south as Florida, where the temperatures are dropping past the freezing point. 10 people have been killed so far from these unexpected low temperatures and freezing winds. The satellite that SpaceX sent up was just a test flight to prove to NASA that they (SpaceX Corp.) will be able to handle launchings to the Space Station when the Shuttle fleet is reired next year. SpaceX does not care if 10 or 1,000 people died due to their test flight launcing, they only want to prove to NASA that they can accomplish this fete in order to make MONEY!

Extreme Temperatures in Russia and the United States

The recent extreme high temperatures in Russia along with their scortching fires throughout the country that have caused many lives not to mention the health risks involved. This population is having to wear masks in order not to inhale the heavy smoke from the fires. Tempertures in different parts of the United States have reached 105 degrees (in Yuma, Arizona yesterday) and we are only in the first part of the month in August. Newspaper articles have asked if the heat waves and fires could be associated with Global Warming?

You do not have to be a rocket scientist to attribute these conditions to Global Warming. Stop and think, what countries launch the most satellites and missions to the ISS (International Space Station)? Russia. Which country is second in these same types of launchings? NASA and the United States. You may have to be a rocket scientist to figure this out, but I will explain it to you. When the rockets from both Russia and the U.S. continously cut through the ozone layer and blow holes wide open in the ozone layer, solar winds and solar flares enter through these numerous holes and create extreme heat and high temperatures in the same regions in which
they were launced. All these facts are explained in my book. There is no guess work, it is real and it will get worse before it gets better if these launches are not stopped or at least reduced enough so that the ozone layer can recover.

Greenland, Ground Zero For Global Warming

The above title was on the cover page of the June issue of National Georaphic magazine. The article stated: True Colors, The changing Face of Greenland. There's a meltdown on the ice sheet-and optimism among Greenlanders. Vanishing Ice, Greenland's ice sheet once seemed too big to melt substantially. Now, as weather warms, the ice is disintergrating faster. Scientests think this could continue for centuries or even milenna, changing the island's geography and the planet's sea level. The article continues stating what the scientest's believe is causing the problem. It is: Solar Radiation. As average summer temperatures rise in Greenland, more ice melts. Surface water and dark cryoconite absorb solar heat, speeding the melting.

Solar Radiation, is transmitted through the open holes in the ozone layers when rockets penatrate there satellites through it. The solar flares and winds also enter through these holes. In turn, the flares together with the winds hit the jet stream causing cold fronts to rush into warm fronts that produce the climatic weather disasters we are experiencing everyday through out the world. Almost three decades of satellite data reveal an escalating trend in the extent of the ice melt zone--the part of the ice sheet where melting occurs between April and October. What will it take to prove to scientest's that this melting had never occurred until the past three decades? What has also increased 4,850% over the past three decades? Rocket/Satellite launches!

NASA plans big boost to climate research budget.

The above headline was printed in the Washington Post newspaper on Thursday, April 1, 2010 by Washinton Post Staff Writer Marc Kaufman. NASA officals laid out plans Wednesday to boost spending on climate research substantially over the next five years, to make up for cutbacks during the Bush administration. The boost increase totals over 62%, or $2.4 billion. NASA has 13 climate research satellites in orbit, which provide most of the needed information, but they are all old, with all but one well beyond their design lifetimes said Micheal Freilich, Earth Science Division director.The agency expects to have launched as many as 10 new missions by 2015 to collect information on issues such as ice coverage and ozone depletion.

Will NASA reveal that they themselves and the other 45 space agencies are the ones mainly responsible for melting ice glaciers and ozone depletion? I doubt this very much. NASA will probably blame El Nino, La Nina or something else other than themselves. Lets not forget that NASA brought forth the names and blamed El Nino & La Nina for all the climatic weather conditions that took place back in the 1970's. They will always be ready to blame anything or anyone but themselves. Ozone depletion in 1980 was documented at 235,000 square miles. The current ozone hole in 2009 is listed at 16.8 million square miles. The satellite launches in 1980 were a total of six (6). This years launches total 402, that is almost a 7,000% increase in the past 30 years. Can NASA still blame others? Sure they will, but all of us should realize the facts and know better!

Satellite manufacturers, launch providers may see downturn.

The above headline was posted in Avationweek.com on March 22, 2010: The telecom satellite industry will likely continue to withstand the economic downturn, but the trend may not extend to satellite manufacturers and launch providers. Satellite sales are expected to peek in 2011 and begin tapering off in 2012 through 2013, and while an upswing in low-Earth-orbit telecom and Earth-observation satellites will help compensate, the total value of LEO spacecraft will be less than 20% GEO sales, experts predict.

Satellite sales and launches are expected to peek in 2011. Notice that the total amount of sales and launches were not mentioned. This year there are 402 satellite launches scheduled, what will next years total launches be 500 or more? Regardless, that only indicates that launches will average more than 1.5 per day. You can rest assured that the ozone hole in Antarctica will enlarge from the current 16.8 to 17.5 million sqare miles or more. All the 2,000 plus weather satelltes currently orbiting Earth will not be able to predict weather patterns due to the constant bombardment of solar flares and winds that will enter through the newely depleted ozone holes.

Total cost of for ISS so far, $100 Billion Dollars

An article in Monday's (02/22/10) St. Petersburg Times Newspaper on page 12 A, section Nation & World read: Shuttle defies forecasters for on-time night landing. Endeavour and its six astronauts returned safely Sunday, making a rare night landing to end a mission that resulted in the virtual completion of the International Space Station (ISS). The two new compartments were supplied by the European Space Agency at a cost of more than $400 million. Their addition brought the 11-year-old station to 98 percent completion. The space station, a joint project involving 16 countries, has cost around $100 billion, mostly funded by the United States.

Does anyone realize what that $100 billion could do for other projects that are a really needed?
Like saving Social Security, Medicare or helping to feed & house more than 1 million U.S. homeless people. The ISS is merely a cash cow for the 16 countries that conduct experiments in weight lessness for any companies that want to experiment at $1 million a pop. With the more than 19,000 plus satellites roaming loose without control in troposhere, don't be surprised to read or hear one morning that the ISS was destroyed by one of these out of control satellites. What do we receive in return for that $100 billion investment if this were to happen?

Satellite will keep tabs on solar storms

There was an article in Monday's St. Petersburg Times newspaper in section B, page 6 that read "Satellite will keep tabs on solar storms". A new NASA satellite could help predict powerful solar storms that cause havoc on Earth. The Solar Dynamics Observatory or SDO, is scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday (February 9, 2010) with instruments designed to analyze the sun's atmoshere, its surface and even its interior. SDO's total cost is projected to be $856 million, which covers five years of operation and six years of data analysis.

Why spend $856 million into operations and data analysis when I have all that detailed information in my book? In the book I explain in detail how the sun's solar flares and winds enter through the Earth's depleted ozone layer (caused by the more than 19,000+ satellite launchings over the past thirty years). Which in turn plays havoc on the World's jet stream driving cold fronts into hot fronts and causing the massive snow, rain and ice storms that are being encountered throughout our planet everyday. NASA needs to focus on other projects like finding an alternative fuel that does not blow a large hole into the ozone layer when they pass through it.

Earthquake in Haiti, triggered by satellite launch from French Guiana

The massive earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 I believe was triggered by a weather satellite launch from French Guiana (just off the east coast of South America, about 600 miles southeast of Venezuela) on January 10, 2010. In my book "The Aerospace Assault on Planet Earth" in Chapter 4, Earthquakes, I explain how launches propel over 4 million pounds of thrust into the earths crust at take off and will damage and shakes the Earth's Fault Lines and Tectonic Plates. Along the eastern coast of South America there is the South American Plate that runs North & South and it attaches to the Caribbean plate which runs East to West under Haiti and the Domincan Republic. When there is a weak Tectonic Plate that is attached to any cross over Fault Line such as this one, 4 million pounds of thurst will certainly trigger a magnitude 7 earthquake along a weak Tetonic Plate. There had not been an earthquake of this size in Haiti for over 200 years. Would you consider this another coincidence? I think not! Also the frequent satellite launchings, 6, from Russia since January 10, 2010 are attached to Juan De Fuca Plate that attaches to Philippine Plate which finally attaches to the South American Plate. Total all these 7 launches that expelled over 28 million pounds of thrust onto the earths crust and see if a weak Tectonic Plate through out this planet does not break into an earthquake.

Article in Popular Science "The New Space Rush".

In Popular Science's January 2010 Issue there was an 8 page story about fifteen (15) new Aerospace companies that are planning to launch flights starting next year, 2010 through 2014. These flights will be sub orbital as well as low earth orbits. Regardless, these flights will only contribute to increasing the size of the Ozone hole and accelerate Global Warming and increase the Climatic Weather Disasters that are happening throughtout the world today. The list of Aerospace companies and planned launch years are: 1. VIRGIN GALACTIC-2010. 2. SPACEX-2010. 3. ORBITAL SCIENCE CORP.-2010. 4. SCALED COMPOSITES-2011. 5. master space systems-2011. 6. ARMADILLO AEROSPACE-2011. 7. PLANETARY SOCIETY-2010. 8. BIGELOW AEROSPACE-2014. 9. XCOR-2013. 10. BLUE ORIGIN-2012. 11. A D ASTRA ROCKET CO.-2013. 12. INTERORBITAL SYSTEMS-2010. 13. ARCA-2014. 14. DA VINCI PROJECT/THE DREAMSPACE GROUP-2012. 15. SPACE ADVENTURES-2013. By adding these fifteen (15) companies to the world's already exsisting forty six (46) Aerospace companies the grand toal will be sixty one (61) Aerospace companies that will be launching satellites and tourists daily into the stratosphere. At this rate both the Artic and Antartic wil be ice free by 2015. There will be drought, rising sea levels, famine, excessive rains, sunami's, hurricanes, typhoons, eartquakes, volcanic eruptions and the end of mankind as we know it. We MUST stop these daily launchings or it will be lead to the end of this planet as we know it.

Icebergs head from Antartica for New Zealand

The above was a headline posted on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 in the Washington Post Newspaper: Ships are on alert and maritime authorities are monitoring the movements of hundreds of menacing icebergs drifting towards New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean, officials said. The current floatilla of icebergs that split off Antartic ice shelves are slowly drifting in the direction of New Zealand. The nearest one, measuring about 330 to 660 feet (100 to 200 meters) long, was about 160 miles (260 kilometers) southeast of New Zealand's Stewart Island on Tuesday, Austrailan glaciologist Neal Young said.

My comments: Is it another coincidence that these ice shelves broke off just after The Space Shuttle Atlantis launch from Cape Kennedy on November 16th, Plus a Soyuz-U rocket Russian launch from Plesetsk on November 20th, An Atlas V 431 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral on November 23rd, and a Proton-M/Briz-M Enhanced rocket launched from Baikonur Site in Russia on November 24th. Four launches within eight (8) days. Four additional hole bored/burned through the ozone layer. Numerous solar flares and winds enter through these additional holes. Is it a wonder why these artic ice shelves are breaking off and drifting towards New Zealand? The oozone hole in the Antartic is now at 16.8 million square miles. When these ice shelves begin to melt and the sea levels start to rise, then maybe someone other than myself will start to fiqure out that the frequent launchings are the cause of the problem.