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Largest-Ever Antarctic Ozone Hole

 

September 2000 Antarctic ozone depletion rates are unprecedented. NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) data shows huge white hole over the South Pole devoid of ozone and severe thinning over the entire Antarctic continent and the tip of South America. Graphic courtesy NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.
September 2000 Antarctic ozone depletion rates are unprecedented. NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) data shows huge white hole over the South Pole devoid of ozone and severe thinning over the entire Antarctic continent and the tip of South America. Graphic courtesy NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.

September 10, 2000  Greenbelt, Maryland - The ozone hole over the Antarctic is the biggest it's ever been and it's only the beginning of September. Usually Antarctic ozone depletion starts in July during the South Pole's winter. That's when extremely cold air intensifies ozone destruction, reaching a peak by the end of September and into October. But this year, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland reports that already the ozone hole is larger than all of the Antarctic and extends over the southern tip of South America. That's 11 million square miles and breaks all previous records. A spokesman at the United Nations World Meteorological Observation agency in Geneva, Switzerland told reporters: "It is remarkable to find these low values so early in September, perhaps one or two weeks earlier than in any previous year."

 

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Arctic Ice Melt Threatens Polar Bears

"If the prediction of total Arctic ice melt by 2030 is correct, then it is truly frightening because I think it would result in huge ecological changes to the polar oceans, the loss of species, changes of balance. The effects on climate change around the Northern Hemisphere particularly could be quite dramatic."

- Ian Sterling, Ph.D., Zoologist and Research Scientist

Polar bear near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada on the western edge of Hudson Bay. Photograph © 2000 by Travel Manitoba.
Polar bear near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada on the western edge of Hudson Bay. Photograph © 2000 by Travel Manitoba.

September 10, 2000  Churchill, Manitoba, Canada - The Arctic and northern latitudes have been singled out by the World Widelife Fund as the most vulnerable to the rapid rate of global warming. Their sobering statistic is that 20 percent of all species in northern environments could die out as melting ice and tundra completely change the habitats.

 

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Hubble Photographs Mystery Object in Centaurus Constellation

"I have used the Hubble quite extensively to look at many dying stars and we've seen many mysterious and beautiful shapes and structures, but we've never seen such a jet-like structure."

- Raghvendra Sahai, Ph.D., Astrophysicist, Jet Propulsion Lab

In the top Hubble photo, the longest, nearly horizontal, jets of hot gas pulse outward from both sides of a mysterious object called He2-90. (The x-shaped streaks are reflections in the telescope). In the bottom Hubble photo, enhancement of the mysterious bright object is bisected by a large, vertical disk of gas and dust. Photographs in August 2000 courtesy NASA.
In the top Hubble photo, the longest, nearly horizontal, jets of hot gas pulse outward from both sides of a mysterious object called He2-90. (The x-shaped streaks are reflections in the telescope). In the bottom Hubble photo, enhancement of the mysterious bright object is bisected by a large, vertical disk of gas and dust. Photographs in August 2000 courtesy NASA.

September 6, 2000  Pasadena, California - At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, astrophysicists are puzzled by a bright object about 8,000 light years from earth in the constellation Centaurus. It is giving off large jet pulses that are more typical of star births. But there is also an accretion disk of gas and dust often associated with a dying star. The paradox of birth and death characteristics is forcing a re-evaluation of what has been considered a planetary nebula since the 1990s.

 

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Environmental Updates and 79 Cattle Die in Saskatchewan

 

Culex pipiens mosquito which can carry the Kunjin West Nile Fever virus.
Culex pipiens mosquito which can carry the Kunjin West Nile Fever virus.

September 3, 2000 -

West Nile Virus in New Jersey Crows

This past week, 165 more birds - mostly crows - in central and northern New Jersey have been confirmed to be infected with the West Nile Fever virus. One was found on the campus of Princeton University. This brings the total in New Jersey this year to 322 infected birds.

 

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Second Wheat Formation in Whitefish, Montana

August 28, 2000, pilot Gil Johnson of Kalispell, Montana flew over this second wheat formation in Whitefish, Montana and took this photograph showing no entry or exit tracks. Aerial photograph © 2000 by Gilbert Johnson.
August 28, 2000, pilot Gil Johnson of Kalispell, Montana flew over this second wheat formation in Whitefish, Montana and took this photograph showing no entry or exit tracks. Aerial photograph © 2000 by Gilbert Johnson.

August 30, 2000  Whitefish, Montana - Today I talked with Gilbert Johnson who has been a pilot since 1957 and runs a charter service and flight school out of Kalispell, Montana. He was flying with two others on August 28, 2000 when they saw a second new wheat formation in Whitefish only about 600 feet from the first formation discovered in mid-August. Flying over that first formation, Mr. Johnson and watched his compass shift fifteen degrees while traveling straight south to north, then shift another ten degrees flying north to south. So he tried the compass over this new formation.

 

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Black Triangle, Red Lights and Spinning Disc Over Wiltshire, England Crops

August 29, 2000  Windmill Hill, Wiltshire, England - On Saturday, August 12th in Wiltshire, England before returning to Philadelphia, I talked with a professional interior painter and interior designer from Farnham, Surrey, England and his 14-year-old daughter, Claire, about a black triangle, red lights and spinning disc each had seen either with or without binoculars on August 7th during a night watch in the Windmill Hill formation that was discovered near Avebury that day. I was in that formation around 4 PM that afternoon and was amazed at the thousands of "peacock feathers" neatly created in wave patterns by the whiskers of the mature barley.

Mature barley with hairs carefully laid like feathers on a choppy sea throughout the floor lay of the Windmill Hill pattern discovered August 7, 2000. Photograph © 2000 by Linda Moulton Howe.
Mature barley with hairs carefully laid like feathers on a choppy sea throughout the floor lay of the Windmill Hill pattern discovered August 7, 2000. Photograph © 2000 by Linda Moulton Howe.

 

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Crop Formation Near Woodburn, Oregon Photographed from Hot Air Balloon

Early morning August 13, 2000 hot air balloon ride near Woodburn, Oregon. Photograph © 2000 by Linda Ross.
Early morning August 13, 2000 hot air balloon ride near Woodburn, Oregon. Photograph © 2000 by Linda Ross.

August 29, 2000 Woodburn, Oregon - Yesterday I received the photograph above in an e-mail from Helen Bibelheimer of Keizer, Oregon. She wrote:

 

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Crop Circle Reports from Whitefish, Montana – Updated Photos

"In Poland, some reported an unearthly glow
above the fields the night the circles appeared."

- Deutsche Press-Agentur (dpa)

August 15, 2000, first aerial photograph of Whitefish, Montana wheat formation by pilot Gilbert Johnson near intersection of Highway 93 and Church Avenue. Photograph © 2000 by Gilbert Johnson.
August 15, 2000, first aerial photograph of Whitefish, Montana wheat formation by pilot Gilbert Johnson near intersection of Highway 93 and Church Avenue. Photograph © 2000 by Gilbert Johnson.

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Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire, England north of Avebury, discovered in wheat on May 28, 1994. Photograph © 1994 by Andrew King.
Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire, England north of Avebury, discovered in wheat on May 28, 1994. Photograph © 1994 by Andrew King.

August 27, 2000  Whitefish, Montana - This is the third year in a row that a crop formation in wheat has appeared in Whitefish, Montana in the first half of August. When pilot Gilbert Johnson flew over the latest formation on August 15th, he might have been the first to discover and photograph it. The next day on August 16th, Mary and Larry Johnson, who own a health food store in town, saw the formation from Church Avenue near trees that completely obscured the pictogram from nearby and well-traveled Highway 93. The couple asked the farm owners for permission to enter and told people in town about it. Melody Watts, who runs a convenience store in Whitefish and investigated the formation in Whitefish last year, heard about the new formation while driving back from a vacation on August 20th. She was so excited, she first went to the farm owner for permission to get into the new formation before even driving home. Then she returned in the evening.

 

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Pulsing, Jumping Light in West Stowell, England Field

August 26, 2000 East Field, Wiltshire, England – On Monday, July 31st late in the evening, crop circle researchers Ed and Kris Sherwood were in an East Kennett crop formation when a bright yellow unidentified aerial object appeared followed immediately by a loud, military-type helicopter that nearly ran them down in the field. After the couple went to the ground to escape the low-flying helicopter, it pursued the bright yellow object again, both disappearing behind a hill. Then a second bright yellow aerial object appeared. The Sherwoods videotaped the helicopter and yellow object and learned that other people did, too. Frank Laumen, a researcher and photographer from Germany, was at the bridge in Allington and could see lights and a helicopter back toward East Kennett. He videotaped the interactions. Andy Buckley from Manchester, England was also on Martinsell Hill and videotaped helicopter and light activity about the same time.Click for report.

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Intelligence Sensed In Mysterious Lights Associated With Crop Formations

"I felt an orange light was homing in on me and communicating
with my brain or trying to take something out of my brain."

- Hazel, friend of Andy Buckley, August 12, 2000

Unidentified, white glowing object moved rapidly across triple crescent formation at Barbury Castle, Wiltshire, England on August 7, 1999. People in formation did not seem aware of the mysterious light seen and videotaped © 1999 by Donald Fletcher of London.
Unidentified, white glowing object moved rapidly across triple crescent formation at Barbury Castle, Wiltshire, England on August 7, 1999. People in formation did not seem aware of the mysterious light seen and videotaped © 1999 by Donald Fletcher of London.

August 23, 2000 Wilcot, Wiltshire, England - On August 12, 2000 before we climbed Woodborough Hill to watch for mysterious lights, graphic artist, Andy Buckley, and his partner, Hazel, and I met at The Golden Swan pub in Wilcot, Wiltshire to talk about the intelligence in the mysterious lights each has sensed the past few years. Andy has a dozen videotapes of light phenomena associated with the crop formations, both day and night.

 

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