While 10 different aircraft plus ships search the area near western Australia where debris was spotted by satellite, Mother Jone Magazine takes a stupid pill and puts this crazy theory on display.
‘One Reason It May Be Harder to Find Flight 370: We Messed Up the Currents
How climate change factors into the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight
While longer-term climate shifts are unlikely to play into day-to-day search and rescue efforts, these large climate-affected currents—among them the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the world’s most powerful ocean system—are an essential factor in oceanographers’ understanding of the literal undercurrents of search operations.
According to interviews with three climate scientists who specialize in the region of the world where investigators are focusing their search, the winds of the Southern Indian Ocean bordering the Southern Ocean have been shifting southwards and intensifying over the last 20 to 30 years, in part due to a warming atmosphere and the hole in the ozone layer. Ocean currents are also tightening around Antarctica, shifting whole climate systems towards the South Pole.
The Oso mudslide is not the first in this area, just the largest and most people affected. I am keenly aware of this particular event since my mom’s youngest brother (my uncle) picked a bad time to be a good Samaritan at a friend’s house that was right in the center of that slide. We still have not heard of his fate. We are still hoping and praying he will be found alive, but time is not our friend on this. We hope for the best for him and all the missing, injured and dead.
[Let us hope and pray he will be found alive. Mod]
Update:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/missing-malaysia-flight-mh370-chinese-spotters-make-first-possible-debris-sighting-with-naked-eye-in-search-area-9211655.html
Earlier on Monday spotters on a Chinese plane said they had seen two white, square-shaped objects in the southern Indian Ocean, at that stage the second possible sighting of plane debris made with the naked eye in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777.
Spotters aboard that search plane reported the coordinates to a Chinese icebreaker ship, Xue Long, which was making its way to the area – as well as to the central Australian command centre.
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Some of you may remember the Icebreaker Xue Long, which was responsible for the rescue of a group of wayward tourists in Antarctica a couple of months ago.
Owen in GA says (March 24, 2014 at 2:01 pm): “…but I can’t figure out a motive since no statement was found and no group has claimed responsibility.”
At least one group has (not very convincingly) claimed responsibility:
http://www.ibtimes.com/obscure-group-northwestern-china-chinese-martyrs-brigade-claims-responsibility-missing-malaysia
john says:
March 24, 2014 at 3:11 pm
Xue Long current position
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/details/ships/412863000/vessel:XUE_LONG
Ocean currents Indian Ocean
http://www.cruiserswiki.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean
Better ocean info… Indian ocean.
http://www.oceanweather.com/data/
FOX News just announced that the only favorable factor so far has been the ocean currents. LOL.
JimS says:
March 24, 2014 at 9:35 am
> @Patrick Guinness
> I just read that “climate change will increase kidney stones” article. You are quite right. Nothing, absolutely NO THING will top that one.
Old news! See http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/07/16/kidney-stones-and-global-warming-again/
It’s actually plausible – more heat, sweating, and dehydration.
Anyone taking bets on how long it will be before the Washington mudslide is blamed on global warming by the ecochondriacs?
I live on the cusp of the southern indian ocean climate zones and I can tell you this for absolute certainty what they claim is the exact opposite – the Antarctic circumpolar winds have expanded northwards pushing the arctic weather into the temperate zone not the other way around. Anyone that argues this need only come down and here and stay for a while to see the truth
Next, Mother Jones will claim the disappearance of Santa Claus is due to Global Warming.
That jet was not rendered electronically invisible just to fly it into the sea. Until aircraft wreckage is found, the wary among us should consider it parked in an Iranian or (insert terrorist nation name here) hangar being packed with C4.
Target: some impressive example of western decadence. Preferably architectural.
The RAAF dropped floating bouys where the original satellite pinpoint debris. These can plot the ocean currents as they are strong and they move very quickly. They spotted debris too further north, but the weather is too inclement for the search to continue as it would endanger the air crews. I don’t think a hijacker would bother planting false evidence out there. Possibly the pilots under threat, took the plane up above its ceiling on purpose. Those oxygen bottles only contain 12 minutes of air for the passengers, so I heard on air crash investigations on TV (I’ll never fly again, I will tell you) But my ex an ex military reconnaisance pilot and then commercial pilot told me most crashes are contributed to pilot error or air traffic control plotting mistakes.
When will it be then possible for the large American ship to find the black boxes in 6,000 feet or is it metres of water. I saw an American air ace on TV, and he said it wasn’t just the transponder turned off it was other location beacons that required more knowledge of the workings of the plane’s computer system. But why disable these? It’s obvious whomever did this did not know Rolls Royce could still track them. Terrible for the relatives who hung on hoping they could have survived.
There should be a way to create a betting pool for how long it will take someone to blame a tragedy on climate change or global warming. I’m watching the coverage on the mudslides in Washington State and I’m betting 48 hours!
Mother Jones clearly has inside info on the fate of the Malaysian airliner. She’s probably been talking to Davy.
Latitude says:
March 24, 2014 at 12:33 pm
steverichards1984 says:
March 24, 2014 at 11:41 am
Twil/Latitude: I can see no reason for allowing the update of flight equipment from the ground.
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You can take off, fly, and land a plane from the ground….of course
There’s has been some mention of their onboard systems/computers not being secure (enough)…way before this happened. I’ve been reading it since the plane came out, have no idea where a link is now.
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apparently after 911 they put a system for remote operation into all the planes except lufthansa I think it was?they didnt install.
so in theory any hijacked plane could be over ridden and brought down by remote
there IS a name/acronym for it but it escapes me.
knowing that makes all the rest of the see it here see it there fluff sound rather lame.
Col Mosby had the most insightful analysis of the il-logic of this argument, but we all knew it was coming. Entertaining to read the comments though.
Honestly, why do you read Mother Jones. They aren’t worth a click or a mention.