Posted by heartland chris on January 29, 2008 at 08:09:01:
OK...a response to Gary...Since you did not put quotes, it is hard to tell where your post stops and something from Larry Sparks begins. OK, maybe it is the "(.....)". The correct way to post something like this is usually to just have a short extract and then a link to it somewhere else on the web. Since it now looks to me that this is not your material, it's not worth my time responding in any detail. As far as I know, there is not a season to the Auroras: there is an 11 year cycle instead to create them from solar activity. The season is likely when it is dark at high latitudes (winter), and perhaps spring is mentioned because it is still dark at night but not as cold so people might go out more and look at them. The earth's temperature rising 3 degrees between 1935 and 1945 is certainly fiction/false. It did not happen. You can change the rotation rate of the earth by moving mass from equator to poles or vice-versa, or by moving mass away (up) or towards (down) the center of mass. The Sumatra earthquake redistributed mass on a grand scale. I imagine most of the material for the levees came from relatively nearby...it did not come from Artic Canada for example. I doubt that the levees would change the rotation of the earth by 1/10 s/yr, but I could be wrong there. It is no doubt true that the Three Gorges Dam is going to have strong effects locally (but not globally) along the lines stated. Perhaps of most interest here would be reservoir induced seismicity. I don't know about a fault line at the dam...I'd have to go online and check...I have my doubts that there is a great fault at the dam. The part on the western USA is nonsense. If you are interested in reservoir-induced seismicity at 3 Gorges Dam, find some science based material on the web and link to it here and you may get some discussion going. Amateur theories of everything tend to not be interesting reading, at least to me. Choose one topic at a time and post that. Chris
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