Solar System Weather Report

Super Storm on Saturn

A vast thunderstorm that erupted on Saturn during the closing weeks of 2010 is still going strong. “It looks like a comet plowing through Saturn’s northern hemisphere,” reports amateur astronomer Christopher Go. He took these pictures on February 5th using an 11-inch Celestron telescope in Cebu City, the Philippines.

CBS News said, “It began as a bright white dot in Saturn’s northern hemisphere. Within days, the dot grew larger and stormier. Soon the tempest enveloped the ringed planet, triggering lightning flashes thousands of times more intense than on Earth.”

Astronomers are fascinated by an unprecedented phenomenal storm that is happening not here on earth but hundreds of millions of miles away on Saturn. The evidence suggests that the present super storm on Saturn is exceptionally intense and definitely out of season. These kinds of storms are not unusual on Saturn. They usually occur on average once every Saturnian year—nearly 29.5 Earth years—and appear to be linked to the summer solstice when the planet’s orbit brings it a bit closer to the Sun and its atmosphere warms a little. But this super storm started in spring.

The mainstream press reported on this gigantic “Great White Spot” saying, “Imagine being caught in a thunderstorm as wide as the Earth with discharges of lightning 10,000 times more powerful than normal, flashing 10 times per second at its peak. Now imagine that this storm is still unfolding eight months later. One of the most violent weather events in the Solar System began to erupt on Saturn last December and is still enthralling astronomers, the British journal Nature reported this month.”

Since 1876, astronomers have observed only five other mega-storms on Saturn. “This is a one-of-a-kind storm,” said Andrew Ingersoll, a self-described planetary weatherman at the California Institute of Technology, who was part of the discovery team.

I have been hearing from the corners of my ears about dramatic weather happening not just down here on earth but on other planets as well. Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast, some say, that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap. Pluto also has warmed, some say, but not because of solar activity, that is for sure. And now even the sun seems to be dancing to a different tune with her recent flair of activity. Certainly we have enough problems with our own weather so who gives a hoot about storms on Saturn?

If warming is happening throughout the solar system, clearly there must be something causing it all. Those who are talking about warming happening throughout the solar system might possibly be confused because over the last 50 years, the sun’s output has decreased slightly: it is radiating less heat. We can measure the various activities of the sun pretty accurately from here on Earth, or from orbit above it, so it is hard to ignore the discrepancy between the facts and the argument that the sun is causing the rise in temperatures.

If the sun’s output has leveled off or even diminished, then what is causing other planets to warm up? And are they warming at all? Is the earth really warming or is a great ice age threatening? We have catastrophic weather conditions happening with recordings of record highs and lows depending on where you are. Does not matter so much the long-term trend for the short-term trend is out of control and already cutting dramatically into the agricultural sector.

There have been claims that warming on Mars and Pluto are proof that the recent warming on Earth is caused by an increase in solar activity and not by greenhouse gases. But we can say with certainty that even if Mars, Pluto or any other planets have warmed in recent years, it is not due to changes in solar activity.

Looking Beyond the Obvious

Well I don’t limit my consciousness to my navel so I took a look to see if there was anything else interesting about this storm. Since writing my four essays on Elenin in early May, people have been asking me if I have seen anything. I haven’t been looking very hard, being busy with many other things but my internal radar never shuts down. So I went back to NASA’s flight path model for Elenin and found that Elenin was in Saturn’s neighborhood as it went by.

I half hoped to see Saturn at the other end of the solar system when Elenin went by her orbital path but they were close enough to call it relevant. What is interesting to me is the timing of everything that is going on. Time, though a relative thing courtesy of Einstein, is a significant thing even if most of us do not pay much attention. I never did until recently. Decades ago whenever someone tried to show me something about numerology I ignored it but there is something about the number 11 lately that is getting disturbing.

We had September 11th and now April 11th (Japan) and will soon have September 11th in a few months when Elenin will be closest to the sun (September 25-27 Elenin gets directly between us and the sun.) and then again in the granddaddy date of 11/11/11 coming up this November after an Elenin close flyby happens and we get directly between her and the sun.

Elenin is still invisible for most of us so we have only other people’s words and mathematical models on which to rely. I have seen nothing to dispute what I reported on at the end of May about Elenin. I have stayed anchored to my decision to bring my family to Sanctuary soon. It has been a clear anchor holding me to the bottom-line perception that we are at risk. I really don’t care what the numbers are in terms of probabilities but I want to play it safe. Fortunately for me I started out six years ago to build a Sanctuary.

Everyone has to know that I am praying to God for my children’s sake that we will be spared worst-case scenarios on these incoming astronomical events. As you can tell from my recent essay on the present state of our financial world, we have enough to worry about that we are in fact responsible for.

There is no way we can avoid some responsibility for some of the weird weather and other things that are happening. We have poisoned our world with many substances, we’ve turned the oceans into cesspools; we have not cared for the consequences of our collective actions these past few decades and the nuclear industry and the military care nothing about future generations. And we have out of control intelligence organizations in the United States, Israel, England and Russia, not to speak of the Chinese, who are capable of all kinds of foul play on behalf of those they serve.

The use of atomic energy for bombs, missiles and household energy represents a human arrogance that we will be shortly cured of. There are currently more than 20,000 nuclear weapons in the world that have the capacity to destroy life on Earth several times over and from Fukushima we see how safe the world’s nuclear power plants are.

There is really no collective consciousness; there is only the collective nature of the individual bubbles we live in. Our sense of separation from each other and of course from God is the hallmark of contemporary life no matter how religious we might be. We have never gathered ourselves into any kind of beautiful collective intelligence—only a power-obsessed collective of families at the top of the human heap who are navigating a dark path for humanity.

What no one talks about is that they have been doing that for centuries and in some cases thousands of years. The Royalty of Europe can trace its roots way back to ancient times meaning they have had the time to get their fingers into everything, including the Church and most of the major religions. Their ideas for one-world government are ideas of repression, war and terror. The very nature of their lives of power and greed through the ages has not been conducive to learning about compassion and empathy so they are the last people on earth who should be responsible for running the show.