I was in Iceland on Monday 11 Feb 2013 watching the Northern lights - an incredible spectacle lasting over 3 hours.While watching saw four meteors streak across night sky - at separate times - moving from north to northeast . Related to this mini asteroid?Phill
Couple weeks from now and nobody remembers Chelyabinsk. Public and media attention span is short. News are already stressing how unlikely the event was. No $500M to prevent mass window-breaking event once every one hundred years. Would love to be wrong on this one though.
Suspected meteor explosion reported in central Cubahttp://www.globaltimes.cn/content/761637.shtmlAn object fell from the sky over central Cuba on Thursday night and turned into a fireball "bigger than the sun" before it exploded, a Cuban TV channel reported Friday, citing eyewitnesses.
This is obviously a result of Global Warming (so says CNN anchor):I guess that's why they call it Meteorology! Bang! Zoom! To da Moon, Alice!
We could start by putting this in perspective. How many people have died in the past decade from seismic-related events? How much money is being spent to predict those?
Going from 95% of 1 km and 5% of 140 meter (the current survey status according to Blackstar) to 100% of 15 meter sounds like a colossal effort. Add to that some sort of deflection capability and you’re probably talking $500 billion.The observed frequency of need is one zero-fatality air burst per century, and one extinction event per 65 million years.Wouldn’t it be better to spend the money developing the capability to deflect hurricanes and tornadoes? Lotta people gonna think that way.
Part of the reason they went on trial is because they told their citizens not to bother preparing for earthquakes and enjoy a glass of wine. Totally unrelated.
Her comment about a link between global warming and asteroids was obviously a joke.And yes, it is nearly certain that global warming had a LOT to do with Sandy.