-=> Quoting Richard Webb to Mark Hofmann on 28 Dec 11  12:55:36 <=-   
      
    MH> Ocean currents, volcanos, the sun (solar flares), earthquakes, and   
    MH> other evolving things that happen to the earth and our solar system.   
    RW> Yep, and often those things can be correlated with historical data,   
    RW> and solar observations of course.  We've been "watching' solar flares   
    RW> now for a couple centuries iirc, but their impact on radio comms and   
    RW> other characteristics of the atmosphere related to radio propagation   
    RW> and the phenomenon we all know as "skip" is relatively a young science   
    RW> by comparison.  This is true of a lot of our meteorlogical measurement   
    RW> capability, and collection of that data.   
    RW> This is why I'm not willing to write off those who posit that we're   
    RW> changing things more rapidly than in the past quite yet.    
      
   And it's why I'm not willing to just accept their postulations at face   
   value...    
      
    RW> But now the political ideologues are involved, so we'll get a whole   
    RW> lot of heat, but not much light shed I'm sure.   
      
   Politics is like that...  ;(   
      
    RW> We are living that ancient Chinese curse.  We indeed live in   
    RW> interesting times.    
      
   I suspect there are no truly uninteresting times...  ;)   
      
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