NASA’s drones will explore climate change effects below the tropsphere

NASA To Use Drone For Climate Research, Information Week Government, Patience Wait, 11 Jan 13, NASA this month will begin using a drone capable of flying 12 miles above the Earth’s surface in an effort to understand how atmospheric changes affect climate…… NASA’s new project is called the Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment, or ATTREX. The tropopause is the atmospheric layer between the troposphere, which is the lowest portion of the atmosphere, and the stratosphere. “There are vortices in the atmosphere that spin off the North Pole over the Pacific,” said Don Sullivan, a NASA employee working on the IT portion of ATTREX. “A lot of stuff that originates in Asia winds up in North America. We don’t know if it’s original material” or chemically compounded in the atmosphere.

The Global Hawk is capable of flying at 65,000 feet and staying aloft for 30 hours, allowing for air sampling over an extended period. It has been outfitted with about a dozen scientific instruments and sensors to measure trace gases, temperature, water vapor, radiation and other cloud properties…..

Moisture and chemical composition are variables in Earth’s climate. According to NASA, the processes that cause fluctuations in atmospheric compounds are not well documented, and the ATTREX project aims to fill that void. A better understanding of the interactions taking place in the atmosphere could improve scientists’ ability to forecast global climate conditions. NASA has several other projects underway to research climate change, and it will co-host a Climate Palooza on Jan. 24 with the University of Southern California……

Six ATTREX flights are scheduled to take place between mid-January and mid-March. Those will be followed by flights over Guam and Australia next year.

Drones are a cheaper way for NASA to pursue some aspects of its mission, compared to rocket launches. ATTREX is an example of the agency’s Venture-class projects, which are designed to be implemented rapidly and at lower costs…. http://www.informationweek.com/government/information-management/nasa-to-use-drone-for-climate-research/240146117

January 11, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change, USA

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Against much scientific evidence and Al Gore’s chest size, we are supposed to believe the same international science mafia that CO2 is the main cause of “global warming” and that HUMANS are at fault, without any political socio economic analysis of WHO OWNS THE BANKS! What total crap science.
Climate change is real because change is a constant, except for with liberal lovers of Obama (AGW folks) who does not really believe in change you can believe in, but a dictatorship of the Zionist Power Configuration and Goldman Sachs.

So much for free speech, Nuke news is a censored politically correct site that reports only that news which serves the Australian Green Gay Left.

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/01/global-weather-modification-assault.html

Comment by Richard Wilcox | January 12, 2013 | Reply
- The “international science mafia”! ” dictatorship of the Zionist Power Configuration”!
  
  Richard Wilcox you are darn lucky that we bothered to publish this silly comment of yours
  
  As for free speech – you accuse us of 1 “CENSORING” and of being 2 “politically correct” 3 serving the Australian Green Gay Left.
  
  1. Of course we censor arguments such as yours. For one thing – I’m not giving any platform to the Climate Change denialists funded as many are, by fossil fuel lobbies.
  
  2. “Politically correct” – I hardly know what that means any more. I can assure you that in Australia it is not “politically correct” to criticise the big boys in mining uranium and coal
  
  3. The Australian Green Gay Left. I don’t know what you are talking about. Our anti nuclear website takes no interest in debates about gayness. Oh wait – I forgot. Australia had a Greens leader Bob Brown, who is gay. Oh wait, Bradley Manning is gay – are we supposed to ignore these people or what?
  
  Finally – the reason that I don’t put up your conspiratorial comment on climate change – is that this website is committed to working for a nuclear free, liveable world – and not to giving climate denialists a platform.
  
  I don’t put up you anti-semitism because it makes me sick. I don’t like the way that the Israeli government behaves, but it’s not because of their religion, and many Jews would agree with me.
  
  Expect you conspiratorial and anti-semitic ravings to continue to be censored here.
  
  Comment by Christina MacPherson | January 13, 2013 | Reply