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The Sun-Earth Connection

Solar Winds & Planetary Bombardment

Bizarre Weather & Earth Changes

8/30/03 RICK MARTIN

“To understand Earth weather, you first have to understand that the Sun’s fusion is not in the core, it’s up at the surface of the Sun. That translates into tremendous electrical energy in the Solar System. The planets, and the comets, and the moons of the Solar System, all are discharging this battery (or capacitor) that’s built-up around the Sun. In the process of discharging this capacitor, the electrical energy is blowing through the Solar System all the time and is, basically, the cause of our weather.”

— James McCanney

Anybody who has been paying attention knows that we’ve been having some really weird weather over the last several months. Actually, it’s been downright incredible! And it shows no signs of returning to “normal” anytime soon.

There are many factors influencing our crazy weather about which the general public is not being informed. Even the conventionally schooled meteorologists don’t have a clue. But in an effort to gain an understanding of what’s really going on, I’ve taken the opportunity to have a follow-up interview with physicist James McCanney. And I believe, after reading this story, you’ll be glad I did.

It’s important to give people like Professor McCanney a platform to voice unconventional yet meritorious views. And as has often been the case with people on the cutting edge of science, this is seldom allowed. It is a great loss to humanity when scientists of such groundbreaking vision are censored.

The views and concepts expressed by James McCanney are clearly and reasonably stated. It boggles the mind that so many of the old models so closely held by atmospheric physicists, by NASA, and by so many others within the “scientific community” don’t crumble to pieces from the sheer weight of not holding up to the test of either time or what’s plainly unfolding right in front of their faces.

I would personally like to thank and applaud James McCanney for his brave and unbending efforts of bringing forth truth for the greater good of humanity. I would even request our readership to hold him in your prayers.

As is always the case with multi-faceted stories, I would like to tie together some necessary background information prior to beginning the interview. This will, hopefully, provide a broader view from which to understand the concepts presented here.

What follows are two press releases from an international group called the World Meteorological Organization concerning the global weather situation.

I’ll follow that with James McCanney’s new webpage information report called The Sun-Earth Connection Forecast & Report. Then I will provide a summary of some representative Earth-changes data, prior to moving into some information about Immanuel Velikovsky’s work. I’ll then share a press release from NASA about the “oldest known planet”, and then some brief information about Mars and its close approach to Earth. With that as background, we’ll then move into the conversation with Professor McCanney.

With that said, let’s begin with the following press release: [quoting]

World Meteorological Organization:

“Our Future Climate”

WMO Calls For

Timely Global Action On Climate

GENEVA (3/23/03) — We are all stakeholders in our future climate. It is to the benefit of all nations to work together to better understand our climate in order to adapt to it, and to prevent and mitigate any adverse impact. Recent occurrences of floods, tropical cyclones, droughts, and other extreme weather and climate-related events could well be glimpses of what a change in climate could bring upon us. The future cost of inaction to protect climate is expected to exceed by far the cost of timely action. This is stressed in the message of the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Professor Godwin O.P. Obasi, to the international community on the occasion of the World Meteorological Day (March 23, 2003).

The changes in climate observed over the last decades will continue, presenting urgent and growing challenges to many aspects of our lives, including health. Addressing those challenges in his message, Professor Obasi warns that: “The most immediate threats to humankind relate to increased variability in the intensity and frequency of storms and other extreme weather and climate-related events such as floods and droughts, heat waves in major urban areas, and the impact of sea-level rise on low-lying coastal regions.”

Already, over the last ten years, the number of disasters of hydrometeorological origin has increased significantly.

Worldwide, recurrent drought and desertification seriously threaten the livelihood of over 1.7 billion people who depend on the land for most of their needs. The 1997/1998 El Niño event, the strongest of the last century, is estimated to have affected 110 million people and cost the global economy nearly US$100 billion.

Statistics compiled from insurance companies for the period 1950-1999 show that the major natural catastrophes—which are mainly weather, water and climate-related—caused estimated economic losses of nearly one trillion US dollars. A leading reinsurance company estimates global warming impacts could cost US$300 billion annually by 2050.

Current projections show little change or a slight increase in the amplitudes of El Niño events over the next 100 years. But with higher temperatures, the extremes of floods and drought generally associated with El Niño events could be more severe. [end quoting]

And if that were not enough of an ominous warning, how about this: [quoting]

According To The

World Meteorological Organization,

Extreme Weather Events

Might Increase

GENEVA (7/2/03) — Record extremes in weather and climate events continue to occur around the world. Recent scientific assessments indicate that, as the global temperatures continue to warm due to climate change, the number and intensity of extreme events might INCREASE, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) states in a press release issued today.

In June, record high temperatures were recorded across southern France, with maximum temperatures exceeding 40° C [104º F ] in parts of southwest France. This resulted in June average temperatures of 5º to 7º C above the long-term average. In Switzerland, the month of June was the hottest in at least the past 250 years, according to environmental historians. In Geneva, since 29 May, maximum daytime temperatures did not drop below 25°C [77º F ], making June the hottest June on record for the city.

[Note: As of late-August, as I am adding some more details to this story, the HOT trend throughout Europe continues. Paris has had record-breaking heat topping 104º F, which is the hottest in the last 50 years. According to the 8/21/03 Daily Record:

“Undertakers in France estimate the recent heatwave has killed more than 13,600 people.

“Funeral home giant OGF says almost 3500 people [other stories indicate the number may be as high as 5,000] will have died in Paris alone by the end of the month.”

Other similarly bizarre (yet under-reported) weather-related events are occurring elsewhere on the planet, with no good explanations given. — R.M.]

In the United States, there were 562 tornadoes during May, which resulted in 41 deaths. This established a record for the number of tornadoes in any month. The previous monthly record was 399 tornadoes in June 1992. In the eastern and southeastern part of the U.S., wet and cold conditions prevailed for well over a month. Weekly negative temperature anomalies [meaning it was colder than average] of – 2º C [– 4º F ] to – 6º C [–11º F ] were experienced in May while precipitation excesses [meaning it rained more than average], ranging from 50 mm [2 inches] to 350 mm [13.8 inches] over a period of more than 12 weeks starting in March 2003, have been recorded.

In India, this year’s pre-monsoon heat wave brought peak temperatures of between 45º C [113ºF ] and 49º C [120ºF ] which correspond to weekly temperature departures from the normal of +2º C to +5º C. At least 1400 people died in India due to the hot weather.

In Sri Lanka, heavy rainfalls from Tropical Cyclone 01B exacerbated already wet conditions, resulting in flooding and landslides and killing at least 300 people. The infrastructure and economy of southwestern Sri Lanka was heavily damaged. A reduction of 20-30% is expected for the output of low-grown tea in the next three months.

These record extreme events (high temperatures, low temperatures, high rainfall amounts, and droughts) all go into calculating the monthly and annual averages which, for temperatures, have been gradually increasing over the past 100 years.

New record extreme events occur every year somewhere on the globe, but in recent years the number of such extremes have been increasing. According to recent climate change scientific assessment reports of the joint WMO/UNEP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global average surface temperature has increased since 1861. Over the 20th century the increase has been around 0.6° C [1.0ºF ]. This value is about 0.15° C [0.3ºF ] larger than that estimated by the previous reports.

New analyses of proxy data for the Northern Hemisphere indicate that the increase in temperature in the 20th century is likely to have been the largest in any century during the past 1000 years.

It is also likely that, in the Northern Hemisphere, the 1990s were the warmest decade and 1998 the warmest year. While the trend toward warmer globally averaged surface temperatures has been uneven over the course of the last century, the trend for the period since 1976 is roughly three times that for the past 100 years as a whole. Global average land and sea surface temperatures in May 2003 were the second highest since records began in 1880. Considering land temperatures only, last May was the warmest on record.

The influence of El Niño and La Niña on these extreme events is in general undefined. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and its members—the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services along with various research institutes—will continue to organize research and document the influence of El Niño and other large-scale climate phenomena on climate extreme events. [end quoting]

Recently, physicist James McCanney posted a link on his www.jmccanneyscience.com webpage, updated constantly, to a fantastic webpage titled The Sun—Earth Connection Forecast & Report.

This is one of the most detailed and scientifically specific pages you will find anywhere with: “Earth weather related to solar conditions based on data gathered daily from the many solar satellites and the Plasma Discharge Comet Model Solar Surface Fusion Model and Electric Solar System Model of Professor James M. McCanney, M.S.”

Since these reports change on a daily basis, and they are extremely detailed, I will not quote a report verbatim here. While conditions will undoubtedly change significantly by the time you are reading this, nevertheless, the information is included here because it is valuable to gaining a greater understanding of the larger picture.

Here I will list a few “high points” to give you an idea of important data you’re not getting in the news. These are excerpts from the 7/27-29/03 and 7/29-31/03 issues of The Sun—Earth Connection Forecast & Report: [quoting excerpts]

• Solar storm conditions are present, and as a result the Sun-Earth ALERT condition continues to be in effect.

• An extremely powerful solar proton storm began on July 26, and as this proton storm tapered-off later in the UT [Universal Time or Greenwich Mean Time] day on July 26, the influences of a large coronal hole on the Sun started producing significantly strong solar winds, creating MINOR to MAJOR electrical storm conditions in Earth’s Ionosphere and Upper Atmosphere. The electrical storm conditions continue as of July 29.

• The influence of the large coronal hole, located in the southwest quadrant of the Sun, continues to produce some extremely HIGH solar winds.

• Solar winds on July 29 went above the 900 km/s level. The HIGH solar wind conditions continue to produce electrical discharge and inter-action storm activity here on Earth. At the moment, electrical discharge and inter-action storm activity is at active levels, and this condition is expected to continue for the next few days.

• ACTIVE to ERUPTIVE solar flare conditions are present at this time, with a 50% or greater probability expected for C-class solar flares, or possibly larger.

• Electrical Discharge & Inter-Action Storm Activity: ACTIVE to STORM LEVEL conditions continues at this time.

• The Electrical Discharge & Inter-Action Storm Activity is the solar electrical discharge and storm activity level, which is present in Earth’s Ionosphere and Upper Atmosphere, and that is inter-acting with the Earth.

• Disturbances caused by the Sun, and HIGH levels of solar storm activity have a profound effect and influence on Earth’s weather and geological processes, like earthquake and volcanic activity.

• Due to the current effects of HIGH levels of solar electrical activity and the presence of solar electrical storm conditions, and the way this HIGH level of activity interacts with Earth, those on Earth should remain ALERT for increased disturbances in weather, earthquake, and volcanic activity levels.

• In addition to increased and disturbed weather patterns and systems, HIGH levels of solar electrical activity and storminess interact strongly with Earth’s geological processes, and this in turn creates an increased risk for earthquake and volcanic activity, with the possibility for some of this geological activity having the potential to reach extremely strong levels.

• REMEMBER: Higher levels of storminess on the Sun in turn create higher levels of electrical activity and storminess, including instability, in Earth’s Ionosphere and Upper Atmosphere, which in turn have a powerful and direct influence on Earth processes like weather, earthquake activity, and volcanic activity.

• The Sun continues to remain extremely active, despite the fact that the current solar cycle should be in much more of a decline than what it is for this time in the Sun’s 11-year solar cycle.

• Electrical storm activity – HIGH.

• Unusual weather index HIGH for locations attaching to the Ionosphere via existing storm cloud systems

• Solar wind speed VERY HIGH.

• X-ray Index (within past 48 hours)—activity VERY HIGH.

• The solar electrical activity and storminess in Earth’s Ionosphere and Upper Atmosphere have been extremely HIGH over the last 24 hours, with a great deal of the activity centered over North America and areas of Europe.

• July 27 has already been filled with several large-magnitude earthquakes: At 02:04:10 UT there was a magnitude 6.6 earthquake in the Fiji Islands region; a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in the Tuvalu Region at 03:20:36 UT; a magnitude 6.7-6.9 earthquake in Primorye, Russia at 06:25:31 UT; a magnitude 6.5 earthquake in the vicinity of the West Chile Rise; a magnitude 6.0-6.4 earthquake in Southern Bolivia at 11:41:28 UT.

• Volcanic activity has also been at increased levels due to the HIGH levels of solar electrical activity and storminess interacting with Earth: Bezymianny volcano (Kamchatka) woke-up and erupted on July 26, spewing vast amounts of ash, steam, and gas more than 8 km above the crater of the volcano, and lava from the volcano is moving down the east slope of Bezymianny at 30 km per hour. On Friday night, July 25, Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City, Mexico, shot glowing rocks and ash high into the sky, startling residents in nearby communities and raining its ash down on Mexico’s capital city. [end quoting]

For a few additional points of activity, allow me to list data from The Sun-Earth Connection Forecast & Report for August 3-August 5: [quoting excerpts]

• The extremely strong solar winds that started on July 26, creating solar electrical storm level conditions in Earth’s Ionosphere and Upper Atmosphere, continued until the early hours of August 3, at which time the solar wind speed finally started subsiding. The solar electrical storm conditions and extremely HIGH solar winds continued through August 2. The influence of another coronal hole is due by August 6, when it is very likely another increase in solar wind speeds to storm condition levels will start being felt again.

• The influence of the EXTREMELY HIGH solar winds that were present from July 26 through August 2 is expected to interfere with and disturb Earth’s Ionosphere and Upper Atmosphere for several more days. Solar winds on August 1 went above 900 km/s on several occasions, as has been the case numerous times since July 26.

• The sunspot count for August 1 was approximately 120-135.

• The sunspot count for August 2 was approximately 120-135.

• The updated sunspot count for August 3 has raised the sunspot count to approximately 135-150.

• The sunspot count for the most part has remained at above normal levels of activity for this time in the Sun’s 11-year solar cycle. Some mainstream scientific axiom charting of sunspot data is showing that the sunspot activity is at normal levels, but actual sunspot activity, continuing to be tracked, shows sunspot activity at above normal levels of activity.

• Solar eruptions, flaring, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and other storm activity on the Sun continue to remain at above normal levels. A normal sunspot count for this time in the solar cycle should be approximately 65-70 (and decreasing) sunspots, with a low amount of solar eruptions, CMEs, flaring, and other types of solar storm activity.

• On August 1 at 00:39:48 UT the solar wind speed reached a high of 981.80 km/s, and then reached the 900 km/s mark several more times before fluctuation for the remainder of the day in the high 700 km/s to high 800 km/s level. [end quoting]

Obviously significant activity is occurring within our Solar System—mostly unreported and poorly understood by the public—that has a strong impact on the climate and geology of Earth.

Volcanism

Additionally, there has been an increase during the month of July in volcanic activity around the world, including: Montserrat, West Indies; Ayushu, Japan; Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia; Island of Reunion; Java, Indonesia; Popcatepetl, Mexico; Colima, Mexico; Canlaon, Philippines; Fuego, Guatemala; Pacaya, Guatemala; and Tunguarahua, Ecuador.

On June 11, 2003, Larry Park wrote an article (which appeared on www.yowusa.com) titled Volcanoes In California, Idaho, and Pacific Northwest Building Towards Catastrophic Eruptions. His provocative article begins with the ominous warning: [quoting]

As you read this, know that massive forces tens of miles beneath your feet are building towards what could be another catastrophic series of volcanic eruptions if present trends in the monitoring data remain. The consequence of a complacent attitude towards living within the destructive reach of an active volcano such as Mount Rainier outside of Seattle, Washington may soon come to haunt the millions of Americans living within a day’s drive of the Ring of Fire. [quoting further on:]

A little over 150 years ago, in 1851, twenty-one eruptive events from ash or lava eruption to steam bursts occurred in the western United States from Northern California to Oregon and the state of Washington. Volcanoes involved Mt. Baker (WA), Mt. Rainier (WA), Mt. St. Helens (WA), Mt. Hood (OR), Three Sisters (OR), Mt. Shasta (CA), Cinder Cone (CA), and Chaos Crags (CA). Are events quickly shaping up to a much larger repeat to recent history? New research data indicates a definite—yes. [end quoting]

Larry’s methods for studying and analyzing volcanic activity are quite advanced and “unusual” by normal geophysical standards. But he has dared to work “outside the box” that controls the thinking (via paychecks) of most geologists.

Volcanism And

Yellowstone National Park

On August 22, 2003 Larry was the subject of a lot of debate and late-night radio discussion after publishing (at www.yowusa.com) an article titled It Is Time To Cast A Worried Eye Towards Yellowstone. In that somewhat technical article he linked a day-before M4.4 shallow earthquake near the south entrance to Yellowstone National Park with the strong possibility that anyone living within a 600-mile radius of Yellowstone could soon be sitting in a modern-day Pompeii. If you’re within that radius, it would be prudent to include, with your other emergency supplies, some dust masks (or #4 coffee filters, like the more resourceful New Yorkers used after 9/11) to keep the ash out of your lungs. Larry’s warnings, quoted earlier, got the conventional geologists scurrying to cover their backsides—just in case.

Keep an eye open for more news about this hot-spot area.

Earth Changes Galore

While there are small earthquakes around the world all the time, let me list the alarming number of earthquakes that have been above 6.0 in magnitude just in July of 2003:

• July 3: Tonga, 6.0

• July 12: Queen Charlotte Islands region, 6.0

• July 15: New Ireland region, 6.5

• July 15: Carlsberg Ridge, 7.6

• July 17: off the coast of Jalisco, Mexico, 6.0

• July 21: New Britain region, Papua New Guinea, 6.4

• July 21: Yunnan, China, 6.0

• July 22: Vanuatu Islands, 6.0

• July 25: New Ireland region, Papua New Guinea, 6.4

• July 25: Eastern Honshu, Japan, 6.1

• July 27: Southern Bolivia, 6.1

• July 27: Fiji Islands region, 6.6 and 6.2

The important point here is that both the frequency and intensity of quakes is, on average, on the rise with each passing month. Is this a sign of things to come?

To our South, Northern Mexico had been parched by drought conditions, affecting some 10 states, which have been declared disaster areas. One the hardest hit is the Yaqui Valley, which had to cancel its summer planting season.

Closer to home, due to increased thermal activity and increased measured ground temperatures (up to more than 200º F ), Yellowstone National Park has closed the Volcanic Basin.

Also, there has been a lot of information on the Internet about Planet X (Nibiru) and its “imminent” passage through our Solar System. When this may occur, no one knows for sure. There have also been a lot of articles about a possible magnetic (or actual) pole shift for Earth. And, of course, comets are an influencing factor into this scenario.

Back in the 1950s, Immanuel Velikovksy (1895-1979) wrote about comets and their impact on planets as they travel through the Solar System. Velikovsky got his information by studying the ancient records in various cultures, often in the language they were written, and also directly from “elders”.

James McCanney has gone on record as supporting the work and conclusions of Immanuel Velikovsky. Let’s take a closer look at this often controversial figure.

In a book titled Velikovsky Reconsidered, by the editors of Penseé, comes the following statement from the book’s Preface, which the authors based on the work of Velikovsky: [quoting]

Velikovsky Reconsidered

Global cataclysms fundamentally altered the face of our planet more than once in historical times. The terrestrial axis shifted. Earth fled from its established orbit. The magnetic poles reversed.

In great convulsions, the seas emptied onto continents, the planet’s crust folded, and volcanoes erupted into mountain chains. Lava flows, up to a mile thick, spilled out over vast areas of the Earth’s surface. Climates changed suddenly—ice settling over lush vegetation, while green meadows and forests were transformed into deserts.

In a few awful moments, civilizations collapsed. Species were exterminated in continental sweeps of mud, rock, and sea. Tidal waves crushed even the largest beasts, tossing their bodies into tangled heaps in the valleys and rock fissures, preserved beneath mountains of sediment. The mammoths of Siberia were instantly frozen and buried.

Surviving generations recorded these events by every means available: in myths and legends, temples and monuments to the planetary gods, precise charts of the heavens, sacrificial rites, astrological canons, detailed records of planetary movements, and tragic lamentations amid fallen cities and destroyed institutions. [still quoting:]

“All Is Ruin”

Aware of a link between the circuit of heavenly bodies and the catastrophic ruin of previous generations, the ancients ceaselessly watched the planetary movements. Their traditions recalled that when old epochs dissolved, the new “Age” or “Sun” was marked by different celestial paths. Astronomers and seers diligently watched for any change which might augur approaching destruction and the end of an age. [end quoting]

This is all by way of setting the stage for exploring the relationship between various celestial events and what they may have to do with calamities on planet Earth. Let’s explore more deeply what Immanuel Velikovsky had to say, from the www.halexandria.org website: [quoting]

Immanuel Velikovsky

There’s nothing like a massive and profound reconstruction of ancient history to really upset Egyptologists, archeologists, and other members of the “old guard of this-is-the-way-we’ve-always-done-it-so-take-your-evidence-and-go-away”. This was particularly the case when Immanuel Velikovsky, who, after years of study, informed the world that:

• Earth, Mars, and Venus had suffered catastrophic near-collisions in historic times.

• “Sun Stand Thou Still” in Joshua’s time was a reality.

• The history of ancient Egypt contains 580 imaginary years.

And, among other things:

• The Earth was without the Moon in historical times.

Immanuel Velikovsky is the author of Worlds In Collision, Ages In Chaos, Ramses II And His Time, Peoples Of The Sea, Earth In Upheaval, and Oedipus And Akhanaton. Today many scholars are calling Immanuel Velikovsky a scientific genius, maintaining an archive of his work at www.varchive.org, while others are acknowledging or vindicating his work on numerous critical points. But this has not always been the case.

Upon the publication of Worlds In Collision in 1950, Velikovsky was nearly laughed out of science, the publisher of his book was forced (because of its large number of academic textbooks) to sell the best-selling publishing rights to another non-academic publisher, and since then the Old Guard has done everything in its power to discredit the very idea of “near-Earth objects” (and thus the possibility of collisions) and even the remote possibility of any reconstruction of history.

In the latter vein, one history student, Kelly Kincaid, wrote her senior thesis on the idea that if new evidence was found which contradicted history, could the “official” history then be changed—only to find her history professor so incensed by her example (one from Velikovsky) that he, by example, proved her thesis that indeed history could not be changed from mere evidence.

In Velikovsky’s own words (www.varchive.org/itb/ecintro.htm):

“When the manuscript of Worlds In Collision was first offered to the publisher (Macmillan Company, New York) it contained a brief story of the Deluge and of the cataclysm that terminated the Old Kingdom in Egypt. But after one of the publisher’s readers suggested that the book should concentrate on one event, we compromised in presenting, in the published volume, two series of cataclysms—those that took place in the fifteenth century before the present era and were caused by the near-approaches of Venus, and those that occurred in the eighth century before this era and were caused by the near-approaches of Mars.

“The unused material was left for elaboration in a separate work on ‘Saturn and the Flood’ and ‘Jupiter of the Thunderbolt’.

“The reception of Worlds In Collision, however, made me understand that I had already offered more than was palatable. And so I did not hurry with what I consider to be the heritage of our common ancestors, an inheritance of which my contemporaries in the scientific circles preferred not to partake.

“Researching and writing this book, I would sit at the feet of the sages of many ancient civilizations—one day of the Egyptian learned scribes, another of the Hebrew ancient rabbis, the next of the Hindus, Chinese, or the Pythagoreans. But then, rising to my feet, I would confer with present-day scientific knowledge.

“At times I came to understand what perplexed the ancients, and at other times I found answers to what perplexes the moderns. This shuttle back and forth was a daily occupation for a decade or more, and it became a way to understand the phenomena: to listen to those who lived close to the events of the past, even to witnesses, and to try to understand them in the light of the theoretical and experimental knowledge of the last few centuries, in this manner confronting witnesses and experts.

“I realized very soon that the ancient sages lived in a frightened state of mind, justified by the events they or their close ancestors had witnessed. The ancients’ message was an anguished effort to communicate the awe engendered at seeing Nature with its elements unchained. The moderns, however, denied their ancestors’ wisdom, even their integrity, because of an all-embracing fear of facing the past, even the historically documented experiences of our progenitors, as recent as four score generations ago.

“I have deliberately described the catastrophes of the second and first millennia before this era before I describe the catastrophes of the previous ages. The reason is obvious: the history of catastrophes is extremely unsettling to the historians, evolutionists, geologists, astronomers, and physicists. Therefore it is preferable to start from the better known and then proceed to the less known.

“For the last catastrophe caused by the contact of Mars and the Earth, I could establish the year, the month, and even the day; not so for the catastrophes in which Venus and the Earth participated, when only the approximate time in the space of a definite century could be established. Still, I found it advisable to narrate the story of the second millennium first: it was possible to write the story of the contacts with Venus with a fair amount of detail.

“But each cataclysm is not only more remote in time from us, it is also obscured by the catastrophes that followed. As we seek to penetrate ever deeper into the past, we can see the foregoing periods through the veil of the catastrophes; dimmer and dimmer is the light behind every veil, till our eye can distinguish no more behind the veil that hangs over the period When The Earth Was Moonless, though already inhabited by human life [Lunatics?]. We do not know the beginning; we can only enter the theater at what may have been the third or fourth act.” [end quoting]

This connection between massive events within our Solar System and their effects on planet Earth spans the realms of science and history. Few are willing to pursue such information with an open mind because the contradictions with “established fact” can get such honest researchers into a lot of trouble.

The Kolbrin [Bible] will be discussed shortly during the interview with James McCanney. There is also some discussion of Planet X, also known as Nibiru. In my prior interview with Professor McCanney, he referred to a large comet as being responsible for the flood referred to in Genesis. He cited as his source a hard-to-find book called the Kolbrin Bible.

Let’s see what images this old reference work draws to mind. In Chapter Four, which is titled “The Deluge” from The Book of Gleanings, we read: [quoting]

Then, with the dawning, men saw an awesome sight. There, riding on a black rolling cloud came the Destroyer, newly released from the confines of the sky vaults, and she raged about the heavens, for it was her day of judgement. The beast with her opened its mouth and belched forth fire and hot stones and a vile smoke. It covered the whole sky above, and the meeting place of Earth and heaven could no longer be seen. In the evening the places of the stars were changed, they rolled across the sky to new stations; then the floodwaters came.

The floodgates of Heaven were opened and the foundations of Earth were broken apart. The surrounding waters poured over the land and broke upon the mountains. The storehouses of the winds burst their bolts asunder, so storms and whirlwinds were loosed, to hurl themselves upon the Earth. In the seething waters and howling gales all buildings were destroyed, trees were uprooted, and mountains cast down. There was a time of great heat; then came a bitter cold. The waves over the waters did not rise and fall but seethed and swirled; there was an awful sound above. [end quoting]

This is obviously a detailed description of a massive cataclysmic event. Was it produced by a comet coming our way? How does one prove such an assertion?

A number of weeks ago, there were articles posted all over the Internet about a “discovery” of the oldest known planet. While there are many articles to choose from, here is just one, issued by NASA on July 10, 2003: [quoting]

Hubble Helps Confirm

Oldest Known Planet

Long before our Sun and Earth ever existed, a Jupiter-sized planet formed around a Sun-like star. Now, almost 13 billion years later, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has precisely measured the mass of this farthest and oldest known planet.

The ancient planet has had a remarkable history, because it has wound-up in an unlikely, rough neighborhood. It orbits a peculiar pair of burned-out stars in the crowded core of a globular star cluster.

The new Hubble findings close a decade of speculation and debate as to the true nature of this ancient world, which takes a century to complete each orbit. The planet is 2.5 times the mass of Jupiter. Its very existence provides tantalizing evidence the first planets were formed rapidly, within a billion years of the Big Bang, leading astronomers to conclude planets may be very abundant in the universe.

The planet lies near the core of the ancient globular star cluster M4, located 5,600 light-years away in the summer constellation Scorpius. Globular clusters are deficient in heavier elements, because they formed so early in the universe that heavier elements had not been cooked-up in abundance in the nuclear furnaces of stars. Some astronomers have therefore argued globular clusters cannot contain planets. This conclusion was bolstered in 1999 when Hubble failed to find close-orbiting “hot Jupiter”-type planets around the stars of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Now, it seems astronomers were just looking in the wrong place, and gas-giant worlds, orbiting at greater distances from their stars, could be common in globular clusters.

“Our Hubble measurement offers tantalizing evidence that planet formation processes are quite robust and efficient at making use of a small amount of heavier elements. This implies that planet formation happened very early in the universe” said Steinn Sigurdsson of Pennsylvania State University, State College.

“This is tremendously encouraging that planets are probably abundant in globular star clusters” says Harvey Richer of the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. He bases this conclusion on the fact a planet was uncovered in such an unlikely place: orbiting two captured stars, a helium white dwarf and a rapidly spinning neutron star, near the crowded core of a globular cluster. In such a place, fragile planetary systems tend to be ripped apart due to gravitational interactions with neighboring stars.

The story of this planet’s discovery began in 1988, when the pulsar, called PSR B1620-26, was discovered in M4. It is a neutral star spinning just under 100 times per second and emitting regular radio pulses like a lighthouse beam. The white dwarf was quickly found through its effect on the clock-like white dwarf, as the two stars orbited each other twice per year. Sometime later, astronomers noticed further irregularities in the pulsar that implied a third object was orbiting the others. This new object was suspected to be a planet, but it also could have been a brown dwarf or a low-mass star. Debate over its true identity continued through the 1990s.

Sigurdsson, Richer, and their co-investigators settled the debate by at last measuring the planet’s actual mass through some ingenious celestial detective work. They had exquisite Hubble data from the mid-1990s taken to study white dwarfs in M4. Sifting through these observations, they were able to detect the white dwarf orbiting the pulsar and measure its color and temperature. Using evolutionary models computed by Brad Hansen of the University of California, Los Angeles, the astronomers estimated the white dwarf’s mass.

This in turn was compared to the amount of wobble in the pulsar’s signal, allowing the team to calculate the tilt of the white dwarf’s orbit as seen from Earth. When combined with the radio studies of the wobbling pulsar, this critical piece of evidence told them the tilt of the planet’s orbit, too, and so the precise mass could at last be known. With a mass of only 2.5 Jupiters, the object is too small to be a star or brown dwarf and must instead be a planet. The planet is likely a gas giant without a solid surface like the Earth.

The full team involved in this discovery is composed of Hansen, Richer, Sigurdsson, Ingrid Stairs, UBC, and Stephen Thorsett, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Electronic images and additional information are available at the http://hubblesite.org/news/2003/19 Internet website. [end quoting]

Another factor that has gotten a lot of attention is the “close” passage of Mars. Will the close proximity of Mars to Earth have any effects on our weather? Our magnetic poles? Anything? I took the opportunity of inquiring about that in my discussion with Professor McCanney, but before we get to the interview, here is some brief information about the Mars passage by June Ferguson, posted 7/30/03 at the Rense.com Internet website: [quoting]

Mars Watch

The Red Planet is about to be spectacular! This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287. Due to the way Jupiter’s gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the last 5,000 years, but it may be as long as 60,000 years before it happens again. The encounter will culminate on August 27 when Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and will be (next to the Moon) the brightest object in the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9 and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. Mars will be easy to spot. At the beginning of August it will rise in the east at 10 p.m. and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m.

By the end of August when the two planets are closest, Mars will rise at nightfall and reach its highest point in the sky at 12:30 a.m. That’s pretty convenient to see something that no human being has seen in recorded history. So, mark your calendar at the beginning of August to see Mars grow progressively brighter and brighter throughout the month. Share this with your children and grandchildren. No one alive today will ever see this again. [end quoting]

Mars remains a prominent figure in the night sky for a time well after the date of closest approach, and the question remains as to what possible residual effects may be produced on Earth from this window of close proximity of the two planets.

Interview With James McCanney

On July 18, I had the privilege of speaking with physicist James McCanney again, this time in more detail, about the Sun, the solar winds, our unusual weather patterns, and his latest book. Remember that all of his provocative information is noted at his www.jmccanneyscience.com Internet website.

While a more complete biography for Professor McCanney was presented as part of the front-page story in our May 2003 issue of The SPECTRUM, this brief version comes to us from the Coast-To-Coast AM late-night talk-radio program (hosted by George Noorey) website, when introducing him as a guest on that program: [quoting]

Professor James McCanney, M.S., is a physicist who has spent decades promoting his theoretical work showing that the Solar System is ever changing and is electrically active. These theories have been confirmed with space probe data and prove that there are definite Earth effects resulting from our Sun’s electrical activity. He has openly opposed NASA’s view that outer space is electrically neutral.

McCanney was a faculty member of the Physics and Mathematics departments of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. He has researched theoretical Celestial Mechanics and Plasma Physics (for the layman, these are the studies of planetary motion and electrified gases in outer space), and has presented his theories at the Los Alamos National Laboratories and American Geophysical Union. [end quoting]

With that intro, let’s see what Professor McCanney has to say:

Martin: I realize you have a new book out and I would like to talk to you about that, but before we get into that I would like to talk to you about the announcement by the World Meteorological Organization saying that our weather is going crazy, and in all probability is going to continue to go crazy.

How do the solar winds influence our atmosphere and our weather, and what is going on with the Sun? Talk as long as you like about the Sun, about SOHO, about satellites, about the general public’s inability to monitor what’s going on, what is NASA afraid of, and those kinds of things.

I know that’s a VERY loaded question.

McCanney: [Laughter] That’s a big little question.

I actually had a short, brief note in one of my early comet papers and I talked about the electrical nature of the Solar System and what comets were. I had a short, maybe even a one-sentence note saying: “The effect of the electric fields in outer space on Earth’s upper atmosphere and weather should be investigated.” That’s all it said.

At the time, I thought there must be something here. We have jet-streams. I knew there was an energy problem, which means that, basically, there is not enough energy in the local environment to cause tornadoes, hurricanes. There is no source of electrical energy to cause lightning.

In fact, I guess this is the simplest way to put it: If you do an analysis on solar energy strictly based on visible light that many people consider as the source of energy for our weather system and for the heating of the oceans, and ocean currents, and all of that, there simply is NOT enough energy to do the kinds of things we see.

To begin with, let me go through the standard theories.

The standard theory is that the sunlight comes in and heats up the ground, and then that energy is lifted up somehow, magically, causing the jet streams to flow. That’s totally incorrect. It violates the first, second, and third laws of thermodynamics to have an energy source that’s first dissipating and then reconcentrating into organized energy fields like the jet stream. It, basically, doesn’t work.

Also, there is just not enough energy to do that. Take, for example, hurricanes and tornadoes and the kinds of storms that build-up and develop into these larger storms. Once again, simple energy calculations show that, in an average small hurricane, you would literally have to take the energy from the entire globe for, probably, a couple of days to feed into that storm to give it enough energy to cause the storm, which means that the rest of the globe would go without any energy, just to feed that storm. Clearly, that’s not happening.

The standard theory for how hurricanes develop now includes salt content and basically says that hurricanes develop because the cloud system is absorbing the warm water, evaporates, causing a stirring form of motion around a low cell, starts to spin, and then this forms the hurricane. But how can you maintain that low cell when you have wind rushing into it at 200 miles an hour? There’s clearly a problem here.

Let’s take a tornado. They talk about wind sheers in, say, a cold front and a warm front coming together, and these move by each other causing the rotating motion that would cause a tornado. Clearly, if you look at tornadoes, they come DOWN OUT OF THE CLOUDS. They do not have anything to do with wind sheer, especially down at ground levels where they are very damaging, where the biggest tornadoes develop.

There are all kinds of physics problems involved in meteorology.

In the formation of the jet stream which gets up to the upper atmosphere, where we’re dealing with interaction of outer space and Earth, there are obvious connections with the jet stream and high- and low-pressure cells in the atmosphere, because the jet stream will wrap around, up and over, and down below high and low cells. So, there is some association between the high- and low-pressure cells that are down at the surface of the Earth and the movement of the jet stream which is up in the upper atmosphere.

We know that there is an Ionosphere which exists on both the day and night side of Earth, equally. It’s not different on the night side. Well, it’s a bit different but not extremely different on the night side as it is on the day side of the Earth. And we have the very interesting property of the northern and the southern jet streams. We have three jet streams on planet Earth. The northern tropical belt or semi-tropical belt flows eastwardly around the Earth. The southern semi-tropical belt flows eastwardly around the Earth. And the central equatorial jet stream flows westerly around the Earth.

What causes this counter-rotating set of jet streams? The northern and southern jet streams snake around and dip down toward the Earth, and snake wildly—kind of snaking patterns—around the Earth. Whereas the westward equatorial jet stream moves in a very, very steady, concentrated stream, westward, right around the equator, sometimes just a little north of the equator, sometimes a little south.

None of these things make any sense given a Sun which just is putting out solar light radiation in the form of visible light and ultraviolet light, and the other forms of light that affect Earth.

The other thing is that most of the light that comes from the Sun—the ultraviolet, the infrared, the x-rays, everything but the visible—is pretty much lost in the upper atmosphere. So, the only thing that really reaches the surface of the Earth is visible light. And, of course, that turns into infrared heat which the animals use to see, and the fish under the water. There is a lot of infrared light that is generated from the visible light coming in. In other words, things heat up; they give off infrared light, kind-of like an iron that you iron your clothes with. If you plug it in and heat it up, and then put it on the table, you will not see the iron at night with your eyes, but an animal would, because they see in the infrared. Infrared light is secondary light, secondary transmission, but the point is, our weather simply could not form, we would have very bland weather.

Let’s take a look at another issue here, and that is cloud production. How do clouds form? There is a very interesting piece of equipment in physics; it’s called a cloud chamber. You put moisture in there, and then you put a high electric field along that chamber, and water droplets form. In fact, they use it. It was one of the very early forms of detecting subatomic particles. The subatomic particles would move through the cloud chamber, ionize the water, and leave a little trace, and therefore you could see these subatomic particles moving around and spinning in a nearby magnetic field. That’s literally called a cloud chamber. But, you would not form the cloud if you didn’t put this extensive electric field across the cloud chamber. To translate that into our atmosphere, clouds could form, a water accumulation could occur, but the big Cumulonimbus, the storm-type clouds and the hurricane-type clouds, those clouds would not form at all if you did not have some kind of significant electric field.

So, to start putting all of this information together. Looking at weather in general through many different aspects, the science that is taught in meteorology is simply wrong. It could not possibly explain tornadoes, and cyclonic storms, and thunder coming out of clouds that have lightning bolts coming out of them.

The standard explanation for lightning, for example, is that there are thermal currents in a cloud. You can see those thermal currents. But, that is not the source of lightning. Lightning is an electrical phenomenon. You could have all of the movement of thermal currents that you would like, but it’s not going to GENERATE an electric field that is going to then send a lightning bolt down to the ground. Whereas, with the vertical upward electrical phenomenon above major storms, there is no mechanism for lightning to leave.

Say it did form by that mechanism. There is no way for this lightning to then leave that cloud to some place else because the cloud would be, basically, electrically neutral relative to everything else.

So, the lightning and the sprites that we see above the storm system, and also below the storm system reaching the ground, has to be the result of some much larger electrical system in the atmosphere.

You put all of this stuff together and you realize that standard meteorology today is just bogus. It cannot explain anything. That’s why weathermen are right 80% of the time. Their models can predict under normal circumstances.

Let’s talk about weather modeling and climate modeling as it is performed today by meteorologists and related professionals. What they do is, they take PAST data and they say: “Today is like a day that occurred 3 years ago, similar weather patterns, similar wind patterns.” Then they do a statistical analysis. This is also the way they predict where hurricanes will go, by the way. They take this past data, and then they say: “This is what our computer model predicts.” But, this is why they are wrong on the very violent storms—because they’re using past data that has nothing to do with the SOLAR conditions that exist today, when they’re trying to predict.

Let’s take Hurricane Floyd; it came into Florida. The computer models said that the storm would approach land and then turn northward. And, in fact, they were correct in that. But, if certain other conditions were a little bit different, that would not have happened, and Floyd would have come into Florida, killing millions of people, because they didn’t give any evacuation notice to Florida.

So, they are, basically, using very crude, incorrect models.

[Editor’s note: Furthermore, you more aware readers are likely to be wondering where artificial weather control enters this picture. And, of course, the answer is that such covert manipulations add yet another layer of unpredictability for the already befuddled meteorologists to contend with.]

It turns out that the most important component of weather forecasting is in the SOLAR electric fields. The solar wind passes by Earth, that carries the electric field with it; and I’ve identified 17 of what I call local environmental batteries, or LEBs. These are, literally, batteries or capacitors that exist around the planet Earth and they are built-up by the solar conditions.

The Solar System is dominated by the Sun. I would estimate the Sun is putting out 100,000 times more electrical energy than it is putting out physical light energy.

We are very much buffered from this energy because we have a huge magnetic field, and there are many other conditions in space which buffer us from this electrical energy which is just pouring by us, continually.

Let’s look at a New Moon. The Moon moves in front of Earth, breaks that electrical flow, and then moves out of the way. It gives us tremendous bombardment after that Moon moves out of the way, the first and second day after the New Moon. That’s the condition that has been identified as being one of the leading causes of kicking-off major hurricanes and storms. What it does is: The Moon is interacting with the solar electric field. It’s that CHANGE which causes the storms, and causes the environment around Earth to change, and thus affects Earth weather.

Planetary electrical alignments are another factor. There has been a lot of misinformation about planetary alignments regarding, say, earthquakes and all kinds of devastation when the planets line-up. There was one alignment back in the 1990s where we had, I think, 5 or 6 planets lining-up, and everybody thought the world would come to an end. People were predicting gravitational effects. They were ridiculous predictions based on a very poor understanding.

Gravitationally, we are NOT affected by the other planets. What we are affected by are the electrical alignments that these planets hold with the Sun. When the planets line-up, there are electrical connections made which increase the energy flow around Earth. That can affect us and, in fact, does affect our weather.

I’ve made a lot of weather predictions based on the electrical alignments of celestial objects—especially when you throw a comet in, for example, which is very large, electrically. The electrical size of a comet is very much larger than its physical size. That’s something that standard astronomy and space scientists and astrophysicists simply don’t understand.

In fact, to date, astrophysicists, space scientists, and astronomers deny that there is anything electrical in outer space at all. They want to explain everything in terms of gravity and magnetic fields which, somehow, self-exist out there—which is another quagmire in modern space physics.

These scientists, many of whom have very poor physics backgrounds, talk about magnetic effects. I’ll just name off a few:

Io, the small moon of Jupiter, close to the big moon of Jupiter, carries with it a tremendous electrical current. The astronomers say: “This is due to the fact that Io is moving in Jupiter’s magnetic field and it causes the ‘dynamo effect’, and this causes the electrical current.” When, in fact, it’s the OPPOSITE.

The electrical current is part of the electrical current flow between the Sun and Jupiter, and the small moon is just getting in the way and carrying the current with it. That’s creating the magnetic field. What they don’t understand is that these magnetic fields do not just self-generate. In fact, it goes back to very fundamental electrical physics, called Maxwell’s equations. It’s a set of four equations that describe the interaction between magnetic fields and electric fields, and basic electric charges.

Fundamentally, magnetic fields do not self-exist. They only exist when charges move and create magnetic fields. To understand magnetic fields in outer space, you have to understand that charges have to move to create those magnetic fields. For charges to move, you need some sort of battery or capacitor that is sustaining the condition; in other words, it’s there all the time. These charged currents, then, create the magnetic field, not visa-versa.

There’s another thing that space scientists and astronomers talk about, called “magnetic reconnection”, where the magnetic field lines go around and then reconnect. It’s as if they float out into the middle of nowhere and then came back and reconnect into a particular region. What they don’t realize is that this is simply a SECONDARY effect. The more fundamental thing you have to look at is: what are the electric fields that are causing the electrical current, that are causing the magnetic field? It’s that progression. They are looking backwards, and they never get to the electric fields, or the electrical currents, because they don’t understand the fundamental concepts of Maxwell’s equations.

These modern concepts of “magnetic reconnection” include a thing called “solar pick-up ions”. Another fallacy is—it’s actually an impossibility—astronomers have been trying to explain why the solar wind particles accelerate once they’ve left the Sun. Throughout an interplanetary stage they’re moving along, and all of a sudden they see these tremendous accelerations in the solar wind particles. And so, they theorize that the magnetic field is sweeping out and it picks up these ions and sweeps them out by some kind of magnetic acceleration. There, again: in fundamental physics the only thing a magnetic field can do to a charged particle is change its direction; it cannot add energy. So, once again, the fundamental physics that these scientists have created, based on magnetic fields, is fundamentally flawed.

This leads all the way back to meteorology, where scientists talk about the magnetic storms on the Sun, and what causes solar flaring. They talk about “magnetic bubbles” in the Sun that burst, and the energy comes bursting out in these streamers of charged particles. Totally false! A magnetic field, of itself, cannot impart the energy to a charged particle. It can only change its direction of motion, once again, going right back to Maxwell’s equations.

The reason I’m going through all of this is because it would be impossible for these scientists to come to any kind of correct conclusion when they don’t understand the fundamental processes at work in the Solar System. The real fundamental processes come back to the Sun, which is putting out an excess current of protons, thusly causing a huge capacitor. That is the electrical driving-force of the entire Solar System.

What I’m saying is: I realized this in my early study of the Solar System back in 1979, when I was observing these phenomena and theorizing that comets were not dirty snowballs and that the solar environment has to have an electric field, a SUSTAINED electric field.

There is something about electric fields in outer space. They cannot exist for very long by themselves, because currents would quickly move and cancel them. So, there has to be an ongoing source of energy to continue to resupply this battery or capacitor. That turns out to be the fusion of the Sun.

Now, that leads back to the condition of the Sun. If the Sun had fusion in its core, as these astronomers theorize, then there’s no way to get a charge differential up to the surface, and therefore out into the Solar System. So, now we’re talking about the solar energy source—fusion.

Literally, every basic theory that modern astronomers use turns out to be incorrect. They are fundamentally flawed. There is no way that you can translate this into meteorology and come up with any kind of correct prediction or answers because they don’t understand the very fundamental, basic energy source in the Solar System, and that is: the Sun’s fusion is not in its core, it’s at the surface of the Sun, up at the upper atmosphere.

One of the fundamental properties of fusion is that it separates charge and the protons go out. It’s a rather complicated situation but, basically, the Sun is like a “super atom”. It has a corona of very high-energy electrons which are in orbit, literally at very high velocities, around the central, positively charged core of the Sun. So, you have the super-atom state. When the proton streamers come off of the Sun, they are accelerated through the corona, which is NEGATIVELY charged; then they come blasting out. This is the cause of solar flaring. In fact, you would not even have solar flaring with the solar core fusion model, where fusion is IN the core.

In fact, before SOHO and these solar satellites were up in orbit, the standard concept of the Sun was that it was just a very smooth, glowing, orange ball. That’s what would be predicted if you had the core model of fusion IN the Sun.

When they got up there, all of the data contradicted that model, yet they kept the model, which is one of the big problems in astronomy. They continue to use models that are outdated, even though all this new data tells you, directly, that the model could not possibly be true. So, decade after decade these scientists are flying around the world, going to conferences, spouting totally incorrect physics.

Their papers are being published because it’s the thing to do, the mode to follow, and there’s no progress being made. NASA now has 10-year programs in place; one is called “The Sun-Earth Connection”. They are just beginning to ask some of the very fundamental questions that I already had answered back in 1979 on how the solar wind translates into energy in the Solar System.

Back to the whole idea of weather. To understand Earth weather, you first have to understand that the Sun fusion is not in the core; it’s up at the surface of the Sun. That translates into tremendous electrical energy in the Solar System. The planets and the comets and the moons of the Solar System all are discharging this battery or capacitor that’s built-up around the Sun. In the process of discharging this capacitor, the electrical energy is blowing through the Solar System all the time and is, basically, the cause of our weather.

Now, a good example of a hurricane, that according to standard theory could not exist, is one that was observed on Mars. Mars has no oceans, no water. But, a huge hurricane, large enough to be visible from Earth, was seen on Mars and it lasted for days, moving around the Martian atmosphere. This was a major hurricane. So, obviously, the theory that warm water is the cause of hurricanes could not possibly be true, and also for all the other reasons that I’ve stated. That’s just one counter-example.

Scientists just totally ignore those contradictory examples because they’re stuck on their theoretical structure that, unfortunately, is totally wrong. But, they are the people who have the press. They have the journal publications, the grants, the whole system of funding.

And it’s all locked-up on these people, many of them who are quite old. The young guys have to buy into this or they don’t get their PhD, get funded, and so on. It’s a system that is terribly troubled and in big trouble, but it goes on because the funding is locked in place.

In fact, this year, interestingly enough, the National Science Foundation and most of the congressional budgets for science doubled. Somebody asked me if I thought that would help improve science. I said: “No. You’ll just get twice as much of the same.” And that’s really what will happen. In fact, it will help lock-in these theories even more, because now the fundamental driving force in science, which is money and funding, is even greater, and that’s the control mechanism that is keeping science in a big rut.

So, that is all related to how weather gets predicted and analyzed. The fundamental situation with weather, however, is that the main driving force of our major weather systems, including our winds, is the electrical component of the Sun. Without that, within a day or two, Earth would turn into a cold nothing. And literally, within a week, our atmosphere would freeze and fall down to the ground as crystals. It’s just incredible the amount of energy that comes from our Sun.

When people talk about climate or long-range trends, I don’t believe any of that. I never believed the “Greenhouse Effect”, for example, because very simply, our daily allotment of energy is coming directly from the Sun. A good way to understand this is: when we are in daytime, we are receiving from the Sun, directly. Then, as the Earth spins around and you go into nighttime, you’ll probably drop an average of 20-30 degrees between day and night temperatures. And, say that as you came around again, the Sun wasn’t there the next day; it just shut-off for some reason. Now you would continue to drop 10, 20, 30 degrees per day—actually, per half day, in fact. And within a very few short days, the entire Earth would just be frozen and we would continue to go into a deep freeze, very rapidly.

So, our Sun, our climate, literally everything on Earth is very intricately related to the solar output on a DAILY basis. This is not years, or centuries, or anything else. It’s on a daily basis.

The other thing that I’ve discovered about weather is that not only is the energy for these storms coming in from outside the planet, but in many cases water is building-up in these storms from outside the planet, also. This occurs when we, basically, electrically attach, just like a comet does, to the solar environment, and the hydrogen and oxygen that are in our local environment in outer space combine and they come pouring in.

Now, you can see a storm develop, coming across, say, the Rocky Mountains into the mid-Western states or from the Pacific Coast into, say, Oklahoma and that region, and you can see these storms building up. The satellites are looking down, and the satellites show how much moisture is in the air. You can look directly at the infrared and at the components of the satellites that look at just water, and you can see that, as those storms move in to the center part of the North American continent, water is being added to that system.

You have to ask yourself: “Where is that water coming from?” It wasn’t there when this storm came off the coast. In many cases there was no storm coming off the coast. The storm actually developed in the middle of the country.

I just saw last night an example—this was Hurricane Claudette—which was moving-in off the Gulf Coast into Texas. Just as it reached shore, I snapped a picture of the National Weather radar, and also the water content in this storm. At the same time, there was a weather system moving through the midwestern states—specifically, Illinois and Indiana and Michigan. And in the same time that Claudette, the hurricane, moved-in off the Gulf, the storm in the Midwest gained, probably, three times as much energy and three times as much water as the hurricane. And all the focus (and the news) was on the hurricane.

I’m just pointing out that this hurricane was going over the ocean, picking-up water, yet a storm in the Midwest in the United States, in the same amount of time, and with no source from any ocean or body of water, picked-up three times the amount of water in that storm as the hurricane, which had been passing over the ocean for days.

Another point here is that water is, literally, coming down from above to drive these storms because there is simply not enough water in the atmosphere to drive some of these storms.

Ask, then: Wouldn’t we be flooding? Wouldn’t this be a huge build-up in the ocean levels?

The answer is: Very quickly, much of this water moves in a hydrological cycle. There’s a three-cycle motion in Earth’s atmosphere that very quickly takes most of this water up to the North Pole and down to the South Pole, where it builds up very rapidly.

Here’s an example: After World War II there were five prop planes with five fighter pilots that had to make an emergency landing up at the North Pole. And they left them there. One of the people who was a pilot of one of those fighter planes said, I believe it was 10-15 years later, whatever it was, they got some money together and they were going to go up and salvage those airplanes. When they got to the site, the planes were nowhere to be found. They started digging. The planes were 200 feet under the ice pack. They had just been sitting there, and that’s just in a short, say, 10-year period, which shows that a couple of feet per year of water is building up—or, possibly as much as 20 feet per year of ice is building up.

So, that’s where the water is going on a continual basis from the influx of water into the atmosphere.

You have to understand, all of these components are not understood or recognized in modern meteorology. But, that’s kind-of an overview of where modern meteorology is, of current astronomical theories, and of my view of weather.

Now, let’s take the announcement this past March from the World Meteorological Organization. They made the statement that weather is going bonkers.

One thing that I’ve been almost preaching for years now is that the Sun’s energy is peaking, and it’s NOT going down. NASA keeps putting out news releases saying: “The Sun has peaked; it’s finally going down to solar minimum.” The fact is that, in the year 2000, the solar maximum year, the Sun peaked AND IT NEVER WENT DOWN IN ENERGY.

What I’m talking about is the electrical energy component of the Sun. We are at a state now where the Sun is putting out tremendous, tremendous amounts of energy, over and above a normal solar maximum.

The other thing that I noticed was that comets were coming in from the southern celestial hemisphere. In other words, our south, if you look out the south end of Earth, from that direction, you would see comets coming in, just raining into the Sun. There were big ones, almost one per day. I was seeing these courtesy of the SOHO satellite images. I’m convinced that’s why they had to take SOHO down, because it was just becoming too obvious.

In fact, the big comet NEAT-V1 that came in. We just saw some very big comets coming in from the south.

My interpretation of this is that there is a very large object which has broken into the outer reaches of the Solar System, into the solar capacitor, probably way out beyond, many Pluto distances out, but in the southerly direction, at the bottom of the Solar System, so to speak, and is moving in and bringing with it an entire entourage of smaller objects, and this object is moving in.

There are a number of reasons to believe this, besides just being the rain of comets coming in from the south. One is that the U.S. and the Vatican and many other groups have put a lot of money recently into large observatories at the South Pole, and none at the North Pole. There is something very interesting going on in the southern skies. It’s very difficult to see anything down there, unless you’re near the South Pole, just because the majority of Earth’s land mass above sea water is in the Northern Hemisphere. There is very little land in the Southern Hemisphere, especially as you get down toward the South Pole. There are no good astronomical viewing locations down there. The only good place is at the South Pole, and most of us don’t have the ability to staff and build astronomical observatories at the South Pole.

At any rate, there is something very interesting going on in the southern skies and nobody is talking about it. I believe that is one of the main things that is driving our weather. Something is influencing the solar capacitor, which then is interacting with the Sun and giving us this incredible weather we have been witnessing here. And it’s just beginning to show it’s ugly head. I think it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets a lot better.

I think everybody will agree, we’re having very unusual weather, all the way back into the 1990s. We had typhoons back in the ’90s, in the old Hale-Bopp days, that had 300+ mile-per-hour winds. It also was at the same time when China and Scandinavia, those two regions of the Earth, had 250 mile-an-hour straight-line winds that came down to the surface of the Earth. In other words, the jet stream came down and touched the planetary surface and did tremendous amounts of damage. This is all the result of very unusual electric field situations around the Earth.

That’s just kind of a summary where the weather is today. We’re just beginning to see the things that are making people kind of stand-up and really take notice.

Martin: The other day, NASA announced the “discovery” of the Methuselah planet.

McCanney: Oh, yes.

Martin: Let’s talk about that.

McCanney: That was a really bizarre announcement. There are many assumptions in astronomy. Just to review what the Methuselah planet is, apparently about 8 years ago they said they first discovered this planet, if in fact, that’s what it is. They discovered it around a pair of stars that they believe one to be a white dwarf, one to be a pulsar. These are bizarre forms of stars, let’s put it that way. They detected a wobble in the motion of these two, and apparently they were finally able to get a picture of this kind-of “nub” off to the side of this twin-star system and positively identify that there was a third object there, which they called the Methuselah planet.

Of course, Methuselah was the man who lived for 900 years in the Old Testament. They called it this because it was believed that the stars in M4, which is the star cluster they were dealing with, it was believed that these stars were 12 billion years old, some of the oldest stars in our galaxy, and therefore, close to the age of the universe.

Now, you have to make the assumption—or they do—that the planet formed when the stars formed. Of course, to my way of thinking, that’s absolutely incorrect. The planet did not have to form when the star formed. So, that’s the first error in their list of assumptions.

Then they go through this convoluted argument that there could have been other planets that formed around there at the same time, thusly forming life-bearing planets. So these civilizations could have lived 12 billion years ago, not that far away from us in the galaxy, and would have died-off on the planet.

Now, this statement really surprises me, because the obvious conclusion to any thinking person would be that possibly, in that 12 billion years, they became space-going, and may be residing on this planet today. But they don’t make that connection. They simply say that they died-off on their planet.

Then they talk about the fact that this planet is 12 billion years old, almost the age of the universe, and that contradicts the “Big Bang” Theory because it was believed that these stars had to form two and three generations of stars before the heavy elements formed, like iron and the other heavier elements, that would then form the planet.

At any rate, they have all kinds of contradictions here. Is what they are looking at even a planet, being twice the size of Jupiter? Maybe it’s a small star, not even a planet at all. The other assumption is that planet, if it is a planet, formed when the stars formed, according to their theory that solar systems form all at one time.

What I am saying is that these astronomers are being paid a lot of money to speculate and daydream, because there is not a single one of them who can prove any part of any of this. I’m personally getting rather irritated at paying people to daydream. I like to daydream, too, but I don’t expect people to pay me for it, or fly me around the world to attend extravagant meetings, or go to NASA and have national news-releases based on wild speculation and daydreaming. And that’s all this is.

Why would NASA announce something like the Methuselah planet when they had discovered it 8 years ago? The answer is: NASA is hurting. They’ve got no space program. They’ve got nothing in space. The Shuttle is not flying. Nobody believes the Shuttle story. And, basically, NASA is a space agency without a space program. So, they’re trying to build-up public interest by giving these news-releases.

I think that is what’s behind the story here because, like I said, they discovered this 8 years ago. Why are they releasing this story now and making such a big deal out of it?

Martin: Part of me thinks that this is to deflect attention away from the whole Planet X scenario. And, also, this is kind-of “parallel”, because the timing is about the same. Two nights ago I saw a brief mention on CNN about NASA announcing that people should not be worried about our planet being hit by asteroids because the odds are way against it. It was a several-minute blurb about asteroids and not to be afraid of asteroids. Now, why are they talking about that now, and why are they mentioning this planet now? Is it all Planet-X related?

McCanney: That’s a very good statement because I’ve heard that too, that statement about the asteroids. They’ve said: “It’s been recalculated that the probability of us being hit by an asteroid is much lower than previously thought.”

Martin: Right.

McCanney: So yes, I think they’re trying to, in a subtle way, plant these bugs in the people’s minds: “Don’t think about that dangerous outer-space stuff. You just keep working, and paying your bills, and we’ll watch the sky for you. Don’t you think about that.”

Martin: [Laughter] And, of course, nobody even brings up the subject of “action at a distance”.

McCanney: Right, absolutely. The real issue here is exactly that: “action at a distance”. They keep pounding on the theme: “Oh, we have to be hit by something” and it’s standard disinformation. They have the reigns of the press, so they keep pounding on the same falsehoods. Their goal, of course, is that 95% of the people will be lulled to sleep and not think any more about all these issues.

Martin: I would