May 25, 2009"
http://www.spaceweather.com/
"Daily Sun: 25 May 09 Yesterday's sunspot (number 1018) has faded
away. Sunspot number: 0"
"Far side of the Sun: This holographic image reveals no sunspots on
the far side of the sun."
"Planetary K-index
Now: Kp= 1 quiet"

"25 May 2009 08:00"
The visible face of the Sun is spotless:
http://mdisas.nascom.nasa.gov/gif_he...t_igram_fd.gif


Please visit:
http://blog.nj.com/southjersey_impac...SolarCycle.jpg


The right panel shows the visible face of the Sun as it looked on a
good day during the late Modern Warm Period. Sunspots are the apparent
size of craters on the moon. The left panel shows a spotless Sun as it
appears today.


Please write to Al Gore so that Al knows that the Sun is not living up
to his religious expectations. Al Gore is a divinity school dropout.
George Carlin had a better grasp of the true nature of God's creation,
than does Al Gore.


Please visit:
http://www.co-intelligence.org/newsl...es/sun-etc.jpg
which shows the relative sizes of the Sun and planets. Compared to the
Sun, Jupiter is the size of a pea, earth is the size of a grain of
sand.


Obama Urges World to 'Stand Up' to North Korea, After Nuclear Test
President Obama accuses North Korea Monday of "recklessly challenging
the international community" with its underground nuclear test.

FOXNews.com

Monday, May 25, 2009

The United States and its allies must "stand up" to North Korea,
President Obama said Monday, accusing the rogue regime of blatantly
defying the international community with its nuclear and missile
test.

Obama addressed the issue in the Rose Garden on his way to Memorial
Day services at Arlington National Cemetery. He called North Korea's
tests "reckless" and a "grave threat" to international security.

"The United States and the international community must take action in
response," Obama said, noting that North Korea had abandoned a
previous pledge to halt its nuclear program and has with its actions
violated United Nations resolutions. "We will work with friends and
allies to stand up to this behavior."

The communist country said it had carried out a powerful underground
nuclear test, much larger than one conducted in 2006. The regime also
test-fired three short-range, ground-to-air missiles later Monday from
the same northeastern site where it launched a rocket last month, the
Yonhap news agency reported, citing unnamed sources.

The twin moves were roundly condemned throughout Washington Monday.

"The United States will never waver from our determination to protect
our people and the peace and security of the world," Obama said.

He accused North Korea of increasing tensions and threatening
stability in the region, while only further isolating itself.

"It will not find international acceptance unless it abandons its
pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery,"
Obama said earlier in a written statement. "The danger posed by North
Korea's threatening activities warrants action by the international
community."

He said the United States would continue working in multilateral talks
and will hold consultations with members of the U.N. Security Council.

Both the missile firing and nuclear test caught U.S. officials by
surprise, according to one official, though Obama and Adm. Mike
Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said North Korean
leaders' recent statements previewed such a move.

"They didn't give us any warning whatsoever," a senior U.S.
intelligence official who works on North Korean issues told FOX News.

The tests added an extra layer of urgency to House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi's trip to China, where she is meeting with officials to discuss
climate change.

"Such action by North Korea is unacceptable and cause for great
alarm," Pelosi said in a written statement from Shanghai. "These
reported tests underscore the message our congressional delegation
planned to deliver to top Chinese government leaders during our
meetings later this week: the Chinese must use their influence to help
bring North Korea to the table for the Six-Party talks. Today's
announcement makes that need all the more urgent."

The rocket liftoff, widely believed to be a cover for a test of its
long-range missile technology, drew censure from the U.N. Security
Council.

Mullen told FOX News that North Korea's actions speak "to their
growing belligerence."

He said the country is still trying to "destabilize" the region.

"And in the long run should they develop a nuclear weapons program,
and a program that could in fact be put on missiles that could reach
the reach the United States, that could be a significant threat to
us," he said.

Former South Korean Foreign Minister Han Sung-Joo told FOX News his
scientists estimated the scale of the latest North Korean nuclear test
to be about 10 times the size of the 2006 nuclear test.

They registered the tremor from the blast at 4.5 on the Richter scale.
That is 1.0 more than in 2006, or 10 times greater. It is estimated
that the 2006 test was about 800 tons, just under one kiloton. That
would make today's blast around 10 kilotons.

By comparison, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was 22 kilotons.

The former South Korean foreign minister called the latest test
serious, and a potential "game-changer."

He said North Korea's Kim Jong Il is trying to escalate its nuclear
capabilities to attain a better bargaining position, and eventually is
seeking bi-lateral talks with the United States. He said North Korea
is directly trying to draw attention from the Obama administration.

FOX News' James Rosen and Greg Palkot and The Associated Press
contributed to this report.

On Mon, 25 May 2009 08:21:11 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

May 25, 2009"
http://www.spaceweather.com/
"Daily Sun: 25 May 09 Yesterday's sunspot (number 1018) has faded
away. Sunspot number: 0"
"Far side of the Sun: This holographic image reveals no sunspots on
the far side of the sun."
"Planetary K-index
Now: Kp= 1 quiet"

snip..

Here is a partial list (2009) of aliases this person has used while
posting to sci.environment.

From: "A thoughtful mourner" mantrap@
From:
From:
From: "Barack Obama"
From:
From: "Dr Crypto"
From: "Edmund Fitzgerald" mantrap@
From: "Eric Swanson" mantrap@
From: "Ian St. John"
From: "kiloVolts" mantrap@
From: "kilovolts" mantrap@
From: "kiloVolts"
From: "Leon"
From: "Leon Trollski"
From: "Mike Vandeman"
From: "Mike Vandeman" mantrap@
From: "milliAmperes"
From: "Ms. 2"
From: "Ms. 2" mantrap@
From: "Nicovar Inc."
From:
From: "Ravocin"
From: "Sarah Palin"
From: "Sanity"
From:

and now, this Calgary, Canada Based Fossil Fuel Troll claims to be..

From:


This carbon addicted troll has stated in Message-ID:

"ENVIRONMENTALISM IS A HATE CRIME!"


Needless to say.. this person is mentally unbalanced..

====

This deluded fossil fuel troll is attempting to divert attention from
mankind's fossil fuel based CO2 emissions, which is altering the
Infrared characteristics of earth's atmosphere. Instead he attempts
to deceive by focusing attention on sun spot activity or lack thereof
(~cycling 11 years) which is correlated to minor variations (0.1%) in
stellar energy output.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar-cycle-data.png


from http://www.spaceweather.com/

" BUSY SUN: The sun is still in the pits of a deep solar minimum.
Lately, however, attentive observers of solar activity have noticed a
certain "busy-ness" on the solar disk. Eric Roel sends this May 23rd
snapshot from his backyard observatory in Valle de Bravo, Mexico:"

http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod200...oel1_strip.jpg

"Captured in the photo are five dark magnetic filaments, an emerging
sunspot, and a fiery prominence dancing along the solar limb."

On May 25, 8:37*am, T. Keating wrote:

"Captured in the photo are five dark magnetic filaments, an emerging
sunspot, and a fiery prominence dancing along the solar limb."

Clever forgery, Tom Keating :

Tom Keating
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tom Keating (March 1, 1917 - February 12, 1984) was an art restorer
and famous art faker who claimed to have faked more than 2,000
paintings by over 100 different artists.

Keating was born in Lewisham, London, into a poor family. After World
War II he began to restore paintings for a living, though he also
worked as a house painter to make ends meet. He exhibited his own
paintings, but he failed to break into the art market.

Contents

1 Forger with a cause
2 Technique
3 Revealing the forger
4 Aftermath
5 Further reading



Forger with a cause
Keating perceived the gallery system to be rotten, dominated, he said,
by American "avant-garde fashion, with critics and dealers often
conniving to line their own pockets at the expense both of naive
collectors and impoverished artists". Keating retaliated by creating
forgeries to fool the experts, hoping to destabilize the system.

Keating planted 'time-bombs' in his products. He left clues of the
paintings' true nature for fellow art restorers or conservators to
find. For example, he might write text onto the canvas with lead white
before he began the painting, knowing that x-rays would later reveal
the text. He deliberately added flaws or anachronisms, or used
materials peculiar to the twentieth century. Modern copyists of old
masters use similar practices to guard against accusations of fraud.


Technique
Keating's own approach of choice in oil painting was a Venetian
technique inspired by Titian's practice, though modified and fine-
tuned along Dutch lines. The resultant paintings, though time-
consuming to execute, have a richness and subtlety of colour and
optical effect, variety of texture and depth of atmosphere
unattainable in any other way. Unsurprisingly, his favourite artist
was Rembrandt.

For a 'Rembrandt', Keating might make pigments by boiling nuts for ten
hours and filtering the result through silk; such colouring would
eventually fade while genuine earth pigments would not. As a restorer
he knew about the chemistry of cleaning fluids; so, a layer of
glycerine under the paint layer ensured that when any of his forged
paintings needed to be cleaned (as all oil paintings need to be,
eventually), the glycerine would dissolve, the paint layer would
disintegrate, and the painting - now a ruin - would stand revealed as
a fake.

Occasionally, as a restorer, he would come across frames with
Christie's catalogue numbers still on them. To help in establishing
false provenances for his forgeries he would call the auction house to
ask whose paintings they had contained - and then painted the pictures
according to the same artist's style.

Keating also produced a number of watercolors in the style of Samuel
Palmer and oil paintings by various European masters including
Francois Boucher, Edgar Degas, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Thomas
Gainsborough, Amedeo Modigliani, Rembrandt, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and
Kees van Dongen.


Revealing the forger
In 1970, auctioneers noticed that there were thirteen watercolor
paintings of Samuel Palmer for sale - all of them depicting the same
theme, the town of Shoreham. When an article published in The Times
discussed the auctioneer's suspicions about their provenance, Keating
confessed that they were his. He also estimated that more than 2,000
of his forgeries were in circulation. He had created them, he
declared, as a protest against those art traders who get rich at the
artist's expense. He also refused to list the forgeries.


Aftermath
Keating was finally arrested in 1977 and accused of conspiracy to
defraud. That same year, he published his autobiography with Geraldine
and Frank Norman. The case was dropped on account of his bad health.
Years of chain smoking and the effects of breathing in the fumes of
chemicals used in art restoring including ammonia, turpentine and
methyl alcohol, together with the stress induced by the court case,
had taken their toll. Through 1982 and 1983 Keating rallied, however,
and though in fragile health, he presented television programmes on
the techniques of old masters for Channel 4 in the UK. These
programmes are still available on video. Just a year before he died in
Colchester at age 66, Keating claimed in a television interview that,
in his opinion, he was not an especially good painter. His proponents
would disagree.

Even when he was alive, many art collectors and celebrities, such as
the ex-heavyweight boxer Henry Cooper, had begun to collect Keating's
work. After his death his paintings became increasingly valuable
collectibles. The same year as his death, Christie's auctioned 204 of
his works. The amount raised from the auction was not announced but it
is said to have been considerable. Even his known forgeries, described
in catalogues as "after" Gainsborough or Cézanne, attain high prices.


Further reading
Tom Keating, Geraldine Norman and Frank Norman, The Fake's Progress:
The Tom Keating Story, London: Hutchinson and Co., 1977
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Keating"

This page was last modified on 19 September 2008, at 11:02 (UTC).
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
License. (See Copyrights for details.)

On Mon, 25 May 2009 16:24:19 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On May 25, 8:37*am, T. Keating wrote:

"Captured in the photo are five dark magnetic filaments, an emerging
sunspot, and a fiery prominence dancing along the solar limb."

Clever forgery, Tom Keating :

snip..

Here is a partial list (2009) of aliases this person has used while
posting to sci.environment.

From: "A thoughtful mourner" mantrap@
From:
From:
From: "Barack Obama"
From:
From: "Dr Crypto"
From: "Edmund Fitzgerald" mantrap@
From: "Eric Swanson" mantrap@
From: "Ian St. John"
From: "kiloVolts" mantrap@
From: "kilovolts" mantrap@
From: "kiloVolts"
From: "Leon"
From: "Leon Trollski"
From: "Mike Vandeman"
From: "Mike Vandeman" mantrap@
From: "milliAmperes"
From: "Ms. 2"
From: "Ms. 2" mantrap@
From: "Nicovar Inc."
From:
From: "Ravocin"
From: "Sarah Palin"
From: "Sanity"
From:

and now, this Vancouver, Canadian Based Fossil Fuel Troll claims to
be..

From:


This carbon addicted troll has stated in Message-ID:

"ENVIRONMENTALISM IS A HATE CRIME!"


Needless to say.. this person is mentally unbalanced..

On May 25, 4:59*pm, Tom Keating wrote:
"Captured in the photo are five dark magnetic filaments, an emerging
sunspot, and a fiery prominence dancing along the solar limb."

Clever forgery, Tom Keating :
Needless to say.. this person is mentally unbalanced..

Excellent forgeries, better than the originals:

http://www.premierpaintings.com/keating_tom.htm

http://www.premierpaintings.com/imag...ng_tom_001.jpg

http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDet...C174 198A04AF

http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDet...9420 9ED57105

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyG9kG5SSG0

May 25, 2009"http://www.spaceweather.com/
"Daily Sun: 25 May 09 *Yesterday's sunspot (number 1018) has faded
away. Sunspot number: 0"
"Far side of the Sun: This holographic image reveals no sunspots on
the far side of the sun."
"Planetary K-index
Now: Kp= 1 quiet"

"25 May 2009 08:00"
The visible face of the Sun is spotless:http://mdisas.nascom.nasa.gov/gif_he...t_igram_fd.gif

Please visit:http://blog.nj.com/southjersey_impac...SolarCycle.jpg

The right panel shows the visible face of the Sun as it looked on a
good day during the late Modern Warm Period. Sunspots are the apparent
size of craters on the moon. The left panel shows a spotless Sun as it
appears today.

Please write to Al Gore so that Al knows that the Sun is not living up
to his religious expectations. Al Gore is a divinity school dropout.
George Carlin had a better grasp of the true nature of God's creation,
than does Al Gore.

Please visit:http://www.co-intelligence.org/newsl...es/sun-etc.jpg
which shows the relative sizes of the Sun and planets. Compared to the
Sun, Jupiter is the size of a pea, earth is the size of a grain of
sand.

Obama Urges World to 'Stand Up' to North Korea, After Nuclear Test
President Obama accuses North Korea Monday of "recklessly challenging
the international community" with its underground nuclear test.

FOXNews.com

Monday, May 25, 2009

The United States and its allies must "stand up" to North Korea,
President Obama said Monday, accusing the rogue regime of blatantly
defying the international community with its nuclear and missile
test.

Obama addressed the issue in the Rose Garden on his way to Memorial
Day services at Arlington National Cemetery. He called North Korea's
tests "reckless" and a "grave threat" to international security.

"The United States and the international community must take action in
response," Obama said, noting that North Korea had abandoned a
previous pledge to halt its nuclear program and has with its actions
violated United Nations resolutions. "We will work with friends and
allies to stand up to this behavior."

The communist country said it had carried out a powerful underground
nuclear test, much larger than one conducted in 2006. The regime also
test-fired three short-range, ground-to-air missiles later Monday from
the same northeastern site where it launched a rocket last month, the
Yonhap news agency reported, citing unnamed sources.

The twin moves were roundly condemned throughout Washington Monday.

"The United States will never waver from our determination to protect
our people and the peace and security of the world," Obama said.

He accused North Korea of increasing tensions and threatening
stability in the region, while only further isolating itself.

"It will not find international acceptance unless it abandons its
pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery,"
Obama said earlier in a written statement. "The danger posed by North
Korea's threatening activities warrants action by the international
community."

He said the United States would continue working in multilateral talks
and will hold consultations with members of the U.N. Security Council.

Both the missile firing and nuclear test caught U.S. officials by
surprise, according to one official, though Obama and Adm. Mike
Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said North Korean
leaders' recent statements previewed such a move.

"They didn't give us any warning whatsoever," a senior U.S.
intelligence official who works on North Korean issues told FOX News.

The tests added an extra layer of urgency to House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi's trip to China, where she is meeting with officials to discuss
climate change.

"Such action by North Korea is unacceptable and cause for great
alarm," Pelosi said in a written statement from Shanghai. "These
reported tests underscore the message our congressional delegation
planned to deliver to top Chinese government leaders during our
meetings later this week: the Chinese must use their influence to help
bring North Korea to the table for the Six-Party talks. Today's
announcement makes that need all the more urgent."

The rocket liftoff, widely believed to be a cover for a test of its
long-range missile technology, drew censure from the U.N. Security
Council.

Mullen told FOX News that North Korea's actions speak "to their
growing belligerence."

He said the country is still trying to "destabilize" the region.

"And in the long run should they develop a nuclear weapons program,
and a program that could in fact be put on missiles that could reach
the reach the United States, that could be a significant threat to
us," he said.

Former South Korean Foreign Minister Han Sung-Joo told FOX News his
scientists estimated the scale of the latest North Korean nuclear test
to be about 10 times the size of the 2006 nuclear test.

They registered the tremor from the blast at 4.5 on the Richter scale.
That is 1.0 more than in 2006, or 10 times greater. It is estimated
that the 2006 test was about 800 tons, just under one kiloton. That
would make today's blast around 10 kilotons.

By comparison, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was 22 kilotons.

The former South Korean foreign minister called the latest test
serious, and a potential "game-changer."

He said North Korea's Kim Jong Il is trying to escalate its nuclear
capabilities to attain a better bargaining position, and eventually is
seeking bi-lateral talks with the United States. He said North Korea
is directly trying to draw attention from the Obama administration.

FOX News' James Rosen and Greg Palkot and The Associated Press
contributed to this report.

I think that "doing something about global warming" may have dropped
off the bottom of Obama's agenda.

On Mon, 25 May 2009 18:18:21 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On May 25, 4:59*pm, Tom Keating wrote:

Another deluded troll game ^^^^^^^^^^ ..

"Captured in the photo are five dark magnetic filaments, an emerging
sunspot, and a fiery prominence dancing along the solar limb."

Clever forgery, Tom Keating :
Needless to say.. this person is mentally unbalanced..

Excellent forgeries, better than the originals:

snip..

Here is a partial list (2009) of aliases this person has used while
posting to sci.environment.

From: "A thoughtful mourner" mantrap@
From:
From:
From: "Barack Obama"
From:
From: "Dr Crypto"
From: "Edmund Fitzgerald" mantrap@
From: "Eric Swanson" mantrap@
From: "Ian St. John"
From: "kiloVolts" mantrap@
From: "kilovolts" mantrap@
From: "kiloVolts"
From: "Leon"
From: "Leon Trollski"
From: "Mike Vandeman"
From: "Mike Vandeman" mantrap@
From: "milliAmperes"
From: "Ms. 2"
From: "Ms. 2" mantrap@
From: "Nicovar Inc."
From:
From: "Ravocin"
From: "Sarah Palin"
From: "Sanity"
From:

and now, this Vancouver, Canadian Based Fossil Fuel Troll claims to
be..

From:


This carbon addicted troll has stated in Message-ID:

"ENVIRONMENTALISM IS A HATE CRIME!"


Needless to say.. this person is mentally unbalanced..

On May 25, 10:09 pm, Tom Keating the art
forger, wrote:

Needless to say.. this person is mentally unbalanced..

You are being upstaged by your alter ego. Check out what you wrote in
alt.war.nuclear