WEATHER: The blame game

“Blame God, greenhouse gases or just bad luck… Blame Trump. Or Hillary.” “Wildfires wreaking havoc” — “sweltering temps” — “gone up in smoke.”

Multiple choice is fun! Adding to The Press editorial (Sept. 15) “spectrum of possibilities” are several more choices:

A) Volcanic gases: There are thousands of active volcanoes. Science does not know how many tens of thousands of submarine volcanoes there are. Mankind has only explored 5 percent of the deep oceans. The eruption of Mount Pinatubo (1991), with its sulfate aerosol cloud, reached peak global coverage in one year. Gases that volcanoes produce include H20 vapor, CO2, SO2, H2S, methane, CO, H2, HCl, HF, HBr, NO…

B) Sun magnetic storms: Sunspot activity can produce dramatic changes in the ultraviolet and X-ray emission levels, affecting the Earth’s upper atmosphere.

C) Jupiter and other planets: Do you remember the extraterrestrial collision between Comet Shoemaker-Levy and Jupiter (1994)? The Earth has impact craters of 180+ miles across. The large planets’ electromagnetic and gravitational fields affect Earth.

D) HAARP: Some governments have programs that experiment with weather modification. Steerable electromagnetic beams manipulate the ionosphere.

E) Chemtrails: Persistent high-altitude experiments with chemical aerosols. Can there be poisonous brews that include barium (affects heart) and aluminum (affects brain) coated fibers and much more?

F) About 70 percent (?) of stars are binary: Does the sun have a smaller red dwarf star (“Wormwood,” Planet X) now approaching the Solar System with a long elliptical orbit of 4,400 years(?). Is the asteroid belt evidence of a destroyed planet (?) by this red (infrared) glowing star, including a large debris field from the earlier collision?

Hey, Thank GOD for the latest rains! There is hope again!

JIM PEARL (geologist)

Hayden Lake