There is a numbing superficiality associated with so much reporting. It’s like everything is happening in a vacuum. There’s a persistently missing journalistic connection to the greater narrative whole which provides context, relevancy, coherence, and sense of what otherwise looks to be random happening. At the end of the day, it would not be big a surprise to know that there are not a lot of people paying attention to reports about stratospheric, or ionospheric heating. A passing CNN reader, however, might just have their eyes fall on this headline, ‘A polar vortex disruption is on the way, and its magnitude is almost unheard of in November.’ Apparently this geophysical phenomena is coming about due to a Sudden Stratospheric Warming event. Stop. Then this quote from the same article, “Scientists are still trying to figure out why these warming events happen,” Stop. My question would be, “Which scientists?” There is known technology that heats layers of the atmosphere. Next question, “Is that technology on?” The technology itself might be kind of rocket science, but the line of questioning isn’t. The reader of this story might very well come away thinking that it might be colder for couple days. There’s no more to it than that, or is there?
HAARP was established in 1993. That’s old news. The fact that it’s not the only high frequency active auroral research program on earth is deeper news. The movie Holes in Heaven was done in 1998. That’s old news. Information about scientific research taking place in the atmosphere is no surprise, although some of the capacities, effects, and scale, of that research might be. This basic information detailing equipment used to do energetic research in the atmosphere is established and long discussed by people that study it, create it, and use it. It appears as though it is reporters job to ignore it.
As an armchair geophysicist I remember reports through the years of phenomena that gets reported on with geophysical happenings. For instance, in May of 2011 the MIT Technology Review reported that the Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake. The same earthquake that devastated Japan, and sent a swamping tsunami onto Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. This is after the DEMETER spacecraft detected radio frequency anomalies over Haiti right before it got blasted with the 2010 quake. In June 2024 phys.org reported, Satellite data reveal anomalies up to 19 days before 2023 Turkey earthquake. Does anyone think to mention any of this as they are reporting on the Sudden Stratospheric Warming, or SSM (like using an acronym makes it scientific)? It’s actually quite ridiculous when you realize that these anomaly dots actually connect themselves, and the only way to not recognize that is by intentional effort. As matter of fact, NASA reported last year A Series of Rare Disturbances in the Stratosphere disturbing the polar vortex over Antarctica. Does any of this have anything to do with the South Atlantic Anomaly, or SAA (what a joke)? Ultimately it would be difficult tell what is related to what while we have a disastrously distracted front page journalism crew doing little more than crafting extended tabloid headlines. So while the sycophantic posse of so called science journalism reporters prepare for the next scientific anomaly quiz, puzzling the ‘experts’, how about applying some critical questioning for a minute? What is the relationship of all this geophysical phenomena? How do they relate? How are they connected? On our premium superficial level those questions might appear speculative. On another level they could be recognized as… logical.