Noctilucent Clouds blamed on climate change

Spaceweather.com here reports on the intensified spreading of Noctilucent clouds around Antarctica and chooses to blame it all on climate change. We know as they mention in the report that these clouds ARE the result of meteor smoke so it seems quite unbelievable that they actually choose to ignore the fact that this is likely the result of increased meteor activity ( See LKJ's report on the dramatic increase in fireball reports from 2005-present). And the fact that we have four comets (Ison RIP ,Encke,Lovejoy and Linear) inside our solar system that leave behind their cosmic primordial dust which is so obviously permeating our upper atmosphere to create these wonderfully visual cloud treats as well as other more obscure effects, but stay in the ignore this bit category. Seems like the cover up is continuing and intensifying. But it can't last much longer can it?

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Scroll down the page to watch the movie and read the bullshit. Peace Out!
 
Yeah, saw that yesterday and it made me smile like this: :evil: These guys have forgoten how to think. In the same paragraph they talk about comet dust and they they give out the methane out of nowhere.
 
Here is a book excerpt that address the noctilucent cloud phenomenon:

... Any kind of cloud is made of water droplets in suspension in the air. For these droplets to form, two factors are necessary:
1. The temperature must drop low enough for condensation to occur. During condensation, atmospheric water vapor (water in gaseous form) is transformed into droplets (tiny drops of water in liquid form).
2. Atmospheric particles must be present to help the droplets form. These particles are called cloud condensation nuclei. Without them, even if temperatures were very low there would be no condensation, and therefore no clouds.

Keeping in mind that low temperatures and condensation particles are the two main factors triggering cloud formation, let’s now deal with noctilucent clouds. They were discovered quite recently relative to other kinds of clouds since they were first observed in 1885. These clouds are made of ice and appear at very high altitudes, around 80 kilometers (50 miles). They are actually the highest known clouds. According to mainstream science, the cause for noctilucent remains blurry:

Noctilucent clouds are not fully understood and are a recently-discovered meteorological phenomenon  noctilucent clouds can form only under very restrictive conditions; their occurrence can be used as a sensitive guide to changes in the upper atmosphere. They are a relatively recent classification. The occurrence of noctilucent clouds appears to be increasing in frequency, brightness and extent. It is theorized that this increase is connected to climate change.

A number of media sources claim that noctilucent clouds are caused by global warming. This sounds like a dubious explanation for several reasons, the first being that, as shown previously, global temperatures have not been increasing but decreasing since 2000, while the appearance of noctilucent clouds is on the rise. Also, as shown in the chart below, 1885, the year of the first observations of noctilucent clouds, was a cold year, colder than the previous 20 years. If warming was their cause, why didn't the first observations of noctilucent clouds occur during the warm years prior to 1885 In addition, observations show that noctilucent clouds are more frequent during solar minimums, periods when solar heating of the upper atmosphere is low.

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Average temperatures and deviation (1850–1940). (© Sott.net)

While global warming doesn't seem to be the actual cause for noctilucent clouds, atmospheric dust might be the real culprit. Indeed, the first observation of noctilucent clouds in 1885 was just two years after the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano that released an estimated 11 cubic miles of dust into the atmosphere. This release was so severe that the dust cloud darkened the sky 250 miles away. On the nearby islands, the ash deposit was so thick that for several years it was difficult for plants to grow. Until 1886, ashes in suspension in the upper atmosphere caused exceptional red sunsets all around the world.

The role of dust in noctilucent clouds was shown in 2009 when they were artificially created with exhaust particles released by a space rocket:

The Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE) was conducted by the Naval Research Laboratory and the Department of Defense Space Test Program using a NASA four-stage Black Brant XII suborbital sounding rocket. Using ground based instruments and the STP/NRL STPSat-1 spacecraft, scientists will study an artificial noctilucent cloud formed by the exhaust particles of the rocket's fourth stage at about 173 miles altitude.

With dust identified as the cause of noctilucent clouds, some sources attributed their appearance to man-made pollution. But remember, noctilucent clouds are very high-altitude clouds. For industrial dust to reach high enough concentrations at these altitudes it should literally saturate the lower atmosphere (remember the Krakatoa with its obscured sky and ash-covered ground). This dust saturation of the lower atmosphere should make the Sun barely visible, which is not the case. So if the dust found in the higher atmosphere doesn’t come from below, it must come from above.

After beating around the bush for years, NASA finally came out of the woods in August 2012 and acknowledged the presence of meteor dust in noctilucent clouds. Moreover, NASA acknowledged that meteor dust is the nucleating agent around which noctilucent clouds form:

"We've detected bits of 'meteor smoke' imbedded in noctilucent clouds," reports James Russell of Hampton University, principal investigator of NASA's AIM mission to study the phenomenon. "This discovery supports the theory that meteor dust is the nucleating agent around which NLCs form."

So noctilucent clouds are not the product of the global warming myth or industrial pollution. They are not anthropogenic. NASA quantified the sharp increase in noctilucent cloud frequency in the following article:

NASA is launching a small satellite to take a closer look at these clouds at the edge of outer space and to try to understand why, in recent years, they are appearing more often over more parts of the world. They are also becoming brighter. Since 1980, satellite observations show the number of noctilucent clouds increasing about 28 percent per decade. The ice crystals in the clouds also appear to be getting bigger, with the brightness of the clouds rising about 7 percent per decade.

The increase in noctilucent clouds mentioned in this article is one of the effects – among others – of increased dust concentration in the atmosphere in general and in the upper atmosphere in particular. Most of this atmospheric dust is of cometary origin, while some of it comes from volcanic activity. Those two phenomena being, as seen previously, closely related.
 
Just to document the continued sightings of noctilucent clouds around the world; yesterday in Ipswich, England.

https://www.facebook.com/MeteoEU/posts/1734067133523482 said:
Meteo Europe added 3 new photos.
3 hrs ·

Beautiful display of ‪#‎noctilucent‬ ‪#‎clouds‬ over ‪#‎Ipswich‬, ‪#‎UK‬, last night!

We thank Carl Harlott for sharing with us!

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And where Ipswich is:
 
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