The mystery of
falling blocks
of ice continues. As always, reporters of the most recent
event have no idea that this is a worldwide, recurring
phenomenon, and that it is most likely caused by atmospheric
changes related to global warming.
Mile Frazier of the Illinois Herald-Review reports that a
giant ice block fell from the sky into the back yard of some
residents of Decatur, Illinois. He writes that we know these
ice blocks, called megacryometeors, are NOT a case of
airplanes disgorging their frozen contents from toilets, but
he says we don?t know what DOES cause them.
However, that's not true. Atmospheric researchers believe
that the phenomenon takes place because of the increasing
difference, caused by global warming of the troposphere?or
lower atmosphere?and the upper atmosphere, or stratosphere.
The ultra-cold stratosphere causes large ice blocks to form
out of jet contrails or ice that forms on airplane wings,
and sometimes from water in rain clouds. These fall to the
Earth and can even kill people, if they?re big enough and
moving fast enough.
Megacycrometers have been a worldwide phenomenon for at
least five years. Fortunately, these gigantic blocks of
ice?actually huge hailstones?are rare, and Spanish scientist
Jesus Martinez-Frias, who has studied the blocks, believes
that about one-fifth of them are reported. Whether the
phenomenon is increasing or decreasing is unknown, because
ignorance and the lack of any central information-gathering
facility means that adequate records are not being kept.
Dr. Martinez-Frias proved in 2002 that the blocks were
occurring naturally. He analyzed the composition of one of
them and found that it was typical of hail that fell in the
Iberian region?just a hundred times the size of a normal
hailstone. Analysis of another of the blocks in the U.S.
determined that it did not contain any sewage or chemicals
that would be associated with aircraft toilets or de-icing
systems.
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