ice block

Taking that “red eye” overnight flight is more damaging to the environment than daytime air travel because contrails cause more global warming after dark. Winter flights are also harder on the environment than summer flights. And blocks of ice that crash suddenly from the sky are a sign of global warming, since they?re caused by freezing contrails.

Contrails warm the earth by trapping heat and keeping it from escaping, but they ALSO cool it by reflecting sunlight back into space. These two functions balance each other out during the daytime, but at night, the cooling effect is not in place, so the warming effect is greater.
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We have reported in the past on how mysterious blocks of ice are falling from the sky all over the world?smashing through roofs and at times narrowly missing people. In every case, the first suspicion has been that this ice came from airplanes emptying their toilets in the air?something they do NOT do. It’s actually a phenomenon caused by global warming. It’s recently happened in Oakland and Loma Linda, California.
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We regularly report on ice blocks falling from the sky and the reason why this happens, but since this phenomenon is reported in local news and these stories have never been gathered together in a single national story, it continues to surprise people when it happens to them. Now a California paper reports that a woman was awakened by a loud sound, and found a block of ice had crashed through her garage roof, destroying her car.

Jannise Johnson writes in the Daily Bulletin that Anne Gavell found the damage after noticing water from the melting ice coming from under her garage door at 7:30 a.m. A neighbor reported hearing a loud crash at the house around 3:00 to 3:30 a.m.
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The same conditions that recently produced a hole in the sky in Alabama have led to yet another giant ice block falling to Earth, this time in New Zealand.

Patrick Gower and Natasha Harris write in the New Zealand Herald that a football-sized block of ice smashed through the roof and into the kitchen of 80-year-old Jan Robertson, who says, “There was this terrific bang like goodness knows what. I could have been in there cutting up vegetables? There was debris on the toaster, on the kettle?it was everywhere.”

She called the fire department, and fireman John Sweeney says they were skeptical “until we saw it for ourselves.”
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