Solar activity & climate: is the sun causing global warming? Not Lately…

The skeptic argument...

It's the sun

"Over the past few hundred years, there has been a steady increase in the numbers of sunspots, at the time when the Earth has been getting warmer. The data suggests solar activity is influencing the global climate causing the world to get warmer." (BBC)

What the science says...

In the last 35 years of global warming, the Sun has shown a slight cooling trend. Sun and climate have been going in opposite directions.
As supplier of almost all the energy in Earth's climate, the sun has a strong influence on climate. A comparison of sun and climate over the past 1150 years found temperatures closely match solar activity (Usoskin 2005). However, after 1975, temperatures rose while solar activity showed little to no long-term trend. This led the study to conclude, "...during these last 30 years the solar total irradiance, solar UV irradiance and cosmic ray flux has not shown any significant secular trend, so that at least this most recent warming episode must have another source."
In fact, a number of independent measurements of solar activity indicate the sun has shown a slight cooling trend since 1960, over the same period that global temperatures have been warming. Over the last 35 years of global warming, sun and climate have been moving in opposite directions. An analysis of solar trends concluded that the sun has actually contributed a slight cooling influence in recent decades (Lockwood 2008).

Figure 1: Annual global temperature change (thin light red) with 11 year moving average of temperature (thick dark red). Temperature from NASA GISS. Annual Total Solar Irradiance (thin light blue) with 11 year moving average of TSI (thick dark blue). TSI from 1880 to 1978 from Solanki. TSI from 1979 to 2009 from PMOD.

Other studies on solar influence on climate

This conclusion is confirmed by many studies finding that while the sun contributed to warming in the early 20th Century, it has had little contribution (most likely negative) in the last few decades:

• Erlykin 2009: "We deduce that the maximum recent increase in the mean surface temperature of the Earth which can be ascribed to solar activity is 14% of the observed global warming."
• Benestad 2009: "Our analysis shows that the most likely contribution from solar forcing a global warming is 7 ± 1% for the 20th century and is negligible for warming since 1980."
• Lockwood 2008: "It is shown that the contribution of solar variability to the temperature trend since 1987 is small and downward; the best estimate is -1.3% and the 2? confidence level sets the uncertainty range of -0.7 to -1.9%."
• Lean 2008: "According to this analysis, solar forcing contributed negligible long-term warming in the past 25 years and 10% of the warming in the past 100 years..."
• Lockwood 2008: "The conclusions of our previous paper, that solar forcing has declined over the past 20 years while surface air temperatures have continued to rise, are shown to apply for the full range of potential time constants for the climate response to the variations in the solar forcings."
• Ammann 2007: "Although solar and volcanic effects appear to dominate most of the slow climate variations within the past thousand years, the impacts of greenhouse gases have dominated since the second half of the last century."
• Lockwood 2007: "The observed rapid rise in global mean temperatures seen after 1985 cannot be ascribed to solar variability, whichever of the mechanism is invoked and no matter how much the solar variation is amplified."
• Foukal 2006 concludes "The variations measured from spacecraft since 1978 are too small to have contributed appreciably to accelerated global warming over the past 30 years."
• Scafetta 2006 says "since 1975 global warming has occurred much faster than could be reasonably expected from the sun alone."
• Usoskin 2005 conclude "during these last 30 years the solar total irradiance, solar UV irradiance and cosmic ray flux has not shown any significant secular trend, so that at least this most recent warming episode must have another source."
• Solanki 2004 reconstructs 11,400 years of sunspot numbers using radiocarbon concentrations, finding "solar variability is unlikely to have been the dominant cause of the strong warming during the past three decades".
• Haigh 2003 says "Observational data suggest that the Sun has influenced temperatures on decadal, centennial and millennial time-scales, but radiative forcing considerations and the results of energy-balance models and general circulation models suggest that the warming during the latter part of the 20th century cannot be ascribed entirely to solar effects."
• Stott 2003 increased climate model sensitivity to solar forcing and still found "most warming over the last 50 yr is likely to have been caused by increases in greenhouse gases."
• Solanki 2003 concludes "the Sun has contributed less than 30% of the global warming since 1970."
• Lean 1999 concludes "it is unlikely that Sun–climate relationships can account for much of the warming since 1970."
• Waple 1999 finds "little evidence to suggest that changes in irradiance are having a large impact on the current warming trend."
• Frolich 1998 concludes "solar radiative output trends contributed little of the 0.2°C increase in the global mean surface temperature in the past decade."

From http://www.skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-global-warming.htm

Hotter-burning sun warming the planet?

The sun [was] burning hotter than usual, offering a possible explanation for global warming that needs to be weighed when proceeding with expensive efforts to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, Swiss and German scientists say.
"The sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures," said Sami Solanki, the director of the renowned Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen, Germany, who led the research.
"The sun is in a changed state. It is brighter than it was a few hundred years ago and this brightening started relatively recently -- in the last 100 to 150 years," Mr. Solanski said.
Average global temperatures have increased by about 0.2 degrees Celsius (0.36 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past 20 years and are widely believed to be responsible for new extremes in weather patterns.
Globally, 1997, 1998 and 2002 were the hottest years since worldwide weather records were first collated in 1860.
Bill Burrows, a climatologist and a member of the Royal Meteorological Society, welcomed Mr. Solanki's research.
"It shows that there is enough happening on the solar front to merit further research. Perhaps we are devoting too many resources to correcting human effects on the climate without being sure that we are the major contributor," he said.
Mr. Solanki said that the brighter sun and higher levels of so-called "greenhouse gases" both contributed to the change in the Earth's temperature, but it was impossible to say which had the greater impact.
Most scientists agree that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide from fossil fuels have contributed to the warming of the planet in the past few decades, but have questioned whether other factors beyond man's control are also to blame.
To determine the sun's role in global warming, Mr. Solanki's research team measured magnetic zones on the sun's surface known as sunspots, which are believed to intensify the sun's energy output.
The team studied sunspot data going back several hundred years. They found that a dearth of sunspots signaled a cold period -- which could last up to 50 years -- but that over the past century their numbers had increased as the Earth's climate grew steadily warmer.
Mr. Solanki does not know what is causing the sun to burn brighter now or how long this cycle would last.
He says that the increased solar brightness over the past 20 years has not been enough to cause the observed climate changes, but believes that the impact of intense sunshine on the ozone layer and cloud cover could be affecting the climate more than the sunlight itself.
David Viner, the senior research scientist at the University of East Anglia's climatic research unit, said the research showed that the sun did have an effect on global warming.
He added, however, that the study also showed that over the past 20 years, the number of sunspots had remained roughly constant, while the Earth's temperature had continued to increase.
This suggested that over the past 20 years, human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation had begun to dominate "the natural factors involved in climate change," he said.

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Iraqi child cancer 'linked to US weapons'

Iraqi child cancer 'linked to US weapons'

The number of deformed babies and children with leukaemia is increasing in Iraq, with locals blaming Depleted Uranium weapons used in US attacks.

Seven years after the invasion of Iraq, the US is starting to withdraw its forces. US President Barack Obama pledged to withdraw most US troops from Iraq by the end of August 2010. He has said that between 35,000 and 50,000 US troops will remain in the country, and would gradually continue to be withdrawn until December 31, 2011.

Historians and pundits will no doubt argue for years over the impact of this history making period, but Iraqis are dealing with a more immediate and, it seems devastating legacy. Stories are now emerging of increased deformities in the country's newborn babies as well as a dramatic rise in the number of children with cancer. 

A report published in The Independent says cancers and other diseases in the city of Falluja are higher than those recorded in the survivors of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Many are asking whether this spike could be connected to contamination caused by the use of depleted uranium in the bombs and bullets used by American forces.
 

SBS' Dateline program's Walkley Award winning video journalist Fouad Hady returns to his home country to see some of the deformed and desperately ill children, and meets some of the people battling against the odds to rebuild their lives, and their city.

Advisement: This film contains images that are difficult to watch.

Transcript follows, beneath the film.

 

Iraq's Deadly Legacy

Transcript:

I'm travelling to Falluja - about two hours drive west of Baghdad - the scene of fierce fighting between Sunni insurgents and US forces in 2004. My driver is Mohammed, a mechanic who lives here, he remembers a happier time.
 MOHAMMED, DRIVER (Translation):  This is our city, Falluja.  Every Monday and Tuesday it used to celebrate weddings, happy occasions, newborn babies and young men and women getting married…..
 He says that has all changed now.
 MOHAMMED (Translation):  They don't have very high hopes of marrying and starting a family because they are scared to have children.  This is the stricken Falluja city.
 Mohammed and his new bride stayed in Falluja throughout the fighting. They say there is a terrible legacy.
 MOHAMMED (Translation):  She was two months pregnant when the battles with the American forces started.  They were fierce battles and the American forces moved into the houses.  There was heavy aerial bombing and armoured vehicles came in.  A while later Zahraa was born disabled –she has six digits in her hands and feet – here are her hands and here are her feet. They are the effects – the doctors would not give us reports.  She also had general paralysis and obesity, an allergy in the trachea, asthma, cross-eyed and also has mild mental retardation.
 MOHAMMED’S WIFE (Translation):  I had high hopes when I was pregnant with her - I was expecting her to grow up, play, to guide her, play with her, take her out, enrol her at school... In two years, all kids her age will start school, except for her.

MOHAMMED (Translation):  We had a baby boy after her and when he was three or four days old, he died. He had an opening in the crown of the head, from the effects. It's not the only case in Falluja - there are not hundreds but thousands of cases in Falluja.
 Mohammad and many others believe US bullets and bombs - which spread depleted uranium - have made Falluja toxic. He wants me to meet some of his neighbours.
 REPORTER (Translation):  What is your son’s condition?
 WOMAN (Translation):  My son’s condition is from the effects of the war – I was pregnant with him when Falluja was attacked – I was pregnant during the first attack and he was barely 40 days old during the second. So that is why this happened to my son Abdul Rahman. It is the effects of war – the bombs the Americans dropped on us. In general, Falluja’s women are not happing children.
 REPORTER (Translation): Do you know women, like neighbours, friends…
 WOMAN (Translation):  All of them.
 REPORTER (Translation):  Do they miscarry or can’t they fall pregnant?
 WOMAN (Translation):  She miscarries - then can’t fall pregnant – my sister miscarried as well.
 REPORTER (Translation):  The same condition?
 WOMAN (Translation):  Yes, the same condition.
 REPORTER (Translation):  Do you know any neighbours in the same condition – miscarry and so on?
 WOMAN (Translation):  All of them.
 The fighting in Falluja filled the cemeteries, so people were buried here in the sports ground and the locals say the curse of Falluja continues
 REPORTER (Translation):  What is this?
 LOCAL MAN (Translation):  It's for children who were born with deformities and incurable diseases. They grow to about five or six months of age and don't survive any longer. This whole cemetery is especially for children. These are the deformed children.
 REPORTER (Translation):   Where?
 MAN (Translation):  All these graves. Those behind you and this side, they're all children. This is for deformed children from Falluja hospital.
 I want to ask the doctors at Falluja hospital what they think is causing this tragedy. The hospital is clean, well-equipped and was paid for by the US. Paediatrician Dr Samira al-Ani says she has seen an increase in the numbers of deformed children.
 DR SAMIRA AL-ANI, PAEDIATRICIAN: The cases that I am meeting now or I am facing now, are more than before, I can say 2002. I feel that the number is increasing after 2006.
 REPORTER: Increasing by how many per cent?
 DR SAMIRA AL-ANI: I can't give a per cents, I can't give a percentage because there is no documentation - in the past or even now. There is no statistics at all. There is no documentation of... I can say of most of the cases, not all of the cases, but most of the cases. There is nothing documented. There should be some studies and there should be some investigations.
 REPORTER:  No study here?
 DR SAMIRA AL-ANI: No, no, no.
 REPORTER: Why?
 DR SAMIRA AL-ANI:  We have no facilities to do such investigations. It's a complex subject and it needs complex investigation.
 Travelling with us is a journalist, Mr Haamed Alname from a local paper, he also tried to talk to doctors - without success.
 HAAMED ALNAME, JOURNALIST (Translation):  They refused categorically and the direct response was that an official letter from the Health Ministry prohibits all statements by doctors in relation to, quote unquote, "congenital deformities". The main reason is pressure from the American forces on the Health Ministry. The letter was sent to the Anbar Department of Health and to Falluja General Hospital.
 I decide to head back to Baghdad seeking more information. The Health Ministry refuse all my requests for an interview, but Mishkat al-Moumin, the Minister for the Environment, agreed to talk. She's working to clean up those parts of Iraq contaminated during the war.
 MISHKAT AL-MOUMIN, MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT (Translation):  So what we have today is 41 sites. The majority are in areas close to Baghdad or in areas close toBasra, or in the proximity of Basra.
 Central Baghdad - this is one of the many radioactive sites scattered acrossIraq. Once the Department of Youth and Sport, it was badly damaged in the fighting for the city. Many of the shells and bullets contained depleted uranium. This man is from the Environment Ministry. With barrels of contaminated material, including depleted uranium, or DU, stacked along the wall, I put on the protective overalls.
 MAN (Translation):  Contaminated rubble. DU. Dirt, concrete, rubble. Level 4. Alpha, beta, gamma. This is the third floor.
 REPORTER (Translation):  Isn’t it contaminated?
 MAN (Translation):  No it’s not.
 REPORTER (Translation):  Which floor is this?
 MAN (Translation):  Fourth.
 REPORTER (Translation):  Contaminated?
 MAN (Translation):  Yes. These are all bullet marks on this wall. The readings were high, but Science & Technology removed the contamination and now the reading is normal.
 REPORTER (Translation):  Which level?
 MAN (Translation):  Eight. The bullets penetrated the walls here. See how the background reading has changed? There's a reading. We requested another clean-up, to finish the job.
 REPORTER (Translation):  So there's still uranium here?
 MAN (Translation):  It's more than the normal level. There's radiation activity so they'll redo this area.
 When the shells hit, radioactive dust particles can contaminate large parts of the surrounding area.
 MAN (Translation):  If you walk on a contaminated area and move to a clean one, contamination will spread.

REPORTER (Translation):  They're not wearing suits, will they be exposed?
 MAN (Translation):  Only if they touch it. The alpha range is 5 cm.
 Not far from this building is the al-Alwiyah Children's Hospital, in the centre of Baghdad. A baby has been delivered in the ambulance on the way here.
 DOCTOR:  Female baby, with cleft palate and the issue of abdominal vessel and most probably a polycystic kidney. This is the bulge in the abdominal muscle and this is a polycystic kidney and there is a facial cleft complete facial collapse and the cleft. Most of all, this patient is - low-set ear and polydactyl, you can see the polydactyl for the left hand, there is six fingers, not five, six finger on the left hand. She is a female baby. We see multiple cases like this.
 This is the newborn baby's grandmother.
 GRANDMOTHER (Translation):  They told us in her sixth month hat she had this condition.
 REPORTER (Translation):  You found out by ultra-sound?
 GRANDMOTHER (Translation):  Yes.  I felt it was so wrong and did not accept it – the medical committee recommended an abortion and she was young and scared. But I did not agree and told her to have the baby. God Almighty created her and God will…  Here, look at her. So many things are wrong with her. Both her father and mother are healthy. It's not that anything's wrong with them. They're fine.
 REPORTER (Translation):  Where's her mother?
 GRANDMOTHER (Translation):  I sent them home. I haven't told the mother or father yet. Even when I saw her in the ambulance, I was dumbfounded. It's all because of the fighting. What has this baby ever done? If her father sees her, he will go crazy. What's her fault, this baby? Oh, God.
 The doctor calls me to see another baby, just two hours old.
 REPORTER (Translation):  Doctor, this is a scary case. What is this?
 DOCTOR (Translation):  It's wrong to say scary about them.
 REPORTER (Translation):  Not scary, I'm sorry. But this case is tragic. It's really a sad situation?
 DOCTOR: This is a case of enkaphalosio - you'll notice that this is the forehead of the baby disappeared completely and there is a herniation of the brain tissue to the back of the baby. This is a common situation we have noticed lately. This baby is gasping - put him on oxygen, please. Oxygen, oxygen, oxygen.
 Down the corridor is another 3-month-old baby with facial deformities. Her name is Farah, which means 'happiness'. She's been isolated from other babies because she is very sick.
 REPORTER (Translation):  What's wrong with Farah?
 WOMAN (Translation):  She has acute infections. She was very ill yesterday - she was almost finished. We gave her, her medication, and plasma. We felt so sad in the section when we stopped hearing her voice.
 REPORTER (Translation):  Do you like her?
 WOMAN (Translation):  We love to hear her voice.  Especially as we have children... We're mothers and we know. Poor girl - She's helpless. We are all she has. Isn't she a human being too?
 REPORTER (Translation):  Did you find her mother?
 WOMAN (Translation):  I don't know if anyone has visited her or not. They haven't even left an address. Just Baghdad.
 Just across the Tigris River, is another hospital specialising in young cancer patients.
 DOCTOR (Translation):  After the last war on Iraq the number of leukaemia cases has increased. The children who come to us face real suffering, especially those coming from remote areas, rural areas.
 REPORTER (Translation):  Is he your son?
 WOMAN (Translation):  Yes.
 REPORTER (Translation):  What happened?
 WOMAN (Translation):  He has leukaemia in the blood.
 REPORTER (Translation):  How long has it been?
 WOMAN (Translation):  Almost a year.
 REPORTER (Translation):  How did you discover it?
 WOMAN (Translation):  He had a tumour - he started losing weight and got skinny. We did a marrow test and it showed up in his blood. All the children are like that. They say it's the effect of wars, I don't know why.
 WOMAN 2 (Translation):  We took her to a hospital in Irbil – a haematology hospital, we did the marrow test. We'd never heard of it before. We knew her condition was critical. The results confirmed it was leukaemia. We were so shocked but when we came here we saw so many cases even worse than Marwa’s case. But thank God... God is generous, He will cure her.
 REPORTER (Translation):  Hassan, what's Hassan's condition?
 WOMAN 3 (Translation):  He was fine except that he was coughing. They requested more tests and the results showed he had the disease in the blood.
 REPORTER (Translation):  Leukaemia.
 WOMAN 3 (Translation):  Yes. I cried until I couldn't cry any more. My tears dried out from so much crying.
 The hospital could not, or would not give me any figures about the number of young leukaemia patients.
 REPORTER: Let's talk about the war.
 DOCTOR:  Oh, maybe this is difficult. You cannot say for sure that the war in what way affected our problem in Iraq but our observations that the numbers are increasing for the newly diagnosed patients over the past 20 years.
 Again, I can't get no firm statistics but as I film a technician testing blood, I begin to get an idea of the scale of the problem.
 REPORTER (Translation):  How many cases do you detect per day?
 TECHNICIAN (Translation):  Sometimes 10, 14... It depends on what comes in..
 REPORTER (Translation):  Leukaemia?
 TECHNICIAN (Translation):  Leukaemia - All blood diseases.
 REPORTER (Translation):  You're saying 10 cases a day, that's 300 a month. So the numbers are…
 TECHNICIAN (Translation):   The numbers are, well, it's normal here.
Those figures would mean thousands of cases a year in this one hospital. I return to al-Alwiyah Hospital the next day. The doctor is examining baby Farah - her condition has improved but her severe disabilities make me fear for her future.
 DOCTOR: There are no eyelids for this baby since her birth and that make a lot of complication for her. And her age now is 80 days, but also she has a repetitive infection in the chest because she is complaining from repeated aspirations to the lower respiratory system. One of the time in her early life she was complaining from pneumonia - aspiration pneumonia. She aspirates her own saliva and that's all.
 Iraq's broken children need love and care and they need to know what's causing this terrible tragedy.
 REPORTER (Translation):  Do you have the intention to have more children?
 MOHAMMED’S WIFE (Translation):   I hope so. I would love to have more children. But I'm scared, because I had a baby boy after her and he died then, he was deformed. His head was deformed. I would love to, but I'm scared.
 GEORGE NEGUS:  Fouad Hady with that disturbing report. Fouad tells us, by the way, that the head of the Baghdad hospital where he was filming was gunned down on Thursday as she left work. The Iraqis are struggling to come up with valid evidence of the causes of the deaths and deformities in their children, but this UK report done in Fallujah and published by the 'International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health' says "we conclude that the results confirm the reported increases in cancer and infant mortality, which are alarmingly high." The report also states that "although we have drawn attention to the use of depleted uranium as one potential relevant exposure, there may be other possibilities". And our website this week includes a blog from our executive producer on our decision not to show some particularly distressing scenes from Fouad's Iraq report, plus links to research on uranium and deformities. That's at sbs.com.au/dateline.
From http://www.nuclearfreeplanet.org/articles/iraqi-child-cancer-linked-to-us-weapons-the-ethics-of-modern-war-iraqs-deadly-legacy.html
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King Tut’s DNA is Western European

King Tut’s DNA is Western European

Tutankhamen and Akhnaton were ‘Caucasians’

Despite the refusal of the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, to release any DNA results which might indicate the racial ancestry of Pharaoh Tutankhamen, the leaked results reveal that King Tut’s DNA is a 99.6 percent match with Western European Y chromosomes.

The DNA test results were inadvertently revealed on a Discovery Channel TV documentary filmed with Hawass’s permission — but it seems as if the Egyptian failed to spot the giveaway part of the documentary which revealed the test results.

Hawass previously announced that he would not release the racial DNA results of Egyptian mummies — obviously because he feared the consequences of such a revelation.

On the Discovery Channel broadcast, which can be seen on the Discovery Channel website here, or if they pull it, on YouTube here, at approximately 1:53 into the video, the camera pans over a printout of DNA test results from King Tut.

Firstly, here is a brief explanation of the results visible in the video. It is a list of what is called Short Tandem Repeats (STRs).
STRs are repeated DNA sequences which are “short repeat units” whose characteristics make them especially suitable for human identification.

These STR values for 17 markers visible in the video are as follows:

DYS 19 – 14 (? not clear)
DYS 385a – 11
DYS 385b – 14
DYS 389i – 13
DYS 389ii – 30
DYS 390 – 24
DYS 391 – 11
DYS 392 – 13
DYS 393 – 13
DYS 437 – 14 (? not clear)
DYS 438 – 12
DYS 439 – 10
DYS 448 – 19
DYS 456 – 15
DYS 458 – 16
DYS 635 – 23
YGATAH4 – 11

What does this mean? Fortunately, a genius by the name of Whit Athey provides the key to this list. Mr Athey is a retired physicist whose working career was primarily at the Food and Drug Administration where he was chief of one of the medical device labs.

Mr Athey received his doctorate in physics and biochemistry at Tufts University, and undergraduate (engineering) and masters (math) degrees at Auburn University. For several years during the 1980s, he also taught one course each semester in the electrical engineering department of the University of Maryland. Besides his interest in genetic genealogy, he is an amateur astronomer and has his own small observatory near his home in Brookeville, MD.
He also runs a very valuable website called the “Haplogroup Predictor” which allows users to input STR data and generate the haplogroup which marks those STR data.

For those who want to know what a haplogroup is, here is a “simple” definition: a haplogroup is a group of similar haplotypes that share a common ancestor with a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) mutation.

Still none the wiser? Damn these scientists.

Ok, let’s try it this way: a haplotype is a combination of multiple specific locations of a gene or DNA sequence on a chromosome.
Haplogroups are assigned letters of the alphabet, and refinements consist of additional number and letter combinations, for example R1b or R1b1. Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA haplogroups have different haplogroup designations. In essence, haplogroups give an inisight into ancestral origins dating back thousands of years.

By entering all the STR data inadvertently shown on the Discovery video, a 99.6 percent fit with the R1b haplogroup is revealed.

The significance is, of course, that R1b is the most common Y-chromosome haplogroup in Europe reaching its highest concentrations in Ireland, Scotland, western England and the European Atlantic seaboard — in other words, European through and through.

So much for the Afro-centrists and others who have derided the very obvious northwestern European appearance of a large number of the pharonic mummies. It seems like March of the Titans was right after all.

From http://www.eutimes.net/2010/06/king-tuts-dna-is-western-european/

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Global Elite Building Vast Underground Cities

Global Elite Building Vast Underground Cities

They’re preparing for something big using your tax money to build these bases and you aren't invited!

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Surveillance, Clairvoyance and Prophecy via the (super)Conscious Web

G00gle and CIA Invest in ‘FUTURE’ of Web Monitoring

Surveillance, Clairvoyance and Prophecy via the (super)Conscious Web

 

The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.

The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine “goes beyond search” by “looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events.”

The idea is to figure out for each incident who was involved, where it happened and when it might go down. Recorded Future then plots that chatter, showing online “momentum” for any given event.

“The cool thing is, you can actually predict the curve, in many cases,” says company CEO Christopher Ahlberg, a former Swedish Army Ranger with a PhD in computer science.

Which naturally makes the 16-person Cambridge, Massachusetts, firm attractive to Google Ventures, the search giant’s investment division, and to In-Q-Tel, which handles similar duties for the CIA and the wider intelligence community.

It’s not the very first time Google has done business with America’s spy agencies. Long before it reportedly enlisted the help of the National Security Agency to secure its networks, Google sold equipment to the secret signals-intelligence group. In-Q-Tel backed the mapping firm Keyhole, which was bought by Google in 2004 — and then became the backbone for Google Earth.

This appears to be the first time, however, that the intelligence community and Google have funded the same startup, at the same time. No one is accusing Google of directly collaborating with the CIA. But the investments are bound to be fodder for critics of Google, who already see the search giant as overly cozy with the U.S. government, and worry that the company is starting to forget its “don’t be evil” mantra.

America’s spy services have become increasingly interested in mining “open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in the daily avalanche of TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports.

“Secret information isn’t always the brass ring in our profession,” then CIA-director General Michael Hayden told a conference in 2008. “In fact, there’s a real satisfaction in solving a problem or answering a tough question with information that someone was dumb enough to leave out in the open.

U.S. spy agencies, through In-Q-Tel, have invested in a number of firms to help them better find that information. Visible Technologies crawls over half a million web 2.0 sites a day, scraping more than a million posts and conversations taking place on blogs, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. Attensity applies the rules of grammar to the so-called “unstructured text” of the web to make it more easily digestible by government databases. Keyhole (now Google Earth) is a staple of the targeting cells in military-intelligence units.

Recorded Future strips from web pages the people, places and activities they mention. The company examines when and where these events happened (“spatial and temporal analysis”) and the tone of the document (“sentiment analysis”). Then it applies some artificial-intelligence algorithms to tease out connections between the players. Recorded Future maintains an index with more than 100 million events, hosted on Amazon.com servers. The analysis, however, is on the living web.

“We’re right there as it happens,” Ahlberg told Danger Room as he clicked through a demonstration. “We can assemble actual real-time dossiers on people.”

Recorded Future certainly has the potential to spot events and trends early. Take the case of Hezbollah’s long-range missiles. On March 21, Israeli President Shimon Peres leveled the allegation that the terror group had Scud-like weapons. Scouring Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s past statements, Recorded Future found corroborating evidence from a month prior that appeared to back up Peres’ accusations.

That’s one of several hypothetical cases Recorded Future runs in its blog devoted to intelligence analysis. But it’s safe to assume that the company already has at least one spy agency’s attention. In-Q-Tel doesn’t make investments in firms without an “end customer” ready to test out that company’s products.

Both Google Ventures and In-Q-Tel made their investments in 2009, shortly after the company was founded. The exact amounts weren’t disclosed, but were under $10 million each. Google’s investment came to light earlier this year online. In-Q-Tel, which often announces its new holdings in press releases, quietly uploaded a brief mention of its investment a few weeks ago.

Both In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures have seats on Recorded Future’s board. Ahlberg says those board members have been “very helpful,” providing business and technology advice, as well as introducing him to potential customers. Both organizations, it’s safe to say, will profit handsomely if Recorded Future is ever sold or taken public. Ahlberg’s last company, the corporate intelligence firm Spotfire, was acquired in 2007 for $195 million in cash.

Google Ventures did not return requests to comment for this article. In-Q-Tel Chief of Staff Lisbeth Poulos e-mailed a one-line statement: “We are pleased that Recorded Future is now part of IQT’s portfolio of innovative startup companies who support the mission of the U.S. Intelligence Community.”

Just because Google and In-Q-Tel have both invested in Recorded Future doesn’t mean Google is suddenly in bed with the government. Of course, to Google’s critics — including conservative legal groups, and Republican congressmen — the Obama Administration and the Mountain View, California, company slipped between the sheets a long time ago.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt hosted a town hall at company headquarters in the early days of Obama’s presidential campaign. Senior White House officials like economic chief Larry Summers give speeches at the New America Foundation, the left-of-center think tank chaired by Schmidt. Former Google public policy chief Andrew McLaughlin is now the White House’s deputy CTO, and was publicly (if mildly) reprimanded by the administration for continuing to hash out issues with his former colleagues.

In some corners, the scrutiny of the company’s political ties have dovetailed with concerns about how Google collects and uses its enormous storehouse of search data, e-mail, maps and online documents. Google, as we all know, keeps a titanic amount of information about every aspect of our online lives. Customers largely have trusted the company so far, because of the quality of their products, and because of Google’s pledges not to misuse the information still ring true to many.

But unease has been growing. Thirty seven state Attorneys General are demanding answers from the company after Google hoovered up 600 gigabytes of data from open Wi-Fi networks as it snapped pictures for its Street View project. (The company swears the incident was an accident.)

“Assurances from the likes of Google that the company can be trusted to respect consumers’ privacy because its corporate motto is ‘don’t be evil’ have been shown by recent events such as the ‘Wi-Spy’ debacle to be unwarranted,” long-time corporate gadfly John M. Simpson told a Congressional hearing in a prepared statement. Any business dealings with the CIA’s investment arm are unlikely to make critics like him more comfortable.

But Steven Aftergood, a critical observer of the intelligence community from his perch at the Federation of American Scientists, isn’t worried about the Recorded Future deal. Yet.

“To me, whether this is troublesome or not depends on the degree of transparency involved. If everything is aboveboard — from contracts to deliverables — I don’t see a problem with it,” he told Danger Room by e-mail. “But if there are blank spots in the record, then they will be filled with public skepticism or worse, both here and abroad, and not without reason.”

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