Strange Phenomenon: Sun rises two days early in Greenland, sparks fear.


The sun has arrived two days early in Greenland according to KNR Radio. It usually rises on January 13th but for some reason rose on 1/11/11 this year.

Inhabitants from the area appeared worried when witnessing the strange phenomenon. “The sun is not supposed to be here until January 13th, something isn’t right” a 74 year old local reported to KBR radio. [1]

Some scientist believe the melting of ice sheets is what caused the phenomenon. “The constellation of the stars has not changed and if it did the data of Earth’s axis and rotation would be monitored minute by minute all over the world,” said Wolfgang Lenhardt, head of the geophysics department at the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG).

Thomas Posch from the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Vienna suggested the observation was due to a change in the local horizon and was accelerated by melting ice sheets. Lenhardt also stated it could be an atmospheric phenomenon.

One thing is certain, the event continues to baffle scientists who have struggled to come up with an explanation.

http://www.thehalsreport.com/2011/01/strange-phenomenon-sun-rises-two-days-early-in-greenland-sparks-fear/

Greenland is where Jesus will make his second coming!

This news sort of boggles my mind.

I mean, scientists claim to have a handle on the path of comets, the earth, the sun blah blah blah and yet they don't know why the sun comes up two whole days early in greenland?

How much do they really know? Or are they just a bunch of bald faced liars?

i was trying to find an article i read where the Eskimos are saying that the stars are different at night, the sun is setting in a different location, and the ocean currents and winds have changed... but it seems to be gone now...

here is the video of it, but i can't find the article...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Dp3o5Ih7g&playnext=1&list=PL33E9FEB98838230F

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK-qwaX-2Wo&feature=autoplay&list=PL33E9FEB98838230F&index=2&playnext=2

Where I am the sun sets and rises in different places in summer and winter. I don't know about anywhere else.

OH Wow. Ummmm....I'm gonna go out on a limb here. Doesn't the sun come up everyday in Iceland? I mean, the sun came up here a week late one time, but nobody noticed...the next several sunrises seemed to follow suit, all a week ahead of schedule. Everything should be fine as long as those 7 missing late sunrises don't suddenly show up in the middle of the night, right? I'm right, right? Hold me.

I meant Greenland, not Iceland

I think it is one of those places that is dark in the winter and light in the summer. Like places in Alaska.

I just checked out "polar night" so I think I understand better what they are talking about now. Thanks, Jeannie. I guess I really was picturing Iceland, after all. I just wish they had explained better what they were talking about in the article itself.

these people navigate by the sun and stars, along with trade winds and other factors. they don't use GPS or other new technologies, it is how there ancestors taught them... plus that, when there nothing around but snow and ice, they had to rely on the sun and stars positions to get around..

I know what happened, The girl from Ipanema went to Greenland!

The closer you get to the pole, the fewer the days in a year.

In my spot, in Toronto, or London, or Budapest, the sun gets up to got to work 365 days a year, on the average. This is true from the equator to about Helsinki or Lermonoskovnoski Grad. (St. Petersburgh.)

But on the north pole there is one day, and one night per year.

In Greenland, since it is close to the pole, the arctic, and because it is a long island from north to south, the north end of the island gets considerably fewer days than the south end of the island.

So in the winter, this blasted spot was always dark, until January 13, which was my Mother's birthday, and it starts to get dark, that is, no more sun until January 13, on December 2 or 3, which is my brother's birthday.

So... if the sky gets light, it's the same "light", but the sun is visible two days earlier.

It's because, as the Czech scientist said, the top of the ice on the horizon got melted off. The sunrise, if it happens on January 13, is probably not a full rise; it is only a partial rise, like only one-quarter of the top of the sun's hemicircle shows. So when the ice mountain's tops get melted down for fillings, then more of the sun shows, and the sun will also show earlier. Not to the same 1/4 size above the horizon, but probably 1/6th of its size above the horizon, or similar, two days early. On the 13th, similarly, not 1/4 of the sun was visible, but something like 10/24th. (1/4 plus 1/6.)

The sensible thing to do would be to check some satellite images that are good and dependable in showing elevations, to see if the top of the ice indeed got shaved off or not.

Shave the whales.

my sons b-day is dec 2... and good thinking on your post... if the land was elevated enough from the ice melt, like whats going on in NY area, it would make it seem the sun was early...good post

If scientists started to lie about the tenets of descriptive geometry, they would be put away in the loonie bin.

You can lie about facts, but not those that are a priori truthful facts. Like you can say that Nietzsche borrowed his melancholia from the Inka rosetta stones, but you can't say "Triangles are special cases for circles", and expect to get away with it.

That said, my countriman Farkas Bolyai created the non-Euclemedian geometry, which in its basic set of fundamental axioms it asserts that a circle is more than 360 degrees, or fewer, and that the sum of angles inside a triangle are more or fewer than 180 angular degrees, but never 180 exactly.