Original headline: Venus Transit May Cause Serious Flooding Chinese Scientist Claims
Wise, Va. -- While local amateur astronomers gathered to watch the recent Venus Transit at The University of Virginia's College at Wise observatory, not-a-one of them realized that spectacular transit of Venus across the face of the Sun may lead to disastrous flooding along China's Yellow River or other more Earthly inclement weather conditions.
Geng Guoqing, an expert on natural calamities in The People's Republic of China, was more worried about the consequences for China's second-longest river, according to the Xinhua news agency.
Geng has compared historical records reaching 2,187 years back and found a clear correlation between Venus transits and serious floods along the river's middle and lower reaches, reports Xinhua.
Geng, a researcher at the Special Committee on Natural Calamities Forecasting under the China Geophysics Society, says that flooding could be that Venus blocks part of the Sun's radiation that should have been transmitted to Earth.
The Venus Transit causes climatic disturbances across the globe, he argues to skeptics.
Dr. Mitchell Gordon, an astrophysicist at The University of Virginia's College at Wise, recently conducted a lecture the evening prior to the transit but made no note or passing observation of any correlation between a transit of Venus and natural disasters on Earth in a review of its history.
The latest issue of the Beijing-based "Science and Technology Review" carries Geng's thesis which is entitled "Research on Interrelation between the Venus Transit and the Flood in Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yellow River".
Geng supports his viewpoints by numerous figures and sketch maps in the recently published academic paper. Scientists throughout the world will soon study his findings and data.
Perhaps the recent spat of nearly every day rain and coal camp flooding in Wise County, Virginia may be attributed to more celestial causation as opposed to more Earthly weather patters of summer.
One Venus Transit observer, tongue-in-check, noted that "here in Wise it did rain almost immediately following the Venus Transit June 8 and almost every day two-weeks thereafter!"
