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It is interesting that you can read the same article that I do and you will understand the information in a different manner.

My point is that all physics phenomenon that might affect the climate should be studied, that is why I am asking the question in my last post.

From the article:
“They're called Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes, or TGFs,”

“Individual particles in a TGF acquire a huge amount of energy, sometimes in excess of 20 mega-electron volts (MeV). “

“These electric fields accelerate free electrons, whisking them to speeds approaching the speed of light.”

“The powerful flashes were coming--surprise!--from Earth's atmosphere.”

This information tells me that gamma rays of very high energy are generated in the Earth’s atmosphere.
Information from this web site: http://library.thinkquest.org/C006027/html-ver/es-gamma.html tells me that gamma rays are generated by radioactive nuclei.
Information from: http://www.answers.com/topic/x-ray-tube
“A vacuum tube containing electrodes that accelerate electrons and direct them to a metal anode, where their impacts produce x-rays.”
I imagine that the gamma rays can be produced in a similar manner, though it takes much more energy.

So; whatever the method of particle acceleration is, it has been confirmed that gamma rays originate in the Earth’s upper atmosphere.

It is common knowledge that any object, or particle, travelling faster then about 7 miles per second can escape the Earth’s gravitational field.
Gamma rays travel at the speed of light, the accelerated electrons can travel at speed approaching the speed of light.
Certainly such energetic activity can accelerate molecules to speeds faster then 7 miles per second.
It seems to me that this web site touches on that subject. http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast07jan99_1.htm

“The cusp, as this region is called, has been studied by a variety of spacecraft, including Dynamics Explorer 1 (DE-1) in the 1980s, and, since 1996, the Polar spacecraft. Instruments aboard DE-1 and Polar have provided strong evidence that the magnetotail is filled by electrified gas not from the solar wind, as scientists had first thought, but from the earth's own atmosphere.”
“However, the auroral fountain is spewing all the time, even without the sun helping things out.
"The main question is, How do these very low-energy particles defy gravity and get to those altitudes?" said Coffey.”

As for your attempted rebuttal of my ideas; all I am doing is asking questions about areas of science that are not understood thoroughly.

If you have the answers to my questions and the questions that are presented on the websites then let us and the scientists know.

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