Back in 1997 I wrote an eight-part series "Global Warming or Globaloney." In it I argued that the earth
is about to experience the end of a 12,000 year interglacial period and enter another of those periods of glaciation which have been the norm for millions of years.
I argued that a new ice age is aborning,
I explained why I believed this to be true, and most important of all, on the basis of the geological records, I showed what happens when this all takes place. And it ain't pretty.
I'm not about to get
into arguments about my belief that an ice age is in the cards for dear old homicidal Mother Earth. Arguing with the global warmiacs is about as instructive as arguing with those who still insist that the
earth is flat. They blame everything untoward that happens on global warming. I'm sure that when one of their offspring comes home with a bad report card they blame it on global warming. After all, what else
could explain how children of such brilliant parentage could fail scholastically. Jousting with these smart alecs is a waste of time, and as you'll see, time's a'wastin.
So let's cut to the chase. In the
event that you haven't noticed, Ma Nature has been busy zapping us with all kinds of really nasty disasters. In Florida last fall she threw four destructive hurricanes at the state and surrounding areas one
after the other. In December she really unlimbered her artillery at Southeast Asia, rocking the earth with a 9 point earthquake that spawned a killer tsunami and killed 150,000 people in a matter of moments.
On the heels of that there have been more quakes, at least one of which was over 6 points on the Richter scale.
As I write, California is drowning. In the first week of the year the state got more rain
than it usually gets in a whole year. There are floods and mudslides and God knows what else, and it's not yet over in the Golden state. The rest of the nation is also experiencing serious weather-related
catastrophes.
As I wrote in Global Warming or Globaloney "The transition period between interglacial periods and glaciation is not a smooth one --history shows it to be violent beyond imagination.
And it may be just around the corner. If the unchallenged results of the work of Genevieve Woillard and others who studied past ice ages are any indication of the pace of glaciation, once it starts, the
transition period is a mere twenty years or so. And we may be well into that 20-year period now. Woillard estimated that the period before that final 20 years -- when the earth began gearing up for an end to
the interglacial period -- could be as long as 150 years and as short as 75 years."
According to Woillard's studies and those of other paleological climate researchers the transition between
interglacial and glacial periods is one of increasing violence -- more volcanic eruptions, storms, earthquakes and other natural disasters.
Allow me to digress. In considering what lay behind the
earthquake that triggered the killer tsunami we should note that the size, and weight of the Antarctic ice pack has grown substantially in recent years. What's that got to do with the quake?
Just this, as
I wrote in 1997 "As Peter Tomkins and Christopher Bird explained in their book, Secret of the Soil: "... ice and snow, accumulating at the poles presses down on the planet, causing it to bulge at
the seams like a balloon. This triggers the pre-stressed earthquake faults into slipping. Hence earthquakes . It also causes volcanism -- potentially more dangerous -- by squeezing magma and causing
eruptions. The colder it gets and the more snow presses down on the Poles, the more magma is compressed and volcanoes act up."
Got that? Does it not make sense?
Seismologists tell us that the 9
point quake got the planet ringing like a bell - and it's still tolling. Since the earth is composed of a lot of tectonic plates that keep rubbing up against each other a huge quake like the one in Asia is
bound to effect the entire system. If you doubt that, stay tuned.
In 1997 I predicted a lot of the unpleasant stuff and backed it up with what I consider to be compelling evidence. Check it out
by going to my website, Wednesday on the Web, and reading