Wisdom
& Warning
Something astounding is going on and the elders in the Arctic Circle are telling
us that even the position of the earth relative to the sun and stars has changed.
NASA certainly is saying nothing about this. It serves us to listen to these
natives who live close to the earth, sun, moon and stars.
Many dramatic events are coming about and the day in January when the sun
came up two days early in Greenland we should have taken more notice. World
scientists could not come up with a reasonable explanation so none was provided
but they did reject the idea that the earth’s orbit changed in any way.
Since then we’ve seen a staggering number of signs indicating major
changes are unfolding.
Something has provoked a profound alteration to conditions on our planet driving
the atmosphere and earth into convulsion. The weather continues to be beyond
worst-case-scenario expectations of weathermen everywhere. Epic floods, massive
wildfires, drought and the deadliest tornado season in 60 years are ravaging
the United States, with scientists warning that even more extreme weather
is on the way. From all points on the compass come reports of natural disasters.
Life is getting extremely uncomfortable for earth’s populations as record
heat, cold, rain and drought conditions are recorded.
Earthquakes are shaking the four corners of the globe while volcanoes blow
their tops one after another. Sinkholes are swallowing houses and beaches
while all over the world the ground opens up giant crevices like the one below.
The earth’s magnetic shield is weakening and is in the process of having
its magnetic field reverse with magnetic north moving at 40 kilometers a year
south toward Siberia.
Ozone holes also have become more prevalent and we can see what that is doing
to the whales already. Painful sunburns are usually associated with people,
but many whales are now acutely sunburned, with cases escalating in recent
years, according to new research.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, is the first
to demonstrate that sun damage to whale skin is on the rise and is likely
tied to increasing levels of ultraviolet radiation resulting from the thinning
ozone layer. “The thing is, whales do not have hair, fur or feathers
that could offer some protection, and they are forced to surface in order
to breathe,” co-author Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse told Discovery News.
It is more dangerous on the surface of our planet than at any moment in recorded
history.
Scotland’s sunniest city experienced a freak hailstorm at the end of
June.
A severe hailstorm left many Kansas wheat fields in ruins but the big news
from the Midwest is the flooding of the Missouri river and the threat of damage
to two nuclear plants if the water levels go only a few feet higher. If one
of the upriver dams goes, the United States of America is in for some big
trouble.
Rushing floodwater is up around the walls of Fort Calhoun’s reactor
building, turbine hall, and other auxiliary buildings onsite. Gunter warned
that if Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station’s back-up generators fail, “the
final line of defense in terms of running vital reactor cooling systems would
be direct current (DC) emergency batteries. At most U.S. atomic reactors,
such batteries have only four hours of life.” After four hours, a core
meltdown would begin. The plant has lost power for cooling twice.
A huge swarm of jellyfish today clogged up the coal-fired Orot Rabin plant
in Hadera, Israel, a day after the Torness nuclear facility in Scotland was
closed in a similar incident. Hadera ran into trouble when jellyfish blocked
its seawater supply, which it uses for cooling purposes, forcing officials
to use diggers to remove them. A new report warned changing conditions in
the world’s oceans are causing an explosion in jellyfish populations.
A large portion of the Trans-Canada Highway in eastern Saskatchewan is closed
due to flooding.
Despite heavy rains and flooding in the north, there is little relief for
the Deep South, according to U.S. climatologists. The “drought monitor”
report from a consortium of national climate experts said that over the last
week, the worst level of drought, called “exceptional drought,”
expanded to cover more than 70 percent of Texas. And 91 percent of the Lone
Star State suffers from either exceptional drought or the second-worst category,
“extreme drought.”
Texas Disaster
Drought and wildfires have lead to the decision by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture to declare the entire state of Texas a natural disaster. In Los
Alamos, New Mexico the wildfires encroached upon the site of the Los Alamos
National Laboratory, the nuclear laboratory where the first atomic bomb was
developed. The fire stopped only meters from approximately 18 million cubic
feet of radioactive and chemical solid wastes that were not in protective
casks or bunkers.
A massive dust storm 50 miles wide in some spots descended on the Phoenix
area on Tuesday night, drastically reducing visibility and delaying flights
as strong winds toppled trees and caused power outages for thousands of residents
in the valley. The wall of dust towered over skyscrapers downtown.
Above, a woman looks at volcanic ash on the shores of Nahuel Huapi Lake in
Bariloche, Argentina on 12 June 2011 after the eruption of the Chilean Puyehue-Cordon
Caulle volcano. Airborne ash from the volcano in Chile’s Puyehue-Cordon
Caulle chain, which erupted on June 4, spewed an ash cloud that caused air
traffic chaos around the world. Experts say fine ash particles could continue
to affect air travel for months. Auckland-based climate change scientist Jim
Salinger has claimed that if sulfur dioxide (SO2) in the plumes mixes with
water, it could cause some climate cooling in the next two months. “It
is like putting a curtain around the hemisphere—the curtain reflects
the sunlight and cools the air below the ash.”
Who is Going to Pay?
The tornadoes and floods that pummeled much of the South and Midwest have
also dealt a serious blow to struggling state budgets, potentially forcing
new cuts to education and other services to offset hundreds of millions of
dollars in disaster aid. “The disaster could not have come at a much
worse time from a budget standpoint,” said David Perry, Alabama’s
finance director. The budget lawmakers adopted included “relatively
steep cuts for many state agencies, and the tornado outbreak only adds to
our budget pressure going forward.”
Who is going to pay for repairs to crumbling infrastructure in the United
States and elsewhere around the first world? No one! Who is going to pay when
things go wrong at nuclear reactors? Or when people get dislocated, who is
going to pay for the food of refugees? The world is fast running out of money
just at the moment when natural disasters are rising, threatening millions
of people.
The moment is coming when there simply will not be the resources to maintain
civilization. We have already seen, with Katrina and its impact on New Orleans,
what happens when disasters overwhelm governmental response.
Governments will not be able to cope with much more. Financial collapse in
the face of disasters of Nature will bring our contemporary civilization to
the brink of anarchy and there is little we can do but prepare our families.
The world as we know it is coming to an end. And what will follow will not
be pleasant or easy.
Conclusion
It is a good moment to return to the linked video below and listen again to
the elders at the top of the world. They are telling us that the position
of our precious earth has changed but that does not address why it changed.
Scientists are telling us that the huge mega quakes in Japan, Chile and New
Zealand actually have thrown the inclination of the planet off by a few inches.
Natural disasters that are already occurring are apocalyptic to those who
suffer through them. Let’s face it—we are up against something
stupendous that will send most of us scrambling—too late—into
preparation mode. All of humankind is threatened by simultaneous apocalyptic
horsemen riding tough on dark stallions.
There has never been a better time to tune to love and to our fellow human
beings to build strong bonds in which to increase our chances of survival.
Together we stand divided we fall will take on new meaning to people who don’t
even say hello to their neighbors.
Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize–winning author and former international
correspondent for the New York Times writes, “What we are seeing is
the beginning of a catastrophic breakdown of globalization. The world as we
know it is coming to an end. Most of us are reacting to the great unraveling
by pretending it is not happening but events will implode right in our faces
whether we like it or not. The deadly convergence of environmental and economic
catastrophe is not coincidental. Corporations turn everything, from human
beings to the natural world, into commodities they ruthlessly exploit until
exhaustion or death. The race of doom is now between environmental collapse
and global economic collapse. Which will get us first? Or will they get us
at the same time?”
Posted by Mark Sircus - Director on 06 July 2011 | Filed under World Affairs Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change on CBC's The National