Phil Brennan
Thursday, Jan. 13, 2005

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  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 alecks 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 20 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 affect 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 Web site, Wednesday on the Web, and reading "Global Warming or Globaloney." It should at least make you think.

A lot of people are suggesting that the current spate of disasters is a sign that God is very unhappy with his naughty children and He's using them to take us to the woodshed.

I differ. If the current geological holocaust now under way is the result of a natural cycle – in this case, as I argue in my study, another needed regeneration of the planet, it's not an act of God but an act of nature. Sure, God – the author of nature – could put a stop to it, but it could well be that He wants us to sit up and take notice – to use the disasters to warn us to straighten up and fly right while there's still time: Bad times are a-comin' and we had better be ready spiritually.

We're on notice. Christ told us that those with eyes better see, and those with ears better hear. We had better keep our eyes and ears open. Time's a-wastin'.

Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.

He can be reached at phil@newsmax.com

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