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Rains Herald Beginning of Next Ice Age Philip V. Brennan I hate to say "I told you so" (well, not really – actually, I revel in being a smartass) but quite a while ago I predicted these huge downpours that have been afflicting the northeastern U.S. and explained why they are becoming more or less commonplace.
In the last few days much of the area has been hit by a foot or more of rainfall and as I write this, it's still going on. I hate to tell you this, but you'd better get used to it – it's not only going to continue, it's going to get worse. Much worse.
Why?
The answer is quite simple: Mother Earth is belching up red-hot magma through the ocean floor all across the globe. It may come as a surprise to you, but two-thirds of all volcanic activity takes place under the world's seas, and currently that activity is heating the oceans to the point where they are sending huge amounts of moisture up into the atmosphere, where it comes down as heavy rain in the spring, summer and fall, and snow in the winter.
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As Bob Felix points out on his incredibly informative iceagenow.com Web site, it's not global warming but ocean warming. The non-existent global warming isn't heating the oceans as poor demented Al Gore would have us believe, but ocean heating that's warming the globe.
Writes Michael Mandeville in michaelmandeville.com, "Since there is such a strong, close reflection of the X Wave in this tectonic zone, how can one avoid wondering if there could be any correlation between El Nino and the motions of the Earth's crust?" He cites charts that "demonstrate that the great rifts on the ocean bottom in the South Pacific are the birthing grounds of El Nino, and that collectively the spreading rifts and hot water plumes which rise from them in many places around the Earth must be the birthing grounds of the present regime of global warming."
Let's get back to all that moisture that's coming out of the volcanically heated oceans like steam coming out of the boiling water in a teapot and accept the fact that unless all that red-hot magma now heating the seas suddenly and inexplicably knocks it off and lets the oceans cool, this regimen of monstrous cloudbursts is going to continue – and get worse.
Over and above the flooding the cloudbursts cause, just how else do they threaten us? Well, if you take into account that in the winter the oceans will continue to send moisture up into the atmosphere to come down as precipitation, it will come down as snowfall.
Last fall, parts of New England were drowned by as much as 20 inches of rain in a matter of days. In the winter, 20 inches of rain amounts to 20 feet of snow. And that foot or more of rain that's fallen in the Northeast in the last few days would amount to 12 or even 13 feet of snow. That means that somebody 6 feet tall would have snow piled up 6 or 7 feet above his or her head. If you want to see what 13 feet of snow looks like, go to my Web site, Wednesday on the Web (www.pvbr.com), and scroll down on the home page for a photo taken in Japan last January.
O.K. Got that?
For all those unfortunates who hang on to every word from Crazy Al, I have a few simple questions:
1. If, as Mr. Gore suggests in his motion picture fantasy movie and book "An Inconvenient Truth" (which really should be entitled "A Convenient Untruth"), the polar regions are getting warmer by the minute, how can the world's refrigeration system up there continue to send bone-chilling cold fronts toward the Equator as it did last year?
Last October 11, I wrote (in The Next Ice Age Is on Its Way):
"One does not have to be a climatologist to recognize a few simple facts. "Cold fronts begin at the poles and head for the temperate zones. If the poles are warming, the fronts will be less frigid. If your refrigerator is losing its cooling power, it will begin to lose its power to do what it is meant to do: refrigerate. And if the Arctic ice pack is melting or even thinning, as it melts or thins, the cold fronts it sends south will be less and less frigid. "But if, instead, the ice and snow pack is thickening and becoming more frigid, the cold fronts it sends south will be increasingly colder. "Ergo, if the polar ice caps are seeing their power to refrigerate slowly diminishing, how is it that we are witnessing more and more record-breaking cold spells? Faulty refrigerators can't fast-freeze their contents. "As for the very real prospects of massive snowfalls and violent blizzards, it is important to remember a very simple fact: The colder the air in a front, the more violent the storms created when arctic air meets warm air pushing up from the equatorial regions. "And the warm fronts moving north are increasingly hot, but that is not the result of global warming – it's due to the warming of the world's oceans. "That ocean warming is created by a huge increase in underseas tectonic activity – the kind of increased activity (See Pakistan/India/Indonesia, etc.) we're witnessing on the surface – submerged volcanoes erupting, gushing red-hot magma up through the Earth's crust, or magma spilling through cracks in the sea floor and turning the ocean waters into boiling cauldrons."
2. If, as the record shows, the earth has undergone a series of ice ages every 100,000 years or so like clockwork, with about 90,000 years of glaciation followed by 10,000 or 12,000 years of interglaciation, and we are now about 12,000 years since the last ice age ended, are we not overdue for another period of glaciation? Or has a law of nature been repealed by Brother Gore and his fellow Marxists?
3. If every ice age has been preceded by a rise in the level of CO2 in the atmosphere to over 300 ppm and that level is now approaching 400 ppm, should we not be concerned that Mother Nature is trying to tell us something? The CO2 is emitted by overheated oceans, by the way.
According to Bob Felix, writing in iceagenow.com:
"Research shows that there was 'a sudden and dramatic rise' in carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere at the dinosaur extinction of 65 million years ago ... today's rise in CO2 levels can be attributed to our warming oceans. After all, the oceans are known as a carbon dioxide 'sink,' especially when the water is cold." "But as the water warms up, it releases CO2 into the atmosphere. This happens in much the same way that a warm bottle of home-brewed root beer will release CO2. And if you give that CO2 no way to escape, the bottle will explode. We've got it backwards. We've got cause and effect in reverse. The CO2 is not causing global warming. Instead, our warming oceans are releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. It's not global warming, it's ocean warming, and it's leading us into an ice age."
He adds: "We've forgotten that this isn't the first time our seas have warmed. Sea temperatures also shot upward 10º to 18ºF just prior to the last ice age. As the oceans warmed, evaporation increased. The excess moisture then fell to the ground as giant blizzards, giant storms and floods (Noah's Deluge type floods), and a new ice age began." And he warns: "The same thing is happening today. Underwater volcanic activity in the Arctic Ocean [is] far stronger than anyone ever imagined!"
4. If evil mankind has caused the rise in CO2 by burning fossil fuels, how did Mother Nature achieve it 100,000 years ago, when there were no automobiles or backyard barbecues around?
Last October I observed:
"I think it's important to understand that I am not a scientist nor a climatologist or meteorologist or any kind of weather expert. I am an investigative reporter, and in that capacity I have spent of lot of time over the past ten years examining the state of our climate and the increasing number of odd events vis-a-vis the weather and the state of tectonic activity. I began with no preconceived notions other than the old truism that 'Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.'" The fact that we suddenly found ourselves being preached to by a bunch of snotty know-it-alls who in their arrogance prated about an alleged global-warming threat and decided to do something about it kind of stuck in my craw. When they attempted via such economy-destroying absurdities as the Kyoto Accord to assume authority over the entire world and impose their Marxist views on every human being on the face of the earth, I made up my mind to dig into the whole subject. My efforts resulted in an eight-part study published on Wednesday on the Web in 1997 – "Global Warming or Globaloney" – in which I advanced the idea that we are gradually entering a new ice age. Since then I have had no reason to change my mind, and over the past eight years I have observed all sorts of signs that my original thesis, with a few exceptions, was largely right on target. So that's where I am today, now more than ever fully convinced by what is happening in the world around us that we are facing a global catastrophe about which we can do not one damned thing. I contend that we are in the final stages of that 20-year period that leads up to the onset of glaciation, and it is that possibility that most concerns me. It is why I am trying to sound the alarm. Given that mankind is powerless to stop an ongoing natural process, it becomes imperative that we get our lives in order. I don't believe that we are approaching the end of the world and the final judgment. I do believe that we are approaching the end of an age. Humanity will survive the violence, but in lesser numbers, just as humanity has survived past periods of violence and catastrophe, such as the Black Plague and other pandemics and wars that decimated the ranks of mankind.
God knows what He is doing, and unlike the global-warming fanatics, He allows nature to take its course. He never promised us a rose garden in this vale of tears. In "Global Warming or Globaloney" I wrote about the 20 years of violence, and I'll end with part of what I wrote eight years ago: "If you're one of those people who can't stand hearing bad news, you'd better stop reading right here. If our contention that the world is entering a period of increasing cooling leading to the next ice age is correct, what lies ahead is anything but pretty. "And there is far more evidence that what we are now experiencing are the effects of global cooling – of the end of an interglacial period – than there is of global warming as an isolated phenomenon. "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 "It is important to understand that what we are concerned with here is solely that transition period. It is the only part of the process that will affect us or our children or grandchildren and generations after them. Actual glaciation – that period when much of the globe is covered with huge sheets of ice – is thousands of years away. New Yorkers, for instance, needn't worry about seeing their city groaning under the massive weight of miles of glacial ice unless they plan to live for another 30,000 years or so. "Glaciers move at a snail's pace, but history shows that the process which sets them in motion is lightning fast. "The proponents of global warming insist that the climate is getting warmer. They cite all sorts of contradictory evidence based mainly on computer modeling. And their models have consistently failed to conform to reality. The things they confidently predict will happen simply don't happen. It's a classic case of GIGO – garbage in, garbage out. "They cite as one proof of warming 'average global mean temperatures' which in reality should be termed 'global meaningless temperatures.' Averaging out temperatures from around the globe will not give any indication of what is actually afoot. What matters is how hot it is in the tropics and subtropics and how cold it is at the poles. "Using global mean temperatures in this case is something like reporting that the average mean score of a 14-point-to-6-point football game was 10 points, without giving any other information. "It ignores the fact that one team won and one team lost! "The case for global cooling, on the other hand, deals with demonstrable facts. And it explains much of the phenomena that puzzles most of the scientists who deal with them. "The increasing severity of storms, heavier rainfalls, blizzards leaving deeper and deeper snow in their wake, flood after flood all over the globe and droughts [are] results of Mother Nature's closing out of the current interglacial. "As the ice packs grow, they send colder and colder air toward the equator. That increasingly colder air eventually meets with tropical air, and it is axiomatic that when cold air clashes with hot air there is violent weather. And the icier the cold air and the hotter the warm air, the more violent the weather. "This process feeds on itself. As the amount of atmospheric CO2 increases, more moisture is sent Poleward, resulting in more snowfall to build heavier and heavier polar ice packs which fail to decrease in summertime because the cloud cover created by the moisture-laden air transported from the tropics prevents any thawing. "As the ice packs grow deeper and heavier, more magma is squeezed out and sent toward the equators, creating more volcanic activity, which spews more and more volcanic ash into the upper atmosphere, along with enormous quantities of greenhouse gases. This results in greater and greater amounts of moisture-laden clouds being sent Poleward. And so on. "As the glaciation process continues, winters get longer and longer, colder air reaches further and further toward the equator, summers get shorter and shorter, and growing seasons slowly vanish. "Areas previously blessed with temperate climates are transformed into subarctic regions, and the subtropics turn colder and colder. "And all this can happen in a matter of a very few years. So few that the world may very well learn that the interglacial has been replaced by the glaciation process before the end of the next decade – or even earlier. "At any rate, we won't have to wait very long for an answer our question: global warming or globaloney? "And, as we have said repeatedly, if the iceman cometh, nothing any of us can do will make one little bit of difference. We will be at the mercy of Mother Nature – more and more dependent on each other – and in the hands of God." I rest my case. Deus exaudi nos, et clamor nos ad te veniat. (Hear us, O Lord, and let our cries come unto thee.)
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.
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