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Climate Change: The Real Peril Philip V. Brennan They used to call it global warming but cooler heads appear to have decided to hedge their bets and re-christen the problem "climate change" a description that covers all kinds of eventualities. After all, if the warnings that the world is getting colder instead of warmer (actually it's doing both) turn out to be accurate, they can claim to have been on the side of the angels no matter what happens. The battle however, still rages. On one side you have the likes of Sir David King, who served as chief scientist in Tony Blair's government, making the absurd claim that global warming is a greater threat to mankind than terrorism. On the other side there are scientists such as Reid Bryson, known as the father of scientific climatology, who said of Al Gore's movie about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," which he refused to watch, "Don't make me throw up, It is not science. It is not true." One side says that increasing atmospheric levels of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) are causing the earth to heat up dramatically, while the other side scoffs at the notion. Moreover, one side blames the increased levels of CO2 on human activity and the use of fossil fuels, while the other side describes that idea as nonsense. In the midst of all this Sturm und Drang, something else is going on to which that neither side is paying much if any attention. Like Nero, they are fiddling around while the world around them is burning. Personally I couldn't care less which side is right. What I do care about is where Mother Nature is leading us, and baby, it isn't paradise on earth. Story Continues Below
Look at it this way. Right now we are watching places like Texas and Great Britain being drowned by seemingly never-ending multiple inches of rainfall and the raging floods the rainfall creates. Recently some areas in the United States have been devastated by tornadoes of unimaginable destructive capacity. Last winter snowfall in some areas reached levels as much as 13 or 14 feet high. Taking into consideration the fact that an inch of rain amounts to a foot of snow, you can get an idea of what's going to happen when all that precipitation falls as white stuff next winter. In the West, and around the world, millions of acres of forest land are being incinerated at a rate faster than ever in all of recorded history. There is a very simple fact of nature behind all of this violence. It's what happens when extremes of temperature clash. Super heated air from the tropics meets frigid air masses from the polar regions and all hell breaks loose. Mr., Gore and his minions keep telling us that the polar regions are warming. They fail to mention that the snow pack in the northern regions of Canada keeps growing and providing the medium for those bitter cold blasts of frigid air coming south in the winter, and the cold air being experienced right now in much of the northern U.S. They just ignore all that and keep chanting the mantra that the polar ice is melting and we're all going to be barbecued unless we surrender most of our liberties to the Marxist commissars in the U.N. As far back as 1982, in the book "The Survival of Civilization" John Hammaker wrote that "the growing intensification of all storm effects, including unusually heavy rains and snows, record cold and heat, drought, hail, tornadoes are all symptomatic of increasing temperature and pressure differentials, greater evaporation of moisture, and an overall speeding up of global atmospheric circulation." In short, superheated air from the tropics is running head on into bitter cold air from the polar regions. It's hot in the tropics because of solar heating and underwater volcanic activity heating the oceans, and cold in the polar areas because the increased moisture rising from the oceans is creating cloud cover that moves north and keeps the sun from melting the snowpacks which keep getting deeper. Hammaker was alerting the world that we are in the transition period between the current interglacial period and the return of glaciation - which just happens to be the planet's normal state. Interglacials such as the one we are now enjoying last anywhere from a mere 10,000 to 12,000 years. Glaciation — ice ages — last about 90,000 long, cold years. Most of the planet's history has happened in those 90,000-year ice ages. The present interglacial period has lasted about 12,000 years. If the history of this planet's climate over millions of years is any guide, we are about to enter a new ice age. History tells us our time is about up. I don't want to get into a discussion over Hammaker's work — it left a lot to be desired when it dealt with measures he insisted could stop Mother Nature in her tracks and hold off glaciation for just about forever - but when it came to presenting evidence that the iceman does indeed cometh he makes a prima facie case. Briefly, he explains that glaciation is Nature's way of remineralizing the soil which over tens of thousands of years is depleted of vital nutrients. The glaciers move over the soil grinding rocks into a fine dust filled with nutrient filled micro-organisms and the soil is remineralized and fertile. When the soil slowly depletes over the 12,000 year interim, vegetation is weakened and becomes unhealthy. More and stronger chemical fertilizers are needed to replace the natural micro-organisms. In that weakened state, trees and other forms of plant life become susceptible to fire and pestilence. As Hammaker points out, healthy trees don't burn and you don't get the massive destruction by fire of forests all the Western states we are seeing today.
Ice ages are Mother Nature's rather extreme method of doing her spring cleaning. Studies such as those done by Genevieve Woillard in 1978 showed that the transition period between interglaciation and glaciation lasts about 175 years, with the final 20 years a period if increased violence. It is that period of time that must concern us because all of the signs point to the fact that we are living in its the final phase. And it is that vital fact that is being obscured by the debate surrounding climate change. When we should be facing the unpleasant fact that the world we know is about to vanish in a maelstrom of violence, we are engaged in a meaningless struggle that blinds us to the nasty fate Mother Nature has in store for us. It is important to understand that glaciation is a gradual process. Advancing glaciers move at a snail's pace. Nobody alive today will witness even the beginning of actual glaciation. What we will see is what should concern us — a huge increase in storms becoming more and more violent, monster tornadoes that devastate large areas creating unimaginable wreckage in their wake, more volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of increasing violence and massive amounts of precipitation causing floods and snowfall towering far above us. Doubt it? Look around you, It's happening now, and getting worse with each passing year. Spring and fall are slowly disappearing, winters last longer and summers get shorter. Then one day in the very near future, in the winter much of the northern tier of states will be buried in mountains of snow that do not melt for months, while more and more snow piles on top of them. These are not wild imaginings. History validates them, as does each passing year when climatic and tectonic violence grow exponentially. In view of this reality, the hysteria over global warming engendered by the likes of Al Gore and his fellow Marxist Mikhail Gorbachev is nothing short of criminal. When we should be contemplating what awaits us and how we shall deal with it both spiritually and materially, we are being blinded by a false dichotomy over global climate that ignores the reality of what it actually happening to the earth and its people.
If I had to guess, I'd say the next five years will be the worst in all the history of mankind, with each year more terrible than the last. After that? Oremus. Deus exaudi nos et clamor meus ad te veniat. (Look it up.) Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist and World War II Marine who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor and 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 For Intelligence Officers. He can be reached at pvb@pvbr.com.
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