Atlantis Rising Exclusive,
Examines the State of the
Evidence
As the ‘Fateful Day’ Approaches,
the Author of 5/5/2000, in an
Atlantis Rising Exclusive,
Examines the State of the
Evidence
Are We
Approaching
the Abyss?
Are We
Approaching
the Abyss?
SEE OUR GREAT 8-PAGE CATALOG SECTION BEGINNING ON PAGE 72 Number 22 • ISING 43 cerned Scientists to get an update on
the Earth’s ecosystem for this article. As luck would have it, they had just completed a new update, including a map of the world that illustrates the local consequences of global warming (www.climatehotmap.org).
I received a nine-page update, which was flashed around the world the next day. By the time this article is published, February 2000, chances are you will have heard all about it. This update is also available at the above web site. This update confirms their worst fears. It shows a rapid and con- tinuous destruction of ecosystems around the world relentlessly propel- ling us toward an unidentified point where the domino principle begins and shoves us all down the extinction drain.
Many parts of the update seemed re- markably familiar. I turned to Chapter Ten in 5/5/2000, and found the report by the Council on Environmental Quality and the Department of State. In May 1977, President Carter had asked them to make a study of what life would be like in the year 2000. The re- port states that our world in the year 2000 will be more crowded, more pol- luted, less stable ecologically, the pop- ulation explosion in Mexico will force the United States to guard its borders, illegal immigrants from Mexico will quadruple, Mexico City will be the largest city on Earth. (Does this sound familiar?) The report ends with the statement: “Life for most people on Earth will be more precarious in 2000 than it is now unless the nations of the world act decisively to alter current trends.” Tick-tock, tick-tock.
The new Union of Concerned Scien- tists’ warning states that the Earth is heating up: “Global
average temperatures have warmed about 1° since 1900. The ten warmest years on record have occurred since 1983, seven of them since 1990. Global temperature in 1998 was the hottest in the historical record, and recent temperatures may have been the highest of the past millen- nium.” They expect problems to intensify unless the emission of greenhouse gases are brought under con- trol. The list of ex- pected problems is so long the reader is en- couraged to refer to the original report in
deep and larger than the state of Cali- fornia. That hole is today the Black Sea.
The scientists’ warning list a sea level rise as one of the problems we face. The Black Sea disaster is an ex- ample of what could happen. Another item on the list is downpours. As the Earth warms, abnormally heavy rains fall. When these downpours occur over mountains, super-saturated soil gives way, resulting in horrendous mudslides like the ones in Venezuela in December where thirty thousand men, women and children died, many buried alive and 150,000 are homeless as con- cern of an epidemic grows. Thousands more are still homeless in Honduras and North Carolina from recent hurri- cane flooding, and this climate change will continue to generate more hurri- canes, cyclones and tornadoes of greater intensity.
Hold on a minute before you drag out your Bermuda shorts. For the new millennium, we may be about to enter a new ice age! My article The Hammer
and The Pendulum (see
www.rnoone.com) defines how two groups of scientists, both intelligent, may form diametrically opposite judg- ments from exactly the same evidence! An entirely different group of famous scientists state that global warming will trigger a sudden and catastrophic cooling of the planet. Three articles on global cooling appear on the first page of the preface of 5/5/2000.
William H. Calvin, a theoretical neu- rophysiologist at the University of Washington at Seattle, published a con- cise article on this in the January 1998 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. “One of the most shocking scientific realiza- tions of all time has slowly been dawning on us: the earth’s climate does great flip-flops every few thousand years, and with breath- taking speed. The most catastrophic result of global warming could be an abrupt cooling. Such a transition would solve the world’s overpopulation problem, but in a most appalling way. Calvin points out that pow- erful countries would take over locations that had crops “driving out or starving their inhabi- tants if not using modern weapons to ac- complish the same end: eliminating com- petitors for the re- maining food.”
Climate flip-flops
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In Caracas a survivor of Venezuela’s catastrophic December ‘99 floods looks for solace in a mud soaked book. AP Photo
its entirety.
Two Columbia University geolo- gists, William Rayan and Walter Pitman, after thirty years of research published
Noah’s Flood. They present evidence
that melting glaciers raised the sea level of the Mediterranean Sea around 5,600 B.C. A quick glance at a world globe shows the Mediterranean Sea separated from the Black Sea by the Bosporus Strait. The Black Sea is 750 miles long, 380 miles wide, over a mile deep and covers an area of about 170,000 square miles which is greater than the area of California.
If we had a globe of the world of six thousand years ago, we would see the Mediterranean Sea separated from a low-lying valley area larger than Cali- fornia by a strip of land which may be thought of as a colossal natural dam. As the sea level rose in the Mediterranean continued, salt water slowly, insidi- ously and persistently ate away at the land until a small trickle found its way into the valley. It was a normal day in the valley below, children gathered flowers while unnumbered men and women went about the even tenor of their ways, never suspecting their world was about to end. The trickle be- came a torrent. The torrent became a maelstrom of death as the Mediterra- nean Sea breached the land, poured into the valley and transformed itself into a giant tidal wave whose only warning to the inhabitants was a faint dull roar in the distance for a minute or two before they and all traces of their civilization were swept away. Core samples taken recently by Dr. Robert Ballard and his underwater team of Ti- tanic fame offer independent verifica- tion that the flood water dug a hole in the surface of the Earth over a mile
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