-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- http://atlantisrising.com/pdfs/noonearticle.pdf page 42 - ATLANTIS RISING - Number 22 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? BY RICHARD NOONE [Solar Flare photographed from the U.S. Air Force's Cambridge Research Laboratories] Are we as a species approaching some kind of abyss or not? If we aren't, end of story, not to worry. If, on the other hand, we are, then we must attempt to gauge whether we are approaching yet another period of geological upheaval slowly or rapidly. Or do we now stand teetering unsteadily at the brink of a cliff above yet another dark void of mass extinction? I was asked to express an opinion on what we may expect in the first six months of the year 2000 -- with the understanding that the article would be on the editor's desk before the end of 1999. Yikes! Talk about feeling like Shirley MacLaine and being out on a limb. Nowhere in 5/5/2000 is it suggested I possess clairvoyance. Nevertheless, it was an interesting proposal and, fool that I am, I accepted the challenge. A Science report released in November '92 made the front page of newspapers around the world. The report was a four-page warning from 1,575 of the planet's most distinguished scientists, including one hundred Nobel laureates, among whom were Linus Pauling, James Tobin, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Wilson of Harvard, and Carl Sagan. Scientists from sixty-nine different countries worked together to issue this "urgent warning to humanity." The statement begins: "We . . . hereby warn all humanity of what lies ahead. A great change in our stewardship of the Earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated." The report lists a multitude of problems that are destroying -- or have already destroyed -- individual segments of our planet's ecosystem. As one part of the ecosystem is destroyed this creates strain which weakens the other segments, hastening their destruction. This continues until an unstoppable domino effect begins so rapidly that "suddenly" all systems fail and we are extinct. The warning states: "No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished." Dr. Henry Kendall, a Nobel laureate at MIT and chairman of "The Union of Concerned Scientists," said: "This warning is no exaggeration, and it is not alarmist. There is no better way to underline that than to see who has signed on to this. Here is a large group of the most distinguished and senior scientists in our world today who believe we're rapidly approaching a crisis situation." Human activity is rapidly becoming so harmful to Earth it could render the globe unable to sustain life, the scientists warn. Their appeal calls for immediate action by world leaders to help curb explosive population growth among people already facing chronic hunger, deteriorating soil for agriculture, shortages of fuel, housing and fresh water, and harmful patterns of human activity and development. The report makes it chillingly clear that, as we get near the bottom of the barrel, the struggle for what's left in that barrel gets more intense. Ten years before this warning from scientists, in the 1982 edition of 5/5/ 2000, I quoted a CIA report concerning the political and economic threats to U.S. security as a result of these drastic changes which would be "almost beyond comprehension." Changes of this magnitude and greater took place millennia ago. Across the planet there are ancient pyramids and mysterious buildings of powerful civilizations whose builders suddenly vanished. The CIA says: "There is considerable evidence that these empires may have been undone not by barbarian invaders but by climate change." Since this scientific report was released almost a decade ago, I wondered if world leaders had responded responsibly to the scientists' appeal for "immediate action." On December 15, 1999, I telephoned the Union of Concerned 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 continuous destruction of ecosystems around the world relentlessly propelling us toward an unidentified point where the domino principle begins and shoves us all down the extinction drain. Many parts of the update seemed remarkably 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 report states that our world in the year 2000 will be more crowded, more polluted, less stable ecologically, the population 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 Scientists' 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 millennium." They expect problems to intensify unless the emission of greenhouse gases are brought under control. The list of expected problems is so long the reader is encouraged to refer to the original report in its entirety. Two Columbia University geologists, 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 California 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, insidiously 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 became a torrent. The torrent became a maelstrom of death as the Mediterranean 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 Titanic fame offer independent verification that the flood water dug a hole in the surface of the Earth over a mile deep and larger than the state of California. 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 example 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 concern of an epidemic grows. Thousands more are still homeless in Honduras and North Carolina from recent hurricane flooding, and this climate change will continue to generate more hurricanes, 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 judgments 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 neurophysiologist at the University of Washington at Seattle, published a concise article on this in the January 1998 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. "One of the most shocking scientific realizations 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 powerful countries would take over locations that had crops "driving out or starving their inhabitants if not using modern weapons to accomplish the same end: eliminating competitors for the remaining food." Climate flip-flops (abrupt onset, abrupt recovery) would involve a transition period of more violent weather that would grow in observable increments of intensity. Is it possible the transition was accomplished in 20 years -- a blink of the eye in geological time? I telephoned the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for a printout on natural disasters over the past 20 years in the U.S. that caused over a billion dollars in damage. Their report shows that between 1980 and 1990 there were eight major disasters with Hurricane Hugo, disaster number eight, ending the first half of the past 20-year period. By 1995 only the first half of the next 10-year period natural disasters doubled, tripled and then quadrupled, as Hurricane Opal hit land in October '95. Since Opal, the NOAA list shows eighteen more disasters ending with Hurricane Floyd in September '99. From 1980 to 1990 there were 8 disasters. From 1990 to this past September there have been 36 which are statistically significant, and I wonder if we are inhabitants of a transition period like lemmings with a dark fjord in our future. The Earth's magnetic field also flip-flops -- magnetic north abruptly becomes south and vice versa -- and no one knew why (July 23, 1979 -- for details see 5/5/2000, page 204). Recently, scientists discovered Earth's core, slightly smaller than the moon, is spinning freely and faster than the rest of the planet -- like a planet within a planet! Drs. Gary Glatzmair and Paul Roberts ran this data for over 2,000 hours on a Cray supercomputer, simulating 10,000 years of activity, until the outer core's magnetic field aligned with the inner core's. Glatzmair says: "That's when the entire magnetic field of the geodynamo flip-flopped." A problem with reviews of 5/5/ 2000 is that, no matter how carefully I explain beforehand, stories appear stating "Noone says planetary alignment will cause a pole shift." Fortunately, Art Bell invited me on his show on February 23, '97. I stated that pole shifts are not caused by planetary alignments, but because of some of the very issues in this article our planet is ripe for another shift. The May 5 alignment may trigger one. I also warned of problems from a solar storm due in January 2000. Two months ago a new government study stated that it will reach maximum intensity not in January but sometime around late April or early May 2000! Past solar storms have caused incredible damage, including disruption of radio, television, telephone, satellites, radar, power lines, power company grids and other sophisticated electronic technologies. These past solar storms will be mere blips of inconvenience to us, compared to The Storm of the Millennium coming this spring. The new government 50-page Executive Summary was pointed out to me by a friend and can be located at http:// www.nas.edu/ssb/maxnot.htm. The news media can refer to this article if they question my statistics. My friends also pointed out an article on page 379 of 5/5/2000 entitled, Position of Planets Linked to Solar Flare Prediction by Rex Ray, published in Technology Week. This article clearly demonstrates that the position of the planets has been linked to the occurrence and size of sunspots, solar flares and other solar phenomena as far back as 1967. During a solar storm there are exciting events called Solar Mass Ejections (SMEs) which spew forth huge amounts of materials (equivalent to the mass of a cubic mile of rock if the matter was compressed). The material in the form of a gaseous mix of hydrogen, helium, etc., is blown outward from the sun, and travels to Earth like a gigantic tidal wave. This billion-ton wave of super-hot, electrically charged gas will crash into Earth's magnetic field at 620 miles per second producing a spectacular display of the Aurora Borealis. That, however, will be its most benign effect. An unanswered question is whether or not this Solar Max will produce a "flip-flop" of the Earth's magnetic field. NASA scientists state in Technology Week that the positions of the planets have "some triggering effect on the release of solar flares" and that "the magnetic field of the earth is related to the position of the planets. Because of the impeccable credentials of these scientists, we have every reason to believe that the coming Solar Max may produce more SMEs than previous magnetic storms. In his article on global climate "flip-flops" Dr. Calvin points out that: "The modern world is full of objects and systems that exhibit `bistable' modes, with thresholds for flipping. Light switches abruptly change mode when nudged hard enough. Door latches suddenly give way. A gentle pull on a trigger may be ineffective, but there comes a pressure that will suddenly fire the gun. Thermostats tend to activate heating or cooling mechanisms abruptly." In nature, a rock locked in position by a few grains of sand on a high cliff can suddenly start an avalanche when the wind nudges away the sand. A nudge of the wind will set a large block of ice in water in motion. We often look at things in nature without knowing what we're looking at. As the Solar Max approaches from the abyss of space we may wonder if it will speed up or slow down the spin of the Earth's core. Either event would produce friction and it is an undeniable law of physics that friction produces heat. 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