EARTH CHANGES III
These are mostly news clippings from recent press releases. In
response to the question of where and when these earth changes
are due to occur, look around you and see what's happening. There
is a shift of energies occuring in many spheres of our daily
lives.
US Northwest Record Precipitation
Heavy rains and snowfall are breaking 100-year-old records in the
northwest states. Mount Baker in Washington has received 70 feet of
snow this year ('98-'99). Seattle has had a record 91 straight days of
rain.
Siberian Fires Called Global Disaster
Forest fires that have been burning out of control for three months
in Russia are called a global disaster by the United Nations experts
sent to report on the catastrophe.
The Siberian taiga where the fires are burning is a forest of valuable
conifers stretching 1.3 million square miles to Russia's Far East
Pacific coast. It is twice the size of the Amazon rain forest and
contains roughly one-quarter of the world's timber reserves.
"This emergency is internationally significant. There are at least
three implications: possible effects on global climate, potential
transboundary air pollution and large scale destruction of
biodiversity," the United Nations says in a statement.
With another major international conference on climate change starting
in Argentina on Monday, delegates will be pondering a somber message
from a panel of respected British climatologists.
Scientists from the Hadley Centre on Climate Change, part of the UK's
Meteorological Office, have published a new scenario of climate change.
The report paints a dire picture of a world which many people alive
today will inhabit between 2041 and 2070. It will be, they say, a world
with many more sick, hungry and thirsty people, because of climate
change. They say that based on the temperature peaks of every year in
the last millennium, 1998 is likely to end up as the UK's hottest year
since 1106. Looking to the future, the research backs up the worst fears
of previous forecasters. Over the next century, greenhouse gas emissions
will increase warming by about 3°C - the most extreme rise in 10,000
years.
Teleportation Experiment Brings "Spooky" Idea Closer
To Reality
WASHINGTON (October 22, 1998 http://www.nandotimes.com) - They may not
be able to ask Scotty to beam them up yet, but researchers said
Thursday they had completed the first "full" teleportation experiment.
"We claim this is the first bona fide teleportation," Jeff Kimble, a
physics professor at the California Institute of Technology, said in
a telephone interview.
Quantum teleportation allows information to be transmitted at the
speed of light -- the fastest speed possible -- without being slowed
down by wires or cables.
The experiment depends on a property known as entanglement - what
Albert Einstein once described as "spooky action at a distance."
In U.S., Hottest September Yet
If you thought September seemed unusually hot, you have company from
coast to coast. It was the hottest September on record in the United
States by far, but what made the month even more remarkable was that
the entire nation roasted. Every one of the lower 48 states was hotter
than normal, according to preliminary information from the National
Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. Twenty-six states, including
New Jersey, were extraordinarily hot last month, with average
temperatures that placed this September among their 10 hottest.
Eighteen more were unusually hot, making this September hotter than
two out of three Septembers in the past. Four states were only slightly
warmer than normal. Two-thirds of the country's contiguous land mass
broiled in near-record heat. As a whole, the lower 48 states averaged
69.1 degrees last month, breaking a 67-year record of 68.4 degrees by
seven-tenths of a degree. When it comes to weather statistics, that's
not just breaking a record, its Mark McGwire-ing a record. The normal
average temperature for September is 64.8 degrees. (Philadelphia
Inquirer)
Massive Iceberg Breaks Off In Antarctica
Washington (Reuters) - An iceberg larger than the state of Delaware
has broken off the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica in what scientists
believe may be a sign of global warming, the National Ice Center
announced Thursday.
The iceberg, named A-38, measures 92 miles long and 30 miles wide
and covers an area of about 2,751 square miles.
The Ronne Ice Shelf is the second largest in Antarctica, located in
the southern Weddell Sea.
Small Islands Say Global Warming Hurting Them Now
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Pacific islands which could vanish for
ever if global temperatures continue to rise are already suffering as
rising sea levels swallow surrounding islets and contaminate drinking
water, island leaders said Tuesday. A delegation from the idyllic but
fragile Pacific islands traveled to Buenos Aires to try to convince
world leaders at United Nations climate talks to take more action to
stop global warming which they fear will cause rising seas to cover
their low-lying nations. Rising sea levels have already endangered
sacred sites and drowned some small islands off the tiny
nations of Kiribati and Tuvalu, including the islet of Tebua Tarawa,
once a landmark for Tuvalu fishermen.
Tornado Records Broken
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced
three new records were set for tornadoes. The most tornadoes in
January - 169, the most in one state in a 24-hour period - 38 in
Arkansas, and the most in the U.S. in a 24-hour period - 87.
The storms caused over one billion dollars in damage.
Plague Strikes Maine Lobsters
BOSTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of lobsters valued at more than $2
million have been found sick or dead off the Maine coast, mystifying
researchers and worrying fisherman, the Boston Globe reported
Wednesday. "Lobsters are dying but we don't know what's going
on precisely," Robert Bayer, head of the Lobster Institute at the
University of Maine, said. The problem has been reported along the
coast from York to Beals Island. "We were hoping it would go
away, but instead, it seems to be getting worse," Bayer said.
Lobstermen are worried because the problem is eating into the $130
million industry and they fear the public will shun Maine lobsters,
the newspaper said.
Nigerian Floods Leave 100,000 Homeless
At least 100,000 people are left homeless by weekend flooding in
western Nigeria, local newspapers report. Up to 60 villages were
overwhelmed after the Kainji Dam on the River Niger overflowed. Later
reports do not say whether any lives had been lost. (Reuters)
Mount Etna, Italy, Erupting
Spectacular Strombolian activity resumed at SE Crater on October 11.
Glowing pyroclastic material was thrown over 700 ft (200 m) into the
air, and a lava flow stretched 2300 ft (700 m) down the eastern flank
of the new SE Crater cone. This activity was easily viewed from towns
on the eastern coast of Sicily. (Smithsonian Inst. Volcanic Report)
Sixty Cult Members Still Missing, Monitoring Group Says
Relatives have been searching for as many as 60 members of a cult who
disappeared more than two weeks ago with a leader who prophesied
Denver would be destroyed, a member of a cult monitoring group says
today. Members of Denver-based Concerned Christians abandoned homes
and jobs to follow their charismatic leader, Monte Kim Miller, 44,
says Hal Mansfield, director of the Religious Movement Resource
Center, a group that monitors cults. Miller, who founded Concerned
Christians, is suspected of leading the group to either Jerusalem or
Mexico. Relatives of members of the group said the members were
fleeing Denver because Miller prophesied the city would be ground zero
for an apocalyptic disaster which was to occur last Saturday. (Reuters)
Some 160 Pilot Whales Beach Along Tasmanian Coast;
Rescue Attempted
Early this morning, along Tasmania's east coast at Marion Bay (40km
east of Hobart), a mass beaching of pilot whales was discovered. It
brought a radio call for volunteer help and 35 whales were returned to
the water safely. But another group, estimated to number about 40, were
caught in a sandy lagoon behind Marion Bay where they repeatedly beached.
Eventually, 20 of these whales were lifted onto trucks and trailers by
cranes and, at times, a mass of people and driven about 30 kilometres
away to Eaglehawk Neck on the Tasman Peninsula. There, all but one
recovered to swim away. The rest of the lagoon group re-beached at
Marion Bay but, in a last combined effort, they were herded together
and pushed out by boats and volunteers. (The Age)
(Editor's Note: On Sunday afternoon, another group of 66 pilot whales
were found ashore, at Rheban Beach north of Marion Bay. Only 9 were
still alive when found, and rescuers worked until dusk to return them
to the sea.)
Disappearing Frogs
WASHINGTON - Frogs are disappearing throughout the nation at
unprecedented rates, spurring Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to
ask Congress Wednesday for more than $9 million to try to find out
why. There is evidence that up to a third of the 230 species of
native frogs, toads and salamanders in the United States species
that have been around since dinosaur days - are declining, Babbitt
said. At the same time, freakish frogs with multiple or missing limbs
and facial deformities have been reported in 42 states over the past
few years, he said. Frog experts are especially troubled because
they see amphibians as an early warning system for humans.
Coldest Weather In A Century Grips Scandinavia
January 31, 1999.
The London Times said that the current cold snap that has hit much of
Norway, Sweden and Finland included some of the lowest temperatures
recorded there in 20th century. The report said that in northern
Norway the temperature fell to minus 56C (minus 69F). Temperatures
plummeted so low that even hardy sledge dogs were allowed to sleep
inside. Meanwhile, Reuters reported that some of Russia's Arctic
regions have recorded the coldest temperatures of the 20th century as
well. It also reported that the cold snap is unusually long as well.
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