“Who will stand with me in the midst of the Fullness thereof, And put a hand of care on the boundaries of the fullness thereof?The Earth is the Lord’s, and the boundaries thereof.”
THE VERSE ABOVE is from a song that I composed years ago and sang during an Earth Day celebration entitled “The Fullness Thereof.” (Click here to listen to a recording of my song). As you recognize, the lyrics are from Psalm 24:
“The Earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof, the world, and they that dwell therein; for He hath founded it upon the seas and established it upon the floods.”
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IN THIS POST I AM GOINGTO DIVE INTO the vast and complex topic of planetary boundaries within the context of very current conversations and articles about Climate Change—aka Climate Warming, Climate Crisis, and Climate Emergency. Many of the conversations center around survival of our species. I would like to have a conversation around honoring and respecting the ecological boundaries of our Earth Mother—in a word, returning to true stewardship of our planet. The wording in Genesis is “replenish the earth and subdue it.” (Genesis 1:28), and later on, “dress and keep the Garden of Eden.” (Genesis 2:15).
Please bear in mind as you read this article that what it contains is not intended to arouse fear in the heart but rather shed some light on the issue. We might even consider it in the context of Joseph Campbell’s mythical story of “The Hero’s Journey” involving a search for the Elixir of Immortality and the nemesis one faces along one’s path, ideally overcoming and conquering it. Our planet’s climate—in which we breathe and endeavor to “be fruitful and multiply” and flourish as a species—is seen as our nemesis in human consciousness. We were instructed by the Creator on Day 6 in Genesis to “subdue” the earth. Apparently the planet was a vast wilderness, not to mention still in the wake of violent evolutionary upheavals with volcanic eruptions and floods still in progress as oceans and seas settled into their appointed places. “Subdue” implies a struggle or a battle. The actual nemesis, however, is not the climate but self-serving human beings. It is said that we are our own worst enemy. We are our own nemesis.
Well, we’ve obeyed the command to “multiply” our species, grossly over doing it actually, but we have been very lazy and neglectful in obeying our orders to “replenish the earth.” Quite the contrary, we have abused her and raped her of its natural resources—her very flesh, blood and bones—giving little if any consideration as to how we might go about repairing the damage we’ve done to Her and replenishing Her soil—one of the “nine boundaries” Bill Isaacs references in his article “Healing the Fever,” which I featured in my previous post. We would do well to look out at the damage we’ve done to our Earth Mother . . . and to her atmosphere and our climate . . . and pray: “Father forgive us, for we knew well what we’ve been doing but didn’t care enough to give thought to the consequences of our actions.” Seeing and experiencing those consequences today, we can only forgive ourselves . . . and stop doing the same things we’ve been doing that have brought us to this impasse.
We have heretofore looked to Mother Nature for our sustenance, to take care of us, forgetting that we have had the responsibility from the Beginning to take care of Mother Nature. To “dress and keep” her. But Mother Nature has her boundaries—with signs and symptoms that say: “Thus far and no further. Beyond this point you’re on your own.”
GAIA’S BOUNDARIES
What exactly are her boundaries? The pie-shaped graphic below provided by Johan Rockstrom shows the nine boundaries and where we are in proximity to them. The planetary boundaries concept presents a set of nine planetary boundaries within which humanity can continue to develop and thrive for generations to come.
In 2009, former centre director Johan Rockström led a group of 28 internationally renowned scientists to identify the nine processes that regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth system.
The scientists proposed quantitative planetary boundaries within which humanity can continue to develop and thrive for generations to come. Crossing these boundaries increases the risk of generating large-scale abrupt or irreversible environmental changes. Since then the planetary boundaries framework has generated enormous interest within science, policy, and practice.
In January 2022, 14 scientists concluded in the scientific journal Environmental Science and Technology that humanity has exceeded a planetary boundary related to environmental pollutants and other “novel entities” including plastics.
NINE PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
OUT OF CONTROL
For the first time, an international team of researchers has assessed the impact on the stability of the Earth system of the cocktail of synthetic chemicals and other “novel entities” flooding the environment.
“There has been a 50-fold increase in the production of chemicals since 1950. This is projected to triple again by 2050,” says co-author Patricia Villarubia-Gómez from the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Plastic production alone increased 79% between 2000 and 2015 the team reports.
The pace that societies are producing and releasing new chemicals and other novel entities into the environment is not consistent with staying within a safe operating space for humanity. Patricia Villarubia-Gómez
In April 2022, a reassessment of the planetary boundary for freshwater indicates that it has now been transgressed. This conclusion is due to the inclusion of “green water” – the water available to plants – into the boundary assessment for the first time.
The assessment, published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, is based on evidence of widespread changes in soil moisture relative to mid-Holocene and pre-industrial conditions and green-water driven destabilization of ecological, atmospheric, and biogeochemical processes.
SUMMARY
Several safe boundaries of critical Earth system processes have already been crossed due to human perturbations; not accounting for their interactions may further narrow the safe operating space for humanity. Using expert knowledge elicitation, we explored interactions among seven variables representing Earth system processes relevant to food production, identifying many interactions little explored in Earth system literature.
We found that green water and land system change affect other Earth system processes strongly, while land, freshwater and ocean components of biosphere integrity are the most impacted by other Earth system processes, most notably blue water and biogeochemical flows. We also mapped a complex network of mechanisms mediating these interactions and created a future research prioritization scheme based on interaction strengths and existing knowledge gaps.
Our study improves the understanding of Earth system interactions, with sustainability implications including improved Earth system modeling and more explicit biophysical limits for future food production.
FILLS IMPORTANT GAP IN RESEARCH
There are an estimated 350,000 different types of manufactured chemicals on the global market. These include plastics, pesticides, industrial chemicals, chemicals in consumer products, antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals. These are all wholly novel entities, created by human activities with largely unknown effects on the Earth system. Significant volumes of these novel entities enter the environment each year.
“The rate at which these pollutants are appearing in the environment far exceeds the capacity of governments to assess global and regional risks, let alone control any potential problems,” says co-author Bethanie Carney Almroth from the University of Gothenburg. The research fills an important gap in analysis of “planetary boundaries.”
In 2009, an international team of researchers identified nine planetary boundaries that demarcate the remarkably stable state Earth has remained within for 10,000 years – since the dawn of civilization. These boundaries include greenhouse gas emissions, the ozone layer, forests, freshwater and biodiversity. The researchers quantified the boundaries that influence Earth’s stability, and concluded in 2015 that four boundaries have been breached. But the boundary for novel entities was one of two boundaries that remained unquantified. This new research takes this a step further.
OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE
The researchers say there are many ways that chemicals and plastics have negative effects on planetary health, from mining, fracking and drilling to extract raw materials to production and waste management.
“Some of these pollutants can be found globally, from the Arctic to Antarctica, and can be extremely persistent. We have overwhelming evidence of negative impacts on Earth systems, including biodiversity and biogeochemical cycles,” says Carney Almroth.
Global production and consumption of novel entities is set to continue to grow. The total mass of plastics on the planet is now over twice the mass of all living mammals, and roughly 80% of all plastics ever produced remain in the environment.
Plastics contain over 10,000 other chemicals, so their environmental degradation creates new combinations of materials – and unprecedented environmental hazards. Production of plastics is set to increase and predictions indicate that the release of plastic pollution to the environment will rise too, despite huge efforts in many countries to reduce waste.
SHIFTING TO A CIRCULAR ECONOMY
The researchers conclude that current increasing trends of chemical production and release put the health of the Earth system at risk. The authors call for actions to reduce the production and release of pollutants.
“We need to be working towards implementing a fixed cap on chemical production and release,” says Carney Almroth. “And shifting to a circular economy is really important. That means changing materials and products so they can be reused not wasted, designing chemicals and products for recycling, and much better screening of chemicals for their safety and sustainability along their whole impact pathway in the Earth system”, adds Sarah Cornell from the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
Credit: Graphic design by Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre, based on analysis in Persson et al 2022 and Steffen et al 2015.
WHAT CAN I DO?
So, there you have it from reliable scientific sources. What we do with this information is up to us individually and collectively. The most obvious thing we can do as individuals is to stop buying detergents and beverages in plastic containers, and use cloth bags at the super market to carry our groceries home. There are efforts being put forth by individuals who have designed methods for cleaning up the waters of plastics and other trash. I commend them on their efforts. If we each one take as much responsibility by refusing to buy plastic items, that would take a huge load off of the environment.
The most important thing we can all do is nurture a deep sense of care for our Earth Mother and a connection with her by visiting her often in the sanctuaries of her woods and riversides, beaches and gardens. Take some of her soil in your hands and connect with it deeply. Give her seeds and water to grow her bounty. A friend and colleague recently wrote:
What matters is that in the bedrock of our psyche we already KNOW that we are living in the House of Nature, which is the House of God. We already KNOW we’re supposed to be good and wise stewards of the living earth, and of the balance of nature.The only question to be answered — by each human being, but first by those of us privileged to live in the first world — “Do I care enough to change?”
That’s big for most of us, I imagine. It is for me in my “golden years.” To the youth of this now generation, my counsel is taken from the book of Ecclesiastes Ch 12:
“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.”
We may remember that our own house of being is the temple of God, and to do unto our planetary House as we would have our planetary House do unto us. We can be kind to it and thankful to the Father for the care and generosity, the grace and forgiveness, the nurturing and constancy of our Earth Mother.
READY FOR SOME GOOD NEWS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE . . . OUTSIDE THE BOX OF THE MEDIA’S NARRATIVE ?!
Humans’ view of the earth is through the consciousness of a species in danger of extinction. The above reports are all about us and our surviving amid devastating fire, floods and earthquakes as atmospheric temperatures soar above 100 degrees Fahrenheit as we push the planet’s natural boundaries beyond their life-supporting thresholds. The rest of the storyis all about the planet, which appears to be thriving. As we strive to avert a calamitous climate crisis, Gaia undergoes a facelift and a renewal of her luscious green wardrobe. Enjoy the good news in this four-minute video.
The Earth is thriving, greening and flourishing . . . DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Gaia is moving on and leaving us to our own devices. Let’s make an about face and assist her with her new wardrobe. I’m certain she would welcome our help . . . and our return to true stewardship.
I welcome your comments. Feel free to share this post with friends and family. Until my next post,
With all the media airing of the climate teen-activism taking place all over the world, spearheaded by 16-year-young Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, I think it’s time I revisit the topic of global warming as a cosmic event — which I blogged extensively about back in 2012.
It has come to my awareness via social media that this entire panic-stricken movement may well be politically motivated and even orchestrated, one Brighteon.com commentator describing Greta as an “Eco-hysteria girl . . . a victim of extreme psychological terrorism by radical left-wing handlers.” Scary right-wing propaganda, to say the least.
Although my first flush of feeling when this all began to air was empathy for and support of Greta and the teen-activists, I’m still feeling my way through all the repercussions and knee-jerk reactive journalism. Of one thing I am certain: global warming is a cosmic event to which we are contributing very little. But before you write me off as a “denier,” hear me out.
Historically, the climate of the Earth has changed on a regular basis — and panic is not a very conscious, nor necessary, response to it. I don’t mean to be picky or critical here, but “protesting climate change” is protesting the natural evolutionary cycles of not only our planet, but of our sister planets as well, along with the entire solar system as it travels through energetic climate changes in our Milky Way Galaxy. In a word, it’s protesting against the cosmos itself. Here’s an excerpt from my June 16, 2012 blog post:
(I love this graphic depicting the earth’s magnetic field being blown back by solar wings, like a woman’s hair blown by the wind, while the front facing the sun is bowed in the shape of a protective shield keeping us from being burned to a crisp.)
Since at least the late 1970’s, the Sun’s overall radiation emissions have increased by 0.5 percent per decade. Between 1901 and 2000, the Sun’s magnetic field increased in size and strength by 230 percent. As of 1999, high increases in the amount of helium and heavier charged particles coming out of the Sun was “more active than in living memory. A mainstream geophysical team recently proved that the Sun has been more active since the 1940’s than in the previous 1,150 years combined. The new brightening all started in the last 150 years. As of November 2004, the same group proved that the Sun is more energetic than it has been in at least eight-thousand years.
At the same time, scientists also fear there might be a massive new peak of solar activity that could potentially fry electronics on earth—and gave a surprisingly familiar target date of September, 2012 for when this might happen. A LiveScience article in 2007 seriously considered the social anthropologist Dr. Benny Peiser’s suggestion that the Sun could be responsible for measurable “global warming” on Mars, Jupiter, Neptune’s moon Triton and Pluto, as well as the earth. Surprisingly, this is one of very few mainstream media articles to have ever made this obvious connection….
Climate Warming: A Cosmic Event
Severe weather brought on by radical climate change, then, is occurring on the surface of all the planets. Our mass protesting and blaming is only imposing erratic and dissonant vibrations upon the energetic climate of the collective consciousness of humanity, as well as that of the earth. Fear is not a worthy motive for activism or remedial action. That this all may be a politically orchestrated event is a very sad commentary.
All that aside, I don’t think our scientists know exactly what percentage of climate warming is due to cosmic factors and how much is due to carbon emissions. Besides, atmospheric carbon can be and is being dealt with by Mother Nature, whose infallible economics includes adaptation in order to maintain balance between all the creative forces: water, air, earth and fire— and the word “adaptation” is the operative word here. I’ve read reports about a marked increase in the proliferation of green foliage on the planet, for example, that is taking carbon out of the atmosphere while putting oxygen back into it. It’s called the “Circle of Life” in the theme song of the movie Lion King. What a timely message that movie shouted out to the world.
Now, protesting our use of “fossil” fuel for energyis another thing altogether. Protest we should. Cleaner energy sources are available. It may be a misnomer, however, to call petroleum a fossilized residue of decomposed dinosaurs and other gigantic extinct reptiles and ancient plants. Oil may have a rather extra-terrestrial origin, writes one scientist/historian.
Historical Catastrophic Climate Changes
According to geophysicist Immanuel Velikovsky, naphtha was deposited on the surface of the earth by Venus when she was a comet during her near collision with the earth some 3570 years ago — as well as with Mars, throwing that planet out of its orbit and thus further threatening the earth itself. Ironically, during this upheaval, Mars shielded Earth from a direct hit by the massive comet by nearly colliding with Venus itself, throwing her off her Earth-bent course. There’s been a lot of cataclysmic activity in Earth’s relatively stable history, and there will likely be more yet to come.
Velikovsky details how this sticky, volatile substance came from the tail of Venus when it was a comet in his controversial book Worlds In Collision, all of which took place in Biblical days during the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt and forty years in the wilderness — which he claims accounts for all the seemingly miraculous cataclysmic disruptions reported in the Biblical stories, such as the parting of the Red Sea and the “pillar of fire” phenomena. The miracle was the Israelites being in the right place at the right time. It’s a very interesting scenario if you wish to read about it in my 2012 blog posts.
Venus was actually given the name “Baal Zevuv . . . Lord of the Flies” (which later became Beelzebub), because of the plague of insects and other varmints that rained down out of its tail upon Egypt as Moses called for the release of the Israelites from bondage. Venus was also called “Lucifer”(light-bearer) because of her brightness as the “Morning Star” before she was “cast down” to the ground from the heavens. The prophet Isaiah writes about this celestial drama:
“How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn. Thou hast been cast down to the ground, thou who once laid low the nations.” (Isaiah 12:14)
The comet Venus kept the nations’ peoples in a state of fear and dread for several decades until she was captured by the sun and became a planet. Sounds like a science fiction episode, doesn’t it. If you care to read more about this very interesting historical event, I wrote a series of blogs on the subject back in February, 2018, under the heading “War in Heaven and on Earth.”
It’s interesting how many of the Biblical stories written around that time have their origin in celestial and cataclysmic events; similar to the Greek mythologies upon which the signs of the Zodiac symbols are based. All this to say our Mother Earth has been through more drastic climate changes in her past than we are having today.
The Question we need to ask is: What the hell are we doing to ourselves?!
All this, however, is a mute point in light of the fact that what is really at stake here is not so much the future of planet Earth as the future of our civilization and of life as we now know it — and not only because of climate change, but also, and chiefly, because of what we are doing to our lifeline with our Earth Mother — not to mention the malignant population explosion. Our way of life is self-destructive.
We are the only species on the planet that contaminates our water before we drink it, pollutes our air before we breathe it, and poisons our food before we eat it — and the forces of Nature are rising up to wake us up. (About the only good to come out of this insanity is the development of a Healthcare Industry to treat cancer and our many other resulting diseases.) There is one creative force we cannot compromise, and that’s fire, which cannot be poisoned, contaminated nor polluted. Its nature is not to be consumed but to consume, and consume it will, human and wild life habitats and lives notwithstanding.
Yet Life goes on creating after the fires burn themselves out or are extinguished — and the floods subside, the hurricanes move on, and the earthquakes settle down. “Unconquerable Life prevails,” to borrow a line from one of my favorite poems. Perhaps I could share that poem as a closure to this post. It speaks truth and sanity to ambitious and arrogant human consciousness.
THUS IT IS
From age to age
Love’s word rings forth,
“The truth is true and all is well,
Unconquerable life prevails.”
Oh, man, whose strident dreams Lead gravewards,
Return to calm and noble
Character of life.
Blaze forth pure virtue;
Depart false ambition’s restless schemes.
Busy thought and troubled feeling
Trespass not in virtue’s wise serenity
Where firm control and awful power
Eternally abide.
Here earth’s pains are healed
And cruel chaos of mind’s spawning
Is called again to order and to beauty.
—Martin Cecil
“Return to calm and noble character of Life. . . Depart false ambition’s restless schemes.”
We could all do a lot of both about this time, as the world seems to be going mad. A line from the Psalms comes to mind:
“A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten-thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.”(Psalm 91:7)
The question might be posed as to who the wicked are. And the answer would be “We have all done our share of wickedness.” There’s no one or ones to blame for our plight other than ourselves, and that’s a fruitless undertaking. A much more fruitful undertaking would be to remember who we are, our true identity as sons and daughters of God and brothers and sisters inspired by the One Spirit of Life.
The first verse of that psalm offers a steady and sure lifeline to those disturbed and distraught by current world events:
“He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
One might ask where this “secret place” is located so that one may come and dwell there. The secret place of the Most High is within us, in the heart of one’s heart. It’s always there and cannot be disturbed.
And I will leave you with these thoughts to ponder . . . until my next post.
So far in this series on global warming, we have visited the solar system through the eyes and meticulous research of David Wilcock, the results of which are written up in his 2011 book The Source Field Investigations. In the last post we reviewed the data on Earth changes that are not caused by industrial pollution.
I’ve said that we are only destroying ourselves by polluting the earth, our water and our air. Earth will take care of herself as she moves through evolutionary changes occurring by reason of the passage of our Milky Way Galaxy across an energetic threshold into an intensified strata of cosmic energy. She will go on to experience her rebirth and renewal, with or without us.
Ours is a species that is in danger of extinction, along with the hundreds of other species that are going extinct on almost a daily basis. We decry their loss and, understandably though needlessly, take on the blame for their extinction, including our own impending demise, when this is all a natural part of the evolutionary creative process. New forms of life are coming in and old ones going out all the time, but life cannot be extinguished. As an enlightened poet once put it, “Unconquerable life prevails.”
In this post I want to look at how we are destroying our ecology and, with that life-support system, our natural habitat and ourselves. As much as I like to keep a positive and optimistic outlook and try to avoid the negative and pessimistic doomsayers, when I viewed this interview of Chris Hedges by Bill Moyers, which my wife brought to my attention, my heart sank into deep sadness at what we are doing to the natural world to maintain our mad consumption of Corporate America’s productions fueled by sheer greed. I felt a jab of pain in my stomach as I watched mountain tops in the beautiful Appalachians of West Virginia being blown up for coal by corporations that find it cheaper than mining for this filthy fuel source. Our Mother Earth is being ripped open for her minerals.
Here’s the intro to the interview:
There are forgotten corners of this country where Americans are trapped in endless cycles of poverty, powerlessness, and despair as a direct result of capitalistic greed. Journalist Chris Hedges calls these places “sacrifice zones,” and joins Bill this week on Moyers & Company to explore how areas like Camden, New Jersey; Immokalee, Florida; and parts of West Virginia suffer while the corporations that plundered them thrive.
These are areas that have been destroyed for quarterly profit. We’re talking about environmentally destroyed, communities destroyed, human beings destroyed, families destroyed,” Hedges tells Bill.
“It’s the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings… And because the mechanisms of governance can no longer control them, there is nothing now within the formal mechanisms of power to stop them from creating essentially a corporate oligarchic state.”
“For approximately 150 years after the industrial revolution commenced the world has been in a situation where it had sufficient surplus to simultaneously promote growth and prosperity. By the mid 1990’s our growth was at the rate that we needed about 1.25 earth masses to sustain consumption. It has steadily gotten worse as consumption continues unabated. Now we are in a situation where we no longer have sufficient surplus to promote growth and prosperity. This requires a paradigm shift. Mr. Hedges is demanding that all of us complicit in this growth, take a step back and think about consumption in a new context – a perhaps moral/sacred context – and each of us should now say – enough is enough.” (Viewer BigMoo’s comments)
What you are about to see and hear is not pretty, but see and hear it we all must. Everyone who cares about life and living on this beautiful planet needs to sit for 51.5 minutes and face the ugly facts of the consequences of our consumerism. Don’t put this off. See it now or at some other time today.
It may well be that this is how we as a species are meant to face the ultimatum Mother Nature and planet Earth have placed before us: evolve or perish. It is obvious that many of our own species are perishing and will perish in massive numbers in the descending spiral of destruction as this madness continues unabated.
A growing number of human beings, thank God, are moving in the ascending spiral of evolution in an apocalypse of light that is lifting our species to higher levels of consciousness. Everything is not lost. The Creator has larger plans for His/Her body of Mankind on Earth. So, weep not for the loss of the old consumptive man and his old polluted world. The new creative Man is rising in the midst of death and destruction and is about the business of creating a new and healthful world. The media simply is not interested in what’s ascending and growing, but only in what’s descending and perishing. There is cause for rejoicing, which I look forward to writing about in future blog posts.
I have an excellent post in the making for my next Healing Tones blog: a book review of Hugh Malafry’s latest novel, The Light at Lindesfarne. (Click on the link to read the press release just released today). I’m looking forward to telling you all about this timely novel. So, stay tuned. Until then,
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Our Home among the stars (click on image to enlarge) While this image is dramatic, the moon is actually more than 1/4 the size of Earth
Not all climate changes on Earth are due to human industrial pollution. Global warming is a galactic event throughout the solar system. We’ve listed the dramatic climate changes on the other planets. Now let’s have a look at some of the Earth changes that have been going on for several decades as David Wilcock has thoroughly documented in his 2011 book The Source Field Investigations.
According to NASA scientists, “Activity in [earth’s] two known Van Allen radiation belts grew so intense in May, 1998, that a new belt was created . . . generating excitement and awe in the scientific community. This new belt contains mostly ionized nitrogen, neon, and oxygen particles, which are new and unexpected since the inner Van Allen radiation belt itself consists mostly of protons. The original source of the atoms is believed to be the local interstellar medium; i.e. the gas, dust and energy between the stars.”
Watch this short clip for graphic description of the Van Allen radiation belts. There are also some interesting You Tube videos to watch at the end of this clip on the subject.
In February 1996, NASA’s “Tethered Satellite” experiment hoped to harness 3,500 volts of electricity from space, using a super-strong cable to stretch a satellite out away from the space shuttle and hold it there while the cable gathered energy. However, the satellite appeared to have encountered vastly more energy in the earth’s upper atmosphere than NASA had expected. First, it encountered a variety of mysterious problems; its “computer and two of its four gyroscopes had stopped working. In addition, both thrusters mysteriously had opened and spewed out nitrogen gas.” These problems . . . are totally consistent with the observed electrical effects of what appears to be a vortex into time-space. When the satellite was finally deployed, the supposedly foolproof tether actually broke, sending the satellite reeling off into space—and NASA was unwilling to speculate as to the cause of the break. . . . Astronauts did describe that the tether’s “outer coating of nylon and Teflon looked charred and melted.” Thus there appears to have been vastly more energy in earth’s upper atmosphere than earlier measurements had shown.
As of the mid-to-late 1990’s, fully 5,060 percent more ozone was being detected in earth’s middle atmosphere than was expected, even though pollution is expected to reduce ozone, not increase it. This area is above where the “ozone holes” are located.
There are also more hydroxyl (OH) molecules appearing in earth’s upper atmosphere than conventional scientists can explain. Furthermore, “strong emissions from atomic neon, argon and xenon” were seen in earth’s aurora, apparently for the first time, in 2001.
Overall, earth has been loosing 3 percent of its sunlight per decade since the 1950’s. There has been a 10 percent decrease in sunlight reaching earth’s surface in the last thirty years, and 15 percent over the last fifty years, showing that the effect is accelerating. This suggests that the atmosphere itself has become noticeably denser.
Most scientists would expect the earth to cool down as a result of a thicker atmosphere, not warm up, so this “shocking” finding “went against all scientific thinking” and was “ignored” as a result.”The first reaction has always been that the effect is much too big, I don’t believe it and if it’s true then why has nobody reported it before.”
NASA announced in 2009 that over the last twenty-five years, noctilucent clouds in earth’s upper atmosphere are becoming more and more frequent, migrating down from the poles, and shining brighter than ever before. This cannot be attributed to a change in temperature, and atmospheric scientist Dr. Vincent Wickwar said, “I suspect, as many of us feel, that it is global change, but I fear we don’t understand it . . . . It’s not as simple as a temperature change.”
The oceans of the world have warmed significantly since the late 1940’s, and interestingly, slightly less than half of the increase in heat content is occurring below three hundred meters (roughly nine hundred feet). These rapid, unpredictable changes in temperature were previously thought impossible, since sunlight cannot penetrate to these depths. . . .
Earthquake activity also appears to have increased. A worldwide database system for reliably cataloging earthquakes was established by the United States Geological Service as of January 1, 1973. According to the USGS, 98 percent of earthquakes are less than a magnitude 3 on the Richter scale and ‘earthquakes greater than about magnitude 3 usually can be felt by people near the source area, and thus detectable. For this same reason it is unlikely that improvements in the technology or number of detection stations would cause a significant increase in the actual number of earthquakes that are reported above 3.0. Nonetheless, in 1973 there were 4,517 earthquakes above 3.0 on the Richter scale worldwide, and by 2003 there were 17,443. This represents a total of a 386 percent increase in earthquake activity above 3.0 between 1973 and 2003.
Prior to 1998, earth was gradually getting narrower at the equator and longer at the poles. However, from 1998 onward, this trend has reversed itself—earth is bulging out at the equator and contracting in at the poles. Estimates of the weight loss caused by melting icecaps and glaciers are far too small to account for the magnitude of the effect. Anomalies in earth’s magnetic field suggest that a magnetic pole shift is already underway, and the models have no clear way of predicting exactly how soon this will complete itself. Interestingly, in March 2004, a hurricane was detected for the first time in the earth’s southern hemisphere. (Wilcock)
GLOBAL WARMING
The U.N. World Meterological Association announced to the world that “the increase in temperature in the twentieth century is likely to have been the largest in any century during the past 1,000 years.” The 1990’s have been the warmest decade.
The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere of the northern hemisphere has increased in the last 25 years.
The average thickness of summer Arctic Sea ice has decreased by 40 percent in the last 30 years.
The average lake or river in the northern hemisphere will now have about two less weeks of ice cover per year than one hundred years ago.
Since 1966, the overall snow cover in the northern hemisphere has decreased by about 10 percent.
Glaciers in the Argentina/Chile region are melting fully 200 percent faster in 2003 than in 1975. Even NASA has admitted that “the (Antarctic) peninsula has warmed 2 to 3 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past 50 years, causing rapid thinning, enhanced melting and rapid disintegration of its ice shelves.”
Lastly, ‘since 1950, according to one estimate, some 600,000 plant and animal species have disappeared, and currently nearly 40,000 more are threatened. This is the fastest rate of extinction since the dinosaurs disappeared. Forty percent of all known species on earth are now at risk of extinction. Somewhere between 2.7 and 270 species disappear every day. The most conservative estimate is that the current rate of extinction is one hundred times greater than the background rate, but Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson has calculated that the true rate may be as high as ten-thousand times above the background level. Wilson predicts that half of all plant and animal species will be extinct by 2100.” (Wilcock)
REFERENCES
There are 172 references listed in Wilcock’s notes for this one chapter alone. In all, there are 46 pages of references for the entire book. The author has done his homework over the 30 years of research that led to this laboriously documented book, The Source Field Investigations. I highly recommend the book to my blog readers. I leave you with this 6 minute video clip about the polar shift underway.
In the midst of disintegration, chaos and extinction, evolution is moving us forward to new frontiers. Something new is integrating and being born.
I will rap up this series in my next post. I welcome your comments. Until then,
Healing Tones 