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Graphic: London under the ice
Worried geologists and climatologists are crunching the numbers and the totals they're arriving at equals the sum of all fears...
A new Ice Age is looming and the only debate remaining is whether the Earth has already slipped into one or is it about to occur?
Core samples reveal bleak future
During the last century, geologists obtained deep-ocean core samples from the bottom of the Pacific. Upon analysis of those cores they were able to confirm that the cycles of Ice Ages occur with regularity. For the last 800,000 years an Ice Age starts, lasts 100,000 years, and then is interrupted by what's known as an interglacial period (a stretch of warmer years between Ice Ages). Interglacial periods last about 10,000 years and then abruptly come to an end.
What this means--at least during the past 800,000 years--is the normal climate of the Earth is an Ice Age.
The science of climate cycles was brought to the fore by a Serbian civil engineer and mathematician named Milutin Milankovic. The datat he gathered on climate cycles, Ice Ages and Interglacial periods became known as the Milankovic Theory.
At the present time we are at the very end of the last interglacial period. The warm-up lasted about 10,500 years and the Earth is now due to fall back into a 100,000 year Ice Age.
Astrophysicist and meteorologist Piers Richard Corbyn who established Weather Action www.weatheraction.com/ has made the case of the Ice Age and its social, agricultural and political ramifications. In a recent video he explains why winters will now be the coldest in centuries.
Other top scientists in the disciplines of geology, ecology, meteorology, astrophysics, and heliology [Down loadable list] are predicting that the two major cooling cycles are converging--the short term and long term Ice Ages--and Earth has just entered the beginnings of the dangerous cooling.
Ireland under ice, 2010. Photo: NASA
The seven "seals" of the Apocalypse
During the last year, as more climate scientists abandoned the flawed man-made global warming hypothesis, many revisited the actual climate record and were shocked they had missed the obvious: Earth is slipping into a new Ice Age and every benchmark supports it.
The seven major benchmarks signaling the beginning of an Ice Age echo like the seven seals of the Apocalypse:
1. A short-lived warming cycle. Geological records show temporary warming spikes before the temperature drops and an Ice Age begins.
2. Increased precipitation. Heavy rains in the Southern Hemisphere. Heavier rains and snows in the Northern Hemisphere.
3. Partial melting of the Arctic icecap. The Arctic ocean becomes ice-free but the ice moves southward over what is currently southern Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and northern Europe, mid-central and southern Russia, northern China and Korea.
4. Thickening of the Antarctic ice. Massive calving on the edges of the ice sheet; significant thickening of the ice inland.
5. Increased volcanic activity accompanied by more frequent earthquakes worldwide.
6. A shift in the magnetic poles.
7. A cooling of the sun. NASA and the European Space Agency agree that after solar maximum--from 2011 to 2013--the sun will "go quiet" (cool) for the next 30 years.
All seven major events have either already been met or are occurring now.
Several other smaller cycles also occur with some regularity: a 23,000 tear cycle and an 11,500 year smaller cycle.
All three cycles have converged in the 21st Century.
Crazy weather, encroaching ice
The beginnings of an Ice Age are marked by wild temperature variations. Regions can have historic droughts followed immediately by historic flooding.
Signs of the increased precipitation are already evident in parts of northern Europe, North America, Brazil and Australia.
Historic cold snaps will break out, such as those during the winder of 2010 and 2011 with both Sweden and the UK seeing the coldest weather in more than 1,000 years.
Glaciers start advancing. This is occurring now. It's being dismissed by some as part of the man-made global warming furor that has magically mutated into the catchall phrase "climate change," but those climate experts that have kept their heads are seeing the advancing glaciers for what they are: early warning signs of surface chilling in the Northern Hemisphere of the type that preceded the last mini-Ice Age.
The last mini-Ice Age began about 1400 CE and ended about 1850 CE. During much of that time famines broke out, followed by disease. Hundreds of thousands died from exposure, starvation and warfare driven by scarce resources and failed summer crops. At times mass migrations took place often followed by regional skirmishes that led to bloody wars.
Mass starvation
North America is known as "the breadbasket of the world." An Ice Age will change that.
Robert Felix, a man who has spent more than three decades of his life studying the geological history of climate change and Ice Ages, sees North American agriculture decimated as the cold, snow and ice replace the more temperate summer months.
Agreeing that the Blake magnetic reversal signals a coming major Ice Age, Felix points out that the Earth's normal climate is not what Mankind has enjoyed the last 10,500 years. What is now Seattle once lay under 4,000 feet of ice. Where Atlanta stands today was once a region with a climate much like Chicago has today.
The sea levels will drop worldwide falling to as much as 370 feet lower than their current levels. The east coast of the United States will extend 100 miles further out, new islands will appear in the Caribbean—and across the globe—and existing islands will gain significant landmass.
As the climate cools, the temperatures will not drop much—just enough to shorten summers and extend winters in the Northern Hemisphere. Precipitation will create what Felix calls a "snowblitz." An average of five feet of snow daily rapidly builds to 150 feet in one month…over 6 months as much as 900 feet of snow can accumulate.
It's now known that a full-fledged Ice Age can occur in less than a decade.
When the Earth becomes gripped in the Ice Age warm periods contract, snow and ice deepen and travel southwards, the extreme northern polar ice melts, and northern cities will become unlivable. The great wheat, corn, soybean and oat fields of the U.S. and Canada will become wastelands—much, much worse than the famous dustbowl of the 1930s.
Food shortages and famine will erupt in countries around the world. Millions will flee for the warmth of the southern hemisphere and millions more will be exposed to starvation.
Asked recently what people who live in the Northern Hemisphere can do to protect themselves from the approaching catastrophes, Felix suggested, only half-jokingly, they should consider buying property in the south—the further south the better.
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