Letter From The Publisher- May 2016

 

You have all probably heard of or seen one of the versions of the movie, “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” Now, at long last, we have a sequel; “The Day the Earth Wobbled.” Let me repeat that phrase: “The Day the Earth Wobbled.” The wobble is real because we, humanity, have created it with global warming, and science has established that the wobble is real. Jonathan Overpeck, professor of geosciences at the University of Arizona, said, “this highlights how real and profoundly large an impact humans are having on the planet.” “Since 2003, Greenland has lost on average more than 600 trillion pounds of ice a year and that affects the way the Earth wobbles,” said NASA scientist Erik Ivins. (NASA: Global Warming is now changing how Earth wobbles by Seth Borenstein 4/8/16) Ice, as in a glacier, moves very slowly, perhaps inches a year. When ice liquefies it becomes very mobile, and is subject to sudden movements in its new position, resulting from global warming. Most of us know from high school or college science classes that water will seek its own (lowest) level while ice stands still.

 

With the average melting of 600 trillion pounds per year since 2003 that’s an awful lot of immobile ice now sloshing around as very mobile water!

 

As I have stated previously in this column, global warming is here to stay, and its consequences are raising ocean levels by feet, not just inches. Global warming’s effects are manifesting higher and higher ocean levels, despite whatever the blindfolded members of Congress may think or say.

 

Six hundred trillion pounds of newly created water will find its own level, to the detriment of East Coast dwellers, and that is each and every year for the foreseeable future. The process has begun, and will not end until the huge ice masses we call glaciers are gone. Will the glaciers ever return? Only Mother Earth can answer that question, and the last time I checked she wasn’t talking. Even if she was, who would be listening besides you and me?

 

The biblical story of the great flood is real. Not every aspect of the story is rock solid in our reality, yet the flood itself was. The ark is a metaphor for saving some of the earth’s inhabitants so we could re-populate this land. It is what science today calls an “ELE,” an acronym for an Extinction Level Event. There have been five “ELEs” in human history, and that story is for another time.

 

Until next time,

Walter