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Ice Cores Show 90 Degree
Temperature Rise In
ONLY 50 Yrs 12,500 Yrs Ago
10-2-98
 

Note - Many alleged historical events are pegged to the 12,500 year ago figure: Atlantis' end, Nibiru coming through the solar system, the big flood, etc. If the AVERAGE TEMPERATURE ROSE 90 DEGREES IN ONLY 50 years 12,500 years ago, the poles will melt, the seas will surge, and much of life will perish. Ancient legends talk of the surviving humans having to live in deep caves because of the heat outside...that if they put a stick outside, it might catch fire.
 
Why are the elite building such vast deep underground facilities?
 
Here is the Biblical view on planetary 'heat'..
 
The Revelation of John the Apostle says that after the sun goes through the 'sackcloth' (ie, goatshair) phase (1/3 of light shut out... apparently because of smoke and debris in the atmosphere), it then burns men and animal and land (1/4 of all green life on earth burned), and at the arrival of the final "wrath" of God (who comes "as a flaming fire, consuming all in His path") that "men shall hide themselves amongst the rocks and in mountain caves." Likewise, "But the present heaven and earth are reserved unto fire... for the heavens and earth shall pass away with a great roar, and the earth and all within it shall be destroyed by fire, and even the elements themselves shall be dissolved by fierce heat." - St. Peter"
 
Prophetic visions reportedly shown to, and/or given telepathically to, countless abductees-contactees show fire and flood and death over much of the world.
 
The Mayan calendar ends shortly into the New Millenium
 
And, finally, a section of the 'Mother Shipton prophecy':

Thunder shall shake the earth;
Lightning shall rend asunder;
Water shall fill the earth;
Fire shall do its work.
 
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Ice Cores Show 90 Degree Temperature
Rise In ONLY 50 Yrs 12,500 Yrs Ago

10-2-98

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Earth's climate abruptly warmed by 11 degrees Celsius, or more, to end an ice age 12,500 years ago, according to researchers whose findings may force a re-evaluation of the history of dramatic swings in the planet's climate.
 
James White, a climatologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, said that an analysis of new ice cores from the Antarctica show that the south polar area went through a rapid temperature increase at the same time that the north polar region was also warming.
 
White, co-author of a study to be published today in the journal Science, said that the Antarctica ice cores show a temperature increase of about 11 degrees within a very short time.
 
Ice cores from Greenland, near the Arctic, show that at the same time there was a temperature increase of almost 32 degrees Celsius (89.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in the north polar region within a 50-year period, White said.
 
"What we see in Antarctica looks very, very similar to what we see in Greenland," said White. "We used to suspect that some of these big changes that occurred naturally in the past were only local. Since we see the same thing at opposite ends of the Earth, it does imply that the warming was a global phenomena."
 
He said the findings "throw a monkey wrench into paleo-climate research and rearrange our thinking about climate change at that time."
 
White said researchers need to look more closely at how the Earth's climate slipped from an ice age that ended about 12,500 years ago and shifted into the current, more temperate climate.
 
The findings, he said, also increases the urgency for researchers to understand climate shifts because it appears they could be abrupt and happen all over the Earth at the roughly the same time.
 
"The challenge is to determine if a climate change will be a nice and gradual thing that we can adapt to or will it be a mode shift that happens suddenly," said White.
 
The warming 12,500 years ago came within a typical human lifetime. Such rapid shifts in the climate on a global basis would make it very difficult for humans to adjust, he said. Climate affects agriculture, energy use, transportation and population shifts, and rapid changes would make adjustment in these things more difficult.
 
White said the Antarctica ice cores also showed that there was a sudden rise in methane, a major greenhouse gas. Methane, carbon dioxide and some other gases can accumulate in the atmosphere and trap heat from the sun, causing a general warming.
 
Many scientists now believe that the Earth's climate may be warming because the burning of fossil fuels and other human processes have increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
 
Thomas F. Stocker of the Physics Institute at the University of Bern, Switzerland, said the research reported by White and his colleagues is surprising. Stocker wrote in Science that the study suggests that warming in Antarctica "may be synchronous with the well-documented abrupt warming 12,500 years ago in the northern hemisphere."
 
Stocker said more analysis of White's ice core and a comparison with ice cores obtained elsewhere in Antarctica "are required to get a clearer picture" of the South Polar climate change.
 
White said that the warming trend detected in his ice core taken from a seaside drill site was not found in ice cores taken from Antarctica drill sites that were farther inland.
 
The differences, said White, are "perplexing," but may be related to the proximity of the ocean.
 
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Mother Shipton's prophecies.
Writen 1490 AD

www.holdenhurst.co.uk/mothershipton

"The fiery year as soon as O'er, Peace shall then be as before; Plenty everywhere be found, And men with swords shall plough the ground. The time shall come when seas of blood Shall mingle with a greater flood. Carriages without horses shall go. And accidents fill the world with woe.
 
Around the world thoughts shall fly In the twinkling of an eye.
 
Waters shall yet more wonders do, How strange yet shall be true. The world upside down shall be, And gold found at the root of a tree.
 
Through hills men shall ride And no horse or ass be by their side; Under water men shall walk, Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk; In the air men shall be seen, In white, in black, and in green.
 
Iron in the water shall float As easy as a wooden boat; Gold shall be found, and found In a land that's not now known. Fire and water shall more wonders do England shall at last admit a Jew; The Jew that was held in scorn Shall of a Christian be born and born.
 
A house of glass shall come to pass In England, but alas! War will follow with the work In the land of the Pagan and Turk And state and state in fierce strife Will seek each other's life But when the North shall divide the South An eagle shall build in the lion's mouth.
 
An Ape shall appear in a Leap year That shall put all womankind in fear And Adam's make shall be disputed And Roman faith shall like rooted, And England will turn around.
 
Thunder shall shake the earth; Lightning shall rend asunder; Water shall fill the earth; Fire shall do its work.
 
Three times shall lovely France Be led to dance a bloody dance; Before her people shall be free. Three tyrant rulers shall she see; Three times the People rule alone; Three times the People's hope is gone; Three rulers in succession see, Each spring from different dynasty. Then shall the worser fight be done, England and France shall be as one.
 
Waters shall flow where corn shall grow Corn shall grow where waters doth flow Houses shall appear in the vales below And covered by hail and snow; White shall be black then turn grey And a fair Lady be married thrice.
 
All England's sons that plough the land Shall be seen, book in hand; Learning shall so ebb and flow, The poor shall most wisdom know."

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Research Raises Fear Of
Dramatic, Quick World
Temperature Change
10-2-98

WASHINGTON (CNN-AP) -- Ice core samples from Antarctica suggest that the warming trend that ended an ice age 12,500 years ago may have overtaken the Earth in only a few decades -- raising concerns that the current warming trend may bring equally dramatic changes.
 
A University of Colorado team led by climatologist James White will publish their findings in the journal Science on Friday.
 
Previous research had shown a simultaneous but even greater increase in Arctic temperatures. Ice cores from Greenland, near the Arctic Circle, show a temperature increase of almost 59 degrees within a 50-year-period.
 
And White's team said the Antarctica ice cores show a temperature increase of about 20 degrees F within a few decades.
 
"What we see in Antarctica looks very, very similar to what we see in Greenland," said White. "We used to suspect that some of these big changes that occurred naturally in the past were only local. Since we see the same thing at opposite ends of the Earth, it does imply that the warming was a global phenomena."
 
He said the findings "throw a monkey wrench into paleo-climate research and rearrange our thinking about climate change at that time."
 
White said researchers need to look more closely at how the Earth's climate slipped from an ice age that ended about 12,500 years ago and shifted into the current, more temperate climate.
 
The findings, he said, also increases the urgency for researchers to understand climate shifts because it appears they could be abrupt and happen all over the Earth at roughly the same time.
 
Could we adapt?
 
"The challenge is to determine if a climate change will be a nice and gradual thing that we can adapt to, or will it be a mode shift that happens suddenly," said White.
 
The warming 12,500 years ago came within a typical human lifetime. Such rapid shifts in the climate on a global basis would make it very difficult for humans to adjust, he said. Climate affects agriculture, energy use, transportation and population shifts, and rapid changes would make adjustment in these things more difficult.
 
The Colorado researchers also found that the rapid temperature increases prompted huge releases of methane.
 
Methane is one of the principal gases responsible for the so-called greenhouse effect, in which gases like carbon dioxide and methane form a "blanket" around the Earth, entrapping solar heat and increasing land, water, and air temperatures. Methane is a by-product of the decay of plant matter.
 
Huge reserves of methane are trapped in frozen ground in the Arctic, and researchers have speculated that a rapid polar melting could release these trapped gases. Such methane releases would amplify the greenhouse effect.
 
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a global group of over 2,000 climate scientists, estimated in 1995 that the world should expect temperature gains of 2 to 6 degrees by the year 2100, potentially causing dramatic changes in weather patterns, severe storm frequency, farm productivity, and enhancing the spread of tropical diseases.
 
Such a temperature rise would cause substantial melting of the polar ice caps and would cause warming ocean waters to expand, raising sea levels by up to 3 feet and obliterating low-lying lands.
 
The Colorado researchers' findings could suggest that the Earth is in line for larger, swifter temperature changes. The new research does not address how human activity could add to or impact climate change.
 
Since 1980, 15 warmest years on record
 
The cause of the apparently rapid change that ended the ice age is still largely unknown. A majority of climate scientists agree that industrialization could be accelerating the current warming trend.
 
But some scientists dispute the link between human activity -- primarily the use of fossil fuels -- and a steady increase in global temperatures. They say that current record temperatures are simply part of a centuries-long trend that is not a result of automobile and factory emissions.
 
White said that global warming caused by man-made greenhouse gases may be very similar to warming that may occur naturally.
 
"What humans are doing is in a way no different than what natural systems do," he said. "Humans add methane to the atmosphere. So does nature. We are simply doing it faster."
 
For this reason, said White, studying natural climate change of the past may give a fundamental understanding of how human actions could change the climate in the future.
 
The 15 warmest years on record have occurred since 1980, with 1998 on track for the highest average temperatures since record-keeping began twelve decades ago.
 
Accompanying papers to be published in Friday's Science explore the role of the oceans' currents in climate change. Columbia University researcher Mark Cane suggests that ocean current changes may also trigger long-term ice ages and warming trends, similar to the short-term changes that produce El Nino weather patterns.





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