Saturday, February 10, 2007

Global Warming, Or Maybe This?

I read about Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping Prophet, years ago when I was in university, some of his predictions intrigued me at the time, and frankly, they still do. In the book I read about him, one of the chapters that really caught my attention was the one about future earth changes.

He predicted that a minute rotation in the axes in the middle of the earth, would slowly make it's way towards the earth's crust, where there would be major "climate changes", except he called them "earth changes".

Here is a quick overview of who he was, and some of his predictions.

"There will be the upheavals in the Arctic and in the Antarctic that will make for the eruption of volcanoes in the torrid areas, and there will be the shifting then of the poles -- so that where there has been those of a frigid or the semi-tropical will become the more tropical, and moss and fern will grow.

So, because of a shift in the poles, the cold climates will become more tropical? Sounds like global warming to me. Aren't the poles magnetic?

But now scientists have made a startling discovery: it seems there’s a storm brewing deep within the Earth, a storm that is weakening our vital magnetic shield. Peter Olson at Johns Hopkins University explained that “the Earth’s magnetic field has been our protector for millennia, and now, it appears, it’s about to go away.”

Okay, is this any less likely a reason for climate change, then say, man made greenhouse gasses? I don't know, but it appears to me that this is not solved, the discussion is not over just because a majority of scientists have reached a "concensus". Since when is science about "concensus", what happened to the idea that science should be based on facts?

To my mind, Cayce's predictions are just as believeable as our current crop of scientists, who are motivated by politics and money. Al Gore and Suzuki come to mind.

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