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Water’s Nice, But Not as Ice A little ice to cool a drink on a hot summer’s day is nice, but when you think of it as an Ice Age, it becomes an inexorable force of Nature more to be feared than any fictional global warming. In a recent memoir, marine biologist Trevor Norton recalls growing up "beside a sullen sea" and drawn to the "bluer oceans beyond the horizon, salt-scented and transparent." As a young boy, Norton marveled at the fact that both he and the world were seven-tenths salt water—that his blood had almost the identical chemical composition as the sea and that, in the womb, he’d even had gills.
As June drew to a close, my daily newspaper reported, "Jerseyeans evacuate as river swells toward 50-year high." Unusual flooding occurred from Washington, D.C. up through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. What could be causing such torrential rain? Would you believe volcanoes? No, not the ones you can see, but the ones beneath the oceans of the world that you cannot. In a prescient book, "Not by Fire, but by Ice", Robert W. Felix shares his years of independent research to warn of the next Ice Age that is, meteorologically speaking, just around the corner. There are two factors at work. One is the established, known cycles of climate change. The other is the unknown number of undersea volcanoes. "Marine geophysicists about the research vessel Melville recently discovered 1,133 previously unmapped underwater volcanoes about 600 miles northwest of Easter Island," Felix notes in his book. That would put them about 2,300 miles west of Chile in the South Pacific. "And they’re huge." Since only about five percent of the ocean floor has been mapped, there is no way of knowing how many volcanoes exist, "pumping awesome amounts of heat into the seas." Global warming, based heavily on computer models is, after twenty-five years of endless eco-bloviating, only now being aggressively debunked by a growing body of scientists. They have begun to fear that science itself is being debased by the torrent of false claims. As Felix says, "It’s not global warming, it’s ocean warming, caused by underwater volcanoes." The Earth has always been a dynamic planet producing all manner of change. The recent earthquakes in the Indian Sea area, unusually heavy snowfalls, and the severity of hurricanes are testimony to the constant change that has always occurred. Among the changes is the realization that the northern hemisphere is undergoing cooling, not warming. You don’t have to be a climatologist to understand why. As the oceans and seas are subject to the unseen volcanic activity, they are sending huge amounts of moisture up into the atmosphere where it returns as a heavy rain in spring, summer and fall. In the winter, it returns as snow. When those warm air fronts from the equatorial regions move north and volcanic activity increases their heat, they hit the cold air fronts coming from the pole and the result are more violent storms. You get the kind of torrential rains that occurred in late June on the East Coast. You get blizzards that blanket a region with snow that is increasingly deeper in winter. The key to understanding what is really occurring on Earth is to understand that there are known cycles. As Felix notes, "there is an ice-age cycle known as the Milankovitch cycle; one that returns like clockwork. I believe it is now time for the next beat of that cycle." "Warming seas and colder skies…a deadly combination," says Felix. We are coming to an end of the current interglacial period of approximately eleven to twelve thousand years. When you put increased amount of moisture into the air as the result of warming oceans and seas, you get snow. "Unimaginable amounts of snow." It’s the kind of snow that trapped ancient mastodons in their tracks, freezing them so swiftly that, when thawed out thousands of years later, the food in their stomach could be identified. Despite what the scaremongering Global Warming snake oil salesmen are telling you, the ice and the snow packs of both the Artic and Antarctic are thickening. That means it is getting colder in both these regions. Combine that with increasing underwater volcanic activity that is warming the oceans and seas, plus the Milankovitch cycle, the end of the current interglacial period, and you get the next Ice Age. It could occur so swiftly that it would create chaos among the populations of the northern hemisphere. Either way, slow or quick, the early warning signs of storms with increasing severity, heavier rainfalls, blizzards that leave deeper snow in their wake, and floods all over the globe are all there for anyone to see. We could stop all industrial activity and require all cars and trucks off the roads of the world and it would not make a single bit of difference. It is not manmade carbon dioxide that is bringing about these changes. It is active volcanoes, some a mile or more high, yet entirely hidden from view under the oceans. Nature doesn’t care where you live or what you drive. Editor’s Note: To learn more, visit www.iceagenow.com. I recently received a direct mail notice from Ken Mehlman, Chairman of the Republican National Committee saying that, "Our records show we have not yet received your 2006 Republican National Committee membership contribution." One assumes a lot of these notices have been mailed to folks like myself who have decided not to financially support the GOP this year. They won’t miss my donation because it’s always small.
According to the notice, my membership and contribution "is urgently needed to support President Bush and give Republican candidates the resources they need to run effective campaigns and win." But in most respects I don’t support President Bush any more because, for one thing, he has never vetoed a single spending bill conjured up by the Republican controlled Congress. We have a huge national debt and, frankly, that kind of thing worries me, particularly when Ken Mehlman tells me that, "Our message of lower taxes, fiscal responsibility, and commonsense reform wins elections." What fiscal responsibility? And what reforms? The alleged reform of the educational system via the "No Child Left Behind" legislation is the creation of the most liberal legislator in Congress, Sen. Teddy Kennedy, and extended a previous piece of legislation imposing a federally controlled system from coast to coast. This is a terrible idea that does little other than to expand the size and reach of the federal government. NCLB has done nothing to improve the quality of education in America. It has degraded "education" into an endless series of tests around a rigid curriculum. Why, having been in control of Congress since 1995, has the Republican Party been unable to muster enough majority votes to open ANWR to the extraction of oil? Why can’t the Republicans end the ban on offshore exploration for the massive quantities of oil and natural gas that we need to reduce our dependence on Middle Eastern and other energy resource producers? The recent House vote to end the ban is likely to be resisted and defeated in the Senate. Why is the Environmental Protection Agency permitted to create and enforce an endless variety of restrictions and mandates that, among other things, increases the cost of gasoline to Americans and afflicts the farmers and ranchers who provide our food? This nation and the world have suffered greatly from the ban on DDT and on methyl bromide, an essential pesticide used in U.S. agriculture. Why did the President nominate an avowed environmentalist, Henry Paulson, as the new Secretary of the Treasury? What was he thinking when he nominated Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court? Why hasn’t the GOP been more zealous to rid the U.S.A. Patriot Act of some of its more noxious elements that intrude on the privacy of Americans and run contrary to the safeguards of Constitution? Why has the Bush administration, under the Project Safe Neighborhoods program, attempted to federalize the possession of a handgun by a felon? Surely there are enough state laws to address this. Why, in fact, have the Bush administration and the GOP pursued programs that would expand federal police powers beyond that which the Constitution would permit? I take very seriously the Tenth Amendment which says "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"
Individual rights and privacy seem to be the last and least concern of the Republican Party these days. The expansion and intrusive powers of the federal government seem to be its first priority. Birth, end of life, and gender issues are personal issues. Both Republicans and Democrats need to respect that and leave such matters to the States, as the Tenth Amendment requires. Why has the President consistently refused to address the problem of the massive flow of illegal aliens from across our southern border and, at the same time, advocated what everyone knows is an amnesty proposal few Americans want? And, of course, there is the issue of Iraq. An estimated trillion or more dollars has been allocated to free the Iraqi people and establish a functioning, modern government there. I have supported that effort, but my patience has its limits. There are some small signs of change in the Middle East, but the dead hand of Islam may yet succeed in defeating the hope of connecting it to the rest of the world and the twenty-first century. These are a few examples of the failure of the Republican Party to fulfill the expectations of myself and others who have supported it in the past. It bares less and less resemblance to anything that once passed for Republican values and none to its famed Contract with America. "If you have delayed your membership because you feel the RNC has let you down—let me know. I need to hear from you." Well, respectfully, Mr. Mehlman, you are hearing from me and, apparently, a lot of other former and reluctant contributors. What you hear in November may be even worse news. Coming in September! "Right Answers", Alan Caruba’s new collection of his best commentaries, a sequel to his 2003 book, published by Merril Press. Would you like to secure an autographed copy? Click here. And, of course, the Center remains dependent on your donation so, please consider sending a small amount to help. If you would prefer to send a check, please make it payable to The Caruba Organization, 28 West Third Street, Suite 1321, South Orange, NJ 07079. Thank you!
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We came from the oceans and, to an extent that few but those who have studiedthem understand, the oceans play a critical role in the Earth’s climate cycles. It is those cycles that reveal what is really happening and what is going to happen as a new, inevitable Ice Age begins to signal its emergence.
It’s not that I won’t vote the Republican ticket in November. I probably will, but that’s because the Democrats in my State have made such a botch of its affairs I can’t imagine encouraging that with my vote. But I will not send the RNC any money. I will not renew my membership. Not now at least.