______________________________________________________________________________ | File Name : ICE_AGE.ASC | Online Date : 12/13/94 | | Contributed by : Bob Aldrich | Dir Category : ECOLOGY | | From : KeelyNet BBS | DataLine : (214) 324-3501 | | KeelyNet * PO BOX 870716 * Mesquite, Texas * USA * 75187 | | A FREE Alternative Sciences BBS sponsored by Vanguard Sciences | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| The following file was triggered by the atmospheric experiments planned by the US government and detailed in the file HAARP1.ASC on KeelyNet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ April, 1994 Ice Ages and Your Future There have been many sages through history who have predicted some huge change for planet Earth near or at the end of the 20th century. I am not saying here that I believe they have predicted with accuracy the events of the end of the century. I sincerely hope they are wrong, in fact. But since I myself have also accurately and in great detail seen future events pertaining to my own life, I know that it can be done, at least for an individual. However, I am not here arguing the point of prescience. According to geological records, there have been many ice ages here on Earth. By lakebed and soil samples, they seem to start every 100,000 years, and last 90,000 years. The last one ended more than 10,000 years ago, which means that we are OVERDUE for the next one. Now, most people at this point might say "Pooh! If we are due for an ice age, why isn't it getting colder? Well, here is the suprise. Recent discoveries have indicated that the onslought of an ice age occurs over a SEVERAL YEAR PERIOD! Something gets triggered, some environmental change occurs, and the ice age comes, geoligically speaking, almost immediately! The data I am giving here came out of a book called "The End" by Larry Ephron, Phd. Published by Celestial Arts, 1988. It was endorsed by Buckminster Fuller. The writer's basic contention was that as the soil mineral content becomes more and more depleted, plants that grow on this soil convert less and less carbon dioxide to oxygen thus causing a higher carbon dioxide content and thus global warming. Global warming? Then why an ice age? It works like this. As the equator becomes hotter and hotter water in the oceans evaporates more and more. Convection currents are set up then between the cooler and warmer climates, and the moist air is transferred to the poles. Then, especially in winters, the moist air from the poles rushes down onto the higher latitudes, and clouds over the planet. This then brings on an ice age. What is not understood is, if the sun is blocked by these clouds, then why does the water keep streaming north? Possibly the moisture is cleared out of the air by the time it hits the equatorial areas again. How does the planet then get out of an ice age? When ice drags across the land, it first scrapes the dirt off the surface, then hits rock, and crushes the rock, producing silt. This silt then mineralizes the lands downstream, as well as all land under the ice which eventually recedes as the planet warms up. It warms up as more and more large-leafed vegetation grows on the mineralized soils, producing oxygen again. The large leafy plants only thrive on highly mineralized soils, according to the author. Then, once the atmosphere is again warm, vegetation will slowly increase over a ten-thousand year period, using up the minerals in the soil. First the largest-leaved plants grow, which convert the most oxygen, then as time goes by, those that cannot thrive on the present mineral content die off and are replaced by new, smaller-leafed plants. And so it goes. The last plants to grow are, as in the arctic, pine trees. One contradiction to this is that supposedly pine trees produce much more oxygen than other trees! So I don't know if this holds true for the rest of the needled trees. Further complicating this scene is the advent of industrialized civilization. For instance, 200 years ago, the oxygen content of the atmosphere was 35%. It is now 19% and continuing to fall. Four thousand years ago the oxygen content was 38%! Solutions The first solution is to curb the oxygen-hungry industry. This will no doubt be very unpopular in some circles. The second solution would be to remineralize the soils, and of course re-plant trees. LEAFY trees. And THIS would be very unpopular with chemical companies! So, it looks like we are doomed, unless a grass-roots effort is started to test and verify these theories. And that is why you are reading this on a computer network! That we can cross-communicate without having to get our information through a special-interest controlled media might just be the thing that saves planet Earth. Either from a political upheaval or from a natural cataclysm. Rockdust The way to remineralize soils is to mineralize it with dust of rock, similar to the consistency of flour. The workability of this was first discovered in Austria, where the forests were dying with a blight. A new road was cut through the forest, and someone noticed that in the area where the dust from the road blew over the forest, the trees recovered! To further verify this observation, the Australians dusted some farms which had had pest problems. No more pests, and the plants were noticeably larger. No fertilizers were used. The farm next door continued to have the original problem. Friends of this writer have tried sea water as a method of soil mineralization, and in dilute amounts this also works very well! It was not discovered what the long-term effects would be. There are obviously more educated sources of this information but I have read or seen very little of it as it is not a very commercial endeavor so who is to push it except those who have lots of common sense? And on this crazy, mixed-up planet, where are those people? Hopefully you, my friends! I did, however see a recent TV news segment on the subject of Ice Ages and the geologist was presenting it as if it was a totally new idea. But as you can see the book was first printed in 1988. Bob Aldrich @support.com (Internet) or Fido 1:102/756.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ l