January 2002 Warmest On Record For Whole World

January 2002 had the warmest global temperatures in modern records. Satellite photograph courtesy NASA.
January 2002 had the warmest global temperatures in modern records. Satellite photograph courtesy NASA.


February 13, 2002  Boulder, Colorado - Over the past three weeks, there have been several sobering headlines about the impact of global warming:

 

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United States Nuclear Power Plant Security – Is It Effective Against Terrorists?

"Government officials said intelligence suggested that al-Qaeda
members had been considering attacking U. S. nuclear power plants
with car or truck bombs, boats or aircraft."

- Seth Borenstein, The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 31, 2002

103 nuclear power plants in the states colored purple above supply about twenty percent of the electricity used in the United States. Some states have only one reactor. Others such as Pennsylvania have nine reactors, including Three Mile Island which is near the Harrisburg International Airport. Graphic © 2001 by the Nuclear Energy Institute.
103 nuclear power plants in the states colored purple above supply about twenty percent of the electricity used in the United States. Some states have only one reactor. Others such as Pennsylvania have nine reactors, including Three Mile Island which is near the Harrisburg International Airport. Graphic © 2001 by the Nuclear Energy Institute.

February 4, 2002  Middletown, Pennsylvania - President George Bush said in his January 29, 2002 State of the Union speech that "diagrams of American nuclear power plants" were found among terrorist manuals and other artifacts left by terrorists in Afghanistan. Earlier on January 16, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had issued an alert that a terrorist attack on a nuclear power plant could be imminent.

 

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Latest Satellite Data Shows Surprisingly Thicker Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica

Ross Ice Shelf in lower left quadrant of Antarctica map has been the source of Connecticut-sized icebergs dropping into the sea in recent years.
Ross Ice Shelf in lower left quadrant of Antarctica map has been the source of Connecticut-sized icebergs dropping into the sea in recent years.

January 30, 2002 Pasadena, California - The huge Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica is bigger than Texas and two-thirds of a mile thick. It has been the source of Rhode Island-sized icebergs in recent years in what was thought to be a continual slow melting in slippery mud at the bottom where the heavy ice layer pushes against the continental land mass. Since the last Ice Age ended ten thousand years ago, icy "rivers" have moved along that mud base and dumped Connecticut-sized icebergs into the sea in recent years.

 

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Global Warming Update – Could Increasing Carbon Dioxide Gas Be Transformed Into Limestone?

Industries and motor vehicles over the last century between 1900 and 2000 put 280 billion tons of carbon from carbon dioxide into the earth's atmosphere and oceans. That blanket of CO2 is warming the planet now and is expected to keep getting thicker and warmer throughout the next hundred years. The unpredictable consequence could be rapid global climate change and many plant and animal extinctions.
Industries and motor vehicles over the last century between 1900 and 2000 put 280 billion tons of carbon from carbon dioxide into the earth's atmosphere and oceans. That blanket of CO2 is warming the planet now and is expected to keep getting thicker and warmer throughout the next hundred years. The unpredictable consequence could be rapid global climate change and many plant and animal extinctions.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 18, 2001, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 18, 2001, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


January 5, 2002 New York City, New York - In a Dreamland radio news report at the end of 2001, I talked with a Columbia University scientist about the risk of rapid global climate change as cars and industries put more and more carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. (See Earthfiles 12/22/01.) Industries and motor vehicles over the last century between 1900 and 2000 put 280 billion tons of carbon from carbon dioxide into the earth's atmosphere and oceans. That blanket of CO2 is warming the planet now and is expected to keep getting thicker and warmer throughout the next hundred years. The unpredictable consequence could be rapid global climate change and many plant and animal extinctions.

 

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Scientists Warn That Climate and Earth Life Can Change Rapidly

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that despite pre-existing La Nina conditions, global temperatures were above average during 2001. This map shows warmer than average temperatures were widespread across much of the United States and most of Europe. Temperatures in the red areas were 1.8 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (1-3 degrees Centigrade) above average global annual temperatures between 1961 and 1990. The only cooler place was Australia where temperatures were between 1.8 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (1-3 degrees Centigrade) cooler than average. Map and graphic below courtesy of NOAA.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that despite pre-existing La Nina conditions, global temperatures were above average during 2001. This map shows warmer than average temperatures were widespread across much of the United States and most of Europe. Temperatures in the red areas were 1.8 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (1-3 degrees Centigrade) above average global annual temperatures between 1961 and 1990. The only cooler place was Australia where temperatures were between 1.8 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (1-3 degrees Centigrade) cooler than average. Map and graphic below courtesy of NOAA.
A shift to persistent global warming since the 1980s.
A shift to persistent global warming since the 1980s.

December 22, 2001  New York, New York - Recently the American Geophysical Union of scientists held its annual meeting in San Francisco. One of the presentations that made international news also appeared in a December National Academy of Sciences report. It warns that global warming, combined with increasing greenhouse gas pollution, could trigger a rapid climate change with unpredictable consequences. Scientists who have been studying the ice cores of Greenland and other regions of the world say the data indicates that climate changes in the past have included one sudden global temperature increase of 18 degrees Fahrenheit in only a decade or less.

 

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Osama bin Laden and the Hezbollah

Ground Zero, New York City, on October 4, 2001 where the two 110-story World Trade Towers used to stand. Their steel tubing melted in the 1000 degrees Fahrenheit-plus temperatures of burning jet fuel after terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden flew American jet liners into each building on September 11, 2001. Photograph © 2001 by Linda Moulton Howe.
Ground Zero, New York City, on October 4, 2001 where the two 110-story World Trade Towers used to stand. Their steel tubing melted in the 1000 degrees Fahrenheit-plus temperatures of burning jet fuel after terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden flew American jet liners into each building on September 11, 2001. Photograph © 2001 by Linda Moulton Howe.


October 6, 2001 New York City - Thursday I went to New York's Ground Zero with an attorney who represents some of Manhattan's fire and policemen. We heard on the radio driving in that a Russian airliner had blown up in the air between Israel and Russia. When we reached the Holland Tunnel, it was opening for the first time, and every car and driver was being stopped in one lane controlled by armed police who wanted to see a photo I.D. before allowing cars to enter the tunnel. When our turn came to proceed forward, we were amazed to travel that long tunnel under the river completely alone, no other cars in front or behind. Usually, it is packed with cars and trucks.

 

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Part 1 – Sasquatch Bigfoot, Physical Evidence in North America

 John Bindernagel, Ph.D., has thirty years of field experience in North America, East Africa, Iran, the Caribbean and Belize. He studies the physical evidence left by what he and others hypothesize is an unidentified humanlike, or apelike, creature that lives illusively in the United States and Canada. Book published in 1998 by Beachcomber Books, Canada.
John Bindernagel, Ph.D., has thirty years of field experience in North America, East Africa, Iran, the Caribbean and Belize. He studies the physical evidence left by what he and others hypothesize is an unidentified humanlike, or apelike, creature that lives illusively in the United States and Canada. Book published in 1998 by Beachcomber Books, Canada.

September 29, 2001 – Two weeks ago there was a Bigfoot conference in Jefferson, Texas. Two speakers presented two different sides of the hairy, hominoid mystery: the physical evidence and the connection of Bigfoot creatures with mysterious lights and sudden disappearances. Click for report.

Part 2 – Sasquatch Bigfoot, Visible and Invisible Evidence in North America

Rob Riggs is a Texas journalist and former publisher. This 2001 book is based on two decades of his investigations of "ghost lights" and Bigfoot in the Big Thicket about 75 miles northeast of Houston. Available at Amazon.com.
Rob Riggs is a Texas journalist and former publisher. This 2001 book is based on two decades of his investigations of “ghost lights” and Bigfoot in the Big Thicket about 75 miles northeast of Houston. Available at Amazon.com.

September 29, 2001  Austin, Texas ­ About 75 miles northeast of Houston is a swampy area called the “Big Thicket National Preserve” in Hardin County. On the southern edge of the thicket is a town called Sourlake. That’s where journalist, Rob Riggs, spent his childhood and heard stories of the hairy “wild man” that had been seen in the Big Thicket woods. In the 1990s, Rob Riggs published the Lake Travis View newspaper in Austin and the Fort Bend Sun in Sugarland, Texas.Click for report.

Part 1 – Gog Magog Hills, Cambridge, England – Two Unusual Crop Formations

"When the thousand years end, Satan will be let out of his prison.
He will go out to deceive the nations of the world and gather them together, with Gog and Magog, for battle - a mighty host, numberless as sand along the shore. They will go up across the broad plain of the earth and surround God's people and the beloved city of Jerusalem on every side. But fire from God in heaven will flash down on the attacking armies and consume them."

The Revelation in the Bible 20:7-9

July 11, 2001 began the first formation that unfolded in three stages, followed by a second formation in a nearby wheat field on July 25, 2001 southeast of Cambridge, England at the Gog Magog Hills near an ancient Neolithic circle of stones called Wandlebury Ring.
July 11, 2001 began the first formation that unfolded in three stages, followed by a second formation in a nearby wheat field on July 25, 2001 southeast of Cambridge, England at the Gog Magog Hills near an ancient Neolithic circle of stones called Wandlebury Ring.

September 18, 2001  Gog Magog Hills, Cambridge, England - Two months to the day before the horrorific attacks on New York City's World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Washington, D. C. and the airliner over Shanksville, Pennsylvania, an unusual series of evolving crop formations occurred in wheat at the Gog Magog Hills southeast of Cambridge, England near an ancient Neolithic circle of stones called Wandlebury Ring.

 

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