PETROpocalypse

FACT, FANCY & MYTHOLIZATION

SUPER-ERUPTIONS, MANIC SUN, RISING SEA & MEGA-METHANE

No one would argue against the fact that Earth's climate is a complex dynamic of multiple factors, both known and unknown. Until recent times we believed in an evolutionary arc to the inhabitability of the planet's surface. But more recent research shows a history punctuated by a variety of cycles and even catastrophes, which contribute to massive extinctions. The eruption of a supervolcano, Toba, in Sumatra, around 74,000 years ago squeezed the human gene pool down to a population bottleneck of perhaps as little as 5-10,000 survivors by creating a volcanic winter. Clearly, we are in Nature's hands, and she is not always a kind mother.

THE MAYAN CONNECTION: Beginning or End?

Human beings have a propensity for setting Doomsdays and their optimistic counterparts. We've seen The Millennium, Harmonic Convergence, Comet Kohotek, and other portentious dates for Apocalypse Now come and go. Now the mytholization of the big event has been pushed back to 2012 in the popular imagination. The Maya knew that 2012 marks the end of one and beginning of another Precessional cycle of 25,765 - 26,000 years.

The precession of the equinoxes, zero-point of the cosmic clock, is caused by the differential gravitational forces of Sun and Moon (torque vector) on the gyroscopic Earth. The combined effects of the changing distance to the Sun, the precession of the Earth's axis, and the changing tilt of the Earth's axis redistribute the sunlight received by the Earth. The tilt of the Earth's axis affects the intensity of seasons.

The Milky Way Galaxy represented the Great Cosmic Mother from which all Life came. They saw our Galactic Mother stretching out across the night sky and somehow recognized the place where we all had come from. They recognized the great central bulge at Her center as the Cosmic Womb. Within the central bulge there is what looks like a dark corridor, known as the dark rift. The Maya called it the "birthing place".

2012 specifically points to a period of time when the December Solstice Sun aligns with and arises out from the backdrop of the dark rift, the "Galactic Birth Canal" in the central bulge. It's as if the Sun is actually being birthed anew from the Galactic Womb. If so, it's being reborn with an angry fit of manic depression in the process of a solar heating cycle.

We may have entered the cycle already. The Mayan calculation wasn't exact but targets a 20 year cycle of transition. According to the most recent astronomical calculations the Solstice Meridian actually coincided most precisely with the Galactic Equator between 1998 and 1999. The Millennium, which was considered an 'arbitrary' calculation may have thus been a better marker than the similarly-heralded Mayan date.

2020 VISION

Why has climate become such a political and psychological hot potato? Don't believe either the Right or the Left on global warming? What if BOTH ARE TRUE, but potentiating an unstoppable 1500 yr. solar warming cycle that coincides with Stonehenge, Bronze age, Mayan drought, Dark Ages, Little Ice Age and more - influencing major epochs of civilization. Inside sources say the exact cycle is 1538 years. Whether we believe the Cassandras of pop culture, or not, there are sound scientific reasons to predict we are in for a bumpy ride in the near future. Early warning storms have already begun.

Only that number 1538 matches EVERYTHING, from astrophysics to cultural history and climatology. It only makes our efforts to control greenhouse gases MORE critical and necessary. Maybe that is why NASA is attempting to block solar melting of methane tundra, and explains the urgency of chemtrails and tiny sparkles.

Edward Teller, the real Dr. Stranglove, developed the seeding of thousands of tons of microparticles of aluminum in the upper atmosphere to try to increase the albedo reflectivity of the planet to avert global warming. This is only one attempt at geoengineering, whch is also one capacity of the HAARP Project and its sister ionospheric heaters around the globe.

What's All the Flap About 2012?

This same cycle may have impacted the Maya. Do the math. Lots of people are predicting vast changes for the year 2012, but what about thinking just a little beyond that. How can we develop "2020 Vision" to make the best of an unavoidable situation? We have to widen our field of view from plausible if unlikely scenarios of meteorites or comets and pollution to grasp the Big Picture of Earth's climate in terms of deep time cycles.

To really comprehend just how delicately balanced our fragile planet is we need to consider the astrophysics converging on our region of space. Then it becomes easier to see how the slightest perturbations to our atmosphere can cause dramatic rifts in the course of our geophysical destiny. Many complex forces are already impacting the Earth, particularly our global weather patterns.

Galactic Cycles & Precession

This rain of small comets called impact surges, (2/3 from disk tides and 1/3 from distant matter tides), is influential in the pulsing and advancing of ice sheets over millennia and implicated in mass extinctions. It affects the oceanic heat pump that acts as a global ocean conveyor. This salt pump moves warm water into northern climes, like the eastern seaboard and Europe, keeping them habitable, while cooling the tropics. Its collapse would mean that warm, salty Gulf Stream water would no longer move north, facilitating another Ice Age.

Solar Max and Minimum

The sun is warmer now than for the past 11,400 years.

Research has suggested that the sun itself has been in a heating cycle and may be a significant component in global warming, (1 degree F. per year since 1880). Limited results suggested the sun produced .05% more radiation per decade since the late ‘70s. The sun’s alleged increasing output means stronger solar winds sweeping across the upper atmosphere, exciting and ionizing it with charged particles. Sustained over decades it could lead to dramatic climate fluctuation, as in the historical past,

The big question is can we get through this cycle without a catastrophic 'die off' or another human Dark Age? Only time will tell, but we have new tools at our disposal for both prediction and attempts at prevention or survival. Vast extinctions are already underway in ocean life, plant and animal life that doesn't adapt to changing conditions.

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