There is some interesting material in this book that makes it well worth reading. The author travelled to Hermanus, south Africa, to interview a geophysicist called Pieter Kotze at the Magnetic Observatory, who confirmed that the Earth’s magnetic field is diminishing and that some researchers think this is a sign of an imminent magnetic reversal, but is he not sure himself. If the field is reversing, this will mean that wildlife such as migrating birds and salmon returning to spawning points will become lost; weather will continue to get more chaotic, with fiercer hurricanes, tornados and electrical storms. Kotze went on to describe a 100,000-mile crack in the Earth’s magnetic field called the South Atlantic anomaly, over the ocean between Brazil and South Africa, which is allowing solar energy to enter, which has already damaged satellites. Kotze says that this will increase the likelihood of damage to power-grids during solar storms. He also says that the Ozone hole over Antarctica may be connected with this penetration of solar proton radiation.
Larry Joseph has found a psychic called Anne Stander, living near Johannesburg, South Africa, who specialises in volcanic and seismic predictions. Her group – 123Alert, has a good prediction record, including the eruption of mount St. Helens in March 2005, which surprised geologists, as there was no preceding seismic activity. She predicts that the rising seismic and volcanic activity will peak in 2011, particularly on the Pacific rim, from Alaska down to California and Mexico.
Joseph investigates the possibility of the Yellowstone super-volcano erupting, and the possibility is very disturbing. According to Steve Sparks, a professor of geology at the University of Bristol, the huge caldera (200 square miles), can be compared to a balloon – not one full of water, that would ooze out slowly, but one full of gas that would explode with a pinprick. This occurs approximately every 600,000 years, and last happened 640,000 years ago. Monitoring with seismographs and heat detectors all over Yellowstone Park shows that the huge abscess is showing all the signs of being about to burst. This would turn most of Wyoming and Montana into a pile of black, steaming volcanic rubble, poison most of North America with radioactive fallout (since the super-volcano is right on top of a huge uranium deposit), cause the failure of the Asian monsoons, bringing famine and disease to that part of the world, and probably plunge the northern hemisphere into a volcanic winter that could last for several years. The last time a similar scale eruption occurred was the Toba super- volcano, 74,000 years ago, says Joseph, one that he says was triggered by a prior period of global warming, and the volcanic winter triggered a cold snap that plunged the world into an ice age lasting 60,000 years. The Bush administration has just authorised another 10,000 oil wells in Yellowstone, in addition to the existing 5,600, and scientists have proposed drilling very deep holes “to test out a hypothesis that the supervolcano’s hot spot is fuelled by mantle plumes”. This is analogous to pricking the gas-balloon.
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Joseph thinks that 2005 was a key year in the unfolding of increasing earth changes leading to 2012. A cluster of catastrophes was focussed on Central America. Just after Hurrican Rita, the Llamatepec volcano erupted in El Salvador on October 1, and was followed by Hurricane Stan 4 days later affecting El Salvador, Guatemala and southern Mexico. After another 3 days, an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale hit Guatemala and El Salvador, and then Hurricane Wilma arrived. Joseph lists the sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) of 2005, including a proton blast on January 20 that travelled to earth 50 times faster than normal (p.106), and a solar flare that occurred on September 7, 2005 – an X17 – that was the second largest ever recorded. In fact, there had been at least two flares larger than this – an X22 on April 2, 2001 and an X45 on November 4, 2003 (he mentions this one on p.117).
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