- According to The Associated Press, there appears to be
no end in sight to the series of storms that have battered America's Midwest
and Southern states and have so far killed 44 people. Nearly 300 tornadoes
have occurred during the pastseven days in the United States, according
to the National Weather Service and States from Kansas to Georgia including
Oklahoma, Indiana, Missouri and Illinois have suffered storm damage, injuries
and deaths.
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- Associated Press say that total of 300 tornadoes is about
100 more than the most recent comparable rash of storms, in 1999. The 1999
storms had held the record for any 10-day period since record-keeping began
in the 1950s, said Dan McCarthy, a Storm Prediction Center meteorologist.
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- There can be no doubt that over the last few years the
United States has been suffering from greater extremes of weather than
ever before. Scientists and meteorologists, particularly those working
with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
are agreed that these extremes of weather are a result of global warming
and climate change exacerbated by natural phenomenon such as El Niño.
They say that the influence of El Niño and its sister in the northern
Pacific, La Niña, on the global climate has been significant during
the last few years, causing droughts, storms and high winds around the
world. Indeed some scientists say that the trade winds and ocean currents
in the southern Pacific could reverse, causing havoc for global weather
patterns and devastating extremes of climate across the United States.
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- Brent Blackwelder, the American Chairman of Friends of
the Earth says: "Global warming is affecting everything that lives
and breathes upon the planet. Severe storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, huge
amounts of rainfall, floods......some nations will entirely disappear.
This is what is going to confront us, worse than we imagine".
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- Unfortunately for the planet, George W Bush does not
believe global warming and climate change are a reality; and ecology and
conservation are not at the top of his list of "things to do while
I'm the President". Indeed, looking at the Bush administration's plans
for Alaska, its failure to sign the Kyoto protocol and its attitude towards
pollution by big business, climate change and global warming are simply
off George W Bush's agenda. This could possibly be one of the President's
greatest mistakes, as it appears that there is an ancient prophecy that
mirrors the coming problems America will face as extremes of weather become
ever more violent. The prophecy comes from Paracelsus.
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- Paracelsus was born Theophrastus Baumbast Von Hohenheim,
on 10th November 1493 at Einsiedeln in Switzerland and died 24th September
1541 at Salzburg. He was a physician, chemist and mystic and a contemporary
of that other well known physician and prophet, Nostradamus. The prophecies
of Paracelsus are set out in 32 prognostications. These prognostications
are each accompanied by an occult figure or drawing etched in wood. The
prophecies also contain a Preface and an Elucidation or Epilogue. In the
Preface to the Prognostications, Paracelsus has this to say:
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- "To describe the courses this world will pass through
in 24 years is lamentable enough. That man should have made himself so
greedy and should have so wholly deluded himself and have failed to realise
that his days must needs thereby be shortened.
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- It is also a subject for contemplation in what manner
the people on earth inflict misery on each other, whereby no one will grant
his fellow that the sun shall shine upon him."
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- From this preface it seems that Paracelsus, in his prognostications,
is talking about what most people refer to as the "end times".
As the eagle is associated with the United States of America, the prophecy
contained in the eighteenth figure, therefore, seems somewhat relevant
to these stormy times.
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- The Eighteenth Figure
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- "The eagle doth not grow out of thee, therefore
shall He send a wind unto thee that will repress thee and thy young. Although
it may go well with thee and thou sayest to thyself: My soul, thou hast
all thou desirest and wishest for, what is there that may not be thine?
Thou art sitting in Paradise. While thou art thinking it thus with thee,
and there is nothing contrary, in thy greatest councils and rejoicings,
the Deluge shall burst in upon thee, and the rough South Wind shall blow
thee away as dust off the earth. For not in pleasure and wealth are we
created but in the vale of tears. This thou hast forgotten."
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- So, coincidence or a warning from the past? There can
be no doubt that climate patterns all over the planet are changing, and
many countries, particularly the United States, are experiencing unprecedented
extremes of weather. Perhaps, as the cost to the administration escalates,
with storms and tornadoes causing more and more damage to the American
infrastructure, George W Bush will eventually realise that global warming
and climate change are a reality and do something about it. But with big
business interests predominating in this administration and the American
people demanding cheap oil and the freedom to drive their gas guzzling
SUV's, don't hold your breath.
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- © Copyright Ian Gurney May 2003.
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- This article contains excerpts from Ian Gurney's bestselling
book "The Cassandra Prophecy-Armageddon Approaches" (www.caspro.com)
and may be reproduced or redistributed with this information included.
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