The Larsen Ice Shelf in the Antarctic is melting. If this continues, water will rise throughout the world causing many lost sea coasts. If the entire Anarctic melts, this can be a world-wide disaster. Water will rise 200 feet. Valuable farm lands will be totally destroyed.

Global warming appears to be causing deep holes and cracks to spread across an Antarctic ice shelf, and a scientist predicts the shelf soon will collapse.

Source: Earth Week, Houston Chronicle, Monday, Feb.10, 1997

Rudi del Valle, director of geology with the Argentinean Antarctic Institute, is convinced the 4,600 square-mile Larsen Ice Shelf will crumble within two years. Last January, a 500-square-mile section of the shelf collapsed and broke into thousands of icebergs.

Source: Earth Week, Houston Chronicle, Monday, Feb.10, 1997

Global warming has caused a dramatic drop in the number of penguins in Antarctica, according to researchers who have studied the flightless birds for 20 years. Susan and Wayne Trivelpiece of Montana State University say that the population of Adé penguins on the icy continent has dropped by 40 percent over the last eight years, while the number of Chinstrap penguins declined by over one-third. Warmer winters have reduced the birds' habitat of pack ice, and their food supply of plankton and krill.

Source: Earth Week, Houston Chronicle, Monday, Feb.3, 1997

Residents in Bangladesh's southeastern Bandarban Hill districk awakened to an unprecedented dusting of snow in the mainly tropical region. Scores of people have died of exposure across the country since the New Year due to blast of frigid Siberian air.

Source: Earth Week, Houston Chronicle, Monday, Feb.10, 1997

A gigantic cloud of charged particles created by a solar burst shortly after the New Year enveloped Earth on Jan.10, causing an immense geomagnetic storm. The disturbance was so strong that it knocked AT&T's Telstar 401 satellite out of service, a $200 million loss.

Source: Earth Week, Houston Chronicle, Monday, Feb.3, 1997

Britain remained in the grip of its worst drought for 230 years, and authorities expect to impose water rationing by this summer.

The British Meterological Office announced that, since last June, normally foggy and damp London has been drier than the arid cities of Madrid, Spain, and Istanbul, Turkey.

Pleasure cruises along the Thames west of London have been canceled because the river has dropped to levels normally seen in August after a hot and dry summer.

Source: Earth Week, Houston Chronicle, Monday, April 7, 1997

"The increasing indebtedness of corporations, households, and the government in America today, generates an increasingly fragile financial sector and a highly vulnerable economy....

"When euphoria changes into pessimism and fear, this indebtedness, previously justified by optimism and confidence, will be perceived as dangerous. Creditors, initially apprehensive, later in panic, will try to recover their funds, eliminating credit renewals, thus forcing foreclosures and bankruptcies, and deepening the crisis.

"The coming collapse will be worldwide, because most stock markets are synchronized with Wall Street. This collapse will anticipate, as the 1929 collapse did, a severe contraction and depression in the world economy."

Source: Herman Cortes Douglas, former Deputy Research Administrator, World Bank and Senior Echonomist of International Monetary Fund, Friedberg Commodity Management Inc., March, 16, 1997

"In the February 1997 edition of Popular Mechanics, Science/Technology editor Jim Wilson exposes a declassified version of a two-year study prepared by the Air War College that reveals plans by the Air Force to fight and win a 'Weather War' early in the next century.

"The study, entitled 'Weather as a Force a Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025," envisions future generals having at their disposal an impressive weather-control arsenal for tacticle operations. There is speculation that recent flooding and disastrous weather scenarious may have resulted from testing of this technology by our own government, or that of a rival power--namely, the Soviet Union."

"This weapon may well be used to affect the production and distribution of the ultimate weapon...FOOD. Best estimates are that there is, on average, only a 35-day supply of food in the nations's supermarkets and their warehouses. In other places, like New Your City, its's a half day's supply."

Source: Monetary & Economic Review, April 1997

"A sudden spring frost and freeze has wiped out up to 100 percent of the wine crop in the southernmost vineyards of the Cotes du Rhone and the Coteaux du Tricastin regions in south eastern France. The freak articl chill was not predicted, and growers were unprepared to protect their crops against temperatures as cold as 19 degrees Farhenheit in some places."

The honeybee population across Bosnia has been nearly wiped out by unseasonable snow that blanketed the country. The insects had just come out of hibernation when the heaviest late-season snowstorm of this century struck earlier this month. It is likely that many crops will fail because there will be no bees to pollinate them."

Source: Earth Week, Houston Chronicle, Monday, April 28, 1997

You have probably heard through various medias about deformed frogs in Canada, U.S. , and Japan. The malformations show frogs with 6 legs to no legs; or, the amphibians with an eye or extra leg growing out of the throat.

Scientist in Minnesota took the embryos of healthy frogs amd grew them in regular tap water--the offspring grew with deformed legs . One representative from the National Institutes of Health said plainly:

"We know that something in the water, including groundwater used by human residents for drinking water, is extraordinarily potent in malforming frogs."

Source: Washington Post, October 1, 1997, Page A12

British scientist warned that the massive Larsen BN ice sheet is breaking up in Antarctic because of rapid rises in temperature associated with global warming.  The British Antarctic Survey says the 8,000-square-mile ice sheet is "critically unstable," and may collapse during the next two years. Such an event could alter the warm Gulf Stream ocean current, affecting the climate as far away as Northern Europe. Temperatures around the ice cap are rising five times faster than the global average, and grass has been seen growing along the edges of the icy continent.

"Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."

"You can hold a cocktail party conversation in L.A. without talking about at least one of three things: Holywood... the dreaded "Big One"... and, nowadays, El Nino..."

Most have now heard about El Nino, but what most don't know is that "El Ninos can also cause powerful earthquakes."

"And this El Nino - documented to be the worst one in 150 years - may cause some of the worst quake damage America's west coast has ever seen...

"Over the pass 100 years, there were 26 recorded El Ninos. During each one, California has suffered at least two severe quakes. Often as many as 5 or 6. Take a look. The worst quake so far was the 8.3 (that's the Richter scale) quake that tore San Francisco to pieces in 1906 also happens to mark the first major El Nino of this century. More recently, in the 1989 there was the devestating World Series quake. Skyscrapers swayed like blades of grass in a breeze - for 3 minutes after after the quake was over! The most recent El Nino back? 1985-87... and it's no coincidence that 5 other major quakes hit in less populated areas in California during that same period.

"The last El Nino was 1993-95. And guess what happened...

"In 1994, the Northridge quake slammed L. A. and cause over $4 billion in damages. Maybe you remember the TV images of twisted metal jutting out of highways and crumbled buildings... people trapped under rubble... fires flaring up faster than firemen could put them out. That same year, another quake - just as strong - hit the remote area of Big Pine. What's the connection?

"It all comes down to water weight.

"You see, one square mile of sea water... just one foot deep... weights 920,000 tons. If the water is 20 feet deep, the weight is 20 times that. Now imagine all that weight pressing down on the ocean floor.

"Now consider what happens during an El Nino. It dumps many hundreds of thousands of tons more water on California than usual. And that water rushes through California's rivers and sewers and drains - and gets dumped into the ocean. All that adds up to a crushing increase of water weight on the Pacific shelf, the edge of the very same plates that shift during California earth-quakes. With this years's massive El Nino effect, the pressure has been heavier than ever...

"Already in 1997, there were 12 major earthquakes around the Pacific Rim. Most of them in places where only geologists go. But California hasn't had so much as a shiver. At least not the kind that crushes buildings and splits open like L.A. - is way overdue. In fact, the Southern Earthquake Center in Los Angeles estimates that the 6 major fault lines running under the city hold enough tension for 17 Northridge-size earthquakes."

"With the worst recorded El Nino in weather history now hitting California - plus the tension that's already built up since Northridge - Mother Nature is about to slip a disk."

The Taipan prediction: "The 'Big One' will hit L.A. ... or San Francisco... maybe as far north as Seattle... sometime in 1998 or 1999."

Boulder, Colo.--Part of a Connecticut-size slab of ice has broken off the Antarctic Peninsula, where temperatures have risen 4 1/2 degrees in 50 years, Colorado researchers said.

The section of ice that broke away from the Larsen B Ice Shelf is 25 miles long by three miles wide. The speed of ice sheet disintegration can be one of the best indicators of global or regional warming, scientists say. They warm at 1 degree per decade, several times faster than the rest of the planet, said Ted Scambos, a research asociate at the National Snow and Ice Center of the University of Colorado.

The speedy warming makes the shelves good bellwethers of climate change, he said. Yearly climate changes are too variable and centuries-long changes are difficult to document because data is sparse.

Shelves on the Antartic Peninsula have been in rapid retreat the past few decades, apparently in response to regional climate warming.

Ice shelves surrounding portions of Greenland and Antarctica are plates of floating ice up to half-mile thick, fed by glaciers and snowfall. Satellite images indicate most of the enormous Larsen B Ice Shelf could fall off the Earth's southernmost continent soon, Scambos said. With colleagues, he analyzed radiometer images from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration polar orbiting satellite.

About two-thirds of the shelf is threatening to break off the rock peninsula, Scambos said. The other third is nestled in bays that are expected to protect it.

The Larsen B Ice Shelf is larger than all the ice shelves lost in Antarctica since 1978, Scambos said.

If models are correct, the ice shelf will continue to crumble rapidly beginning early next year. "This may be the beginning of the end," Scambos said.