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THE SERPENT AT THE END OF PRECESSION SERPENT THE THE END PRECESSION hen the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change drafted the Kyoto Protocol and presented it in 1997 to world governments as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to curb global warming, an international consensus was made to turn away from earlier concerns over evidence of a looming ice age. According to Al Gore, global warming is a blame game: "We are melting the North Polar ice cap... We are destabilizing the massive mound of ice on Greenland... We are dumping so much carbon dioxide into the Earth's environment that we have literally changed the relationship between the Earth and the Sun."' The idea of global warming, however, runs contrary to official concerns going back at least 35 years. Stimulated by evidence of a cooling trend in the weather patterns, a 1973 report from the CIA concluded that "a global climatic change is taking place and that we will not soon return to the climate patterns of the recent past". This was soon followed by the 1975 First Miami Conference on Isotope Climatology and Paleoclimatology, where Nobel laureate Willard R. Libby warned: "Ice ages have been the normal condition during the last several million years, with temperate climates enduring only five percent of the time... Because the global food supply depends primarily on climate, current understanding of climate must be vastly improved..." Over 30 years later, in a report released in 2004, the Pentagon was still expressing grave concern over the fears of a looming cool-down. While opting for either a scenario similar to the climate change of 8,200 years ago when the weather decayed for only 100 years or a scenario like the Younger Dryas event that cooled Earth for more than a 1,000-year period between circa 12,800 and 11,500 years BP, the report still found in the projected future "a significant drop in the human carrying capacity of the Earth's environment" Yet, amidst the crescendo of recent global warming soothsayers and the scramble to create carbon exchange proposals for CO2-emitting industries, at least one geologist, Professor Richard A. Muller of the University of California, Berkeley, has sided with the Pentagon by saying "Our time looks about up" before this warm interglacial period comes to an abrupt termination’ With a chart that shows three million years of temperature fluctuations based on oxygen isotope profiles, Professor Muller points out problematic discrepancies with the Milankovitch theory. Figure | shows that in the last 650,000 years the ice age was dominated by only the 100,000-year glacial cycle, that the previous two million years had a predominant 41,000-year cyclical pattern, and that around three million years ago there were no strong ice-age cycles at all. What historians determine to be the total length of time it took for modern civilisation to develop is all within our present interglacial period. Sharp spikes in the graph not only illustrate how quickly ice ages can end, but also how quickly they can begin. "These data should frighten you...the next ice age is about to hit us," warns Professor Muller’ Decades of scientific studies suggest that the Earth is heading for a reversal in polarity and spin, a change in obliquity relative to the Moon, and the beginning of the next ice age. by Michael W. Weir © September 2008 Post Office Box 55 Quilcene, WA 98376, USA Email: endofprecession@aol.com Website: http://www.endofprecession.com by Michael W. Weir © September 2008 NEXUS ¢ 29 Post Office Box 55 Quilcene, WA 98376, USA OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2008 www.nexusmagazine.com