The Apocalypse is Upon Us

[MasterKiller]

First, KC Elbows comes out of hiding, risking his witness=protection status, but now Philbert and Sevestar are posting agan?

If Eulerfan and African Tiger show up, I'm 100% certain Uki will implode and form this:

http://www.angwinreporter.com/2006/AR04/lakeberryessa01.jpg

[GeneChing]

We saw him (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1022094&posted=1#post1022094) with our own eyes at Twin Peaks.

[David Jamieson]

That's the anus river in wichita isn't it?

[SevenStar]

the most shocking thing? after a 2 year hiatus, I am still #3 in post count, lol.

[mickey]

Greetings,

You know, adult Hollywood never made their own tribute to Apocalypse Now.......ApairofLips Now!!

It just never happened.


mickey

[uki]

cool ****ing picture!!!

my computer must have given the thumbs down sign... this does not reflect the belief of the computers user. :p

[uki]

how about that oil spill eh?? it truly is the end of things as we know it. :)

[mickey]

Greetings,

The Apocalypse is the work of Man and no other. Have you been noticing the fake weather?

mickey

[SPJ]

after so much water or masses imploding into a tiny space (black hole)

there will be a huge exploding or super nova

talking about death of stars and rebirth of stars

just like a circle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl8fKAYQuPk

:)

[taai gihk yahn]

I'm 100% certain Uki will implode and form this:

http://www.angwinreporter.com/2006/AR04/lakeberryessa01.jpg
but first he would have to stop being this:
http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Science/Images/black-hole-galaxy.jpg

[PHILBERT]

Yeah, lots of changes in life the past couple months and now I am back training again after not training for a long time. Didn't realize I was so out of shape either :( gotta lose like another 10-15 lbs.

[GeneChing]

There's some embedded vids if you follow the link.


The world as we know it is about to end — again — if you believe this biblical doomsday claim (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/17/the-world-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end-again-if-you-believe-this-biblical-doomsday-claim/?utm_term=.9d8edf11228b)
By Kristine Phillips September 17

NASA senior scientist David Morrison debunked an apocalyptic claim that a planet called Nibiru is on a collision course with Earth. (NASA)
A few years ago, NASA senior space scientist David Morrison debunked an apocalyptic claim as a hoax.

No, there’s no such thing as a planet called Nibiru, he said. No, it’s not a brown dwarf surrounded by planets, as iterations of the claim suggest. No, it’s not on a collision course toward Earth. And yes, people should “get over it.”

But the claim has been getting renewed attention recently. Added to it is the precise date of the astronomical event leading to Earth’s destruction. And that, according to David Meade, is in six days — Sept. 23, 2017. Unsealed, an evangelical Christian publication, foretells the Rapture in a viral, four-minute YouTube video, complete with special effects and ominous doomsday soundtrack. It’s called “September 23, 2017: You Need to See This.”

Why Sept. 23, 2017?

Meade’s prediction is based largely on verses and numerical codes in the Bible. He has homed in one number: 33.

“Jesus lived for 33 years. The name Elohim, which is the name of God to the Jews, was mentioned 33 times [in the Bible],” Meade told The Washington Post. “It’s a very biblically significant, numerologically significant number. I’m talking astronomy. I’m talking the Bible … and merging the two.”

And Sept. 23 is 33 days since the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse, which Meade believes is an omen.

Capital Weather Gang's Angela Fritz takes us back in time to show how mankind has reacted to eclipses over thousands of years. (Claritza Jimenez, Daron Taylor, Angela Fritz/The Washington Post)
He points to the Book of Revelation, which he said describes the image that will appear in the sky on that day, when Nibiru is supposed to rear its ugly head, eventually bringing fire, storms and other types of destruction.

[Will the mysterious shadow planet Nibiru obliterate Earth in October? No.]

The book describes a woman “clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head” who gives birth to a boy who will “rule all the nations with an iron scepter” while she is threatened by a red seven-headed dragon. The woman then grows the wings of an eagle and is swallowed up by the earth.

The belief, as previously described by Gary Ray, a writer for Unsealed, is that the constellation Virgo — representing the woman — will be clothed in sunlight, in a position that is over the moon and under nine stars and three planets. The planet Jupiter, which will have been inside Virgo — in her womb, in Ray’s interpretation — will move out of Virgo, as though she is giving birth.

To make clear, Meade said he’s not saying the world will end Saturday. Instead, he claims, the prophesies in the Book of Revelation will manifest that day, leading to a series of catastrophic events that will happen over the course of weeks.

“The world is not ending, but the world as we know it is ending,” he said, adding later: “A major part of the world will not be the same the beginning of October.”

Meade’s prediction has been dismissed as a hoax not only by NASA scientists, but also by people of faith.

Ed Stetzer, a professor and executive director of Wheaton College’s Billy Graham Center for Evangelism, first took issue with how Meade is described in some media articles.

“There’s no such thing as a Christian numerologist,” he told The Post. “You basically got a made-up expert in a made-up field talking about a made-up event.… It sort of justifies that there’s a special secret number codes in the Bible that nobody believes.”

Meade said he never referred to himself as a Christian numerologist. He’s a researcher, he said, and he studied astronomy at a university in Kentucky, though he declined to say which one, citing safety reasons. His website says he worked in forensic investigations and spent 10 years working for Fortune 1000 companies. He’s also written books. The most recent one is called “Planet X — The 2017 Arrival.”

Stetzer said that while numbers do have significance in the Bible, they shouldn’t be used to make sweeping predictions about planetary motions and the end of Earth.

[For some, eclipse day showcases God’s majesty. For others, it means the Rapture is coming.]

“Whenever someone tells you they have found a secret number code in the Bible, end the conversation,” he wrote in an article published Friday in Christianity Today. “Everything else he or she says can be discounted.”

That is not to say that Christians don’t believe in the Bible’s prophesies, Stetzer said, but baseless theories that are repeated and trivialized embarrass people of faith.

“We do believe some odd things,” he said. “That Jesus is coming back, that he will set things right in the world, and no one knows the day or the hour.”

The doomsday date was initially predicted to be in May 2003, according to NASA. Then it was moved to Dec. 21, 2012, the date that the Mayan calendar, as some believed, marked the apocalypse.

Morrison, the NASA scientist, has given simple explanations debunking the claim that a massive planet is on course to destroy Earth. If Nibiru is, indeed, as close as conspiracy theorists believe to striking Earth, astronomers, and anyone really, would’ve already seen it.

“It would be bright. It would be easily visible to the naked eye. If it were up there, you could see it. All of us could see it. … If Nibiru were real and it were a planet with a substantial mass, then it would already be perturbing the orbits of Mars and Earth. We would see changes in those orbits due to this rogue object coming in to the inner solar system,” Morrison said in a video.

Doomsday believers also say that Nibiru is on a 3,600-year orbit. That means it had already come through the solar system in the past, which means we should be looking at an entirely different solar system today, Morrison said.

“Its gravity would’ve messed up the orbits of the inner planets, the Earth, Venus, Mars, probably would’ve stripped the moon away completely,” he said. “Instead, in the inner solar system, we see planets with stable orbits. We see the moon going around the Earth.”

And if Nibiru is not a planet and is, in fact, a brown dwarf, as some claims suggest — again, we would’ve already seen it.

“Everything I’ve said would be worse with a massive object like a brown dwarf,” Morrison said. “That would’ve been tracked by astronomers for a decade or more, and it would already have really affected planetary objects.”

Some call Nibiru “Planet X,” as Meade did in the title of his book. Morrison said that’s a name astronomers give to planets or possible objects that have not been found. For example, when space scientists were searching for a planet beyond Neptune, it was called Planet X. And once it was found, it became Pluto.

Stetzer encouraged Christians to be critical, especially in an information era marred with fake news stories.

“It’s simply fake news that a lot of Christians believe the world will end on September 23,” Stetzer wrote. “Yet, it is still a reminder that we need to think critically about all the news.”

He took issue with a Fox News story with a headline that appears to give credence to the doomsday claim — and was published in the Science section under the label “Planets.”

“Every time end-of-the-world predictions resurface in the media, it is important that we ask ourselves, ‘Is this helpful?’ ” Stetzer wrote. “Is peddling these falsehoods a good way to contribute to meaningful, helpful discussions about the end of times?”

Julie Zauzmer contributed to this story.

I thought the apocalypse already happened on 12/21/12 (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?64922-Mayan-Apocalypse-12-21-12). Or was it 6/6/6 (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?41575-6-6-6)?

[sanjuro_ronin]

It should be noted that numerology and divination is actually against bible teachings.
There are explicit condemnations in both the OT and NT against it.

[rett2]

It should be noted that numerology and divination is actually against bible teachings.
There are explicit condemnations in both the OT and NT against it.

Is the reason to prevent humankind becoming the equals of God?

[Jimbo]

How many times have people said, 'The end is coming! Doomsday is upon us!" When the fact of the matter is that the VAST majority of people proclaiming the end will die at home in bed, or in a hospital/nursing home/hospice, hooked up to machines. Or in accidents. Meanwhile, the world goes on as usual.

There is a kind of "spiritual" narcissism involved with those who constantly predict the end times. Meaning it's coming because they say so, and they'll be here to say, "I told you so." As a bonus, they (the predictors) will be among God's 'chosen few', to be plucked up when it happens in some type of spiritual rapture. Then they'll gloat from the safety of their seats in Heaven. They believe that being a sniveling, @ss-kissing coward is the way to God's good graces.

Those types of people are not really 'spiritual' in any sense of the word. Most of those types are no more than self-righteous psychopaths, like that slimeball Harold Camping, who love feeding on the fear of nervous, gullible people.

If the end does happen to come when I'm here, I certainly will not have wasted my life living in constant dread, waiting and worrying about it.

[sanjuro_ronin]

Is the reason to prevent humankind becoming the equals of God?

No, to stop people from being stupid.
LOL.
Actually, the reason was that for it to actually work, people would have to expose themselves to demonic influence.
It was to protect people.

[sanjuro_ronin]

How many times have people said, 'The end is coming! Doomsday is upon us!" When the fact of the matter is that the VAST majority of people proclaiming the end will die at home in bed, or in a hospital/nursing home/hospice, hooked up to machines. Or in accidents. Meanwhile, the world goes on as usual.

There is a kind of "spiritual" narcissism involved with those who constantly predict the end times. Meaning it's coming because they say so, and they'll be here to say, "I told you so." As a bonus, they (the predictors) will be among God's 'chosen few', to be plucked up when it happens in some type of spiritual rapture. Then they'll gloat from the safety of their seats in Heaven. They believe that being a sniveling, @ss-kissing coward is the way to God's good graces.

Those types of people are not really 'spiritual' in any sense of the word. Most of those types are no more than self-righteous psychopaths, like that slimeball Harold Camping, who love feeding on the fear of nervous, gullible people.

If the end does happen to come when I'm here, I certainly will not have wasted my life living in constant dread, waiting and worrying about it.

Spot on.
Spot on indeed.

[mickey]

Greetings,

It's all nothing more than a death wish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EdxM72EZ94


mickey

[GeneChing]

Man who said the world is ending Saturday changed his mind. It isn't actually ending (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/09/22/man-who-said-world-ending-saturday-said-isnt-actually-ending/692907001/)
USA TODAY NETWORK Ashley May, USA TODAY Published 12:10 p.m. ET Sept. 22, 2017 | Updated 4:51 p.m. ET Sept. 22, 2017

Many 'doomsday' predictions have surfaced over the years. Here's a look at four of the most notable ones. USA TODAY

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/427c98e25ab08c264c9dbf2f9f3ad8057237dff0/c=112-0-3359-2441&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/2017/09/22/USATODAY/USATODAY/636416772315431977-GettyImages-dv028011.jpg
The Earth, partly illuminated
(Photo: Digital Vision, Getty Images)

David Meade, who claimed the world will end Saturday, said doomsday isn't this weekend after all.

“The world is not ending, but the world as we know it is ending,” he told The Washington Post. “A major part of the world will not be the same the beginning of October.”

Meade, Christian and self-published author, laid out his "astronomical, scientific, the Book of Revelation and geopolitics" ideology in his book Planet X — The 2017 Arrival. He claims Sept. 23 "Planet Nibiru" will collide with the Earth.

But now Meade is saying this event won't mark the apocalypse, but rather a series of dire events over the course of weeks, The Washington Post reports.

NASA has said "Nibiru" or "Planet X" doesn't exist and this is a hoax. Christian leaders have also disputed the claims. Christianity Today calls Meade "a made-up leader in a made-up field."

Even some translations of Biblical scripture refutes men making claims about knowing the date of the end. Just take a look at Matthew 24:36, which says: "But about that day or hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."

Many like Meade have tried to pinpoint doomsday in the past. But, here we all are. At least for now.

Follow Ashley May on Twitter: @AshleyMayTweets

The Aztecs predicted their own apocalypse in a way. They mistook Cortez as Quetzalcoatl, but from their perspective, that was spot on. They knew the day or hour, but then again, they weren't Christian. :p

[GeneChing]

Niburu, Pluto, when are we getting the Uranus Apocalypse? That'll be the end. :p


We may survive the Anthropocene, but need to avoid a radioactive ‘Plutocene’ (https://theconversation.com/we-may-survive-the-anthropocene-but-need-to-avoid-a-radioactive-plutocene-84763)
September 27, 2017 4.01pm EDT
A nuclear blast and runaway climate change could propel us into the Plutocene. mwreck/Shutterstock.com
Andrew Glikson
Earth and paleo-climate scientist, Australian National University
Andrew Glikson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond the academic appointment above.

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Australian National University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU.

On January 27, 2017, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the arms of its doomsday clock to 2.5 minutes to midnight – the closest it has been since 1953. Meanwhile, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels now hover above 400 parts per million.

Why are these two facts related? Because they illustrate the two factors that could transport us beyond the Anthropocene – the geological epoch marked by humankind’s fingerprint on the planet – and into yet another new, even more hostile era of our own making.

My new book, titled The Plutocene: Blueprints for a post-Anthropocene Greenhouse Earth (http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319572369), describes the future world we are on course to inhabit, now that it has become clear that we are still busy building nuclear weapons rather than working together to defend our planet.

I have coined the term Plutocene to describe a post-Anthropocene period marked by a plutonium-rich sedimentary layer in the oceans. The Anthropocene is very short, having begun (depending on your definition) either with the Industrial Revolution in about 1750, or with the onset of nuclear weapons and sharply rising greenhouse emissions in the mid-20th century. The future length of the Plutocene would depend on two factors: the half-life of radioactive plutonium-239 of 24,100 years, and how long our CO₂ will stay in the atmosphere – potentially up to 20,000 years.

During the Plutocene, temperatures would be much higher than today. Perhaps they would be similar to those during the Pliocene (2.6 million to 5.3 million years ago), when average temperatures were about 2℃ above those of pre-industrial times, or the Miocene (roughly 5.3 million to 23 million years ago), when average temperatures were another 2℃ warmer than that, and sea levels were 20–40m higher than today.

Under these conditions, population and farming centres in low coastal zones and river valleys would be inundated, and humans would be forced to seek higher latitudes and altitudes to survive – as well as potentially having to contend with the fallout of nuclear conflict. The most extreme scenario is that evolution takes a new turn – one that favours animals best equipped to withstand heat and radiation.

Climates past

While we have a range of tools for studying prehistoric climates, including ice cores and tree rings, these methods do not of course tell us what the future holds.

However, the basic laws of physics, the principles of climate science, and the lessons from past and current climate trends, help us work out the factors that will dictate our future climate.

Broadly speaking, the climate is shaped by three broad factors: trends in solar cycles; the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases; and intermittent events such as volcanic eruptions or asteroid impacts.

Solar cycles are readily predicted, and indeed can be seen in the geological record, whereas intermittent events are harder to account for. The factor over which we have the most control is our own greenhouse emissions.

CO₂ levels have previously climbed as high as 2,000 parts per million (ppm), most recently during the early Eocene, roughly 55-45 million years ago. The subsequent decline of CO₂ levels to just a few hundred parts per million then cooled the planet, creating the conditions that allowed Earth’s current inhabitants (much later including humans) to flourish.

But what of the future? Based on these observations, as reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), several projections of future climates indicate an extension of the current interglacial period by about 30,000 years, consistent with the longevity of atmospheric CO₂.

If global warming were to reach 4℃, as suggested by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, chief climate advisor to the German government, the resulting amplification effects on the climate would pose an existential threat both to nature and human civilisation.

Barring effective sequestration of carbon gases, and given amplifying feedback effects from the melting of ice sheets, warming of oceans, and drying out of land surfaces, Earth is bound to reach an average of 4℃ above pre-industrial levels within a time frame to which numerous species, including humans, may hardly be able to adapt. The increase in evaporation from the oceans and thereby water vapour contents of the atmosphere leads to mega-cyclones, mega-floods and super-tropical terrestrial environments. Arid and semi-arid regions would become overheated, severely affecting flora and fauna habitats.

The transition to such conditions is unlikely to be smooth and gradual, but may instead feature sharp transient cool intervals called “stadials”. Increasingly, signs of a possible stadial are being seen south of Greenland.

A close analogy can be drawn between future events and the Eocene-Paleocene Thermal Maximum about 55 million years ago, when release of methane from Earth’s crust resulted in extreme rise in temperature. But as shown below, the current rate of temperature rise is far more rapid – and more akin to the planet-heating effects of an asteroid strike.

https://theconversation.imgix.net/files/187760/original/file-20170927-24162-1r1vfkj.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754
Rate of global average temperature rise during (1) the end of the last Ice Age; (2) the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum; (3) the current bout of global warming; and (4) during an asteroid impact. Author provided

Mounting our defence

Defending ourselves from global warming and nuclear disaster requires us to do two things: stop fighting destructive wars, and start fighting to save our planet. There is a range of tactics we can use to help achieve the second goal, including large-scale seagrass cultivation, extensive biochar development, and restoring huge swathes of the world’s forests.

Space exploration is wonderful, but we still only know of one planet that supports life (bacteria possibly excepted). This is our home, and there is currently little prospect of realising science fiction’s visions of an escape from a scorched Earth to some other world.

Yet still we waver. Many media outlets operate in apparent denial of the connection between global warming and extreme weather. Meanwhile, despite diplomatic progress on nuclear weapons, the Sword of Damocles continues to hang over our heads, as 14,900 nuclear warheads sit aimed at one another, waiting for accidental or deliberate release.

If the clock does strike nuclear midnight, and if we don’t take urgent action to defend our planet, life as we know it will not be able to continue. Humans will survive in relatively cold high latitudes and altitudes. A new cycle would begin.

[GeneChing]

The return of Nibiru



Nibiru to cause 'end of the world' on April 23 says conspiracy theorist David Meade in latest RAPTURE outburst
Nibiru - or Planet X - may not have shown up in previous years, but David Meade says it's coming next week (https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/nibiru-cause-end-world-april-12390060)
ByJeff ParsonsTech/Science Reporter
13:23, 19 APR 2018
SCIENCE

Despite the lack of cataclysmic destruction in both 2017 and 2016 from the mysterious death planet known as "Nibiru", conspiracy theorists still think it's going to destroy us.

Chief among the doomsayers is David Meade, a self-titled Christian numerologist who seems very interested in warning us all of our incoming destruction.

“The Book of Revelation states that men will approach Armageddon on horseback. Nibiru is here and the earth will be prepared for the next event on its calendar. That’s all in the Book of Revelation, too,” he said, according to the Daily Express.

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article11644122.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/MAIN-NIBIRU-SHOCK-CLAIM-Moon-isnt-real-its-a-simulation-to-COVER-UP-Planet-X-1.jpg
(Image: Getty)

In an article earlier this year, he wrote: "By early April of 2018, the disappearance of the Church (all true Christians worldwide also known as the Rapture) will occur.

"This will be followed quickly by the rise of the Antichrist, the appearance of Planet X and World War III.

"Seven years of Tribulation will ensure. This is beyond any shadow of doubt."

Amusingly, the world was also supposed to end yesterday , according to another conspiracy theory voicemail message that picked up a lot of traction on the internet.

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article11644124.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Planets-in-space.jpg
(Image: iStockphoto)

But everyone is so convinced by these theories.

Nick Pope, former MoD UFO investigator, tweeted: "The world isn’t going to end on April 18 (the creepy voicemail hoax) or April 23 (the Rapture/Nibiru hoax).

“There’s no solid evidence or good science to support this nonsense, and the dates will pass (like the dates in all previous predictions of Armageddon) without incident.”

Where does the Nibiru conspiracy theory come from?

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(Image: Wikimedia Commons)

As well as noting apparent mystic markings on the pyramids in Egypt, Meade's prediction is largely based on the Bible passage Isaiah, Chapter 13 9-10, which says: "See, the Day of the Lord is coming – a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger – to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it.

"The Stars of Heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the Moon will not give its light."

Supposedly, a celestial alignment takes place on the 23rd that mirrors one fortold in the Book of Revelation. But experts have proven that there is nothing special about the line-up of the moon, the planets or the sun on that date.

Meade, who first claimed that Nibiru was on it's way in a series on YouTube posts, later clarified his theory, confirming that the expected apocalypse had been delayed while also claiming that the planet was never predicted to arrive on a specific date in the first place.

It's so ridiculous that even NASA has debunked it

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article8426298.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/NASA-sign-at-Kennedy-Space-Center-Florida-USA.jpg
NASA sign at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA (Image: Getty)

Asteroid as big as football pitch narrowly avoided Earth in closest near miss ever recorded
This theory of a wayward planet - also known as "Planet X" - became so prolific that NASA released a statement to confirm it wasn't true.

The statement read: "Various people are 'predicting' that world will end on September 23 when another planet collides with Earth. The planet in question, Nibiru, doesn't exist, so there will be no collision," the space agency said.

"Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an internet hoax.

"There is no factual basis for these claims. If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with the Earth astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye.

"Obviously, it does not exist."

[GeneChing]

The scary thing is one of these days, this thread will be right.

And that might be sooner than we like to think.

Today, the Silicon Valley skies are orange again with wildfire smoke. And it's not just God punishing liberal California.


TOMORROW
July 26, 2018
9:40 am
How Did the End of the World Become Old News? (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/climate-change-wildfires-heatwave-media-old-news-end-of-the-world.html)
By David Wallace-Wells

https://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/26/26-wildfire-sweden.w710.h473.jpg
The fire this time (in Sweden). Photo: Mats Andersson/AFP/Getty Images

There has been a lot of burning lately. Last week, wildfires broke out in the Arctic Circle, where temperatures reached almost 90 degrees; they are still roiling northern Sweden, 21 of them. And this week, wildfires swept through the Greek seaside, outside Athens, killing at least 80 and hospitalizing almost 200. At one resort, dozens of guests tried to escape the flames by descending a narrow stone staircase into the Aegean, only to be engulfed along the way, dying literally in each other’s arms.

Last July, I wrote a much-talked-over magazine cover story considering the worst-case scenarios for climate change — much talked over, in part, because it was so terrifying, which made some of the scenarios a bit hard to believe. Those worst-case scenarios are still quite unlikely, since they require both that we do nothing to alter our emissions path, which is still arcing upward, and that those unabated emissions bring us to climate outcomes on the far end of what’s possible by 2100.

But, this July, we already seem much ****her along on those paths than even the most alarmist climate observers — e.g., me — would have predicted a year ago. In a single week earlier this month, dozens of places around the world were hit with record temperatures in what was, effectively, an unprecedented, planet-encompassing heat wave: from Denver to Burlington to Ottawa; from Glasgow to Shannon to Belfast; from Tbilisi, in Georgia, and Yerevan, in Armenia, to whole swaths of southern Russia. The temperature of one city in Oman, where the daytime highs had reached 122 degrees Fahrenheit, did not drop below 108 all night; in Montreal, Canada, 50 died from the heat. That same week, 30 major wildfires burned in the American West, including one, in California, that grew at the rate of 10,000 football fields each hour, and another, in Colorado, that produced a volcano-like 300-foot eruption of flames, swallowing an entire subdivision and inventing a new term — “fire tsunami” — along the way. On the other side of the planet, biblical rains flooded Japan, where 1.2 million were evacuated from their homes. The following week, the heat struck there, killing dozens. The following week.

In other words, it has been a month of historic, even unprecedented, climate horrors. But you may not have noticed, if you are anything but the most discriminating consumer of news. The major networks aired 127 segments on the unprecedented July heat wave, Media Matters usefully tabulated, and only one so much as mentioned climate change. The New York Times has done admirable work on global warming over the last year, launching a new climate desk and devoting tremendous resources to high-production-value special climate “features.” But even their original story on the wildfires in Greece made no mention of climate change — after some criticism on Twitter, they added a reference.

Over the last few days, there has been a flurry of chatter among climate writers and climate scientists, and the climate-curious who follow them, about this failure. In perhaps the most widely parsed and debated Twitter exchange, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes — whose show, All In, has distinguished itself with the seriousness of its climate coverage — described the dilemma facing every well-intentioned person in his spot: the transformation of the planet and the degradation may be the biggest and most important story of our time, indeed of all time, but on television, at least, it has nevertheless proven, so far, a “palpable ratings killer.” All of which raises a very dispiriting possibility, considering the scale of the climate crisis: Has the end of the world as we know it become, already, old news?

If so, that would be really, really bad. As I’ve written before, and as Wen Stephenson echoed more recently in The Baffler, climate change is not a matter of “yes” or “no,” not a binary process where we end up either “****ed” or “not ****ed.” It is a system that gets worse over time as long as we continue to emit greenhouse gases. We are just beginning to see the horrors that climate change has in store for us —but that does not mean that the story is settled. Things will get worse, almost certainly much, much worse. Indeed, the news about what more to expect, coming out of new research, only darkens our picture of what to expect: Just over the past few weeks, new studies have suggested heat in many major Indian cities would be literally lethal by century’s end, if current warming trends continue, and that, by that time, global economic output could fall, thanks to climate effects, by 30 percent or more. That is an impact twice as deep as the global Great Depression, and it would not be temporary.

These are not the kinds of findings it is easy to ignore, or dismiss, or compartmentalize, even though we have all become exquisitely skilled lately in compartmentalizing the threat. Neither is it easy to forget the stories of the Greek wildfires, or the Japanese heat wave. Which is why it is perhaps important to remember that the media did not ignore these stories, or the month of global climate horrors that gave rise to them. Television networks covered those heat waves 127 times. That is, actually, a very lot! They just utterly failed to “connect the dots,” as Emily Atkin put it incisively at The New Republic —broadcasters told the story of the historic temperatures, but chose not to touch the question of why we were seeing so many of them, all at once, with the atmosphere more full of carbon, and the planet hotter, than it has ever been at any point in human history.

When you think about it, this would be a very strange choice for a producer or an editor concerned about boring or losing his or her audience — it would mean leaving aside the far more dramatic story of the total transformation of the planet’s climate system, and the immediate and all-encompassing threat posed by climate change to the way we live on Earth, to tell the pretty mundane story of some really hot days in the region.

Which is why this all sounds to me a lot more like self-censorship than ratings-chasing — by which I mean self-censorship of two kinds. The first is the intuitive one — the kind done in anticipation of political blowback, an especially acute problem for would-be neutral, would-be centrist platforms like network news. This self-censorship in fear of right-wing backlash is a familiar story, and most of those concerned about global warming know the villains already: oil companies, climate deniers, indifferent (at best) politicians, and constituents who see science as a culture-war front.

But public apathy, and its cousin climate complacency, is as big a problem — perhaps bigger. And this problem, too, is connected to self-censorship on the part of storytellers who feel intimidated from attributing what we used to know as natural disasters to global warming because scientists are so excruciatingly careful about attributing cause. As NPR’s science editor Geoff Brumfiel told Atkin, “You don’t just want to be throwing around, ‘This is due to climate change, that is due to climate change.’”

Well — why not? The stated reason, when a reason is stated, is that scientists can take years to definitively conclude that a particular disaster was impossible without the effects of warming, and often only speak with certainty about specific events a decade or more in the past— the 2003 European heat wave, for instance, which killed tens of thousands. But wildfires are “not caused by climate change” only in the same way that hurricanes are not caused by climate change — which is to say they are (only) made more likely by it, which is to say the distinction is semantic. The same is true, even more so, for heat waves: We know global warming will cause many more deadly temperatures, and should not be confused, at all, when we suddenly encounter an unprecedented number of them. The fact that most climate scientists would say something like, “These disasters are consistent with what we would expect, given global warming,” rather than “these disasters were caused by global warming” is not a reason to elide discussion of climate change. Doing so is an evasion, even if it is made with a scientific alibi.

It is also a dangerous one. Decades of bad-faith debates about whether climate change is “real” and good-faith questions about whether it is “here” have dramatically foreshortened our collective imagination and provided an unfortunately limited picture of what global warming will yield. Treating every climate disaster as a discrete event only compounds the problem, suggesting that impacts will be discrete. They won’t be, and the longer-view story is much more harrowing: not just more months like July, but an unfolding century when a month like this July has become a happy memory of a placid climate. That it is almost hard to believe only makes it a more important story to tell.

[GeneChing]

Totally serious prophecy says the apocalypse will occur in 2019 (for real this time, guys) (https://ascienceenthusiast.com/totally-serious-prophecy-says-the-apocalypse-will-occur-in-2019-for-real-this-time-guys/)
by Dan Broadbent 22 days ago

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Forget your new year’s resolutions and live it up – A totally serious and completely real Biblical prophecy claims that the apocalypse will happen in December 2019, ending life as we know it on Earth once and for all. More specifically, on December 28th. FREAKING FINALLY. It’s about **** time. I’ve been getting pretty tired of all these wannabe apocalypse events that end up falling through. So much promise, so little payoff. And of course, the source for this prophecy is none other than a book about a dude who may or may not have existed ~2000 years ago that was written 75 to 300 years after he died. This piece of breaking news comes from David Montaigne, a guy who has written multiple books about the end times, and bills himself as a historian and “prophecy scholar.” I never thought of a catastrophic apocalypse as being an opportunity to cash in with a bunch of ridiculous books. Maybe he’s on to something here.

Of course, when you’re in the business of predicting the end of humanity, you’re going to have more misses than hits. Montaigne has previously claimed that the anti-Christ was going to return to Earth in June of 2016… thanks to former US president Barack Obama. Because: of course. But we’ve known about this particular apocalyptic event since Montaigne’s 2013 blockbuster book End Times and 2019: The End of the Mayan Calendar and the Countdown to Judgement Day. According to Montaigne, an astronomical alignment in December will create a series of events such as earthquakes, tidal waves, volcanic eruptions, and massive Sharknadoes.

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Credit: Sharknado 2. (… Yes, they made more than one. They actually made six. No, I’m not joking.)

Okay, maybe Montaigne didn’t say there would be Sharknadoes. But hey, we’re dealing with a phantasmal apocalyptic event from someone with a tenuous grasp of reality, so if we’re just going to make **** up, we might as well make it interesting, right? Montaigne makes the following claims on his website (https://endtimesand2019.wordpress.com/author/davidmontaigne/):
On December 21, 2019, survivors will experience the first day of a pole shift – when the entire surface of the planet will shift out of position and move over the more fluid layers beneath the crust. Over the next few days this will cause earthquakes and tidal waves and volcanic activity which will almost completely destroy what is left of our civilisation. There is a mountain of evidence in historical, geological, and biological records showing such pole shifts have happened before. Even the Bible describes them repeatedly. I think that we will experience another pole shift for the week following December 21, 2019, getting worse each day until the natural disasters culminate on December 28 – Judgment Day.

Yes, the magnetic poles on Earth can shift. They have before, and will happen again. An article titled Magnetic Pole Reversal Happens All The (Geologic) Time by NASA explains:
Reversals are the rule, not the exception. Earth has settled in the last 20 million years into a pattern of a pole reversal about every 200,000 to 300,000 years, although it has been more than twice that long since the last reversal. A reversal happens over hundreds or thousands of years, and it is not exactly a clean back flip. Magnetic fields morph and push and pull at one another, with multiple poles emerging at odd latitudes throughout the process. Scientists estimate reversals have happened at least hundreds of times over the past three billion years. And while reversals have happened more frequently in “recent” years, when dinosaurs walked Earth a reversal was more likely to happen only about every one million years.

His most recent blog post, which posted earlier today, asks the question “Are My Books Being Discredited Because I’m Actually Onto Something Important?” lol, no. David, your books don’t have credit to begin with. You can’t discredit something that didn’t have credit in the first place.

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Now I kinda wanna add "prophecy scholar" to my biz card.

[GeneChing]

the rapture happened and i missed it?


Rapture warning as Biblical prophecy claims end of days tomorrow as moon turns red (https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/785892/strawberry-moon-2019-june-17-rapture-full-moon-turn-red-end-of-world-bible-news?fbclid=IwAR2ruFSjkVo2bMgymod0kttPN04L8jXytOMN QQB8-pnUkH7BZGu4Gf0uaCU)
A STRAWBERRY moon tonight promises to stun astronomy enthusiasts around the world - but doomsday preachers have sensationally claimed the red moon means end of days.
By Lucy Domachowski / Published 16th June 2019

The Strawberry Moon is the sixth of this year’s 12 named Full Moon phases.

The Strawberry Moon will make its appearance just one month after the so-called Flower Moon peaked in May.

The full moon will be in the night sky on the evening of Monday 17 June.

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RAPTURE? The Strawberry Moon is the sixth of this year’s 12 named Full Moon phases (Pic: Getty)

While the moon will technically be at its fullest at 9.30 am on that day, it won’t be visible at all in the sky, having previously set at around 4.54am.

It will rise again at around 9.30pm and won’t set again until about 5.39am the next morning, meaning it will be visible in all its glory throughout the night – clear skies permitting of course.

But while astronomy fans will be patiently waiting to see the phenomenon, some doomsday preachers will be waiting for the world to end.

Tim Henderson, who monitors events that could signal the end of mankind, believes the Rapture starts with the Strawberry Moon tomorrow.

The Rapture is an event many Christians believe marks the return of the son of God – and all the believers will disappear from Earth up to Heaven in the "twinkling of an eye".

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ENDING: The Strawberry Moon might signal the end of times as we know them (Pic: Getty)

He explained a number of factors had allowed him to pinpoint the end of times – which coincides with the Strawberry Moon.

“Things are happening and the Lord had regained for things to happen," he explained.

“This 17th, this strawberry Moon, this time of Harvest, and the number 17 meaning victory and perfection … I believe our bridegroom is coming for the bride very very very soon.

“I am so excited about the season we’re in and we have the privilege of occupying and redeeming the time looking up for our redemption draws nigh and sharing the Gospel of Grace.

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“Things are happening and the Lord had regained for things to happen”

Tim Henderson
“I’m going to share John 3:16 ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.’

“I am so grateful for the blood of Jesus that is shed on the cross of cavalry to pay the debt, the random price for my sins once and for all.”

Responding to Tim’s claims, one person wrote: “Over a year ago I was given the number 17 (specifically 17th day) by God. My heart always beats a bit faster around the 17th of the month! The 17th day was also when Noah and family were shut in the ark, I believe. Such amazing times. God bless you all brothers and sisters! (sic)”

Another said: “I’m breaking down guys. Be really great to get out of here soon and know that's why the attacks are so great… because it's so close.”