INTRODUCTION
There’s a kind of doomsday feel to things right now - have you noticed? It’s not just that the Mayan calendar runs out on December 21st of next year. It’s not even the plethora of new warnings from astrophysicists, doctors and geologists about the possibly catastrophic events that are now known to be on the not-too-distant horizon. It has more to do with the zeitgeist, an undifferentiated sense that things can’t go on like they are forever.
And, of course, there are clues. Almost daily, items half-buried in news reports point to the Doom scenarios just lurking around the corner. Maybe you are too busy or too trapped in denial to notice them all, so this blog is here to help you keep track.
Something to Worry About Today
Polar bears aren't just becoming extinct-- they're shrinking.
New research indicates that the iconic mammals of the ice floes are getting smaller. So are many other species. This bodes ill for the worsening global food supply, since crops are also shrinking.
Scientists see this worrying trend as an outcome of global warming, in which case it can only get worse. But others say that the unusually low strength of the Earth's magnetic field is to blame. Animals which grow to great size, like the dinosaurs, seem to do so when the EMF is strong. Now the field, which shields us from harmful cosmic rays, is near an all-time low.
Pigmy animals might be the least of our worries.
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